cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Homestead Helper Handbook
Creators: name: Jurzynski, Courtney A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description:
When the pandemic hit, and grocery stores and other necessities started to shut down and create havoc amongst the general public, it became clear that having the ability to rely on a self-sufficient homestead might be the only way to survive and thrive. As a graduate student who has studied architecture and sustainability, this idea seems possible. As an average human with no prior architectural or homesteading knowledge, this idea is daunting.
This thesis is asking, is there a systematic way to develop a tool to evaluate, and aid in the design of, a self-sustaining, off-grid homestead? Can this tool make homesteading and living a self-sufficient, off-grid lifestyle more attainable to any person who wishes to try it out?
With these questions in mind, the Homestead Helper Handbook: A Guide to Help Start a Self-Sufficient, Off-Grid Homestead in New England from the Ground Up has been developed to offer a cohesive approach, detailing the components that could go into the makeup of the homestead. Suggestions regarding the site, livestock, crops, and built structures will be made based off of specific input values of the future homesteader, leaving the reader with a well-rounded, precise breakdown and understanding of what might go into the homestead, allowing it to successfully function off-grid and self-sufficiently. Thus, it makes the idea of living a self-sufficient and off-grid life in New England more attainable to any human who wishes to do so.
Photoluminescence of bulk Cs2SnI6 and mechanochemically synthesized passivated nanocrystals
Creators: name: Chirvony, Vladimir
name: Agouram, Saïd
name: Suárez, Isaac
name: Martínez-Pastor, Juan
name: Oszajca, Marek
name: Rossier, Michael
name: Masi, Sofia
name: Mora-Seró, Iván
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: lead-free perovskites, photoluminescence, colloidal nanocrystals, microcrystals, Cs2SnI6

description: Room and low temperature photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved PL of microcrystalline powder and passivated nanocrystals of Cs2SnI6 are investigated and the origin of the detected PL is discussed.
title: Prevalence of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures in the last 14 days of life in hospital patients: a single-center observational study from Germany
Creators: name: Dasch, Burkhard
name: Zahn, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background: The opportunities available for maintaining and prolonging life in modern medicine give rise to medical-ethical dilemmas in patients at the end of life, raising the question of whether intensified treatment and diagnosis is appropriate in these patients. This affects hospital patients in particular. Methods: This single-center cross-sectional study from Germany analyzed hospital records of all deceased patients of a university hospital who died between October 2016 and September 2017. The prevalence of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures during the last 14 days before death was determined. In-hospital transfer practices shortly before patients’ deaths were also examined. Results: A total of 468 hospital patients died. The mean age at death was 76.3±13.7 years; 47.0% [220] were female; 12.0% [56] died on the day of hospital admission, 41.9% [196] 1 to 6 days and 46.1% [216] more than 6 days later; the case mix index (CMI) was 4.6. The majority of patients {57.1% [267]} died on intensive care unit (ICU). Therapeutic and diagnostic procedures within the last 14 days before death: 30.3% [142] resuscitation, 28.6% [134] surgery, 10.9% [51] extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), 23.7% [111] renal replacement therapy, 4.3% [20] tracheostomy, 2.8% [13] PTCA/cardiac stenting, 1.9% [9] chemotherapy, 29.3% [137] transfusion of packed red blood cells, 13.7% [64] transfusion of prothrombin complex concentrate, 5.3% [25] cardiac catheter examination, 7.5% [35] upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, 79.1% [370] chest X-ray, 41.9% [196] computed tomography. In-hospital transfer from ICU to PCU before patients’ death: 1.5% (4/274 ICU patients). Conclusions: Intensified therapeutic and diagnostic procedures are often performed at the end of life in hospital patients. Closer interdisciplinary cooperation between intensive care and palliative care would be beneficial to improve in-patient care for these patients.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Potential of Voice Recording Tools in Language Instruction
Creators: name: Aoki, Sachiko
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sound recordings in education
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Feedback (Psychology)
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: One of the most prevailing difficulties I have faced as an English instructor is students’ dependence on teachers even though many language classes have been shifting from teacher-centered to student-centered influenced by the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. Class evaluations and needs analyses often reveal that many students expect every single one of their errors to be corrected by teachers. Some students even attribute their lack of improvement to not being corrected promptly. Prompt error correction or individualized feedback from teachers may be beneficial for students, but it is unlikely to be feasible for teachers to listen and respond to students individually all the time, especially given constraints such as large numbers of students and limited class time.
