cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles Times Poll: National Politics
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: President Bill Clinton job performance (8); Iraq (3); recession (1); economy (5); holiday season spending (1); financial standing (2); unemployment (1); inflation (1); voting (2); Democrats (2); Republicans (2); Congress (5); government in Washington job approval (1); U.S. Senate (1); House of Representatives (1); limiting terms for politicians (1); government spending (2); "gridlock" in Washington (1); President Clinton and the Republicans in Congress (5); national health care system (1); "The Contract with America" (2); military strength (2); Haiti (4); foreign relations (2); abortion (1).
High precision proton angular distribution measurements of $^{12}$C(p,p') for determination of the $E0$ decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state
Creators: name: Cook, K. J.
name: Chevis, A.
name: Eriksen, T. K.
name: Simpson, E. C.
name: Kibedi, T.
name: Bezzina, L. T.
name: Berriman, A. C.
name: Buete, J.
name: Carter, I. P.
name: Dasgupta, M.
name: Hinde, D. J.
name: Jeung, D. Y.
name: McGlynn, P.
name: Parker-Steele, S.
name: Swinton-Bland, B. M. A.
name: Tanaka, T.
name: Wojtaczka, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: In stars, carbon is produced exclusively via the $3α$ process, where three $α$ particles fuse to form $^{12}$C in the excited Hoyle state, which can then decay to the ground state. The rate of carbon production in stars depends on the radiative width of the Hoyle state. The radiative width can be deduced by combining three separately measured quantities, one of which is the $E0$ decay branching ratio. The $E0$ branching ratio can be measured by exciting the Hoyle state in the $^{12}$C$(p,p')$ reaction and measuring the pair decay of its Hoyle state and first $2^+$ state. Purpose: To reduce the uncertainties in the carbon production rate in the universe by measuring a set of proton angular distributions for the population of the Hoyle state ($0^+_2$) and $2^+_1$ state in $^{12}$C in $^{12}$C$(p,p')$ reactions between 10.20 and 10.70 MeV, used in the determination of the $E0$ branching ratio of the Hoyle state. Method: Proton angular distributions populating the ground, first $2^+$, and the Hoyle states in $^{12}$C were measured in $^{12}$C(p,p') reactions with a silicon detector array covering $22^\circ<θ<158^\circ$ in 14 energy steps between 10.20 and 10.70 MeV with a thin ($60\ μ$g/cm$^2$) $^{nat}$C target. Results: Total cross-sections for each state were extracted and the population ratio between the $2^+_1$ and Hoyle state determined at each energy step. By appropriately averaging these cross-sections and taking their ratio, the equivalent population ratio can be extracted applicable for any thick $^{12}$C target used in pair-conversion measurements. Conclusions: We present a general data set of high-precision $^{12}$C$(p,p')$ cross-sections that make uncertainties resulting from the population of the $2^+_1$ and $0^+_2$ states by proton inelastic scattering negligible for any future measurements of the $E0$ branching ratio in $^{12}$C.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
title: Der Dokumentarfilm als Form des Protests
Creators: name: Scheichelbauer, Helga
Year: 2020

description: Ausgehend von der Frage, inwiefern Formen des Protests sich im Dokumentarfilm äußern, stützt sich die vorliegende Arbeit auf Judith Butlers These, dass die bloße Erscheinung von Prekarität im öffentlichen Raum Protest bedeutet. Da das Dokumentarische stets einer Wahrheitsbetrachtung unterworfen ist, stellt die Untersuchung der Produktionsbedingung eine zentrale Rolle in der Analyse der Filme dar. Dem voraus geht Hito Steyerls Betrachtung zur Politik der Wahrheit sowie Farooq A. Kperogis Ansichten über Bürgerjournalismus im widerständischen Verhältnis zum konventionellen Journalismus. Der erste Film LES SAUTEURS – THOSE WHO JUMP (DK 2016) folgt einem bürgerjournalistischen Stil. Der Betroffene dokumentiert und kommentiert hier selbstständig seine Flucht. Das zweite Beispiel EXILE FAMILY MOVIE (A1994-2006) basiert auf Aufnahmen aus privatem Footage einer in der Diaspora lebenden Exil- Familie. Der dritte Film LAMPEDUSA IM WINTER (A, I, CH 2015) wiederum repräsentiert die konventionelle Machart mit einem dahinterstehenden Regisseur. Der Vergleich hat bestätigt, dass die Wahrheitsproduktion im Dokumentarischen gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen unterliegt. Das Machtverhältnis macht sich insbesondere durch die Themensetzung in der medialen Welt bemerkbar. Wie sich zeigte, brachte der partizipierende bzw. bürgerjournalistische Ansatz bislang tabuisierte Themen in die Welt. Obendrein brechen diese unkonventionellen Formen der Berichterstattung mit journalistischer Tradition und entwickeln Widerstand gegen ein Alltagsdenken, das Betroffene in ein Hegemonie befangenes Storytelling einordnet. Die Entfremdung des prekären Körpers war vor allem in der konventionellen Produktion der Fall, während in den unkonventionellen Produktionen der prekäre Körper demokratischere Bedingungen vorfindet und sich dementsprechend auch ausdrücken kann.
title: Das rumäniendeutsche literarische Feld
Creators: name: Fürst, Elena Margarethe
Year: 2020

