cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Light Element Abundance Distribution in NGC 5128 from Planetary Nebulae
Creators: name: Walsh, J. R.
name: Jacoby, G. H.
name: Peletier, R. F.
name: Walton, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light element abundance pattern from many planetary nebulae (PNe) covering the upper 4 mag. of the [O III] luminosity function was observed with ESO VLT FORS1 multi-slit. Spectra of 51 PNe over the wavelength range 3500-7500 Angstrom were obtained in three fields at 4, 8 and 17 kpc, for a distance of 3.8 Mpc. Emission line ratios are entirely typical of PN such as in the Milky Way. The temperature sensitive [O III]4363A line was weakly detected in 10 PNe, both [O II] and [O III] lines were detected in 30 PNe, and only the bright [O III]5007A line in 7 PN. Cloudy photoionization models were run to match the spectra by a spherical, constant density nebula ionized by a black body central star. He, N, O and Ne abundances with respect to H were determined and, for brighter PNe, S and Ar; central star luminosities and temperatures are also derived. For 40 PNe with Cloudy models, from the upper 2 mag. of the luminosity function, the most reliably estimated element, oxygen, has a mean 12+log(O/H) of 8.52. No obvious radial gradient is apparent in O/H over a range 2-20 kpc. Comparison of the PN abundances with the stellar population, from the spectra of the integrated starlight on the multi-slits and photometric studies, suggests [Fe/H]=-0.4 and [O/Fe]=0.25. The masses of the PN central stars in NGC 5128 from model tracks imply an epoch of formation more recent than for the minority young population from colour-magnitude studies. The PNe progenitors may belong to the young tail of a recent, minor, star formation episode or derive from other evolutionary channels.[Abridged]
description: 28 pages, 12 tables, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Concurrent validation of the thematic apperception test with Lazarus' ways of coping questionnaire on two negative emotional states
Creators: name: McKenna, Gregory S.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: BF 698.8 T5 M35 1993
subject: Thematic Apperception Test
subject: Emotions - Testing

description: Bibliography: p. 125-136.
XVIII-wieczna wirtualna podróż w czasie i przestrzeni
Creators: name: Tylicka, Teresa
name: Tylicki, Jacek
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2020

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 56 Nr. 2 (2020): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Civic Education around the World
Creators: name: Händle, Christa
name: Henkenborg, Peter
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: Young people's distance from politics is seen as a central problem of democratic societies. Compared to the first IEA-study in the era of political mobilization during the early seventies the results for today's young Germans are worse. Regarding political knowledge, the results for young Germans are mediocre; conspicuous and alarming is the unwillingness of German youngsters to participate in school, politics and society. These results can be explained by using data and relations found by the international comparative project Civic Education about the specific meaning of conditions and results of political education in different school systems and societies. This paper discusses several results and questions and shows that one-dimensional explanations are hardly possible in the complex field of political education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Maxwell symmetries and some applications
Creators: name: de Azcarraga, J. A.
name: Kamimura, K.
name: Lukierski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Maxwell algebra is the result of enlarging the Poincaré algebra by six additional tensorial Abelian generators that make the fourmomenta non-commutative. We present a local gauge theory based on the Maxwell algebra with vierbein, spin connection and six additional geometric Abelian gauge fields. We apply this geometric framework to the construction of Maxwell gravity, which is described by the Einstein action plus a generalized cosmological term. We mention a Friedman-Robertson-Walker cosmological approximation to the Maxwell gravity field equations, with two scalar fields obtained from the additional gauge fields. Finally, we outline further developments of the Maxwell symmetries framework.
description: 8pages. Presented at the XV-th International Conf. on 'Symmetry Methods in Physics' (Dubna, July 2011) and at the '3rd Galileo-Xu Guangqi meeting' (Beijing, October 2011), to appear in IJMPD
Bericht über die Arbeit der Kommission zur Erforschung von Sammlungen archäologischer Funde und Unterlagen aus dem nordöstlichen Mitteleuropa (KAFU) im Jahr 2015
Creators: name: Neumayer, Heino
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2020