Conformal relativity with hypercomplex variables
Creators: name: Ulrych, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L05, 81T40, 81V22, 53C28, 15A66

description: Majorana's arbitrary spin theory is considered in a hyperbolic complex representation. The underlying differential equation is embedded into the gauge field theories of Sachs and Carmeli. In particular, the approach of Sachs can serve as a unified theory of general relativity and electroweak interactions. The method is extended to conformal space with the intention to introduce the strong interaction. It is then possible to use the wave equation, operating on representation functions of the conformal group, to describe the dynamics of matter fields. The resulting gauge groups resemble closely the gauge symmetries of Glashow-Salam-Weinberg and the Standard Model.
title: The Influence of Victim Gender and Emotional Expression in Victim Impact Statements on Legal Judgments and Punishment Decisions
Creators: name: Chimowitz, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Victim impact statements (VISs) are written or oral statements detailing the effects a crime has had on a victim. While the practice of having victims present VISs at sentencing hearings has generated much debate for over 25 years, the effects of this practice on victims, defendants, and legal decision-makers remain poorly understood. Prior research suggests that a victim’s emotional expression can affect how victims are perceived, and the legal judgments made in response to their statements. The current research considers how the effects of victims’ emotional displays on sentencing decisions might be conditioned by victim gender. Using audio-recorded VIS stimuli, the present research investigated the influence of victim gender (male vs. female) and emotional expression (Study 1: anger vs. sadness; Study 2: anger vs. sadness vs. flat affect) on legal judgments and punishment decisions. The results across Study 1 and Study 2 are inconsistent, though findings from the study (Study 2) with the substantially larger sample size suggest that individuals make legal judgments that are more favorable towards female victims, regardless of the victim’s emotion expression in a VIS. However, hostile sexism and gender-emotion stereotype endorsement moderated the effects of victim emotion expression and gender on sentence severity and empathy for a defendant.
title: Das situações verbais à compreensão da leitura: dados de um estudo no 1.º CEB
Creators: name: Lopes, Ana Sofia
name: Morgado, Celda
Publisher: name: CIED - Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Year: 2020

description: 	O verbo integra uma classe aberta, variável, lexical e é o elemento nuclear do grupo ou sintagma verbal, com a função sintática de predicado (Choupina, 2013; 2015). Esta classe de palavras cria tanto uma predicação semântica como uma predicação sintática acerca de uma entidade - o sujeito (Duarte & Brito, 2003). Neste domínio, evidenciam- se os diversos papéis temáticos que o argumento sujeito pode desempenhar e que assumem extrema relevância na compreensão da leitura, já que fornecem importantes informações para a caraterização de personagens e para o entendimento da ação, enquanto categoria da narrativa. De igual modo, as diferentes situações verbais contribuem para a compreensão da leitura. Estas diferentes situações verbais que, ao longo dos textos, se encontram associadas às personagens concorrem, a par, por exemplo, dos adjetivos (classe de palavras privilegiada ao nível da caraterização de personagens), para a caraterização das mesmas e ainda para uma efetiva compreensão da sua evolução no decurso da narrativa.
Assessment and Feedback: Examining the Relationship Between Self-assessment and Blind Peer- and Teacher-assessment in TOEFL Writing
Creators: name: Bratkovich, Meghan Odsliv
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Evaluation
Educational evaluation--Methodology
Feedback (Psychology)
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: This study investigated the nature of self-assessment and blind peer- and teacher-assessment in L2 writing. The type of feedback students gave to themselves and peers, the type of feedback used in the revision process, and the source of the feedback used were all analyzed. Additionally, student perceptions of self- and peer-assessment, feedback, and their relationships to perceived writing improvement were also studied. Findings revealed that students in this study did not use teacher feedback significantly more than feedback from themselves or their peers, but they did give different types of feedback than the teacher and favored using feedback related to language use in the revision process. Students perceived their writing abilities to have increased due to self- and peer-assessment but responded more positively to peer-assessment than self-assessment. Surprisingly, students also perceived their abilities to have increased in rubric areas in which the feedback they received was not used and not regarded as useful, and the highest perceived gains in writing ability were in areas which accounted for the lowest amounts of feedback given.
