cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Attitudes Toward Love: A Developmental Investigation
Creators: name: Munro, Brenda Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: Prior research has suggested age related changes in attitudes toward love. The present study was completed to extend this assumption to high school and college educated samples and across stage of life. Both samples included a proportionate number of males to females . A new instrument (measuring a Conjugal Love Factor, Romantic Power Factor and a Romantic Idealism Factor) was generated for use in this study. In addition the Knox Love Attitude Inventory (1970), the Rubin Love Scale (1970) and a short form of Rotter's I-E Scale (Vlecha and Ostrom, 1974) were also administered to each sample.
Results indicated that the high school sample held more romantic attitudes and fluctuated in their attitudes toward love over the various stages of life more than the college sample. Fluctuation for the high school sample, on most instruments involved a significant digression in romantic attitudes when children were being reared in the home and a sharp rise in romantic conceptions when children were no longer in the home (curvilinear relationship). Conjugal attitudes for the high school group followed a linear progression. The high school educated sample began low in conjugal attitudes but progressed across the stages to a more conjugal conception of love . Locus of control was also found to affect the way in which one viewed love, particularly in adolescence. Internal adolescents were significantly less romantic than external adolescents. Surprisingly sex differences were not found to consistently affect love attitudes.
title: Raster zur Evaluation von Software für das Sprachenlernen
Creators: name: Langner, Michael
name: Frischherz, Bruno
name: Gilmozzi, Jutta
name: Hassert, Timm
name: Koleff, Inge Anna
name: Meissner, Rita
name: von der Handt, Gerd
name: Zeidler, Beate
name: Zijal, Sonja
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die informelle Arbeitsgruppe "Medial gestütztes, selbstorganisiertes Lernen" im Bereich Fremdsprachenunterricht trifft sich seit rund drei Jahren regelmässig (unter dem Namen "Nachtclub") und beschäftigt sich mit medial unterstütztem Sprachenlernen. Die Arbeitsgruppe ist breit zusammengesetzt: länderübergreifend (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz), zielgruppenübergreifend (Erwachsenenbildung und Universität) und sprachenübergreifend (Software für Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch usw.). Das gemeinsame Ziel des "Nachtclub" ist es, Kriterien für die Beurteilung von mediengestützten Angeboten (Lernsoftware, Webseiten) für das Lernen von Fremdsprachen zu entwickeln und auf dieser Grundlage unabhängige Rezensionen zu erstellen. Die Beurteilungen werden in der Form einer Online-Datenbank der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht und sollen als Nachschlagewerk und Entscheidungshilfe für Lehrpersonen, LernberaterInnen, MediathekarInnen usw. dienen. Vorgesehen ist die Publikation der Rezensionen unter der Internetadresse www.nachtclub.org. Dort findet man auch das leere Raster in elektronischer Form auf Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch (Winword-Datei / PDF-Datei) sowie Beispiele von Rezensionen, die mit dem Raster erstellt worden sind. (Diese Dateien sind auch von hier abzurufen)
title: Konzentrisch - bedeutungsbasiertes Fremdsprachlernen - DaF
Creators: name: Kurtz, Gunde
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In diesem Beitrag möchte ich eine systematische, ökonomische und wirkungsvolle Art des Fremdsprachenlehrens und -lernens vorstellen.
title: Das Lesen authentischer Texte als Grundlage für das Erlernen einer Fremdsprache
Creators: name: Mazza, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: 'Learning by reading' könnte das Schlagwort zu der Methode lauten, die einem Fremdsprachenprojekt einer deutschen Universität zugrunde liegt und im folgenden vorgestellt werden soll. By reading? Der gewählte methodische Ansatz für den Erwerb von Fremdsprachen stellt jedoch keineswegs eine Rückkehr zu den traditionellen Leseübungen im Fremdsprachenunterricht dar. Im Gegenteil, die Arbeit mit dem Text fällt nach dem Konzept des 'Lernens beim Lesen' aus dem Rahmen der üblichen Leseübungen in der Fremdsprache, die sich ganz überwiegend auf die Bedeutungserschließung und Wortschatzarbeit konzentrieren.
title: Comparisons of Body Activity in Depressed, Manic, and normal Persons
Creators: name: Ingoldsby, Bron B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: Films of three depress ed persons, one manic, and one normal individual were analyzed frame-by-frame to determine body activity rates. Speech rates were also determined. It was found that the manic had the highest activity rate, followed by the normal comparison, and with the depressed patients having the lowest activity rates. The depressed subjects also had lower speech rates than did the normal or the manic subjects. The term 'psychomotor retardation 1 is called into question, as the frequency distributions of movement durations were similar for all subjects. Implications for treatment and for development are also discussed.
title: Factors Associated with Marital Adjustment of Young Mormon Married College Students
Creators: name: Jones, Ronald Shill
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The study compared the marital adjustment scores of young college student Mormon temple and nontemple couples. Marital adjustment scores of temple couples were significantly higher than they were for nontemple couples. Responses of 20 temple and 20 nontemple couples were analyzed controlling for age, length of marriage, income, number of children, and education. The mean marital adjustment scores did not vary significantly when each control variable was analyzed in terms of its effect on marital adjustment for temple and nontemple couples. Nontemple husbands and wives were affected differently by the various control variables.
