cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Shoulder Harnesses
title: Shoulder harnesses : a subject bibliography from highway safety literature
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Flynn, Lois
name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Technical Reference Division
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1979
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93812
subject: Manual safety belts
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/94279
subject: Safety equipment

description: 106 p.
description: This bibliography represents literature acquired since the establishment of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concerning the development and use of shoulder harnesses in motor vehicles. It is comprised of NHTSA contract reports, reports of other organizations concerned with highway safety, and articles from periodicals in related fields. Citations follow the format used in the monthly abstract journal Highway Safety Literature and are indexed by a key-word-out-of-context (KWOC) listing, author, corporate author, contract number, and report number. Documents listed herein may be examined in the Technical Reference Branch, NHTSA, Room 5108, 400 Seventh St. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590. Availability is given in the individual citations. /Abstract from report summary page/
Rewriting Logic Semantics of a Plan Execution Language
Creators: name: Dowek, Gilles
name: Muñoz, César
name: Rocha, Camilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Plan Execution Interchange Language (PLEXIL) is a synchronous language developed by NASA to support autonomous spacecraft operations. In this paper, we propose a rewriting logic semantics of PLEXIL in Maude, a high-performance logical engine. The rewriting logic semantics is by itself a formal interpreter of the language and can be used as a semantic benchmark for the implementation of PLEXIL executives. The implementation in Maude has the additional benefit of making available to PLEXIL designers and developers all the formal analysis and verification tools provided by Maude. The formalization of the PLEXIL semantics in rewriting logic poses an interesting challenge due to the synchronous nature of the language and the prioritized rules defining its semantics. To overcome this difficulty, we propose a general procedure for simulating synchronous set relations in rewriting logic that is sound and, for deterministic relations, complete. We also report on two issues at the design level of the original PLEXIL semantics that were identified with the help of the executable specification in Maude.
GEANT4 Simulation of Energy Losses of ions
Creators: name: S. Giani
name: V.N. Ivanchenko
name: G. Mancinelli
name: P. Nieminen
name: M.G. Pia
name: L. Urban
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1999

description: The algorithm for the simulation of energy losses of heavy ions is described. The details of its implementation in Geant4 are discussed. The comparison of the simulation results with the experimental data is presented.
title: Fremdverstehen und interkulturelles Lernen
Creators: name: Christ, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Es ist hier nicht der Ort, auf die Genese und die differenzierte Entwicklung des Begriffs "interkulturelles Lernen" einzugehen. Es sei nur festgestellt, daß dieser im deutschen Sprachraum vielfältig besetzt ist und in vielen Zusammenhängen benutzt wird. Daher ist er vor jeder Verwendung genau zu definieren. Trotz seiner Unschärfe bringt er jedoch in einer Epoche weltweiter Migration vorher nicht gekannten Ausmaßes einen ernst zu nehmenden Appell an Bildungspolitik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Didaktik zum Ausdruck und hat in dieser Appellfunktion schon seinen Wert.
title: The Social Transmission of Attractiveness Stereotypes: An Investigation of Parental Expectations of Children's Behavior
Creators: name: Hicken, Marianne White
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Eighty-six children from the Utah State University Child Development Laboratories and Hillcrest Elementary School and their parents participated in the study.
The study focused on the use of attractiveness stereotyping used by children across four age groups. The study also analyzed the social transmission of attractiveness stereotypes from parents to their children.
The study included two parts: 1) a play-preference measure, and 2) a social attribution measure. The stimuli were sketches of twelve children, six toys and six girls. The sketches of children included attractive, unattractive, mesomorphic, endomorphic, handicapped and nonhandicapped children. In the study we found that parents and children use attractiveness stereotypes. Further, parents and children utilized a beauty-is-good assumption when evaluating the children's personalities and social tendencies from the sketches. Finally, we found that parents in this study expected their children to use a similar physical attractiveness hypothesis in their Social judgement.
Thin-Target Excitation Functions and   Optimised Thick-Target Yields for  natMo(p,xn)94g,95m,95g,96(m+g)Tc Nuclear Reactions Induced by  Protons from Threshold up to 45 MeV.  Radiochemical Separation and Quality Control
Creators: name: C. Birattari
name: M. Bonardi
name: F. Groppi
name: E. Sabbioni
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2001

description: This work describes the method adopted in our laboratories, to produce 94gTc, 95gTc, 95mTc and 96gTc radionuclides via proton-cyclotron irradiation on molybdenum targets of natural isotopic composition. Experimental thin-target excitation functions and 'effective' cross-sections for direct natMo(p,xn)ATc [with A=94,95,95,96] nuclear reactions, with incident proton energy in the range from threshold up to 44 MeV, are reported. Some definition of the equations used and nuclear data traceability are reported. Thick-target yield values, have been calculated and optimized, by numerical fitting and integration of the measured excitation functions. These values allow the optimization of the production yield of one radionuclide, minimizing at the same time the yield of the others. A novel radiochemical separation on NCA technetium radionuclides from both molybdenum target and niobium, zirconium and yttrium radioactive by-products is reported. Quality control tests of the radiotracer produced, were developed for the applications envisaged in environmental metallo-biochemical toxicology.
Authorization with multiple Virtual Organizations
Creators: name: V.Ciaschini
name: F. Spataro
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2002

description: In the grid world, users expect to be able to log into a grid-enabled machine without the need of having a personal account on the machine itself. To this end, users have organized themselves into Virtual Organizations (VOs) and access to the machines is (excepting differences in local policy, like for example the banning of a specific user) generally granted on the bases of VO membership. Up to now, users who are members of more than a Virtual Organization (VO) (or different subgroups of a single VO) have had no way to specify this while logging into the grid. This paper describes a possible solution to this problem.
title: Factors Affecting Consumers' Utilization of Unit Pricing
Creators: name: Bingham, Maurine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: Characteristics of consumers who used unit pricing were compared to consumers who did not use unit pricing. A numerical rating was developed to aid the researcher in classifying consumers into two extreme groups, "usually" and "seldom." The sample consisted of 50 shoppers who usually and 50 shoppers who seldom used unit pricing. Data was collected at a local supermarket where unit pricing is provided.
Of the variables tested, annual family income was not significant (.861)r number of individuals shopped for was relatively significant (.283)r and age of consumer (.028), occupation of consumer (.067), employment pattern of consumer (.031), education of consumer (.00014), occupation of spouse (.00001), and shopping frequency (.026) were significant.
Additional file 3 of Life expectancy among older adults with or without frailty in China: multistate modelling of a national longitudinal cohort study
Creators: name: Gao, Junling
name: Wang, Yujie
name: Xu, Jixiang
name: Jiang, Junjia
name: Yang, Shitong
name: Xiao, Qianyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. Methods to measure social participation and classification of occupational types.
Charged Particle Motion Around Rotating Black Hole in Braneworld Immersed in Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Abdujabbarov, Ahmadjon
name: Ahmedov, Bobomurat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical solutions of Maxwell equations in background spacetime of black hole in braneworld immersed in external uniform magnetic field have been found. Influence of both magnetic and brane parameters on effective potential of the radial motion of charged test particle around slowly rotating black hole in braneworld immersed in uniform magnetic field has been investigated by using Hamilton-Jacobi method. Exact analytical solution for dependence of the radius of the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) $r_{\rm ISCO}$ from brane parameter for motion of test particle around nonrotating isolated black hole in braneworld has been derived. It has been shown that radius $r_{\rm ISCO}$ is monotonically growing with the increase of module of brane tidal charge. Comparison of the predictions on $r_{\rm ISCO}$ of the brane world model and of the observational results of ISCO from relativistic accretion disks around black holes provided upper limit for brane tidal charge $\lesssim 10^9 {\rm cm}^2$.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, revised version to be resubmitted to Phys. Rev. D
title: Rezension: UR, PENNY & ANDREW WRIGHT (Hrsg.): 111 Kurzrezepte für den Deutsch-Unterricht (DaF)
Creators: name: Drumeva, Stanislava
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der DaF-Unterricht hat schon seit langem eine solche "Rezept"-Sammlung gebraucht, die für viele DeutschlehrerInnen in West- und Ost-Europa, Asien oder Afrika sehr hilfreich sein könnte. Die Idee von einem entspannten, lockeren Fremdsprachenunter richt, der erfolgreich ist und gleichzeitig Spaß macht, ist nicht neu. Auch der Wille, so zu unterrichten ist vorhanden. Nur wie macht man's?
title: Rezension: SCHLEMMINGER, GERALD: La pédagogie Freinet et l'enseignement des langues vivantes. Approche historique, systématique et théorique
Creators: name: Minuth, Christian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Ce que G. Schlemminger constate dans son chapitre d'introduction vaut la peine d'être lu attentivement car, en un bref aperçu, il décrit les invariants et la situation actuelle de l'enseignement des langues vivantes. Sa critique de la situation actuelle ne se veut ni facile ni hâtive; son ouvrage représente une étude approfondie des paradigmes référentiels à l'enseignement des langues. Il fournit la preuve que c'est dans la convergence des différentes théories de l'apprentissage, avec la multitude des pratiques de la pédagogie Freinet, que l'on trouvera une nouvelle voie pour l'enseignement des langues. Voie d'autant plus difficile à trouver que les contraintes - vraies ou simplement supposées - de progression, d'assimilation ou de mémorisation semblent favoriser un apprentissage guidé, centré sur l'enseignant(e) qui détient les rênes. La question posée par l'auteur initialement étant "de savoir si les savoir-faire pratiqués majoritairement sont les seuls possibles", celle-ci retiendra notre attention.Les deux grands objectifs de la présente étude sont l'analyse de l'évolution historique des techniques Freinet dans les classes de langues et la comparaison de ces techniques avec les concepts et pratiques didactiques et pédagogiques de l'époque respective. Pour ce faire, G. Schlemminger a constitué un corpus de documents, sur la base de 131 articles publiés dans des revues pédagogiques, qui relatent des expériences de pédagogie Freinet en classes de langues.
A Brief Review on Dark Matter Annihilation Explanation for $e^\pm$ Excesses in Cosmic Ray
Creators: name: He, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently data from PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI-LAT and HESS show that there are $e^{\pm}$ excesses in the cosmic ray energy spectrum. PAMELA observed excesses only in $e^+$, but not in anti-proton spectrum. ATIC, FERMI-LAT and HESS observed excesses in $e^++e^-$ spectrum, but the detailed shapes are different which requires future experimental observations to pin down the correct data set. Nevertheless a lot of efforts have been made to explain the observed $e^\pm$ excesses, and also why PAMELA only observed excesses in $e^+$ but not in anti-proton. In this brief review we discuss one of the most popular mechanisms to explain the data, the dark matter annihilation. It has long been known that about 23% of our universe is made of relic dark matter. If the relic dark matter was thermally produced, the annihilation rate is constrained resulting in the need of a large boost factor to explain the data. We will discuss in detail how a large boost factor can be obtained by the Sommerfeld and Briet-Wigner enhancement mechanisms. Some implications for particle physics model buildings will also be discussed.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures. Several typoes corrected and some references added. Published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 24, No. 27 (2009) pp. 2139-2160
title: Rezension: GERTRAUDE HEYD: Aufbauwissen für den Fremdsprachenunterricht (DaF). Ein Arbeitsbuch. Kognition und Konstruktion
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache hat sich mittlerweile an vielen Universitäten im deutschen Sprachraum als neues Studienfach und neue wissenschaftliche Disziplin mit eigenem Gegenstand und eigenen Forschungsmethoden etabliert, so daß ein gewisser Bedarf an einführenden Darstellungen der inhaltlichen und methodischen Problembereiche des Faches entstanden ist, vor allem als Orientierungshilfen für Studierende. Eine Reihe derartiger Einführungen mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten liegt bereits seit einigen Jahren vor, exemplarisch sei an die Bände von Henrici/Riemer (Henrici/Riemer 1994) und Rösler erinnert (vgl. Rösler 1994). Gerade an dem Buch von Rösler, das in der renommierten "Sammlung Metzler" erschienen ist, läßt sich eine ganz neue Tendenz erkennen: Über die üblichen Lehrbuchverlage hinaus scheinen jetzt auch verstärkt andere, traditionell eher literatur- oder auch sprachwissenschaftliche Verlage auf das Fach aufmerksam zu werden und hier gewisse Marktchancen zu wittern, die sich vor allem aus der weltweiten Verbreitung von DaF-Publikationen ergeben. Nicht zuletzt solchen ja keineswegs ehrenrührigen Überlegungen könnten sich die beiden hier zu besprechenden Bände aus den Verlagen Erich Schmidt in Berlin und Günter Narr in Tübingen verdanken: mit den "Grundlagen der Germanistik" bzw. den "Narr Studienbüchern" erscheinen beide in gut etablierten und anerkannten Verlagsreihen, die bisher eher Publikationen aus den traditionellen Teildisziplinen der Germanistik vorbehalten waren. Ob man darin einen Kolonisierungsversuch der traditionellen Germanistik gegenüber einer gefährlich werdenden Konkurrenz oder eher eine begrüßenswerte Anerkennung des neuen Faches sehen soll, sei dahingestellt.
title: Mechanical and Physical Properties of Spider Silk Films Made  from Organic and Water-Based Dopes
Creators: name: Tucker, Chauncey Lewis
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: In this project, we focus on developing a method to produce synthetic spider silk thin films. Using these films we optimized mechanical properties, lowered cost, and improved the environmental impact using different processing methods. Applications for spider silk films are broad, ranging from physical protection to biocompatible materials. This project was designed to improve mechanical properties and production methods of films made from synthetic forms of MaSp1 and MaSp2 from the dragline silk of Nephila clavipes. We have increased the mechanical stress (200 MPa) to more than 4 times that of similar products with elongations as high as 35%. The films have also been analyzed using NMR, XRD, and AFM or SEM showing that the secondary structure in as-poured films is mainly alpha-helical and after processing this structure turns to an aligned betasheet formation similar to that in spider silk fibers.
Spin-down Measurement of PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79: Central Compact Objects as Anti-Magnetars
Creators: name: Halpern, J. P.
name: Gotthelf, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using XMM-Newton and Chandra, we achieved phase-connected timing of the 105 ms X-ray pulsar PSR J1852+0040 that provides the first measurement of the spin-down rate of a member of the class of Central Compact Objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants. We measure P-dot = 8.68(9)E-18, and find no evidence for timing noise or variations in X-ray flux over 4.8 yr. In the dipole spin-down formalism, this implies a surface magnetic field strength B_s = 3.1E10 G, the smallest ever measured for a young neutron star, and consistent with being a fossil field. In combination with upper limits on B_s from other CCO pulsars, this is strong evidence in favor of the "anti-magnetar" explanation for their low luminosity and lack of magnetospheric activity or synchrotron nebulae. While this dipole field is small, it can prevent accretion of sufficient fall-back material so that the observed X-ray luminosity of L_x = 5.3E33(d/7.1 kpc)^2 erg/s must instead be residual cooling. The spin-down luminosity of PSR J1852+0040, E-dot = 3.0E32 erg/s, is an order-of-magnitude smaller than L_x. Fitting of the X-ray spectrum to two blackbodies finds small emitting radii, R_1 = 1.9 km and R_2 = 0.45 km, for components of kT_1 = 0.30 keV and kT_2 = 0.52 keV, respectively. Such small, hot regions are ubiquitous among CCOs, and are not yet understood in the context of the anti-magnetar picture because anisotropic surface temperature is usually attributed to the effects of strong magnetic fields.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, Added text and figures, acccepted by The Astrophysical Journal
title: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and U.S. Energy Markets
Creators: name: Lee, Kangil
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The dynamic mutual relationship between the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon permit price and energy prices in the U.S. is examined. Results show that the RGGI and electricity markets are not closely linked, although the carbon permit price is usually closely interrelated with energy prices. The loose relationship between the RGGI and electricity markets can be explained by the recent low carbon credit demand which stems from the low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions existent in the particular area covered by the RGGI. The low GHG emissions result from fuel switching due to recent low natural gas prices. Unlike the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, natural gas is the key driver of the RGGI system.
Peculiarities in the stellar velocity distribution of galaxies with a two-armed spiral structure
Creators: name: Vorobyov, E. I.
name: Theis, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We expand our pervious numerical study of the properties of the stellar velocity distribution within the disk of a two-armed spiral galaxy by considering spiral stellar density waves with different global Fourier amplitudes, C_2. We confirm our previous conclusion that the ratio σ_1:σ_2 of smallest versus largest principal axes of the stellar velocity ellipsoid becomes abnormally small near the outer edges of the stellar spiral arms. The extent to which the stellar velocity ellipsoid is elongated (as compared to the unperturbed value typical for the axisymmetric disk) increases with the strength of the spiral density wave. In particular, the C_2=0.06 spiral can decrease the unperturbed value of σ_1:σ_2 by 20%, while the C_2=0.13 spiral can decrease the unperturbed σ_1:σ_2 by a factor of 3. The abnormally small values of the σ_1:σ_2 ratio can potentially be used to track the position of {\it stellar} spiral density waves. The σ_{ϕϕ}:σ_{rr} ratio is characterized by a more complex behaviour and exhibits less definite minima near the outer edges of the spiral arms. We find that the epicycle approximation is violated near the spiral arms and cannot be used in spiral galaxies with C_2 >= 0.05-0.06 or in galaxies with the amplitude of the spiral stellar density wave (relative to the unperturbed background) of order 0.1 or greater.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, conference presentation at "Galactic and Stellar Dynamics in the Era of High-resolution Surveys", Strasbourg 16-20 March 2008
On the spectrum of $α$-rigid maps
Creators: name: Abdalaoui, El Houcein El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28D05 (Primary) 47A35 (Secondary)

description: It is shown that there exists an $α$-rigid transformation with $α$ less or equal to $\frac12$ whose spectrum has Lebesgue component. This answers the question raised by Klemes and Reinhold in \cite{Klemes-Reinhold}. We exhibit also a large class of $α$-rigid transformations with singular spectrum.
description: 15 pages. Accepted for publication in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems
title: Konpetentzia digitalak. Graduko ikasleentzako formakuntza materialak: 2. Komunikazioa eta lankidetza 2.3. Teknologia digitalen bidezko lankidetza. Aurkezpen bideoa.
title: Competencias digitales. Materiales de formación para estudiantes de grado: 2. Comunicación y colaboración 2.3. Colaboración mediante tecnologías digitales. Vídeo de presentación.
Creators: name: CRUE-REBIUN
Publisher: name: REBIUN
Year: 2020

description: Graduko ikasleentzako konpetentzia digitalei buruzko formakuntza materialen "2.3. Teknologia digitalen bidezko lankidetza" puntuko aurkezpen bideoa.
description: Vídeo de presentación del punto "2.3. Colaboración mediante tecnologías digitales" de los materiales de formación sobre competencias digitales para estudiantes de grado.
title: Ambient Temperature, Calf Intakes, and Weight Gains on Preweaned Dairy Calves
Creators: name: Holt, Sheldon D
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: There has been little research conducted on the physiological response of calves to temperatures outside thermal neutrality and its effects on intake and weight gain. The effects of ambient temperature on Holstein dairy calves intakes and weight gain were evaluated over a 12-month period. Ambient temperature was monitored using a weather station located 1.3 kilometers from the Utah State University Caine Dairy. Calf health was monitored daily using the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine scoring criteria. Calves were fed whole milk and free choice calf starter. Weight gain, hip height, starter intake, and weather data (temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, precipitation, and barometric pressure) were averaged for 7-day intervals beginning at birth through 13 weeks of age. A regression model was developed including starter intake, milk intake, hip and wither height, calf heath scores, and weather data with weight gain as the dependent variable for each of the 4 seasons of the year. The fall season (September, October, and November) had a negative impact on calf intake and weight gain (averaging 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms) less at 2 months) than other seasons. Calves raised in the winter months also ate significantly more starter, but had the same weight gain as other seasons. Environmental stress factors impact animal welfare and animal productivity, which in turn impacts the economics of the dairy operation and should also be used in determining husbandry practices.
title: Rezension: HANS WERNER HUNEKE & WOLFGANG STEINIG: Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache hat sich mittlerweile an vielen Universitäten im deutschen Sprachraum als neues Studienfach und neue wissenschaftliche Disziplin mit eigenem Gegenstand und eigenen Forschungsmethoden etabliert, so daß ein gewisser Bedarf an einführenden Darstellungen der inhaltlichen und methodischen Problembereiche des Faches entstanden ist, vor allem als Orientierungshilfen für Studierende. Eine Reihe derartiger Einführungen mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten liegt bereits seit einigen Jahren vor, exemplarisch sei an die Bände von Henrici/Riemer (Henrici/Riemer 1994) und Rösler erinnert (vgl. Rösler 1994). Gerade an dem Buch von Rösler, das in der renommierten "Sammlung Metzler" erschienen ist, läßt sich eine ganz neue Tendenz erkennen: Über die üblichen Lehrbuchverlage hinaus scheinen jetzt auch verstärkt andere, traditionell eher literatur- oder auch sprachwissenschaftliche Verlage auf das Fach aufmerksam zu werden und hier gewisse Marktchancen zu wittern, die sich vor allem aus der weltweiten Verbreitung von DaF-Publikationen ergeben. Nicht zuletzt solchen ja keineswegs ehrenrührigen Überlegungen könnten sich die beiden hier zu besprechenden Bände aus den Verlagen Erich Schmidt in Berlin und Günter Narr in Tübingen verdanken: mit den "Grundlagen der Germanistik" bzw. den "Narr Studienbüchern" erscheinen beide in gut etablierten und anerkannten Verlagsreihen, die bisher eher Publikationen aus den traditionellen Teildisziplinen der Germanistik vorbehalten waren. Ob man darin einen Kolonisierungsversuch der traditionellen Germanistik gegenüber einer gefährlich werdenden Konkurrenz oder eher eine begrüßenswerte Anerkennung des neuen Faches sehen soll, sei dahingestellt.
title: Touch and Gaze in Parent Infant Social Play
Creators: name: Roggman, Lori A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: Twenty first-born infants age three to five months, nine males and eleven females, were observed and videotaped for five minutes with each parent, in order to explore touch and gaze in free-play parent-infant interactions. Gazing behaviors of parents and infants and mutual gazing were measured in vivo; touching behaviors were measured from the videotapes of each dyad. For each behavior, four measures were taken: percent of total time, average rate per minute, mean duration of the behavior, and mean duration of the intervals between behaviors. The results show that, on the average, parent touch and gaze were typical of parents at play with infants: frequent short touches and frequent long gazes. The infants look back at parents much less often, typical of infants whose parents are trying to get their attention. The data show unique response patterns depending on the sex of the infant and parent. Both mothers and fathers use touch with boys, but not girls, as an instrumental attention getting technique , touching more when the infant looks less often. Mothers show a more complex response than fathers, probably learned from their greater caretaking experience. Touching to girls is related only to the parent's own attention, seeming to be a more expressive response. Mothers, but not fathers, increase their ix gaze reciprocally with girls ' gaze but not toys'. These unique relationships for mothers and fathers with sons and daughters nay be the beginnings of differential sex-typed socialization. Mothers and fathers of the sane infants show very different behaviors, often negatively correlated, indicating that they may have developed complementary relationships with their infants.
title: Antiviral Activity of Favipiravir (T-705) Against Lethal Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection in Hamsters
Creators: name: Scharton, Dionna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Rift Valley Fever is a zoonotic, arthropod-borne disease that adversely affects ungulates and people. The etiologic agent, Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV; Bunyaviridae, Phlebovirus), is primarily transmitted through mosquito bites, yet can be transmitted by exposure to infectious aerosols. Presently, there are no licensed vaccines or therapeutics to prevent or treat severe RVFV infection in humans. We have previously reported on the activity of favipiravir (T-705) against the MP-12 vaccine strain of RVFV and other bunyaviruses in cell culture. Additionally, efficacy has been documented in mouse and hamster models of infection with the related Punta Toro virus. Here, we characterize a hamster RVFV challenge model and use it to evaluate the activity of favipiravir against the highly pathogenic ZH501 strain of the virus. Subcutaneous RVFV challenge resulted in substantial serum and tissue viral loads and caused severe disease and mortality within 2-3 days after infection. Oral favipiravir (200 mg/kg/day) prevented mortality in 60% or greater in hamsters challenged with RVFV when administered within 6 h post-exposure and reduced RVFV titers in serum and tissues relative to the time of treatment initiation. In contrast, although ribavirin (75 mg/kg/day) was effective at protecting animals from the peracute RVFV disease, most ultimately succumbed from a delayed-onset neurologic disease associated with high RVFV burden in the brain observed in moribund animals. When combined, T-705 and ribavirin treatment started 24 h post-infection significantly improved survival outcome and reduced serum and tissue virus titers compared to monotherapy. Our findings demonstrate significant post-RVFV exposure efficacy with favipiravir against both peracute disease and delayed-onset neuroinvasion, and suggest added benefit when combined with ribavirin.
Analysis of Boolean Equation Systems through Structure Graphs
Creators: name: Reniers, Michel A.
name: Willemse, Tim A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We analyse the problem of solving Boolean equation systems through the use of structure graphs. The latter are obtained through an elegant set of Plotkin-style deduction rules. Our main contribution is that we show that equation systems with bisimilar structure graphs have the same solution. We show that our work conservatively extends earlier work, conducted by Keiren and Willemse, in which dependency graphs were used to analyse a subclass of Boolean equation systems, viz., equation systems in standard recursive form. We illustrate our approach by a small example, demonstrating the effect of simplifying an equation system through minimisation of its structure graph.
Two-dimensional structural vibration induced by fluid flow past a circular cylindrical body
Creators: name: Chow, Yu-Min
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The investigation is concerned with the vibrational response of a circular cylindrical body when subjected to oscillating lift and drag forces of varying frequency. The cylindrical body was mounted on a long flexible cantilever and the stiffness of the cantilever could be varied to study the effects of resonance, amplitude and induced damping. An explanation of the two-dimensional excitation due to vortex shedding is presented. Both longitudinal and transverse vibrations were induced and the frequency of the excitation in the longitudinal direction was about twice that in the lateral. Therefore, for equal structural natural frequencies in the lateral and longitudinal directions, resonance in the lateral direction will occur at twice the velocity of the longitudinal resonance, assuming the Strouhal Number to be constant in this range. Coefficients of the elastic response forces, in both longitudinal and lateral directions near the lonitudinal resonance, were plotted for comparison. The development of irregularity in the lateral vibrating oscillogram caused by the longitudinal vibration was demonstrated. In the critical Reynolds Number range the effect of a fixed eddy-starter wire was investigated and the excitations in both lateral and longitudinal directions were altered. The resonance of longitudinal vibration occurs at V/V[subscript res] = 0.3 to 0.5. Lateral amplitude in this region is also increased. The peak of the curve: S[subscript y] vs R[subscript e], in the region of longitudinal resonance, approaches tengentially the curve: S[subscript x] vs R[subscript e]. The structural response coefficient of vibrating lift and drag rises at longitudinal resonance to a value of 3.0 to 8.0, but drops quickly after resonance. The damping coefficients of the structure are in the range of 0.25 to 0.60. Since the motion of the vibration may influence the oscillating lift and drag due to the eddy shedding, this study presents an investigation of the longitudinal and lateral resonances in a range of R[subscript e]: 5 × 10³ × 10⁵, and the interaction of the excitation between the oscillating lift and drag with the two-dimensional elastic response forces.
VECTOR-MESON RESONANCES AND PION POLARIZABILITIES
Creators: name: D. BABUSCI
name: S. BELLUCCI
name: G. GIORDANO
name: G. MATONE
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1992

description: We discuss the pion polarizabilities α_π, β_π using a vector dominance model. We find that the commonly used constraint (α+β)_π = 0 is not admissible for the π^0. We show that the vector-meson contribution accounts for almost 70% of the π^0 forward angle dispersion sum rule.
Variation in Regional Powers' Intervention Decision in Civil Wars: Evidence from India and China’s Response to Nepal's Maoist Insurgency
Creators: name: Badu, Hrishita
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: insurgency
subject: civil war
subject: South Asia
subject: intervention

description: This research paper explores the factors that determine the variation in intervention decisions of regional powers in civil conflicts within their region. The research argues that a regional power's intervention decision is influenced by a range of strategic interests shaped by domestic, regional, and global factors. Using the case study of India and China's role in the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, the study identifies and develops four conditions under which regional powers are less likely to intervene: internal constraints, willingness, regional security concerns, and regional and global power dynamics. These conditions determine whether a regional power adopts a non-interventionist, strategic limited interventionist, or full-interventionist policy. Existing literature tends to focus on a binary approach to intervention/non-intervention, assuming that regional powers will intervene based on their capabilities and interests. However, such studies do not account for the observed empirical variation in intervention. This research aims to fill this gap in the literature by exploring why this happens and what factors cause the variation in intervention by regional powers.
title: The Effects of the Childbirth Process on the Attitudes and Behaviors of New Fathers
Creators: name: Ryser, Janice
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: Attitudes of 74 first-time fathers were studied as they varied vi by childbirth preparation and participation. A 50-variable questionnaire was used to tap fathers' attitudes towards their marital relationship and partner, their infants, themselves as fathers, and the pregnancy/childbirth experience.
Fathers agreed on being elated with fatherhood, wanting tactile, verbal, and extended home contact with their infants, planning on a partnership in parenting, and seeing their marriage at a high point. They saw pregnancy as a time of stress and adjustment and felt father participation was important. Their attitudes varied most on wife's performance and their own helpfulness through labor and delivery.
The variance and the numerous relationships of the 50 variables were consolidated through factor analysis. 2 x 2 ANOVA on eight factors revealed the effects of preparation and participation. It was found that participation increases the father's respect for his wife, gives him more purpose in the childbirth, and increases his elation at becoming a father. The prepared and participating father realized the importance and responsibility of his participation and perceived his infant as being perfect.
A trend was seen between preparation and concerns with the infant time involvement, the pleasure with the news of pregnancy. and a desire to go through the childbirth experience again. Merit was also given to a lack of preparation and participation through the results of analysis on Factor II--The triad. The nonprepared nonparticipating fathers saw the marriage at a high point, showed tactile and visual engrossment, and planned on a parenting partnership more than any other group of fathers in the sample.
title: Der Fremdsprachenunterricht in den Vereinigten Staaten: Tendenzen und Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Schulz, Renate
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der skandalöse Mangel an Fremdsprachenkompetenz unter den Bürgern der USA wurde schon von staatlichen Kommissionen (Strength through Wisdom...", 1979), Politikern (Simon, 1980), führenden Vertretern der amerikanischen Wirtschaft und Pädagogen gleichermaßen beklagt. Es besteht kein Zweifel, daß unter den führenden Industrienationen der Welt die USA die inkohärenteste Sprachenpolitik betreiben. Sowohl verbindliche Lernziele, Richtlinien für Lehrpläne als auch die systematische Bewertung der von den Lernenden erzielten Ergebnisse existieren selten - meistens nicht einmal auf lokaler Ebene.
Nilpotent Commuting Scalar Fields and Random Walk
Creators: name: F. Palumbo
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1993

description: We show that the correlation functions of a free nilpotent commuting scalar field are equal to the correlation functions of a random walk where paths with odd number of crossings give a negative contribution. It follows that in a number of dimensions where the self-avoidind random walk is a free theory in the continuum limit, the nilpotent commuting scalar behaves as an ordinary scalar. We show how a nilpotent commuting scalar can be to an abelian gauge field.
title: Die Rolle des Niederländischen bei französischsprachigen Lernern von Deutsch als L3
Creators: name: Michiels, Bruno
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Einen ersten Anlaß, mich mit der Problematik der Mehrsprachigkeit auseinanderzusetzen, haben mir meine persönlichen Erfahrungen als Fremdsprachenlerner gegeben.
The Ages of Stars: The Horizontal Branch
Creators: name: Catelan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Horizontal branch (HB) stars play a particularly important role in the "age debate," since they are at the very center of the long-standing "second parameter" problem. In this review, I discuss some recent progress in our understanding of the nature and origin of HB stars.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Invited review, to appear in "The Ages of Stars", proceedings of IAU Symp. 258
title: The Effects of an Attribution-Based Parenting Program on Perceptions of Parenting Behavior
Creators: name: Goddard, H. Wallace
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1990

description: Attribution theory has become increasingly prominent in social psychology in the last few decades. Insights from attribution theory were used to guide the development of a parenting program. The program was delivered to a group of mothers and fathers of middle-school children in a 5-week parenting program. Parents who volunteered for the program were randomly assigned to treatment and control (delayed treatment) conditions. The program emphasized the dangers of biases in perception and encouraged empathic communication. Parents were encouraged to discuss their own parenting dilemmas in the class. Handouts and reminders were used to help parents understand and remember the pOints of the sessions. Both the parents and their middle-school children gave reports on parent behavior before the program began and after its conclusion. While there were no differences between treated and untreated parents on most child-report measures, children consistently rated parents in the experimental group more favorably than those in the control group when asked to indicate changes in the parents' behavior. Apparently the parenting program made some improvements in parents' nurturing behaviors as perceived by themselves and their middle-school children. It was concluded that the insights of attribution theory can help parents improve their nurturing behavior. Difficult methodological issues about measuring changes in behavior remain unresolved. The implications of this project for practice include the recommendation that parenting programs account for cognitive as well as behavioral processes. Applications for parenting programs and the methodology of their evaluation are discussed.
Analytical solutions of the Schrödinger equation with the Woods-Saxon potential for arbitrary $l$ state
Creators: name: Badalov, V. H.
name: Ahmadov, H. I.
name: Ahmadov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the analytical solution of the radial Schrödinger equation for the Woods-Saxon potential is presented. In our calculations, we have applied the Nikiforov-Uvarov method by using the Pekeris approximation to the centrifugal potential for arbitrary $l$ states. The bound state energy eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions are obtained for various values of $n$ and $l$ quantum numbers.
description: 14 pages
Comparison between Anthropomorphic Mathematical Phantoms Using MCNP and Fluka Codes
Creators: name: M. Pelliccioni
name: M. Pillon
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1996

description: The International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP) recommends dose limits for occupational and public exposures in terms of weighted averages of organ and tissue doses. To this end the ICRP introduced the quantity Effective Dose Equivalent in Publication 26, substituted by Effective Dose in Publication 60. Both quantities cannot be measured and are usually evaluated by means of conversion coefficients, calculated using mathematical models of the adult human, the so-called anthropomorphic phantoms. Some of such phantoms exist for various computer codes, but not yet for FLUKA, a Monte Carlo code which simulates the development of showers initiated by high energy particles of energies up to several tens of TeV. An anthropomorphic phantom for the FLUKA code is presented here, together with preliminary results of calculations of the doses produced by photons in the energy range 0.122-90 MeV in a selection of different organs. The results are  compared with those obtained for two phantoms running with MCNP: ADAM from GSF and the MCNP version of the FLUKA phantom. In this way, the quality of the FLUKA phantom is tested against the ADAM-GSF phantom and differences of treating physical processes by FLUKA and MCNP are compared.
title: Autonomie und prozedurale Kompetenz: Elemente eines neuen Curriculums für Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der Sekundarstufe
Creators: name: Chan, Wai Meng
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In Gerhard Neuners Beitrag zum 1998 erscheinenden Handbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache werden Lehrpläne folgendermaßen charakterisiert: Lehrpläne sind - ähnlich wie Lehrwerke - "Kinder ihrer Zeit". Sie entstehen aus einem Bedingungsgefüge heraus, das sich verändern kann. (Neuner, in Vorbereitung) Der Fremdsprachenunterricht, mitsamt dessen Zielen, Inhalten und methodischen Verfahrensweisen, ist ein Produkt des Zusammenspiels vieler Faktoren, vor allem der jeweiligen übergreifenden bildungspolitischen Orientierung und der Erkenntnisse der einschlägigen Fachwissenschaften. Veränderungen auf gesellschaftlicher bzw. institutioneller Ebene sowie neue Befunde der Fremdsprachendidaktik und deren Bezugswissenschaften führen - oft zeitverzögert, aber meist zwangsläufig - zur Revision existierender bzw. Erstellung neuer Curricula. Dieser Beitrag wird daher kurz auf die neue bildungspolitische Zielsetzung Singapurs sowie die jüngsten Entwicklungen in der Autonomie- und Lernstrategieforschung eingehen und deren Konsequenzen für die Erneuerung des DaF-Curriculums für die Sekundarstufe (Altersgruppe 13-16 Jahre) zu verdeutlichen versuchen.
title: Time Use and Attitudes Among Siblings: A Comparison in Families of Children With and Without Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Boyce, Glenna C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1990

description: Time use, attitudes, and perceptions of 120 siblings, aged 10 to 17, of children with and without Down syndrome were compared. Time use was compared in 10 composite and 14 focused categories. Overall, the findings evidenced marked similarities between groups in time use. Siblings of children in both groups spent similar amounts of time x performing household duties, shopping, sleeping, eating, playing, participating in sports, and watching TV. The siblings of children with Down syndrome did differ from the comparison group in their school attendance. They also spent less time in social activities and more time in child care and working for pay. Although the presence of a child with Down syndrome had little effect on time use, age and gender were found to be important variables. The two groups did not differ significantly in their attitudes concerning their own happiness, friendships, families, school, and expectations. The siblings of children with Down syndrome did report more frequent family activities than did the comparison siblings. Within the sample of siblings of children with Down syndrome, comparisons were made between the siblings who were relatively older or younger than the ch ild with Down syndrome and between the siblings of low- or high-functioning children with Down syndrome. Neither time use nor attitude comparisons showed any statistical differences, except that older siblings provided child care and younger siblings did not. The child care issue is a major concern for researchers and families. In this study, most siblings, even most older siblings , did not report time providing child care, although a relatively few older siblings appeared to provide child care extensively.