cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Maternal Waiting Home Utilization on Maternal and Perinatal Health Outcomes, in Selekleka Primary Hospital, Northern Ethiopia: Retrospective Cohort Study.
Creators: name: Zafu, Tekia
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Background: Maternal waiting home is a facility within easy reach of a hospital or health center which provides emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) to accommodate women in their final weeks of pregnancy. World health organization has been introducing maternal waiting home services in order to increases maternal health utilization to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes. However, according to previous studies, its effect on maternal and perinatal health outcomes is controversial. Objective: This study was aimed to assess the effect of maternal waiting home utilization on maternal and perinatal health outcomes. Methods: Retrospective cohort study was conducted from 01/01/2018 to 30/01/2018 and compared maternal waiting home user (330) and non-user (343) mothers who were admitted for delivery between 01/01/2015 and 31/12/2017 in Selekleka primary hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia. They were selected using simple random sampling method. The survival time of the mothers and their newborns were evaluated using life table and Kaplan Meier survival function. Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to determine the hazard ratio of maternal and perinatal death and complications for each predictor. Result: The incidence rates of maternal complications and perinatal death and complications were significantly lower among the maternal waiting home users than non-users. Maternal waiting home user mothers [AHR: 0.11 95% CI: 0.07 - 0.19] and mothers who gave birth twin [AHR: 3.4, 95% CI: 1.5 - 7.4] were the independent predictors of the maternal complication. Similarly newborn born from maternal waiting home user mothers [AHR: 0.16, 95%CI: 0.08- 0.31], born from complicated mothers [AHR=2.91, 95% CI: 1.68 - 5.05], newborn lives in rural area [AHR=0.49, 95% CI: 0.25 - 0.96] and newborn weighted <2500 gm [AHR: 2.26, 95% CI: 1.1, 4.64] were the independent predictors of the perinatal death and complications. Conclusion and recommendations: The incidence rate of maternal and perinatal death and complications were significantly lower among the maternal waiting home users' group, and the government should have to encourage and support to the mothers to use maternal waiting home services.
Transfer matrix approach to the persistent current in hybrid normal-superconducting rings
Creators: name: Nava, Andrea
name: Giuliano, Rosa
name: Campagnano, Gabriele
name: Giuliano, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the properties of the transfer matrix of one-dimensional quantum mechanical systems, we derive a technique to exactly compute the persistent current across a hybrid normal-superconducting-mesoscopic ring pierced by a magnetic flux Phi as a single integral of a known function of the system's parameters. Our approach provides exact results at zero temperature, which can be readily extended to finite temperatures T much below the superconducting gap. We apply our technique to derive the persistent current through p-wave and s-wave superconducting-normal hybrid rings, recovering at once a number of effects such as the crossover in the current periodicity on increasing the size of the ring and the signature of the topological phase transition in the p-wave case. In the limit of a large ring size, resorting to a systematic expansion in inverse powers of the ring length, we derive exact analytic closed-form formulas, applicable to a number of cases of physical interest.
description: 25 pages, 13 .eps figures
Sulphur radical initiated polymerisation : mechanism of chain transfer
Creators: name: Penna, Giovanni Della.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Possible singlet and triplet superconductivity on honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Xiao, Long-Yun
name: Yu, Shun-Li
name: Wang, Wei
name: Yao, Zi-Jian
name: Li, Jian-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possible superconducting pairing symmetry mediated by spin and charge fluctuations on the honeycomb lattice using the extended Hubbard model and the random-phase-approximation method. From $2\%$ to $20\%$ doping levels, a spin-singlet $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}+id_{xy}$-wave is shown to be the leading superconducting pairing symmetry when only the on-site Coulomb interaction $U$ is considered, with the gap function being a mixture of the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor pairings. When the offset of the energy level between the two sublattices exceeds a critical value, the most favorable pairing is a spin-triplet $f$-wave which is mainly composed of the next-nearest-neighbor pairing. We show that the next-nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction $V$ is also in favor of the spin-triplet $f$-wave pairing.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Assessment of Infection Prevention Practice and Associated Factors Among Health Professionals in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital ,Addis Abeba
Creators: name: Anteneh, Abebe
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Hospital Acquired Infections are a major global safety concern for patients, healthcare professionals and the community. Health care workers had potentially exposed to infectious materials such as blood, tissue, specific body fluids, medical supplies, equipment or environmental surfaces contaminated with these substances. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess infection prevention practices among health professionals and associated factors in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, 2019. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital from March to April 2019. The study populations were Health care professionals selected using simple random sampling. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire supplemented by observation. Data was entered in to Epi version 7.2.1 and exported to SPSS version 22 for further analysis. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated to with infection prevention practices. Findings were presented using odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals. A P-value less than 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance. Results: 396(94.5%) Health care professionals participated in the study. The mean age of participants was 28.54 years, and 188 (47.5%) were males and 208(52.5%) were females. 305(77%) of health care professionals are knowledgeable and 281(71%) of the respondents were found to be positive attitude towards infection prevention. 230(53.8%, (95%CI: 49.0-58.1)) had good infection prevention practices. Having good knowledge on infection prevention measures (AOR =3.66, 95%CI:(2.005,6.704)), having infection prevention guidelines on infection prevention practices (AOR=1.926, 95%CI:(1.148,3.230)) and average working hours per week (AOR=1.866, 95%CI: (1.037,3.356)) were predictors of infection prevention practices. Conclusion: The results of the study show that half of (53.8%) HCPs had good infection prevention practices. Having good knowledge, availability of infection prevention guideline and average working hour per week of health professionals are predictors of good infection prevention practices. As a result, to sustain and improve good infection prevention practices, adequate pre-service as well as on job trainings should be given and accessing infection prevention guidelines in each department.