The Role of Support for Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Creators: name: Mellor, Emma
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is comprised of three sections which include a systematic literature review (SLR), an empirical research paper and a critical appraisal, focusing on the psychological wellbeing of individuals with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The SLR identified 22 qualitative research papers which discuss the importance of social support for individuals with IBD and its role in helping individuals cope with lifelong diagnoses. Three themes were found following thematic synthesis: (1) Supportive peers; (2) Shared experiences; and (3) Openness. A range of ways individuals with IBD utilise support from others to help them cope are identified, highlighting the importance of healthcare professionals including these systems in care and treatment of IBD. The empirical paper explores the experience of difficulties with eating for individuals with IBD. Diet and nutrition become a central focus for these individuals yet little acknowledgement is given within research or by healthcare professionals to how this may impact on psychological difficulties. To develop an initial understanding, semi-structured interviews were completed with six individuals with IBD who report experiencing difficulties with eating. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse data, which identified four themes: (1) The need to restrict and control diet; (2) Increased intrinsic and extrinsic awareness: the impact on body image; (3) Responsibility, guilt and engagement: The experience of clinical interventions; and (4) Feeling helpless: nowhere to turn. These findings provide insight into the processes through which difficulties with eating developed for these individuals, but also highlight more support with these difficulties is needed from healthcare services. The final section provides a critical appraisal in which the candidate’s interest in eating difficulties for individuals with IBD is discussed, alongside limitations of the papers. Focus is given to the researcher’s experience of IBD and the impact this had on issues such as reflexivity.
title: An Architecture of a New Story
Creators: name: Lumen, Nathan Y
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: As the world reckons with an uncertain future at the hands of global climate change and biodiversity loss, the question of how to proceed seems ever more urgent. Approaches to sustainability in design tend to focus on technological solutions to what is often presented as a technical problem. This approach overlooks the ways in which the forces that have led us to this point are born out of our cultural story of what it means to be human, what the natural world is, and what our relationship is to it. This is the story that has permitted if not encouraged the kind of development that has led to global warming and extensive loss of biodiversity. If we are going to reverse these trends we must tell a new story – one that, among other things, removes humans from the center of the conversation, acknowledges the interconnectedness of things, and values multi- and extra-sensory ways of knowing. This thesis asks the question, “What might architecture look like if we held these beliefs and if we told ourselves a new story?” The thesis explores ways in which architecture can continue to advance the practice of sustainable design by embodying, encouraging, and reflecting this New Story. The theory is put to the test via a curated experiential journey, culminating at a tower in the middle of a forest. The design at once exemplifies New Story ideals and offers a place to dream about new ways of being and building.
title: Examining the Co-Infection Effects of Helminths and Malaria in an Indonesian Community
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Sánchez, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Malaria is one of the most prevalent vector-borne infectious diseases with major morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that co-occurrence of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, or infection caused by parasitic worms, are associated with increased risk of malaria infection. However, studies of the association between STH and malaria, and the effect of antihelminth (deworming) treatments that are more commonly used in areas with high STH infection rates, are sparse. Therefore, we explored the relationship between STH and malaria infection in an Indonesian community (N=1997) with high prevalence of both STH and malaria while controlling for covariates and evaluating the role of deworming treatment as a covariate. Participants with STH infection and/or malaria infection were categorized as either infected or uninfected using PCR testing (cycle threshold count) at both baseline and end of study. Self-report, blood, and stool samples were used to assess overall STH and malaria infection from September 2008 to July 2010. Descriptive statistics were used to assess the impact of STH infection on malaria outcomes. To quantify these associations, robust Poisson regression models were used to assess the impact of baseline infections including STH infection on malaria while adjusting for age, sex, and the use of deworming treatment. Approximately 39.5% and 19.1% of all participants were infected with Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum, respectively, at the start, while 18.0% and 9.96%, respectively, were infected at the end. A positive association was observed between Ascaris lumbricoides and P. vivax, and between Necator americanus and P. falciparum (PR = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.53 to 2.04; PR = 2.07, 95% CI = 1.00 to 4.29, respectively). While a negative association was observed between N. americanus and P. vivax, and between A. lumbricoides and P. falciparum (PR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.44 to 1.89; PR = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.27 to 1.65, respectively). Overall, two of these models were significant (p = 0.062; p = 0.008; p = 0.030; p = 0.062, respectively). Similarly, there was a positive association observed between the use of albendazole treatment and STH and malaria outcomes.