Male and female nontemple marital adjustment scores generally increased or decreased in opposite directions, while male and female temple adjustment scores generally increased or decreased in the same direction. This difference, while not statistically significant, affects overall marital adjustment when the multiple effect of all control variables is analyzed.
Analyzing a few selected questions from the marital adjustment teat indicated temple couples agreed more often on conventionality, philosophy of life, and friends than did nontemple couples. Nontemple couples agreed more often on finances than did temple couples.
Temple and nontemple couples who perceived disagreements as being solved by a mate giving in rather than by mutual give and take had marital adjustment scores below the mean for their group.
When respondents were asked to state the percentage of time the responses of them and their mates would be in agreement, temple couples perceived their responses to the marital adjustment test being in agreement more often than did nontemple couples.
The positive correlation between religiosity and marital adjustment scores was significant for temple couples but not for nontemple couples.
title: The Influence of Age, Sex, and Colors on the Number Recognition and Counting Abilities of Preschool Children
Creators: name: Jackson, Connie L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: The effects of the child's chronological age, his sex, and a second concept of color were studied as they effected the counting skills and number recognition abilities in preschool children. The research was conducted at the Utah State University Child Development Laboratories with the subjects being three and four-year-old children enrolled at that time. Each child was given counting and number recognition tasks involving cubes in sets of one color and also in sets which involved two colors.
It was found that as the age of the child increased, his ability to correctly count and label sets of cubes also increased. An interest ing trend was found when the sex and the age of the child were considered together. Girls and boys responded differently t o the counting and number recognition tasks. At an earlier age girls showed a greater language facility with the numbers; on the other hand, boys showed an earlier development in meaning of numbers. The smaller numbers involved were easier for the children to identify and seemed to hold much more meaning for them . The introduction of the color variable influenced the ability of the child to correctly label the number of cubes; however, many of the children did not mention the presence of cubes of two colors.
Numerical Modeling of the Coagulation and Porosity Evolution of Dust Aggregates
Creators: name: Okuzumi, Satoshi
name: Tanaka, Hidekazu
name: Sakagami, Masa-aki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Porosity evolution of dust aggregates is crucial in understanding dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. In this study, we present useful tools to study the coagulation and porosity evolution of dust aggregates. First, we present a new numerical method for simulating dust coagulation and porosity evolution as an extension of the conventional Smoluchowski equation. This method follows the evolution of the mean porosity for each aggregate mass simultaneously with the evolution of the mass distribution function. This method reproduces the results of previous Monte Carlo simulations with much less computational expense. Second, we propose a new collision model for porous dust aggregates on the basis of our N-body experiments on aggregate collisions. We first obtain empirical data on porosity changes between the classical limits of ballistic cluster-cluster and particle-cluster aggregation. Using the data, we construct a recipe for the porosity change due to general hit-and-stick collisions as well as formulae for the aerodynamical and collisional cross sections. Simple coagulation simulations using the extended Smoluchowski method show that our collision model explains the fractal dimensions of porous aggregates observed in a full N-body simulation and a laboratory experiment. Besides, we discover that aggregates at the high-mass end of the distribution can have a considerably small aerodynamical cross section per unit mass compared with aggregates of lower masses. We point out an important implication of this discovery for dust growth in protoplanetary disks.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures; v2: version to appear in ApJ (typos corrected)
A garnet-bearing syenite near Kamloops, B.C.
Creators: name: Kwak, Teunis A. P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The main features of a syenitic complex located near Kamloops B.C. are described. The most noteworthy of these is the abundance of andradite garnet in the rocks. The mineral is believed to have crystallized from a melt that had the composition of quartz syenite. The melt, prior to its consolidation, intruded and apparently assimilated limestone. This caused the rocks to be differentiated at or near their present site by the crystallization of calcium silicates such as the andradite garnet. Quartz -rich rocks were produced first and ultimately nepheline -bearing ones.