The effects of human impact on the macroinvertebrate communities of the Thredbo River, an Australian high mountain stream
Creators: name: McKaige, Maryanne E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Symmetries and hybridization in the indirect interaction between magnetic moments in MoS$_{2}$ nanoflakes
Creators: name: Ávalos-Ovando, Oscar
name: Mastrogiuseppe, Diego
name: Ulloa, Sergio E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in $p$-doped transition metal dichalcogenide triangular flakes. The role of underlying symmetries is exposed by analyzing the interaction as a function of impurity separation along zigzag and armchair trajectories, in specific parts of the sample. The large spin-orbit coupling in these materials produces strongly anisotropic interactions, including a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya component that can be sizable and tunable. We consider impurities hybridized to different orbitals of the host transition-metal and identify specific characteristics for onsite and hollow site adsorption. In the onsite case, the different components of the interaction have similar magnitude, while for the hollow site, the Ising component dominates. We also study the dependence of the interaction with the level of hole doping, which supplies a further degree of tunability. Our results could provide ways of controlling helical long range spin order in magnetic impurity arrays embedded in these materials.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
Self-Reported Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Determinant Factors Of Female Beauty Salon Hair Dressers, In Addis Ababa, Ethhiopia
Creators: name: Bedru, Woineshet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Hair dressers are one of the high risk professionals for work related musculoskeletal disorder. Which are not frequently studied and there is little evidence on this problem. So studying about work related musculoskeletal disorder among hairdressers is one of the key issues in improving worker's health and safety. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the magnitude and associated factors of self reported work related musculoskeletal disorder among hair dressers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Method: Across sectional study was conducted among hair dressers who were working in Addis Ababa, city with a sample size of 609. Five sub cities and hairdressing salons were selected randomly. Data were collected using structured questionnaire adapted from Nordic questionnaire. Six data collectors and two supervisors were involved. Data was entered; coded and cleaned using Epi Info version 7 and then the data was exported into the SPSS 20 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine association. Result: The prevalence of work related musculoskeletal disorders was 76.6%. The most commonly affected body parts were, the lower back (71.5%), shoulder (51.6%) and hand or wrist (46.6%). The risk factors of the WMSDs that were identified included, work experience [AOR: 2.5, 95%CI (1.2-5.4)], time spent in standing position for long periods [AOR: 2.6, 95%CI (1.6-7)], working hours per week [AOR: 1.5, 95%CI (1.06-2.4)], BMI[AOR: 2, 95%CI (1.1-4.1)], and thermal condition[AOR: 1.6, 95%CI (1.0-2.4)]. Taking sufficient rest by hair dressers was one of the coping strategies adopted by the hairdressers. Conclusions and recommendation: The prevalence of work related musculoskeletal disorder among hair dressers was higher and the three most body parts reported were lower back, shoulder and hand. Generally the tasks ,working posture ,work experience , workload, thermal condition and BMI in hair dressing were create a high risk of work related musculoskeletal disorder to hairdressers . The problem should have got public and regulatory bodies attention to promote health of workers in the salon.
Testimonianze sonore nel "Voyage Around The World" (1777) di Georg Forster
Creators: name: Fabbrocino, Anna Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Georg Forster
subject: Sound event
subject: Musicology
subject: Music
subject: Voyage

description: On his return from Captain James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific (1772-1775), in which he had participated as a naturalist and botanist with his father Johann Reinold, Georg Forster published his Voyage Around The World (1777). This diary is an important source on the voyage, not only from a scientific point of view, but also from an anthropological one. The attention that Forster paid to sound and music during the writing of his diary has made it possible to use this source from a strictly musicological point of view in order to study, analyse and contextualise some of the testimonies that he reports.