Second Language Pragmatic Competence: Individual Differences in ESL and EFL Environments
Creators: name: Wyner, Lauren Jill
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Pragmatics
Motivation in education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: Pragmatic competence is as an essential aspect of communicative competence. Does environment have an effect on developing pragmatic competence? Do levels of pragmatic competence differ between English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) students? Most studies have shown greater pragmatic awareness among ESL students than EFL students, indicating that the target language (TL) environment has a positive influence on the appropriate use of sociopragmatics. Some studies, however, have yielded a different outcome that not only challenges previous research but defies the assumption that living in the TL environment allows pragmatic competence to better develop. This review of the literature finds that input alone is insufficient for pragmatic competence; learners must notice linguistic forms in their use. A deeper analysis also reveals that individual factors such as pragmatic transfer and learner motivation have a more complex role to play than exposure.
Angular Reconstruction of a Lead Scintillating-Fiber Sandwiched Electromagnetic Calorimeter
Creators: name: Li, Zu-Hao
name: Xu, Wei-Wei
name: Wang, Ling-Yu
name: Zhang, Cheng
name: Tang, Zhi-Cheng
name: Yan, Qi
name: Yang, Min
name: Lu, Yu-Sheng
name: Chen, Guo-Ming
name: Chen, He-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method called Neighbor Cell Deposited Energy Ratio (NCDER) is proposed to reconstruct incidence position in a single layer for a 3-dimensional imaging electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL).This method was applied to reconstruct the ECAL test beam data for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02). The results show that this method can achieve an angular resolution of 7.36\pm 0.08 / \sqrt(E) \oplus 0.28 \pm 0.02 degree in the determination of the photons direction, which is much more precise than that obtained with the commonly-adopted Center of Gravity(COG) method (8.4 \pm 0.1 /sqrt(E) \oplus 0.8\pm0.3 degree). Furthermore, since it uses only the properties of electromagnetic showers, this new method could also be used for other type of fine grain sampling calorimeters.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Gidado, Saheed
name: Musa, Melton
name: Ba’aba, Ahmed Ibrahim
name: Okeke, Lilian Akudo
name: Nguku, Patrick M
name: Hadejia, Idris Suleman
name: Hassan, Isa Ali
name: Bande, Ibrahim Muhammad
name: Onuoha, Martins
name: Ugbenyo, Gideon
name: Godwin, Ntadom
name: Usman, Rabi
name: Manu, Jibrin Idris
name: Mohammed, Abede Momoh
name: Abdullahi, Muhammad Maijawa
name: Bammami, Mohammed Isa
name: Nuorti, Pekka
name: Atkins, Salla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Scattering of singular beams by subwavelength objects
Creators: name: Hemo, Evyatar
name: Spektor, Boris
name: Shamir, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, there has been a mounting interest in better methods of measuring nanoscale objects, especially in fields such as nanotechnology, biomedicine, cleantech, and microelectronics. Conventional methods have proved insufficient, due to the classical diffraction limit or slow and complicated measuring procedures. The purpose of this paper is to explore the special characteristics of singular beams with respect to the investigation of subwavelength objects. Singular beams are light beams that contain one or more singularities in their physical parameters, such as phase or polarization. We focus on the three-dimensional interaction between electromagnetic waves and subwavelength objects to extract information about the object from the scattered light patterns.
