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Game Design as a Pedagogic Tool: the Future of STEM Education
Creators: name: Tarhan, Ahit Kaan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: constructionism
subject: constructivism
subject: STEM
subject: STEAM
subject: educational games
subject: affordances
subject: procedural rhetoric
subject: game design process

description: As our daily lives become more integrated with science & technology, our education systems need to ensure that all students are gaining the essential scientific literacy and critical-thinking skills to navigate the diverse technological landscape that defines the 21st century. Although STEM education has been at the forefront of global initiatives to prepare students to life, recent systemic reviews show that current pedagogic methods focus separately on individual subjects and fail to impart the necessary integrated systems thinking for students to design solutions for complex contemporary problems ailing our world. Game design processes employed as pedagogic tools can be the answer to contemporary issues in STEM education. As a unique blend of artistic and engineering processes, game design is an iterative design process that requires research, synthesis, dialogue, collaboration, interdisciplinary integration, and systems thinking to implement solutions for the construction of a desired experience. These affordances fit the bill for a design-based, student-centered, constructionist, hands-on learning experience that is desired by educators on both the national and international levels. Thus, game design could be the pedagogic tool necessary for STEM education to adapt to the needs of the 21st century and the future.
title: Apprentissage et réinvestissement des savoirs en français : un enseignement entre le jeu et la fiche
title: Apprentissage et réinvestissement des savoirs en français : un enseignement entre le jeu et la fiche
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Abbou, Najma
name: Annese, Jessica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Pédagogie nouvelle
subject: Hétéro/autorégulation
subject: Pensée réflexive
subject: Jeu de règles
subject: Évaluation dynamique
subject: Fonctionnement de la langue

description: Retour dans le passé, replaçons-nous dans notre vécu d’élève, assis derrière notre pupitre à écouter la leçon de grammaire dispensée par le.la maître.sse. Qu’avons-nous gardé de cet enseignement ? Avons-nous pris du plaisir ? Souvent appréhendée par les élèves, nous nous sommes questionnées quant aux modalités d’enseignement de cette discipline. Nous nous sommes intéressées à l'enseignement du fonctionnement de la langue française au cycle 1 et au réinvestissement des savoirs dans des situations d’entraînement-apprentissage à travers deux approches opposées ; la pédagogie traditionnelle et l’éducation nouvelle. Nous avons donc défini deux groupes tests auxquels nous avons enseigné les mêmes concepts ; l’accord en nombre et l’analyse de la phrase. Pour ce faire et mettre en tension les deux pédagogies citées ci-dessus, nous avons mis en place un enseignement jonglant entre deux modalités à savoir le jeu de règles ou la fiche en fonction des groupes. Cette recherche a mis en exergue des résultats disparates quant à la capacité de réinvestissement et d’appropriation des savoirs des élèves. Cette étude vous permettra de faire un bond dans le passé, en faisant écho aux nombreuses fiches de grammaire effectuées lorsque vous étiez écolier.ère, tout en vous projetant dans une vision actuelle de l’enseignement du fonctionnement de la langue au cycle 1 plaçant l’élève dans une posture réflexive et le rendant ainsi acteur de ses apprentissages par le biais du guidage préalable de l’expert.
Quantum fidelity of symmetric multipartite states
Creators: name: Neven, Antoine
name: Mathonet, Pierre
name: Gühne, Otfried
name: Bastin, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For two symmetric quantum states one may be interested in maximizing the overlap under local operations applied to one of them. The question arises whether the maximal overlap can be obtained by applying the same local operation to each party. We show that for two symmetric multiqubit states and local unitary transformations this is the case; the maximal overlap can be reached by applying the same unitary matrix everywhere. For local invertible operations (stochastic local operations assisted by classical communication equivalence), however, we present counterexamples, demonstrating that considering the same operation everywhere is not enough.
description: Published version
Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei, Documenta inde a Concilio Vaticano Secundo expleto édita (1966-1985)
Creators: name: Köhler, Hans
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 4 Nr. 4 (1988): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 4, Heft 4
The methyl group as built-in probe of the glassy dynamics in propylene carbonate
Creators: name: Böhmer, Roland
name: Qi, F.
name: Sillescu, H.