A method of standardising the requirements specification in certain classes of systems
Creators: name: Moore, Leonard John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 319999
subject: Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified

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Food and Brain Study - Observational Coding Manual
Creators: name: Pearce, Alaina L
name: Evens, Julia
name: Romano, Olivia
name: Keller, Kathleen L
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: observational coding
eating behavior
meal microstructure

description: Coding protocol for meal microstructure for the Food and Brain Study (https://osf.io/ynjqw/)
Lebenswege von Menschen mit Asperger-Syndrom aus Sicht der Eltern
Creators: name: Annoni Federer, Karin
name: Dürr, Rahel
name: Hollenstein, Corinne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Das Asperger-Syndrom gehört zum Autismusspektrum und geht einher mit Beeinträchtigungen in Kommunikation, Interaktion sowie Interessen und Aktivitäten. Das Leben mit einem Kind mit Asperger-Syndrom ist mit Herausforderungen für die ganze Familie verbunden. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Lebenswege von betroffenen Familien. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche Hilfestellungen aus Sicht der Eltern retrospektiv als wichtig und förderlich wahrgenommen werden. Auf Basis der qualitativen Sozialforschung wurden neun Familien nach erfolgten und gewünschten Hilfestellungen befragt. Die Forschungsergebnisse zeigen den Stellenwert guter Kenntnisse über das Asperger-Syndrom auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Wissen unterstützt eine frühe Diagnostik, fördert Verständnis und Toleranz innerhalb der sozialen Netzwerke wie auch der Gesellschaft und bildet die Grundlage für kompetente Beratung und Begleitung.
Archaeological investigations of a walled compound at Naachtun, Peten, Guatemala: architecture, politics and warfare
Creators: name: Arredondo Leiva, Ernesto
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

During excavations in the Classic Maya site of Naachtun conducted during 2004-2005 a Compound consisting of 11 structures surrounded by a high Wall was discovered and excavated. Given its layout, its is suggested here that the Walled Compound is a Triadic Acropolis constructed during Naachtun 5 times (AD 554 – 652) as a new political and religious centre for Naachtun. A revision of the history of Naachtun is proposed in this dissertation, focusing on the architectural sequence of the site. This has enabled the correlation of the architectural history with the broader political history of the site, which involves three major forces: El Mirador, Tikal, and Calakmul. By Naachtun 6 times (AD 652 – 791), the Walled Compound became a locus for warlike display; later it was affected by the changes of Naachtun's broader political affiliations. Subsequently the Compound was terminated and abandoned. This dissertation reviews the archaeological history of Naachtun from the excavation of the Walled Compound, and examines the structures in the Compound individually as well as part of the whole. Although the presence of walls has often been assumed as evidence of war, in this thesis the ritual and social character has been considered. The thesis also includes a revision of the political context of the Compound through time. In doing so, eight phases for the political history of Naachtun have been proposed (Periods I-VIII), based on epigraphic readings, including foreign references to Masul (proposed by some scholars as the ancient name of the Naachtun kingdom). This dissertation also considers the geographical location of Naachtun in its broader political context. The site lies directly between the two powerful kingdoms of Tikal and Calakmul, and appears to have shifted its alliance from one to the other through time, as evidenced by records of warfare, marriage alliances, and monument style.
Smoking, and associated factors among military personnel in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Alemayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Background: Cigarette smoking is a known risk factor for chronic diseases. It is predicted that by the 2020s there will be about 10 million tobacco related deaths annually worldwide. Improved understanding of factors that contribute to smoking initiation and cessation may help to set strategies that lead to smoking behaviour change. Objective: To assess the prevalence of smoking, and factors associated with smoking initiation among military personnel. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted and data was obtained from 398 men and women aged 18-52 years in two Defence military academies, located in Holeta and Awash Arba, 30 km and 250 km away from Addis Ababa, respectively. Information on smoking habits, socio-demographic and psycho-social factors were collected through self-administered questionnaire, from January to February 2011. The study population was selected by systematic sampling technique after stratification was made. Data was entered using Epi Info 3.51 version and analyzed using SPSS version 15. Bivariate analysis was used to examine association between dependent and independent variables. Result: Of 398 respondents 86 (21.6%) were current regular smokers, and 165(41.5%) reported having alcohol drinking habit. Majority of smokers were men, unmarried, low education and income status. Smoking initiation was associated with low educational status, OR (2.70, 95% CI, 1.14-6.39), and low income status, OR (3.29, 95% CI, 1.39-7.84). Conclusion: Current smoking status was found to be associated with low educational and low income status. Recommendation: Addressing socioeconomic and educational differences, by upgrading income status and promoting access to education and awareness raising on smoking harm will be required to reduce prevalence of smoking among military personnel.