description: Die „rumäniendeutsche Literatur“ hat sich als Beschreibungskategorie im literaturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs der letzten 50 Jahre nachhaltig durchgesetzt, wobei sich jedoch kein Konsens über die Definition des Begriffes gebildet hat. Die verschiedenen – sich teilweise widersprechenden – Theorien zur „rumäniendeutschen Literatur“ basieren auf der Praxis des literaturwissenschaftlichen Labellings. Anhand von Begriffen wie „Minderheitenliteratur“ oder „Inselsprachenliteratur“ wird das Label „rumäniendeutsche Literatur“ in einem Zirkelschluss definiert, ohne dass damit jedoch eine tatsächliche Bedeutungserweiterung eintritt. Labels dienen dabei als aufmerksamkeitslenkende Begriffe, die neue Themen in den literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsdiskurs einführen. Ihr nachhaltiger Nutzen für die Forschung ist jedoch in Frage zu stellen, wenn die Verwendung von Labels nicht auch mit der Anwendung einer konkreten Methode einhergeht. Als Alternative und mögliche Überwindung dieser Problematik wird die Anwendung einer feldtheoretischen Analyse im Sinne Pierre Bourdieus für die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Untersuchungsgegenstand vorgeschlagen und die Existenz eines „rumäniendeutschen“ literarischen Feldes argumentiert. Bourdieus theoretische Ausführungen stellen eine ergiebige Methode für eine literatursoziologische Untersuchung der verschiedenen Aspekte der deutschsprachigen Literaturproduktion Rumäniens in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts dar.
At the borders: migrant women's experiences of family violence and help-seeking in Australia
Creators: name: Vasil, Stefani
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440503
subject: Feminist theory
classificationCode: 440505
subject: Intersectional studies
classificationCode: 440705
subject: Gender, policy and administration
classificationCode: 440802
subject: Citizenship

description: Federal, state and territory governments in Australia have established a firm commitment to addressing the prevalence of violence against women and their children. Notwithstanding recent policy-level efforts, the diverse experiences of migrant (also referred to as 'culturally and linguistically diverse' [CALD]) women are still not very well understood. In recent decades, feminist scholars have sought to diversify existing understandings of family violence, examining how women's lived experiences are influenced by the social location of 'immigration' and its intersections with other locations across the divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and class. In this thesis I have sought to contribute to a growing body of feminist scholarship that examines how immigration or migration status shapes the nature and dynamics of family violence, as well as women's opportunities for help-seeking and ability to access support. In doing so, I undertake a structural analysis of the lived experiences of women with insecure migration status in Australia and draw directly from the perspectives of victim-survivors and the service providers who support them. I also draw on the lens of precarity to interpret my findings and seek to generate further insight into the structural and systemic factors that influence the dynamics of family violence in the context of migration. I argue that the failure to attend to the particularities of women's lived experiences, and how these are impacted by insecure migration status, results not only in partial understandings of family violence, but in inadequate policy formation, which impacts women's help-seeking at a range of levels.
Understanding human traffickers in Indonesia: characteristics, perspectives, and pathways to prevention
Creators: name: PARAMITA SARI, Yuniar
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440702
subject: Crime policy
classificationCode: 440807
subject: Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific

description: The human rights-based approach to human trafficking emphasises the principle that, instead of focusing on the prosecution of traffickers, the victims of trafficking should be the foremost focus of attention. However, although human rights-based approach is considered as a comprehensive approach to address human trafficking, I argue that there is a limitation found in this approach. Using human rights-based approach and implementing the 3Ps framework of the prevention of trafficking, prosecution of traffickers, and protection of the victims - there is a neglect of the prevention trafficking by discouraging individuals from committing human trafficking. The human rights-based approach that focus more on victims does not place a significant enough effort to understanding the causes or the reasons why people commit trafficking, and to prevent them from becoming perpetrators.

This research, therefore, sets out to understand the characteristics of people involved in human trafficking, such as socio-demographic background, methods of operation, and organisational structure, and the underlying factors, such as the motivations and the perspectives, that lead people to participate in human trafficking. It does this by focusing on people who traffic for the sex industry and for domestic labour in Indonesia. To gain insight into traffickers in Indonesia, this study conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with lawyers and the representatives of organisations who deal with traffickers, and an analysis of 60 court documents of trafficking cases from between 2018-2019.

