cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Death with dignity : legal and ethical aspects of euthanasia
Creators: name: Biggs, Hazel
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: There is an active debate as to whether euthanasia is socially acceptable as a mechanism for achieving dignity in dying for many terminally ill and incurable people. The debate reveals a tension between the criminal law and social and medical ethics, and questions whether the criminal law of homicide is an appropriate mechanism to adjudicate the humanitarian issues raised by euthanasia. Euthanasia may provide death with dignity in some circumstances but not at the same time as the law requires the undignified criminalisation of the practitioner. Legal reform permitting some forms of euthanasia may offer a solution.
(200947) Florence Mary Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: You Need To See: Kunst zur fehlenden Sichtbarkeit von Schwarzen Frauen*
Creators: name:  Hilbich, Katharina
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2023

description: YOU NEED TO SEE – du musst sehen. In ihrer Einzelausstellung im Märkischen Museum Witten thematisiert die deutsch-senegalesische Künstlerin Joséphine Sagna Identitätskonflikte, strukturellen Rassismus, aber auch Empowerment aus der Sicht einer Schwarzen Frau* in einer weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft. Mit ihrer bunten und vielfältigen Kunst setzt sie ein politisches Zeichen für intersektionalen Feminismus und feiert die Diversität von BIPOC-Frauen*.
description: blog interdisziplinäre geschlechterforschung
title: The cinema of Wong Kar-wai: style, form and narrative meaning
Creators: name: Bettinson, Gary
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The following study provides detailed critical analyses of several films by Hong Kong filmmaker, Wong Kar-wai. These analyses centre most broadly upon the organisational principles that underpin Wong’s stylistic and narrative systems, and examine how such intentional strategies function to generate narrative meaning and elicit particular responses from the spectator. In reaction to a body of criticism that subsumes the textual features of Wong’s cinema to an overarching socio-allegorical framework, this study concentrates analysis principally upon the immediate, filmic ‘surface’ of the films, i.e. their primary materials of style, plot, and character. To this end, the project aims to show that allegorical interpretations are not the only means by which to disclose the richness and complexity of Wong’s cinema. By attending to specifically textual features, moreover, the project seeks to situate Wong’s formal procedures within demonstrable modes and traditions. Analysing the films’ style, form, and narrative meaning therefore points us toward the key historical and cultural factors that bear most pertinently upon Wong’s cinema. Collectively, the main chapters serve to tackle some broad critical assumptions pertaining to Wong’s oeuvre - for example, the critical perspective that casts Wong as a pure aesthete, preoccupied exclusively with stylistic sensuousness. A corollary assumption - that the erotic texture of the work ‘seduces’ the spectator into critical passivity - is also explicitly challenged throughout the chapters that follow. This study argues that, though Wong’s films indeed furnish a palpable and sensual audio-visual design, they are not reducible exclusively to this aesthetic principle; often we find that stylistic sensuousness is explicable at the level of story action. The chapters in this study also contend that Wong’s spectator, far from being seduced away from critical reasoning, is routinely challenged by textual strategies that undercut the films’ sensuous style and jolt the viewer from her habitual modes of perception.
Association between serum phosphate, magnesium, calcium and aortic valve sclerosis: a propensity score-matched case-control study
Creators: name: Tao, Jing
name: Wang, Juan
name: Peng, Hui
name: Yuan, Yujuan
name: Lai, Hongmei
name: Gu, Peipei
name: Xier, Zulipiyemu
name: Li, Guoqing
name: Yang, Yi-ning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Aortic valve sclerosis has been proposed to signify greater cardiovascular risk; the correlation between serum trace elements and aortic valve sclerosis has been reported. Therefore, an in-depth exploration of the risk factors for aortic valve sclerosis and early intervention may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. In this study, Patients with aortic valve sclerosis and non-aortic valve sclerosis who underwent echocardiographic diagnosis in the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region during the period from 2019 to 2021 were selected for this study. The correlation between aortic valve sclerosis and serum phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium levels was explored using the propensity score matching technique by pairing the two groups of patients 1:1. A total of 1,533 non-aortic valve sclerosis and 1,533 aortic valve sclerosis patients were included. Logistic regression analysis showed that serum magnesium [OR: 0.346; 95%CI: 0.227, 0.528] and serum calcium [OR: 7.022; 95%CI: 4.755, 10.369] were influential factors. Patients with low, intermediate, and high serum magnesium levels had a significantly lower risk of aortic valve sclerosis compared to patients with very low micronutrient levels (p < 0.05). Comparatively, patients with low or high serum calcium levels had an elevated risk of aortic valve sclerosis (p < 0.05). Serum magnesium may have a protective role against aortic valve sclerosis, while both low and high levels of serum calcium could be risk factor for the condition. These serum micronutrients may be indications of cardiovascular disease risk prediction or prevention, and more research is required.