description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 48 (2016)
Conditions for High Civic Knowledge and Participation in Norwegian Schools
Creators: name: Mikkelsen, Rolf
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: The Norwegian students in the Civic Education study are doing very well in civic knowledge, skills, attitudes and concepts. Despite this documented democratic awareness the student's score is below international average on interest in politics and conventional participation. On the other hand the 14 year olds carry an important willingness to vote as adults, they have a high level of trust in their government and they want to participate in the school society. The paper discusses the question how these Norwegian findings can be explained, and wheather or not are the school system and school activities are part of the explanation. The paper illustrates the strategies for teaching an learning democracy in Norwegian Schools. The "about-perspective" means to teach the students about democracy und die "through-perspective" means teaching and learning through democracy. Using examples this paper shows, that school is one of the institutions who most explicit prepare young people for their role as citizens, that is as participators in democratic political activity. The comparison between Norwegian 14 year olds and 18 year olds shows improvements closely connected to student's years in school. The about-perspective seems well taken care of by schools, teachers and students. This integrative school-system in connection with the open classroom climate seems to be a condition for attractive democratic attitudes.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Strain dependence of bonding and hybridization across the metal-insulator transition of VO2
Creators: name: Laverock, J.
name: Piper, L. F. J.
name: Preston, A. R. H.
name: Chen, B.
name: McNulty, J.
name: Smith, K. E.
name: Kittiwatanakul, S.
name: Lu, J. W.
name: Wolf, S. A.
name: Glans, P. -A.
name: Guo, J. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft x-ray spectroscopy is used to investigate the strain dependence of the metal-insulator transition of VO2. Changes in the strength of the V 3d - O 2p hybridization are observed across the transition, and are linked to the structural distortion. Furthermore, although the V-V dimerization is well-described by dynamical mean-field theory, the V-O hybridization is found to have an unexpectedly strong dependence on strain that is not predicted by band theory, emphasizing the relevance of the O ion to the physics of VO2.
Consistency of a Causal Theory of Radiative Reaction with the Optical Theorem
Creators: name: Intravaia, F.
name: Behunin, R.
name: Milonni, P. W.
name: Ford, G. W.
name: O'Connell, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation for a point electron, while suffering from runaway solutions and an acausal response to external forces, is compatible with the optical theorem. We show that a theory of radiative reaction that allows for a finite charge distribution is not only causal and free of runaway solutions, but is also consistent with the optical theorem and the standard formula for the Rayleigh scattering cross section.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
The impact of School Education, Family, Cultural Background and Political Attitudes and Experiences in Civic Knowledge
Creators: name: Menezes, Isabel
name: Mendes, Madalena
name: Ferreira, Carla
name: Marques, Georgina
name: Monteiro, Conceiçã
name: Gião, Joana
name: Afonso, Rosa
name: Amaro, Gertrudes
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: The IEA Civic Education Study in Portugal involved the observation of national representative samples of students from grades 8, 9 and 11. Grades 8 and 9 are the terminal years of basic (compulsory) education, and grade 11 is the mid-year of secondary education. Results on civic knowledge reveal a particular scenario that will be explored in this paper: 8 grade students score clearly below the international mean, but both 9 and 11 grade students score above the international mean. The impact of four relevant variables in the literature on political development - education, family cultural background, political interest and experiences, and interpersonal trust - will be analyzed and discussed.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Body mass variation in breeding mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides): effect of stress or adaptation for flight
Creators: name: Merkle, Marilyn Susan
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QL 696 P288 M47 1993
subject: Mountain bluebird - Size
subject: Mountain bluebird - Weight
subject: Mountain bluebird - Physiology

description: Bibliography: p. 86-94.
Nested canalyzing depth and network stability
Creators: name: Layne, Lori
name: Dimitrova, Elena
name: Macauley, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92C42, 37N25

