cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Regarding the rites of others: an analysis of responses to the serpent-handling sects
Creators: name: Cossitt, Robyn
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Serpent-handling sects are a subsect of the Church of God and Holiness Movements of Pentecostalism. These sects are famous for their “bizarre” serpent-handling ritual, which has drawn significant attention from scholars, legislators and media organizations. Societies define themselves through comparison with others. In order to underscore the power of the modern, secular American culture, the serpent-handlers have been constructed as an “internal other” that represents the antithesis of the majority culture’s values, beliefs, and practices. This thesis explores the othering process of serpent-handlers through sensationalist and primitivist narratives perpetuated by early academics, state legislation, newspapers, magazines, and television. The narratives constructed about the serpent-handling sects mark the boundaries of normative culture.
Risk aversion in a dynamic trading game
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Karp, Larry S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The effect of risk aversion on Nash equilibrium trade restrictions is studied using numerical methods. An increase in a nation's level of risk aversion can lead to either an increase or decrease in its equilibrium restriction and either an increase or decrease in its rival's restriction. The linear quadratic dynamic game is generalized to include risk aversion.
Introduzione al numero monografico. Scuola e Lifelong Learning: un tema non nuovo… ovvero un tema sempre nuovo
Creators: name: Marescotti, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – This paper presents the special issue, justifying the relevance of the nexus school/lifelong learning for educational theory and practice. The articles, as a whole, provide a argued and critical problematization of the theme, leading to a re-definition of school’s identity and action and  solicit to bring many different learning experiences in a unitarian meaning of education. In this perspective, geared to continuity / discontinuity, school quality appears as a crucial element to ensure that lifelong learning is also, and above all, lifelong education.

Abstract –  Questo testo presenta il numero monografico, giustificando la rilevanza del nesso scuola/lifelong learning sul piano teorico e sul piano pratico dell’educazione. I vari contributi, nel loro complesso, offrono una problematizzazione critica e argomentata della questione, portando ad una ri-definizione dell’identità e dell’operatività della scuola, e sollecitano a ricondurre le molteplici e differenti esperienze formative ad un orizzonte di senso educativo unitario. In questa prospettiva di continuità/discontinuità,  la qualità della scuola si configura come un elemento cruciale affinché il lifelong learning sia, anche e soprattutto, lifelong education.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Additional file 4 of Improving postal survey response using behavioural science: a nested randomised control trial
Creators: name: McBride, Emily
name: Mase, Hiromi
name: Kerrison, Robert S.
name: Marlow, Laura A. V.
name: Waller, Jo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary File 4. Demographic characteristics for responders by intervention vs. control group (N = 646).
La triangolazione scuola, adulti ed educazione degli adulti
Creators: name: Tramma, Sergio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – The essay treats the relationship between school, adults and adult education, from a socio-pedagogical perspective, that inserts this matter in a broader reflection on educational effects operated by economic and social transformations occurred in the recent decades. The school in the past has fulfilled an important educational function towards disadvantaged adults; now it can aspire to be a point of reference for all adult and elderly people, providing them useful tools to understand the contemporary society, however the risks of its further marginalization in the educational landscape.

Abstract – Il contributo affronta il rapporto tra scuola, adulti ed educazione degli adulti, analizzandolo da una prospettiva pedagogico-sociale. In particolare, il ruolo avuto dalla scuola nei confronti degli adulti è collocato all’interno di una riflessione riguardante gli effetti educativi delle trasformazioni economiche e sociali che si sono verificate negli ultimi decenni. La scuola, che in passato ha svolto un’importante funzione educativa nei confronti degli adulti svantaggiati, può oggi candidarsi a essere un punto di riferimento per fornire alle persone adulte e anziane strumenti per comprendere la società contemporanea, anche se non sono pochi i rischi di una sua ulteriore marginalizzazione nel panorama educativo.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
How a Non-hierarchical Neutrino Mass Matrix Can Arise
Creators: name: Barr, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One puzzle of neutrino masses and mixings is that they do not exhibit the kind of strong "hierarchy" that is found for the quarks and charged leptons. Neutrino mass ratios and mixing angles are not small. A possible reason for this is proposed here. It is based on the fact that typical realistic grand unified models contain particles with unification-scale masses which, when integrated out, can yield a neutrino mass matrix that is not of the standard seesaw form.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, LaTex
Grammatical elicitation: Verbal agreement paradigms
Creators: name: Calmo Jerónimo, Brenda
name: Lemon, Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: Verbs 'be happy' and 'see' in past, present progressive, and future. Verb 'see' was elicited for subjects of all person-number combinations and both a 3SG and 2SG object to check for object agreement.
