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Globalization and Curriculum Studies: Tensions, Challenges, and Possibilities
Creators: name: Wang, Hongyu
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2006

description: Globalization in its recent forms has generated considerable debate. The contested nature of such discussions on globalization and education is captured well in Globalization and Higher Education, a book edited by Jaishree K. Odin and Peter T. Manicas (2004). While its focus is on higher education, the collection offers different viewpoints on important issues such as global capitalism, neoliberalism and its impact on education, the role of technology, regional responses to globalization, new modes of knowledge and pedagogy, and questions related to social justice and democracy. Multiple, sometimes even oppositional, perspectives of chapter authors—from different countries in different disciplines with different professions—provide a layered landscape that demonstrates the complex faces of globalization. Such a simultaneous depiction of multiplicity to negotiate dialogical bridges has a great potential to enrich “a complicated conversation” in curriculum studies.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 2 (2006)
Mapping Researches on Curriculum in Brazil
Creators: name: Lopes, Alice Casimiro
name: Macedo, Elizabeth
name: De Paiva, Edil LVasconcelos
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2006

description: In Brazil, as well as in many other countries, historical studies have been conducted in the curriculum field trying to understand, up to a certain extent, how it has evolved throughout the years. One of the attempts to map these studies on curriculum carried out in different countries in the world generated the International Handbook of Curriculum Research , organized by William Pinar (2003). Pinar, himself, in a study published with Reynolds, Slattery and Taubman (1995), had already studied the contemporary discourses on curriculum, with an emphasis on the configuration of this field in the United States. In this study, the authors pointed to a reconceptualization of this field in the 1970s which originated, in the following decades, studies that focused on the development of curricula, which brought in a deeper concern the understanding of curriculum as a political text as well as a cultural text. In a more recent study, the same authors (2002) defended that, from the 1990s, there was an “explosion of cultural studies” (p.114), whereas the political interest was maintained, which characterized the reconceptualization. In the historical period analyzed by Pinar et al ., the great variety of voices in the curriculum field in the USA called the authors attention, as a kind of cacophony also pointed out by Franklin (1999). If in one hand this cacophony captures the multiplicity of studies and references, on the other hand, it brings the characteristics of isolated studies which have very little articulation, enough to build an area. Pinar et al . point out that they are not defending forms that define what a curriculum is, but they are arguing that collaborative work, with autonomy for the proliferation of ideologies and methodologies, is fundamental for a wider complexity of the field.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 2 (2006)
The Formation and Function of Histories of Education in Continental Teacher Education Curricula
Creators: name: Tröhler, Daniel
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2006