description: Published on 2011, Applied optics
Effects of short-ranged interactions on the Kane-Mele model without discrete particle-hole symmetry
Creators: name: Lai, Hsin-Hua
name: Hung, Hsiang-Hsuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of short-ranged interactions on the $Z_2$ topological insulator phase, also known as the quantum spin Hall phase, in the Kane-Mele model at half-filling with staggered potentials which explicitly breaks the discrete particle-hole symmetry. Within Hartree-Fock mean-field analysis, we conclude that the on-site repulsive interactions help stabilize the topological phase (quantum spin Hall) against the staggered potentials by enlarging the regime of the topological phase along the axis of the ratio of the staggered potential strength and the spin-orbit coupling. In sharp contrast, the on-site attractive interactions destabilize the topological phase. We also examine the attractive interaction case by means of the unbiased determinant projector quantum Monte Carlo and the results are qualitatively consistent with the Hartree-Fock picture.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Revised version with error corrected
Dusicyon sechurae Thomas 1900
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Dusicyon
Dusicyon sechurae

description: Dusicyon sechurae Thomas, 1900. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5:148. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Piura Dept., Sechura Desert, Sullana. DISTRIBUTION: N. W. Peru and S. W. Ecuador. COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex; see Cabrera, 1958:235; Van Gelder, 1978:7. Pseudalopex has been considered a synonym of Dusicyon by Cabrera, 1958:229; and Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 166; a subgenus of Dusicyon by Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179:176; a subgenus of Canis by Langguth, 1975:193; and Van Gelder, 1978:7. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 247, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.", "Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.", "Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.", "Langguth, A. 1969. Die sudamerikanischen Canidae unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Mohnenwolfes, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 179: 1 - 188.", "Langguth, A. 1975. Ecology and evolution in the South American canids. Pp. 192 - 206, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology, and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY, 508 pp."]}
Paired and Group Oral Assessment
Creators: name: Sun, Haimei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Group work in education
Oral examinations
Second language acquisition--Ability testing
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: The assessment of second language (L2) speaking has long been an important yet challenging area of research in language testing. L2 testers are often concerned with designing authentic speaking tasks that resemble real-life speaking activities so that score interpretations are generalizable to non-test contexts. The conversational nature of speaking skills has promoted the widespread integration of more authentic and interactive assessment tasks, such as paired or group orals. Such direct test formats typically involve candidates interacting together to perform a task while one or more examiners observe their performances and rate their language proficiency (Van Moere, 2013, p. 1).
p-Pb Results from ALICE with an Emphasis on Centrality Determination
Creators: name: Morsch, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New ALICE results concerning particle production at low and intermediate transverse momenta in p-Pb collisions at a centre of mass energy of 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair are briefly discussed. Emphasis is given to the determination of centrality in p-Pb and their implications for binary scaling of hard processes.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, talk given at Strangeness in Quark Matter SQM 2013, 22nd - 27th July 2013 Birmingham, United Kingdom
title: The Beige Conundrum
Creators: name: Crawford-Mendoza, Alma
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Color is an essential part of everyday life, but it is often not given the consideration it deserves. Simply, waking up in the morning and pulling on a pair of blue jeans and a white t-shirt is an example of a decision made about color. What behooves a person to dress in a certain color? Is it related to their mood? Is it related to the kind of work they do? Similar questions can be asked about the exterior color of a person’s home. Why did they choose that color? How do they feel about their house’s color? Did they choose its color? Did they choose the color because it looked harmonious with their neighbor’s house? Is it fair to wonder whether there is a discernible reason behind every color decision that is made?
The prevalence of the unassuming color beige on residences throughout Western Massachusetts and the curiosity to know why it is so common, was the specific impetus for this project. Why has beige, in particular, been selected as an acceptable house color? Moreover, why aren’t other colors like pink or orange, often seen on houses? There are regional, historical, and larger cultural investigations that can shed light on why some colors are favored over others.
It must be acknowledged that to dwell in the realm of color, is inevitably to dwell in the realm of opinion. This project seeks to explore color in a conciliatory, strategic manner, that does not polarize those who prefer one color against those who do not. Rather, a case is made for how color’s treasure trove of untapped potential can be given a greater purpose amongst the built environment.
The Internal Relations of Government: Cautionary Tales from Inside the Black Box
Creators: name: Strauss, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Attorney and client
subject: Judicial process
subject: Executive power
subject: Government attorneys
subject: Constitutional law
subject: Administrative law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Who is the government lawyer’s client is, indeed, a complex question. The
adage inscribed on the Justice Department, that the government wins its case in
court whenever justice is done, reflects an ambiguity about client loyalty that
infects even the most direct of representations. It is, at the same time, a check
on public power—no “good soldier” defense will be recognized here—and an
invitation to the exercise of personal will. It can be very hard to tell the difference,
particularly where the nature of the client is also diffuse. Thus, the difficulties
are enlarged by the unsettled character of structural issues within the
Executive Branch. Limited domains of hierarchy, limited capacities to secure
uniformity, limited settings in which it is even sought—all these conjoin, also, to
produce an ambiguity about obligation, within which the individual government
lawyer may find considerable room for maneuver. And finally, as perhaps
in any very large organization, specialization of lawyerly function can produce
its own distortions. The litigator’s imagined client may be quite other
than the planner/counselor’s. The two cannot be brought together; it will be
rare that a single voice will be heard. In the end, as Francis Lieber remarked in
a quite different context, “somewhere we needs must trust at last to common
sense and good faith."
title: Die Wahlfahrt der Leichendichterlein nach dem Tempel des Apolls; [ca. 1770]
title: Ein Traumgesicht
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Wien, gedruckt bey Johann Joseph Jahn
Akhmediev breathers, Ma solitons and general breathers from rogue waves: A case study in Manakov system
Creators: name: Priya, N. Vishnu
name: Senthilvelan, M.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present explicit forms of general breather (GB), Akhmediev breather (AB), Ma soliton (MS) and rogue wave (RW) solutions of the two component nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, namely Manakov equation. We derive these solutions through two different routes. In the forward route we first construct a suitable periodic envelope soliton solution to this model from which we derive GB, AB, MS and RW solutions. We then consider the RW solution as the starting point and derive AB, MS and GB in the reverse direction. The second approach has not been illustrated so far for the two component NLS equation. Our results show that the above rational solutions of the Manakov system can be derived from the standard scalar nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a modified nonlinearity parameter. Through this two way approach we establish a broader understanding of these rational solutions which will be of interest in a variety of situations.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Three-dimensional Microlensing
Creators: name: Mao, Shude
name: Witt, Hans J.
name: An, Jin H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study three-dimensional microlensing where two lenses are located at different distances along the line of sight. We formulate the lens equation in complex notations and recover several previous results. There are in total either 4 or 6 images, with an equal number of images with positive and negative parities. We find that the sum of signed magnifications for six image configurations is unity. Furthermore, we show that the light curves can be qualitatively different from those for binary lensing in a single plane. In particular, the magnifications between a `U'-shaped caustic crossing can be close to unity, rather than having a minimum magnification of 3 as in the single plane binary lensing. There is only a small probability three-dimensional microlensing events will be seen in microlensing toward the Galactic centre. It is more likely they will be first seen in cosmological microlensing.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS, comments welcome!
Additional file 1 of Factor structure of the Oxford Shoulder Score: secondary analyses of the UK FROST and PROFHER trial populations
Creators: name: Simpson, J.
name: Keding, A.
name: Spencer, S.
name: Brealey, S.
name: Rangan, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Eligibility criteria for UK FROST. Table S2. Eligibility criteria for PROFHER. Fig. S1. Factor extraction scree plot for baseline UK FROST data. Fig. S2. Factor extraction scree plot for PROFHER data at 6 months.
Accurate Masses for the Primary and Secondary in the Eclipsing White Dwarf Binary NLTT 11748
Creators: name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Allende Prieto, Carlos
name: Brown, Warren R.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Kenyon, S. J.
name: Camilo, Fernando
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astrophysics
White dwarf stars
Binary stars
Eclipsing binaries
Double stars--Orbits
Astronomy

description: We measure the radial velocity curve of the eclipsing detached white dwarf binary NLTT 11748. The primary exhibits velocity variations with a semi-amplitude of 273 km s⁻¹ and an orbital period of 5.641 hr. We do not detect any spectral features from the secondary star or any spectral changes during the secondary eclipse. We use our composite spectrum to constrain the temperature and surface gravity of the primary to be T_eff = 8690 ± 140 K and log g = 6.54 ± 0.05, which correspond to a mass of 0.18 M ☉. For an inclination angle of 89.°9 derived from the eclipse modeling, the mass function requires a 0.76 M ☉ companion. The merger time for the system is 7.2 Gyr. However, due to the extreme mass ratio of 0.24, the binary will most likely create an AM CVn system instead of a merger.
Learning-Oriented Assessment: The Learning Dimension
Creators: name: Beltran, Jorge Luis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Student-centered learning
Second language acquisition--Ability testing
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: While learning-oriented assessment (LOA) situates learning as the ultimate goal of assessment, current assessment practices often fail to reflect the role of learning and its bidirectional interactions with assessment. During Teachers College Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS) 2014, a number of remarks were made in order to address the importance of understanding the interrelationship of learning, teaching, and assessment.
BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars
Creators: name: Weiss, W. W.
name: Moffat, A. F. J.
name: Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A.
name: Koudelka, O. F.
name: Grant, C. C.
name: Zee, R. E.
name: Kuschnig, R.
name: Mochnacki, St.
name: Rucinski, S. M.
name: Matthews, J. M.
name: Orleanski, P.
name: Pamyatnykh, A.
name: Pigulski, A.
name: Alves, J.
name: Guedel, M.
name: Handler, G.
name: Wade, G. A.
name: Scholtz, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BRITE-Constellation (where BRITE stands for BRIght Target Explorer) is an international nanosatellite mission to monitor photometrically, in two colours, brightness and temperature variations of stars brighter than V = 4. The current mission design consists of three pairs of 7 kg nanosats from Austria, Canada and Poland carrying optical telescopes and CCDs. One instrument in each pair is equipped with a blue filter; the other, a red filter. The first two nanosats are UNIBRITE, designed and built by University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies - Space Flight Laboratory and its twin, BRITE-Austria, built by the Technical University Graz with support of UTIAS-SFL. They were launched on 25 February 2013 by the Indian Space Agency under contract to the Canadian Space Agency into a low-Earth dusk-dawn polar orbit.
description: 2 page abstract of a full paper to be submitted
Disconnecting strongly regular graphs
Creators: name: Cioabă, Sebastian M.
name: Koolen, Jack H.
name: Li, Weiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05E30, 05B05, 05B15, 05C40, 05C50, 15A18, 68R10

description: In this paper, we show that the minimum number of vertices whose removal disconnects a connected strongly regular graph into non-singleton components, equals the size of the neighborhood of an edge for many graphs. These include blocks graphs of Steiner $2$-designs, many Latin square graphs and strongly regular graphs whose intersection parameters are at most a quarter of their valency.
Random strain fluctuations as dominant disorder source for high-quality on-substrate graphene devices
Creators: name: Couto, Nuno J. G.
name: Costanzo, Davide
name: Engels, Stephan
name: Ki, Dong-Keun
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Stampfer, Christoph
name: Guinea, Francisco
name: Morpurgo, Alberto F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed systematic investigations of transport through graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates, together with confocal Raman measurements and a targeted theoretical analysis, to identify the dominant source of disorder in this system. Low-temperature transport measurements on many devices reveal a clear correlation between the carrier mobility $μ$ and the width $n^*$ of the resistance peak around charge neutrality, demonstrating that charge scattering and density inhomogeneities originate from the same microscopic mechanism. The study of weak-localization unambiguously shows that this mechanism is associated to a long-ranged disorder potential, and provides clear indications that random pseudo-magnetic fields due to strain are the dominant scattering source. Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy measurements confirm the role of local strain fluctuations, since the line-width of the Raman 2D-peak --containing information of local strain fluctuations present in graphene-- correlates with the value of maximum observed mobility. The importance of strain is corroborated by a theoretical analysis of the relation between $μ$ and $n^*$ that shows how local strain fluctuations reproduce the experimental data at a quantitative level, with $n^*$ being determined by the scalar deformation potential and $μ$ by the random pseudo-magnetic field (consistently with the conclusion drawn from the analysis of weak-localization). Throughout our study, we compare the behavior of devices on hBN substrates to that of devices on SiO$_2$ and SrTiO$_3$, and find that all conclusions drawn for the case of hBN are compatible with the observations made on these other materials. These observations suggest that random strain fluctuations are the dominant source of disorder for high-quality graphene on many different substrates, and not only on hexagonal boron nitride.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, To appear in Physical Review X
Additional file 1 of Machine learning provides specific detection of salt and drought stresses in cucumber based on miRNA characteristics
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Parvin
name: Asefpour Vakilian, Keyvan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Cucumber plant characteristics in various drought and salinity stress levels. W0 to W3 and S0 to S3 indicate drought and salinity stress levels, respectively, which are described in the main manuscript.
Learning-Oriented Assessment: The Proficiency Dimension
Creators: name: Heil, Catherine Regina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Second language acquisition--Ability testing
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
Student-centered learning
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: The proficiency dimension of the learning-oriented assessment (LOA) framework addresses the specific linguistic and content knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) possessed by L2 learners -it is the substance, or the “what” of teaching and learning. It raises questions such as: What do learners know? What are they expected to know? What do they actually know (Turner & Purpura, 2015). Proficiency is often conceptualized through theoretical models of L2 ability, such as Lado’s (1961) “Skills-and-Elements” model, Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) model of communicative language ability, and Purpura’s (2004) conceptualization of L2 Proficiency. These proficiency models attempt to identify how KSAs are situated in the minds of learners. In addition to these models, the proficiency dimension also examines the dynamic role of learner proficiency by asking how KSAs change and may be tracked over time.
Learning-Oriented Assessment: An Introduction
Creators: name: Wyner, Lauren Jill
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Second language acquisition--Ability testing
Learning, Psychology of
Educational tests and measurements
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: Traditionally, second or foreign (L2) language assessment has been mainly viewed as the product of large-scale proficiency exams or end-of-term summative tests intended to provide external measures of L2 ability (Turner & Purpura, 2015). To anyone who has taken an L2 test, it often appears that summative assessments “serve to catch learners out and to emphasize their weaknesses, rather than to ensure that every learner has the best set of opportunities to demonstrate their abilities” (Lyons & Tavares, 2011, p. 32). It is no wonder then that stemming in part from the social constructivist theories popularized in the 1970s, the notion of formative assessment (FA) has steadily gained traction for L2 testers, teachers, and researchers who recognize that assessment can and should play a role in learning so that every learner will be able to best demonstrate their abilities.
Learning-Oriented Assessment: The Contextual Dimension
Creators: name: Smith, Melissa Renee
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
Second language acquisition
Student-centered learning
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: Over five hundred years ago, Copernicus presented findings that revolutionized the world by shifting focus away from the Earth and towards the sun as the center of the universe. Education has been encountering a similar paradigm-altering shift with the center of learning moving from the teacher to the learner. Learning-oriented assessment (LOA) is an emerging framework of that reconceptualization. LOA is, at its core, learner-centric, where attention falls concentrically, beginning with the learner, followed by learner interactions with other agents in the learning process, then moving to factors outside of the learner within the learning space (J. E. Purpura, personal communication, September 12, 2014).
Learning-Oriented Assessment: The Affective Dimension
Creators: name: Stabler-Havener, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
Students--Attitudes
Student-centered learning
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: As elucidated by Purpura and Turner in their presentation at the Teachers College Columbia University Round Table in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS) 2014 conference, language-oriented assessment (LOA) emphasizes the centrality of learning when the interrelatedness between instruction, assessment, and learning are examined. The LOA framework is composed of seven dimensions: the contextual dimension, the elicitation dimension, the proficiency dimension, the learning dimension, the instructional dimension, the interactional dimension, and the affective dimension. This article will explore the affective dimension as it surfaced in the papers presented at the TCCRISLS conference.
Beta-decay of Mn-65 to Fe-65
Creators: name: Olaizola, B.
name: Fraile, L. M.
name: Mach, H.
name: Aprahamian, A.
name: Briz, J. A.
name: Cal-Gonzalez, J.
name: Ghita, D.
name: Koster, U.
name: Kurcewicz, W.
name: Lesher, S. R.
name: Pauwels, D.
name: Picado, E.
name: Poves, A.
name: Radulov, D.
name: Simpson, G. S.
name: Udias, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V35

description: The low energy structure of Fe-65 has been studied by means of gamma- and fast-timing spectroscopy. A level scheme of Fe-65 populated following the beta-decay of Mn-65 was established for the first time. It includes 41 levels and 85 transitions. The excitation energy of the beta-decaying isomer in Fe-65 has been precisely determined at 393.7(2) keV. The beta delayed neutron emission branch was measured as Pn = 7.9(12)%, which cannot be reconciled with the previously reported value of 21.0(5)%. Four gamma-rays and four excited states in Fe-64 were identified as being populated following the beta-n decay. Four lifetimes and five lifetime limits in the subnanosecond range have been measured using the Advanced Time-Delayed Method. The level scheme is compared with shell-model calculations. Tentative spin and parity assignments are proposed based on the observed transition rates, the calculations and the systematics of the region.
description: Accepted in Physical Review C
Reflections on TCCRISLS 2014: Roundtable on Learning-Oriented Assessment in Language Classrooms and Large-Scale Assessment Contexts
Creators: name: Han-Ting Liu, Heidi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Educational tests and measurements
Language and languages--Ability testing
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York hosted the 3rd Roundtable in Second Language Studies featuring learning-oriented assessment (LOA) in October, 2014. The three-day conference oversaw a total of 19 presentations, including six theoretical papers on LOA in applied linguistics, three theoretical papers on LOA in mainstream education, three application papers on LOA, and seven empirical papers of LOA, as well as two discussant sessions. The theme, learning-oriented assessment (LOA), addresses the recent shift of focus in assessments from teacher-centered to learner-centered, proposing how assessment can, and probably should, facilitate learning.