MOESM1 of Transcriptomic analysis of Verbena bonariensis roots in response to cadmium stress
Creators: name: Wang, Meng-qi
name: Bai, Zhen-yu
name: Xiao, Ya-fang
name: Li, Yan
name: Liu, Qing-lin
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Pan, Yuan-zhi
name: Jiang, Bei-bei
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Changes of Verbena bonariensis biomass under Cd different concentration stress.
title: The Development of Print Awareness in Four-Year-Old Children
Creators: name: Glover, Barbara Ann Bybee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1990

description: Participants for this study were 56 four-year-old children and their parents. All children were enrolled or on a waiting list to be enrolled in a preschool program in the Cache Valley area. A parent questionnaire and environmental assessment were utilized to determine whether a) the physical environment, b) behaviors of parents, and c) birth order of children is related to development of print awareness as measured by a print awareness test.
A variety of statistical analyses was used to explore relationships among the above variables. Major findings suggest that the behaviors that reflect parents' attitudes regarding literacy are most important in the development of their children's print awareness. Fathers' use of the library and mothers' education are significantly related to their children's performance on the print Awareness Test. The amount of time that children spend watching videos is also significantly correlated to their print Awareness Test scores. Significant differences were found in what mothers and fathers do to prepare their children for reading, with mothers taking a more active role in reading to the children and teaching them literacy skills.
Other notable findings suggest that the reading pleasure of each parent is important to their children's enjoyment in being read to and to creating positive feelings about reading. Parents tend to predict that their children will learn to read at about the same ages as they themselves learned to read.
title: Vom Behaviorismus zum Konstruktivismus. Das Problem der Übertragbarkeit lernpsychologischer und -philosophischer Erkenntnisse in die Fremdsprachendidaktik
Creators: name: Mitschian, Haymo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wie immer bei Begriffen, die einerseits fest in der Alltagssprache verankert sind und andererseits als Fachtermini in verschiedenen Wissenschaftszweigen gebraucht werden, scheint eine exakte Bestimmung des damit Bezeichneten kaum noch möglich zu sein. Der Begriff "Lernen" fällt zweifelsohne in diese Kategorie. Der alltägliche Gebrauch des Terminus kommt ohne eine exakte Definition aus und verkraftet problemlos Widersprüchlichkeiten wie im Falle des "Verlernens": kann man etwas, was man tatsächlich gelernt hat, wieder verlernen, oder hat man alles, was man wieder verlernt, nicht richtig gelernt, weil man es eben wieder verlernt? Genau an dem Punkt, an dem festgelegt wird, wie lange und in welcher Qualität man Gelerntes abrufbereit hat bzw. haben sollte, liegen auch die Schwachstellen vieler wissenschaftlicher Definitionsversuche. Ebenfalls kennzeichnend für den Gebrauch des Begriffes sowohl in der Alltagssprache als auch häufig in fachlichen Zusammenhängen ist eine Vermischung bis hin zur Gleichsetzung von Lernen mit Lehren, von Holzkamp (1995, p. 481) als "Lehrlernkurzschluß" bezeichnet.
title: Demographic and Professional Dimensions of Child Care Providers
Creators: name: Armga, Carol Joan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this investigation was to develop a demographic profile of current child care providers in 3 selected Western states. Further, this study sought to assess dimensions of professionally in the day to day activities of child care workers.
Utilizing a mailed questionnaire, 226 child care providers in Salt Lake City, Utah; Eugene, Oregon; and Boise, Idaho were surveyed for information on demographics and professional dimensions. Results suggest that the demographic profile created by a cross-sectional sample of child care providers differs markedly from a profile created by a sample based on professional affiliation. Statistical analyses suggest that education significantly effects the professional dimension of knowledge. The data further indicate that the interaction of education and length of employment as a care giver significantly effects the dimension of orientation to the community.
The findings are discussed in relation to the professional status of child care. It was suggested that child care has not yet met the requirements of becoming a profession. Recommendations for enhancing professional status are given.
Noncommutativity and the lightfront
Creators: name: Heinzl, Thomas
name: Ilderton, Anton
name: Marklund, Mattias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss various limits which transform configuration space into phase space, with emphasis on those related to lightfront field theory, and show that they are unified by spectral flow. Examples include quantising in `almost lightfront' coordinates and the appearance of lightlike noncommutativity from a strong background laser field. We compare this with the limit of a strong magnetic field, and investigate the role played by lightfront zero modes.
description: 7 pages, 2 eps figures. V2: minor changes, references added
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy studies on CeCoIn$_5$ and CeIrIn$_5$
Creators: name: Ernst, S.
name: Wirth, S.
name: Steglich, F.
name: Fisk, Z.
name: Sarrao, J. L.
name: Thompson, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High--quality single crystals of the heavy fermion superconductors CeCoIn$_5$ and CeIrIn$_5$ have been studied by means of low--temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Methods were established to facilitate \textit{in-situ} sample cleaving. Spectroscopy in CeCoIn$_5$ reveals a gap which persists to above $T_c$, possibly evidencing a precursor state to SC. Atomically resolved topographs show a rearrangement of the atoms at the crystal surface. This modification at the surface might influence the surface properties as detected by tunneling spectroscopy.
title: Rezension: KLEPPIN, KARIN (1998), Fehler und Fehlerkorrektur
Creators: name: Nassyrowa, Alfija
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: "Errare humanum est" lautet eine aus alten Zeiten überlieferte Weisheit, und auf nichts trifft sie so genau zu wie auf den Fremdsprachenerwerb. Jeder Lehrer ist im Fremdsprachenunterricht mit der Notwendigkeit konfrontiert, die Fehler der Lerner zu korrigieren, und fragt sich wenigstens einmal in seinem beruflichen Leben, ob er bei der Fehlerkorrektur richtig vorgeht. Im vorliegenden, über 150 Seiten umfassenden Buch geht Karin Kleppin auf das Problem der Fehler im Fremdsprachenunterricht und ihrer angemessenen Korrektur ein. Ohne universale Rezepte zu geben, befasst sich die Autorin in ihrem Werk mit den Fragen, wie, wann, von wem und welche Fehler korrigiert werden müssen. Das Buch ist in der Reihe 'Fernstudieneinheiten' zur Lehreraus-, -fort-, weiterbildung und -umschulung erschienen und kann deshalb sowohl für Lehrerstudenten als auch für Lehrer mit mehr oder weniger umfangreicher DaF-Unterrichtserfahrung von großem Interesse sein. Während die Ersteren hier zweifellos viele Aufschlüsse für ihren zukünftigen Beruf finden werden, hält die Studie auch für die zweite Zielgruppe einige Überraschungen in Form von Forschungsergebnissen der Autorin selbst und anderer, aber auch in Form von kritischen Exzerpten aus der einschlägigen Literatur bereit. Das Buch wird den Deutschlehrern helfen, ihre gewohnten Fehlerkorrekturverfahren zu revidieren und womöglich zu "reparieren" (um einen im Buch erläuterten Begriffe aufzugreifen), und es kann sie mit neuen Verfahrensweisen vertraut machen, wie man richtiger und mit mehr Effekt an verschiedene Fehler der Lernenden herangehen muss.
title: Attitudes Toward Seeking Financial Counseling: Instrument Development
Creators: name: Cook, Janeen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this research was to establish the validity and reliability of the scores on an instrument which assesses attitudes toward seeking help for financial problems . Content, criterion-related, and construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the scores on the instrument were examined. The Hughes' conceptual model of the Family in Financial Crisis provided the theoretical basis for this study . The sample size of this study was 510. The instrument evaluated was based on a scale developed by Rimm (1975) to assess attitudes toward seeking help for financial problems. Total scores on the 16-item instrument ranged from 8 to 46, with a mean of 28.71, and were normally distributed. content validity of the attitude scale was confirmed by a jury of financial counseling professionals. Criterion-related validity was examined using an analysis of variance (ANOVA) to assess the relationship between total scores on the attitude scale and responses to three criterion questions. A significant relationship was found between responses of two of the three questions and attitude scores. Construct validity was confirmed by evaluating the relationship between attitude scores and the demographic variables of gender and socioeconomic status (SES) using an ANOVA. Females and respondents with higher SES had more positive attitudes toward seeking help. An ANOVA was also used to compare the demographic variables, age and religion, and attitude scores. No relationship was found between these variables and attitude scores. Using factor analysis, three factors were identified: confidence/willingness to seek help (7 items), stigma tolerance (6 items), and self-sufficiency (3 items). Internal consistency reliability of the scale, measured using Cronbach's Alpha, was .82. Based on comments from the jury and the data analyses, a revised instrument, the Financial Counseling Attitude Scale, was developed.
title: Rezension: JUNG, UDO O. H. (Hg.) (1998), Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehrer
Creators: name: Hufeisen, Britta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Um es gleich vorweg zu nehmen: Diese Handreichung ist kein Konkurrenzunternehmen zum Handbuch Fremdsprachenunterricht und soll es auch gar nicht sein; dies betont Jung selbst in seiner Einleitung (S. vii). Während das eine ein Nachschlagewerk mit theoretischer Hintergrundinformation ist, handelt es sich bei der Handreichung um einen Leitfaden, der lehrenden Menschen in der Schule praktische Hilfe für den Unterrichtsalltag mit etwas theoretischer Verankerung bieten soll. Dabei wird der thematische Bogen sehr weit gespannt von I. Grundsatzüberlegungen und Lernzielen (mit so wichtigen Beiträgen z. B. zu Language Awareness, Unterrichtssprache, Lernen lernen), II. Lehr- und Lernmittel (hier u. a. Artikel zu den Medien Lehrwerk, Tafel (!), Tageslichtprojektor, Videorekorder, Telefon, Komputer, aber auch zu eher nicht so gewöhnlichen Mitteln wie Briefmarken) über III. Fertigkeiten - Praktiken - Verfahren: Standard bis alternativ (neben Anmerkungen zu den Standardfertigkeiten auch Überlegungen zu dem eigenen Korrekturverhalten zur Bereicherung des Unterrichts durch FremdsprachenassistentInnen) bis hin zu dem IV. Blick über den Zaun: Oder was wir voneinander lernen können (der Blick schweift hinüber zu anderen mit Fremdsprachenlehren befaßten Bildungseinrichtungen, so z. B. zum Goethe-Institut, Fernunterricht oder dem Nachhilfeunterricht) und schließlich zur V. Lehrerfortbildung in Eigeninitiative (Informationsquellen und eine Zeitschriftenschau).
title: Rezension: WILLENBERG, HEINER (1999), Lesen und Lernen. Eine Einführung in die Neuropsychologie des Textverstehens
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Was geht in unseren Köpfen vor, wenn wir Texte lesen? Wie bilden wir so etwas wie ein internes Modell dessen, was im Text beschrieben oder erzählt wird? Welche Rolle spielen dabei unsere Interessen, unsere Vorkenntnisse und Erwartungen, unsere Gefühle? Das sind Fragen, mit denen sich die psychologische Textverstehensforschung seit etwa 20 Jahren beschäftigt, wobei sie allerdings recht unterschiedliche Ziele und Forschungsmethoden verfolgt. Ein wesentlicher Teilbereich dieser Forschungsrichtung, nämlich die Verstehensforschung im Rahmen der Kognitiven Wissenschaften und der Künstlichen Intelligenz- Forschung, orientiert sich vor allem am Ziel, Modelle des Textverstehens zu entwickeln, die sich in Computersysteme implementieren lassen, andere, die so genannten 'instruktionspsychologischen' Ansätze, sind eher an einer Verbesserung der Verstehensleistungen in Lehr- und Lernprozessen interessiert, sei es, dass sie, wie weite Teile der älteren Verständlichkeitsforschung, Vorschläge zur optimierenden Textgestaltung formulieren oder sei es, dass sie, wie einige neuere Forschungsansätze auch in der Fremdsprachendidaktik, Programme und Prinzipien für die Verbesserung der Verstehensleistungen im Rahmen von Unterrichtsprozessen erarbeiten.
title: Professionalisierung für fach- und sprachintegrierte Diagnose und Förderung im Mathematikunterricht: Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Konzepts für die universitäre Fachlehrerausbildung
Creators: name: Prediger, Susanne
name: Tschierschky, Kristine
name: Wessel, Lena
name: Seipp, Bettina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wie können Lehrkräfte der sogenannten nicht-sprachlichen Fächer für eine durchgängige und fachbezogene Sprachdiagnose und -förderung gezielt vorbereitet werden? Der Artikel stellt am Beispiel des Mathematikunterrichts ein sprach- und fachintegriertes Konzept für ein interdisziplinäres Professionalisierungsmodul in der universitären Lehrerbildung vor. Neben der theoretischen Grundlegung und praktischen Umsetzung werden ausgewählte Resultate der empirischen Beforschung des Konzepts thematisiert.
Cyclotron resonance of a magnetic quantum dot
Creators: name: Nguyen, Nga T. T.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy spectrum of a one-electron quantum dot doped with a single magnetic ion is studied in the presence of an external magnetic field. The allowed cyclotron resonance (CR) transitions are obtained together with their oscillator strength (OS) as function of the magnetic field, the position of the magnetic ion, and the quantum dot confinement strength. With increasing magnetic field a ferromagnetic - antiferromagnetic transition is found that results in clear signatures in the CR absorption. It leads to discontinuities in the transition energies and the oscillator strengths and an increase of the number of allowed transitions.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures
MOESM2 of Transcriptomic analysis of Verbena bonariensis roots in response to cadmium stress
Creators: name: Wang, Meng-qi
name: Bai, Zhen-yu
name: Xiao, Ya-fang
name: Li, Yan
name: Liu, Qing-lin
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Pan, Yuan-zhi
name: Jiang, Bei-bei
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Changes of Verbena bonariensis morphological indexes under Cd different concentration stress. (a) Leaf area; (b) petiole long; (c) Plant height; (d) Root length; (e) Number of lateral roots.