Computing the joint distribution of the total tree length across loci in populations with variable size
Creators: name: Miroshnikov, Alexey
name: Steinrücken, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 92D10, 60J27, 60J28, 35L40

description: In recent years, a number of methods have been developed to infer complex demographic histories, especially historical population size changes, from genomic sequence data. Coalescent Hidden Markov Models have proven to be particularly useful for this type of inference. Due to the Markovian structure of these models, an essential building block is the joint distribution of local genealogical trees, or statistics of these genealogies, at two neighboring loci in populations of variable size. Here, we present a novel method to compute the marginal and the joint distribution of the total length of the genealogical trees at two loci separated by at most one recombination event for samples of arbitrary size. To our knowledge, no method to compute these distributions has been presented in the literature to date. We show that they can be obtained from the solution of certain hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations. We present a numerical algorithm, based on the method of characteristics, that can be used to efficiently and accurately solve these systems and compute the marginal and the joint distributions. We demonstrate its utility to study the properties of the joint distribution. Our flexible method can be straightforwardly extended to handle an arbitrary fixed number of recombination events, to include the distributions of other statistics of the genealogies as well, and can also be applied in structured populations.
description: 11 figures, 2 tables
title: Self-determination or rights? : problems for nations, states and international relations
Creators: name: Bradshaw, Cherry
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The subject of this thesis is national self-determination. Nations claim self-determination when they fear for their culture, their place in the landscape and their survival. This is the romantic impetus, and it is fuelled by fear and grievance. Self-determination is also a political demand made against the sovereignty of the state, and this duality is a source of confusion. States and International Relations are adept at politics, but less sure when it comes to matters of sentiment. This thesis traces the source and development of the duality of the nation in its liberal and romantic aspects. The modem Weltanschauung is dominant. Although there are states with pre-modern domestic social institutions, the sovereignty game is definitively modem, and played by modem rules, which are essentially liberal. However, rational theories of the state do not entirely explain nations. Ideas, events and contingency are intricately linked in shaping the social reality of nations, and I do not believe that a single explanatory approach can encompass their richness. Accordingly, my methodology is multi-disciplinary and goes some way to revealing the complexity of nations. Nations are political and cultural; only by paying attention to both elements can the nation’s story be understood. There is a gulf in understanding between nations and states, but nations are supplicants, and they must use the discourse of the powerful. My conclusion is that the discourse of rights may provide an avenue for communication. If nationals were secure in their fundamental rights their grievances may seem less urgent and their claims less pressing. States may resent the limits to their freedom that rights observance would entail, but this might seem a lesser evil than the challenge to their sovereignty that claims to self-determination represent.
A rare catastrophic aortic pseudoaneurysm made of stone
Creators: name: Pereira, Tamara
name: Cardoso, Ana Filipa
name: Oliveira, Margarida
name: Fernandes, Marina
name: Lourenço, António
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A rare catastrophic aortic pseudoaneurysm made of stone
(200943) Alfred Herbert Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Extended Galilean symmetries of non-relativistic strings
Creators: name: Batlle, Carles
name: Gomis, Joaquim
name: Not, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two non-relativistic strings and their Galilean symmetries. These strings are obtained as the two possible non-relativistic (NR) limits of a relativistic string. One of them is non-vibrating and represents a continuum of non-relativistic massless particles, and the other one is a non-relativistic vibrating string. For both cases we write the generator of the most general point transformation and impose the condition of Noether symmetry. As a result we obtain two sets of non-relativistic Killing equations for the vector fields that generate the symmetry transformations. Solving these equations shows that NR strings exhibit two extended, infinite dimensional space-time symmetries which contain, as a subset, the Galilean symmetries. For each case, we compute the associated conserved charges and discuss the existence of non-central extensions.