Wiener index, Harary index and Hamiltonicity of graphs
Creators: name: Hua, Hongbo
name: Ning, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we prove tight sufficient conditions for traceability and Hamiltonicity of connected graphs with given minimum degree, in terms of Wiener index and Harary index. We also prove some result on Hamiltonicity of balanced bipartite graphs in the similar fashion. In two recent papers \cite{LDJ2016,LDJ2017}, Liu et al. corrected some previous work on traceability of connected graphs in terms of Wiener index and Harary index, respectively, such as \cite{HW2013,Y2013}. We generalize these results and give short and unified proofs. All results in this paper are best possible.
description: 11 pages, finial version for publication in MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem
[Data and Code] Beyond Trust and Trustworthiness: Predicting Science-Consistent Behaviors and Support for Science Funding
Creators: name: Walter, Dror
name: Jamieson, Kathleen Hall
name: Jamieson, Patrick
name: Yotam Ophir
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Data and Code for: Factors Assessing Science's Self-Presentation (FASS model) and their Effect on Conservatives’ and Liberals’ Support for Funding Science Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Patrick E. Jamieson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson A confirmatory factor analysis of responses to thirteen questions from a 2022 national probability sample of 1,154 US adults supported the existence of five factors that we argue assess perceptions of science's self-presentation (FASS). These factors also predict support for increasing federal funding of science and, separately, supporting federal funding of basic research. Each of the factors reflects perceptions of a key facet of scientists’ self-presentation, science/scientists’ adherence to professed norms, or science’s benefits: specifically, that scientists are Credible, Prudent and Unbiased, and that science is Self-Correcting and Beneficial. The FASS model explained 40.6% of the variance in support for increasing federal funding for science and 33.7% in support for basic research. For both dependent variables, conservatives were less likely to be supportive when they perceived that science/scientists fail to overcome biases. The interactions between political ideology and both Prudence and Beneficial, however, were significant only when predicting Basic Research support. In that case, there were no differences between conservatives and liberals when perceptions of benefit were low, but when high, liberals’ perception of benefit had a stronger association with support for funding than conservatives’. Among those perceiving that scientists lack prudence, liberals were more likely to support funding basic research than conservatives, but the difference disappeared when perceptions of prudence were very high. The factors could serve as across-time indicators of the public’s assessment of the state of science.
Branch Point Twist Field Correlators in the Massive Free Boson Theory
Creators: name: Bianchini, Davide
name: Castro-Alvaredo, Olalla A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Well-known measures of entanglement in one-dimensional many body quantum systems, such as the entanglement entropy and the logarithmic negativity, may be expressed in terms of the correlation functions of local fields known as branch point twist fields in a replica quantum field theory. In this "replica" approach the computation of measures of entanglement generally involves a mathematically non-trivial analytic continuation in the number of replicas. In this paper we consider two-point functions of twist fields and their analytic continuation in the 1+1 dimensional massive (non-compactified) free Boson theory. This is one of the few theories for which all matrix elements of twist fields are known so that we may hope to compute correlation functions very precisely. We study two particular two-point functions which are related to the logarithmic negativity of semi-infinite disjoint intervals and to the entanglement entropy of one interval. We show that our prescription for the analytic continuation yields results which are in full agreement with conformal field theory predictions in the short-distance limit. We provide numerical estimates of universal quantities and their ratios, both in the massless (twist field structure constants) and the massive (expectation values of twist fields) theory. We find that particular ratios are given by divergent form factor expansions. We propose such divergences stem from the presence of logarithmic factors in addition to the expected power-law behaviour of two-point functions at short-distances. Surprisingly, at criticality these corrections give rise to a log(logL) correction to the entanglement entropy of one interval of length L. This hitherto overlooked result is in agreement with results by Calabrese, Cardy and Tonni and has been independently derived by Blondeau-Fournier and Doyon (in preparation).
description: 35 pages, 6 figures (v3 is the published version which incorporates minor improvements)
ESG performance and economic growth in UK
Creators: name: Πανταλώνα, Γεωργία Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
ESG
ΑΕΠ
Οικονομική Ανάπτυξη
Αυτοπαλίνδρομο υπόδειγμα κατανεμημένων χρονικών υστερήσεων
UK
GDP
Economic growth
ARDL

description: This thesis examines how the well-fare and economic growth (represented from the GDP) of the United Kingdom is influenced by the improvement in sectors related to the ESG performance factors in a time span of 55 years, from 1960 to 2015. The ESG performance factors are represented by an ESG index that was computed from environmental, social and governmental variables gathered from the World Bank database. Both the long-run and short-run relationship between the GDP and the ESG index are examined by applying the ARDL methodological approach. To do so, several tests and processes were necessary such as examining the stationarity of the timeseries using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, calculating the elasticities of the GDP per capita and ESG index as well as including trend in the ARDL model. The results showed the existence of both long-run and short-run relationship between the economic growth of the United Kingdom and the ESG index. Such results can provide advantages to the United Kingdom while considering strategic moves with the goal of improving their economic state. Finally, suggestions for further analysis are provided that may lead to even more interesting and useful results.