title: Sprechfähigkeit und -willigkeit fördern: Das Dilemma der Grammatikvermittlung
Creators: name: Sylvia, Fischer
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Welche Rolle spielt die Vermittlung von Grammatik im DaF-Unterricht, der vor allem Sprechkompetenz fördern möchte? Lehrende, die den Unterricht kommunikativ ausrichten wollen, treffen nicht selten auf Lernende, die aufgrund ihrer Lern- und Lehrtradition expliziten Grammatikunterricht fordern. Was sollen DaF-Lehrende in dieser Situation tun? Gerade muttersprachliche Lehrende im Ausland müssen damit rechnen, andere Vorstellungen und Konzepte vom Lernen einer Fremdsprache als ihre Lernenden zu haben. Um einen Ausweg aus dem Dilemma aufzuzeigen, soll von den Studierenden ausgegangen werden. Um die Differenzen, die oft die Relevanz von Grammatikvermittlung betreffen, darzustellen, werden daher die Aussagen italienischer DaF-Studierender zum Thema dargelegt. Anschließend werden diese im Hinblick auf theoretische Positionen wie zum Beispiel die Interface- bzw. Non-interface-Position, Noticing-Hypothese u.a. diskutiert. Einzelne Fallbeispiele dienen dazu, die Schwierigkeiten der Lernenden, die typischerweise auftreten, zu erörtern. Eine Diskussion der Argumente, die jeweils für oder gegen die explizite Vermittlung von Grammatik sprechen, leitet zu didaktischen Hinweisen für den DaF-Unterrricht über, der Sprechen vorantreiben möchte.
Generation of Matrix Models by W-operators
Creators: name: Morozov, A.
name: Shakirov, Sh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that partition functions of various matrix models can be obtained by acting on elementary functions with exponents of W-operators. A number of illustrations is given, including the Gaussian Hermitian matrix model, Hermitian model in external field and the Hurwitz-Kontsevitch model, for which we suggest an elegant matrix-model representation. In all these examples, the relevant W-operators belong to the W_3-algebra.
description: 30 pages
title: Preschoolers' Perceptions of Their Alternative Care Environments
Creators: name: Godfrey, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: The purpose of this study was to examine children's perceptions of their alternative child care environment without constraining thought processes or suggesting appropriate answers. The Child Care Game Assessment (CCGA) was developed to meet these goals. The CCGA is a role-plating, game-like assessment for preschool children. It uses a model of the child's alternative care environment and allows children to act out portions of a typical day.
The CCGA was administered to 57 four- and five-year-old children attending non-parental child care. Twenty-one children (11 boys and 10 girls) attended Utah State University's Child Development Laboratory, a 10-hour-per-week preschool. Twenty-one children (10 boys and 11 girls) participated in a full day child care centers, and fifteen children (12 boys and 3 girls) attended state-licensed, full-day home care settings.
The CCGA provided a factor score that reflected each child's perceptions regarding several areas of child care. These factors yielded a "contentment" score that measured how children liked attending their alternative child care environment. Results suggested that children generally liked attending alternative child care. They viewed care providers as an important element contributing to their contentment.
Children are the primary consumers of alternative care and their perceptions concerning child care were imperative. They furnished convergent data regarding their preferences at child care and gave important information regarding child care practices.
The CCGA appears to provide useful information regarding children's perceptions of alternative child care. Parents and child care providers can use this information to provide children with better alternative environments by noting interactions and providing child-centered activities.
title: A National Profile of Child Development Laboratory Schools
Creators: name: Anderson, Owen Arthur
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it sought to provide a profile of child development laboratory schools across the nation. Second, because laboratory schools are believed to be model programs that provide appropriate learning environments for children, their parents, and for the professional training of teachers, it was of particular interest to examine whether laboratory schools were training Early Childhood Education students in ways consistent with the current research and policies in the field. Specifically, the practices of laboratory schools at two- and four-year institutions were compared. Results of the study indicated that laboratory schools utilized philosophies that guide the curriculum within their programs. A variety of methods such as coursework, written materials, and conferences, were employed to inform students and parents of the program's philosophy. Observations were routinely conducted in laboratories with students and parents typically observing the program from an observation booth and/or the classroom. with regard to the mission of laboratory programs, two-year schools ranked service significantly higher, while four-year programs tended to do more research and training of graduate students. The ages of children in laboratories at two- and four-year schools were similar , but four-year schools had more classes with fewer children per class. Two-year schools had more full-day programs and longer hours, while four-year schools had more half-day programs operating fewer hours. Two-year schools also had more students and parents assisting in the classroom; however , two- and four-year programs both had acceptable ratios of adults to children. The Child Development Laboratory programs appear to be the model setting for the professional training of teachers and also a location which can help parents to become better consumers of alternative child care.
title: The Effects of Mild Hearing Loss on Academic Performance Among Young School Age Children
Creators: name: Peterson, Miles Ellis
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: The purpose of this study was to measure the academic performance of children with mild hearing loss (20-45 dB) by comparing them with a normal control group. Twenty-four pairs of children in the first through fourth grades were compared. The achievement scores of the second and fourth grade student pairs were compared for the current academic year and for the previous academic year. A two-way analysis of Variance was used to compare the achievement scores from the Iowa Test of Basic Skills of the two groups. The results indicated statistical significance on some subtests of the first and fourth grade student's scores. The standard mean scores of the hearing impaired group was almost always poorer than the normal control group in every grade. The interaction between the two groups in the second and fourth grade showed no significance statistically. The improvement in scores between the two years for the two groups was relatively parallel, however, the hearing impaired group's improvement was usually poorer in most of the subtests. The discussion includes the implications of these results indicating a negative effect of mild hearing loss particularly as the hearing impaired child gets older. It also includes interesting points related to hearing aid management and special services.
