cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heavy element abundance patterns in hot DA white dwarfs
Creators: name: Barstow, M. A.
name: good, S. A.
name: Holberg, J. B.
name: Hubeny, I.
name: Bannister, N. P.
name: Bruhweiler, F. C.
name: Burleigh, M. R.
name: Napiwotzki, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a series of systematic abundance measurements for 25 hot DA white dwarfs in the temperature range ~20000-110000K, based on far-UV spectroscopy with STIS/GHRS on HST, IUE and FUSE. Using our latest heavy element blanketed non-LTE stellar atmosphere calculations we have addressed the heavy element abundance patterns making completely objective measurements of abundance values and upper limits using a 2 fitting technique to determine the uncertainties in the abundance measurements, which can be related to the formal upper limits in those stars where particular elements are not detected. We find that the presence or absence of heavy elements in the hot DA white dwarfs largely reflects what would be expected if radiative levitation is the supporting mechanism, although the measured abundances do not match the predicted values very well, as reported by other authors in the past. Almost all stars hotter than ~50000K contain heavy elements. For most of these the spread in element abundances is quite narrow and similar to the abundances measured in G191-B2B. However, there is an unexplained dichotomy at lower temperatures with some stars having apparently pure H envelopes and others detectable quantities of heavy elements. The heavy elements present in these cooler stars are often stratified, lying in the outermost layers of the envelope. A few strong temperature/evolutionary effects are seen in the abundance measurements. There is a decreasing Si abundance with temperature, the N abundance pattern splits into two groups at lower temperature and there is a sharp decline in Fe and Ni abundance to zero, below ~50000K. When detected, the Fe and Ni abundances maintain an approximately constant ratio, close to the cosmic value ~20.
description: To be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fragileness of Exact I-ball/Oscillon
Creators: name: Ibe, Masahiro
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Nakano, Wakutaka
name: Sonomoto, Eisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I-ball/oscillon is a soliton-like oscillating configuration of a real scalar field which lasts for a long time. I-ball/oscillon is a minimum energy state for a given adiabatic invariant, and its approximate conservation guarantees the longevity. In this paper, we examine the stability of a special type of I-ball/oscillon, the "exact" I-ball/oscillon, whose adiabatic invariant is exactly conserved. We show that the exact I-ball/oscillon is stable in classical field theory, but not stable against small perturbations depending on the value of its adiabatic invariant. Accordingly, the exact I-ball/oscillon breaks up in the presence of the fluctuations with corresponding instability modes. We also confirm the fragileness of the exact I-ball/oscillon by the classical lattice simulation.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Algebras of invariant differential operators on unit sphere bundles over two-point homogeneous Riemannian spaces
Creators: name: Shchepetilov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary 16S32, 43A85, 22F30; secondary 70F05

description: Let $G$ be the identity component of the isometry group for an arbitrary curved two-point homogeneous space $M$. We consider algebras of $G$-invariant differential operators on bundles of unit spheres over $M$. The generators of this algebra and the corresponding relations for them are found. The connection of these generators with two-body problem on two-point homogeneous spaces is discussed.
description: LaTeX, 38 pages, 1 figure, octonionic case was included in the 3-rd version, some errors were corrected in the 4-th one
Harnessing the Blue Economy: Ethnobotanical Insights into Mangrove-Derived Functional Foods for Climate-Resilient Futures
Creators: name: Simanjuntak, Syari Mela
name: Duryat, Duryat
name: Riniarti, Melya
Publisher: name: Green Insight Solutions
Year: 2025
Subjects: Blue Ecosystem
Climate Change
Coastal Communities
Food Diversification
Mangrove