Why industrial policies fail : limited commitment
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Strategic trade policy
subject: convex adjustment costs
subject: Markov perfect equilibria

description: The strategic effects of subsidies on output and subsidies on investment differ substantially in dynamic models where a government's commitment ability is limited. Output subsidies remain effective even as the period of commitment vanishes. but investment subsidies may become completely ineffective. This difference has been obscured because most existing models of strategic trade policy are static.
Sustainability, limited substitutability and non-constant social discount rates
Creators: name: Traeger, Christian P.
name: Traeger, Christian P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental discount rate
subject: weak sustainability
subject: hyperbolic
subject: limited substitutability
subject: nonconstant discounting
subject: numeraire dependence
subject: project evaluation
subject: propagator of marginal utility
subject: social discount factor
subject: social discount rate
subject: strong sustainability
subject: time preference

description: The paper explores the consequences of limited substitutability in welfare between environmental and produced goods for long-term evaluation. I show how the magnitude and time development of optimal social discount rates depend on the substitutability between the different classes of goods. The notions of weak and strong sustainability are translated into the degree of substitutability. I show that a strong notion of sustainability results in lower weights given to long-run service and consumption streams compared to a weak notion of sustainability.
L’educazione permanente e il ruolo dei docenti nell’attuare le riforme curricolari. Riflessioni a partire da alcuni avanzati modelli europei
Creators: name: Gallerani, Manuela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – Il contributo sviluppa una riflessione intorno al ruolo del lifelong learning così come è interpretato nei curricoli nazionali europei. A partire dalle ampie riforme curricolari che stanno interessando alcuni grandi paesi europei si riflette sul come una formazione basata sull’apprendimento lifelong-lifedeep-lifewide viene declinata dai singoli curriculi. Si discute, in parallelo, sul delicato e prezioso ruolo sociale svolto da educatori e docenti nell’attuare in modo efficace i contenuti di tali riforme.

Abstract – The article focuses on lifelong learning perspective as it is interpreted in the framework of EU national curricula (and Educational Reform). Teachers and preschool educators are expected to improve a lifelong-lifedeep-lifewide learning among their students (at school), but their professional work of caring is also an important task (mission) for a cultural development of a global society. Their engagement represents, at the same time, a crucial issue to promote a real “Culture of Education” in the EU context.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Economic Implications of the EU Accession of Bulgaria and Romania: A CGE Approach
Creators: name: Baourakis, George
name: Lakatos, Csilla
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
name: Baourakis, George
name: Lakatos, Csilla
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The paper examines the economic implications of Bulgaria and Romania recent accession to the EU. The analysis has been carried out by using the GTAP model and database. In a first attempt, the effects of the removal of formal trade barriers and the adoption of common external tariffs are considered; not surprisingly, we find that associated impacts are not large, given that existing barriers have been gradually removed in accordance with the Europe Agreements. Further, we take into account the so-called "value of the current preferences", representing a scenario where there is a potential return to the MFN tariff schedule.
Effect of gap suppression by superfluid current on nonlinear microwave response of d-wave superconductors
Creators: name: Nicol, E. J.