The analysis shows that there are differences in characteristics of people involved in human trafficking for domestic labour compared to the sex industry. The differences of characteristics between sex industry traffickers and domestic labour traffickers lie in the socio-demographics, the methods of operation, organisational structure and the motivations of the traffickers. Traffickers for domestic labour were motivated by larger financial gains, whereas traffickers for the sex industry received much less financial gain. The people involved in domestic labour trafficking were also more motivated to help others to find a job, whereas this was much less common amongst traffickers for the sex industry. Other differences were discovered and described in this study, including cultural factors in specific locations in Indonesia. The differences between kinds of traffickers means that, to be effective, it is important to develop nuanced deterrence and mitigation strategies that recognise these differences. This thesis concludes with recommendations for changes in strategy and policy at the national and international levels to counter human trafficking by understanding the perpetrators.
title: Braucht es eine Theory of Mind zum Verständnis psychologischer Verben?
Creators: name: Kornberger, Moritz
Year: 2020

description: Die Verbindung zwischen kognitiven und linguistischen Fähigkeiten zeigt sich selten so deutlich wie an der Auseinandersetzung mit psychologischen Verben. Während sich etwa Bewegungsverben durch relativ einfaches Erlernen und Verständnis auszeichnen, stellen psychologische Verben, die mentale Zustände beschreiben, Herausforderungen in unterschiedlichsten Bereichen dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit thematisiert diese Herausforderungen nicht nur, sondern schlägt durch die Verbindung zwischen Reinharts Theta-Theorien und Leslies kognitiven Wahrnehmungsmechanismen eine Brücke zwischen Linguistik und Kognitionswissenschaft, um den Zusammenhang zwischen einer Theory of Mind und dem Verständnis von psychologischen Verben, der sich besonders deutlich anhand von Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen zeigt, zu verdeutlichen und Anregungen für weiterführende empirische Untersuchungen bereitzustellen.
description: The connection between cognitive and linguistic abilities is rarely as evident as in the discussion of psychological verbs. While action verbs are characterized by their relatively easy acquisition and are easily understood, psychological verbs, which are describing mental states, pose challenges in different areas. Not only is the presented thesis focusing on these challenges, but also it is drawing the line between linguistics and cognitive science, by connecting Reinharts Theta Theory with Leslies cognitive mechanisms of perception, to demonstrate the correlation between Theory of Mind and the understanding of psychological verbs, which is especially evident in cases of Autism-Spectrum-Diseases, to provide suggestions for further empirical studies.
The Distinction in the Tractatus Between Saying and Showing
Creators: name: Harward, Donald W.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1970

description: The distinction between saying and showing is fundamental to Wittgenstein's attempt in the Tractatus to explain the communication of significant propositions, the function of non-significant assertions, and the general relationships between thought, language and reality. In fact, the saying and showing distinctions provide the key to an interpretation of the philosophies of logic and language in the Tractatus. The distinction has not been thoroughly investigated in the Wittgensteinian literature. When it has been discussed, it has not been analyzed rigorously; nor, I think, has it been analyzed correctly. It is quite remarkable that a distinction so important to the Tractatus has been given such brief treatment. I critically construct the positions of the six leading commentators on the Tractatus doctrines of saying and showing early in the dissertation. The commentators are: Pitcher, Black, Stenius, Favrholdt, Schwyzer and Shwayder. Arguments are presented to demonstrate the inadequacies of each of their intepretations. By paying attention to just how Wittgenstein uses various "show" and "say" terms or expressions in the Tractatus, and by exploring what follows from those uses, an appropriate interpretation is found. In Chapters Three and Four, I structure this interpretation and I indicate how it avoids the criticisms and errors attributed to the other commentaries. The last chapter buttresses my interpretation of what Wittgenstein is doing in, and with, the doctrines of showing and saying in the Tractatus by presenting support­ing evidence from the pre-Tractatus manuscripts.
Los Angeles Times Poll # 1995-357: National Issues
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Direction of U.S. (1); Bill Clinton job performance (2); Republican Congressional program (10); groups in America (1); United Nations (1); NRA (1); federal government (3); assault weapons ban/gun control (2); terrorism (10); Oklahoma City (10); militia groups (5).
A New Dataset and A Baseline Model for Breast Lesion Detection in Ultrasound Videos
Creators: name: Lin, Zhi
name: Lin, Junhao
name: Zhu, Lei
name: Fu, Huazhu
name: Qin, Jing
name: Wang, Liansheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Breast lesion detection in ultrasound is critical for breast cancer diagnosis. Existing methods mainly rely on individual 2D ultrasound images or combine unlabeled video and labeled 2D images to train models for breast lesion detection. In this paper, we first collect and annotate an ultrasound video dataset (188 videos) for breast lesion detection. Moreover, we propose a clip-level and video-level feature aggregated network (CVA-Net) for addressing breast lesion detection in ultrasound videos by aggregating video-level lesion classification features and clip-level temporal features. The clip-level temporal features encode local temporal information of ordered video frames and global temporal information of shuffled video frames. In our CVA-Net, an inter-video fusion module is devised to fuse local features from original video frames and global features from shuffled video frames, and an intra-video fusion module is devised to learn the temporal information among adjacent video frames. Moreover, we learn video-level features to classify the breast lesions of the original video as benign or malignant lesions to further enhance the final breast lesion detection performance in ultrasound videos. Experimental results on our annotated dataset demonstrate that our CVA-Net clearly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. The corresponding code and dataset are publicly available at \url{https://github.com/jhl-Det/CVA-Net}.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Brief an [Johann Rudolf Wettstein]
Creators: name: Finsterling, Hermann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1669