description: Climate change threatens food security at the local, regional, and global levels. Optimizing the potential of the blue ecosystem, especially mangrove forest products, can contribute to overcoming the food crisis. This study aims to document the ethnobotanical practices related to the utilization of mangroves as a food source in the South Lampung Regency.  This study employed the snowball sampling method, utilizing open-ended interviews with respondents. The collected data, including species types, utilized plant parts, processed products, and associated properties, were analyzed using descriptive-analytical methods to identify patterns, relationships, and factors influencing the practice of mangrove-based food utilization. The results reveal that the people of South Lampung Regency utilize four mangrove species as ethnobotanical food sources. These include the fruit (excluding the root) of Rhizophora mucronata, which is processed into coffee; the young leaves of Avicennia marina, consumed as fresh vegetables; its sap, which is processed into health beverages; and its fruit, which is used to produce flour for cake-making. Additionally, Acanthus ilicifolius is processed into tea and rempeyek, a traditional cracker made from leaf fragments. Beyond their nutritional value, mangroves possess bioactive properties, including antifertility, antioxidant, analgesic, anticholesterol, antihypertensive, antitussive, and anti-inflammatory effects, highlighting their potential for development into functional foods. Such diversification could address various social and economic challenges in South Lampung Regency. However, limitations in human resource capacity hinder the optimization of mangrove utilization, resulting in a lack of diversity and innovation in the selection of species, utilized plant parts, processed products, and processing techniques.
Climate changes and new productive dynamics in the global wine sector
Creators: name: Lamonaca, Emilia
name: Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano
name: Seccia, Antonio
name: Lamonaca, Emilia
name: Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano
name: Seccia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Climate change
subject: acreage response
subject: yield response
subject: Old World producers
subject: New World producers

description: Climate change has the potential to impact the agricultural sector and the wine sector in particular. The impacts of climate change are likely to differ across producing regions of wine. Future climate scenarios may push some regions into climatic regimes favourable to grape growing and wine production, with potential changes in areas planted with vines. We examine which is the linkage between climate change and productivity levels in the global wine sector. Within the framework of agricultural supply response, we assume that grapevines acreage and yield are a function of climate change. We find that grapevines yield suffers from higher temperatures during summer, whereas precipitations have a varying impact on grapevines depending on the cycle of grapevines. Differently, acreage share of grapevines tends to be favoured by higher annual temperatures, whereas greater annual precipitations tend to be detrimental. The impacts vary between Old World Producers and New World Producers, also due to heterogeneity in climate between them.
Quantum Graviton Synthesis
Creators: name: Hilmir Frímann Halldórsson
name: ChatGPT (AI-assistant)
name: Roary (cat)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper introduces the Quantum Graviton Synthesis (QGS) framework, a novel approach unifying quantum mechanics, general relativity, and extra-dimensional theories. We propose a model where graviton interactions emerge from structured quantum wavefunctions embedded in higher-dimensional manifolds. Our findings demonstrate that quantum wavefunctions transition through distinct geometric phases, influencing vacuum energy fluctuations, cosmic acceleration, and gravitational field modifications. The QGS model provides a self-consistent explanation for dark energy, modified gravity, and quantum decoherence suppression. We also outline experimental approaches to validate QGS predictions in collider physics, astrophysical observations, and quantum computing applications.
Discontinuous transitions can survive to quenched disorder in a 2-dimensional nonequilibrium system
Creators: name: Neto, Minos A.
name: Brigatti, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects that quenched disorder has on discontinuous nonequilibrium phase transitions into absorbing states. We focus our analysis on the Naming Game model, a nonequilibrium low-dimensional system with different absorbing states. The results obtained by means of the finite-size scaling analysis and from the study of the temporal dynamics of the density of active sites near the transition point evidence that the spatial quenched disorder does not destroy the discontinuous transition.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.02869
Am I Ready? The Experiences and Challenges Faced by Filipino Fresh Graduates Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Tus, Jhoselle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160804 Rural Sociology
subject: 160809 Sociology of Education
subject: 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies
subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: 170105 Gender Psychology
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology

description: People's lives were flipped upside down when the world's economies were forced to shut down as a result of the global epidemic that occurred. People's psychological well-being suffered greatly as a result of the loss of their financial resources. Students were required to experience the new educational norms in the same year, which included taking online classes and participating in a virtual graduation ceremony. Students' hopes were dashed by recent news reports that circulated the country, which suggested that online schooling may help them recover from the pandemic. Thus, this research explores the experiences and challenges of the fresh graduates amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was utilized to analyze the participants' experiences and challenges. Based on the results of the study, there are advantages and disadvantages during the new normal of education, but participants expressed that through courage, determination, a positive mindset, and social support one can cope up with the challenges of this COVID-19 pandemic.
Is Participation in Tourism Market an Opportunity for Everyone? Some Evidence from Italy
Creators: name: Bernini, Cristina
name: Cracolici, Maria Francesca
name: Bernini, Cristina
name: Cracolici, Maria Francesca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Tourism Consumption
subject: Income Elasticity
subject: Household Characteristics
subject: Domestic and International Travels
subject: Standard of Living