description: Αυτή η εργασία εξετάζει πώς η ευημερία και η οικονομική ανάπτυξη (που αντιπροσωπεύεται από το ΑΕΠ) του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου επηρεάζεται από τη βελτίωση σε τομείς που σχετίζονται με τους ESG performance factors σε χρονικό διάστημα 55 ετών, από το 1960 έως το 2015. Οι ESG performance factors αντιπροσωπεύονται από έναν δείκτη ESG που υπολογίστηκε από τις περιβαλλοντικές, κοινωνικές και κυβερνητικές μεταβλητές που συγκεντρώθηκαν από τη βάση δεδομένων της Παγκόσμιας Τράπεζας. Τόσο η μακροπρόθεσμη όσο και η βραχυπρόθεσμη σχέση μεταξύ του ΑΕΠ και του δείκτη ESG εξετάζονται με την εφαρμογή της μεθοδολογικής προσέγγισης ARDL. Για να γίνει αυτό, χρειάστηκαν αρκετές δοκιμές και διαδικασίες, όπως η εξέταση της στασιμότητας των χρονοσειρών χρησιμοποιώντας το Augmented Dickey-Fuller τεστ, ο υπολογισμός των ελαστικοτήτων του κατά κεφαλήν ΑΕΠ και του δείκτη ESG καθώς και η συμπερίληψη της τάσης στο μοντέλο ARDL. Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν την ύπαρξη τόσο της μακροχρόνιας όσο και της βραχυχρόνιας σχέσης μεταξύ της οικονομικής ανάπτυξης του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και του δείκτη ESG. Αυτά τα αποτελέσματα μπορούν να προσφέρουν πλεονεκτήματα στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο ενώ εξετάζουν στρατηγικές κινήσεις με στόχο τη βελτίωση της οικονομικής του κατάστασης. Τέλος, παρέχονται προτάσεις για περαιτέρω αναλύσεις που μπορεί να οδηγήσουν σε ακόμη πιο ενδιαφέροντα και χρήσιμα αποτελέσματα
Leaf domatia and mites : variation and some consequences in association
Creators: name: Wallace., D. Dugal
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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#DieDatenlaube – Daten für Digital Humanities & Die Gartenlaube aus Leipzig
Creators: name: Bemme, Jens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wikidata
Wikisource
Digital Humanities
Die Gartenlaube
Metadaten
Alexandre Vattemare

description: Poster für den Digital Humanities Day Leipzig, 2. Dezember 2020, https://fdhl.info/dhdl-2020/ Die Datenlaube ist ein Citizen Science-Projekt für offene Kulturdaten. Seit 2008 transkribiert eine wachsende Gemeinschaft Die Gartenlaube, d.h. insgesamt circa 18.500 Artikel des ersten deutschen Massenblatts seit 1853 bis 1899. Das Projekt steht beispielhaft für Potentiale ehrenamtlichen Engagements für bibliothekarische Tätigkeiten für Produkte der Digitalisierung: Scans, Volltexte, Transkriptionen – und deren Benutzung. Seit Anfang 2019 erfolgt die Erschließung dieser Wikisource-Texte in Wikidata, vgl. https://diedatenlaube.github.io/. Das Wikidata-Item dieses Posters ist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102852564.
On new exact conformal blocks and Nekrasov functions
Creators: name: Nemkov, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, an intriguing family of the one-point toric conformal blocks AGT related to the $\mathcal{N}=2^*\,\, SU(2)$ Nekrasov functions was discovered by M. Beccaria and G. Macorini. Members of the family are distinguished by having only finite amount of poles as functions of the intermediate dimension/v.e.v. in gauge theory. Another remarkable property is that these conformal blocks/Nekrasov functions can be found in closed form to all orders in the coupling expansion. In the present paper we use Zamolodchikov's recurrence equation to systematically account for these exceptional conformal blocks. We conjecture that the family is infinite-dimensional and describe the corresponding parameter set. We further apply the developed technique to demonstrate that the four-point spheric conformal blocks feature analogous exact expressions. We also study the modular transformations of the finite-pole blocks.
