cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Lorentz-Lorenz function of ethane
Creators: name: Burton, Michel Alan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study measured the Lorentz-Lorenz function for ethane as determined by [formula omitted] for densities from 1 to 200 amagats, where ℒ is the Lorentz-Lorenz function, ρ is the density, and n is the index of refraction for a wavelength of 6328 Å. ℒ was found to be constant to within ½ % with an average value of .3794± .0003 cc/gm for values of ℒ corresponding to ∣ρ−ρc∣ ≤ .2. The index of refraction of ethane was measured by using a light-weight cell which had two sapphire windows set at an angle to each other and through which a plane wave of monochromatic light was passed. A micrometer-driven mirror was used to direct the light into a collimating telescope and the angle of deflection was then related to n. ρ was measured by weighing the cell and its contents on a precision balance. Ethane could be released from the cell to vary ρ. The coexistence curve was measured and three parameters used to fit the curve. This enabled extrapolation for the critical temperature which was found to be 32.079 ± .001 °C . Extrapolation of the rectilinear diameter gave a critical density of .2062 ± .0003 gm/cc.
User driven Social Innovation and Living Labs
Creators: name: Krüger, Karsten
name: Montolio, Daniel
name: Hallik, Maarja
Publisher: name: DEMOCRAT
Year: 2024
Subjects: Education4Democracy
DemocratProject
EpD - Educación para la Democracia
EfD - Education for Democracy
Open social Innovation
Living Lab
Mutual Learning

description: The DEMOCRAT Project is conceived as an open social innovation process in the field of Education for Democracy (EfD) and related fields. The project aims to develop a Competences Framework for Responsible Democratic Citizenship (RCD), a European Curriculum for EfD prototype, and tools to assess RCD competences. This will be tested in real-world settings through local projects. As innovation, particularly social innovations, can be conceived of as an open-ended process of problem-solving, it is imperative to involve those affected by the social problems. For this reason, DEMOCRAT has opted for a strategy of continuous collaboration with the educational community through the establishment of Living Labs. DEMOCRAT conceives Living Labs as an iterative mutual learning process among different stakeholders in three dimensions:

i)               Learning with practitioners and other stakeholders to resolve the problem of effective education for democracy and to enhance democratic commitment in the EU countries.

ii)              Learning from one’s own experience with novel approaches to education for democracy in education practice.

iii)             iii) Learning from others’ experience with novel approaches of education for democracy in education practice. T

This comprehensive Living Lab strategy based on a combination of social science research methods enables the integration of social science research with practical experience in the field, thereby facilitating the development of novel tools or methods for EfD with the active participation of the community of education, putting the ground so that the proposed social invention can become social innovation.
Policing - a gendered experience? : the influence of socialisation and gender identity on the choice of a career in policing
Creators: name: Stewart, BA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Few occupations have been so fully defined as masculine and as resistant to the integration of women as policing (Martin 1996). Despite nearly 100 years of female involvement women officers continue to contest negative stereotypes that present an image of women as unsuitable for police work. This research examines the contextual influences on constables' choice of policing as a career with an emphasis on female constables. Firstly, the research investigates whether there is a relationship between perceptions of policing as a suitable career option and individual socialisation. The primary factor identified in the literature as influencing career choice is gender socialisation - within the family, from significant others, through educational institutions and within the workplace. This factor is related to the development of personal attributes such as self-esteem and perceptions of gender-appropriate activities. Further, the research examines whether a policewoman's gender identity influences her experience of policing. A conceptual framework was developed integrating Bourdieu's (1990) concepts of 'habitus' 'field' and 'culture', Connell's (2002) concept of 'negotiated gender' and Messerschmidt's (2002) concept of situated gender performance. The research was conducted within Western Australian, Victorian and Tasmanian police services using a mixed methods approach: that is, a survey distributed to both male and female police constables; interviews with female police constables and observations in the police workplace. The findings suggest that there are more similarities than differences between male and female officers. Although different socialisation factors are involved, both male and female officers were found to have low attachment to stereotypical gender expectations and similar levels of self-esteem. Overall, female officers had higher levels of education and provided more evidence of leadership potential than their male counterparts. In interviews and observations it was found that while police culture is influential on policing practice, female officers are negotiating gender and using agency to change the way policing is performed. These findings have implications for the development of recruitment and retention strategies for police services and contribute to a sociological understanding of the relationship between gender socialisation, career choice and performance of gender in a masculine workplace.
NutriBase: management system for the integration and interoperability of food- and nutrition-related data and knowledge
Creators: name: Valenčič, Eva
name: Beckett, Emma
name: Bucher, Tamara
name: Collins, Clare E.
Publisher: name: Fronitiers Research Foundation
Year: 2024

description: Introduction: Contemporary data and knowledge management and exploration are challenging due to regular releases, updates, and different types and formats. In the food and nutrition domain, solutions for integrating such data and knowledge with respect to the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles are still lacking. Methods: To address this issue, we have developed a data and knowledge management system called NutriBase, which supports the compilation of a food composition database and its integration with evidence-based knowledge. This research is a novel contribution because it allows for the interconnection and complementation of food composition data with knowledge and takes what has been done in the past a step further by enabling the integration of knowledge. NutriBase focuses on two important challenges; data (semantic) harmonization by using the existing ontologies, and reducing missing data by semi-automatic data imputation made from conflating with existing databases. Results and discussion: The developed web-based tool is highly modifiable and can be further customized to meet national or international requirements. It can help create and maintain the quality management system needed to assure data quality. Newly generated data and knowledge can continuously be added, as interoperability with other systems is enabled. The tool is intended for use by domain experts, food compilers, and researchers who can add and edit food-relevant data and knowledge. However, the tool is also accessible to food manufacturers, who can regularly update information about their products and thus give consumers access to current data. Moreover, the traceability of the data and knowledge provenance allows the compilation of a trustworthy management system. The system is designed to allow easy integration of data from different sources, which enables data borrowing and reduction of missing data. In this paper, the feasibility of NutriBase is demonstrated on Slovenian food-related data and knowledge, which is further linked with international resources. Outputs such as matched food components and food classifications have been integrated into semantic resources that are currently under development in various international projects.
A parametric study of a transverse gas flow TEA CO2 laser
Creators: name: Laidley, Thomas Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A transverse gas flow TEA C0₂ laser has been constructed and the use of a perforated hollow rod to serve simultaneously as the cathode of the discharge and the gas inlet vessel was successfully demonstrated. The electrical efficiency of the laser is typically 3% with peak powers of 40 kw being emitted on the P(20), P(18) and P(16) lines of the C0₂ spectrum. A parametric study of peak power, gas pressure, gas composition, time delay of the laser pulse and the interdependence of these quantities was undertaken.
Non-radiative positive pion absorption by deuterons at 49 mev
Creators: name: Duesdieker, Giles Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The reaction π⁺D→pp was investigated at a pion lab kinetic energy of 49 MeV in a companion study to the elastic reaction π⁺D→ π⁺D at the 184” cyclotron of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Although evidence for d- wave absorption had been found by other experimenters at energies above 150 MeV, little evidence for this process was indicated in our analysis of this experiment. A least-squares fit of the center of mass differential cross sections to the standard parameterization Dσ*/dΩ* = Kπ[A+Cos²θ*] yielded the values Kπ = 0.745 ± .017 and A = 0.286 ± .009, indicating a total cross section of 5.80 ±16 millibarns.
Executive report on the stakeholder Hub: attributes, tools and feedback
Creators: name: Chapela, Rosa
name: Vidal, Duarte F.
name: Ballesteros, Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Common Fishery Policy
Decision Support Framework
Fisheries Transparency Initiative
Fisheries Partnership Agreements
Joint Scientific Committee
Framework Programme for research and development
Horizon 2020
Maximum Sustainable Yield

description: In this ‘Executive report on the Stakeholder Hub: attributes, tools and feedback”, we describe the state of the art of the Stakeholder’s Hub in the FarFish project. Some of the main questions we try to respond on are related to how the Stakeholder Hub has been designed and implemented, and how gaps and needs in arenas for stakeholder interaction are being matched. This executive report is the first deliverable of Work Package 1 (WP1 - Stakeholder interaction). It summarises the process followed to develop the main tool for engaging stakeholders, at least on a preliminary stage. The Stakeholder Hub is focussed on a multi-level, multi-stakeholder platform, the focal point for policy-makers, NGOs, scientists, fisheries associations, processing organizations, trade companies and other relevant stakeholders. It provides a description of the communication flows within the first project stage about participants and stakeholders to enhance interaction between them, providing an updated list of the key stakeholders gathered to date. Finally, it describes the process of tailoring the Hub, summarizing the steps and tips followed until present time, focussing on the Case Study kick-off meeting that is planned in two months from the publication of this report.
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 727891.
Operational characteristics of ion cyclotron resonance cells
Creators: name: Woods, Ian Barry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A prerequisite to the correct interpretation of experimentally observed results in ion cyclotron resonance cells is the detailed knowledge of ion motions in the cell under all operating conditions. Thus far the theories in the literature do not satisfy such a criterion and a more detailed development is presented in this thesis. A significant result is the realization that shifts in the cyclotron resonance fields give information concerning the spatial distribution of ions in the ICR cell. Such information is vital in many experiments. In addition, the theory predicts and explains the experimental behaviour of the ICR apparatus under variation of the operating parameters and hence replaces the available theories as being more comprehensive. The ICR cell is used to measure an average cross section for the photodissociation of H[sup +/ sub 2], and to place an upper limit on the controversial photodissociation cross section of CH[sup +/ sub 4].
50 Things --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data
Creators: name: Padilla, Thomas
name: Allen, Laurie
name: Frost, Hannah
name: Potvin, Sarah
name: Russey Roke, Elizabeth
name: Varner, Stewart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: libraries, archives, museums, collections, data

description: 50 Things is designed for practitioners who are seeking to get started with collections as data. 50 Things provides an impetus for exploring, learning from colleagues, deepening knowledge and understanding, and taking that first step. Participants at the second Always Already Computational: Collections as Data National Forum (University of Nevada Las Vegas, May 7-8, 2018) provided the bulk of recommendations.

This publication is part of the Collections as Data Framework hosted at https://osf.io/mx6uk/.
High field Stark effects in diatomic hydrides
Creators: name: Scarl, Ethan Adam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A LoSurdo discharge was used to apply electric fields of more than 300 kV/cm to water vapor, a mixture of cyanogen and hydrogen, and ammonia, permitting the observation of Stark effects in the optical spectra of the OK, CH, and NH molecules, respectively. These experiments yielded the following values of the molecular electric dipole moment in the ground vibrational states: [See Thesis for Equation]. The dipole moments of the X ²π states in both OH and OD were also evaluated for v=0, 1, and 2, and were found to decrease as a function of v.
Four Things People Should Know About Migraines
Creators: name: Parsa, Mohammad S.
name: Golab, Lukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Migraine literacy among the public is known to be low, and this lack of understanding has a negative impact on migraineurs' quality of life. To understand this impact, we use text mining methods to study migraine discussion on the Reddit social media platform. We summarize the findings in the form of "four things people should know about chronic migraines": it is a serious disease that affects people of all ages, it can be triggered by many different factors, it affects women more than men, and it can get worse in combination with the COVID-19 virus.
High resolution positron annihilation study in the -phase region of the copper gallium and copper germanium system
Creators: name: McLarnon, James Gordon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A high resolution positron annihilation angular distribution study has been made of a sequence of α-phase alloys, of copper gallium and copper germanium up to electron per atom ratios of about n = 1.25. While the primary study has concerned the variation of the radius of the neck features of the Fermi surface with electron concentration, data has also been obtained for the <110> Fermi cut-off for all alloys and in addition a <100> cut-off has been obtained for the highest concentration copper gallium alloy. The two concentrated alloy systems show different behavior which is in agreement with low concentration studies done on CuGa and CuGe by Coleridge and Templeton. The CuGa neck radius if found to increase at a more rapid rate than predicted by rigid band theory, particularly at the highest concentration studied, whereas the CuGe behavior is below the rigid band predictions. General consistency is obtained between the neck variation and the <110> cut-off change. For the most concentrated CuGa alloy the results allow us to sketch a tentative Fermi surface and also provide convincing proof that the Fermi surface is most unlikely to contact the (200) Brillouin zone boundary even at the limit of the a-phase. This refutes the explanation given by Hume-Rothery and Roaf to account for the occurrence of the Hume-Rothery rules. The present results are compared with the other existing experimental data for these alloys, in particular the optical absorption data of Montgomery and Pells, and it is concluded that, while it is not possible to make any definitive theoretical statements from the present data, the two different measurements provide complementary details of the alloy band structure which would serve as an excellent test of any theory. The recent calculations of Das and Joshi using the coherent potential model has had reasonable success in explaining the optical data for the α-phase of the copper zinc system and it is hoped that the present work will stimulate the application of such theory to the CuGa and CuGe systems.
title: Design approach with wind tunnel test data on an RPV laboratory for in-flight aerofoil testing
Creators: name: Darida, Mauro
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering.

description: Presently wind tunnels are deployed to collect the majority of the experimental data on aerofoils and on boundary layer investigations, but they have their own disadvantages. Flight testing, especially at higher Reynolds numbers, gives a practical solution to these disadvantages, but has a critical influence on the direct cost of experiments. A design study was carried out to modify an RPV, named "Condor", to demonstrate the potential use of an RPV system for in-flight laminar aerofoil research at a fraction of the cost on a manned aircraft. A wing glove, namely an outsized and removable aerofoil section attached to the wing of the RPV, was designed and built. A wind tunnel/numerical investigation was conducted to evaluate the resulting RPV wing/glove combination. Numerical modelling proved it to be capable of providing flowfield details that pointed out the need for endplates in order to acquire infinite wing aerofoil data over the glove surface. Wind tunnel testing included pressure measurements and surface flow visualization and was most beneficial in the endplates design and in validating the pressure sensing system for future flight testing. The investigation included an effort to measure the pressure distribution produced by simulated ice formations on the glove leading edge. General observations deducted from these results are presented.
The effect of spin-orbit coupling on conduction electrons in metals
Creators: name: Schmor, Paul Wesley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Spin-orbit coupling for conduction electrons in metals is studied by investigating g[sub c], an average of a spin-splitting factor for electronic states on extremal orbits of the Fermi surface. G[sub c] is found from an examination of the harmonic content of the de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in the magnetization, specifically from the dimensionless 2 ratio α = A[sup 2 /sub 2]/ (A₁A₃), where A₁, A₂, and A₃ are the amplitudes of the first three harmonics. The method has been applied to lead, for which spin-orbit coupling effects are particularly important, and a sensitive magnetoresistive-probe technique has been developed to detect the oscillations in disk-shaped samples. Values of g[sub c] have been found for two extremal orbits, and they differ significantly from the value g[sub c] =2 for perfectly free electrons. The pseudopotential interpolation scheme developed by Anderson, O’Sullivan, and Schirber to describe the band structure and Fermi surface of lead has been modified to include the effect of an applied magnetic field, thereby enabling the spin-splitting factors g(k) to be calculated for any point k in the Brillouin zone. The computed values of g(k) are found to depend markedly on the orientation of the field, and are compared with the experimental results.
Studies of nematic liquid crystals using the EPR technique
Creators: name: Marusic, Marijan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The temperature dependence of the hyperfine splittings and widths of the absorption lines of two different paramagnetic probes dissolved in two nematic liquid crystals with different viscosities are studied using the EPR technique. Special attention is devoted to the changes of the hyperfine splittings and linewidths in the vicinity of the isotropic-nematic phase transition. It is shown that the molecular ordering of the paramagnetic solutes begins before the actual phase transition temperature is reached. Studies of the widths of the absorption lines indicate that molecular motions in nematic phases have different characteristics than those observed in the isotropic phases. It is found that Glarum and Marshall's model does not adequately describe the molecular motions in our nematic phase systems.
The decay of 124 SB
Creators: name: Johnson, John R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The gamma-rays, beta rays and conversion electrons emitted in the beta decay of ¹²⁴Sb →¹²⁴Te have been observed using Ge(Li) and Si(Li) detectors both singly and in coincidence. The measured energies and intensities of the different transitions involved in this decay together with the coincidence results have allowed us to construct the decay scheme. The angular momentum of most of the states and the parity of all of the states of ¹²⁴Te populated in this decay have been deduced, some of them for the first time, and others as confirmations of previous assignments. We have also been able to assign collective parameters to many of these states, in terms of the vibrational model of nuclei, from the reduced branching ratios calculated from the gamma ray intensities.
ALTa Ciencia Abierta: 2do Plenario de iniciativas de Ciencia Abierta en español
Creators: name: Ascenzi, Laura
name: Míguez, María Paz
name: Ación, Laura
name: Petrizzo, Mariangela
name: Palm, Francisco
name: Mengoni Goñalons, Guillermo
name: Rocco, Mercedes
name: Guzman, Eduardo Emanuel
name: Maciel Cervantes, Sofia
name: Grattarola, Florencia
name: García O'Diana, Angel
name: Quispe Callo, Gleni
name: Casa Chicata, Marcelo
name: Zumarán Baldeón, Alvaro
name: Puma Maque, Carlos
name: Mamani, Jefri Justo
name: Montilla, Luis Miguel
name: Ramírez Ordóñez, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentación para el encuentro 6 de ALTa Ciencia Abierta, las cohortes de formación para extender los principios de la Ciencia Abierta en América Latina y más allá.
Additional file 3: of Plastome phylogenomics of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae)
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Deng, Tao
name: Moore, Michael
name: Ji, Yunheng
name: Lin, Nan
name: Zhang, Huajie
name: Meng, Aiping
name: Wang, Hengchang
name: Sun, Yanxia
name: Sun, Hang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S2. Inferred molecular phylogeny from ML (maximum likelihood) and BI (Bayesian inference) analyses for the amino acid sequence of (79 CDS; data set 2). Maximum likelihood bootstrap values (BS) and posterior probabilities (PP) are shown at nodes. Branches with * have 100% bootstrap support and 1.0 posterior probability. (PDF 272 kb)
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES OF REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY
Creators: name: Askarov, Furkat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The thesis talks about the positive experience of foreign countries in the field of real estate, which is directly related to the field of real estate today. Also, the thesis describes the norms of the state and description of real estate in other countries, in particular, the Russian Federation and a number of similar countries. he aim of the thesis was to regulate real estate-related legal regulation of real estate activities and to implement real estate-related issues. Also, the disclosure of problems arising in the field of real estate and its solution were discussed. In the conclusion, it was concluded that in the development of real estate activity, first of all, it is necessary to study foreign experience in the field of real estate regulation.
Additional file 1: of Prognostic value of DNA aneuploidy in gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of 3449 cases
Creators: name: Xu, Jing
name: Zhu, Ruolin
name: Fan, Lulu
name: Ge, Shangqing
name: Wei, Wei
name: Li, Xiaoqiu
name: Da, Liangshan
name: Jia, Zhenya
name: Zhao, Zhiyan
name: Ning, Jie
name: Da, Jie
name: Peng, Wanren
name: Gu, Kangsheng
name: Sun, Guoping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Outcomes of each category. (DOCX 17 kb)
A multi-locus predictiveness curve and its summary assessment for genetic risk prediction
Creators: name: Wei, Changshuai
name: Li, Ming
name: Wen, Yalu
name: Ye, Chengyin
name: Lu, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advance of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies, it becomes feasible to comprehensive evaluate the role of massive genetic predictors in disease prediction. There exists, therefore, a critical need for developing appropriate statistical measurements to access the combined effects of these genetic variants in disease prediction. Predictiveness curve is commonly used as a graphical tool to measure the predictive ability of a risk prediction model on a single continuous biomarker. Yet, for most complex diseases, risk prediciton models are formed on multiple genetic variants. We therefore propose a multi-marker predictiveness curve and provide a non-parametric method to construct the curve for case-control studies. We further introduce a global predictiveness U and a partial predictiveness U to summarize prediction curve across the whole population and sub-population of clinical interest, respectively. We also demonstrate the connections of predictiveness curve with ROC curve and Lorenz curve. Through simulation, we compared the performance of the predictiveness U to other three summary indices: R square, Total Gain, and Average Entropy, and showed that Predictiveness U outperformed the other three indexes in terms of unbiasedness and robustness. Moreover, we simulated a series of rare-variants disease model, found partial predictiveness U performed better than global predictiveness U. Finally, we conducted a real data analysis, using predictiveness curve and predictiveness U to evaluate a risk prediction model for Nicotine Dependence.
Additional file 4: of Plastome phylogenomics of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae)
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Deng, Tao
name: Moore, Michael
name: Ji, Yunheng
name: Lin, Nan
name: Zhang, Huajie
name: Meng, Aiping
name: Wang, Hengchang
name: Sun, Yanxia
name: Sun, Hang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S3. Estimated species tree from 79 CDS alignment by coalescent-based approach. Local posterior probabilities are labeled at nodes. Branches with * have 1.0 posterior probability. The clade of S. kingii is colored in red. (PDF 548 kb)
title: The Effects of Gender and Behavior on Elementary Teachers' Attributional Assumptions About Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Creators: name: Rollins, Lisa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: Questionnaires compromised of (a) a description of a child (either male or female) exhibiting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) behaviors (either predominately hyperactive/impulsive or predominately inattentive) and (b) 13 questions about the description were completed by 562 regular elementary education teachers in the state of Utah. The questions, which offered teachers a range of responses on a 5 point Likert scale, were designed to assess the extent to which the gender and behaviors of the child described affected the extent to which teachers were able to identify the child as being representative of a child with ADHD, teachers' attributional assumptions about the possible etiological causes and beneficial treatments for the child's difficulties, and teachers' perceived abilities to help the child. Results indicated that behaviors, but not the gender of the child described, significantly affected the teachers' abilities to recognize the child as being representative of someone with ADHD and significantly affected teachers' ratings of etiological causes for the child's difficulties. Neither behaviors nor gender significantly affected teachers' ratings of treatments. Behaviors, but not gender, significantly affected teachers' perceived abilities to help change the described child's actions, but did not significantly affect teachers' perceived abilities to help the described child become a better student. There were no significant interactions between behaviors and gender on any items. These results are discussed with an emphasis on the implications for school psychologists working with children with ADHD and their teachers within the context of the school system.
title: Establishing Reinforcing Properties in Neutral Stimuli Through Observational Learning with Children
Creators: name: Gardner, Andrew Waine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: The purpose of this study was to observe and analyze the factors that lead to a child's increase in responding to a previously neutral stimulus after observing another child's behavior and consequences in the same setting. The effects of five video presentations on rate of button-pressing responses were observed across four students. Rates of button-pressing behavior on an FR3 schedule of reinforcement were collected for each student using a computer and a metal apparatus with two flat push buttons. Each student completed two baseline phases to establish neutrality of stimuli, and viewed a total of five video presentations. Each video segment contained a model engaging in button pressing and receiving tokens under various social and nonsocial conditions, which would potentially serve as reinforcers. Rates of responding were recorded immediately after each video presentation. Three of the four students' rates of responding increased and surpassed their levels of responding during baseline sessions. From these results, it was concluded that neutral stimuli can acquire reinforcing properties for children through an observational learning procedure. It is suggested that observational learning (the presentation of a model engaging in a specific behavior) might be considered and establishing operation to temporarily increase the value of a reinforcer.
title: A Comparison of the Relative Impact of Structural and Dynamic Child Care Quality on Child Outcomes
Creators: name: Cutler, Jared
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: Child care researchers divide child care quality into two separate categories: structural child care quality (adult-child ratios, class size, amount of physical space, etc.) and dynamic child care quality (number and quality of teacher-child relationships). A consensus has emerged in the child care literature that structural child care quality has no direct effect on children's developmental outcomes (e.g., language development, social development, school readiness) . Rather, structural child care quality facilitates dynamic child care quality, which then has a direct effect on child outcomes. While child care researchers frequently assert that structural variables merely facilitate dynamic variables, and have no direct impact on child outcomes, this assertion has never been empirically tested.
The presented study tested the relative impact of structural and dynamic child care quality on child outcomes using multiple regression analysis. A data set from the European Child Care and Education Study involving 1,246 subjects was used, and 20 structural quality variables, 10 dynamic quality variables, and four measures of child outcomes were used in the multiple regression equations. In each case it was found that structural quality variables continued to be correlated with child outcomes after the variance associated with dynamic quality variables was removed, indicating that structural child care quality has an influence on child outcomes beyond merely facilitating dynamic quality . The prevailing view that structural child care quality merely facilitates dynamic child care quality, and has no direct influence on child outcomes, was not supported by the present study.
Additional file 1: of Differential item functioning of the SF-12 in a population-based regional joint replacement registry
Creators: name: Yadegari, Iraj
name: Bohm, Eric
name: Ayilara, Olawale
name: Zhang, Lixia
name: Sawatzky, Richard
name: Sajobi, Tolulope
name: Lix, Lisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Baseline model for the SF-12 mental health sub-scale. Figure S2. Baseline model for the SF-12 physical health sub-scale. (PDF 100 kb)
Juvenile Services: The Experiences of Families Involved in a Juvenile Diversion Program in Indiana
Creators: name: Loete, Sara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Juvenile Diversion
subject: juvenile diversion
subject: Indiana
subject: case study
subject: secondary education

description: This research examines the experiences of juveniles involved in a juvenile justice diversion program in Southern Indiana, specifically focusing on participant motivation, experiences, and program outcomes. Using a qualitative comparative case study approach, this study assesses the differences and similarities of experiences between families in two different treatment programs and the impact this program had on the students’ academic and behavioral outcomes during their final year of high school. Interviews with families and participants, as well as descriptive data from student educational records, provide insight into the experiences that stakeholders have in the program, and highlight the need for developing relationships with service providers and school administrators. The program also serves as early intervention programs to interrupt further involvement in the court system. The findings call attention to the need for program improvement, including greater accountability and connection to the school and community, to provide a more robust diversion program with greater positive and long-lasting impacts for student and family participants. Recommendations are made for stakeholders including school administrators, student participants, and service providers that will have lasting impacts on students for many years to come. This research contributes to the discourse on successful juvenile justice diversion programs and promotes a model for other communities to replicate to strengthen the bond between students, families, schools, and communities, and interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
A pluripotential theoretic framework for polynomial interpolation of vector-valued functions and differential forms
Creators: name: Bruno, Ludovico Bruni
name: Piazzon, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the problem of uniform interpolation of functions with values in a complex inner product space of finite dimension. This problem can be casted within a modified weighted pluripotential theoretic framework. Indeed, in the proposed modification a vector valued weight is considered, allowing to partially extend the main asymptotic results holding for interpolation of scalar valued functions to the case of vector valued ones. As motivating example and main application we specialize our results to interpolation of differential forms by differential forms with polynomial coefficients.
title: September 2024 DISCO Network Newsletter
Creators: name: Chan, Cherice
name: Escobar, Raquel
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024

description: The September 2024 Newsletter for the DISCO Network contains information on the DISCO's 2024-2027 activities, past events such as the DISCO Summit, and the Search Engines screening of Paul B. Preciado's "Orlando, My Political Biography."
Global environmental effects versus galaxy interactions
Creators: name: Perez, Josefa
name: Tissera, Patricia
name: Padilla, Nelson
name: Alonso, M. Sol
name: Lambas, Diego G.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore properties of close galaxy pairs and merging systems selected from the SDSS-DR4 in different environments with the aim to assess the relative importance of the role of interactions over global environmental processes. For this purpose, we perform a comparative study of galaxies with and without close companions as a function of local density and host-halo mass, carefully removing sources of possible biases. We find that at low and high local density environments, colours and morphologies of close galaxy pairs are very similar to those of isolated galaxies. At intermediate densities, we detect significant differences, indicating that close pairs could have experienced a more rapid transition onto the red sequence than isolated galaxies. The presence of a correlation between colours and morphologies indicates that the physical mechanism responsible for the colour transformation also operates changing galaxy morphologies. Regardless of dark matter halo mass, we show that the percentage of red galaxies in close pairs and in the control sample are comparable at low and high local density environments. However, at intermediate local densities, the gap in the red fraction between close pairs and the control galaxies increases from ~10% in low mass haloes up to ~50% in the most massive ones. Our findings suggest that in intermediate density environments galaxies are efficiently pre-processed by close encounters and mergers before entering higher local density regions. (Abridge)
description: submitted to MNRAS, 12 pages, 9 figures (For people who have tried to download this paper, I've already changed the wrong version)
Far-Ultraviolet Dust Albedo Measurements in the Upper Scorpius Cloud Using the SPINR Sounding Rocket Experiment
Creators: name: Lewis, N. K.
name: Cook, T. A.
name: Wilton, K. P.
name: Chakrabarti, S.
name: France, K.
name: Gordon, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Spectrograph for Photometric Imaging with Numeric Reconstruction (SPINR) sounding rocket experiment was launched on 2000 August 4 to record far-ultraviolet (912-1450 A) spectral and spatial information for the giant reflection nebula in the Upper Scorpius region. The data were divided into three arbitrary bandpasses (912-1029 A, 1030-1200 A, and 1235-1450 A) for which stellar and nebular flux levels were derived. These flux measurements were used to constrain a radiative transfer model and to determine the dust albedo for the Upper Scorpius region. The resulting albedos were 0.28+/-0.07 for the 912-1029 A bandpass, 0.33+/-0.07 for the 1030-1200 A bandpass, and 0.77+/-0.13 for the 1235-1450 A bandpass.
title: Arctic Report Card 2018 :  Effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Osborne, E.
name: Richter-Menge, J.
name: Jeffries, M.O.
Publisher: name: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate Program Office Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna NOAA Arctic Research Program (U.S.) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (U.S.) University of Lincoln Norske meteorologiske institutt / Norwegian Meteorological Institute Han’guk Haeyang Yŏn’guwŏn. Pusŏl Kŭkchi Yŏn’guso / Korea Polar Research Institute International Arctic Research Center University of Washington. Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean United States. National Weather Service Canada. Environment Canada Ilmatieteen laitos (Finland) / Finnish Meteorological Institute United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center Danmarks og Grønlands geologiske undersøgelse / Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Danmarks meteorologiske institut / Danish Meteorological Institute Université de Liège / University of Liège University of Georgia. Department of Geography Universiteit Utrechtc Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering National Snow and Ice Data Center (U.S.) University of Colorado Boulder. Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung / Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Norsk polarinstitutt / Norwegian Polar Institute ERDC/CRREL TR Yale University Clark University (Worcester, Mass.). Graduate School of Geography University of Virginia. Department of Environmental Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks. Institute of Arctic Biology Lapin korkeakoulu / University of Lapland University of Sheffield Universitetet i Tromsø / University of Tromsø Boston University Northern Arizona University Zhongguo ke xue yuan / Chinese Academy of Science Woods Hole Research Center (Woods Hole, Mass.) University of New Hampshire Arkticheskiĭ i antarkticheskiĭ nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ institut (Saint Petersburg, Russia) / Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia University of Texas at Austin. Marine Science Institute Florida State University University of Alberta University of Waterloo. Department of Geography and Environmental Management University of Toronto. Department of Geography Yukon College Saltspring Island (B.C.)         University of Calgary Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Northwest Fisheries Science Center University of Alaska Fairbanks. Geophysical Institute
Year: 2018

description: Arctic Report Card ; 2018
Alignments of Group Galaxies with Neighboring Groups
Creators: name: Wang, Yougang
name: Park, Changbom
name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Choi, Yun-Young
name: Chen, Xuelei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sample of galaxy groups found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4, we measure the following four types of alignment signals: (1) the alignment between the distributions of the satellites of each group relative to the direction of the nearest neighbor group (NNG); (2) the alignment between the major axis direction of the central galaxy of the host group (HG) and the direction of the NNG; (3) the alignment between the major axes of the central galaxies of the HG and the NNG; and (4) the alignment between the major axes of the satellites of the HG and the direction of the NNG. We find strong signal of alignment between the satellite distribution and the orientation of central galaxy relative to the direction of the NNG, even when the NNG is located beyond $3r_{\rm vir}$ of the host group. The major axis of the central galaxy of the HG is aligned with the direction of the NNG. The alignment signals are more prominent for groups that are more massive and with early type central galaxies. We also find that there is a preference for the two major axis of the central galaxies of the HG and NNG to be parallel for the system with both early central galaxies, however not for the systems with both late type central galaxies. For the orientation of satellite galaxies, we do not find any significant alignment signals relative to the direction of the NNG. From these four types of alignment measurements, we conclude that the large scale environment traced by the nearby group affects primarily the shape of the host dark matter halo, and hence also affects the distribution of satellite galaxies and the orientation of central galaxies. (Shortened version)
description: 13 pages, 16 figures, accepted by ApJ