description: Exploring the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international level, the paper investigates if there are differences in tourism consumption behavior among Italian families which reflect disparities in their standard of living. To achieve this a Heckman model has been used on a huge sample of Italian households over the period 1997-2007. Results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and that tourism consumption is an income sensitive good. The analysis reveals that tourism is generally a luxury good reflecting the disparities in the standard of living among Italian families. We have found that participation in the tourism market is affected not only by economic constraints, but also by cultural and territorial factors.
Jahn-Teller effect and Electron correlation in manganites
Creators: name: Maezono, Ryo
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jahn-Teller (JT) effect both in the absence and presence of the strong Coulomb correlation is studied theoretically focusing on the reduction $ΔK$ of the kinetic energy gain which is directly related to the spin wave stiffness. Without the Coulomb interaction, the perturbative analysis gives $ΔK / (g^2/MΩ^2) \cong 0.05-0.13$ depending on the electron number [$g$: electron-phonon(el-ph) coupling constant, $M$: mass of the oxygen atom, $Ω$: frequency of the phonon]. Although there occurs many channels of the JT el-ph interaction in the multiband system, the final results of $ΔK$ roughly scales with the density of states at the Fermi energy. In the limit of strong electron correlation, the magnitude of the orbital polarization saturate and the relevant degrees of freedom are the direction (phase) of it. An effective action is derived for the phase variable including the effect of the JT interaction. In this limit, JT interaction is {\it{enhanced}} compared with the non-interacting case, and $ΔK$ is given by the lattice relaxation energy $E_{L}$ for the localized electrons, although the electrons remains itinerant. Discussion on experiments are given based on these theoretical results.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Cleaning our own Dust: Simulating and Separating Galactic Dust Foregrounds with Neural Networks
Creators: name: Aylor, K.
name: Haq, M.
name: Knox, L.
name: Hezaveh, Y.
name: Perreault-Levasseur, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Separating galactic foreground emission from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and quantifying the uncertainty in the CMB maps due to errors in foreground separation are important for avoiding biases in scientific conclusions. Our ability to quantify such uncertainty is limited by our lack of a model for the statistical distribution of the foreground emission. Here we use a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) to create an effective non-Gaussian statistical model for intensity of emission by interstellar dust. For training data we use a set of dust maps inferred from observations by the Planck satellite. A DCGAN is uniquely suited for such unsupervised learning tasks as it can learn to model a complex non-Gaussian distribution directly from examples. We then use these simulations to train a second neural network to estimate the underlying CMB signal from dust-contaminated maps. We discuss other potential uses for the trained DCGAN, and the generalization to polarized emission from both dust and synchrotron.
Pharmacokinetics and brain targeting of trans-resveratrol loaded mixed micelles in rats following intravenous administration
Creators: name: Katekar, Roshan
name: Ganeshkumar Thombre
name: Riyazuddin, Mohammed
name: Athar Husain
name: Hiral Rani
name: Kusuma Sushma Praveena
name: Jiaur R. Gayen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Trans-Resveratrol (T-RES) is a compound with wide therapeutic applications that shows low bioavailability and distribution across blood-brain barrier. The purpose of our study was to develop T-RES loaded mixed micelle (T-RES-MM) for its enhanced systemic availability and targeting to the brain. T-RES-MMs were formulated using Pluronic F-127 (PF-127) and d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) by using film hydration process. Formulations were characterized for size of particles, zeta potential, drug efficiency of entrapment, drug loading, and hemolytic study. Further in vivo pharmacokinetic and brain distribution study carried out in Sprague Dawley rats. The nano ranged size for drug-loaded mixed micelles was 21.55 ± 2.15 nm for optimized formulation with PF-127:TPGS (4:1). Formulation with maximum drug loading and entrapment efficiency of 8.4 ± 0.37% and 94.37 ± 1.01% respectively were further used for in vivo study. Percent hemolysis by micelles at all concentrations indicates the biocompatibility and safety for administration by i.v. route. The AUC0-t for T-RES-MM was 460.98 ± 158.99 h*ng/ml while for T-RES it was 276.27 ± 174.05 h*ng/ml. Drug targeting index suggests successful targeting of T-RES to the brain. Overall findings conclude in prepared T-RES-MM exhibit superiority of formulation as compared to T-RES solution.
Accurate trajectory alignment in cold-atom interferometers with separated laser beams
Creators: name: Altorio, M.
name: Sidorenkov, L. A.
name: Gautier, R.
name: Savoie, D.
name: Landragin, A.
name: Geiger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold-atom interferometers commonly face systematic effects originating from the coupling between the trajectory of the atomic wave packet and the wave front of the laser beams driving the interferometer. Detrimental for the accuracy and the stability of such inertial sensors, these systematics are particularly enhanced in architectures based on spatially separated laser beams. Here we analyze the effect of a coupling between the relative alignment of two separated laser beams and the trajectory of the atomic wave packet in a four-light-pulse cold-atom gyroscope operated in fountain configuration. We present a method to align the two laser beams at the $0.2 \ μ$rad level and to determine the optimal mean velocity of the atomic wave packet with an accuracy of $0.2\ \textrm{mm}\cdot\textrm{s}^{-1}$. Such fine tuning constrains the associated gyroscope bias to a level of $1\times 10^{-10}~\textrm{rad}\cdot\textrm{s}^{-1}$. In addition, we reveal this coupling using the point-source interferometry technique by analyzing single-shot time-of-flight fluorescence traces, which allows us to measure large angular misalignments between the interrogation beams. The alignment method which we present here can be employed in other sensor configurations and is particularly relevant to emerging gravitational wave detector concepts based on cold-atom interferometry.
description: 10 pages including appendices, 23 references
Kinetical Foundations of Non Conventional Statistics
Creators: name: Kaniadakis, G.
name: Quarati, P.
name: Scarfone, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After considering the kinetical interaction principle (KIP) introduced in ref. Physica A {\bf296}, 405 (2001), we study in the Boltzmann picture, the evolution equation and the H-theorem for non extensive systems. The $q$-kinetics and the $κ$-kinetics are studied in detail starting from the most general non linear Boltzmann equation compatible with the KIP.
description: 11 pages, no figures. Contribution paper to the proseedings of the International School and Workshop on Nonextensive Thermodynamics and Physical Applications, NEXT 2001, 23-30 May 2001, Cagliari Sardinia, Italy (Physica A)
A systematic review of attributes used in choice experiments for agri-environmental contracts
Creators: name: Raina, Nidhi
name: Zavalloni, Matteo
name: Targetti, Stefano
name: D'Alberto, Riccardo
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Raina, Nidhi
name: Zavalloni, Matteo
name: Targetti, Stefano
name: D'Alberto, Riccardo
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Choice experiment
subject: agri-environmental schemes
subject: willingness to accept
subject: contract attributes
subject: systematic literature review

description: Contract attributes are strong motivators for eliciting farmers’ preferences for a particular agri-environmental scheme. Our study aims to conduct a systematic literature review to highlight the attributes used in choice experiment studies of agri-environmental schemes using the PRISMA framework. We obtained 34 studies for an in-depth review, through which we extracted 32 attributes that were classified into five typologies: ‘monetary’ (7 attributes), ‘general’ (4 attributes), ‘flexibility’ (6 attributes), ‘prescription’ (12 attributes), and ‘purpose’ (3 attributes). Though monetary attributes should theoretically define farmers’ choices; general design and flexibility attributes are more critical for farmers’ participation and willingness to accept. The study also discusses the lesser-used attributes that could be potentially explored in future studies. Thus, our review can be used as a reference by future AES studies to select their bundle of choice attributes and test with a broader range of attributes in their choice experiments.
title: Legal aspects of the foster parent’s limited decision-making power concerning the child
Creators: name: Wilk, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: EDUsfera. Ewa Jurczyk-Romanowska
Year: 2020

description: Ograniczenie władzy rodzicielskiej poprzez umieszczenie dziecka w rodzinie zastępczej wywołuje m.in. skutki w zakresie rozdzielenia praw i obowiązków między rodzicami zastępczymi a rodzicami biologicznymi. Rodzice biologiczni zachowują bowiem niektóre uprawnienia rodzicielskie. Brak wystarczająco jednolitych i precyzyjnych regulacji prawnych określających zakres praw i obowiązków obu rodzin może powodować realne trudności w prawidłowym wypełnianiu ról rodzicielskich, gdy pomiędzy rodzinami nie ma porozumienia.
Elastic Characterization of Transparent and Opaque Films, Multilayers and Acoustic Resonators by Surface Brillouin Scattering: A Review
Creators: name: Carlotti, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is currently a renewed interest in the development of experimental methods to achieve the elastic characterization of thin films, multilayers and acoustic resonators operating in the GHz range of frequencies. The potentialities of surface Brillouin light scattering (surf-BLS) for this aim are reviewed in this paper, addressing the various situations that may occur for the different types of structures. In particular, the experimental methodology and the amount of information that can be obtained depending on the transparency or opacity of the film material, as well as on the ratio between the film thickness and the light wavelength, are discussed. A generalization to the case of multilayered samples is also provided, together with an outlook on the capability of the recently developed micro-focused scanning version of the surf-BLS technique, which opens new opportunities for the imaging of the spatial profile of the acoustic field in acoustic resonators and in artificially patterned metamaterials, such as phononic crystals.
An Exploration of Young People’s Experiences of a Participatory Project
Creators: name: Wallace, Felicity
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019

description: Listening to and involving children and young people (CYP) in decision-making and services that affect them has become increasingly important. Since the 1990s, there has been a rise in participatory approaches and research with CYP. Both models of participatory research and practice in this area are being developed. This research aims to enhance developments in participatory research with CYP by learning from the experiences, perspectives and accounts of CYP who have experienced a participatory project. The participatory research project that participants in this research experienced was The Verbatim Formula (TVF), a creative residential workshop for care-experienced young people, using applied art practices to investigate their experiences of care and plans for their futures. This research used an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach to explore how the young people taking part in TVF, experienced the project. A sample of five young people, ranging from the age of 16 to 21 years old took part in face-to-face semi-structured interviews. The findings of this research focused on three main themes: the young people made sense of their experiences of the project through participating; learning and interpersonal relationships. The richness and power of how young people experienced the project highlighted the possibilities of what can be gained by asking CYP about their experiences and how these could develop participatory research practices and thinking. There are also implications for educational psychology practice and the potential for future research with Educational Psychologists is outlined.
Offene Bildungsmaterialien für die eigene Lehre nutzen: Einstieg in Open Educational Resources (OER)
Creators: name: Lorenz, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: OER
Open Educational Resources

description: Workshop im Rahmen der hochschuldidaktischen Weiterbildung der Universität zu Lübeck (UzL) Lübeck am 04.04.2025.

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Wussten Sie, dass es viele hochwertige Lehrmaterialien gibt, die Sie nicht nur kostenlos nutzen, sondern auch ganz nach Ihren Bedürfnissen anpassen dürfen? Dieser Workshop zeigt Ihnen, wie das funktioniert – mit Open Educational Resources (OER).

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Lernziele:

Was darf man mit Lernmaterial (nicht) tun? (das Problem verstehen, das mit OER gelöst werden soll)

Was sind OER und wie sehen sie in der Praxis aus? (Definition und Merkmale von OER kennen)

Was ist dieses CC, das da überall steht? (Creative-Commons-Lizenzen verstehen und anwenden)

Wo finde ich OER für meine Lehre und wie kann ich sie anpassen? (OER suchen, anpassen und rechtssicher nutzen)
Narratives of War: How Somali Women Story Their Experiences of War
Creators: name: Saleh, Warsan
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019