description: Version 2: significantly revised and extended to include spheric blocks and modular transformations, 27 pages
Frühgeburt – mögliche Auswirkungen auf die Schule
Creators: name: Sidler-Gienuth, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema Frühgeburt. In einer theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Literatur werden verschiedene Aspekte einer frühen Geburt dargelegt. Um die Frage nach möglichen Auswirkungen auf die Schule beantworten zu können, ist es zentral, die Ursachen einer frühen Geburt zu beleuchten. Dabei wird ersichtlich, wie komplex und vielfältig die Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung eines frühgeborenen Kindes sind und wie wichtig ein stabiles Umfeld sein kann. Umfangreiche Studienergebnissen zeigen auf, welche Faktoren sich fördernd oder hemmend auf die Entwicklung und die schulischen Leistungen der frühgeborenen Kinder auswirken und welche Interventionen zur Unterstützung beitragen. Als Abschluss dieser Arbeit werden einige Empfehlungen für die heilpädagogische Arbeit mit frühgeborenen Kindern aus den Ausführungen abgeleitet und beschrieben.
Prescribing literacies: a critical discourse analysis of the Australian literacy policies 1987 – 1998
Creators: name: Edwards, Debra Jane Gardiner
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Education, La Trobe University, Bendigo.

This study examines critically the discursive accounts of literacy and the successful literate student in the Australian Commonwealth literacy policy documents 1987–1998. This analysis clarifies the ideological Discourses informing the policy outcomes by examining the constructions of literacy and the successful literate student in these documents. A critical discourse analysis lens, combining the theoretical frameworks and methods of Norman Fairclough (2003) and James Gee (1999, 2005), is used to examine the ways in which literacy and the successful literate student are envisaged at the different textual levels of each policy document. This analysis at the macro, meso, and micro levels of text identifies the extent of thematic cohesion within and across texts, as well as the textual strategies used to legitimise the value positions within each policy. Use of a critical discourse analysis lens also provides a systematic method for identifying where alternative perspectives of literacy and the successful literate student could be found in the documents, and directions for future socially just Commonwealth literacy policy. This study identified three key constructs of literacy in the documents, informed by three different ideological perspectives. There is, however, little evidence of current perspectives of literacy as multiple literacies. Two dominant constructs of the successful literate student are evident in the policy documents, with potential for a third, again informed by different ideological Discourses. Comparison of the three policy documents, indicates change over time in the prescription of literacy and of successful literate outcomes, yet also provides a reference point for a more nuanced and complex imagining of literacy and the successful literate student.
Aspects of the development of the grape pericarp in relation to its biological function and secondary metabolism
Creators: name: Hardie., William James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ηθική της φροντίδας και αναπηρία
Creators: name: Παπακωνσταντίνου, Δομνίκη Θεοδώρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ηθική της φροντίδας
Αναπηρία
Μεταφεμινισμός
Ethics of care
Disability
Post- feminism

description: Η ηθική της φροντίδας είναι μια θεωρία, η οποία απασχόλησε πολλά και διαφορετικά θεωρητικά και ερευνητικά πεδία. Η φεμινιστική χροιά και η θεώρησή της ως μια γυναικεία ηθική, της αποδόθηκαν από τον ματερναλιστικό φεμινισμό, μέσω του οποίου προωθήθηκαν πτυχές των γυναικείων εμπειριών και η αξία της σχέσης μητέρας- παιδιού ως πρότυπο για τις σχέσεις φροντίδας. Η κριτική που δέχθηκε η παραπάνω θεώρηση, ήρθε πρωτίστως από το ίδιο το φεμινιστικό κίνημα, το οποίο τόνισε τις έμφυλες διαστάσεις μιας τέτοιας θηλυκοποιημένης ηθικής της φροντίδας. Το πεδίο των σπουδών για την αναπηρία αντιτάχθηκε στις εξαρτητικές και περιθωριοποιητικές πρακτικές μιας τέτοιας ηθικής της φροντίδας, διεκδικώντας αυτονομία και ελευθερία επιλογών μέσω της σύστασης υπηρεσιών προσωπικής βοήθειας. Στη παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζονται αναλυτικά όλα τα παραπάνω, όπως και μια μεταφεμινιστική πρόταση διαλόγου ανάμεσα στο φεμινιστικό και το αναπηρικό κίνημα, αναφορικά με την ηθική της φροντίδας. Σε αυτή τη μεταφεμινιστική ιδέα, τονίζεται η αξία της αλληλεξάρτησης, όπως και της πολιτικής διάστασης της φροντίδας και προτείνεται η κοινή σύμπραξη θηλυκοτήτων και αναπήρων, που συγκροτούνται ως περιθωριοποιημένα υποκείμενα σε μια κοινωνία δομημένη με βάση το ανδρικό φαντασιακό, για μια ηθική της φροντίδας χωρίς αποκλεισμούς.
