cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measurement of the Trips Source Plasma Parameters by Means of a Langmuir Probe
Creators: name: D. Mascali
name: G. Ciavola
name: S. Gammino
name: L. Celona
name: F. Consoli
name: S. Passarello
name: S. Barbarino
name: F. Maimone
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2006

description: The intense proton source TRIPS, designed for the TRASCO project and now under installation at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, has been operational for 4 years at INFN-LNS and now all the macroscopic parameters are well defined, as for beam current, beam emittance, neutralization factor and reliability. No information has been available up to now about the plasma parameters for such a type of microwave discharge ion source, except for theoretical estimations. This report will describe the measurements of electron and ion density, temperature, plasma potential for typical operational conditions, along with the description of the experimental set-up used for the measurements, based on a Langmuir Probe
General Computation and Grid TIER2 Toward LHC
Creators: name: Sava, Giuseppe
name: Catania, Rosanna
name: Giorgio, Emidio
name: Passaro, Gianluca
name: Ricciardi, Gianni Mario
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2007

description: The "Network Services" working group was planned to improve synergy among the staff of the 'Computation and Network Division' and IT specialists of all the national and regional Grid teams operating inside the Department of physics of Catania.  So also  the IT general services can improve projects and performances:...towards LHC era.
title: Contact Comfort Initiated by the Nursery School Child
Creators: name: Spencer, Lana Kay
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The study focused upon three aspects of child-initiated contact comfort situations; how ofter the contact was sought, with whom or why did the child seek comfort, and what incident seemed to stimulate the child's action. Data was collected from two Utah State University Nursery School Laboratories
It was found that children respond as children in that similarity is greater than differences in utilization of contact comfort.
Contact comfort is an important part of a child's functioning in social situations. The number of episodes to indicate this was substantial.
The objects and persons to whom he turns for contact comfort vary within age and nature of the situation in which the child functions.
Beam-Beam Issues for Colliding Schemes with Large Piwinski Angle and Crabbed Waist
Creators: name: Raimondi, Pantaleo
name: Shatilov, Dmitry
name: Zobov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2007

description: Numerical simulations have shown that a recently proposed "crabbed waist" scheme of beam-beam collisions can substantially increase the luminosity of a collider. In this paper we give a qualitative explanation why this scheme works. For this purpose we use simple geometrical considerations and analyze peculiar properties of vertical motion modulations by synchrotron and horizontal betatron oscillations. It is shown that in the 'crabbed waist' scheme these modulations, which are the main sources of beam-beam resonances excitation, are significantly suppressed. Some numerical examples demonstrating the effect of the crabbed waist collisions are also given.
X-ray Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Tools
Creators: name: Gioia, Isabella Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper was written as part of a book entitled: "Questions of Modern Cosmology - Galileo's Legacy" which is a celebrative book dedicated to Galileo Galilei. The book is published in 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, since it is intended to be a modern tribute to the astronomer who, 400 years ago, first pointed a telescope towards the night sky. The book is written in the form of interviews between the editors and many physicists, astrophysicists and cosmologists from all over the world. The editors engaged in several discussions on the formation and evolution of the Universe with the aim of summarizing the most important and significative advances made by cosmology over the past century and at the beginning of the new millennium. This paper deals with X-ray clusters of galaxies and how they can be used to constrain fundamental cosmological parameters.
description: (La)Tex, 21 pages, 7 black and white figures, 2 color figures
Weak Interaction Rate Coulomb Corrections in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Smith, Christel J.
name: Fuller, George M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have applied a fully relativistic Coulomb wave correction to the weak reactions in the full Kawano/Wagoner Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) code. We have also added the zero temperature radiative correction. We find that using this higher accuracy Coulomb correction results in good agreement with previous work, giving only a modest 0.04 percent increase in helium mass fraction over correction prescriptions applied previously in BBN calculations. We have calculated the effect of these corrections on other light element abundance yields in BBN and we have studied these yields as functions of electron neutrino lepton number. This has allowed insights into the role of the Coulomb correction in the setting of the neutron-to-proton ratio during the BBN epoch. We find that the lepton capture processes' contributions to this ratio are only second order in the Coulomb correction.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: Sex Preferences and Identifications of Young Children
Creators: name: Thomson, Loa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1965

description: The acquisition of normal sex-role behavior is one of the fundamental tasks which goes into developing a healthy personality. More needs to be understood about the processes involved in adopting proper sex-role behavior patterns. How does a little girl adopt the feminine role and learn to be a woman? How does a little boy adopt the masculine role and learn to be a man? From the studies in clinical psychology and psychiatry, it is evident that personality maladjustments and certain forms of emotional disorders appear to be related to difficulties in sex-role adjustment. This suggests a close correlation between childhood learning and development in sex-role behavior and adult personality disturbances.
title: Rezension: Havranek, Gertraud (2002), Die Rolle der Korrektur beim Fremdsprachenlernen
Creators: name: Grau, Maike
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Korrigieren, verbessern, rückmelden – es gibt viele Begriffe für diese Lehrertätigkeit, die sicherlich als eine der typischsten überhaupt gilt. Umso bedauerlicher ist es, dass bisher nur wenige empirisch gesicherte Daten zum Zusammenhang von Korrektur und Erfolg im Fremdsprachenunterricht vorliegen. Beschreibungen eines effizienten Feedbacks sind vielfach wenig konkret, weshalb dieser wichtige Handlungsbereich in der Lehrerausbildung oft nicht systematisch bearbeitet wird (vgl. Königs 2003: 379; 381).
Estimating the rate constant of cyclic GMP hydrolysis by activated phosphodiesterase in photoreceptors
Creators: name: Reingruber, Juergen
name: Holcman, david
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The early steps of light response occur in the outer segment of rod and cone photoreceptor. They involve the hydrolysis of cGMP, a soluble cyclic nucleotide, that gates ionic channels located in the outer segment membrane. We shall study here the rate by which cGMP is hydrolyzed by activated phosphodiesterase (PDE). This process has been characterized experimentally by two different rate constants $β_d$ and $β_{sub}$: $β_d$ accounts for the effect of all spontaneously active PDE in the outer segment, and $β_{sub}$ characterizes cGMP hydrolysis induced by a single light-activated PDE. So far, no attempt has been made to derive the experimental values of $β_d$ and $β_{sub}$ from a theoretical model, which is the goal of this work. Using a model of diffusion in the confined rod geometry, we derive analytical expressions for $β_d$ and $β_{sub}$ by calculating the flux of cGMP molecules to an activated PDE site. We obtain the dependency of these rate constants as a function of the outer segment geometry, the PDE activation and deactivation rates and the aqueous cGMP diffusion constant. Our formulas show good agreement with experimental measurements. Finally, we use our derivation to model the time course of the cGMP concentration in a transversally well stirred outer segment.
description: 20 pages, revtex4, 5 figures
A New Approach to LAGEOS Spin Orientation and its Role IN General Relativity Measurements
Creators: name: Currie, Douglas
name: Dell'Agnello, Simone
name: Monache, Giovanni Delle
name: Garattini, Marco
name: Tauraso, Roberto
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: The two LAGEOS Satellites have addressed a variety of issues in Geophysics (GP) and General Relativity (GR). The extreme accuracy of laser ranging (currently approaching millimeter accuracy) now means that very small error sources act upon LAGEOS and have become important, affecting the study of GP (e.g., the tides) and GR (e.g., Lense-Thirring Effect). Initial measurements and analysis of the spin orientation were first performed at the in the early 1990s at the University of Maryland. However, the spin rate of LAGEOS has slowed to the point that this method is no longer effective. A new observing approach (the "Pocket Modulation Effect") to determine the spin axis has been proposed by the first author. Data that addresses this method has been collected at various sites and is being analyzed at INFN-LNF. We will report on the physics involved in the PME and describe the laboratory data and simulations performed to validate the proposed approach, the LAGEOS data obtained at sites, the new analysis procedures and then address the impact of this new information.
Accuracy threshold for concatenated error detection in one dimension
Creators: name: Stephens, A. M.
name: Evans, Z. W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimates of the quantum accuracy threshold often tacitly assume that it is possible to interact arbitrary pairs of qubits in a quantum computer with a failure rate that is independent of the distance between them. None of the many physical systems that are candidates for quantum computing possess this property. Here we study the performance of a concatenated error-detection code in a system that permits only nearest-neighbor interactions in one dimension. We make use of a new message-passing scheme that maximizes the number of errors that can be reliably corrected by the code. Our numerical results indicate that arbitrarily accurate universal quantum computation is possible if the probability of failure of each elementary physical operation is below approximately 10^{-5}. This threshold is three orders of magnitude lower than the highest known.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, now with error bars
New Monochromator and Sonar System - User Manual
Creators: name: Diaz, Veronica
name: Ciliberti, Piero
name: Levorato, Stefano
name: Bari, Mauro
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: In this note, we report the features of the RICH Gas Monitoring System. A dedicated system has been designed to handle the delicate radiator gas operations for COMPASS RICH-1. The gas analysis system consists of two components the monochromator system and the sonar system. The monochromator system allows a wavelength-dependent determination of the transparency of the gas in the interesting wavelength range and can indicate the presence of contaminants. The sonar system can determine the composition of a binary gas mixture to a percent level accuracy.
An infrared study of small molecules in inert matrices
Creators: name: Shurvell, Herbert F.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Infrared absorption spectra of HC1 and HBr, suspended in solid argon, krypton and nitrogen, were recorded in order to obtain information on intermolecular forces. SO₂ in argon and nitrogen, and CO in argon were also studied. The spectra were observed in the temperature range from liquid helium temperatures up to the melting point of the matrix. The halogen acids gave more complicated spectra in the noble gas matrices than in nitrogen. This has been correlated with the different thermal properties of the matrix materials. Matrix to solute ratios from 100 to 800 to 1 were used and evidence was found for solute-solute interactions, arising from incomplete isolation of solute molecules at the lower ratios. During the warm-up period at the end of an experiment, additional peaks appeared in the spectra. It is suggested that these new peaks were due to clusters of solute molecules produced by diffusion of the solute through the lattice. Semi-empirical calculations were carried out to estimate shifts of vibrational frequencies of the trapped molecules. From these calculations it was concluded that repulsive intermolecular forces play an important part in determining the magnitude, and direction of the shifts. A first order perturbation calculation was made, using a Lennard-Jones' potential, to determine the effect of the matrix on the rotational energy levels of a trapped molecule. Spectra of the clathrate-hydrates of SO₂, H₂S and krypton were recorded at liquid nitrogen temperatures, and the SO₂ hydrate was studied in the temperature range from 4° to 120° K. The spectrum of the water skeletal vibrations exhibited several interesting features. The assignment of the 1600 cmˉ¹ and 2200 cmˉ¹ peaks to v₂ and v₂ + vR was confirmed and a new peak at 2410 cmˉ¹ was observed. A lattice mode in the spectrum of the S0₂ hydrate was observed in combination with V₃ of SO₂.
title: Navajo Student Food Preferences
Creators: name: Coffman, Kathlyn L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1966

description: Adapt -- “to make suitable to requirements; adjust or modify fittingly." Adaptability is a trait which has been attributed to Navajo2 Indians by anthropologists, educators, novelists, psychologists, artists) -- in fact, by almost everyone who has had dealings with them over a period of time. Yet, to identify specific examples of their adaptability and the attempt to measure the effect upon interpersonal relations of evidences of adaptation has proved to be no easy task.
Simulations of off-momentum particle trajectories along Dafne optics
Creators: name: L. Quintieri
name: D. Babusci
name: F. Archili
name: D. Moricciani
name: R. Messi
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2009

description: The principal aim of this work is the study of the off-momentum particles along the Da$\ϕ$ne Optics. We did the tracking of all those particles that are supposed to be generated in one of the two Interactions Points, as a result of the collisions  between electrons and positrons that do not success to produce $\Φ$ particles. The majority of these  particles are destined to die along the machine path,  impinging on the vacuum chamber, generating  secondary particle  showers. In order to evaluate correctly the points along the line on which the off-momentum particles are lost and to estimate successively their contribution to the  background around the Interaction Region of Da$\ϕ$ne, we used the BDSIM code. This code conjugates the capabilities of fast particle tracking in accelerators, as more standard  optics codes do (MAD),   with that of  simulating,  by means of  Monte Carlo techniques,   the  interaction of the lost particles with matter. All the results of the analysis developed up to now are illustrated in this note. The results of this analysis are useful for defining the suitable  locations along the Daϕne optics of  the γγ tagger detectors, in the frame of the Kloe2 program for studying the  γγ Physics at DaΦne.
title: Adolescents' Recollection of Early Physical Contact: Implications for Attachment and Intimacy
Creators: name: Oleson, Mark D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Three hundred seventy-six college students responded to a measure designed to examine retrospective accounts of the physical affection received during early childhood. The study looked exclusively from the perspective of the adolescent. Assessing the importance of touch in human development, and the role it plays in adult attachment and the ability to form and maintain close and intimate relations with others was the purpose of the study.
Six separate measures were used to assess the role of touch in adolescent development: three items from Gupta and Schork to assess physical affection (touch); Simpson's attachment style measure; Gerlsma, Arrindell, Van der Veen, and Emmelkamp's parental warmth measure; and Rosenthal, Gurney, and Moore's Erikson Psychosocial Inventory Scale to assess intimacy. Also, one-item measures to assess trust and parents' marital satisfaction were all utilized in this study.
Results confirmed statistically significant relationships between parental warmth and touch, warmth and attachment, and intimacy and attachment. Related literature supported the findings of the study and point to the importance of parental warmth and touch in early childhood for competent social and emotional development during adolescence. Implications of the results and possible areas of future research are discussed.
title: Gains in Reading Performances by Urban Job Corpsmen
Creators: name: Veasey, Jess F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The problem to be investigated in this study was to examine the association between the educational training program of an Urban Job Corps Center and the reading performances of trainees from disadvantaged backgrounds.
A sample of 100 trainees was randomly selected to represent the total population of Job Corpsmen in an urban center. The Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah, was the initial site in this study. The sample selected from the Job Corps was from four racial-ethnic groups: Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Whites, and Mexican-Americans. Each trainee was given a reading test upon arrival and another test six months after training had begun. The test scores were analyzed in four categories: (1) mean reading levels by ethnic groups, (2) individual differences in reading performance by ethnic group, (3) those with one year performances compared with those with less than one year performances, and (4) comparison of those with seventh grade performances with those with sixth grade and below performances.
From these four ways of measuring reading skills, the results indicated that most of the trainees improved in their reading performances during the first six months in residence at the Job Corps. However, due to low reading levels in the individual initial test scores, all trainees did not improve at the same level of performance. Of the four racial-ethnic groups, the significant gains made in reading after six months of training was substantiated by the progress made between the initial reading level and the second reading level mean scores.
Mean scores, between the first test scores and the second, showed that most trainees, by racial-ethnic groups, made sufficient improvements in reading. These improvements were made in a six-month period of training in the Job Corps.
Of the four measurements used in this study, three were tested using the chi square statistical method to substantiate the significance in reading performances of these trainees. Level of confidence was accepted at the .05 level of significance.
From the results of this study it was evident that potential for learning can still be obtained by disadvantaged young men when opportunities favorable for learning are present. The rehabilitation Urban Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah, was shown in this study to be a means of achieving these potentials.
Simulations of Line Profile Structure in Shell Galaxies
Creators: name: Jilkova, L.
name: Jungwiert, B.
name: Krizek, M.
name: Ebrova, I.
name: Stoklasova, I.
name: Bartakova, T.
name: Bartoskova, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of exploring mass distributions of dark matter haloes in giant ellipticals, we extend the analysis carried out Merrifield and Kuijken (1998) for stellar line profiles of shells created in nearly radial mergers of galaxies. We show that line-of-sight velocity distributions are more complex than previously predicted. We simulate shell formation and analyze the detectability of spectroscopic signatures of shells after convolution with spectral PSFs.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Galaxy Wars: Stellar populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies Conference, minor corrections in caption of Fig. 2
title: Decisions of Pregnant Adolescents as They Affect Later Well-Being
Creators: name: Lynch, Myra
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of family life presently experienced by women who were premaritally pregnant as teenagers. Self-esteem and general life satisfaction were measured in order to evaluate the results of pregnancy decisions made five to 10 years earlier. A survey design was used to (1) obtain demographic data, (2) analyze the relationships between these women and their parents, (3) determine the level and type of education completed by the women, (4) compare mothers who married before the birth of the child, single mothers, and mothers releasing their children for adoption on many variables constituting well-being. Data were gathered during personal interviews with 46 women.
In this small unrepresentative sample, the results show no significant differences in the present well-being of women based on their previous decisions. Each of the test groups exhibit interesting characteristics with regard to present marital status, amount of education completed, and relationships with children.
The mothers who show higher levels of life satisfaction are also those who are employed either part-time or full- time and have higher family income levels.
In general, women in the study were found to be satisfied with their lives and seemed to be functioning well. Some trends were noted, indicating a need for further study, particularly in the area of mothers relinquishing children for adoption.
Towards Understanding of User Perceptions for Smart Border Control Technologies using a Fine-Tuned Transformer Approach
Creators: name: Sarang Shaikh
name: Yayilgan, Sule Yildirim
name: Zoto, Erjon
name: Abomhara, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: • Smart Border Control (SBC) technologies is a hot topic in recent years. • Smart Borders Package was introduced by European Union (EU) Commission. • Acceptability and usability challenges are the major challenges faced by these technologies. • Sentiment Analysis is a primary technique to measure user acceptance. • Existing gap: there is no existing study available where sentiment analysis used for measuring the user acceptance of SBC technologies. Also, no existing sentiments labelled dataset available for SBC technologies. • Objective of this study is to propose a fine-tuned transformer model along with an automatic sentiment labels generation technique to perform sentiment analysis as a step towards getting insights into user acceptance of BCPs technologies.
title: Perceptions of Menstruation as an Indicator of Stereotypic Beliefs Within Marriage
Creators: name: Caswell-Madsen, Debra L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1986

description: This research examined husband and wife attitudes toward menstruation and how these attitudes related to certain behaviors within marriage. The sample consisted of 48 Married couples, some living in Davis, California and some living in Salt Lake City, Utah .
Specifically, four objectives were pursued:

Assess husbands' and wives' perceptions of how behaviors within marriage vary over the wives' menstrual cycles.
Assess husbands' and wives' attitudes toward menstruation.
Examine how husband's and wives' attitudes toward menstruation might be associated with perceptions of how behaviors within marriage vary over the wives' menstrual cycles.
Examine how wives' perceptions of differences in behavior over the menstrual cycle are associated with their reporting of perceived menstrual symptomology.

It was discovered that husbands and wives had varying attitudes toward menstruation and these attitudes were related to their reporting of the occurrence of certain male and female behaviors within marriage. Husbands and wives who had more stereotypic attitudes toward menstruation reported greater behavior change in themselves and their spouses due to menstruation within marriage than those who had less stereotypic attitudes . In addition. the wives' reporting of menstrual symptomotology was related to their reporting of behavior change in marriage due to their menstrual period. Women who reported the greatest menstrual symptomotology also reported the greatest amount of behavior change within marriage due to menstruation.
The structure of typical clusters in large sparse random configurations
Creators: name: Bertoin, Jean
name: Sidoravicius, Vladas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The initial purpose of this work is to provide a probabilistic explanation of a recent result on a version of Smoluchowski's coagulation equations in which the number of aggregations is limited. The latter models the deterministic evolution of concentrations of particles in a medium where particles coalesce pairwise as time passes and each particle can only perform a given number of aggregations. Under appropriate assumptions, the concentrations of particles converge as time tends to infinity to some measure which bears a striking resemblance with the distribution of the total population of a Galton-Watson process started from two ancestors. Roughly speaking, the configuration model is a stochastic construction which aims at producing a typical graph on a set of vertices with pre-described degrees. Specifically, one attaches to each vertex a certain number of stubs, and then join pairwise the stubs uniformly at random to create edges between vertices. In this work, we use the configuration model as the stochastic counterpart of Smoluchowski's coagulation equations with limited aggregations. We establish a hydrodynamical type limit theorem for the empirical measure of the shapes of clusters in the configuration model when the number of vertices tends to $\infty$. The limit is given in terms of the distribution of a Galton-Watson process started with two ancestors.
Some reactions of chlorodimethylarsine and dimethylarsine
Creators: name: Dawson, David S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Chlorodimethylarsine is found to add across the triple bond of hexafluorobut-2-yne, forming 2- chloro-3-dimethy l-arsinohexafluorobut-2-ene. Arsenic trichloride, dichloro-methylarsine and chlorodiphenylarsine do not react, while chloromethylphenylarsine reacts with great difficulty. Similarly, bls(trifluoromethyl)arsine and methylphenylarsine form adducts with the butyne. These reactions are discussed and related to electron availability. The hydrolysis, bromination and chlorination of the adduct (CH₃)₂AsC(CF₃)=CC1CF₃ are described. The reaction of dimethylarsine with dichloromethylaraine is discussed, and a reaction path suggested. Dimethylarsine is found to react with trifluoroacetic acid, its anhydride, and acyl chloride, but the products were not all identified. Perfluorocyclobutene reacts with dimethylarsinomagneslum bromide to give dimethylperfluorocyclobut-1-enylarsine. The cyclobutene does not react with chlorodimethylarsine.
Hydrodynamics of chiral liquids and suspensions
Creators: name: Andreev, A. V.
name: Son, T. D.
name: Spivak, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain hydrodynamic equations describing a fluid consisting of chiral molecules or a suspension of chiral particles in a Newtonian fluid. The stresses arising in a flowing chiral liquid have a component forbidden by symmetry in a Newtonian liquid. For example, a chiral liquid in a Poiseuille flow between parallel plates exerts forces on the plates, which are perpendicular to the flow. A generic flow results in spatial separation of particles of different chirality. Thus even a racemic suspension will exhibit chiral properties in a generic flow. A suspension of particles of random shape in a Newtonian liquid is described by equations which are similar to those describing a racemic mixture of chiral particles in a liquid.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
title: Profiles and Trends in Catholic Interfaith Marriages in Utah
Creators: name: Ascione, Deborah Brown
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1990

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the phenomenon of interfaith marriage. It is a comparative study using archival data. Utah Catholic interfaith marriage trends over 31 years were compared with three other Catholic dioceses in the United States similar in size or in other demographic characteristics. Results indicate that Utah is not atypical in its intermarriage patterns.
In addition, a micro-level analysis of Catholic interfaith marriages at three points in time was conducted for the Diocese of Salt Lake alone. Statistical analysis employed primarily measures of central tendency. Results indicate that Catholics intermarrying in Utah are older than the national median, that Catholic women marry out almost twice as frequently as Catholic men, that over time Catholics in Utah intermarry most often with Mormons, and that most Catholic intermarriage takes place in the Salt Lake metroplex, an urban rather than rural area.
title: Self determined motivation for language learning: The role of need for cognition and language learning strategies
Creators: name: McIntosh, Cameron
name: Noels, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Over the last decade, there has been a notable revival of scholarly interest in second language (L2) motivation (see Dörnyei 1998; Oxford 1996a). Since a number of critical reviews of the conceptual and empirical status of L2 motivation theory appeared in the early to mid-1990s (e.g., Crookes and Schmidt 1991; Dörnyei 1994; Oxford and Shearin 1994), several L2 theorists and researchers have made considerable advances in expanding on and complementing existing models of L2 acquisition (SLA; e.g., Clément 1980, 1986; Gardner 1985, 1988; Giles and Byrne 1982; Schumann 1978) by drawing on a variety of non-L2 motivational concepts from both educational and general psychology (see, e.g., Dickinson 1995; Dörnyei 1998; Noels 2001a, 2001b; Noels et al. 1999, 2000, 2001; Oxford 1996a; Tremblay and Gardner 1995; Williams 1994). The present study builds further on this body of work by examining the relations between a number of personality and motivational variables, namely, need for cognition (NC; Caccioppo and Petty 1982), self-determination (Deci and Ryan 1985), and language learning strategies (LLS; Oxford 1990), as well as these variables' relations to L2 achievement.
title: Consumer Credit Knowledge of a Selected Group of Personal Bankruptcy Petitioners in the State of Utah
Creators: name: Nelson, Bernice
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: Consumer credit knowledge of personal bankruptcy petitioners and sources used by the petitioners to gain consumer credit knowledge were investigated. Consumer credit knowledge was defined as any understanding which was found useful in solving problems related to consumer credit. Sources of consumer credit knowledge referred to classes taken, information which had been read, information heard on radio or television, and help received through personal counseling.
Subjects were selected from individuals whose personal bankruptcy cases were heard in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah during the month of July, 1958. The sample consisted of the first 90 petitioners who were willing to participate in the research project.
Research data was obtained form three sources: (a) a consumer credit knowledge test, (b) a personal data questionnaire, and (c) the official bankruptcy petition.
Results indicate that this group of personal bankruptcy petitioners had low consumer credit knowledge (60 percent or less) as measured by their response to questions on a consumer credit knowledge test. The petitioners had used a low number of sources (two or less) to gain consumer credit knowledge.
title: Der Faktor Motivation in der Fremdsprachenforschung. Einleitung in das Themenheft
Creators: name: Riemer, Claudia
name: Schlak, Torsten
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Erforschung individueller Unterschiede beim Fremdsprachenerwerb zeichnet sich seit vielen Jahren durch große Aktivität aus (vgl. exemplarisch Robinson 2002). Affektive Faktoren, und darunter insbesondere der Faktor Sprachlernmotivation, haben dabei immer besondere Beachtung gefunden. Motivation gilt gleichermaßen für Fremdsprachenerwerbsforschung wie Fremdsprachendidaktik als höchst einflussreicher Faktor für erfolgreiches Fremdsprachenlernen. Die empirische Erforschung der Relevanz motivationaler Einflussfaktoren hat gerade in den letzten 15 Jahren deutliche Zuwächse und Ausdifferenzierungen erfahren. Drehte sich die Forschung bis Anfang der 90er Jahre noch hauptsächlich um Unterscheidungen, wie z.B. die zwischen „integrativer“ und „instrumenteller“ Orientierung, so sind neuere theoretische Modellierungen und empirische Studien v.a. geprägt von der Suche nach geeigneten und aussagekräftigen Motivationskonzepten. Dabei werden insbesondere Theorien und Konzepte aus der Psychologie und den Erziehungswissenschaften aufgegriffen. Unumstritten ist heute, dass sich Sprachlernmotivation aus unterschiedlichen und interdependenten Komponenten zusammensetzt. Solche Motivationskomponenten liegen in der Persönlichkeit und Biographie des Lernenden begründet, in seinen Einstellungen und Orientierungen gegenüber der zu erlernenden L2 und damit verbundenen Kultur und in den Ausgestaltungen der Lernumgebung. Der Faktor Motivation hat auch in der deutschsprachigen Sprachlehr- und -lernforschung und Fremdsprachendidaktik jüngst verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit gefunden (vgl. exemplarisch Kleppin 2001, 2002; Themenheft der Fremdsprache Deutsch 2002).
Angewandte Fallstudien zu Prozess- und Operations-Management
Creators: Sebastian, Huber
Bruno, Maser
Alex, Lötscher
Hochschule Luzern - Wirtschaft
Publisher: name: Open Education Platform for Management Schools
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Business administration
subject: Prozessmanagement
subject: Operationsmanagement
subject: Internationalisierung
subject: Lean Management
subject: Make-Or-Buy
subject: Offshoring

description: Eine fundierte Einführung in das strategische und operative Management von Unternehmensprozessen ist eine wichtige Grundlage für Studierende, die Unternehmen im globalen Wettbewerb erfolgreich positionieren möchten. Zwei einfache Fallstudien mit je drei Teilaufgaben leiten die Studierenden an, ihr theoretisches Wissen zu vertiefen. Sie dienen als Ergänzung zur Literatur von Waser und Peter (2016).
title: Rezension: Stark, Franz (2002), Deutsch in Europa. Geschichte seiner Stellung und Ausstrahlung
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wie bei Ringvorlesungen üblich gehen die einzelnen Vorträge in recht unterschiedlicher und die heterogenen Perspektiven der vertretenen Einzelwissenschaften, aber natürlich vor allem die unterschiedlichen Interessen der einzelnen Wissenschaftler(innen) repräsentierender Weise an das Rahmenthema heran, so dass insgesamt ein vielschichtiges Dokument entsteht, das sprachhistorische, literaturwissenschaftliche, sprachpflegerische und eben auch im engeren Sinne sprachenpolitische Aspekte gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.
Locking electron spins into magnetic resonance by electron-nuclear feedback
Creators: name: Vink, I. T.
name: Nowack, K. C.
name: Koppens, F. H. L.
name: Danon, J.
name: Nazarov, Yu. V.
name: Vandersypen, L. M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main obstacle to coherent control of two-level quantum systems is their coupling to an uncontrolled environment. For electron spins in III-V quantum dots, the random environment is mostly given by the nuclear spins in the quantum dot host material; they collectively act on the electron spin through the hyperfine interaction, much like a random magnetic field. Here we show that the same hyperfine interaction can be harnessed such that partial control of the normally uncontrolled environment becomes possible. In particular, we observe that the electron spin resonance frequency remains locked to the frequency of an applied microwave magnetic field, even when the external magnetic field or the excitation frequency are changed. The nuclear field thereby adjusts itself such that the electron spin resonance condition remains satisfied. General theoretical arguments indicate that this spin resonance locking is accompanied by a significant reduction of the randomness in the nuclear field.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 4 pages supplementary material
title: Rezension: Welke, Tina & Faistauer, Renate (Hrsg.), unter Mitarbeit von Clara Aimee Toth (2010), Lust auf Film heißt Lust auf Lernen. Der Einsatz des Mediums Film im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache.
Creators: name: Schwaiger, Hannes
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Seit Inge Christine Schwerdtfegers (1989) richtungsweisendem Plädoyer für die Arbeit mit dem Medium Film im Fremdsprachenunterricht und für die Anerkennung des Seh-Verstehens als fünfte Fertigkeit sind über zwanzig Jahre vergangen. Trotzdem kommt dem Film im DaF-/DaZ-Unterricht noch nicht jene Bedeutung zu, die ihm aufgrund seines didaktischen Potentials und seines Stellenwertes in unserer von Bild-Ton-Medien geprägten Gegenwart gerecht würde. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der vorliegende Band ein wichtiges und praxisorientiertes Plädoyer für Film im Fremdsprachenunterricht dar – eine Absicht, die auch die beiden Herausgeberinnen, Tina Welke und Renate Faistauer, in ihrer Einleitung betonen.
title: Rezension: Ehlich, Konrad; Schubert, Venanz (Hrsg.) (2002), Sprachen und Sprachenpolitik in Europa
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wie bei Ringvorlesungen üblich gehen die einzelnen Vorträge in recht unterschiedlicher und die heterogenen Perspektiven der vertretenen Einzelwissenschaften, aber natürlich vor allem die unterschiedlichen Interessen der einzelnen Wissenschaftler(innen) repräsentierender Weise an das Rahmenthema heran, so dass insgesamt ein vielschichtiges Dokument entsteht, das sprachhistorische, literaturwissenschaftliche, sprachpflegerische und eben auch im engeren Sinne sprachenpolitische Aspekte gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.
title: Rezension: Ghobeyshi, Silke (2002), Nationalsozialismus und Schoah als landeskundliche Themen im DaF-Unterricht
Creators: name: Badstübner-Kizik, Camilla
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Eine umfangreichere Publikation zu den Themen Schoah und Nationalsozialismus im Kontext des Fremdsprachenunterrichts Deutsch war seit langem ein wichtiges Desiderat. Spätestens seit der Mitte der neunziger Jahre (vgl. Koreik 1995 und Thimme 1996) ist der Platz von geschichtlichen Themen im Rahmen des Fremdsprachenunterrichts genauer bestimmt und in seiner Bedeutung unumstritten. Matthias Grünewald hat 1996 einen Vorschlag für den Umgang mit dem schwierigen und oft unbequemen historischen und politischen Kontext von Deutsch als Fremdsprache vorgestellt (vgl. Grünewald 1996). Zweifellos aber ist es das Verdienst von Silke Ghobeyshi, das Thema ‚Nationalsozialismus und Schoah im DaF-Unterricht’ einer breiteren wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit bewusst gemacht zu haben. Sie setzt damit fort, was 1993 durch den immer noch viel zu wenig rezipierten Band von Warmbold/Koeppel/Simon-Pelanda (1993) initiiert wurde.
title: Rezension: Gümüşoğlu, Turgut, Sprachkontakt und deutsch-türkisches Code-Switching. Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung mündlicher Kommunikation türkischer MigrantInnen.
Creators: name: Kalkavan, Zeynep
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das Code-Switching (CS)-Phänomen nimmt in zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wie Linguistik oder Psychologie einen besonderen Platz ein. Gümüşoğlu widmet sich in seiner Arbeit dem deutsch-türkischen CS aus soziolinguistischer sowie aus sprachsoziologischer Perspektive. Die für die CS-Forschung interessanten wissenschaftlichen Ansätze entspringen, so Gümüşoğlu, drei Perspektiven der Sprachwissenschaft: der Soziolinguistik, der Psycholinguistik und der syntaktisch-grammatischen Perspektive. Dem sozial-funktionalen Ansatz folgend geht er im Allgemeinen den Fragen nach, wie und weshalb CS individuell eingesetzt wird und welche deutsch-türkischen CS-Phänomene es grundsätzlich geben kann.
title: Rezension: Böhm, Michael Anton (2003), Deutsch in Afrika. Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in Afrika vor dem Hintergrund der bildungs- und sprach- politischen Gegebenheiten sowie der deutschen Aus- wärtigen Kulturpolitik
Creators: name: Aulbach, Michael
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In den letzten Jahren erschien eine Reihe von Publikationen zur Stellung des Deutschen in der Welt, die dieses Thema weitgreifend aufarbeiten und auf aktuellem Stand präsentieren. Neben einer Vielzahl von Analysen zu einzelnen Staaten oder Regionen liegen auch einige breiter gefasste Übersichtsdarstellungen vor, die dieses Wissen bündeln. Afrika schneidet dabei quantitativ betrachtet stets eher bescheiden ab [1]. Dies erstaunt umso mehr, als bei einer Auswertung von über 100 Länderkonzeptionen aus aller Welt, vom StADaF 1998 in Auftrag gegeben, nur 10 Staaten ermittelt wurden, in denen sich Deutsch gleichbleibender oder gar steigender Tendenz erfreut – 4 davon, nämlich Ägypten, Kamerun, Kenia und Togo, liegen in Afrika! Dennoch stehen sie, mit der Ausnahme Ägyptens, nur selten im Blickpunkt wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Eine umfassende Aufarbeitung der Stellung der deutschen Sprache auf diesem Kontinent, der auch in entwicklungs-, kultur- und sprachen- politischer Hinsicht keinen Schwerpunkt bundesdeutscher Aktivitäten bildet, ist dadurch nur um so willkommener. Michael Anton Böhm beschreitet mit seiner 2003 in Augsburg als Dissertation vorgelegten Studie Deutsch in Afrika Neuland und erfasst die verfügbaren Informationen über die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in allen 54 Staaten Afrikas.
Law, order and the state in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Dinnen, Sinclair
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program, The Australian National University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Papua New Guinea
crime
gang crime
violence against women
tribal fighting
corruption

description: Law and order issues feature prominently in public debate in Papua New Guinea. Concerns centre around criminal violence and the limited effectiveness of state controls. High levels of interpersonal violence are apparent in the activities of criminal gangs (rascals), the tribal fighting occurring in parts of the Highlands, as well as in everyday gender relations throughout the country. The continuing escalation of disorder in many areas is indicative of the limitations of state authority in Papua New Guinea, most dramatically demonstrated in the bloody and unresolved secessionist conflict on Bougainville (May and Spriggs 1990; Spriggs and Denoon 1992). Burgeoning corruption among elements of the political and administrative elite provides another significant strand to current debate. Widespread concern with personal security manifests itself in the elaborate security precautions routinely adopted by individuals, households and businesses. National planners, on the other hand, have been preoccupied with the serious economic repercussions of law and order problems, notably their effects on investor confidence, as well as their impact on Papua New Guinea’s fledgling tourist industry. In 1993 the Asian Development Bank bluntly warned that Failure to secure an improvement in peace and order will have a major adverse impact on the performance of the economy over the next few years (The Saturday Independent, 9 September 1995:22). This paper outlines the principal law and order concerns and the policies thus engendered in Papua New Guinea since Independence in 1975. The first section looks at state responses, while the second examines specific areas of concern.
title: Rezension: Blei, Dagmar (2003), Zur Fachgeschichte Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Eigenge- schichten zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Creators: name: Traoré, Salifou
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Kaum ist die so genannte Strukturdebatte beendet, da erscheint eine Monographie, die die Geschichte der Wissenschaftsdisziplin Deutsch als Fremdsprache aufzuarbeiten verspricht. Freilich geht es hier lediglich um die Geschichte des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der DDR, weshalb man sich bereits im Titel des Bandes eine entsprechende Präzisierung gewünscht hätte, also etwa „Zur Fachgeschichte Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der DDR“. Darin dürfte auch die Intention der Verfasserin liegen, die von dem so genannten prosopographischen Ansatz ausgeht, der „die Rolle von Persönlichkeiten (Fachexperten) bei der Konstituierung und Konsolidierung [eines] akademischen Faches“ (19) betont, um Zeugnis von der Geschichte des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der DDR abzulegen. Dementsprechend stehen im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Bandes „Berufserfahrungen von Fachexperten, die aktiv an der Konstituierung und Konsolidierung des akademischen Lehr- und Forschungsfaches DaF in der DDR (1949-1989) beteiligt waren und sich in Interviews an ihre berufliche Sozialisation erinnern. Ergänzt, erweitert, präzisiert bzw. korrigiert oder gar in Frage gestellt werden ihre Erinnerungen durch die Einbeziehung einer Außenperspektive, die ausländische bzw. bundesdeutsche DaF-Experten einbringen“ (22 f.).
title: Rezension: Biechele, Markus; Padrós, Alicia (2003), Didaktik der Landeskunde
Creators: name: Grau, Maike
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Frage, was die Deutschen ausmacht und was unter Deutsch sein zu verstehen ist, ist in der letzten Zeit wieder sehr in Mode gekommen, nicht zuletzt manifestiert durch das im Auftrag der Bundesregierung für Einwanderer produzierte Handbuch für Deutschland (im Internet unter http://www.handbuch-deutschland.de). So umstritten die in dieser Broschüre dargelegten Grundlagen der deutschen Kultur – vom Rhein über die Hausordnung bis hin zum Fußball – sein mögen, sie sind ein schönes Beispiel für die Problematik des Themas Landeskunde, und dies nicht nur im Hinblick auf das Handbuch für Deutschland. Die schiere Unbegrenztheit möglicher Inhalte und die Subjektivität jeglicher Auswahl stellen Lehrende von Deutsch als Fremdsprache weltweit sowie im D-A-CH-Inland als professionelle Vermittler von Landeskunde immer wieder vor große Herausforderungen. So ist dieser neue Band zur Didaktik der Landeskunde eine wichtige Ergänzung des Angebots in der Fernstudienreihe Deutsch als Fremdsprache, der einen umfassenden und didaktisch hervorragend aufbereiteten Einstieg in die Thematik ermöglicht.