title: Rezension: GEORGIAKAKI, MANUELA (1998) Lesetraining für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in der Grundstufe
Creators: name: Mazza, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das Werk, für junge Lernende des Deutschen als Fremdsprache konzipiert, ist für den lehrwerkbegleitenden Einsatz in Sprachkursen gedacht, um die Lesefähigkeit systematisch zu trainieren. Es enthält eine Auswahl von 27 Lesetexten: 10 für das einfache, 7 für das mittlere und wiederum 10 für das fortgeschrittene Niveau. Die Texte sind zum (kleinsten) Teil authentisch; die meisten sind für die didaktische Anwendung bearbeitet oder von der Autorin selbst geschrieben. Sie sollen "den Interessen junger Lerner entgegenkommen und ihre Neugierde wecken" (s. Umschlag).
Clumpiness enhancement of charged cosmic rays from dark matter annihilation with Sommerfeld effect
Creators: name: Yuan, Qiang
name: Bi, Xiao-Jun
name: Liu, Jia
name: Yin, Peng-Fei
name: Zhang, Juan
name: Zhu, Shou-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boost factors of dark matter annihilation into antiprotons and electrons/positrons due to the clumpiness of dark matter distribution are studied in detail in this work, taking the Sommerfeld effect into account. It has been thought that the Sommerfeld effect, if exists, will be more remarkable in substructures because they are colder than the host halo, and may result in a larger boost factor. We give a full calculation of the boost factors based on the recent N-body simulations. Three typical cases of Sommerfeld effects, the non-resonant, moderately resonant and strongly resonant cases are considered. We find that for the non-resonant and moderately resonant cases the enhancement effects of substructures due to the Sommerfeld effect are very small ($\sim \mathcal{O}(1)$) because of the saturation behavior of the Sommerfeld effect. For the strongly resonant case the boost factor is typically smaller than $\sim \mathcal{O}(10)$. However, it is possible in some very extreme cases that DM distribution is adopted to give the maximal annihilation the boost factor can reach up to $\sim 1000$. The variances of the boost factors due to different realizations of substructures distribution are also discussed in the work.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, 2 table. The detailed fomula of the propagation and boost factor are moved to the Appendix. Accepted by JCAP
The Redstone bedded copper deposit and a discussion on the origin of red bed copper deposits
Creators: name: Coates, James A,
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thesis is divided into two parts. In Chapter I a new bedded copper deposit at Redstone River, N.W.T., is described for the first time. Emphasis is placed on those aspects of the geology, mineralogy and mineralography which may have significance in considering the origin of the ore. It is concluded that the ores were emplaced at low temperature subsequent to deposition of the host rock. Some redistribution and possibly addition of copper occurred at a later date as a result of tectonic disturbance. In Chapter II the problem of the origin of red bed copper deposits is discussed with the Redstone deposit considered as a typical example. An attempt is made to review the major aspects of the problem, including what the writer considers to be the most important ideas expressed in the literature. The writer discards the terms 'epigenetic' and 'syngenetic1 as applied to such deposits and proposes new lines of research based on the difference in electric potential between host rocks and adjacent red beds.
title: The Preschool Child's Knowledge of Musical Pitch
Creators: name: Nelson, Farol Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The objective of this study was to determine what kinds of musical instruments were most effective in developing pitch discrimination in preschool children. Five melody instruments were used in this study, including a wooden soprano recorder, a C flute, a commercially made xylophone, a melodica, and a set of cut conduit pipes played as a xylophone-type instrument. Children from the Child Development Labs at Utah State University, Logan, Utah comprised the sample.
It was found that children do identify high and low pitches more easily in some instruments than in others. They discriminated between high and low pitches of the wooden soprano recorder more accurately than was true of any of the other four instruments, and were lea s t accurate in their response to the xylophone. There were no significant differences between responses of boys and girls.
It was also found that the child had to possess a directional knowledge of high and low before he could identify high and low pitch.
It was concluded that the recorder was a more effective instrument in teaching children to discriminate between high and low pitches than any of the other four instruments tested.
title: Late-Life Mate Selection: Dating Patterns in an Older Age Group
Creators: name: Evans, Kristine Udell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: This exploratory study is a description of the older dater and his/her attitudes and perceptions about dating, a comparison within the same cohort of youthful and late-life dating and mate selection, and a description of the patterns of dating in the elder years. It is a non-random collection of interviews with 38 single men and women over the age of 59 in two counties in Utah.