description: Antwortschreiben auf den Brief von Wettstein an Finsterling vom 31. Juli 1669
description: von [Hermann Finsterling]
description: Lateinisch
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation TIFF 03.05.2015
title: The Effects of Personality and Mental Workload on Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability
Creators: name: Pearson, Gwendolyn Lorell
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of extraversion and task difficulty on heart rate reactivity, heart rate variability and task performance.

In order to select subjects with extreme extraversion and introversion scores, one hundred and one male undergraduate students between the ages of 18-30 were asked to complete the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Fifteen extraverts and fifteen introverts, as determined by the Eysenck Personality Inventory, participated in the physiological testing session. subjects listened to mental arithmetic problems which were presented by audio tape. The subjects task was to determine if the given answer to each problem was correct or incorrect. During the testing session, each subject's heart signal was recorded on electromagnetic tape. The heart signal was analyzed offline using Fourier analysis to determine the subject's heart rate variability.

Two way analysis of variance indicated that performance (t(2,56) =92.15,~<.05) on the task decreased and heart rate reactivity (t (2,56)=7.00,~<.05) increased as task difficulty increased. In addition, introverts showed larger heart rate reactivity to the task than extraverts (t(l,28)=6.16,~<.05). However, there were no significant effects of extraversion or task difficulty on overall heart rate variability and the 0.10 component of heart rate variability.

Since introverts showed larger heart rate reactivity to the task than extraverts, the present study supports Eysenck's physiological theory of extraversion. This study replicates the results of a previous study (Carroll, Turner and Hellawell, 1986) with regard to the performance and heart rate data for the mental arithmetic task. The mental arithmetic task appears useful for the study of heart rate reactivity. This study does not support previous research which has found heart rate variability and in particular the 0.10 component to be an indicator of mental workload. Future studies should continue to identify aspects of the experimental situation which moderate the relationship between mental workload and the 0.10 component of the heart rate variability power spectrum.
Space Broadband Access: The Race Has Just Begun
Creators: name: Huo, Yiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of the commercial space industry, including rocket launch, satellite network deployment, private space travel, and even extraterrestrial colonization. Several trends are predicted in this unprecedented transition to an era of space-enabled broadband access.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by IEEE Magazine (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=2)
Expectations for Organizational Combinations
Creators: name: Rentsch, Joan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1985

description: This study is an attempt to learn more about the expectations that people hold for organizational combinations (mergers and acquisitions). A measure of organizational combination expectations was developed to test hypotheses regarding the power, autonomy, identity, job security, and morale expectations that people hold for combinations. It was hypothesized that one's expectations would depend on the individual's perspective in the combination, that is, whether one is in an acquired, merged, or acquiring organization. Expectations were also hypothesized to differ depending on the motive for the combination (e.g. organizational survival or organizational growth). It was expected that perspective would also influence perceived uncertainty. The relationship between perceived uncertainty and motive, and the influence of perspective, and motive on expected satisfaction were also explored. 252 MRA students were presented with scenarios of combinations in which perspective and motive were manipulated. They then responded to the survey of combination expectations, a measure of perceived uncertainty and a satisfaction scale. Results indicated that motive and perspective did have significant effects on expectations, but they did not influence expected satisfaction. The influence of perspective on uncertainty was not significant. Uncertainty was influenced by motive, such that there was less uncertainty when growth was the motive than when survival was the motive. Exploratory analysis indicated that expectations are better predictors of expected satisfaction than is uncertainty, Implications of the results and the limitations of the study are discussed.
Who Wants to be a College President? Forms of Capital and the Career Aspirations of Senior College Administrators
Creators: name: Umbach, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2003