description: Ethics of care is a theory, which has occupied many different theoretical and research fields. The feminist tone and her view as a female ethic were attributed to her by materialist feminism, which promoted aspects of female experiences and the value of the mother-child relationship as a model for caring relationships. The criticism of this view came primarily from the feminist movement itself, which emphasized the gendered dimensions of such a feminized ethic of care. The field of disability studies has opposed the addictive and marginalizing practices of such a care ethic, claiming autonomy and freedom of choice through the establishment of personal assistance services. In the present work, all the above are presented in detail, as well as a post-feminist proposal for a dialogue between the feminist and the disability movement, regarding the ethics of care. This post-feminist idea emphasizes the value of interdependence as well as the political dimension of care and proposes the common partnership of women and the disabled, formed as marginalized subjects in a society built on the male fantasy, for an ethic of care without exclusivity.
Multi-frequency Studies of Massive Cores with Complex Spatial and Kinematic Structures
Creators: name: Pirogov, L. E.
name: Shul'ga, V. M.
name: Zinchenko, I. I.
name: Zemlyanukha, P. M.
name: Patoka, O. N.
name: Thomasson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Five regions of massive star formation have been observed in various molecular lines in the frequency range $\sim 85-89$ GHz. The studied regions possess dense cores, which host young stellar objects. The physical parameters of the cores are estimated, including kinetic temperatures ($\sim 20-40$ K), sizes of the emitting regions ($\sim 0.1-0.6$ pc), and virial masses ($\sim 40-500 M_{\odot}$). Column densities and abundances of various molecules are calculated in the local thermodynamical equilibrium approximation. The core in 99.982+4.17, associated with the weakest IRAS source, is characterized by reduced molecular abundances. Molecular line widths decrease with increasing distance from the core centers ($b$). For $b\ga 0.1$~pc, the dependences $ΔV(b)$ are close to power laws ($\propto b^{-p}$), where $p$ varies from $\sim 0.2$ to $\sim 0.5$, depending on the object. In four cores, the asymmetries of the optically thick HCN(1--0) and HCO$^+$(1--0) lines indicate systematic motions along the line of sight: collapse in two cores and expansion in two others. Approximate estimates of the accretion rates in the collapsing cores indicate that the forming stars have masses exceeding the solar mass.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables
Does time heal all wounds? Life satisfaction trajectories in Australian women before and after relationship dissolution
Creators: name: Ejova, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a pre-registration of an analysis of 9 waves of data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. The aim is to track mean-level change in the population following divorce or relationship dissolution. We also explore individual differences in trajectories.
Characterisation and role of the Accelerated Thermo Molecular Adhesion Process (ATmaP) on adhesion of polymeric substrates
Creators: name: Gilbert, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Εμπειρίες προπτυχιακών φοιτητών/τριών Παιδαγωγικών Σχολών για την εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση κατά τη διάρκεια της πανδημίας COVID-19
Creators: name: Σαρμανιώτη, Μαρία Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Κορωνοϊός
Προπτυχιακοί φοιτητές/τριες παιδαγωγικών τμημάτων
Απομακρυσμένη διδασκαλία έκτακτης ανάγκης
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Undergraduate students of pedagogical departments
Emergency remote teaching

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η καταγραφή των εμπειριών φοιτητών/τριών σχετικά με την απομακρυσμένη διδασκαλία έκτακτης ανάγκης που βίωσαν κατά την περίοδο της πανδημίας COVID-19 (Μάρτιος 2020 – Απρίλιος 2021). Ειδικότερα, θα προσπαθήσουμε να αντιληφθούμε πως βίωσαν όλη αυτήν την κατάσταση, τα τυχόν προβλήματα που μπορεί να αντιμετώπισαν αλλά και τα πλεονεκτήματα και τα μειονεκτήματα της διαδικτυακής διδασκαλίας εν μέσω COVID-19. Στην έρευνα συμμετείχαν 85 φοιτητές/τριες της Παιδαγωγικής Σχολής του ΑΠΘ και για την συλλογή των ερευνητικών δεδομένων χρησιμοποιήθηκε ανώνυμο διαδικτυακό ερωτηματολόγιο. Η εμπειρική έρευνα διεξήχθη κατά το δεύτερο εξάμηνο του ακαδημαϊκού έτους 2020-2021 (1η Απριλίου έως και 30 Απριλίου του 2021). Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν πως οι συμμετέχοντες αν και έχουν προσαρμοστεί στα διαδικτυακά μαθήματα οι μισοί θέλουν να καταργηθεί και οι άλλοι μισοί να συνεχιστεί πραγματοποιώντας έναν συνδυασμό με την δια ζώσης εκπαίδευση. Το βασικότερο εμπόδιο που αντιμετώπισαν οι ερωτηθέντες έχει να κάνει με την κακή ποιότητα του διαδικτύου το οποίο με την σειρά του δημιουργούσε μια σειρά από άλλα προβλήματα, όπως η έλλειψη αλληλεπίδρασης και η απόσπαση της προσοχής. Στα θετικά της τηλεκπαίδευσης συγκαταλέγονται η δυνατότητα του να μαθαίνει καθένας από οπουδήποτε, η μείωση των μετακινήσεων και η άνεση που προσφέρουν τα διαδικτυακά μαθήματα.