description: Background: The literature on refugee experiences of war is problem saturated, viewing these experiences as ‘traumatic’, leading to a range of “mental health problems” including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and those who experience them as ‘victims’. This is based on Western worldviews and ignores local and community constructions of experience. Resilience theorists provide a relative departure from problem-based constructions of refugee stories but rely heavily on the concept of trauma, privileging powerful medicalised Western worldviews legitimatised by “scientific claims”. Research specifically exploring the narratives of refugees’ firsthand experience of war is scarce. Methodology: This research used a narrative analytic methodology from a feminist social constructionist perspective to understand how four Somali women refugees who have not used services in the UK, recount their experiences of war. Findings: Participants’ personal injury did not mean as much to them as did their views about shattered Somali identity, loss of belonging, neighbours and community. They linked recovery to mended relationships with God and community and put emphasis on forgiveness and their roles as peace makers and witnesses to gross human rights violations. The conceptual and semantic challenges of these findings to Western culture, based on concepts of self and resilience, are discussed. The implications for psychology practice, research and policy are also explored.
Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution. III. Primordial Binary Interactions
Creators: name: Fregeau, J. M.
name: Gurkan, M. A.
name: Joshi, K. J.
name: Rasio, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters using our 2D Monte Carlo code with the inclusion of primordial binary interactions for equal-mass stars. We use approximate analytical cross sections for energy generation from binary-binary and binary-single interactions. After a brief period of slight contraction or expansion of the core over the first few relaxation times, all clusters enter a much longer phase of stable "binary burning" lasting many tens of relaxation times. The structural parameters of our models during this phase match well those of most observed globular clusters. At the end of this phase, clusters that have survived tidal disruption undergo deep core collapse, followed by gravothermal oscillations. Our results clearly show that the presence of even a small fraction of binaries in a cluster is sufficient to support the core against collapse significantly beyond the normal core collapse time predicted without the presence of binaries. For tidally truncated systems, collapse is easily delayed sufficiently that the cluster will undergo complete tidal disruption before core collapse. As a first step toward the eventual goal of computing all interactions exactly using dynamical three- and four-body integration, we have incorporated an exact treatment of binary-single interactions in our code. We show that results using analytical cross sections are in good agreement with those using exact three-body integration, even for small binary fractions where binary-single interactions are energetically most important.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Minor changes to reflect accepted version. 28 pages, 17 figures; some figures low resolution. Full resolution paper available at http://www.mit.edu/~fregeau/paper3.pdf
Exploring What Parents of Children under 5 Years Old Say Could Help Them Engage in a Programme about Child Development
Creators: name: Laing, Alana
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019

description: This exploratory qualitative research used interviews and a focus group to explore the views of parents of children under five regarding what could help them engage in a child development programme being set up by the Educational Psychology Service. Using thematic analysis parents’ views were brought together to understand what has helped them engage in groups, what would attract them and hold their interest in a group run by the EPs and what would be potential barriers. The research found that parents use prior experiences to reflect on what they want from groups and that they were attracted through advertisements in familiar places and learning in areas of interest. They highlight the importance of supportive staff and a variety of activities as well as an awareness of the benefit of engagement for themselves and their child. Furthermore, parents shared practical and personal barriers that can make it difficult to attend groups.
Additional file 1 of FKBP51 mediates resilience to inflammation-induced anxiety through regulation of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 expression in mouse hippocampus
Creators: name: Gan, Yu-Ling
name: Wang, Chen-Yu
name: He, Rong-Heng
name: Hsu, Pei-Chien
name: Yeh, Hsin-Hsien
name: Hsieh, Tsung-Han
name: Lin, Hui-Ching
name: Cheng, Ming-Yen
name: Jeng, Chung-Jiuan
name: Huang, Ming-Chyi
name: Lee, Yi-Hsuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Additional table and supplementary figures.
"Autism doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a parent who never gives up": A Family Resilience Perspective to Exploring the Views of Black and Minority Ethnic Parents of Children with Autism
Creators: name: Ng, Rosabel
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019
Subjects: Family resilience
autism
culture
exploratory

description: This research sought to adopt a family resilience perspective to exploring the views of Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) parents of children with autism. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with ten parents with the aim to elicit what was meaningful to parents. The purpose of this research was to adopt a strength-based approach to investigate the views of BME parents of children with autism as they negotiate their way through the education system. The existing literature concentrates principally on a largely problemfocussed narrative around parents’ experiences of raising a child with autism. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to emphasise a family’s strengths and resources, using a family resilience framework to explore processes that enable families to thrive. The data was analysed using thematic analysis with themes emerging around family and relationships, values and beliefs and response to diagnosis. Overall, the findings illustrated a diverse range of experiences, values and beliefs that contributed to the resilience demonstrated by all the families. The main findings indicate overwhelming support for the positive aspects of raising a child with autism that are embedded with values and beliefs across individual, family and cultural contexts. The qualities of resilience demonstrated by families enabled them to function and remain optimistic in challenging situations. The research reflects implications for Educational Psychologists with respect to adopting culturally sensitive and strength-based approaches to working with families from diverse backgrounds. The qualitative paradigm has provided insight into understanding parents’ views and values on raising a child with autism, and their hopes for the future.
Subgap transport in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions due to magnon-assisted Andreev reflection
Creators: name: Tkachov, Grygoriy
name: McCann, Edward
name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new process of magnon-assisted Andreev reflection at a ferromagnetic metal - superconductor interface, which consists of the simultaneous injection of a Cooper pair from the superconductor and the emission of a magnon inside the ferromagnet. At low temperature this process represents an additional channel for sub-gap transport across an FS interface, which lifts restrictions on the current resulting from the necessity to match spin-polarized current in the ferromagnet with spin-less current in the superconductor. For a junction between a superconductor and a ferromagnet with an arbitrary degree of polarization, the inelastic magnon-assisted Andreev reflection process would manifest itself as a nonlinear addition to the $I(V)$ characteristics which is asymmetric with respect to the sign of the bias voltage and is related to the density of states of magnons in the ferromagnet. Expressions for the subgap $I(V)$ characteristics are given for arbitrary interfacial quality whilst the limiting cases of uniformly transparent and disordered interfaces are discussed in detail.
description: 15 pages, 4 eps figures
Additional file 1 of Integrated 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and fragmentation signatures as enhanced biomarkers in lung cancer
Creators: name: Hu, Xinlei
name: Luo, Kai
name: Shi, Hui
name: Yan, Xiaoqin
name: Huang, Ruichen
name: Zhao, Bi
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Xie, Dan
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1: A The 5hmC spike-in DNA is specifically enriched in the 5hmC libraries. Error bars indicate Standard Deviation (SD). B 5hmC peak number distribution of lung cancer samples and healthy samples. C Metagene profiles of the regions from TSS to TES with flanking 3 kb area. D Metagene profiles of enhancer with flanking 3kb area. E Enrichment analysis of 5hmC peaks of lung cancer patients and healthy controls overlapping with distinct genomic elements. TSS, transcription start sites; TES, transcription end sites. CDS, Coding DNA Sequence; 3′UTR, 3′untranslated region; 5′UTR, 5′untranslated region. Figure S2: A T-SNE analysis of cfDNA 5hmC data from lung cancer and healthy samples. B T-SNE plot of cfDNA 5hmC data from lung cancer and healthy samples in distinct batches. C T-SNE analysis of cfDNA 5hmC data from subtypes of lung cancer and healthy samples D T-SNE plot of cfDNA 5hmC data from lung cancer and healthy samples in distinct batches after removing batch effects. E Flow chart of 5hmC