description: Added some comments and additional references
‘A vital alternative’: survivance, trauma and shame in the life writing of women of colour from the Caribbean and Australia
Creators: name: Adams, Caryn Rae
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The study of trauma and its effect on the marginalised has become a major point of critical enquiry in the work of a range of academics across diverse disciplines. While debates still exist about the efficacy of ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ approaches to trauma, I seek to find an alternative method to examine narratives of terror by the oppressed. The colonial project has irreparably damaged the psyches of the stolen and the dispossessed, making healing from past traumas problematic. I suggest that the life narratives of women of colour from the Caribbean and Australia, which document these historical traumas through personal stories (which also have communal relevance), can be read through the lens of survivance. A Native American paradigm, survivance privileges the experience of historically subjugated groups by appropriating a number of culture-specific narrative strategies and departs from realism and individualism. These include but are not limited to the use of language which conceals and reveals traumatic experience (cryptonymy); the privileging of non-Standard English language registers; polyvocal narration; non-linear narrative structures; trickster hermeneutics and the valorisation of alternative systems of beliefs. Survivance, according to Gerald Vizenor, is “more than survival, more than endurance or mere response; ... [it] is an active repudiation of dominance, tragedy and victimry” (15). The study surveys the 'boom period' of writing for both groups of women (the 1980s and 1990s), demonstrating that despite differences in colonial history, cultural mores and geographical distance, colonisation has had a similar debilitating effect on the formerly colonised. The four primary texts under analysis are Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home; Sally Morgan's My Place; Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice and Roberta Sykes's Snake Cradle. As narratives of resistance, these texts highlight how the trauma and shame associated with colonisation and forced white assimilation recur in two major themes: the inability to construct and maintain stable cultural identities; and race-based violence which continues to threaten the lives of many. Addressing shame, silence and denial, these narratives, through the aforementioned culture-specific literary techniques, promote survivance in the aftermath of intergenerational historical trauma, demonstrating that continued resistance against colonial oppression needs to work past more optimistic, consoling and limited notions of healing and reconciliation.
Global anomalous transport of ICRH- and NBI-heated fast ions
Creators: name: Wilkie, George J.
name: Pusztai, Istvan
name: Abel, Ian G.
name: Dorland, William
name: Fülöp, Tünde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By taking advantage of the trace approximation, one can gain an enormous computational advantage when solving for the global turbulent transport of impurities. In particular, this makes feasible the study of non-Maxwellian transport coupled in radius and energy, allowing collisions and transport to be accounted for on similar time scales, as occurs for fast ions. In this work, we study the fully-nonlinear ITG-driven trace turbulent transport of locally heated and injected fast ions. Previous results indicated the existence of MeV-range minorities heated by cyclotron resonance, and an associated density pinch effect. Here, we build upon this result using the t3core code to solve for the distribution of these minorities, consistently including the effects of collisions, gyrokinetic turbulence, and heating. Using the same tool to study the transport of injected fast ions, we contrast the qualitative features of their transport with that of the heated minorities. Our results indicate that heated minorities are more strongly affected by microturbulence than injected fast ions. The physical interpretation of this difference provides a possible explanation for the observed synergy when NBI heating is combined with ICRH. Furthermore, we move beyond the trace approximation to develop a model which allows one to easily account for the reduction of anomalous transport due to the presence of fast ions in electrostatic turbulence.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
The potential of triglyceride-glucose index in improving the prediction of post-percutaneous coronary intervention clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kohar, Kelvin
name: Sanjaya, Indira Saraswati
name: Amirah, Shakira
name: Yumnanisha, Defin Allevia