name: Carbotte, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently several works have focused on the intrinsic nonlinear current in passive microwave filters as a tool for identifying d-wave order parameter symmetry in the high Tc cuprates. Evidence has been found for d-wave pairing in YBCO and further work has ensued. Most of the theoretical work has been limited to low temperature because it has not included the effect of the superfluid current on the energy gap. We find that this effect leads to important corrections above T~0.2Tc, while leaving the 1/T low temperature behavior intact. A twofold increase in the nonlinear coefficient at temperatures of order ~0.75 Tc is found, and as T->Tc the nonlinearity comes entirely from the effects of the superfluid current on the gap. Impurity scattering has been included and, in addition, signatures for the case of d+s-wave are presented.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRB
Quantum theory of light and noise polarization in nonlinear optics
Creators: name: Scheel, Stefan
name: Welsch, Dirk-Gunnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a consistent quantum theory of the electromagnetic field in nonlinearly responding causal media, with special emphasis on $χ^{(2)}$ media. Starting from QED in linearly responding causal media, we develop a method to construct the nonlinear Hamiltonian expressed in terms of the complex nonlinear susceptibility in a quantum mechanically consistent way. In particular we show that the method yields the nonlinear noise polarization, which together with the linear one is responsible for intrinsic quantum decoherence.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Intra-valence-band mixing in strain-compensated SiGe quantum wells
Creators: name: Tsujino, S.
name: Borak, A.
name: Falub, C.
name: Fromherz, T.
name: Diehl, L.
name: Sigg, H.
name: Gruetzmacher, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the midinfrared absorption of strain-compensated p-Si0.2Ge0.8/Si quantum wells for various well thicknesses and temperatures. Owing to the large band offset due to the large bi-axial strain contrast between the wells and barriers, the intersubband transitions energies from the ground state to the excited heavy hole (hh), light hole (lh) and split-off hole (so) states are resolved to ~0.5 eV. When hh2 is within ~30 meV of lh1 or so1 a partial transfer of the hh1-hh2 oscillator strength to the hh1-lh1 or hh1-so1 transitions is observed, which is otherwise forbidden for light polarized perpendicular to the plane of the wells. This is a clear sign of mixing between the hh and lh or so-states. A large temperature induced broadening of hh2 peak is observed for narrow wells indicating a non-parabolic dispersion of the hh2 states due to the mixing with the lh/so continuum. We found that the 6-band k.p theory gives a quantitative account of the observations. A possible role of many-body effects in the temperatureinduced negative peak shift is discussed.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Greek Primary Education in the Context of the European Life Long Learning Area: the transformations and the new (?) roles
Creators: name: Vassilopoulos, Andreas
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – The present paper argues that the adoption of the Lisbon Strategy provided the EU with the tools – mainly the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – to finally construct a functional European Lifelong Learning (LLL) area spanning all levels and types of education and learning, “from the cradle to the grave”. Accordingly, it puts forward the respective legislative initiatives introduced by the Greek government concerning Primary Education (PE) commenting on both its new roles in the context of the European LLL area and  its place in the Greek LLL strategy.

Abstract – Il presente articolo sostiene che l’adozione della strategia di Lisbona debba fornire all’Unione Europea gli strumenti – principalmente l’Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – per realizzare un funzionale sistema europeo di apprendimento permanente (LLL) che abbracci tutti i livelli e le tipologie formative, “dalla culla alla tomba”. Conseguentemente, si affrontano le relative iniziative legislative introdotte dal governo greco in materia di istruzione primaria (PE), commentandone il nuovo ruolo nel contesto sia europeo, sia greco, di LLL.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Democratizing AI: From Theory to Practice
Creators: name: Clough, Paul D.
name: Otterbacher, Jahna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: AI adoption, data maturity, democratization of AI, elements of democracy, social factors

description: We are witnessing a movement towards Democratizing AI, with a wide variety of tools, platforms and data sources becoming accessible to more people. This movement is said to be fueling innovation, extending the capabilities of individuals and organizations, by making the creation and application of AI easier. However, beyond the hype, there is a need to understand what this trend means for various stakeholders. Through the lens of socio-political democracy, this chapter examines the democratization of AI. We find that the present state of the “AI Democracy” maps onto only one of three elements of a democracy. Current efforts focus primarily on providing people with the tools and technical infrastructure needed to participate in AI, but not in protecting their freedoms and access to social benefits, which are the other core elements of democracy. We discuss the possibilities for realizing a broader AI democracy, along with the anticipated challenges.
description: This project is partially funded by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation under grant EXCELLENCE/0918/0086 (DESCANT) and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under agreements No. 739578 (RISE) and 810105 (CyCAT). We thank Samanatha Shaw from Devon County Council for sharing her views on AI democratization.