model construction. Figure S3: A Flow chart of fragmentation model construction. B Boxplot of the wd-scores from the integrated model for histologic subtypes of lung cancer samples. Figure S4: A Performance of integrated model in forms of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and area under curve (AUC) scores in stage I-II, III (B), IV (C). D Performance of integrated model in forms of ROC curves and AUC scores in LUAD, LUSC (E), and SCLC (F). G Boxplot of the wd-scores from the integrated model for different histologic subtypes of lung cancer samples. Figure S5: Kaplan-Meier curves of overall survival and disease free survival in lung adenocarcinoma and lung squamous carcinoma from TCGA based on gene expression of PMEPA1 (A) and PLEKHA6 (B). C. Kaplan-Meier curves of overall survival of 1378 DhMP corresponding gene in LUAD+LUAC group, LUAD group and LUSC group. D. Kaplan-Meier curves of disease free survival of 1378 DhMP corresponding gene in LUAD+LUAC group, LUAD group and LUSC group.
The Experience of Performance Appraisal for Ethnic Minority Employees in UK Organisations
Creators: name: Ramgoolam, Mahendra
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines the performance appraisal for ethnic minority employees through their lived experiences in UK organisations. A theoretical framework of the soft model of HRM and the four goals of Guest Model of HRM: Commitment, Integration, Flexibility and Adaptability, and Quality were adopted for the study. The regimes of inequality were used as a conceptual framework in relation to the hard model of HRM. A snowball sampling method was adopted to reach the participants. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Hermeneutic phenomenology and a thick description of analysis were adopted to produce a rich textual description of the fifteen respondents. Data were analysed by using a Heuristic method of analysis. The findings reveal that some of the participants have experienced fairness and transparency in the process of their performance appraisal, similar to the soft HRM. However, the findings also indicate that most of the participants perceive that the malpractice and manipulation of the process of performance appraisal result from the power of whiteness (white line managers). The findings further evidence that the white employees are given full support by their white line managers such as training, support, a good rating in their performance appraisal and promotion, thereby taking advantage of the soft model of HRM. Rhetorically, the process, system and practice of performance appraisal are a soft approach to white employees; in reality, it is a hard approach to the ethnic minority employees in UK organisations. It is important to expose the gap between rhetoric and reality of PA that experienced by EME so that the organisations in the UK can review their human resource functions and strategies effectively. As a result, all employees irrespective of their ethnic background need to feel fair in the process of the performance management life cycle. The result of this research supports the findings of Trust et al. (1997) and Gill (1999) that the initiatives of organisations initially seems to be soft when they are scrutinised, they are a hard approach to HRM. This research identified the need that addresses the lived experience of ethnic minority employees working in UK organisations concerning performance appraisal.
Imprints of the Early Universe on Axion Dark Matter Substructure
Creators: name: Blinov, Nikita
name: Dolan, Matthew J.
name: Draper, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite considerable experimental progress large parts of the axion-like particle (ALP) parameter space remain difficult to probe in terrestrial experiments. In some cases, however, small-scale structure of the ALP dark matter (DM) distribution is strongly enhanced, offering opportunities for astrophysical tests. Such an enhancement can be produced by a period of pre-nucleosynthesis early matter domination (EMD). This cosmology arises in many ultraviolet completions and generates the correct relic abundance for weak coupling $f_a\sim 10^{16}$ GeV, ALP masses in the range $10^{-13}$ eV $
description: 35 pages, 13 figures. Matches published version
title: „Gelernt habe ich im Laufe der Zeit, viel mehr auf das Bild selbst zu achten“. Ein Interview mit Gerhard Paul
Creators: name: Bartlitz, Christine
name: Kuban, Josephine
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Visual History
Year: 2021