name: Ambari, Ade Meidian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite percutaneous coronary intervention is the current preferred reperfusion modality, the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is still high. Currently, GRACE score is used for predicting PCI outcomes. The TyG (triglyceride-glucose) index, a potential predictor based on insulin resistance of cardiovascular disease, has not been considered in the GRACE score. To assess the potential of the TyG index in predicting cardiovascular adverse clinical outcomes in patients undergoing PCI. Following PRISMA guidelines, the authors reviewed literature from five databases. We included studies investigating post-PCI outcomes based on the TyG index level. Effect size was estimated using RevMan to calculate pooled odds ratio and mean difference, and R software to perform diagnostic test accuracy. Overall, 31,671 post-PCI patients with acute coronary syndrome were included in this study. A significant difference in TyG index was found between patients who experienced MACE and those who did not [MD: 0.3 (0.2–0.4), p < .05]. Higher TyG index was strongly correlated with higher MACE [OR: 2.01 (1.45–2.77), p < .05], especially revascularization [OR: 2.40 (1.72–3.36), p < .05], followed by myocardial infarction [OR: 1.80 (2.41–2.86), p < .05], death [OR: 1.36 (0.86–2.15), p = .19], and stroke [OR: 1.09 (0.79–1.50), p = .59]. Tyg Index showed 55% sensitivity, 60% specificity, and 0.612 accuracy. The addition of the TyG index to the GRACE scoring improved the predictive model’s AUC (0.746 vs. 0.809). This systematic review and meta-analysis comprises evidence-based results for the correlation of TyG index and post-PCI outcomes, demonstrating modest sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and enhanced predictive value of GRACE score.
Cardiovascular outcomes of type 2 myocardial infarction among COVID-19 patients: a propensity matched national study
Creators: name: Sattar, Yasar
name: Taha, Amro
name: Patel, Neel
name: Victor, Varun
name: Titus, Anoop
name: Aziz, Shazia
name: Gonuguntla, Karthik
name: Thyagaturu, Harshith
name: Atti, Lalitsiri
name: Micho, Tarec
name: Almas, Talal
name: Tarun, Tushar
name: Alraies, M. Chadi
name: Balla, Sudarshan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Myocardial infarction Type II (T2MI) is a prevalent cause of troponin elevation secondary to a variety of conditions causing stress/demand mismatch. The impact of T2MI on outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is not well studied. The Nationwide Inpatient Sample database from the year 2020 was queried to identify COVID-19 patients with T2MI during the index hospitalization. Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes ‘U07.1’ and ‘I21.A1’ were used as disease identifiers for COVID-19 and T2MI respectively. Multivariate adjusted Odds ratio (aOR) and propensity score matching (PSM) was done to compare outcomes among COVID patients with and without T2MI. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. A total of 1,678,995 COVID-19-weighted hospitalizations were identified in the year 2020, of which 41,755 (2.48%) patients had T2MI compared to 1,637,165 (97.5%) without T2MI. Patients with T2MI had higher adjusted odds of in-hospital mortality (aOR 1.44, PSM 32.27%, 95% CI 1.34–1.54) sudden cardiac arrest (aOR 1.29, PSM 6.6%, 95% CI 1.17–1.43) and CS (aOR 2.16, PSM 2.73%, 95% CI 1.85–2.53) compared to patients without T2MI. The rate of coronary angiography (CA) in T2MI with COVID was 1.19%, with significant use of CA among patients with T2MI complicated by CS compared to those without CS (4% vs 1.1%, p < 0.001). Additionally, COVID-19 patients with T2MI had an increased prevalence of sepsis compared to COVID-19 without T2MI (48% vs 24.1%, p < 0.001). COVID-19 patients with T2MI had worse cardiovascular outcomes with significantly higher in-hospital mortality, SCA, and CS compared to those without T2MI. Long-term mortality and morbidity among COVID-19 patients who had T2MI will need to be clarified in future studies.
Topological Heat Transport and Symmetry-Protected Boson Currents
Creators: name: Rivas, Ángel
name: Martin-Delgado, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of non-equilibrium properties in topological systems is of practical and fundamental importance. Here, we analyze the stationary properties of a two-dimensional bosonic Hofstadter lattice coupled to two thermal baths in the quantum open-system formalism. Novel phenomena appear like chiral edge heat currents that are the out-of-equilibrium counterparts of the zero-temperature edge currents. They support a new concept of dissipative symmetry-protection, where a set of discrete symmetries protects topological heat currents, differing from the symmetry-protection devised in closed systems and zero-temperature. Remarkably, one of these currents flows opposite to the decreasing external temperature gradient. As the starting point, we consider the case of a single external reservoir already showing prominent results like thermal erasure effects and topological thermal currents. Our results are experimentally accessible with platforms like photonics systems and optical lattices.