description: The purpose of this dissertation is to record the experience of university students on remote emergency teaching experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic period (March 2020 - April 2021). In particular, we tried to understand how they experienced the remote teaching, any problems they faced and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of online teaching in the midst of COVID-19. The research involved 85 students from the School of Pedagogy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and for the collection of the research data used an anonymous online questionnaire. The empirical research was conducted during the second half of the academic year 2020-2021 (April 2021). The results showed that the participants, although they have adapted to the online courses, half of them wanted to abolish distance teaching, and the other half wanted to continue with a combination with the traditional education in the University. The main obstacle that respondents reported was the poor quality of the Internet, which in turn created a number of other problems, such as lack of interaction and distraction. On the contrary, among the benefits of online education were the ability to learn from anywhere, the reduced mobility and comfort of online courses.
Nonequilibrium phase behaviour from minimization of free power dissipation
Creators: name: Krinninger, Philip
name: Schmidt, Matthias
name: Brader, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general theory for describing phase coexistence between nonequilibrium steady states in Brownian systems, based on power functional theory (M. Schmidt and J.M. Brader, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 214101 (2013)). We apply the framework to the special case of fluid-fluid phase separation of active soft sphere swimmers. The central object of the theory, the dissipated free power, is calculated via computer simulations and compared to a simple analytical approximation. The theory describes well the simulation data and predicts motility-induced phase separation due to avoidance of dissipative clusters.
The introduction of eServices into the organisational processes of city councils in Australia
Creators: name: Hossan, Chowdhury Golam
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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

The central aim in this thesis is to examine the effects of organisational change involving the introduction of new information technology on city councils in Australia. Organisational change theory identifies a number of organisational and individual (employee) factors that are related to the success or otherwise of innovative organisational change. This theory has been adapted to models of organisational change involving the introduction of new technology. Models of organisational change involving new technology have, for the most part, been limited to traditionally structured private and public sector organisations. City councils in Australia are adopting and implementing eService (web[-]based services) as an alternative to their traditional service delivery channels. City councils can be seen as a unique form of government organisation structure that operates following a private sector model. The actions of councils are led by voluntary councillors and are managed and run by paid employees. This thesis uses a sample of five city councils to examine relationships between organisational and individual factors that predict their degree of development of eService systems (Web services). In Study 1, the current website content (provision of eService services) of each participating city council is analysed and benchmarked against the eService development of two UK city councils. This thesis develops a novel method of evaluating the degree that these city councils have developed systems of eService (embryonic to advanced development). In Study 2, 23 individual interviews were conducted with senior management employees of the councils involved in the organisational change. These interviews were content analysed to ascertain management attitudes to the implementation of eService, and to identify factors consistent with organisational change theory as being significant variables in the change process. Data were also collected from a sample of employees (n=515) responsible for the implementation of eService systems in Study 3. Data collected involved employee perceptions of organisational and individual factors related to the successful implementation of organisational change. The thesis tests a structural model that hypothesises a set of relationships between these factors and the degree of eService development across the councils. Taken together, the data collected provides an original test of organisational change theory under conditions of an atypical organisational environment. The findings suggest that Australian city councils need to be better prepared to face the challenges of unfreezing their organisations for eService implementation.
Re-appraisal and extension of the Gratton-Vargas two-dimensional analytical snowplow model of plasma focus - III: Scaling theory for high pressure operation and its implications
Creators: name: Auluck, S K H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work on the revised Gratton-Vargas model has demonstrated that there are some aspects of Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) which are not sensitive to details of plasma dynamics and are well captured in an oversimplified model assumption which contains very little plasma physics. A hyperbolic conservation law formulation of DPF physics reveals the existence of a velocity threshold related to specific energy of dissociation and ionization, above which, the work done during shock propagation is adequate to ensure dissociation and ionization of the gas being ingested. These developments are utilized to formulate an algorithmic definition of DPF optimization that is valid in a wide range of applications, not limited to neutron emission. A universal scaling theory of DPF design optimization is proposed and illustrated for designing devices working at one or two orders higher pressure of deuterium than the current practice of designs optimized at pressures less than 10 mbar of deuterium. These examples show that the upper limit for operating pressure is of technological (and not physical) origin.
description: Accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmss