cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Accountable to Whom? Teacher Reflections on the Relationship Between Creativity and Standardized Testing in Ontario
Creators: name: Dishke Hondzel, Catharine
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2014

description: This paper describes the reactions and emotions teachers experienced when asked to discuss the impact standardized achievement testing in Ontario has on creative classroom practices. Using an interview guide format, eight teachers were asked to consider their perspectives on, and practices related to fostering creative behaviours in children, and their own creative teaching methods in light of accountability legislation. The responses teachers provided varied from bitterness and disappointment with the way standardized achievement testing influences their schools and classrooms to acceptance and optimism for the children’s future academic success. The results of this examination are framed with reference to accountability legislation in Canada and the United States, and the potential lasting effects of a high-stakes testing environment.
description: Critical Education, Vol 5 No 3 (2014)
The Cuban Literacy Campaign at 50:  Formal and Tacit Learning in Revolutionary Education
Creators: name: Kempf, Arlo
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2014

description: December 22, 2011, marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Cuban Literacy Campaign, an initiative that dramatically increased literacy rates across the island and consolidated the presence of the revolutionary government. While Cuban schools are widely celebrated, a paucity of recent scholarship persists treating the structure and tenets, as well as the formal and tacit content of Cuban education. Beginning with an analysis of the political content of the literacy campaign, this article reviews the structure and content of Cuban education with a focus on the role of ideology. While numerous scholars have demonstrated the prescriptive and reproductive function of schooling Euro-American contexts, little comparative international work has treated the interfunction of schooling and ideology in the Global South. This article locates the literacy campaign as the formal genesis of contemporary Cuban ideology. Indeed the literacy campaign was the beginning of a discursive relationship that continues today.
description: Critical Education, Vol 5 No 4 (2014)
Introducing pyPI: Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity Calculations in Python (Poster #1019, AMS 2021 Annual Meeting)
Creators: name: Gilford, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Tropical cyclone
potential intensity
python
software
climate change

description: This poster presentation was submitted to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, and presented on January 15, 2021. Abstract: Potential intensity (PI) is the maximum speed limit of a tropical cyclone found by treating the storm as a thermal heat engine. Because there are significant correlations between PI and actual storm wind speeds, PI is a useful diagnostic for evaluating or predicting tropical cyclone intensity climatology and variability. Given a set of atmospheric and oceanographic conditions, one may calculate PI following an algorithm described in Bister and Emanuel (2002). The algorithm was originally hard-coded in FORTRAN and then MATLAB; in 2020 the PI code was translated for Python and carefully documented for the first time. Here I describe and demonstrate the new pyPI package (https://github.com/dgilford/pyPI). The goals of pyPI are to: (1) supply a freely available validated Python potential intensity calculator, (2) carefully document the PI algorithm and its Python implementation, and (3) to demonstrate and encourage the use of potential intensity theory in tropical cyclone analyses. In this presentation I discuss the Python implementation of the PI algorithm and I show examples which use pyPI in studies of climatological tropical cyclone intensity. Using reanalysis data, I demonstrate how pyPI could be helpful in educational contexts, e.g. a tropical meteorology class. I show the speed of the PI calculation, and discuss its viability for operational use. Finally, I consider the potential for future improvements in pyPI and ask for feedback/suggestions from the broader AMS Python community. Included in this archive are: Poster [dgilford_ams2021_poster_v2.pdf]: Original PDF of poster #1019 Presentation [ams2021poster1019_recording_v1.mp4]: MP4 video presentation walking viewers through the poster Transcript [dgilford_ams2021_presentation_transcript.pdf]: A written transcript accompanying the video presentation The pyPI project is archived at Zenodo and is freely available on GitHub. A pre-print of the study detailing the pyPI project is found at Geoscientific Model Development and should be cited as: Gilford, D. M.: pyPI (v1.3): Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity Calculations in Python, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-279, in review, 2020. With any comments or questions, please email Daniel Gilford (daniel.gilford@rutgers.edu).
description: {"references": ["Bister, M., and Emanuel, K. A., Low frequency variability of tropical cyclone potential intensity, 1, Interannual to interdecadal variability, J. Geophys. Res., 107( D24), 4801, doi:10.1029/2001JD000776, 2002.", "Gilford, D. M.: pyPI (v1.3): Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity Calculations in Python, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-279, in review, 2020."]}
Incoherent Bi off-centering in Bi2Ti2O7 and Bi2Ru2O7: Insulator versus metal
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Daniel P.
name: Seshadri, Ram
name: Tachibana, Makoto
name: Hector, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cubic, stoichiometric oxide compounds Bi2Ti2O6O' (also written Bi2Ti2O7) and Bi2Ru2O6O' (also written Bi2Ru2O7) have in common lone-pair active Bi3+ cations on the pyrochlore A-site with a propensity to off-center. Unlike Bi2Ti2O6O', Bi2Ru2O6O' is a metal, so it is of interest to ask whether conduction electrons and/or involvement of Bi 6s states at the Fermi energy influence Bi3+ displacements. The Bi3+ off-centering in Bi2Ti2O6O' is incoherent as revealed in detail by reverse Monte Carlo analysis of total neutron scattering. Similar analysis of Bi2Ru2O6O' reveals incoherent off-centering as well, of smaller magnitude and with distinctly different orientational preference. Analysis of total scattering presented here shows that Bi in both compounds is entirely Bi3+. Disorder in Bi2Ti2O6O' has the effect of stabilizing valence while simultaneously providing space for the electronic lone pair. In Bi2Ru2O6O', off-centering is not required to satisfy valence, but is driven by the lone pair which is partially screened by conduction electrons.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
title: Behavioral responses of voles along fences patrolled by natural predators
Creators: name: Fuelling, O.
name: Buehler, E.
name: Airoldi, J.-P.
name: Nentwig, W.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Arvicola
subject: damage
subject: Microtus
subject: orchards
subject: plant protection
subject: predation
subject: rodents

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 86-87
A Nepantla Pedagogy: Comparing Anzaldúa’s and Bakhtin’s Ideas for Pedagogical and Social Change
Creators: name: Abraham, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2014

description: This paper presents a nepantlan pedagogy that would simultaneously deconstruct and construct our societal discourses while complicating teachers’ and students’ understandings of the world. This idea emerged from my experience as an elementary educator, working in linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse schools, along with my endeavor to earn a doctorate degree in education. It is heavily informed by the work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of nepantla and Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideological becoming.  I illustrate their respective ideas with biographies of the theorists and review of their work to show how their ideas are similar albeit from radically different contexts. I further illustrate their ideas through my personal classroom pedagogies that called for mastery, absolute knowing, and perfection, and how I attempted a nepantla pedagogy that stood contradictory to this.
description: Critical Education, Vol 5 No 5 (2014)
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title: Development of tissue engineering construction with amniotic membrane for corneal epithelium recovery
Creators: name: ÐÐ°ÑÐµÐ»Ñ, Ð¢Ð°ÑÑÑÐ½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
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tissue engineering
amniotic membrane
cultivation of cells
cornea ephitelium
regeneration
limbal stem cell deficiency
ophthalmosurgery

description: Ð Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¾Ð¿Ð¸ÑÐ°Ð½Ñ ÑÑÐ°Ð¿Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¸ ÑÐºÐ°Ð½ÐµÐ¸Ð½Ð¶ÐµÐ½ÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð½Ð° Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ðµ Ð°Ð¼Ð½Ð¸Ð¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¼ÐµÐ¼Ð±ÑÐ°Ð½Ñ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð²Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¿Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¸ÑÑ. ÐÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¾ÑÐµÐ½ÐºÐ° Ð¶Ð¸Ð·Ð½ÐµÑÐ¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÐºÐ»ÐµÑÐ¾Ðº, ÐºÑÐ»ÑÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ÑÑ Ð½Ð° Ð¼ÐµÐ¼Ð±ÑÐ°Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ»Ðµ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð²Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð°Ð½ÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÑÐ»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ð¹ Ð´Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ. Ð Ð°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð½ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´ Ð´ÐµÑÐµÐ»Ð»ÑÑÐ¸Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð°Ð¼Ð½Ð¸Ð¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¼ÐµÐ¼Ð±ÑÐ°Ð½Ñ Ñ ÑÐµÐ»ÑÑ ÑÐ»ÑÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÐºÑÐ»ÑÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ÑÑ Ð½Ð° Ð½ÐµÐ¹ ÐºÐ»ÐµÑÐ¾Ðº. ÐÐ¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð° ÐºÐ»ÐµÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÑÐ»ÑÑÑÑÐ°, ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÑÑÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ ÐºÐ»ÐµÑÐ¾ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿Ð¾Ð½ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð¼ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐºÐ°Ð½ÐµÐ¸Ð½Ð¶ÐµÐ½ÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¸.
description: The given work describes the steps involved in developing the tissue-engineering construction based on the amniotic membrane to restore the corneal epithelium. The viability of cells cultured on membranes after using various conditions for long-term storage options was evaluated. An optimal method has been developed for decellularizing the amniotic membrane in order to improve the condition of the cells cultured on it. Cell culture, which is the optimal cellular component of this tissue-engineering structure, was determined.
The DiskMass Survey. I. Overview
Creators: name: Bershady, Matthew A.
name: Verheijen, Marc A. W.
name: Swaters, Rob A.
name: Andersen, David R.
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Martinsson, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a survey of the mass surface-density of spiral disks, motivated by outstanding uncertainties in rotation-curve decompositions. Our method exploits integral-field spectroscopy to measure stellar and gas kinematics in nearly face-on galaxies sampled at 515, 660, and 860 nm, using the custom-built SparsePak and PPak instruments. A two-tiered sample, selected from the UGC, includes 146 nearly face-on galaxies, with B<14.7 and disk scale-lengths between 10 and 20 arcsec, for which we have obtained H-alpha velocity-fields; and a representative 46-galaxy subset for which we have obtained stellar velocities and velocity dispersions. Based on re-calibration of extant photometric and spectroscopic data, we show these galaxies span factors of 100 in L(K) (0.03 < L/L(K)* < 3), 8 in L(B)/L(K), 10 in R-band disk central surface-brightness, with distances between 15 and 200 Mpc. The survey is augmented by 4-70 micron Spitzer IRAC and MIPS photometry, ground-based UBVRIJHK photometry, and HI aperture-synthesis imaging. We outline the spectroscopic analysis protocol for deriving precise and accurate line-of-sight stellar velocity dispersions. Our key measurement is the dynamical disk-mass surface-density. Star-formation rates and kinematic and photometric regularity of galaxy disks are also central products of the study. The survey is designed to yield random and systematic errors small enough (i) to confirm or disprove the maximum-disk hypothesis for intermediate-type disk galaxies, (ii) to provide an absolute calibration of the stellar mass-to-light ratio well below uncertainties in present-day stellar-population synthesis models, and (iii) to make significant progress in defining the shape of dark halos in the inner regions of disk galaxies.
description: To appear in ApJ; 72 pages, 3 tables, 18 figures. High-resolution version available at http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~mab/publications/DMS_I_preprint.pdf
Imagining Ourselves in Children’s Literature: Power Dynamics and Epistemologies amid the Pages and in the Classroom
Creators: name: Sosa-Provencio, Mia Angelica
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2014

description: This critical literary analysis aims to investigate depictions of schooling within children’s literature, including classroom power dynamics as well as how knowledge is defined and the role it plays therein.  I aim to understand the ways in which these depictions of schooling affect our collective constructions of education as well as the ontological and epistemological ‘truths’ that are upheld as a result. Literature must not be underestimated for its ability to influence a collective social vision of the world in the minds and lives of its readers.  As such, educators and young people alike must be cognizant and critical of the messages conveyed through children’s literature as such messages have a hand in shaping collective understandings of the intellectual and social possibilities available to us within the sphere of our own lives.
description: Critical Education, Vol 5 No 6 (2014)
I fili delle passioni: percorso volto alla valorizzazione delle passioni attraverso la narrazione di sé e le identità competenti
Creators: name: Cesic, Marco
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2019
Subjects: narrazione di sé
identità competenti
collaborazione
dinamiche relazionali

description: Il lavoro di ricerca è stato svolto in una 1a-2a elementare, presso la sede di Ruvigliana, e sin dall’inizio ha avuto come obiettivo il miglioramento delle dinamiche relazionali, in termini di collaborazione, all’interno della classe di ciclo. Le attività, che si sono susseguite per la maggior parte durante la seconda parte dell’anno, hanno avuto come sfondo i fili delle passioni. La ricerca ha avuto come punti di riferimento, a livello di osservazione e di analisi dei dati, tre bambini del gruppo di 1a. Trattandosi di una ricerca qualitativa, i dati sono stati raccolti tramite strumenti quali l’osservazione, le interviste libere e un diario di bordo, all’interno del quale sono stati annotati i momenti più significativi. La sperimentazione ha permesso di rispondere, in parte, in modo affermativo alla domanda di ricerca iniziale dimostrando che un percorso volto alla valorizzazione delle identità competenti e basato sulla narrazione di sé può modificare in positivo la conoscenza tra gli allievi e la loro relazione in termini di collaborazione. Relatrice: Marina Bernasconi
title: Recent change in patterns of vole dynamics – for better or for worse?
Creators: name: Gliwicz, J.
name: Jancewicz, E.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: alternative prey
subject: climate warming
subject: fading cycles
subject: Microtus arvalis
subject: M. oeconomus
subject: species diversity
subject: winter

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 88
Discovering a junction tree behind a Markov network by a greedy algorithm
Creators: name: Szantai, Tamas
name: Kovacs, Edith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90C35, 90C59, 62B10, 94A17, 62H05, 62H30

description: In an earlier paper we introduced a special kind of k-width junction tree, called k-th order t-cherry junction tree in order to approximate a joint probability distribution. The approximation is the best if the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the true joint probability distribution and the approximating one is minimal. Finding the best approximating k-width junction tree is NP-complete if k>2. In our earlier paper we also proved that the best approximating k-width junction tree can be embedded into a k-th order t-cherry junction tree. We introduce a greedy algorithm resulting very good approximations in reasonable computing time. In this paper we prove that if the Markov network underlying fullfills some requirements then our greedy algorithm is able to find the true probability distribution or its best approximation in the family of the k-th order t-cherry tree probability distributions. Our algorithm uses just the k-th order marginal probability distributions as input. We compare the results of the greedy algorithm proposed in this paper with the greedy algorithm proposed by Malvestuto in 1991.
description: The paper was presented at VOCAL 2010 in Veszprem, Hungary
Herschel reveals a T_dust-unbiased selection of z~2 ULIRGs
Creators: name: Magdis, G. E.
name: Hwang, H-S
name: Elbaz, D.
name: team, the HerMES
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Herschel PACS and SPIRE observations of Lockman Hole-North and GOODS-N as part of the HerMES project, we explore the far-IR properties of a sample of mid-IR selected starburst dominated ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z ~ 2. The selection of the sample is based on the detection of the stellar bump that appears in the SED of star-forming galaxies at 1.6um. We derive robust estimates of infrared luminosities (L_IR) and dust temperatures (T_d) of the population and find that while the luminosities in our sample span less than an order of magnitude (12.24< log(L_IR/Lo) < 12.94), they cover a wide range of dust temperatures (25< T_d < 62 K). Galaxies in our sample range from those that are as cold as high-z sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) to those that are as warm as optically faint radio galaxies (OFRGs) and local ULIRGs. Nevertheless, our sample has median T_d=42.3 K, filling the gap between SMGs and OFRGs, bridging the two populations. We demonstrate that a significant fraction of our sample would be missed from ground based (sub)mm surveys (850-1200um) showing that the latter introduce a bias towards the detection of colder sources. We conclude that Herschel} observations, confirm the existence of high-z ULIRGs warmer than SMGs, show that the mid-IR selection of high-z ULIRGs is not T_d-dependent, reveal a large dispersion in T_d of high-z ULIRGs, and provide the means to characterize the bulk of the ULIRG population, free from selection biases introduced by ground based (sub)mm surveys.
description: Accepted for publication at MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Model construction of medical endoscope service evaluation system-based on the analysis of Delphi method
Creators: name: Zheng, Jun
name: Lou, Ligang
name: Xie, Ying
name: Chen, Siyao
name: Li, Jun
name: Wei, Jingming
name: Feng, Jingyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. First round of questionnaire
title: Long-term population dynamics of the field vole from the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Tkadlec, E.
name: Bejček, V.
name: Flousek, J.
name: Šťastný, K.
name: Zima, J.
name: Sedláček, F.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: climate effects
subject: Microtus agrestis
subject: population cycles

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 89
Our Pass-Fail Moment: Livable Ecology, Capitalism, Occupy, and What is to be Done
Creators: name: Street, Paul
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2012

description: The ecological crisis is the leading issue of “our or any time” posing grave threats to a decent and democratic future. If the environmental catastrophe isn’t forestalled, “everything else we’re talking about won’t matter” (Noam Chomsky).  Like other issues leftists cite as major developments of the last half-century, the environmental crisis is intimately bound up with numerous other deep changes (growing inequality, authoritarian neoliberalism, corporate globalization, U.S. imperial expansion, and more) and grounded in the imperatives of capital and the profits system. Tackling the crisis in a meaningful way will bring numerous related and collateral benefits (including significant opportunities for socially useful and necessary work/employment) beyond and alongside environmental survival. To prioritize ecology is not to demote or delay radical social reconstruction. It means the elevation and escalation of the red project.  It is highly unlikely that the crisis can be solved within the framework of capitalism.

This article was originally delivered as a Keynote Address at the Rouge Forum 2012: Occupy Education! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change, on June 21, 2012 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
description: Critical Education, Vol 3 No 10 (2012)
Assenza.essenza: esperienza reale di una dimensione invisibile
Creators: name: Francinini, Silvia
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2016

description: Ogni giorno siamo consciamente e inconsciamente colpiti dalla percezione di una moltitudine di odori legati a luoghi, persone o oggetti di qualsiasi tipo. Il senso olfattivo ha un grande potenziale comunicativo, in quanto agisce in modo diretto ed incisivo nella nostra memoria, che raccoglie e registra le informazioni. Il progetto è incentrato sull’esperienza sensoriale in determinati luoghi e la rievocazione di essi, in un secondo momento, in uno spazio totalmente estraneo al posto da ricordare. Come esprime il titolo, nonostante l’assenza di un luogo è possibile rievocarne la presenza attraverso l’essenza. Questo progetto è destinato a persone che vogliono mettersi in gioco, a cui piace viaggiare, ma in modo creativo. Un viaggio esperienziale e qualitativo distante dagli stereotipi turistici e banali e quindi meritevole di essere ricordato e rievocato ogni volta che si desidera. Un progetto che vuole mettere a disposizione un nuovo linguaggio per conservare il ricordo. Spesso infatti ci dimentichiamo di luoghi meravigliosi e abbiamo il desiderio di rivivere un viaggio, condividere o confrontare l’identità e le sensazioni di un determinato posto. Questo a dimostrazione del fatto che ognuno percepisce e vive emozioni di un’esperienza in modo totalmente personale.
Against Obedience
Creators: name: Ohanian, Susan
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2012

description: This article was originally delivered as the Second Annual Adam Renner Education for Social Justice Lecture at the Rouge Forum's Occupy Educaton! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change Conference held at Miami University in Oxford, OH, June 22-24, 2012. Starting with a personal journey in learning that political activism isn't as scary as many teachers believe, the article highlights the highly political nature of press coverage of Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards initiative, zeroing in on the quisling nature of teacher union and professional organization antics to keep a seat at the political table. Questioning  the silence on critical issues of higher education providers of educational products to consumers—aka professors—the author insists that whining isn't the same as doing. The article concludes with several points on how educators can take action.
description: Critical Education, Vol 3 No 9 (2012)
A New Pulsar in Green Bank Telescope Searches of Ten Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Lynch, Ryan S.
name: Ransom, Scott M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of pulsar searches in ten globular clusters using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. One new binary millisecond pulsar has been discovered in NGC 5986 with P=2.6 ms, P_orb=1.3 d, and a minimum companion mass of 0.16 M_sun. The companion is most likely a Helium white dwarf. Eight of the globular clusters we searched have central densities <10^4 L_sun pc^-3, making this a good sample for studying the pulsar content of low density clusters. We find no evidence for pulsars in clusters with very low densities <10^3 L_sun pc^-3, consistent with theoretical predictions. Null results in many of clusters we searched with moderate densities indicate that these systems do not contain a bright MSP. Two clusters in particular, one with very low metallicity, stand in contrast to theoretical calculations by Ivanova et al. (2008). We also find that three body exchange interaction rates calculated by Phinney (1996) seem to over predict the pulsar content in the clusters we studied.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Produzione additiva di componenti ceramici mediante binder jetting di polvere di carburo di silicio seguita da infiltrazione e pirolisi di un precursore ceramico pirolisi di un precursore ceramico
Creators: name: Nessi, Paolo
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2021

description: Il progetto di tesi sviluppato consiste nell’ideazione di un lattice ceramico poroso, stampato tramite binder jetting, che possa rendere elettrificabile il processo di produzione di idrogeno tramite decomposizione catalitica di idrocarburi (steam reforming). Il lavoro è stato proposto da un gruppo di ricercatori del Politecnico di Milano ed ha il fine di aumentare la sostenibilità dello steam reforming: essi hanno pensato di generare il calore di processo necessario sfruttando l’effetto Joule ed utilizzando energia elettrica rinnovabile, poiché il processo tradizionale impiega la combustione di idrocarburi per apportare questo calore e raggiungere la temperatura di 800°C. Il gruppo di ricerca ha sottoposto la questione al responsabile del laboratorio di materiali ibridi della SUPSI, il Professor Alberto Ortona, che ha subito intuito la potenzialità di tale ricerca e ne ha favorito lo sviluppo attraverso il seguente lavoro di tesi. La richiesta è quella di progettare delle strutture che possano essere riscaldate grazie allo scorrimento di corrente al loro interno, con un’ampia area superficiale e che consentano il passaggio dei fluidi attraverso loro stesse; si è pensato subito a delle strutture periodiche porose in quanto rispettano tutti i suddetti requisiti. Queste strutture sono stampate tridimensionalmente in carburo di silicio (SiC) tramite la sofisticata tecnica di binder jetting e infiltrate con due differenti materiali (Si e SiC); esse vengono poi sia simulate con appositi software che testate sperimentalmente costruendo un opportuno set-up. Così facendo si ottengono delle ottime distribuzioni di temperatura al loro interno e si valida quindi la possibilità di applicarle al processo. Il provino finale ottenuto consiste in un lattice ceramico di diametro 35 mm e lunghezza 80 mm con due collegamenti alle estremità ai quali applicare la corrente, per una lunghezza totale di 116 mm. Il provino raggiunge la temperatura di 79,5 °C applicando una corrente di 5 A ai suoi estremi. Il campo dello steam reforming è solo uno delle innumerevoli applicazioni in cui queste strutture si potrebbero impiegare, rendendole interessanti dal punto di vista della ricerca energetica e non.
Pedagogy and Privilege: The Challenges and Possibilities of Teaching Critically About Racism
Creators: name: Montgomery, Ken
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2013

description: This reflective paper examines both the challenges and possibilities of drawing teacher education candidates into critical examination of cultural, structural, historical, and discursive dimensions of racism in the North American context.  It considers the importance of fostering both a critical consciousness and humility amongst undergraduate education students as part of the process of preparing them to read and act upon schools and societies in ethically and politically responsible ways.  It delineates some of the challenges in attempting to do this and offers up for discussion a few practical strategies for teaching against, through, and about the resistance and denials which often accompany efforts to teach critically about racism in university settings.
description: Critical Education, Vol 4 No 1 (2013)
Local glucocorticoid production by the mouse immune and nervous systems
Creators: name: Hamden, Jordan E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Glucocorticoids are steroid hormones primarily produced by the adrenal glands and released into the bloodstream to coordinate animal development and a myriad of physiological processes. Adrenal glucocorticoid production greatly increases in response to stressors, except during a period in early development in altricial species, termed the stress hyporesponsive period. During the stress hyporesponsive period, blood glucocorticoid levels are very low and have a blunted response to some stressors. Glucocorticoids are also locally produced by organs such as the bone marrow, thymus, spleen, and brain. Within such organs, glucocorticoids can be synthesized from precursors or regenerated from the inactive metabolite; however, it is not known which route is more important. Local glucocorticoid production allows organs to independently regulate glucocorticoid levels based on demand and this may be of particular importance during the stress hyporesponsive period when blood glucocorticoid levels are low. In this dissertation, I present a series of studies examining production of glucocorticoids in lymphoid organs and brain across development and in response to an acute stressor. Briefly, I report that 1) glucocorticoids are locally elevated in lymphoid organs and specific brain regions in neonatal mice, but not adolescent or adult mice, 2) within the brain, glucocorticoid levels are more modular during early development and more coupled between regions during adulthood, 3) local glucocorticoid production increases greatly in response to a stressor during the stress hyporesponsive period, but less afterwards. Altogether, lymphoid organs and specific brain regions produce glucocorticoids. Local glucocorticoid production is of increased importance during the stress hyporesponsive period as it allows tissues to independently regulate local levels, provides benefits of high glucocorticoid levels where needed, and helps avoid the deleterious effects of glucocorticoids where they are not required.
Effective medium theory for superconducting layers: A systematic analysis including space correlation effects
Creators: name: Caprara, S.
name: Grilli, M.
name: Benfatto, L.
name: Castellani, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of mesoscopic inhomogeneities on the metal-superconductor transition occurring in several two-dimensional electron systems. Specifically, as a model of systems with mesoscopic inhomogeneities, we consider a random-resistor network, which we solve both with an exact numerical approach and by the effective medium theory. We find that the width of the transition in these two-dimensional superconductors is mainly ruled by disorder rather than by fluctuations. We also find that "tail" features in resistivity curves of interfaces between LaAlO3 or LaTiO3 and SrTiO3 can arise from a bimodal distribution of mesoscopic local Tc's and/or substantial space correlations between the mesoscopic domains.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
Race and Fear of the ‘Other’ in Common Sense Revolution Reforms
Creators: name: Pinto, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2013

description: During the 1990s, Ontario experienced significant social policy reform under the Progressive-Conservative government’s controversial, but straightforward, platform called the Common Sense Revolution (CSR), promising to solve Ontario’s economic problems with lower taxes, smaller government and pro-business policies intended to create jobs. The ideological framing led to policy direction which dismantled existing provincial policies and institutions designed to promote equity. This paper begins by providing evidence to support how the CSR functioned as racist across a broad swath of policy areas, through ideology and coded language, structure and program cuts, and processes. Based on interviews with sixteen policy actors, the paper reveals how the provincial curriculum policy formulation process overtly overlooked and dismantled anti-racism and social justice in curriculum policy.
description: Critical Education, Vol 4 No 2 (2013)
“What Is Your Difference?” A Look from Inside to Islamic Banking in Turkey
Creators: name: Durmus, Gokmen
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores interpretations of Turkish Islamic bankers with regard to the Islamic Banking phenomenon in Turkey. It attempts to understand religion’s impact on financial institutions in special banks. The case of Turkey distinguishes it from other countries in two ways: first, Turkey is a secular country; it is ruled by secular laws and has never been governed in line with religious law. Second, even though the majority of the population claims to be Muslim, at around 99 per cent, the share of Islamic banking is limited just to 5 per cent of the total banking sector.The research leans towards an interpretivist approach. It adopts case study as a methodology and benefitted from the use of a qualitative approach. Research material was collected via semi-structured interviews, observation, and documental analysis. Thirty-one Islamic banking professionals participated in interviews in five different major Turkish cities. The data collected during the field study was analysed through thematic analysis and the results represented in three separate chapters.The study revealed that there appear to be three levels -the macro, meso, and micro- in the Islamic banking phenomenon. Institutional theory helped to understand the business environment of the phenomenon at the macro-level. This included legitimacy, institutional logics, isomorphism, and other concepts underlying the challenges to the Turkish Islamic banking sector. It also covered future projections of Islamic banking. The meso-level unveiled organisational explorations of corporate culture, HRM, and miscellaneous issues. Finally, the micro-level was concerned with the individual identities of Islamic bankers. The findings explained according to themes such as belongingness, spirituality, and work-life balance.
The Struggle for Critical Teacher Education: How Accreditation Practices Privilege Efficiency Over Criticality and Compliance over Negotiation
Creators: name: Foley, Jean Ann
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2013

description: In this article, the author uses a case study approach to explore and analyze a conflict within the Professional Education Unit (PEU) at her university. While the controversy seemed to focus on differing epistemologies concerning critical and traditional pedagogy for teacher preparation, the intensity of the clash suggested there were additional forces at work. The author argues that in this particular case, the undertow of a technical rational perspective, generated by an educational accrediting agency, privileged efficiency over criticality and compliance over negotiation. In addition, she suggests that the power structures embedded in the processes of accreditation interfered with unity supported by a common conceptual framework. The article concludes with recommendations on how an institution might use the educational ideals within their conceptual framework, required for accreditation, to liberate its authors from constrained communication that is bounded by a technical discourse.
description: Critical Education, Vol 4 No 3 (2013)
Six New Recycled Globular Cluster Pulsars Discovered with the Green Bank Telescope
Creators: name: Lynch, Ryan S.
name: Ransom, Scott M.
name: Freire, Paulo C. C.
name: Stairs, Ingrid H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have completed sensitive searches for new pulsars in seven globular clusters using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, and have discovered six new recycled pulsars (four in NGC 6517 and two in M22), five of which are fully recycled millisecond pulsars with P < 10 ms. We report full timing solutions for all six new pulsars and provide estimates of their flux densities and spectral indices. None of the pulsars are detected in archival Chandra data down to L_X~10^32 erg/s for NGC 6517 and L_X~10^31 erg/s for M22. One of the millisecond pulsars in M22 appears to have a very low mass companion, and is likely a new "black widow". A second binary pulsar in NGC 6517 is in a long-period, mildly eccentric orbit. We are able to set some lower limits on the age of the system, and find that it may be less than a few hundred million years old, which would indicate recent pulsar recycling in NGC 6517. An isolated pulsar in NGC 6517 that lies about 20 core radii from the cluster center appears to have been ejected from the core by interacting with a massive binary. By analyzing the luminosity function of the pulsars in NGC 6517, we predict the cluster to harbor roughly a dozen pulsars. We use the observed period derivatives of three pulsars to set lower limits on the mass-to-light ratios in the cores of their host clusters, and find no evidence for large amounts of low-luminosity matter. We also discuss reasons for non-detections in some of the clusters we searched.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
An Overview of University of Texas at Austin 2009-2012 Investigations of the Rogers Spring Archaeological Site
Creators: name: Dickson, Jessica Sloan
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Rogers Spring Archeological Site
Archeology
Texas Archaic
Burned Rock Midden
Honors Thesis
Texas Archeology
Austin TX
41TV39
Report

description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the artifact assemblages of the Rogers Spring (41TV39) Archaeological Site excavations from the University of Texas field school in 2009-2012. These excavations were led by Fred Valdez, Jr. under Texas Antiquities Permit 5289. The Roger Springs Archaeological Site is rich in history and includes both historic and prehistoric contexts. I begin with a brief introduction to the Roger Springs Site focusing on the general site location and burned rock middens. I then discuss the historic settlement by the Roger family and all of the previous excavations at the site in 1933, 1972, and 2008. This will provide an understanding of the artifacts discussed in previous projects as well as give a general overview of which middens had already been examined prior to the 2009-2012 excavations. After establishing the background of the site, I then explain the methods of inventorying the artifacts at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL). This also includes the process of locating additional excavation materials such as lot forms and student notes. I utilize information from these forms to create an overview of the excavation’s location and general descriptions of the units represented in the report (soil consistency, proximity to midden 5, and ash content). In the final analysis, I examine the materials uncovered during the field school and describe them within the prehistoric and historic context of Central Texas. I will focus on the typed projectile points found at the site and give an overview of the time periods that they are associated with. Based solely on the projectile points, there is evidence of human occupation from the Early Archaic through the Transitional Archaic. The final section discusses the possibility of further research with the material currently being housed at TARL.
The Relationship of Teacher Use of Critical Sociocultural Practices with Student Achievement
Creators: name: Teemant, Annela
name: Hausman, Charles S.
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2013

description: This exploratory study examined whether teacher use of critical sociocultural practices improved student performance on a criterion-referenced English/Language Arts exam or the LAS Links assessments of English language proficiency for English Language Learners. Fifteen urban elementary teachers participated in a year of professional development, which used an instructional coaching model to increase teacher use of critical sociocultural practices. Using a new scale called Critical Stance, observers measured the degree of fidelity teachers exhibited in using critical practices. Teachers’ Critical Stance post-intervention and growth scores were significantly and positively correlated with increased student performance on the English/Language Arts exam as well as on five LAS Links assessments. Both native and non-native English speakers benefited from increased teacher use of Critical Stance. Teacher use of Critical Stance was also a stronger predictor of ELLs’ gains in English proficiency than teacher use of higher order thinking.
description: Critical Education, Vol 4 No 4 (2013)
title: Large-scale range expansion and eruption of common vole (Microtus arvalis) outbreaks in agricultural plains of NW Spain: historical reconstruction and novel impacts
Creators: name: Luque-Larena, J.J.
name: Mougeot, F.
name: Arroyo, B.E.
name: Viñuela, J.
name: Jareño, D.
name: Arroyo, L.
name: Lambin, X.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: agriculture
subject: Castilla y León
subject: cycles
subject: Microtus arvalis
subject: outbreaks
subject: range expansion
subject: Spain

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 432; 92-94
Short Gamma Ray Bursts as possible electromagnetic counterpart of coalescing binary systems
Creators: name: Capozziello, S.
name: De Laurentis, M.
name: De Martino, I.
name: Formisano, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coalescing binary systems, consisting of two collapsed objects, are among the most promising sources of high frequency gravitational waves signals detectable, in principle, by ground-based interferometers. Binary systems of Neutron Star or Black Hole/Neutron Star mergers should also give rise to short Gamma Ray Bursts, a subclass of Gamma Ray Bursts. Short-hard-Gamma Ray Bursts might thus provide a powerful way to infer the merger rate of two-collapsed object binaries. Under the hypothesis that most short Gamma Ray Bursts originate from binaries of Neutron Star or Black Hole/Neutron Star mergers, we outline here the possibility to associate short Gamma Ray Bursts as electromagnetic counterpart of coalescing binary systems.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Lo sviluppo della toolbox alimentare: uno strumento per aiutare gli adolescenti ad essere più consapevoli della propria alimentazione
Creators: name: Haschberger, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Alimentazione
Adolescenti
Scuole Medie
Benessere

description: La ricerca mira allo sviluppo di una toolbox alimentare per sensibilizzare gli adolescenti sull'alimentazione sana e valutarne l'impatto sul loro benessere. Tre adolescenti, tre genitori e quattro docenti delle scuole medie della Valle Leventina sono stati coinvolti nello studio. L'intervento è stato valutato sia quantitativamente che qualitativamente tramite il questionario "Capire le nostre vite", un'intervista e un questionario post-test svolto dai genitori e dai docenti. I risultati mostrano un miglioramento significativo nel benessere dei giovani post-intervento, con una buona accettazione della toolbox da parte di genitori e docenti. Sono emerse però anche delle criticità sul design e sull'integrazione pratica dello strumento, suggerendo pure dei miglioramenti futuri. I risultati dello studio sembrano promettenti. La limitata disponibilità di dati validi del questionario “Capire le nostre vite” potrebbe però influenzare le conclusioni del lavoro. Il coinvolgimento attivo degli studenti e dei genitori potrebbe migliorare ulteriormente l'efficacia della toolbox. Relatori: Barbara Hauser e Luca Sciaroni.
Brane-world black hole entropy from modified dispersion relations
Creators: name: Sefiedgar, A.
name: Sepangi, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy of the Reissner-Nördstrom black hole is studied within the context of a brane-world scenario. Such a black hole is a solution of the Einstein field equations on the brane, possessing a tidal charge which is a reflection of the extra dimension. We use the modified dispersion relation to obtain the entropy of such brane-world black holes. The resulting entropy differs from that of the standard Bekenstein-Hawking's and contains information on the extra dimension.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PLB
Coring Social Studies within Corporate Education Reform: The Common Core State Standards, Social Justice, and the Politics of Knowledge in U.S. Schools
Creators: name: Au, Wayne
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2013

description: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted in 45 U.S. states. Driven by a wide coalition that includes both major U.S. political parties, the business elite, for-profit education corporations, cultural conservatives, and both major U.S. teachers’ unions, the CCSS have mainly garnered glowing praise in mainstream U.S. media and widespread acceptance amongst political figures and public school districts nationwide. This paper undertakes a critical analysis of the origins and political tensions found within the CCSS, arguing that the CCSS will inevitably lead to restrictive high-stakes, standardized testing similar to that associated with No Child Left Behind. Further this paper specifically examines the treatment of the social studies within the context of CCSS and questions the likely outcomes of the recently drafted College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards within the current political and cultural context of the United States.
description: Critical Education, Vol 4 No 5 (2013)