description: This study used the theories of human, social and cultural capital as a lens to study the career aspirations of senior administrators, specifically vice presidents and deans already in the pipeline to the college presidency, particularly as they related to race and gender. More than 2,700 vice presidents and deans at American Association for State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) member institutions were asked to provide demographic information, ant to respond to survey items assessing their accumulation of capital, their experiences with discrimination and their aspirations. More than 1,600 surveys were returned resulting in a 61 % response rate. The typical senior administrator at state colleges and universities was a 54 year old, White, male from a middle to upper class family. Approximately 30% of the senior administrators were women. People of color made up approximately 13% of the senior administrators. African Americans represented the largest number of people of color at 8% of the respondents, followed by Latinos/as (3% of the sample) and other minorities (2% of the sample). The study found that most senior administrators did not aspire to be college presidents. Forms of capital were found to have a strong relationship with aspirations. Greater accumulation of human, social and cultural capital led to higher levels of presidential aspirations. Race and gender also were related to presidential aspirations. African Americans were significantly more likely than Whites to aspire to the presidency, and women were significantly less likely than men to want a presidential post, even after controlling for capital and discrimination. The majority of women and people of color in the study experienced discrimination in their career. For women, their experiences with discrimination appeared to have a negative impact when predicting some of the measures of aspirations. For people of color, their reported experiences had little impact on their presidential aspirations. The findings of this study highlighted the importance of issues of networks and mentoring. It also furthered the understanding of the impact of forms of capital, the pipeline to the presidency and discrimination on the aspirations of senior administrators.
The Virgin Islands under the United States Navel Administration, 1917-1931
Creators: name: La Motta, Gregory Raymond
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1982

description: This thesis examines the United States naval administration of the Virgin Islands to determine how the transfer from Danish to American sovereignty affected the island society. This examination provides some insights into the establishment of an American government as part of the history of the Virgin Islands. The paper tries to determine whether the United States naval administration represented more the beginning of a break with the colonial system developed under the Danes, or the continuation of that process of colonialism. This study, largely utilizes the documents contained in several Record Groups of the National Archives. By the information obtained from these documents, the paper analyzes the relationship of social classes to the political and economic systems of the islands. This analysis reveals that the political and economic systems continued to operate for the benefit of the colonial power and a small local elite. Largely due to their racist perceptions of Virgin Islanders, the navy sought to maintain the systems that ensured white domination of the society. This adherence to the existing order disappointed many Virgin Islanders, who hoped that American rule would bring political and social reforms to the colony. Despite the institution of some American cultural practices, the system of colonialism changed little during the fourteen years of United States Navy rule.
Dynamics of a Helicopter-Slung Load System
Creators: name: Sampath, Prasad
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1980

description: Stability of a tandem rotor helicopter (347/HLH) carrying a slung cargo container has been investigated. Lagrange equations were used to write the equations of motion. The cables of the sling were modeled as massless rigid extensible rods, which collapse under compressive loads. Extensibility was provided by considering the rods as linear spring with viscous damping. Aerodynamics of the cable were neglected. Tabulated static aerodynamic data were considered for the helicopter as well as the load. The equations were divided into two sets, one representing the towing vehicle (referred to as Subsystem 1) and the other representing the slung load (referred to as Subsystem 2). Subsystem 2 corresponds to a wind tunnel model of a slung load.
The Effect of Plant Nutrition on the Reproductive Rate and Susceptibility to Malathion of Two Strains of the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus telarius (L.)
Creators: name: Henneberry, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1960

description: Studies were conducted to determine the effect of plant nutrition on the reproductive rate and susceptibility to malathion of two strains of the two-spotted spider mite. The two strains of mites used as test organisms are characterized by their widely different levels of suscept­ibility to phosphate acaricides. Lima bean plants were grown in quartz sand and supplied nutrient solutions containing varying levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Total nitrogen and total water soluble carbohydrate in the host plant tissue were determined by standard methods. Correlation analysis with the number of mite progeny and results of leaf analyses were conducted. The effects of plant nutrition on susceptibility to malathion of the two mite strains were determined by comparing per cent mortality data of mites from plants supplied the various nutrient solutions, Dosage-mortality responses of the two mite strains were also determined for mites of both strains from plants supplied nutrient solutions producing the greatest response in susceptibility. The reproductive rate of both strains increased as the supply and absorption of nitrogen increased. However, in studies with the resistant mite, a reduction in the number of progeny occurred on plants supplied the highest nitrogen level. The number of progeny of the malathion non­resistant mite were significantly correlated to increased nitrogen absorption. Increased reproductive rate of both strains was correlated to the carbohydrate present in the leaf tissue. When carbohydrate content in the leaf tissue was increased along with an increase in nitrogen supply and absorption the mite reproductive rate also increased. At still higher levels of nitrogen supply and absorption, carbohydrate content of leaf tissue decreased and the mite reproductive rate was depressed or failed to increase, The malathion non-resistant mite appeared more responsive to plants deficient in nitrogen than the resistant mite, On plants supplied the low nitrogen nutrient solutions, non-resistant mites failed to subsist, while the resistant mites maintained relatively high populations. The malathion non-resistant mite also produced more progeny on plants when phosphorus supply was increased. Populations of the resistant mite increased at higher levels of potassium. Phosphorus and potassium supply alone and in combination with certain levels of nitrogen affected nitrogen absorption and the relative amounts of carbohydrate present in the leaf tissue. Increasing the nitrogen supply to host plants resulted in increased susceptibility of the resistant mite to malathion. The non-resistant mite was more responsive to variations in phosphorus supply of host plants. A decrease in susceptibility followed an increase in phosphorus supply.
Clients' Perspectives on Unresolved Therapeutic Impasses
Creators: name: Petersen, David A.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1998

description: A therapeutic impasse is a stalemate between a client and a therapist that grinds progress in therapy to a halt. Left unresolved, therapeutic impasses typically lead to the client dropping out of treatment (Weiner, 1974). Although there is some agreement in the clinical literature about what factors contribute to therapeutic impasses, there has been minimal empirical research in this area. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the factors associated with unresolved impasses that result in the client quitting therapy. A secondary purpose of this study was to examine whether therapeutic impasses evolve differently for clients with different styles of attachment to their therapists. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 former psychotherapy clients who dropped out of therapy due to unresolved impasses with their therapists. Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR; Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997) was used to analyze clients' responses. In addition, clients completed the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS; Mallinckrodt, Gantt, & Coble, 1995), which assessed clients' degree of secure, avoidant-fearful, and preoccupied-merger attachment to their therapists. Results suggest that impasses in therapy are highly emotional events for clients. Whereas most of the clients reported that the therapists said or did something that bothered them, clients also admitted that they had difficulty expressing their dissatisfaction to their therapists, were reluctant to explore certain issues in therapy, and had issues or personality styles that interfered with therapy. Indeed, clients had significant pathology and may have been particularly difficult cases for their therapists. Progress in therapy also was impeded by disagreement over the structure and focus of therapy. Few clients felt that their therapists were aware that an impasse existed. Whereas most clients had an avoidant-fearful attachment style, those who also were high in preoccupied-merger attachment seemed to have especially negative experiences with impasses. The results of this study suggest ways in which therapists might decrease or resolve impasses, including assessing client variables that are associated with impasses, inviting feedback from clients about the process of therapy, and educating clients about therapy and the potential for problems.
Making It: A Qualitative Study of Resilience Among Single Mothers Raising Daughters in Risky Neighborhoods
Creators: name: Brodsky, Anne E.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1995

description: Most prior research has identified only pitfalls for urban, low-income, African American, single mothers. This qualitative study focused on resilient single mothers and using semi-structured interviews allowed participants to define and describe their own experiences, both stresses and strategies for coping. Ten women who had been single mothers for at least two years were identified as resilient by school-based key informants and participated in two hour-long individual interviews. The risky neighborhoods in which these women live are urban neighborhoods characterized by poverty, violence, crime and drugs. A literature review and focus group were utilized to develop initial interview topics and coding formats. Interviews were taped and transcribed, and coded using an open-ended recursive template. Participants described a unique balance of both the stresses and resources existing in eight dimensions in their lives: self-attributes, role as parent, family, friends, male significant others, money, spirituality, and their neighborhood. Each participant had a balance based on a unique person-environment fit. Resilience or "making it" was found to involve both the attainment of goals and the constant process of reaching further. Participants were able to both appreciate their current status and were motivated to strive for more. The findings reported present a more heterogeneous and emic picture of urban, low-income, African ­American, single mothers, shed light on the processes of resilience, and also have implications for the design and implementation of intervention to support further successes among other women in similar situations.
Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg News Poll: George W. Bush and Iraq
Creators: name: Bloomberg News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: Direction of the country (3); George W. Bush job performance (5); first priority issues for Congress (1); support/oppose proposal (8); Congress job performance (1); opinion of Congress (2); opinion of public figures (2); new ethics package proposal (1); economy (6); housing values (1); personal finances (1); Iraq (21); support for 2008 Presidential candidates (3).
National Election Pool Poll # 2006-STELEC-TN: Tennessee Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: National Election Pool (NEP)
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: For whom did respondent just vote in the Senatorial election (1); when decided who to vote for Senator (1); respondent¿s vote was to express support/opposition to George W. Bush (1); for whom did respondent just vote in the Gubernatorial election (1); Bill Frist making a good president (1); respondent¿s vote on propositions (1); George W. Bush job performance (1); respondents views towards candidates for U.S. Senator attacking each other unfairly (1); for whom did respondent vote in 2004 Presidential election (1); importance of issue in vote for U.S. Senator (5); war in Iraq (1); U.S. troops in Iraq (1).
Particle paths in equatorial flows
Creators: name: Lyons, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 76U60, Secondary: 76B15, 76B47

description: We investigate particle trajectories in equatorial flows with geophysical corrections caused by the earth's rotation. Particle trajectories in the flows are constructed using pairs of analytic functions defined over the labelling space used in the Lagrangian formalism. Several classes of flow are investigated, and the physical regime in which each is valid is determined using the pressure distribution function of the flow, while the vorticity distribution of each flow is also calculated and found to be effected by earth's rotation.
Hart-Teeter/NBC/WSJ Poll # 2003-6034: Iraq
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: Direction of country (1); George W. Bush job performance (3); 2004 presidential election (1); presidential primaries (2); top priorities for president and Congress to address this year (2); policy issues set by Republicans or Democrats (6); U.S. should/should not have taken military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power (1); war in Iraq generally over/more challenges remain ahead (1); feelings about war in Iraq (3); new military policy (1); U.S. should/should not take military action against nations that pose a potential threat (3); U.S. successful/unsuccessful in goals in war with Iraq (4); strength of Iraqi military (1); capturing/killing Saddam Hussein necessary to win war (1); threat of terrorism in U.S. (1); America's standing in the world (1); rebuilding Iraq (2); U.N. can/can not still effectively function as an international peace-keeping force (1); greatest threat to U.S. (1); good/bad idea for civilian reporters to travel with military units (1); economy (4).
Voter News Service Exit Poll: New Hampshire
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
name: Voter News Service
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Republican primary vote(1); vote deciding moment(1); vote deciding issue(1); candidate quality(1); strongest impression about the candidates(1); Bob Dole's age(1); abortion(1); taxes(1); Steve Forbes's money(1); conservative Republican agenda(1); Republican candidate vs. Clinton(1); negative advertising in politics(1); member of the religious right(1); 1992 presidential election(1); religion(1); political ideology(1).
Brief an [Johann Rudolf Wettstein]
Creators: name: Finsterling, Hermann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1669

description: Antwortschreiben auf den Brief von Wettstein an Finsterling vom 12. Nov. 1669
description: von [Hermann Finsterling]
description: Lateinisch
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation TIFF 03.05.2015
title: Dem Schmerz auf der Spur. Schmerz und Schmerzbegleitung – (k)ein Thema der Heilpädagogik und Inklusiven Pädagogik
Creators: name: Obermayr, Tina
Year: 2020

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit geht inhaltlich zunächst der Frage nach, inwiefern Schmerz(begleitung) als Themen- bzw. Aufgabengebiet Eingang in den bisherigen Diskurs der Heilpädagogik und Inklusiven Pädagogik gefunden hat. Im Versuch, disziplinäre Denkkollektive zu eruieren und sichtbar zu machen, werden spezifische heilpädagogische Systementwürfe im Hinblick auf Gegenstands- und Tätigkeitsbereich sowie Subjektverständnis der Analyse unterzogen (Kobi 2004; Speck 2008; Jantzen 2007). Auf die dabei in Erscheinung tretenden Erkenntnisse aufbauend erfolgt unter Bezugnahme auf die (Leib)Phänomenologie als primäre Referenztheorie sodann der Begründungsversuch einer (heil)pädagogischen Schmerzbegleitung im Sinne einer Lebensbegleitung. Im Zuge der Bearbeitung der forschungsleitenden Fragestellung wird offenkundig, inwiefern Fremdheit als konstitutiver Moment von Bildung zu verstehen ist, leibliches Existieren mit lebenslangem Sterben einhergeht und zuletzt, inwiefern der Dialog als (intersubjektiver) Erfahrungsraum bildender Verhältnisse anerkannt werden kann.
Mantle Anisotropy And Asthenospheric Flow Around Cratons In Southeastern South America
Creators: name: Chagas de Melo, Bruna
name: Assumpção, Marcelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Anisotropy
Shear Wave Splitting
Mantle Flow

description: Oral presentation presented at the II Seismology Symposium at João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
Smart tuft sensors for measuring flow speed and turbulence
Creators: name: Pevitt, Christopher
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401201
subject: Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)

description: Experimental testing is crucial in understanding and modelling free-stream airflows but is hampered by the lack of cost-effective, versatile and accurate sensor capabilities to capture qualitative and quantitative data. This research introduces a "Smart Tuft" sensor to bridge the gap in analysing subsonic wind tunnel flows below 40m/s. Smart Tufts are developed from conductive materials, allowing for a quantifiable representation of the Tufts fluttering interactions with the flow. The signal data is captured and processed through the novel utilisation of Fractal Dimensions, extrapolating the underlying variations within the signal data compared to changes in the free-stream velocity.

Wind tunnel testing is performed with a selection of materials and correlated to a reference Pitot static tube. Final material selection of a "Conductive Knit" resulted in correlations of 98.6%, a mean error estimate across the findings of 3% and a significance level of 3.7E-35 (p<<0.001).

Variations in turbulence intensity are analysed against a Cobra Probe across different sized turbulence grids within the wind tunnel test section. The multifractality of the sensor data was compared by establishing the application of "Fractal Dimensions of Fractal Dimensions". While validating the underlying turbulence interactions within the flow, determining distinct variations in the intensity requires further investigation and additional testing.

This research introduces an innovative technique to correlate piezoresistive signal variations against changes in the free-stream velocity. Along with previous contributions, this helped validate the potential development and feasibility of a Smart Tuft design to bridge the gap in experimental testing capabilities.
An Understanding-Oriented Robust Machine Reading Comprehension Model
Creators: name: Ren, Feiliang
name: Liu, Yongkang
name: Li, Bochao
name: Liu, Shilei
name: Wang, Bingchao
name: Wang, Jiaqi
name: Liu, Chunchao
name: Ma, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although existing machine reading comprehension models are making rapid progress on many datasets, they are far from robust. In this paper, we propose an understanding-oriented machine reading comprehension model to address three kinds of robustness issues, which are over sensitivity, over stability and generalization. Specifically, we first use a natural language inference module to help the model understand the accurate semantic meanings of input questions so as to address the issues of over sensitivity and over stability. Then in the machine reading comprehension module, we propose a memory-guided multi-head attention method that can further well understand the semantic meanings of input questions and passages. Third, we propose a multilanguage learning mechanism to address the issue of generalization. Finally, these modules are integrated with a multi-task learning based method. We evaluate our model on three benchmark datasets that are designed to measure models robustness, including DuReader (robust) and two SQuAD-related datasets. Extensive experiments show that our model can well address the mentioned three kinds of robustness issues. And it achieves much better results than the compared state-of-the-art models on all these datasets under different evaluation metrics, even under some extreme and unfair evaluations. The source code of our work is available at: https://github.com/neukg/RobustMRC.
description: Accepted by TALLIP
VNS 2000 State Primary Election: Massachusetts Republican Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Voted for George W. Bush/Alan Keyes/John McCain in Republican presidential primary (1); when decided who to vote for (1); which one issue mattered most in deciding vote (1); ever voted in a Republican presidential primary before (1); registered as Independent/Republican (1); which one candidate quality mattered most in deciding vote (1); think George W. Bush has knowledge to serve effectively as president (1); think John McCain says one thing but does another when it comes to campaign finance (1); would vote for Al Gore/George W. Bush (1); would vote for Al Gore/John McCain (1); Governor Paul Cellucci's support of George W. Bush (1); opinion of George W. Bush (1); opinion of John McCain (1); candidate's positions on issues or leadership/personal qualities more important (1); George W. Bush/John McCain more likely to beat Democratic presidential nominee in November (1); George W. Bush too conservative/not conservative enough/about right (1); John McCain too conservative/not conservative enough/about right (1); cutting taxes/strengthening Social Security should be a higher priority for the next president (1); George W. Bush did/did not attack John McCain unfairly (1); John McCain did/did not attack George W. Bush unfairly (1); George W. Bush/John McCain real reformers (1); George W. Bush/John McCain more likely to say what he really believes (1); abortion (1); ever served in U.S. military (1); member of religious right (1).
Brief an [Johann Rudolf Wettstein]
Creators: name: Finsterling, Hermann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1670

description: Antwortschreiben auf den Brief von Wettstein an Finsterling vom 24. Dez. 1669
description: von [Hermann Finsterling]
description: Lateinisch
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation TIFF 03.05.2015
VRS 1992 Ohio Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1993

description: Vote in 1992 Presidential election(1); most important issue in voting decision(2); national economic situation(1); vote in 1992 Senatorial election(1); vote on state issue #2 for term limits(1); vote in 1988 Presidential election(1); Ross Perot(1); Senator John Glenn job performance(1).
WABC-TV/New York Daily News Poll: September 1985 AIDS Poll
Creators: name: New York Daily News
name: WABC-TV
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Ways of catching AIDS (8); particular groups affected by AIDS (2); AIDS as a major threat to general public (2); child with AIDS in New York Public school (4); school children/employees with AIDS (2); personal acquaintances with AIDS (3); preventative measures against AIDS (2).