Publisher: name: Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance was employed to study primarily the glassy phase of the fragile glass-former propylene carbonate, selectively deuterated at the methyl group. The analysis of temperature dependent line shapes allowed us to map out the energy barrier distribution below the glass transition temperature. The results were compared to measurements of spin-relaxation times. We determined the relative width of the barrier distribution and the extent of the decoupling between the methyl group rotation time and the structural relaxation time near the glass transition. These findings are discussed in the context of what has been reported for secondary relaxation processes in other glass-formers. Stimulated echo experiments on propylene carbonate demonstrate that, while in the supercooled liquid small angle reorientations dominate, in the glass the methyl group performs 120° (or 60°) jumps.
Laplacian spectral characterization of roses
Creators: name: He, Changxiang
name: van Dam, Edwin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50

description: A rose graph is a graph consisting of cycles that all meet in one vertex. We show that except for two specific examples, these rose graphs are determined by the Laplacian spectrum, thus proving a conjecture posed by Lui and Huang [F.J. Liu and Q.X. Huang, Laplacian spectral characterization of 3-rose graphs, Linear Algebra Appl. 439 (2013), 2914--2920]. We also show that if two rose graphs have a so-called universal Laplacian matrix with the same spectrum, then they must be isomorphic. In memory of Horst Sachs (1927-2016), we show the specific case of the latter result for the adjacency matrix by using Sachs' theorem and a new result on the number of matchings in the disjoint union of paths.
(202285) Richard Herbert Kendal
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation
title: Gestaltung und Management von Kooperationsprozessen in der Raumentwicklung im deutsch-polnisch-tschechischen Grenzraum
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Knippschild, Robert
Publisher: name: Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation
subject: Regionalentwicklung
subject: Grenzräume
subject: Planungsprozesse
subject: 710

description: Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Schengener Abkommens im Dezember 2007 in weiteren acht Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union (EU) ist der Europäische Integrationsprozess wieder ein Stück vorangeschritten. Vor dem Hintergrund einer stetigen Erweiterung der EU sind Fragen der Raumentwicklung in Grenzräumen dauerhaft relevant. Die Länge europäischer Binnengrenzen sowie der Anteil von Grenzräumen am europäischen Territorium haben sich mit den Erweiterungen in den Jahren 2004 und 2007 vervielfacht. Diese Räume haben - insbesondere an den neuen EU-Binnengrenzen - mit besonderen Herausforderungen bei der räumlichen Entwicklung zu kämpfen. Die für Europa charakteristische Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Regionen tritt hier jedoch besonders zu Tage und bietet Chancen, die bisherigen Standortnachteile in besondere Standortvorteile umzukehren. Außerdem tragen Grenzräume in Europa eine besondere Verantwortung beim Streben nach territorialer Kohäsion. Um diese Chancen zu nutzen und dieser Verantwortung gerecht zu werden, ist dauerhafte, vertrauensvolle und sachorientierte grenzüberschreitende Kooperation erforderlich. Die Thematik der Grenzräume ist daher für die Raumwissenschaften von besonderem Interesse. Zu den wesentlichen Aufgaben des Leibniz-Instituts für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) gehört daher die Beobachtung und Untersuchung der Integrations- und Raumentwicklungsprozesse in der EU aus Sicht der Raumwissenschaften. Diese Arbeit gab mir die Möglichkeit, meine Tätigkeit am IÖR in mehreren grenzüberschreitenden Projekten gemeinsam mit den beteiligten Akteuren in den Grenzräumen zu reflektieren. Die Dissertationsschrift wurde im Oktober 2007 an der Technischen Universität Dortmund, Fakultät Raumplanung verteidigt und leistet einen Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Diskussion um grenzüberschreitende Kooperationsprozesse in der Raumentwicklung. Dabei werden für die Akteure vor Ort Erfahrungen aufbereitet und Hinweise gegeben, die zur Verbesserung der grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit beitragen. Bedanken möchte ich mich insbesondere bei meinen Betreuern Herrn Prof. Dr. Klaus R. Kunzmann und Herrn Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller für die inhaltliche Betreuung und Unterstützung. Außerdem danke ich allen Interviewpartnern für die wertvollen Informationen und offenen Einschätzungen sowie Freunden, Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die mir bei der Realisierung der Arbeit geholfen haben.
description: IÖR-Schriften;48
The teaching of French literature at the University of Sydney, 1887 to 1955
Creators: name: Kerr, Margaret.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Thermal Properties of Relativistic Dunkl Oscillators
Creators: name: Hamil, B.
name: Lütfüoğlu, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a better understanding of the physical systems, even at the quantum level, the thermal quantities can be investigated. Recently, we realized that the parity of the system can also be examined simultaneously, by substituting the Dunkl operator with the ordinary differential operator in quantum mechanics. In this manuscript, we consider two relativistic Dunkl-oscillators and investigate their thermal quantities with well-known statistical methods. Besides, we establish a relationship between the Dunkl-Dirac oscillator and the Dunkl-Anti-Jayne-Cummings model by defining the Dunk creation and annihilation operators. Therefore, we conclude that our model can be regarded as an appropriate scenario for the theory of an open quantum system coupled to a thermal bath.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
$P$-wave coupled channel effects in electron-positron annihilation
Creators: name: Du, Meng-Lin
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
name: Wang, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $P$-wave coupled channel effects arising from the $D\bar{D}$, $D\bar{D}^*+c.c.$, and $D^*\bar{D}^*$ thresholds in $e^+e^-$ annihilations are systematically studied. We provide an exploratory study by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation with short-ranged contact potentials obtained in the heavy quark limit. These contact potentials can be extracted from the $P$-wave interactions in the $e^+e^-$ annihilations, and then be employed to investigate possible isosinglet $P$-wave hadronic molecules. In particular, such an investigation may provide information about exotic candidates with quantum numbers $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$. In the mass region of the $D\bar{D}$, $D\bar{D}^*+c.c.$, and $D^*\bar{D}^*$ thresholds, there are two quark model bare states, i.e. the $ψ(3770)$ and $ψ(4040)$, which are assigned as $(1^3D_1)$ and $(3^1S_1)$ states, respectively. By an overall fit of the cross sections of $e^+e^-\to D\bar{D}$, $D\bar{D}^*+c.c.$, $D^*\bar{D}^*$, we determine the physical coupling constants to each channel and extract the pole positions of the $ψ(3770)$ and $ψ(4040)$. The deviation of the ratios from that in the heavy quark spin symmetry (HQSS) limit reflects the HQSS breaking effect due to the mass splitting between the $D$ and the $D^*$. Besides the two poles, we also find a pole a few MeV above the $D\bar{D}^*+c.c.$ threshold which can be related to the so-called $G(3900)$ observed earlier by BABAR and Belle. This scenario can be further scrutinized by measuring the angular distribution in the $D^*\bar{D}^*$ channel with high luminosity experiments.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Challenges and prospects of internal audit in performing audit function in selected government higher education institutions in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abate, Kebede
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: As per IIA statement, internal audit helps organizations to accomplish their objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes. With regard to this, MoF has taken different measures to strengthen and develop the internal audit system in the institutions according to the IIA standards. But the internal audits in government higher education institutions were ineffective to discharge their role as per the definition of internal auditing. The purpose of this study is to assessing challenges and prospects of internal audit activity in selected 8 universities through questionnaire, focus group discussion, reviewed annual plans, quarterly reports of internal audit and also revise ID assurance and improvement program reports. At the end we discussed with (MoF) Inspection Directorate Director, experts and human resource administration team.
Measurement of jet activity produced in top-quark events with an electron, a muon and two $b$-tagged jets in the final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of jet activity in top-quark pair events produced in proton--proton collisions are presented, using 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are chosen by requiring an opposite-charge $eμ$ pair and two $b$-tagged jets in the final state. The normalised differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production are presented as functions of additional-jet multiplicity and transverse momentum, $p_{\mathrm T}$. The fraction of signal events that do not contain additional jet activity in a given rapidity region, the gap fraction, is measured as a function of the $p_{\mathrm T}$ threshold for additional jets, and is also presented for different invariant mass regions of the $eμb\bar{b}$ system. All measurements are corrected for detector effects and presented as particle-level distributions compared to predictions with different theoretical approaches for QCD radiation. While the kinematics of the jets from top-quark decays are described well, the generators show differing levels of agreement with the measurements of observables that depend on the production of additional jets.
description: 57 pages in total, author list starting page 41, 16 figures, 15 tables, submitted to EPJC, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2015-17
Magnetic APFC modeling and the influence of magneto-structural interactions on grain shrinkage
Creators: name: Backofen, Rainer
name: Salvalaglio, Marco
name: Voigt, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.6.3; I.6.5

description: We derive the amplitude expansion for a phase-field-crystal (APFC) model that captures the basic physics of magneto-structural interactions. The symmetry breaking due to magnetization is demonstrated, and the characterization of the magnetic anisotropy for a BCC crystal is provided. This model enables a convenient coarse-grained description of crystalline structures, in particular when considering the features of the APFC model combined with numerical methods featuring inhomogeneous spatial resolution. This is shown by addressing the shrinkage of a spherical grain within a matrix, chosen as a prototypical system to demonstrate the influence of different magnetizations. These simulations serve as a proof of concept for the modeling of manipulation of dislocation networks and microstructures in ferromagnetic materials within the APFC model.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures; extended and accepted (Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering)
title: Psychologie und Gehirn 2007
title: Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA), in Dortmund, vom 07.06.-09.06.2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Falkenstein, Michael
name: Grosjean, Marc
name: Rinkenauer, Gerhard
name: Wascher, Edmund
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: neuroscience
subject: Neurowissenschaft
subject: Psychophysiologie
subject: psychophysiology
subject: 150

description: Die Fachtagung "Psychologie und Gehirn" ist eine traditionelle Tagung aus dem Bereich psychophysiologischer Grundlagenforschung. 2007 fand diese Veranstaltung, die 33. Jahrestagung der „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (DGPA)“, in Dortmund unter der Schirmherrschaft des Instituts für Arbeitsphysiologie (IfADo) statt. Neben der Grundlagenforschung ist auch die Umsetzung in die Anwendung erklärtes Ziel der DGPA und dieser Tradition folgend wurden Beiträge aus vielen Bereichen moderner Neurowissenschaft (Elektrophysiologie, bildgebende Verfahren, Peripherphysiologie, Neuroendokrinologie, Verhaltensgenetik, u.a.) präsentiert und liegen hier in Kurzform vor.
The Effectiveness of External Audit on Tax Collection in Ethiopia: Case of Large Tax Payers Office
Creators: name: Asrat, Abadi
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This paper provides some evidences how the government benefited from the external auditors effectiveness on tax collection by minimizing the loopholes which exposed for tax avoidance, evasion and shelter. Research data collected from the population auditing firms based in Addis Ababa and sample were taken from twenty firms based on their size and number of employees. 100 questionnaires were distributed to external auditors titled senior and above constructed by 5 point likert scale. 82 responses are obtained from the respondents and summarized by using excel spread sheet before processed by STATA software to have descriptive and regression analysis quantified results. The qualitative data from interview was used to triangulate the respondents result from Stata. Eight hypotheses was proposed and checked as a result competence, independence, regulatory body and tax audit have significant effect and strong relation with the effectiveness of external auditors performance on tax collection in comparing with audit firm size, audit fee and audit tenure. In contrary awareness of tax by the external auditors inversely related. The study recommended the governing body should work in co-operation with AABE, finance professional association and individuals, there must be a comprehensive tax manual used as a reference, a controlling mechanism should be set for external audit professionals, the training and education department must be well arranged and structured to provide support, AABE should to revise audit firm certification criteria to increase the number of external audit firms and at last tax audit by the tax authority preferably should be done as soon as tax report delivered by the tax payers.
Factors affecting student performance in listening comprehension in French
Creators: name: Wheeler, James Arthur.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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MEDLINE database article selection process results
Creators: name: Annakib, Soufyan
name: Fiteni, Frederic
name: Houede, Nadine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cancer

description: Details results for MEDLINE database research strategy. Systematic review: " Quality of life under monoclonal antibody therapies for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma patients: a systematic review"
Testing a new tool to distinguish the stage of evolution of red-giant stars
Creators: name: Fanha, Pedro
name: Cunha, Margarida
name: Bossini, Diego
name: Ferreira, Maria
name: Deal, Morgan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: stars: evolution; stars: structure; stars: evolved; asteroseismology

description: When stars evolve towards red giants, their structures experience significant changes that are not easily visible in classical observations. While period spacings, probing directly the stellar cores, provide an effective way to distinguish between red giant branch (RGB) and low mass core helium-burning stars, their observation is not always possible, becoming particularly difficult in luminous RGB stars. In this work we seek to find an alternative way to establish the evolutionary stage of stars crossing the red giant phase. In particular, we explore the potential offered by ℓ = 3 modes that have been observed in a number of these stars [1, 2].
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Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction and the ground state in S=3/2 perfect kagome lattice antiferromagnet $\mathbf{KCr_3(OH)_6(SO_4)_2}$ (Cr-jarosite) studied by X-band and high-frequency ESR
Creators: name: Okubo, Susumu
name: Nakata, Ryohei
name: Ohta, Hitoshi
name: Ikeda, Shohei
name: Takahashi, Naoki
name: Sakurai, Takahiro
name: Zhang, Wei-min
name: Shimokawa, Tokuro
name: Toru, Sakai
name: Okuta, Koji
name: Hara, Shigeo
name: Sato, Hirohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A single crystal S=3/2 perfect kagome lattice antiferromagnet $\mathrm{KCr_3(OH)_6(SO_4)_2}$ (Cr-jarosite) has been studied by X-band and high-frequency electron spin resonance (ESR). The g-values perpendicular to the kagome plane (c-axis) and in the plane are determined to be $g_c=1.9704 \pm 0.0002$ and $g_ξ=1.9720 \pm 0.0003$, respectively, by high-frequency ESR observed at 265 K. Antiferromagnetic resonances (AFMR) with the antiferromagnetic gap of 120 GHz are observed at 1.9 K, which is below $T_N$=4.5 K. The analysis of AFMR modes by the conventional molecular field theory shows $d_p=0.27$ K and $d_z=0.07$ K, where $d_p$ and $d_z$ are in-plane and out-of-plane components of DM d vector, respectively. From these results and the estimated exchange interaction J=6.15 K by Okuta et al., the ground state of Cr-jarosite is discussed in connection with the Monte Carlo simulations result with classical Heisenberg spins on the kagome lattice by Elhajal et al. Finally, the angular dependence of linewidth and the lineshape observed at 296 K by X-band ESR show typical behavior of a two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet, suggesting a good two-dimensionality of Cr-jarosite.
(202279) Ethel Paine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Buddhism and economic growth with special reference to Ceylon
Creators: name: Gunasinghe, Newton.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Vollmert, Bruno/Löw, Reinhard/Scheffczyk, Leo/Balthasar H. U. von, Schöpfung
Creators: name: Hauke, Manfred
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 4 Nr. 4 (1988): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 4, Heft 4
Insights into the genetic re-engineering of chimeric antibody-binding green fluorescent proteins for immunological taggers
Creators: name: Bülow, Leif
name: Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Chartchalerm
name: Prachayasittikul, Virapong
name: Suwanwong, Yaneenart
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chimeric Antibody-binding GFP
subject: C-terminus GFP fusion
subject: Fluorescent antinuclear antibody analysis
subject: Surface Plasmon Resonance
subject: 610

description: Genetic re-manipulation of chimeric antibody-binding green fluorescent proteins was successfully conducted to create versatile tools for immunological diagnosis. Four chimeric GFPs carrying one and two-consecutive sequences of the Fc-binding motif (Z-domain), derivative of IgG-binding B domain of Staphylococcal protein A (SpA), at the C-terminus were constructed. The chimeric Ab-binding GFPs possessed dual characteristics of both IgG-binding and activity of fluorescent emission. The chimeric proteins were purified to homogeneity using an IgG-Sepharose column. Additionally, a hexahistidine was fused to the N-terminal of the GFPZ and GFPZZ to allow a high protein recovery obtained from immobilized metal (Ni^2+) affinity chromatography (Ni-NTA), and for protein immobilization to the sensor surface. Results obtained from the Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) revealed a high binding affinity (K_a) to immobilized human immunoglobulin up to 6.7 and 81.1 (107/M) for the GFPZ and GFPZZ, respectively. This affinity constant was raised up to 2-5 times higher when the chimeric GFPs harboring hexahistidine residues were captured on the sensor chip via metal coordination. The strong binding affinity to IgG of the chimeric GFPs was clinically applied to detect the antinuclear antibody. A strong intensity of fluorescence, higher than that of the classical fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) conjugated system, was significantly detected. Moreover, the proteins with double repeats of Fc-binding motif (GFPZZ and H6GFPZZ) obviously demonstrated a more intense fluorescent signal than those of the single Z domain, which corresponded to the result from SPR. All these findings support a high potential for applying such chimeric Ab-binding GFPs for clinical applications.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 5, 2006
Introducing General Relativity in high school: a guide for teachers
Creators: name: Postiglione, Adriana
name: De Angelis, Ilaria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Introducing Modern Physics represents an increasingly urgent need, towards which physics education concentrates many efforts. In order to contribute to this attempt, at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Roma Tre University in Rome we focused on the possibility of treating General Relativity (GR) at high school level. We started with an interactive activity addressed to students that exploits the rubber sheet analogy (RSA) to show various phenomena related to gravity using the concept of space-time. Then, having verified its effectiveness, we began to include it among the initiatives the Department carry for high school teacher professional development, with the explicit aim of making them capable of carrying on the activity autonomously in the classrooms. In this paper, we analyse the teacher training approach we realized, and all the materials developed.
title: Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis
title: two case reports in China
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fan, Daiming
name: Han, Ying
name: Liu, Jingmei
name: Wang, Jingbo
name: Yan, Li
name: Zhou, Xinmin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: methotrexate
subject: primary biliary cirrhosis
subject: rheumatoid arthritis
subject: ursodeoxycholic acid
subject: 610

description: Primary biliary cirrhosis(PBC) is a slowly progressive autoimmune disease of the liver which mainly affects women aged between 35 and 45 years.Prolonged liver inflammation can cause scarring, leading to cirrhosis. Although 50 to 60 percent of patients are asymptomatic at diagnosis, they will develop symptoms later. PBC can be associated with arthralgia and other non-hepatic autoimmune diseases, such as Sjögren’s syndrome, sicca syndrome, thyroiditis and scleroderma. PBC and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been suggested to coexist in 1.8 to 5.6% of patients with PBC, but data supporting this association are scarce. We report two cases of such an association and discuss how to improve threapy.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 6, 2007
Reactive Stepping for Humanoid Robots using Reinforcement Learning: Application to Standing Push Recovery on the Exoskeleton Atalante
Creators: name: Duburcq, Alexis
name: Schramm, Fabian
name: Boéris, Guilhem
name: Bredeche, Nicolas
name: Chevaleyre, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art reinforcement learning is now able to learn versatile locomotion, balancing and push-recovery capabilities for bipedal robots in simulation. Yet, the reality gap has mostly been overlooked and the simulated results hardly transfer to real hardware. Either it is unsuccessful in practice because the physics is over-simplified and hardware limitations are ignored, or regularity is not guaranteed, and unexpected hazardous motions can occur. This paper presents a reinforcement learning framework capable of learning robust standing push recovery for bipedal robots that smoothly transfer to reality, providing only instantaneous proprioceptive observations. By combining original termination conditions and policy smoothness conditioning, we achieve stable learning, sim-to-real transfer and safety using a policy without memory nor explicit history. Reward engineering is then used to give insights into how to keep balance. We demonstrate its performance in reality on the lower-limb medical exoskeleton Atalante.
Effect of some natural antioxidants on aflatoxin B1-induced hepatic toxicity
Creators: name: Kheir Eldin, Adel A.
name: Motawi, Tarek M. K.
name: Sadik, Nermin A. H.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Aflatoxin B1
subject: antioxidants
subject: liver
subject: rats
subject: selenium
subject: silymarin
subject: ß-carotene coenzyme Q10
subject: vitamin E
subject: 610

description: Aflatoxins are potent hepatotoxic and hepatocarcinogenic agents. This hepatotoxicity is thought to be mediated by their ability to generate reactive oxygen species and cause peroxidative damage. In the present investigation we assessed the ability of some natural antioxidants namely, vitamin E and Se, ß-carotene, silymarin and coenzyme Q10 on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-induced hepatotoxicity in a rat model. Alanine and aspartate aminotransferases and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were found to be significantly increased in the serum of AFB1 administered (250 µg/kg body weight/day for 2 weeks) rats, suggesting hepatic damage. There was a marked increase in the lipid peroxide levels and a concomitant decrease in the hepatic reduced glutathione (GSH) and serum protein thiol (PrSHs) along with a nearly twofold increase in hepatic glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activity. The significant increase in GST may be attributed to its being a phase ?? enzyme that predominately participates in the detoxification of the ultimate electrophilic metabolite AFB1-8, 9 epoxide. On the other hand, no significant change was detected in the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH), cytochrome creductase and levels of DNA and RNA in the hepatic tissue of AFB1 administered rats. Results also revealed that cotreatment with studied antioxidants offered substantial hepatoprotective effects in the AFB1 administered rats. Moreover, results revealed that vitamin E and selenium combination and ß-carotene are more efficient than coenzyme Q10 and silymarin in modulating the liver antioxidant enzymatic system.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 7, 2008
Supersymmetric Sneutrino-Higgs Inflation
Creators: name: Deen, Rehan
name: Ovrut, Burt A.