description: We introduce the nested canalyzing depth of a function, which measures the extent to which it retains a nested canalyzing structure. We characterize the structure of functions with a given depth and compute the expected activities and sensitivities of the variables. This analysis quantifies how canalyzation leads to higher stability in Boolean networks. It generalizes the notion of nested canalyzing functions (NCFs), which are precisely the functions with maximum depth. NCFs have been proposed as gene regulatory network models, but their structure is frequently too restrictive and they are extremely sparse. We find that functions become decreasingly sensitive to input perturbations as the canalyzing depth increases, but exhibit rapidly diminishing returns in stability. Additionally, we show that as depth increases, the dynamics of networks using these functions quickly approach the critical regime, suggesting that real networks exhibit some degree of canalyzing depth, and that NCFs are not significantly better than functions of sufficient depth for many applications of the modeling and reverse engineering of biological networks.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
The Case of Cyprus and Germany. Results of the IEA Civic Education Study
Creators: name: Papanastasiou, Constantinos
name: Koutselini, Mary
name: Papanastasiou, Elena
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: This paper explores how democratic values are stimulated by predictors related to family and school. We began by posing a simple question: How can we best explain students' democratic values in relation to their home backgrounds, school-class climate, political environment, political interest and participation of students in social activities? To answer this, we chose to elaborate on a model comparing various background factors. Both models (cf. figures 2 and 3) seem to indicate that school climate has a huge effect on political environment and political interest. Here, political environment has a stronger effect on social participation than political interest. Although Germany and Cyprus have many differences, the actual models for both countries are almost identical.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Comparative Findings from the IEA Civic Study and Their Impact on the Improvement of Civic Education in Australia
Creators: name: Mellor, Suzanne
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: The IEA Civic Education Study occurred in a context of little formal civics curricula in Australian schools. The paper compares some Australian data with that from England and the USA. Comparative Civic Knowledge data emphasise the finding that students do learn civics in school and that the kind of delivery does affect student learning outcomes. The comparative data on Civic Engagement indicate that more positive civic attitudes about engagement co-exist with greater civic knowledge. They also indicate that formal provision of civic education makes a difference to civic attitudes. Teacher data demonstrated the need for more training in civics, especially in the contested nature of the field. Teachers did not show an appreciation that encouraging decision-making in schools might increase student engagement in democracy more generally. The paper argues that pedagogic and administrative strategies to address decision-making and other civic competencies are crucial to the engagement of students in schools and to their future engagement in the wider society.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Impact of Democratic Competencies and Political Knowledge on Desirable Outcomes of Civic Education. Results from the German Contribution to the IEA Civic Education Study
Creators: name: Oesterreich, Detlef
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: International comparative studies on civic education are especially difficult because of the lack of a common understanding of what civic education is as a subject and because of different cultural and political traditions or different school systems. Using the concept of democratic competencies, this paper starts by exploring a theory of authoritarian personalities and operationalising 11 items for an empirical study. Thereby this paper investigates to what extent central topics of civic education are more determined by cognitive factors or personality factors. It shows that matureness is developed not only by political knowledge but also by those democratic competencies which are an essential part of any democratic school and teaching culture.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
The Politics of League Tables
Creators: name: Steiner-Khamsi, Gita
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: The article focuses on the political usages of OECD- and IEA-type studies on student achievement, and suggests that we examine in more detail how policy makers use results from international comparisons to advance fundamental school reform at national level. The author categorizes three types of policy reactions to league tables: (1) scandalization, (2) glorification, and (3) indifference. Drawing from media reports and policy debates that emerged right after the release of the results from TIMSS, PISA, and the Civic Education Study, the author points at the different policy reactions that these OECD and IEA studies have had in various national contexts. In Japan, for example, the release of TIMSS led to a self-affirmation or glorification of Japanese methods in science and mathematics, whereas the release of PISA in Germany triggered self-criticism or scandalization, and strengthened existing demands for a fundamental reform of the German educational system. Most striking is the political indifference that the release of the IEA Civic Education encountered in Germany. German students held the last rank in the international league table on attitudes towards immigrants (Civic Education Study), whereas they scored below OECD-average in reading literacy (PISA). The author provides a few tentative explanations for the following question: why was there such a political spectacle about the reading literacy scores of German students given that German students did far worse with regard to xenophobia?
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2003: Civic Education
Madame de Puisieux: a precursor of feminism
Creators: name: Merritt, Antonette Josepha
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: PQ 2022 P7 M47 1993
subject: Puisieux, Madame de (Madeleine), 1720-1998 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Feminism in literature
subject: French literature - Women authors - History and criticism
subject: French literature - 18th century - History and criticism