Older daters were found to have been married for much of their lives previous to dating. They perceived themselves to be in good health and financial condition and were fairly well-educated. They lived independently and had available and supportive family and friend relationships. They had good concepts of themselves and their ability to attract dating partners. Little resistance was perceived from significant others or the general public to their dating.
Older people were not found to be more conservative in choosing mates than they were when they were young except in valuing romantic love, sexual attraction and interest in sex less now than during their youth. They also accepted divorce in potential partners and height differences more now than when they were young. They were less accepting now of poor financial conditions.
The primary motive for dating and for remarriage in late life was to find companionship. Monogamous dating relationships were the norm. The primary functions of dating were friendship and sharing confidences. Dating partners were met most often through mutual acquaintances or during previous marriages. Dating format and activities for the elderly were similar to those of youthful daters, except at a slower pace.
Functional linear regression that's interpretable
Creators: name: James, Gareth M.
name: Wang, Jing
name: Zhu, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62J99 (Primary)

description: Regression models to relate a scalar $Y$ to a functional predictor $X(t)$ are becoming increasingly common. Work in this area has concentrated on estimating a coefficient function, $β(t)$, with $Y$ related to $X(t)$ through $\intβ(t)X(t) dt$. Regions where $β(t)\ne0$ correspond to places where there is a relationship between $X(t)$ and $Y$. Alternatively, points where $β(t)=0$ indicate no relationship. Hence, for interpretation purposes, it is desirable for a regression procedure to be capable of producing estimates of $β(t)$ that are exactly zero over regions with no apparent relationship and have simple structures over the remaining regions. Unfortunately, most fitting procedures result in an estimate for $β(t)$ that is rarely exactly zero and has unnatural wiggles making the curve hard to interpret. In this article we introduce a new approach which uses variable selection ideas, applied to various derivatives of $β(t)$, to produce estimates that are both interpretable, flexible and accurate. We call our method "Functional Linear Regression That's Interpretable" (FLiRTI) and demonstrate it on simulated and real-world data sets. In addition, non-asymptotic theoretical bounds on the estimation error are presented. The bounds provide strong theoretical motivation for our approach.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS641 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Household Technology and the Division of Household Labor in Utah Families
Creators: name: Peterson, Sydney Mitchell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of household appliances and the division of labor in accomplishing household tasks in the family. It investigated the relationship between ownership of specific items of household equipment and the performance of directly related household tasks and the overall ownership of household equipment and the overall division of labor in the family.
Data for this study came from "Determinants and outcomes of Household Time Use," which is part of the S-206 Regional Research Project. Data from 214 two-parent, two-child households were analyzed to determine the relationship between ownership of household equipment and time spent in three categories of household tasks by husbands, wives and children. Ownership of household equipment was determined by means of an equipment inventory. The ownership of appliances and their relationship to the performance of directly associated tasks included: (microwave oven and time spent in food preparation; (2) dishwasher and garbage disposal and time spent in dishwashing; and (3) power garden and/or yard equipment and power shop tools and time spent in maintenance of home, yard, car, and pets.
The total time spent in household production by husbands, wives, children and its relationship to the total number of household appliances owned was also studied.
The t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Kruskal-Wallis were used to analyze the differences in proportion of time spent in the various household tasks by wives, husbands, and children by ownership of related household equipment. No significant differences were found in the proportion of time spent in food preparation, dishwashing, and maintenance by wives, husbands, and children in households that did and did not own the related household equipment. The correlation between level of equipment ownership and husbands' and children's proportion of total family time spent in household work was not significant indicating that as more equipment is acquired husbands and children do not contribute a smaller proportion of total family time in household work.
title: Mate Selection in Contemporary America: An Exchange Theory Perspective
Creators: name: Young, Margaret H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: The use of exchange theory as it applies to human relations has escalated dramatically in the past 20 years. The present study applies exchange theory as the basis of mate selection in contemporary society. Whereas an actual barter system was used in the past and families played a major role in choosing prospective mates, participants in the mate selection process are not virtually on their own and must rely upon their own bargaining skills to present their assets on the marriage market. A number of characteristics are thought to enhance or detract from a person's "worth" on the marriage market. Over 900 college students from nine universities across the united states were surveyed in order to ascertain what they considered valuable in a potential mate, and important variables in the mate selection process were determined. Comparisons were made among gender, race, marital status, family size and configuration, socioeconomic status, religious orientation, and geographical region of the United States. The results indicate that important differences exist among the various groups concerning what characteristics enhance or detract from an individual's worth on the marriage market in contemporary America. Finally, it was determined that marital worth of individuals can theoretically be measured.