name: Purves, Austin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in the phenomenologically realistic supersymmetric $B-L$ MSSM theory, a linear combination of the neutral, up Higgs field with the third family left-and right-handed sneutrinos can play the role of the cosmological inflaton. Assuming that supersymmetry is softly broken at a mass scale of order $10^{13}~\mathrm{GeV}$, the potential energy associated with this field allows for 60 e-foldings of inflation with the cosmological parameters being consistent with all Planck2015 data. The theory does not require any non-standard coupling to gravity and the physical fields are all sub-Planckian during the inflationary epoch. It will be shown that there is a "robust" set of initial conditions which, in addition to satisfying the Planck data, simultaneously are consistent with all present LHC phenomenological requirements.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures. Version 2: Updated to be consistent with journal version, includes new references and other minor changes
Multi-Radical Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model for Avian Navigation
Creators: name: Wu, Jia-Yi
name: Hu, Xin-Yuan
name: Zhu, Hai-Yuan
name: Deng, Ru-Qiong
name: Ai, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of avian navigation is an important question for global scientists. One of the most famous candidates is the radical pair mechanism (RPM), which shows that avian navigation is achieved by detecting the amount of products from chemical reactions, which exhibit different properties for singlet and triplet spin states. Based on the theory, we explore the amount of the the singlet recombination product by changing the coupling strength and direction of the magnetic field. The radical pair in our model is coupled with a Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) bath, which proposes attractive results at quantum phase transition (QPT) point, especially when the magnetic field is parallel with the original direction of the pair. We find weakest navigation ability in QPT point according to one of our proposing methods. And we find invariant subspace in our Hamiltonian when the magnetic field is vertical to the plane of the radical pair and the bath, which will greatly speed up our calculation. Our results could help the exploration of the design principle of artificial avian navigation.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Accurate asteroseismic surface rotation rates for evolved red giants
Creators: name: Ahlborn, Felix
name: Bellinger, Earl
name: Hekker, Saskia
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Mokrytska, Daria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The understanding of the internal stellar rotation and its evolution is crucial for constructing accurate stellar models. To that end, we use asteroseismology to probe the interior rotation of stars, with a focus on red giants. However, the accurate determination of near-surface rotation rates in evolved red giants was previously hindered by large systematic errors inherent to the inversion method (e.g., Ahlborn et al. 2020). To address this issue, we have developed a modification to a currently used rotational inversion method that effectively eliminates these errors (Ahlborn et al. 2022).
 Utilizing our improved rotational inversion technique, we aim to determine accurate red-giant envelope rotation rates by employing a broader range of suitable reference stellar models (Ahlborn et al. in prep). We select suitable reference models by matching the large frequency separation and requiring a high degree of correlation of the mixed-mode character between the observations and the reference model. Our results indicate that, given an adequate set of reference models, rotation rates can be accurately recovered.