Choosers or losers?  Progression from school to Lifelong Learning in the UK
Creators: name: Wallace, Susan
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – This paper discusses the relationship between secondary schools and lifelong learning as provided by Further Education (FE) colleges in the UK. It argues that this relationship is often problematic, both as a result of prevailing market ideology and of historically-grounded discourses about the relative status of the two sectors. The paper questions the notion that learners transferring to FE at 16 are exercising a real ‘choice’;  but also draws attention to evidence that significant numbers of them nevertheless find FE a more engaging and rewarding experience than school.

 Abstract – Questo articolo esamina la relazione tra scuola secondaria e lifelong learning, prevista dagli istituti di Further Education (FE) del Regno Unito. Si tratta di un rapporto che si configura spesso come problematico, sia per il prevalere dell’ideologia del mercato, sia per i fondamenti storici inerenti lo status dei due ambiti. Poiché gli studenti entrano nel sistema FE a 16 anni, ci si chiede se essi stiano esercitando una vera e propria ‘scelta’, ma si richiama anche l’attenzione sull’evidenza che, tuttavia, un numero significativo di essi la considerano un’esperienza più coinvolgente e gratificante di quella scolastica.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Visser't Hooft, Willem A., Ursprung und Entstehung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen
Creators: name: Krüger
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 2 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 2
Additional file 1 of Omega-3 mechanism of action in inflammation and endoplasmic reticulum stress in mononuclear cells from overweight non-alcoholic fatty liver disease participants: study protocol for the “Brazilian Omega Study” (BROS)—a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Batista, Ellencristina Silva
name: da Silva Rios, Thaiane
name: Muñoz, Vitor Rosetto
name: Jesus, Joyce Santos
name: Vasconcelos, Marcel Monteiro
name: da Cunha, Diogo Thimóteo
name: Marques-Rocha, Jose Luis
name: Nakandakari, Susana Castelo Branco Ramos
name: Lara, Roberta
name: da Silva, Adelino Sanchez Ramos
name: Pauli, José Rodrigo
name: Ropelle, Eduardo Rochete
name: Mekary, Rania Angelina
name: de Moura, Leandro Pereira
name: Camargo, Enilton Aparecido
name: Cintra, Dennys Esper
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1:. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendation for Intervention Trials (SPIRIT)
Oceanic non-Kolmogorov optical turbulence and spherical wave propagation
Creators: name: Yao, Jinren
name: Wang, Hantao
name: Zhang, Huajun
name: Cai, Jiandong
name: Ren, Mingyuan
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Korotkova, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light propagation in turbulent media is conventionally studied with the help of the spatio-temporal power spectra of the refractive index fluctuations. In particular, for natural water turbulence several models for the spatial power spectra have been developed based on the classic, Kolmogorov postulates. However, as currently widely accepted, non-Kolmogorov turbulent regime is also common in the stratified flow fields, as suggested by recent developments in atmospheric optics. Until now all the models developed for the non-Kolmogorov optical turbulence were pertinent to atmospheric research and, hence, involved only one advected scalar, e.g., temperature. We generalize the oceanic spatial power spectrum, based on two advected scalars, temperature and salinity concentration, to the non-Kolmogorov turbulence regime, with the help of the so-called "Upper-Bound Limitation" and by adopting the concept of spectral correlation of two advected scalars. The proposed power spectrum can handle general non-Kolmogorov, anisotropic turbulence but reduces to Kolmogorov, isotropic case if the power law exponents of temperature and salinity are set to 11/3 and anisotropy coefficient is set to unity. To show the application of the new spectrum, we derive the expression for the second-order mutual coherence function of a spherical wave and examine its coherence radius (in both scalar and vector forms) to characterize the turbulent disturbance. Our numerical calculations show that the statistics of the spherical wave vary substantially with temperature and salinity non-Kolmogorov power law exponents and temperature-salinity spectral correlation coefficient. The introduced spectrum is envisioned to become of significance for theoretical analysis and experimental measurements of non-classic natural water double-diffusion turbulent regimes.