description: In this paper, I predominantly examine the function of the "history of education" in the context of the curricular structuring of teacher education in the late nineteenth century in continental Europe. In doing so, "History of Education" is considered as the most important part of a curricular definition of general professional Volume 2 February 2006 teacher training, which is complemented by teacher training in specific subjects . What I call general professional teacher training is that part of the teacher education curriculum that does not deal directly with later job activities, that is, teaching school subjects.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 2 (2006)
Preferencje zawodowe uczniów klas ósmych i ich wybory edukacyjne
Creators: name: Skałbania, Barbara
name: Pietruk, Witold
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje tematykę preferencji zawodowych jako ważnego czynnika warunkującego wybór dalszej edukacji przez uczniów klas ósmych. Temat wydaje się być aktualny i ważny w obliczu zmieniających się potrzeb gospodarki i wymagań rynku pracy. Teoretyczno-empiryczny charakter artykułu jest przykładem synergii między wybranymi teoriami rozwoju zawodowego a praktyką wyboru kierunku kształcenia przez młodzież, która kończy szkołę podstawową. Koncepcja artykułu zakłada wprowadzenie w tematykę, krótką analizę wybranych teorii rozwoju zawodowego, prezentację badań własnych oraz wnioski. Przedmiotem postępowania badawczego są preferencje zawodowe diagnozowane w grupie 100 uczniów klas ósmych oraz dokonywane przez nich wybory zawodowe. Zamierzeniem autorów jest ukazanie roli preferencji zawodowych i ich związku z wyborem drogi edukacji zawodowej. Prezentowane badania są fragmentem szerszego projektu badawczego z zakresu poradnictwa zawodowego.
Era multimediów – niebezpieczeństwa, wyzwania i możliwościdla edukacji i wychowania
Creators: name: Szczygieł, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Rozwój cywilizacji w XXI w. spowodował ogromne zmiany w funkcjonowaniu człowieka. Smartfony, komputery, tablety i ciągły dostęp do globalnej sieci stał się codziennością zarówno dorosłych, jak i dzieci oraz młodzieży. Zaawansowana cyfryzacja życia, przeniesienie znacznej jego części w wymiar online oraz konieczność opanowywania nowych technologii i nadążania za błyskawicznie postępującymi zmianami w sposobie życia, łączy się z wieloma znanymi oraz jeszcze niezdefiniowanymi zagrożeniami. W artykule omówiono niektóre z niebezpieczeństw wiążących się z korzystaniem z urządzeń multimedialnych przez dzieci i młodzież, ze szczególnym naciskiem na te, które mogą być poddane kontroli rodziców i nauczycieli. Przedstawiono także wyniki badań własnych dotyczących sposobów użytkowania smartfonów przez studentki pedagogiki, oraz potencjalnych niebezpieczeństw wiążących się z kompulsywnym stylem korzystania z telefonów komórkowych.
The State of Open Monographs
Creators: name: Digital Science
name: Grimme, Sara
name: Taylor, Mike
name: Elliott, Michael A.
name: Holland, Cathy
name: Potter, Peter
name: Watkinson, Charles
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.
Analysis from industry experts looks at the open monograph landscape in 2019, the impact and role of monographs in the scholarly record, the move towards open access and the nuances in funding.
The set of contributions, which includes a foreword from Michael Elliott, Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, carefully outline the critical challenges that must be met if the open monograph is going to thrive and expand in the scholarly landscape.
E-narkotyki w opinii i doświadczeniu młodych dorosłych
Creators: name: Stradomska, Marlena
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Niniejszy artykuł stanowi podsumowanie rozważań na temat zagadnienia związanego z e-narkotykami. Badania prowadzono od 2019 r. i trwają do chwili obecnej. W tym artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań ankietowych, realizowanych drogą internetową. Ważnym aspektem było sprawdzenie i zweryfikowanie wiedzy na temat e-narkotyków wśród młodych ludzi w Polsce oraz tego, jakie są doświadczenia badanych dotyczące używania substancji psychoaktywnych. Badania przeprowadzono za pomocą autorskiej ankiety, która udostępniona została za pośrednictwem interaktywnej ankiety Google. Do końcowych analiz zostały włączone odpowiedzi 102 respondentów, w tym 54 mężczyzn i 48 kobiet (M = 22,3) mieszkających w województwie lubelskim. Osoby badane były w wieku 20–26 lat. Ponad połowa respondentów (53%) odwiedzała w internecie strony, na których można skorzystać z e-narkotyków, 43% osób z nich skorzystało, w tym 20% osób więcej niż jeden raz. E-narkotyki są uważane za najmniej niebezpieczne w kontekście możliwości uzależnienia, w porównaniu z innymi środkami. W wyniku niniejszych badań okazało się, że wiele osób nie zna definicji uzależnienia. Respondenci twierdzą, że warto spróbować nowych rzeczy, w tym oddziaływania e-narkotyków. Niniejsza praca ma wymiar teoretyczno-praktyczny, ponieważ oprócz teorii zaprezentowano badania własne oraz implikacje praktyczne.
Participation in the miniLogia Computing Competition – TrendsEmerging from the Long-Run Experience
Creators: name: Duda, Ewa
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Subject competitions provide valuable support to the teaching / learning process. Particular attention should be paid to competitions recommended by pedagogical supervision bodies, which should be very popular, both among students and teachers. The aim of the article was to investigate trends in the participation in Polish competition miniLogia. The contest is organized for children from the Mazovian primary schools and is aimed at revealing and developing computing talents, and raising the level of informatics education. The quantitative research exploited data from the thirteen years, from school year 2006/2007 to 2018/2019. In particular, the results obtained by 850 students in the third level of each year of the competition were analysed. The results show the decreasing participation of students, especially from the towns outside Warsaw. There is also an increasing share of non-public school students among finalists. The proportion of girls who advance to the highest level of the competition is still significantly lower than the corresponding percentage of boys. Moreover, the results show male participants still score higher than girls. The findings indicate the need for change in Polish computing education on the primary level and suggest a direction for future research.
Cardiorespiratory fitness during pregnancy and its relationship to outcome
Creators: name: Wong, Susan Carol
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In order to determine the effects of aerobic fitness on pregnancy and the newborn 20 primigravid subjects were studied throughout their gestational period and immediately post-partum. The subjects were classified as trained (T=10) or untrained (UT=10) based on the heart rate response to submaximal cycle ergometry testing done in each trimester. Case room reports were reviewed after delivery. There was no difference between groups in the length of gestational period (T=40.75;UT=40.75 weeks) nor weight gained versus prepregnancy measures (T=13.92; UT=13.30 kgs). The first stage of labour was extended in the UT, 13hrs.58.8min. vs 1lhrs.18.Omin. UT had a longer second stage, 90.57 vs 70.0 mins. for T. Stage 3 was also prolonged in UT, 15.17 vs 7.43 mins. In both groups analgesia and/or anaesthesia was used equally. Two of the 10 T females had caesarean sections vs 3 of the 10 in the UT group. The mean apgar scores at 1 and 5 minutes were: T=7.70, 9.20; UT=7.90, 9.33, respectively. The birth weights of the T babies were marginally larger than the UT newborns (3733.00 vs 3679.97 gms). The T newborns were 8 males and 2 females, and the UT were 5 males and 5 females. All babies were healthy and without apparent abnormalities. There appears to be no positive or negative effects of maternal fitness on the newborn. The reduction in the active stage of labour in the T group may reflect their improved fitness levels.
Nieznane oblicza czasu wolnego w świecie pogrążonym w pandemii
Creators: name: Hanyga, Patrycja
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Epidemia groźnego wirusa SARS-CoV-2, która dotarła do granic Polski w marcu 2020 r., spowodowała konieczność izolacji społecznej, która uznawana była na całym świecie za podstawową metodę walki z chorobą. Decyzja ta ograniczyła możliwość kontaktów społecznych, a tym samym zmieniła postrzeganie ilości, jakości oraz treści czasu wolnego.
Investigating the Link Between Involvement in Raising Grandchildren and Seniors’ Self-Assessed Quality of Life
Creators: name: Przygoda, Anna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, I make an attempt to show, on the basis of literature studies and own research, that there is a high probability of a link between the participation of seniors in raising their grandchildren and the former’s self-assessment of their own life situation. The analysis shows that grandparents who are involved in this process evaluate their economic situation and their ability to satisfy their own needs much more favourably than those who have not developed close relationships with their grandchildren or participated in their upbringing. The self-assessed quality of life of seniors, as determined by the variables described above, is higher for grandparents active in the process of raising their grandchildren.
Zasoby rodzinne a funkcjonowanie dziecka przewlekle chorego
Creators: name: Wiśniewska, Karolina
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: Choroba przewlekła jest zjawiskiem negatywnym i obciążającym dla dziecka oraz całego jego najbliższego otoczenia. Zmienia codzienność pacjenta i jego rodziny, wymaga dostosowania się do procesu leczenia i jego warunków. Powoduje u dziecka stale narastający stres, a także stawia nowe wymagania, którym musi ono sprostać. W takiej sytuacji to rodzina powinna zapewnić mu poczucie bezpieczeństwa, zrozumienie, miłość i akceptację, jak również okazać niezbędne wsparcie. Często możliwe jest to dzięki posiadanym przez rodzinę zasobom. W wielu przypadkach ułatwiają one radzenie sobie jej z kryzysami, do których można zaliczyć również chorobę. Celem artykułu jest ukazanie znaczenia zasobów, jakimi dysponuje rodzina, dla funkcjonowania dziecka przewlekle chorego.
Embracing the Telematic: A Techno-Utopian Vision of Art and Pedagogy for the Post-Human Age of Control
Creators: name: Ferneding, Karen
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: Within the present context of a postmodern technological society characterized by surveillance and information computer technologies (SICT), globalization and the mediation and commercialization of the cultural sphere, technics , the human experience of technology, is perhaps one of the most significant but least acknowledged challenges facing the human condition. Technics, therefore, is examined specifically in relation to the nexus of art and pedagogy via the work of cybernetic artist, art educator and visionary, Roy Ascott. Ascott’s re-conceptualization of art and pedagogy involves the application of cybernetics and telematics, the fusion of computers and telecommunications systems, such as the Internet, to create collaborative artworks towards manifesting a utopian vision of a unified, global consciousness. Ascott, as a techno-utopian visionary, foresees the inevitability of a post-biological human era that shall use such “technologies of transcendence” towards the “fruitful control” of society. Ascott’s techno-utopian position thus demands a radical reconceptualization of the purpose of art, the role of artists within society and art education, a vision that is characterized by alignment with the technologies of telematics, science and gobalization. This review questions the fundamental assumptions of Ascott’s post-political and technocentric vision that seeks to realize a prelapsarian utopia via technospiritualism – a cybernetic based endeavor that essentially expresses a will to control. Ascott’s techno-utopian vision of art and pedagogy, characterized by a naïve idealization of cybernetic systems of surveillance and control, reflects how art and art education are positioned within present administered society, and as such signify a deeper level of cooption than evidenced by its repurposing of commodifying practices as art. Educators, therefore, need to give Ascott’s work serious attention.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
Curriculum Research and Development in Mexico
Creators: name: Diaz-Barriga, Frida
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: After taking into account the literature about research and curriculum development in Mexico, the author presents a survey vision on the main trends and subjects related to this question. She also sets out some of the models that had as purpose to innovate curriculum from different perspectives: the managerial way of thinking (competence- based design, curriculum flexibility, strategic planning); the constructivist and experience-based perspectives; and the incorporation of transversal or cross subject matters in order to meet the need to strengthen the ethical aspect of curriculum and to promote, on one hand, human development and, on the other, civic and environmental education. After this, the author compares the situation of curriculum research in Mexico with the results that can be found in similar studies carried out in other countries. What can be observed is a huge expansion and an increasing interest in curriculum development, but at the same time a great diversity of approaches and interests, since some tensions and contradictions can be found between the different actors within the context of educational policies and the ruling assessment and certification systems.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
From Statesmanship to Status: The Absence of Authority in Contemporary Curriculum Studies
Creators: name: Pinar, William F.
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: The prestige of the profession is at low ebb. Our authority as experts is, it seems, deeply damaged, and not only among politicians and the public, but among many in the university. In terms of influence, the distance between school and scholarship has never been greater. Our circumstances are so bleak they constitute, I suggest, a “nightmare” (Pinar 2004a, 3, 57). It is a term I use psychoanalytically (in specific reference to the nightmare that brought Freud’s most famous patient to therapy), to suggest the dreamlike character of present political reality. The results of events in a primal past beyond our capacity to reconstruct, reality renders us as if asleep, defenseless, facing the wolves.

In this research essay 1, I will examine two quite different characterizations of the present situation by two prominent spokesmen for our profession: Stanford University Professor David F. Labaree and former Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Ted Sizer. In part due to their institutional affiliations, each is positioned to represent us – both schoolteachers and education professors – to a larger political public that judges us to be the problem. Speaking from positions of authority, each could clarify what is at stake in the politics of scapegoating – first focused on teachers, now on education professors – and thereby strengthen our professional authority. Do they? I will answer that question through an examination of their recent books: Sizer’s The Red Pencil and Labaree’s The Trouble with Ed Schools. Through such study we can, I believe, begin to attend to the absence of authority in contemporary curriculum studies.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
Evaluating Students Perspectives on ICT Readiness in Somali Higher Education towards Teaching -- Learning Acceptance
Creators: name: Ahmed, Yunis Ali
name: Mohamed, Mohamed M.
name: Ali, Abdifatah Farah
name: Alasso, Mohamud M.
name: Ahmad, Ahmed Dahir Siyad Mohammad Nazir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Along the rapid development of Information and communication technology (ICT) tools and growth of Internet access offer opportunities that facilitate teaching and learning activities in the context of higher education. However, the study of ICTs readiness and acceptance in Somalia higher education is meagre. This research aims to examine the current state of ICT readiness among university students and explores the factors that affect their readiness acceptance. It proposes an extended model, based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which explains how University students beliefs influence their readiness to accept ICT applications in their learning. Survey responses of 304 students from undergraduate and Graduate in Somalia higher education were collected and analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results of the data analysis demonstrated that the TAM explained university students readiness acceptance of ICT applications reasonably well. More specifically, perceived usefulness, Ease of Use, ICT Selfefficacy, Teaching-Learning autonomy, Students Optimism and Availability of ICT infrastructure are robust predictors of Students ICT readiness acceptance. Results also showed that internet affordability, network speed and quality, innovativeness, discomfort and insecurity do not have a meaningful effect on perceived usefulness and Ease of Use towards ICT readiness acceptance. Through the empirical results, this study helped us understand why students choose to engage in ICT applications for their learning context. Keywords: ICT readiness acceptance, Higher education,Teaching- Learning, Technology Acceptance Model
description: 3660-3685
What to Do About Joseph Schwab and the Rabbis
Creators: name: Roby, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: Joseph Schwab’s (1909-1988) importance in education research involves his scathing critique of curriculum theories that fail education, together with corresponding efforts to refocus curriculum studies on practice, especially in the classroom. These were centered in College Curriculum and Student Protest (1969) and a series of six articles, The Practicals 1-4 which were published between 1969 and 1983 (1978, 1983).

In College Curriculum and Student Protest (1969), Schwab diagnosed student turmoil as symptomatic of failures in schooling. He prescribed curricular changes and teaching devices based on liberal arts that could actively engage students in their education. Arguing against a body of rote methods or rhetoric of conclusions as the rationale for undergraduate education, he explored the liberal arts as resources that can enable students to find their own questions for texts or problems and to become their own critics. Most importantly, he showed how the disintegrating college communities could be restored and renewed.

In The Practical papers, he proposed that five bodies of disciplines and experiences be represented in a collaborative group undertaking the task of curriculum revision. Schwab called four of these the Commonplaces of educational thinking, which require representatives of the affected learners, teachers, subject matters, and (socialcultural) milieus, respectively. The fifth is that of the curriculum specialist who must work with the other representatives to assure that the commonplaces are properly coordinated and to make all aware that changes in any one will have consequences for the others. Unbalanced deliberations, either dominated by a single commonplace or omitting 2 some, lead to successive bandwagon curricula each based on an exclusive theory, e.g., of child development, teacher needs, subject matter innovation, or social change.

Schwab designed a set of eclectic arts to join theories across disciplines so that scholarly and research materials could be shaped into teachable curricula. He developed another set of practical arts for the problem-perceiving, problem-posing, and problem-solving activities required by the unsatisfactory curricular situation. (1978, 324-332)
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
Tikkun Olam
Creators: name: Klein, Sheri R.
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: Adolescence is a paradoxical time marked by confusion, joy, discovery, and pain, as children transition into young adults. Adolescence is traditionally defined as a time between the ages 10 and 18, and an age marked by physical, social, emotional, cognitive changes; a maturing process that includes differentiation, independence, initiation, and other rites of passage. This time between childhood and adulthood was not always so pronounced. The child labor laws in the US made clear distinctions between adults and children, and resulted in an extended childhood and adolescence. This period between childhood and adulthood has further been institutionalized with the marketing of teen-age clothing, music, films, and the development of junior high schools and middle schools that embody teen-age culture.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
The Question Concerning Curriculum Theory
Creators: name: Carlson, Dennis
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2005

description: After finishing my graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, I accepted a short-term offer to teach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. It so happened that Madeleine Grumet was chair of the Education Department there, and through her, I was introduced to William Pinar, who taught nearby at the University of Rochester. Subsequently, when he took a leave of absence to teach at Colgate University, he asked me to cover his course for secondary English student teachers and supervise them in the field. One of the books he had selected for the course that term was Jean Paul Sartre’s What is Literature? (1978). It was a difficult text for the students, and I remember that some complained that they could not understand what this had to do with the concerns they faced as student teachers “in the trenches” each day. But the struggle with this text, like all struggles, was necessary; and in the end, everyone in the seminar agreed that the book had made them think about their work in new ways, and had renewed their sense of commitment to teaching. Sartre called upon these student teachers, myself, and the graduate assistant for that seminar (a young man named William Reynolds), to make a difference through our work, and to teach within “the situation,” to use Sartre’s term. “The situation” was, for Sartre, the situation at hand, the situation that confronted us personally and concretely, but also culturally and historically. Literature was not just literature, not just art for art’s sake. The writer speaks to the present, to our times, wittingly or unwittingly, and for Sartre it is best that we speak wittingly, as active subjects of history, engaged in the battles currently being waged over the course and direction of democratic public life.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 1 (2005)
Black hole mergers in compact star clusters and massive black hole formation beyond the mass-gap
Creators: name: Rizzuto, Francesco Paolo
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Spurzem, Rainer
name: Arca-Sedda, Manuel
name: Giersz, Mirek
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah Paul
name: Banerjee, Sambaran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present direct N-body simulations, carried out with Nbody6++GPU, of young and compact low metallicity star clusters with $1.1\times 10^5$ stars, a velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 10 $\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$, a half mass radius $R_h=0.6$ pc, and a binary fraction of $10\%$ including updated evolution models for stellar winds and pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). Within the first tens of megayears of evolution, each cluster hosts several black hole (BH) merger events which nearly cover the complete mass range of primary and secondary BH masses for current LIGO/Virgo/Kagra gravitational wave detections. The importance of gravitational recoil is estimated statistically. We present several possible formation paths of massive BHs above the assumed lower PISNe mass-gap limit ($45 M_\odot$) into the intermediate-mass BH (IMBH) regime ($> 100 M_\odot$) which include collisions of stars and BHs as well as the direct collapse of stellar merger remnants with low mass cores. The stellar evolution updates result in the early formation of higher mass stellar BHs than for the previous model. The resulting higher collision rates with massive stars support the rapid formation of massive BHs. For models assuming a high accretion efficiency for star-BH mergers, we present a first-generation formation scenario for GW190521-like events, a merger of two BHs in the PISN mass-gap, which is dominated by star-BH mergers. This IMBH formation path is independent of gravitational recoil and therefore conceivable in dense stellar systems with low escape velocities. One simulated cluster even forms an IMBH binary (153$M_\odot$,173$M_\odot$) which is expected to merge within a Hubble time.
Viscous Fingering-like Instability of Cell Fragments
Creators: name: Callan-Jones, A. C.
name: Joanny, J. -F.
name: Prost, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a novel flow instability that can arise in thin films of cytoskeletal fluids if the friction with the substrate on which the film lies is sufficiently strong. We consider a two dimensional, membrane-bound fragment containing actin filaments that is perturbed from its initially circular state, where actin polymerizes at the edge and flows radially inward while depolymerizing in the fragment. Performing a linear stability analysis of the initial state due to perturbations of the fragment boundary, we find, in the limit of very large friction, that the perturbed actin velocity and pressure fields obey the very same laws governing the viscous fingering instability of an interface between immiscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell. A feature of this instability that is remarkable in the context of cell motility, is that its existence is independent of the strength of the interaction between cytoskeletal filaments and myosin motors, and moreover that it is completely driven by the free energy of actin polymerization at the fragment edge.
“Where do I belong?” Canadian Curriculum as Passport Home
Creators: name: Chambers, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2006

description: On my last visit to the United States I travelled without a passport: I had one but I lost it and then it expired. Prior to 11 September 2001, I was part of the majority: Canadians who didn’t have or need official documentation to travel. As of 11 September 2005, without a passport, I’m in the minority: over fifty percent Canadians now hold passports. So I have my passport application form completed, the photo taken, the guarantor selected; I simply haven’t mailed the application. And I must because like any Canadian who wishes to travel outside of my country, I now need a passport, even when travelling to the United States. Things were not always thus.
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 2 (2006)
Erratum: Assessment of uncertainties in QRPA $0νββ$-decay nuclear matrix elements [Nucl. Phys. A 766, 107 (2006)]
Creators: name: Rodin, V. A.
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Šimkovic, F.
name: Vogel, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is an erratum to our previously published paper.
description: Accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A, see also nucl-th/0503063
Mentalitäten - Nationen - Spannungsfelder. Studien zu Mittel- und Osteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Tuchtenhagen, Ralph
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2002

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 51 Nr. 2 (2002)
Convergence guarantees for discrete mode approximations to non-Markovian quantum baths
Creators: name: Trivedi, Rahul
name: Malz, Daniel
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Markovian effects are important in modeling the behavior of open quantum systems arising in solid-state physics, quantum optics as well as in study of biological and chemical systems. The non-Markovian environment is often approximated by discrete bosonic modes, thus mapping it to a Lindbladian or Hamiltonian simulation problem. While systematic constructions of such modes have been previously proposed, the resulting approximation lacks rigorous and general convergence guarantees. In this letter, we show that under some physically motivated assumptions on the system-environment interaction, the finite-time dynamics of the non-Markovian open quantum system computed with a sufficiently large number of modes is guaranteed to converge to the true result. Furthermore, we show that this approximation error typically falls off polynomially with the number of modes. Our results lend rigor to classical and quantum algorithms for approximating non-Markovian dynamics.
Collaborative Cladistics of Candy
Creators: name: Kerr, Amber
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2025

description: In this activity, students grapple with the ambiguous and computationally intensive science of taxonomy - using only pencils and paper, their brains, and fistfuls of candy. Teams of four students divide up tasks (such as trait researcher, scientific illustrator, etc.) and try to create a parsimonious cladogram describing the “evolution” of their candy “species.” At the end of the exercise, teams compare their cladograms and debate the differences.
Exile and Estrangement in the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies
Creators: name: Pinar, William F.
Publisher: name: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS)
Year: 2006

description: Can internationalization provide opportunities for the intellectual advancement of U.S. curriculum studies? The problem of proximity is paramount. Traumatized by forty years right-wing reaction, we American scholars seem unable distance ourselves from our tragedy, from our victimhood, from our culpability. Like the fly mesmerized by the spider, we remain enmeshed in the web of our present circumstances. As Edward Said (1996) has observed, distance – even estrangement and, as Hongyu Wang implies, exile – may be prerequisites for understanding the history of the present. Not all of us can literally leave our homelands. For those remaining at home, exile and estrangement can be construed as subjective opportunities for intellectual advancement.

One may choose to go into exile, but estrangement is, ordinarily, an unintended consequence of unhappy events, not an end-state to which one aspires. Thirty years ago, however, Maxine Greene (1973) suggested that estrangement enables education (see Block 1998a). Studying international scholarship can function to separate us from our situation. Such distance can provide the space for intellectual advancement, for grounding our present in the past, for discerning passages into a future more cosmopolitan than our present proximity permits. With Wang (2004, 3) we might ask: “What may exile and estrangement bring to one’s life?” As we learn from Wang’s powerful posing of the question, its answering requires leaving home (Block 1998b).
description: Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 2 (2006)
On the size distribution of spots within sunspot groups
Creators: name: Mandal, Sudip
name: Krivova, Natalie A.
name: Cameron, Robert
name: Solanki, Sami K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Size distribution of sunspots provides key information about the generation and emergence processes of the solar magnetic field. Previous studies on the size distribution have primarily focused on either the whole group or individual spot areas. In this paper, we investigate the organization of spot areas within sunspot groups. In particular, we analyze the ratio, $\rm{R}$, of the area of the biggest spot ($\rm{A_{big\_spot}}$) inside a group, to the total area of that group ($\rm{A_{group}}$). We use sunspot observations from Kislovodsk, Pulkovo and Debrecen observatories, together covering solar cycles 17 to 24. We find that at the time when the group area reaches its maximum, the single biggest spot in a group typically occupies about 60% of the group area. For half of all groups, $\rm R$ lies in the range between roughly 50% and 70%. We also find R to change with the group area, $\rm{A_{group}}$, such that $\rm{R}$ reaches a maximum of about 0.65 for groups with $\rm{A_{group}}\approx 200μ$Hem and then remains at about 0.6 for lager groups. Our findings imply a scale invariant emergence pattern, providing an observational constraint on the emergence process. Furthermore, extrapolation of our results to larger sunspot groups may have a bearing on the giant unresolved starspot features found in Doppler images of highly active sun-like stars. Our results suggest that such giant features are composed of multiple spots, with the largest spot occupying roughly 55--75% of the total group area (i.e. of the area of the giant starspots seen in Doppler images).
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Wpływ rozwodu rodziców i diagnozy zespołu Aspergerana funkcjonowanie 10-letniego chłopca – studium przypadku
Creators: name: Świerczyńska, Justyna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2022

description: W niniejszym artykule podjęto próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, w jaki sposób rozwód rodziców może wpłynąć na funkcjonowanie dziecka z rozpoznaniem zespołu Aspergera. W pierwszej części artykułu na podstawie literatury wprowadzono czytelnika w problematykę zespołu Aspergera, następnie uwagę poświęcono trudnościom, z jakimi mierzą się rodziny wychowujące dzieci z zaburzeniami ze spektrum autyzmu, oraz omówiono, w jaki sposób sytuacja rozwodu i konfliktu rodziców wpływa na rozwój i wychowanie dziecka. W kolejnej części przybliżono sylwetkę 10-letniego chłopca z zespołem Aspergera, podając najistotniejsze obszary rozwoju fizycznego, psychicznego i społecznego. Omówiono aktualną sytuację rodzinną, przybliżono postawy wychowawcze oraz wskazano na trudności, z jakimi boryka się opisywana rodzina. Następnie przeanalizowano, w jaki sposób kryzys związku rodziców skutkuje destabilizacją najbliższego środowiska wychowawczego i powoduje nasilenie objawów w postaci zaburzeń emocjonalnych i zaburzeń zachowania u badanego chłopca.
การพัฒนาครูด้านการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบบูรณาการ : กรณีโรงเรียนเทศบาลพลประชานุกูล สังกัดกองการศึกษา เทศบาลเมืองเมืองพล อำเภอพล จังหวัดขอนแก่น
Creators: name: ประจงลักษณ์ บัวกลาง
name: จำเนียร พลหาญ
name: ภูษิต บุญทองเถิง
name: สมาน เอกพิมพ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2008
Subjects: ครู, การจัดการเรียนรู้แบบบูรณาการ, แผนการเรียนรู้แบบบูรณาการ

description: 3, 2, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคามมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์
Essays in occupational fitness and absenteeism
Creators: name: Lee, Patrick Quinn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Occupational fitness programs have enjoyed enormous popularity over the course of the past decade. Their continuing penetration into all sectors of the business community coupled with the rapid growth of organizations serving professional fitness personnel, suggests that their presence may be permanent. A major reason for the popularity of occupational fitness programs, is the claim that fitness programs can reduce employee absenteeism. Two important issues at this time are: (1) the role of physical fitness in mediating sickness absence behavior, and, (2) the role of participation in occupational fitness programs as a way of enhancing worker attendance motivation. These issues fit in well with the Steers & Rhodes (1978) Process Model, a conceptual framework which deals with employee absenteeism from the standpoints of ability to attend (ie. high fitness) and motivation to attend (ie. high morale). The Steers & Rhodes theoretical model was chosen as an appropriate vehicle to guide this study. Part I reviewed the claim that physical fitness as a physiological state, is inversely related to sickness absence among employees. The literature review suggested that fit employees would miss fewer days from work than unfit employees. The prediction that physical fitness and sickness absence will be inversely related, formed the core of the hypotheses generated in Part I. In addition, hypotheses were also developed concerning the possible effects of gender, age, length of service and company affiliation. Correlational analyses were performed on several physiological and absence variables obtained from a sample of employees from the years 1979 through 1984. Modest but significant inverse correlations were found to exist between MVO₂ and a number of different absence measures. The magnitude of these correlations disappeared in some cases when the groups were controlled for gender. Significant correlations were also found between variables such as length of service and absence or age and absence. Absence patterns for males and females and management and classified employees also showed significant group differences. These results point to the need to consider these personal and socio cultural variables when attempting to describe any relationships between occupational fitness and absenteeism. Part II chose the Steers & Rhodes concept of motivation to attend. Based on the review of literature, it was expected that participants in the company fitness program would report positive changes in a number of attitudinal and personal variables. A simple questionnaire was developed to assess this change, and the entire population of a very large (n=1076) corporate fitness program was polled. Respondents in the main, indicated a significant improvement in their personal perception of a number of different attitudinal variables. The magnitude of this improvement was significantly related to the length of time they have been members of the program and their degree of participation in the program
Podcast Metadata and Content: Episode Relevance andAttractiveness in Ad Hoc Search
Creators: name: Carterette, Ben
name: Jones, Rosie
name: Jones, Gareth F.
name: Eskevich, Maria
name: Reddy, Sravana
name: Clifton, Ann
name: Yu, Yongze
name: Karlgren, Jussi
name: Soboroff, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rapidly growing online podcast archives contain diverse content on a wide range of topics. These archives form an important resource for entertainment and professional use, but their value can only be realized if users can rapidly and reliably locate content of interest. Search for relevant content can be based on metadata provided by content creators, but also on transcripts of the spoken content itself. Excavating relevant content from deep within these audio streams for diverse types of information needs requires varying the approach to systems prototyping. We describe a set of diverse podcast information needs and different approaches to assessing retrieved content for relevance. We use these information needs in an investigation of the utility and effectiveness of these information sources. Based on our analysis, we recommend approaches for indexing and retrieving podcast content for ad hoc search.
The local diagnostic reference levels for breast screening using digital mammography at Songklanagarind Hospital
Creators: name: Chatsuda Songsaeng
name: Phatthanan Chanwetwirot
name: Unthika Kaewkum
name: Wasinee Thiangsook
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Diagnostic reference levels
average glandular dose
entrance surface air kerma
compressed breast thickness
compression force

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 55, 1, 7-11
Sprawozdanie z II międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Zmiany środowiska uczenia się we wczesnej edukacji podczas (i po) pandemii – badania, dialog, rozwojowe zasoby i codzienne praktyki
Creators: name: Bałachowicz, Józefa
name: Zbróg, Zuzanna
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2023

description: ARTYKUŁY I ROZPRAWY WANDA DRÓŻKA, Przemiany etosu i roli społecznej nauczyciela w świetle badań biograficznych 11 DANUTA URBANIAK-ZAJĄC, Teoretyczne konteksty pedagogicznej profesjonalności (w tym nauczycielskiej) 33 MAGDALENA LEŻUCHA, ADAM HOFMAN, Zmiana w systemie nauczania jako podłoże dla rozwoju przywództwa nauczycieli 47 TOMASZ ŁĄCZEK, Sukces zawodowy w kontekście nabywania kompetencji przyszłości 67 MAGDALENA LEŻUCHA, KAROLINA CZERWIEC, Transpłciowość dzieci i młodzieży 87 MONIKA MACIEJEWSKA, Lekcje z pandemii. Doświadczenia kryzysowej edukacji zdalnej a inicjowanie transformatywnego uczenia się studentów 111 SYLWESTER ZAGULSKI, Bieżące wyzwania edukacji antydyskryminacyjnej w Polsce 133 SYLWIA ZYDEK, Szkoły tworzone przez Urszulę Ledóchowską (1865-1939) na terenie Polski w latach dwudziestych XX wieku jako odpowiedź na potrzeby edukacyjne 155 ANNA GODLEWSKA-ZAORSKA, Czarodziejskie słowo w czasach pandemii. Bajki, dzieci i rodzice (doniesienia z badań) 169 ANNA KAROWICZ, Wiedza nauczycieli edukacji przedszkolnej i wczesnoszkolnej o rozwoju mowy i jej zaburzeniach jako czynnik wspierający wczesną interwencję logopedyczną 181 KATARZYNA SZOSTAKOWSKA, Wielowymiarowość infantylizacji osób starszych - wyniki badań 195 KATARZYNA BIAŁOBRZESKA, Wykluczenie transportowe seniorów 209 JÓZEFA BAŁACHOWICZ, ZUZANNA ZBRÓG, Sprawozdanie z II międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Zmiany środowiska uczenia się we wczesnej edukacji podczas (i po) pandemii - badania, dialog, rozwojowe zasoby i codzienne praktyki 227 PAULINA FORMA, Odnowienie doktoratu mistrza polskiej pedagogiki profesora Tadeusza Pilcha 239
Development of a computer-based cognitive training game and usage feasibility with Thai stroke patients
Creators: name: Patchanee Tungjan
name: Corrado, Riccardo
name: Peeraya Munkhetvit
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer-based cognitive game
working memory
CoWMeG
occupational therapy

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 55, 1, 12-23