description: Bibliography: p. 107-113.
title: Italian entrepreneurs of the construction business in a time of economic recession : ideas, strategies and movements
Creators: name: Sischarenco, Elena
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of entrepreneurs of the construction business in Lombardy, Northern Italy. The aim is to gain some understanding of this business, of entrepreneurialism, and of individuals in a non-stereotypical light through a full and complex account of their daily lives. The aim is to reveal the thoughts, actions and strategies of particular local actors in their everyday contingency and contradictoriness. No attempt is made to simplify the complexity of their understandings and practices for the sake of producing a single encompassing and consistent image. Many similarities were found between the practices of entrepreneurialism and those of the discipline of anthropology. Knowledge and information are constantly sought after but are recognised as emerging in unexpected places and times and as being socially negotiated. Apprenticeship is often used as a methodology, and learning often happens through experience. Contextual application of knowledge is seen as essential. In order to exchange information and knowledge, to collaborate with other businessmen or to simply get a job, trust is fundamental and constantly negotiated. Personal relationships and trust become particularly important in an uncertain market situation, as ways to face risk. Trust is acquired slowly and accorded contextually, through face-to-face interaction and cultivated relationships, but also through positive recommendations or simply a feeling of sympathy. Knowledge, apprenticeship, trust and risk are key themes of the thesis. The blurred borders between the distinct individual personalities of my informants and their collective identities and commonalities are also discussed. The personality of an entrepreneur is seen as ideally complex, in which many (possibly contradictory) characteristics can be expected to be present, but also ideally balanced, each manifesting itself in specific situations. The ethnography also explores the fragility of the entrepreneur, in apparent contradiction to their strong and charismatic personalities. It is seen to be despite and because of their positions of power that they also feel vulnerable: their discourse is imbued with their fears for their businesses in a difficult period of economic crisis. Finally, through a ubiquitous desire to control markets and the future, we also encounter forms of corruption; corruption that is often condemned verbally but nevertheless is present in the business world and amplified by public and media discourses. The mechanisms by which work that is put out to tender is subject to possible manipulation are examined, and the ideas of the entrepreneurs about these practices are described—again demonstrating how thoughts and practices are often self-contradictory in their contextual relevance and application.
Vorläufiger anthropologischer Bericht über die merowingerzeitlichen menschlichen Skelettreste aus Mingolsheim
Creators: name: Czarnetzki, Alfred
Publisher: name: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Year: 2020

description: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (2005): Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
Roles of Fast-Cyclotron and Alfven-Cyclotron Waves for the Multi-Ion Solar Wind
Creators: name: Xiong, Ming
name: Li, Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using linear Vlasov theory of plasma waves and quasi-linear theory of resonant wave-particle interaction, the dispersion relations and the electromagnetic field fluctuations of fast and Alfven waves are studied for a low-beta multi-ion plasma in the inner corona. Their probable roles in heating and accelerating the solar wind via Landau and cyclotron resonances are quantified. We assume that (1) low-frequency Alfven and fast waves have the same spectral shape and the same amplitude of power spectral density; (2) these waves eventually reach ion cyclotron frequencies due to a turbulence cascade; (3) kinetic wave-particle interaction powers the solar wind. The existence of alpha particles in a dominant proton/electron plasma can trigger linear mode conversion between oblique fast-whistler and hybrid alpha-proton cyclotron waves. The fast-cyclotron waves undergo both alpha and proton cyclotron resonances. The alpha cyclotron resonance in fast-cyclotron waves is much stronger than that in Alfven-cyclotron waves. For alpha cyclotron resonance, an oblique fast-cyclotron wave has a larger left-handed electric field fluctuation, a smaller wave number, a larger local wave amplitude, and a greater energization capability than a corresponding Alfven-cyclotron wave at the same wave propagation angle θ, particularly at $80^\circ$ < θ< $90^\circ$. When Alfven-cyclotron or fast-cyclotron waves are present, alpha particles are the chief energy recipient. The transition of preferential energization from alpha particles to protons may be self-modulated by differential speed and temperature anisotropy of alpha particles via the self-consistently evolving wave-particle interaction. Therefore, fast-cyclotron waves as a result of linear mode coupling is a potentially important mechanism for preferential energization of minor ions in the main acceleration region of the solar wind.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Solar Physics
The effect of flooded mine subsidence on thrips and forest biodiversity in the Silesian upland of southern Poland - A case study
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sierka, E. and Sierka, W. 2008. The effect of flooded mine subsidence on thrips and forest biodiversity in the Silesian upland of southern Poland - A case study. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica vol. 43, No. 2, 345-353.
Autecology of Impatients parviflora DC. in natural forest communities
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chmura D., Sierka E., Orczewska A. (2007). Autecology of Impatients parviflora DC. in natural forest communities. Botanika - Stecina 11, 17-21.
„Rethinking Modernity“ als Imperativ Zur Einführung
Creators: name: Meier, Hans-Rudolf
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2020