Perception of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Internet banking in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kaleb, Lemma
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This thesis aims at investigating perceptions of factors affecting the adoption of internet banking in Ethiopia. The study is based on modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) & Consumer Internet Banking model (CIBM). Specifically, the thesis examines the impact of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived security & privacy, responsiveness, computer self-efficacy, technological experience and demographic factors (such as age, gender, income, occupation and education) on the adoption of internet banking. The study employs mixed methods research approach. The quantitative aspect of the study is based on survey of a randomly selected 241 internet banking users and non-users in Addis Ababa while the qualitative component employs in-depth interviews and review of relevant documents related to internet banking adoption in Ethiopia. The outcome of a binary logistic regression analysis reveal that perceived usefulness, security & privacy, responsiveness, technological experience, trust and computer self-efficacy have a statistically significant association with adoption internet banking and demographic factors such as age, gender, income and occupation have a statistically significant relationship with the adoption of internet banking; whereas perceived ease of use and education were not found to be statistically significant factors to influence the adoption of internet banking in Ethiopia context. Furthermore, the result from interview confirmed that all factors built-in the model applied in this research have impact on adoption of the internet banking service in Ethiopia. These findings expected to help Ethiopian Commercial banks in the development of appropriate strategies in attracting and retaining their customers and to design specific marketing campaigns geared towards certain category of internet banking customers who are likely to adopt and use internet banking services.
A study of the plays of Harold Pinter
Creators: name: McKay, Gwendda.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Cloud-Edge Training Architecture for Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Cao, Hongpeng
name: Theile, Mirco
name: Wyrwal, Federico G.
name: Caccamo, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising approach to solve complex control tasks by learning policies through interactions with the environment. However, the training of DRL policies requires large amounts of training experiences, making it impractical to learn the policy directly on physical systems. Sim-to-real approaches leverage simulations to pretrain DRL policies and then deploy them in the real world. Unfortunately, the direct real-world deployment of pretrained policies usually suffers from performance deterioration due to the different dynamics, known as the reality gap. Recent sim-to-real methods, such as domain randomization and domain adaptation, focus on improving the robustness of the pretrained agents. Nevertheless, the simulation-trained policies often need to be tuned with real-world data to reach optimal performance, which is challenging due to the high cost of real-world samples. This work proposes a distributed cloud-edge architecture to train DRL agents in the real world in real-time. In the architecture, the inference and training are assigned to the edge and cloud, separating the real-time control loop from the computationally expensive training loop. To overcome the reality gap, our architecture exploits sim-to-real transfer strategies to continue the training of simulation-pretrained agents on a physical system. We demonstrate its applicability on a physical inverted-pendulum control system, analyzing critical parameters. The real-world experiments show that our architecture can adapt the pretrained DRL agents to unseen dynamics consistently and efficiently.
description: Submitted to IROS 2022
Demographic change in non metropolitan Victoria, 1961-1966
Creators: name: Law, Marion R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202282) Alice Arabella Buckley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Antiope of Euripides
Creators: name: Papamichael, Emmanuel.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Theory of nuclear collective vibrations
Creators: name: Liang, Haozhao
name: Litvinova, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theory of nuclear collective vibrations evolved over decades from phenomenological quasiclassical picture to sophisticated microscopic approaches. The major focus is put on the underlying microscopic mechanisms of emergent effects, which define the properties of giant resonances and soft modes. The response of atomic nuclei to electromagnetic and weak fields is discussed in detail. Astrophysical implications of the giant resonances and soft modes are outlined.
description: Article: 33 pages, 13 figures. Contribution to the "Handbook of Nuclear Physics", Springer Nature, 2022, Eds. I. Tanihata, H. Toki and T. Kajino
Die DoktorandInnenstudie der Fachbereiche/Fakultäten 12-16
Creators: name: Selent, Petra
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 15. Jahrgang 2004 Heft 1
Tvorchestvo Anny Akhmatovoi i tragichnost' v nem
Creators: name: Rosalion-Sochalsky, Olesia.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Stellar differential rotation from transit spot mapping
Creators: name: Valio, Adriana
name: Araújo, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Just like the Sun, other stars also exhibit differential rotation. Currently, it is possible to estimate the rotation profile of a star that hosts at least one planet in an orbit that periodically eclipses the star. During one of these transits, a planet may occult a spot on the photosphere of the star, causing slight variations in its light curve. By detecting the same spot during a later transit, we can deduce the stellar rotation period at that latitude. In a multiplanetary system, each planet may occult different latitudes of the star. Therefore, spots can be observed in more than one latitude of the stellar disc. By observing these starspots in various latitudes, we can estimate the differential rotation profile of the star. In this study, we use the model described in Silva (2003) to characterise the starspots. We present the results of differential rotation for 13 stars observed by the Kepler and CoRoT satellites, two of which have multiple orbiting planets. The results show that the differential rotation is highly correlated with the stellar mean rotation period and weakly linked to the stellar mass or effective temperature.