description: RevTeX4 file, color figures
First report of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation’s Registry (ICRR)
Creators: name: Turk-Adawi, K.
name: Ghisi, G. L. M.
name: Tran, C.
name: Heine, M.
name: Raidah, F.
name: Contractor, A.
name: Grace, S. L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Cardiac rehabilitation – programs comprehensively delivering outpatient secondary prevention – is under-available and under-studied in the resource-poor settings where it is needed most. This report summarizes the governance, participating sites, patient characteristics and outcomes, as well as knowledge translation activities during first year of operation of ICCPR’s registry, namely the International Cardiac Rehab Registry. A pilot study was undertaken with five centers, demonstrating feasibility, satisfaction with the on-boarding processes, as well as data quality. Fourteen centers have been engaged from all regions but Europe; Data have been entered on >1000 patients (18.1% female; mean age = 57.6), of whom 62.4% completed their programs and 19.9% dropped out for work or clinical reasons. Post-program, completers had significantly better work status, functional capacity, medication adherence, physical activity levels, diet, as well as lower tobacco use than non-completers (all p < 0.05). A site Certification program was developed and piloted, with five centers now recognized for their quality, given they met over 70% of the 13 internationally agreed standards based on Registry data and a virtual site assessment. Annual assessments have started. Quality improvement activities will soon be underway. We continue to invite new programs, supporting development in resource-poor settings to the benefit of patients served.
Digitale Medien in der Lehre und Genderkompetenz
Creators: name: Kamphans, Marion
name: Metz-Göckel, Sigrid
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 13. Jahrgang 2002 Heft 2
(200944) Harry Montague Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Membrane multi-funzionali avanzate per il trattamento e la desalinizzazione delle acque
Creators: name: Rania, Morsi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Poster presented at the "European Researchers' Night 2019" in the frame of the activity "SCI04 - Le mille proprietà delle membrane polimeriche - Alla scoperta delle membrane polimeriche: come si preparano, quali proprietà hanno, come possono desalinizzare le acque, eliminare gli inquinanti e “autodisinfettarsi” con la luce”, 27 September 2019, Bologna, Italy.
Developing reliable and valid assessments of techniques in cognitive behaviour therapy for depression
Creators: name: Petrik, Alexandra M.
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Psychology and Counselling, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Depression is one of the most highly prevalent and debilitating psychological disorders. Research suggests that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective treatment for individuals with depression. Despite the increasing practice of CBT, there exist a number of attitudes towards CBT that may hinder the dissemination of the approach. For example, one such opinion is that CBT is defined by its techniques rather than the theoretical framework. These misconceptions have been noted among proponents of CBT, and are also reflected in psychotherapy research, where techniques are the most common form of identifying CBT and measuring adherence to CBT in clinical trials. This thesis presents the development of a reliable and valid measure of techniques in CBT. Study 1 was a qualitative study of 2,086 mental health practitioners from diverse training and occupational backgrounds that examined: (a) the CBT techniques they incorporate into their practice, (b) how they report using these techniques (e.g., to target cognitive change), and (c) their opinions of CBT and its associated techniques. Study 2 involved the development of the Cognitive Therapy Orientation Scale (CT-OS), a process scale that measures: (a) CBT techniques, (b) the cognitive change processes of each technique, and (c) the level of clarity/ skill with which these cognitive change are discussed with the client. A total of 191 archived sessions from a previous randomized controlled trial on CBT for depression were rated with the CT-OS. Data were examined in relation to therapeutic change throughout treatment, at outcome, and at 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-months follow-up. Results from Study 1 revealed that mental health practitioners often use CBT techniques without considering the theoretical framework of the approach. The qualitative analysis provided insight into how CBT techniques are typically used among mental health practitioners, and which techniques are commonly incorporated into their practice. Study 2 found that the degree to which techniques and cognitive change processes were addressed in treatment was a significant predictor of treatment outcome. The present research highlights the importance of how techniques are defined and measured in CBT, and demonstrates a number of cognitive change processes that lead to significant clinical change within clients.
title: Wohnstandortentscheidungen im wohnbiografischen Ansatz
title: empirische Ergebnisse für die Familiengründungsphase und methodische Erkenntnisse einer quantitativen Erhebung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Albrecht, Janna
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Wohnstandortentscheidung
subject: Wohnbiografie
subject: Intergenerationale Transmission
subject: Familiengründung
subject: 710
subject: Wohnsoziologie
subject: Wohnstandort
subject: Entscheidung
subject: Familiengründung

description: Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Wohnstandortentscheidungen. Theoretisch baut sie auf den biografischen Ansatz auf und verbindet ihn mit dem Linked-Lives-Ansatz und der intergenerationalen Transmission. Die Arbeit geht der Forschungsfrage nach, wie Wohnstandortentscheidungen durch die vorausgegangene Wohnbiografie und Personen innerhalb und außerhalb des Haushaltes beeinflusst werden. Dabei wird die Familiengründungsphase fokussiert und die Bedeutung des Ortes der Kindheit und Jugend in dieser Phase untersucht. Es wird ein besonderer Datensatz mit quantitativen intergenerationalen Längsschnittdaten von Familien genutzt. Den Kern der kumulativen Dissertation stellen drei Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften dar. Die erste Veröffentlichung trifft vor allem Aussagen zur Datenqualität des genutzten Datensatzes. In den beiden empirischen Veröffentlichungen werden binäre und multinomiale logistische Regressionsmodelle präsentiert, die mithilfe des Split-Half-Ansatzes entwickelt werden. Insgesamt verdeutlichen die Ergebnisse die Komplexität und Wechselwirkungen zwischen der Wohn-, Partnerschafts- und Familienbiografie. Es zeigt sich eine enorme Stabilität der Wohnstandorte nicht nur über den individuellen Lebensverlauf, sondern auch über Generationen hinweg. Intergenerationale Transmission innerhalb der Familie wird in den multivariaten Analysen nicht bestätigt, zeigt sich jedoch in den deskriptiven Ergebnissen. Es werden Geschlechterunterschiede festgestellt, die den oftmals gezogenen Schluss der weiblichen tied mover jedoch nicht zulassen. Die Ergebnisse zur Soziodemografie und der räumlichen Einflussgröße deuten vor allem auf die Bedeutung der Bildungsinfrastruktur und des spezialisierten Arbeitsmarktes hin.
Training and dual processes in human thinking
Creators: name: Neilens, Helen Louise
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2005

description: The aim of the research presented in this thesis was to investigate the effects of trainin- on reasoning and decision making performance. In Experiment Ia study is reported which examined the relationships between performance on a variety of reasoning tasks and measures of individual differences. Tasks employed were documented in the literature for their differential responding according to heuristic and analytic processes. The reasoning tasks to be utilised in the training studies were also validated. In Chapter 4, two statistical training studies are reported which demonstrate that analytic responding on everyday reasoning problems can be increased after instruction on the Law Of Large Numbers. Bias was eliminated, but only on written justifications of their responses. Belief-based responding was still utilised when participants were asked for a quick indication of argument strength on a rating scale. This demonstrates a dissociation between analytic and belief-based responding. A second series of experiments explored the effects of both abstract and schema-based training on selection task responding. All the training procedures resulted in positive transfer apart from training on the logic of the material conditional which facilitated perforinance on arbitrary tasks only. Relationships between perforinance on the tasks post-training and cognitive ability indicated that training was more effective for higher ability participants. The differential training effects were discussed in terrns of complexity of training procedures. The findings overall have implications for dual process theories of reasoning. The findings suggest that the interaction between training and System I and System 2 tasks/responses is a great deal more complicated than the simple analysis that is afforded by dual process accounts.
title: Hochschuldidaktische Weiterbildung
title: Das Angebot punktgenau ausrichten und in die Personalentwicklung integrieren
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dany, Sigrid
name: Wildt, Johannes
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 17. Jahrgang 2006 Heft 1
Adiabatic Perturbation Theory and Geometry of Periodically-Driven Systems
Creators: name: Weinberg, Phillip
name: Bukov, Marin
name: D'Alessio, Luca
name: Polkovnikov, Anatoli
name: Vajna, Szabolcs
name: Kolodrubetz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a systematic review of the adiabatic theorem and the leading non-adiabatic corrections in periodically-driven (Floquet) systems. These corrections have a two-fold origin: (i) conventional ones originating from the gradually changing Floquet Hamiltonian and (ii) corrections originating from changing the micro-motion operator. These corrections conspire to give a Hall-type linear response for non-stroboscopic (time-averaged) observables allowing one to measure the Berry curvature and the Chern number related to the Floquet Hamiltonian, thus extending these concepts to periodically-driven many-body systems. The non-zero Floquet Chern number allows one to realize a Thouless energy pump, where one can adiabatically add energy to the system in discrete units of the driving frequency. We discuss the validity of Floquet Adiabatic Perturbation Theory (FAPT) using five different models covering linear and non-linear few and many-particle systems. We argue that in interacting systems, even in the stable high-frequency regimes, FAPT breaks down at ultra slow ramp rates due to avoided crossings of photon resonances, not captured by the inverse-frequency expansion, leading to a counter-intuitive stronger heating at slower ramp rates. Nevertheless, large windows in the ramp rate are shown to exist for which the physics of interacting driven systems is well captured by FAPT.
A Nietzschean opponent to metaethics
Creators: name: Rowe, David Emmanuel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

I argue for a way in which Nietzsche may pose a challenge to contemporary metaethical views. I do this by proposing three pertinent tensions in an interpretation of Nietzsche, namely that he was not intentionally writing a metaethics, that he seems to deny all values while also arguing for the existence of values, and the ability to ‘translate’ what Nietzsche says into contemporary terms. I argue for a view of Nietzsche as a moral error theorist. This is modelled on contemporary error theoretical views from Mackie and Joyce. I argue that the error theorist is required to provide a ‘positive’ alternative, whereby morality still plays a guiding role in the community. This raises a tension for error theorists, however, in their ability to allow morality a guiding role without re-instantiating some value. I argue that there is a radical solution to this problem in Nietzsche, who argues that it is insofar as language requires certain concepts for its truth that it is in error, in virtue of an appeal to some value. I show how this Nietzschean error theory causes problems for another prominent theory in metaethics, namely the idea that motivation generally follows sincere moral judgement in the rational agent. I then provide a ‘positive’ Nietzschean alternative. I argue against a common interpretation of Nietzsche as a virtue ethicist and argue that he is best seen as a power constitutivist, where it is power that is constitutive of action and provides a value standard. I argue for a unique conception of Nietzschean ‘agency’, which eliminates the distinction between actions and mere behaviours. This ‘positive’ alternative, I argue, does not re-instantiate any values.
Prevalence and Predictors of Affirmations of Intimate Partner Violence in Germany: A First Nationwide Study on Victimization in Women and Men
Creators: name: Jud, Andreas
name: Grafe, Bianca
name: Meshkova, Ksenia
name: Kavemann, Barbara
name: Meysen, Thomas
name: Hoffmann, Ulrike
name: Ziegenhain, Ute
name: Fegert, Jörg
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cultural contexts
subject: disclosure of domestic violence
subject: domestic violence
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Large-size studies on the prevalence of female intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in Germany are rare and partly outdated; representative data on male IPV victimization are lacking altogether. The present survey addresses these gaps. For this study, the instrument of the WHO Multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence has been translated to German and adapted to be used with females and males. A random route procedure in selecting household addresses has been used to gather data on IPV in combination with an omnibus survey on (mental) health issues. A total 2,503 respondents with a minimum age of 14 years have participated (response rate=44.1%). The resulting distribution of age and gender was representative for the German population above the age of 14 years. A total of 57.6% of female participants and 50.8% of male participants have reported victimization by intimate partners during their lifespan; gender distribution differs significantly (Chi2=43.43; p<0.001). Out of the different documented subtypes, psychological IPV was most prevalent (53.6% in females, 48.0% in males). Other forms ranged between 15.2% (physical IPV) and 18.6% (sexual IPV) for females, and 5.5% (sexual IPV) and 10.8% (physical IPV) for males. All forms of victimization regularly coincided, both in females and males. Experiencing any IPV was not only significantly associated with female gender, but also with older age, periods of unemployment, poverty, and IPV perpetration. The findings highlight the still much needed global efforts to prevent IPV against women – and in general. They further support previous research in underlining that fighting poverty might also be instrumental in reducing the likelihood of IPV. The discussion further addresses the issues of reciprocity in IPV.
(200945) Edward Hanbury Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Train-the-Tutors
title: hochschuldidaktische Qualifizierung für studentische Tutor/inn/en
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Auferkorte-Michaelis, Nicole
name: Ladwig, Annette
name: Weihofen, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 19. Jahrgang 2008 Heft 2
Consequences of a strong phase transition in the dense matter equation of state for the rotational evolution of neutron stars
Creators: name: Bejger, M.
name: Blaschke, D.
name: Haensel, P.
name: Zdunik, J. L.
name: Fortin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the implications of a strong first-order phase transition region in the dense matter equation of state in the interiors of rotating neutron stars, and the resulting creation of two disjoint families of neutron-star configurations (the so-called high-mass twins). We numerically obtained rotating, axisymmetric, and stationary stellar configurations in the framework of general relativity, and studied their global parameters and stability. The instability induced by the equation of state divides stable neutron star configurations into two disjoint families: neutron stars (second family) and hybrid stars (third family), with an overlapping region in mass, the high-mass twin-star region. These two regions are divided by an instability strip. Its existence has interesting astrophysical consequences for rotating neutron stars. We note that it provides a natural explanation for the rotational frequency cutoff in the observed distribution of neutron star spins, and for the apparent lack of back-bending in pulsar timing. It also straightforwardly enables a substantial energy release in a mini-collapse to another neutron-star configuration (core quake), or to a black hole.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics accepted
REACH Story of Change: Fit-for-purpose labs for monitoring
Creators: name: REACH
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

description: In Nepal, Kenya and Bangladesh, researchers working with practitioners and local governments have established fit-for-purpose (FFP) laboratories to support reliable water quality monitoring and operational management of rural water systems. The FFP laboratories in each country setting are imbedded within a network of stakeholders, with support and engagement from water users themselves. FFP labs play a key role in ensuring safe drinking water supplies in rural areas by establishing water quality databases and motivating proactive responses. The broader diffusion and uptake of FFP labs by external actors within and beyond REACH program boundaries demonstrates high demand for the approach.
Evaluating surface and subsurface fluxes in hydrological models to advance basin-scale operational water supply forecasting
Creators: name: Shin, Satbyeol
name: Gronewold, Andrew D.
name: Fry, Lauren M.
name: Dugger, Aubrey
name: Kessler, James
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Comprehensive assessments of hydrological components are crucial for enhancing operational water supply simulations. However, hydrological models are often evaluated based on their surface flow simulations, while the validation of subsurface and groundwater components tends to be overlooked or not well documented. In this study, we evaluated the outputs of two hydrological models, the Large Basin Runoff Model (LBRM) and the Weather Research and Forecasting – Hydrological modeling extension package (WRF-Hydro), for potential implementation in operational water balance forecasting in the Great Lakes region. We examined the simulated hydrological variables including surface (e.g. snow water equivalent, evapotranspiration, and streamflow), subsurface (e.g. soil moisture at different layers), and groundwater components with observed or reference data from ground-based stations and remotely sensed images. The findings of this study provide valuable insights into the capabilities and limitations of each model. These findings contribute to more informed water management strategies for the Great Lakes region.
(200941) Mary Edith Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Koszul Factorization and the Cohen-Gabber Theorem
Creators: name: Skalit, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a sharpened version of the Cohen-Gabber theorem for equicharacteristic, complete local domains (A,m,k) with algebraically closed residue field and dimension d > 0. Namely, we show that for any prime number p, Spec(A) admits a dominant, finite map to Spec(k[[X_1,...,X_d]]) with generic degree relatively prime to p. Our result follows from Gabber's original theorem, elementary Hilbert-Samuel multiplicity theory, and a "factorization" of the map induced on the Grothendieck group G_0(A) by the Koszul complex.
description: Updated to include Journal reference and to remove minor typos