On the creation and destruction of public goods : the matter of sequencing
Creators: name: Carson, Richard T.
name: Flores, Nicholas
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
name: Carson, Richard T.
name: Flores, Nicholas
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Public Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: We consider sequences where a subset of public goods are systematically being created or destroyed. For the case of strict Hicksian substitutes between all pairs of this subset of public goods, we show that willingness to pay for an increase in a particular public good is strictly decreasing the farther out in a sequence it is valued. For the destruction of public goods the reverse is true for willingness to accept compensation. Thus, sequencing has opposite implications for the assessment of the benefits of providing public goods and for the assessment of the damages from destroying them.
Entanglement, fidelity, and quantum-classical correlations with an atom walking in a quantized cavity field
Creators: name: Prants, S. V.
name: Uleysky, M. Yu.
name: Argonov, V. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stability and instability of quantum evolution are studied in the interaction between a two-level atom with photon recoil and a quantized field mode in an ideal cavity, the basic model of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). It is shown that the Jaynes-Cummings dynamics can be unstable in the regime of chaotic walking of the atomic center-of-mass in the quantized field of a standing wave in the absence of any kind of interaction with environment. This kind of quantum instability manifests itself in strong variations of reduced quantum purity and entropy, correlating with the respective classical Lyapunov exponent, and in exponential sensitivity of fidelity of quantum states to small variations in the atom-field detuning. The connection between quantum entanglement and fidelity and the center-of-mass motion is clarified analytically and numerically for a few regimes of that motion. The results are illustrated with two specific initial field states: the Fock and coherent ones. Numerical experiments demonstrate various manifestations of the quantum-classical correspondence, including dynamical chaos and fractals, which can be, in principle, observed in real experiments with atoms and photons in high finesse cavities.
In Search of a Sustainable Global Agri-Food System
Creators: name: Stonehouse, D. Peter
name: Stonehouse, D. Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: The potential to meet global food demand fully exists through global development of the high-technology (HT), high-intensity type of agriculture and food processing system prevailing in developed countries. This system unfortunately is also responsible for much natural resource degradation, environmental damage and ecological imbalance. Meantime the Earth's human population continues to grow, placing ever-increasing demand on global natural resources, not only for food but also for living and recreational space. A more sustainable agri-food system must evolve. Sustainability is complex, and ought to be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective and compromise sought in resolving the obvious conflicts amongst biological, environmental, ecological, socio-economic, and other individual disciplines and competing philosophies. These form the basis for comparing three different agricultural production systems: high technology (HT); reduced input (RI), and organic (ORG). The three systems are compared empirically using primary data from farms in each group in southern Ontario, Canada. HT systems prevalent in Canada is highly productive, but its sustainability is questionable. It was concluded that the HT system should not be the model for the future. The ORG system is the least inimical to the environment, ecology, and human operators. It was concluded that the ORG system is sustainable except for its requirement for extensive use of land. The RI system causes minimal environmental and ecological damage. It is most profitable and is supportive of rural farm community viability. It was concluded that the RI system holds the best potential for meeting overall sustainability for the global agri-food system.
MPEC 2024-A92 : 2024 AA2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AA2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Dai CTP ai CPIA: il ruolo della scuola e il senso dell’educazione degli adulti
Creators: name: Cornacchia, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – This paper attempts to point out  the common roots that connect the school system with the adult education system. At the base of the networks, in fact, there are the same premises: the European dimension of education, the principle of autonomy, the integration between training systems. Now, however, a new reform act on adult education seems to give priority to the criteria of expense restraint and it will not improve the current structure.

Abstract – Il presente contributo si pone l’obiettivo di evidenziare il comune percorso che lega gli ultimi cambiamenti del sistema scolastico nazionale alla recente riforma del sistema di educazione degli adulti in Italia. Alla base degli interventi del Legislatore, infatti, ci sarebbero le stesse premesse che, se da una parte confermano i principi di continuità e permanenza fra scuola e long life learning, dall’altra sembrano privilegiare in entrambi i casi criteri di risparmio e contenimento della spesa.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Propiziare apprendimenti futuri: il contributo della ricerca cooperativa
Creators: name: Formenti, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – The paper develops a reflection on cooperative inquiry as a method to train teachers in the framework of lifelong learning. A systemic, constructivist and autobiographic approach is described with examples from a course, targeted to teachers in Mathematics and Physics. To propitiate lifelong and lifewide learning, for future teachers and their students, means to question and provoke their positioning in relationships, contexts, towards knowledge and subject matters, and to develop a theory about previous learning, professional choices, and how to cope with difficult situations.