description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 69 (2019): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Time resolved spectroscopy of BD+46 442: gas streams and jet creation in a newly discovered evolved binary with a disk
Creators: name: Gorlova, N.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Gielen, C.
name: Raskin, G.
name: Prins, S.
name: Pessemier, W.
name: Waelkens, C.
name: Frémat, Y.
name: Hensberge, H.
name: Dumortier, L.
name: Jorissen, A.
name: Van Eck, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous studies have shown that many post-AGB stars with dusty disks are associated with single-lined binary stars. To verify the binarity hypothesis on a larger sample, we started a high-resolution spectral monitoring of about 40 field giants, whose binarity was suspected based on either a light curve, an infrared excess, or a peculiar chemical composition. Here we report on the discovery of the periodic RV variations in BD+46 442, a high-latitude F giant with a disk. We interpret the variations due to the motion around a faint companion, and deduce the following orbital parameters: Porb = 140.77 d, e = 0.083, asini=0.31 AU. We find it to be a moderately metal-poor star ([M/H]=-0.7) without a strong depletion pattern in the photospheric abundances. Interestingly, many lines show periodic changes with the orbital phase: Halpha switches between a double-peak emission and a PCyg-like profiles, while strong metal lines appear split during the maximum redshift. Similar effects are likely visible in the spectra of other post-AGB binaries, but their regularity is not always realized due to sporadic observations. We propose that these features result from an ongoing mass transfer from the evolved giant to the companion. In particular, the blue-shifted absorption in Halpha, which occurs only at superior conjunction, may result from a jet originating in the accretion disk around the companion and seen in absorption towards the luminous primary.
description: 16 pages, accepted in A&A
Adult day care: a means of enhancing quality of life
Creators: name: Mitchell, Shirley J.
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: HV 1455.2 C2 M58 1993
subject: Day care centers for the aged
subject: Design, Industrial - Canada
subject: Day care centers for the aged - Canada - Planning

description: Bibliography: p. 94-100.
Citizenship Education in England: The Making of a New Subject
Creators: name: Kerr, David
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: Citizenship has been included for the first time ever as an explicit part of the school curriculum in England from September 2002. This paper explores how this historic shift has come about through the work of the Advisory Group on Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (commonly known as the Crick Group). The first section sets out the background to why the Crick Group was established and shows how the main lessons from past policy approaches were absorbed by the Group. The second section explains how citizenship education is defined in the school curriculum in England. The third section details some of the current activities designed to encourage the development of effective practice in citizenship. In the final section a number of challenges facing citizenship education are identified. How these challenges are tackled will have a major impact as to the effectiveness of citizenship education practice in schools and elsewhere in England.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2003: Country Reports
DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS IN ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: DEREJE SHEBU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: This paper attempts to examine the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment flow in Ethiopia.

The study applies multivariate ordinary least square regression by using time series data

covering over the period 1974 to 2015. In order to point out the main factors that can highly

affect the inflow of FDI in Ethiopia and to know how much these factors affect FDI leading to an

oscillating trend, the study took the determinant of FDI in Ethiopia such as infrastructure

development, the domestic market size and growth potential, macroeconomic stability, human

capital development, openness, and external debt and evaluate as to how they affect the

inflow of FDI. In the analysis there are findings. Firstly, I found that the explanatory variable

such as macroeconomic stability measured by inflation rate, and openness have significant and

negatively related to FDI. Second, exchange rate and school enrollment rate proxy of

macroeconomic stability and human capital development respectively are found positively

related and statistically significant to the inflow of FDI.
HI absorption towards nearby compact radio sources
Creators: name: Chandola, Yogesh
name: Sirothia, S. K.
name: Saikia, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of HI absorption measurements towards a sample of nearby Compact Steep-Spectrum (CSS) and Giga-Hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio sources, the CORALZ sample, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). We observed a sample of 18 sources and find 7 new detections. These sources are of lower luminosity than earlier studies of CSS and GPS objects and we investigate any dependence of HI absorption features on radio luminosity. Within the uncertainties, the detection rates and column densities are similar to the more luminous objects, with the GPS objects exhibiting a higher detection rate than for the CSS objects. The relative velocity of the blueshifted absorption features, which may be due to jet-cloud interactions, are within $\sim$$-$250 km s$^{-1}$ and do not appear to extend to values over 1000 km s$^{-1}$ seen for the more luminous objects. This could be due to the weaker jets in these objects, but requires confirmation from observations of a larger sample of sources. There appears to be no evidence of any dependence of HI column density on either luminosity or redshift, but these new detections are consistent with the inverse relation between HI column density and projected linear size.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Analysis of variation in SARS-CoV-2 regarding Spike mutations D614G & N501Y and polymorphism of in vitro isolates.
Creators: name: Brazil, Charlotte Louisa
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Differentially Conserved Positions (DCPs) are found between two related groups of protein sequences at selective loci that diverge between the two groups that often signify evolutionarily valuable mutations that affect structure and/or function. This study aims to capture the evolution of DCPs of SARS-CoV-2 regarding two historic S protein mutations; 1. (S)D614G - the most widespread mutation found in all variants and 2 (S)N501Y - a marker of both the Alpha/Beta variants; the intention is to discover new concurrent mutations, exclude "assumed" concurrent mutations and define the subsequent structure function changes for these two flagship mutations using publicly available EM and crystal structures. Using GISAID data collected up till December 2020, (S)D614G was found to have two mildly conserved DCPs - (S)L18F and (S)A222V. (S)N501Y was separately examined for DCPs which recovered (S)A570D, (S)P681H, (S)T716I, (S)S982A and (S)D1118H. All DCPs were found in S protein and structurally examined from PDB structures in both the "open" (ACE-2 receptive state) and "closed" (non-receptive state). Three S mutations were calculated to specifically destabilise the "closed" form of S(A570D, D614G, and S982A). Of note, inter-protomer salt bridges appear severed for (S)D614 to (S)K853/K854 specifically in the "closed" form, indicating protomer destabilisation. Additionally, sequencing data from a pair of infected CaCo-2 cultures were analysed for RNA mutations to detect in vitro mutations and identify areas of the SARS-CoV-2 genome that are prone to mutagenesislimited at the cellular level, i.e., without the pressures of the humoral immune system or host transmission. As well as silent mutations, cultivation resulted in two B.1.1.7-associated features - (ORF8)Q27STOP and (S)A570D, deleterious zones in NSP1 and NSP12 (pos. 508-522nt and 14,408-14,414) and several nonsynonymous mutations within NSP3, NSP6, NSP13, NSP15, S, N, ORF3a andORF9c.
Bayesian feedback control of a two-atom spin-state in an atom-cavity system
Creators: name: Brakhane, Stefan
name: Alt, Wolfgang
name: Kampschulte, Tobias
name: Martinez-Dorantes, Miguel
name: Reimann, René
name: Yoon, Seokchan
name: Widera, Artur
name: Meschede, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate real-time feedback control of the joint spin-state of two neutral Caesium atoms inside a high finesse optical cavity. The quantum states are discriminated by their different cavity transmission levels. A Bayesian update formalism is used to estimate state occupation probabilities as well as transition rates. We stabilize the balanced two-atom mixed state, which is deterministically inaccessible, via feedback control and find very good agreement with Monte-Carlo simulations. On average, the feedback loops achieves near optimal conditions by steering the system to the target state marginally exceeding the time to retrieve information about its state.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Economic Education in England
Creators: name: Abbott, Ian
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: Over recent years Economics as a separate subject has been in decline in England. Business Studies has grown in importance and the term Business Education is now more commonly used, in schools and colleges, to describe this area of work. This paper considers recent developments in the subject area and opportunities for further development. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of Business Education in the wider 14-19 curriculum and the prospects for future growth. The division between academic and vocationally related courses is emphasised with consideration given to the recent reform of the post-16 curriculum in England. The training of teachers in this area is outlined and implications arising from an increasing demand for teachers of Business Education is discussed.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2003: Country Reports
The regulatory interaction between phospholamban and SR (Ca2+Mg2+) ATPase
Creators: name: Morris, Gary L.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: RM 282 M65 M67 1993
subject: Monoclonal antibodies - Synthesis
subject: Dogs - Diseases - Genetic aspects

description: Bibliography: p. 124-143.
Time delay and Calabi invariant in classical scattering theory
Creators: name: Gournay, Antoine
name: de Aldecoa, Rafael Tiedra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37J99, 70H99, 37N05

description: We define, prove the existence and obtain explicit expressions for classical time delay defined in terms of sojourn times for abstract scattering pairs (H_0,H) on a symplectic manifold. As a by-product, we establish a classical version of the Eisenbud-Wigner formula of quantum mechanics. Using recent results of V. Buslaev and A. Pushnitski on the scattering matrix in Hamiltonian mechanics, we also obtain an explicit expression for the derivative of the Calabi invariant of the Poincaré scattering map. Our results are applied to dispersive Hamiltonians, to a classical particle in a tube and to Hamiltonians on the Poincaré ball.
description: 22 pages
Civic Education in Portugal: Curricular Evolutions in Basic Education
Creators: name: Menezes, Isabel
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: This paper focuses on the curricular evolutions of civic education in Portugal with particular reference to two major turning points: the Curricular Reform of 1989, that instituted Personal and Social Education as an area of basic education, and the Curricular Reorganisation of Basic Education of 2001, that states Citizenship Education as a major goal. The debates surrounding these curricular changes include the discussion not only the curricular strategies privileged (e.g., cross-disciplinary dissemination, specific subject, non-disciplinary space), but also the concept of what civic education should be about (e.g., restricted to moral-values education vs. emphasising knowledge, attitudes and competencies). The current situation and prospects for the future are discussed.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2003: Country Reports
Modelling of quench times in the waste heat boiler of a modified claus plant
Creators: name: Nasato, Linda Verona
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: TP 350 N36 1993
subject: Natural gas - Thermal properties
subject: Natural gas - Testing
subject: Waste heat

description: Bibliography: p. 59-62.
description: At high temperatures found in the modified Claus reaction furnace, the thermal decomposition of H2S yields large quantities of desirable products, gaseous hydrogen (H2) and sulphur (S2). However, the reverse reaction occurs at the much lower operating temperatures found in the waste heat boiler (WHB) which is located downstream of the furnace. To examine the reaction quenching capabilities of the WHB, a rigorous computer model was developed for the boiler incorporating recently published intrinsic kinetic data. A sensitivity study performed with the computer model demonstrated that WHB's are conservatively designed. Most important, the computer model showed that it was possible to operate a WHB such that quench times could be reduced by over 60% down to less than 40 ms compared to a base case scenario. Furthermore, H2 production could be increased by over a 20% simply by reconfiguring the boiler tubes.
Dem Kurgast zum Wohle und zur Erholung
Creators: name: Eidloth, Volkmar
name: Martin, Petra
name: Schinken, Karin
Publisher: name: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Bd. 49 Nr. 3 (2020)
Thermodynamics of small superconductors with fixed particle number
Creators: name: Gambacurta, Danilo
name: Lacroix, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Variation After Projection approach is applied for the first time to the pairing hamiltonian to describe the thermodynamics of small systems with fixed particle number. The minimization of the free energy is made by a direct diagonalization of the entropy. The Variation After Projection applied at finite temperature provides a perfect reproduction of the exact canonical properties of odd or even systems from very low to high temperature.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative: 2011 Status Report on the International Space Weather Initiative
Creators: name: Gadimova, S.
name: Haubold, H. J.
name: Danov, D.
name: Georgieva, K.
name: Maeda, G.
name: Yumoto, K.
name: Davila, J. M.
name: Gopalswami, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The UNBSSI is a long-term effort for the development of astronomy and space science through regional and international cooperation in this field on a worldwide basis. A series of workshops on BSS was held from 1991 to 2004 (India 1991, Costa Rica and Colombia 1992, Nigeria 1993, Egypt 1994, Sri Lanka 1995, Germany 1996, Honduras 1997, Jordan 1999, France 2000, Mauritius 2001, Argentina 2002, and China 2004; http://www.seas.columbia.edu/~ah297/un-esa/) and addressed the status of astronomy in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Western Asia. One major recommendation that emanated from these workshops was the establishment of astronomical facilities in developing nations for research and education programmes at the university level. Such workshops on BSS emphasized the particular importance of astrophysical data systems and the virtual observatory concept for the development of astronomy on a worldwide basis. Pursuant to resolutions of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and its Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, since 2005, these workshops focused on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 (UAE 2005, India 2006, Japan 2007, Bulgaria 2008, Ro Korea 2009; http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SAP/bss/ihy2007/index.html). Starting in 2010, the workshops focus on the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) as recommended in a three-year-work plan as part of the deliberations of UNCOPUOS (http://www.stil.bas.bg/ISWI/). Workshops on the ISWI have been scheduled to be hosted by Egypt in 2010 for Western Asia, Nigeria in 2011 for Africa, and Ecuador in 2012 for Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, 14 IHY/ISWI instrument arrays with > 600 instruments are operational in 95 countries.
description: 14 pages
Formation of iron nitride thin films with Al and Ti additives
Creators: name: Gupta, Rachana
name: Tayal, Akhil
name: Gupta, Mukul
name: Gupta, Ajay
name: Horisberger, M.
name: Stahn, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the process of iron nitride (Fe-N) phase formation using 2 at.% Al or 2 at.% Ti as additives. The samples were prepared with a magnetron sputtering technique using different amount of nitrogen during the deposition process. The nitrogen partial pressure (\pn) was varied between 0-50% (rest Argon) and the targets of pure Fe, [Fe+Ti] and [Fe+Al] were sputtered. The addition of small amount of Ti or Al results in improved soft-magnetic properties when sputtered using \pn $\leq$ 10\p. When \pn is increased to 50\p non-magnetic Fe-N phases are formed. We found that iron mononitride (FeN) phases (N at% $\sim$50) are formed with Al or Ti addition at \pn =50% whereas in absence of such addition \eFeN phases (N\pat$\sim$30) are formed. It was found that the overall nitrogen content can be increased significantly with Al or Ti additions. On the basis of obtained result we propose a mechanism describing formation of Fe-N phases Al and Ti additives.
description: 9 Pages, 7 Figures
Huge broadening of the crystal-fluid interface for sedimenting colloids
Creators: name: Allahyarov, Elshad
name: Löwen, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For sedimenting colloidal hard spheres, the propagation and broadening of the crystal-fluid interface is studied by Brownian dynamics computer simulations of an initially homogeneous sample. Two different types of interface broadenings are observed: the first occurs during growth and is correlated with the interface velocity, the second is concomitant with the splitting of the crystal-fluid interface into the crystal-amorphous and amorphous-liquid interfaces. The latter width is strongly peaked as a function of the gravitational driving strength with a huge amplitude relative to its equilibrium counterpart.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, in press
The Place and the Role of Civic Education in the Republic of Macedonia
Creators: name: Trajkovski, Ilo
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2003
Subjects: -

description: The paper describes the place and the role of civic education within the social system of the Republic of Macedonia. The main argument is that the implementation of the concept of civic education into the Macedonian educational system has successfully passed the initial and the subsequent introductory phase, and is nowadays facing the challenges of the mainstreaming phase. The situation at each stage is described in terms of the objectives, central issues, organization and teacher training.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2003: Country Reports
Ground penetrating radar (GPR): a new geophysical methodology used to investigate the internal structure of sedimentary deposits (field experiments on lacustrine deltas)
Creators: name: Jol, Harry Martin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QE 33.2 R33 J65 1993a
subject: Additional Copy: QE 33.2 R33 J65 1993
subject: Radar in earth sciences
subject: Radar in surveying
subject: Geology, Stratigraphic
subject: Deltas
subject: Prospecting - Geophysical methods

description: Bibliography: p. 122-135.
description: Although in its infancy, ground penetrating radar (GPR) is rapidly emerging as a geophysical technology with many possible applications. To assess whether GPR could become a useful tool to investigate internal sedimentary structures, GPR field experiments were conducted on several modern, Holocene and Pleistocene lacustrine deltas to better understand the internal stratigraphy. A pulseEKKO™ IV radar system was used with 25, 50, 100 and 200 MHz frequency antennae and 400 and 1000 V transmitter power levels. For most surveys one metre steps (station spacing) were used to provide detailed horizontal resolution of the sedimentologic structures. The profiles were processed and plotted (wiggle trace format) using pulseEKKO™ IV software. Depth of reflections was determined from using the common midpoint (CMP) method. Experiments with different antennae frequencies and transmitter powers showed significant variations in vertical resolution, depth of penetration and continuity of reflections. Radar stratigraphic (facies) analysis of GPR profiles, evolved as a secondary development in this dissertation, provided identification of three deltaic types: (1) fan-foreset, (2) wave, and (3) braid. These deltaic types are in general agreement with existing concepts. Fan-foreset deltas are dominated by steeply dipping (25°) reflections, sandwiched by surface and basal radar facies which have slightly inclined or horizontal reflections. Wave deltas have low-angle inclined reflections capped by discontinuous, wavy reflections. Braid deltas have distinct, continuous and semi-continuous, wavy reflections, often overlying a basal, horizontally continuous reflection, below which an abrupt signal loss occurs. As well, two post depositional features found in deltaic environments were investigated: (1) a potential failure plane and (2) a peatland. The insights gained from the radar stratigraphic analysis of deltaic environments may be extended to the interpretation of seismic records and ancient deltaic systems. More importantly, this information will provide a better understanding of the internal structure which will aid earth scientists in the interpretation of deltaic sequences from drill cores. GPR was found to be most effective (resolution and depth of penetration) in dry and/ or wet (freshwater), quartzose-rich, clean (no clay) sand and gravel deposits. The technique does not work well in sediments with silt, clay, caliche (CaC0₃, calcrete), or saline ground water which attenuate the electromagnetic signal.