Abstract – L’articolo sviluppa alcune riflessioni intorno alla ricerca cooperativa come metodo di formazione degli insegnanti in un’ottica di lifelong learning. Viene descritto un approccio sistemico, costruttivista e autobiografico, usando esempi tratti da un corso indirizzato a insegnanti di Matematica e Fisica. Propiziare un apprendimento lifelong e lifewide, negli insegnanti futuri e nei loro studenti, significa interrogare e provocare i loro posizionamenti nella relazione educativa, nei contesti, in relazione al sapere e alle materie scolastiche, e accompagnarli nello sviluppo di una teoria sui propri apprendimenti precedenti, sulle scelte professionali e sul modo di affrontare situazioni difficili, anche sul piano esistenziale.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
The Role of Soil Quality Criteria in Assessing Farm Performance
Creators: name: Southorn, Neil
name: Southorn, Neil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: The environmental impact of industrial agriculture is under close scrutiny, by Governments, concerned citizens, and farmers. This paper discusses the need to incorporate environmental factors in measures of farm performance, as part of the continuous review of long term sustainability. The concept of natural capital allows natural resources to be considered in similar ways to other assets of the farm business. It is suggested that soil quality criteria, selected to match the site characteristics and purpose of the landowner, be included in these measures, despite continuing disagreement about the concept and difficulties in its application. The intuitive appeal of a soil quality paradigm is the potential to integrate the many dimensions of sustainability, encouraging responsible land management. It is further suggested that soil structure is a key indicator of soil quality, and methods for its assessment are summarized.
Analysis of the hidden-charm tetraquark molecule mass spectrum with the QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we investigate the mass spectrum of the ground state hidden-charm tetraquark molecular states without strange, with strange and with hidden-strange via the QCD sum rules in a comprehensive way and revisit the assignments of the $X$, $Y$, $Z$ states in the scenario of tetraquark molecular states consistently based on the QCD sum rules.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.07914
Achieving transparency with plasmonic coatings
Creators: name: Alu, Andrea
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of using plasmonic covers to drastically reduce the total scattering cross section of spherical and cylindrical objects is discussed. While it is intuitively expected that increasing the physical size of an object may lead to an increase in its overall scattering cross section, here we see how a proper design of these lossless metamaterial covers near their plasma resonance may induce a dramatic drop in the scattering cross section, making the object nearly invisible to an observer, a phenomenon with obvious applications for low observability and non invasive probe design. Physical insights into this phenomenon and some numerical results are provided.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures; fixed typos in Eq. (2) and (3), added copyright statement
title: All-optical assay to study biological neural networks
Creators: name: Afshar Saber, Wardiya
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: As life span increases, neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis become an emerging problem in modern society. In particular Alzheimer’s disease (AD), characterized by a progressive cognitive impairment and memory loss, is the dominant cause of disability in people aged over 60. Due to the lack of accurate models, understanding the disease mechanisms and developing a cure for AD remains challenging. However, a novel approach based on human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology may offer an opportunity to overcome the limitations of the current models. These cells obtained by reprogramming patient’s somatic cells such as fibroblasts can be differentiated in vitro into various types of neural cells which further develop complex networks. To explore these heterogeneous neural networks, it is often critical to understand the activity of multiple neurons and how they communicate with each other. The work presented in this thesis focuses on the development of the first molecular optogenetic tool called OptoCaMP used in an all-optical assay enabling simultaneous stimulation and calcium imaging of a large population of neurons with a single-cell readout. This assay was further adapted to study the spread of excitation in a network thus allowing the quantification of its connectivity. The application of this assay in conditions where the neuronal connectivity was enhanced or decreased successfully demonstrated its sensitivity to changes in connectivity. This assay together with the iPSC technology bring the promise to greatly improve disease models studies and drug screening platforms.
Analytical solution for time-integrals in diagrammatic expansions: application to real-frequency diagrammatic Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Vucicevic, J.
name: Stipsic, P.
name: Ferrero, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The past years have seen a revived interest in the diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) methods for interacting fermions on a lattice. A promising recent development allows one to now circumvent the analytical continuation of dynamic observables in DiagMC calculations within the Matsubara formalism. This is made possible by symbolic algebra algorithms, which can be used to analytically solve the internal Matsubara frequency summations of Feynman diagrams. In this paper, we take a different approach and show that it yields improved results. We present a closed-form analytical solution of imaginary-time integrals that appear in the time-domain formulation of Feynman diagrams. We implement and test a DiagMC algorithm based on this analytical solution and show that it has numerous significant advantages. Most importantly, the algorithm is general enough for any kind of single-time correlation function series, involving any single-particle vertex insertions. Therefore, it readily allows for the use of action-shifted schemes, aimed at improving the convergence properties of the series. By performing a frequency-resolved action-shift tuning, we are able to further improve the method and converge the self-energy in a non-trivial regime, with only 3-4 perturbation orders. Finally, we identify time integrals of the same general form in many commonly used Monte Carlo algorithms and therefore expect a broader usage of our analytical solution.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 1 table
Le biografie insegnanti per una sensibilità relazionale in classe
Creators: name: Castiglioni, Micaela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Abstract – At the same time, this article aims to advance and – we could say – to legitimate an educational approach addressed to teachers, especially in service, enabling them to retrace critically and subjectively, if not strictly autobiographically, educational and didactic personal history that daily engaged them in the school of the complexity, and in a search of meaning for both teachers and students. The article also contains few examples regarding “what” and “how” about a practice of professional writing by the teacher, as a possible tool of self-education and professional self-care.

Abstract – Il contributo qui inserito si propone di avanzare e al tempo stesso, potremmo dire, legittimare un approccio formativo rivolto ai docenti, soprattutto quelli in servizio, che permetta loro di ripercorrere in modo critico e personale, se non propriamente autobiografico, la vicenda educativa e didattica che li vede impegnati ogni giorno nella scuola della complessità e della ricerca di senso sia per i docenti che per gli studenti. L’articolo contiene inoltre uno spaccato esemplificativo inerente il “che cosa” e il “come” di una pratica di scrittura professionale da parte dell’insegnante come possibile strumento di autoformazione e di cura del sé professionale.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 5, N° 5 (2013): Scuola e Lifelong Learning. Interazioni multiple nella continuità/discontinuità educativa
Grammatical elicitation: Verbal agreement paradigms
Creators: name: Calmo Jerónimo, Brenda
name: Lemon, Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: Verbs 'be sad', 'drive' and 'want' in the present tense in order to get a better sense of the distribution of the two sets of present tense subject agreement prefixes
Suitability Analysis of Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Western and Central Himalayas and Indo-Gangetic Plains
Creators: name: Selvan, S.
name: Sinha, Suman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) play a key role in seismic hazard assessment (SHA). Considering the seismo-tectonic, geophysical and geotectonic characteristics of a target region, all the GMPEs may not be suitable in predicting the observed ground motion effectively. With a fairly large number of published GMPEs, the selection and ranking of suitable GMPEs for the design of logic trees in SHA for a particular target region has become a necessity of late. This paper presents a detailed quantitative evaluation of performance of 16 GMPEs against recorded ground motion data in two target regions, characterized by distinct seismo-tectonic, geophysical and geotectonical nature. The data set comprises of 465 three-component spectral accelerograms corresponding to 122 earthquake events. The suitability of a GMPE is tested by two widely accepted data-driven statistical methods, namely, likelihood (LH) and log-likelihood (LLH) method. Different suites of GMPEs are shown suitable for different periods of interest. The results will be useful to scientists and engineers for microzonation and estimation of seismic design parameters for the design of earthquake-resistant structures in these regions.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Competing risk analysis of cardiovascular disease risk in breast cancer patients receiving a radiation boost
Creators: name: Koop, Yvonne
name: Atsma, Femke
name: Batenburg, Marilot C.T.
name: Meijer, Hanneke
name: van der Leij, Femke
name: Gal, Roxanne
name: van Velzen, Sanne G.M.
name: Išgum, Ivana
name: Vermeulen, Hester
name: Maas, Angela H.E.M.
name: Messaoudi, Saloua El
name: Verkooijen, Helena M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 1 of Impacts of systemic treatments on health-related quality of life for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Yunlin
name: Zhao, Mingye
name: Tang, Wenxi
name: Zheng, Xueping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary File 1. Checklist of the PRISMA Extension for Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis. Supplementary File 2. Search Terms for Meta-analysis (Pubmed). Supplementary File 3. Definitions of Standard Chemotherapy and Regimen Information. Supplementary File 4. Other Characteristics of the Included Studies. Supplementary File 5. Cochrane Risk of the Bias Assessment Tool. Supplementary File 6. Funnel Plots to Show Publication Bias. Supplementary File 7. League Tables and Network Plots for Subgroup Analysis. Supplementary File 8. Summarized Result of Comparison of Monotherapy, Combination Therapy and No Active Treatment. Supplementary File 9. Summarized Result of EQ-5D. Supplementary File 10. Heterogeneity Assessment Results. Supplementary File 11. Evidence Level Assessment (A), Transitivity (B), Direct Evidence Contribution (C), Predictive Interval (D). Supplementary File 12. Forest Plots Depicting Results of Head-to-head Comparisons. Supplementary File 14. Brooks-Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic. Supplementary File 15. Summarized Results of Sensitivity Analysis, Part 1 (QLQ-C30, Differentiating Chemotherapy). Supplementary File 16. Summarized Results of Sensitivity Analysis, Part 2 (QLQ-C30, Random Effects Models). Supplementary File 17. Summarized Results of Sensitivity Analysis, Part 3 (QLQ-C30, Long-term, Excluding RCTs Targeting on BRAF/RAS Mutated and MSI-H Patients). Supplementary File 18. Summarized Results of Sensitivity Analysis, Part 4 (QLQ-C30, Long-term, Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials Focused Solely on Patients with Unrestricted Gene Expression). Supplementary File 19. Summarized Results of Sensitivity Analysis, Part 5 (QLQ-C30, Long-term, Focused on Wild-type KRAS Patients).
Additional file 1 of Anthropometric measures and the risk of developing atrial fibrillation: a Swedish Cohort Study
Creators: name: Zia, Isac
name: Johnson, Linda
name: Memarian, Ensieh
name: Borné, Yan
name: Engström, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary data.
The GW190521 Mass Gap Event and the Primordial Black Hole Scenario
Creators: name: De Luca, V.
name: Desjacques, V.
name: Franciolini, G.
name: Pani, P.
name: Riotto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LIGO/Virgo Collaboration has recently observed GW190521, the first binary black hole merger with at least the primary component mass in the mass gap predicted by the pair-instability supernova theory. This observation disfavors the standard stellar-origin formation scenario for the heavier black hole, motivating alternative hypotheses. We show that GW190521 cannot be explained within the Primordial Black Hole (PBH) scenario if PBHs do not accrete during their cosmological evolution, since this would require an abundance which is already in tension with current constraints. On the other hand, GW190521 may have a primordial origin if PBHs accrete efficiently before the reionization epoch.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. v2: matching version published in PRL
Bayesian model of individual learning to control a motor imagery BCI
Creators: name: Annicchiarico, Côme
name: Lotte, Fabien
name: Mattout, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The cognitive mechanisms underlying subjects' self-regulation in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and neurofeedback (NF) training remain poorly understood. Yet, a mechanistic computational model of each individual learning trajectory is required to improve the reliability of BCI applications. The few existing attempts mostly rely on model-free (reinforcement learning) approaches. Hence, they cannot capture the strategy developed by each subject and neither finely predict their learning curve. In this study, we propose an alternative, model-based approach rooted in cognitive skill learning within the Active Inference framework. We show how BCI training may be framed as an inference problem under high uncertainties. We illustrate the proposed approach on a previously published synthetic Motor Imagery ERD laterality training. We show how simple changes in model parameters allow us to qualitatively match experimental results and account for various subject. In the near future, this approach may provide a powerful computational to model individual skill learning and thus optimize and finely characterize BCI training.
description: 9th International Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2024, Sep 2024, Graz, Austria