description: Der Historiker Gerhard Paul gehört zu den wichtigsten Vertreter*innen der deutschsprachigen Visual History. Er war bis 2016 Professor für Geschichte und Geschichtsdidaktik an der Europa-Universität Flensburg, wo er seit seiner Pensionierung als Seniorprofessor weiterforscht. Das von Christine Bartlitz und Josephine Kuban für das Online-Portal „Visual History“ (www.visual-history.de) geführte multimediale[1] Interview stellt die Privatperson ebenso wie den renommierten Wissenschaftler vor, der 1951 in Hessen geboren wurde, und verschränkt dies mit aktuellen Fragen zum Forschungsfeld der Visual History rund um die Methoden, den Stellenwert in den Geschichtswissenschaften und Debatten zu Bild- und Urheberrechten.
The effect of farmer attitudes on openness to land transactions: evidence for Ireland
Creators: name: Geoghegan, Cathal
name: Kinsella, Anne
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Geoghegan, Cathal
name: Kinsella, Anne
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land markets
subject: attitudes
subject: Ireland

description: Ireland suffers from very low levels of farmland mobility by European standards. This paper examines the role of attitudes in farmers’ openness toward land transactions using a nationally representative survey of Irish farmers across the major farm systems. The results show that attitudinal factors are a significant predictor of openness to land mobility, both on the supply and demand side of the market. Additionally, there appears to be a greater demand amongst farmers for temporary land transactions such as land leasing arrangements than is currently seen in at market level.
Modelling of Ca2+-promoted structural effects in wild type and post-translationally modified Connexin26
Creators: name: Calligari, Paolo
name: Torsello, Mauro
name: Bortoli, Marco
name: Orian, Laura
name: Polimeno, Antonino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Connexins (Cx) are a class of membrane proteins important for auditory function, intercellular signalling and skin biology. Although the presence of concentration of calcium ions is known to work as a trigger for the Cx functionality, the structural changes induced by calcium binding still need to be well elucidated. In this computational study, we have explored the structural effects promoted by Ca2+ on both the wild type (Cx26WT) and on two post-translationally modified Connexin 26 (Cx26): Cx26E42-47γ, which contains two glutamates (E42 and E47) that are γ-carboxylated and Cx26R75m, where a key arginine (R75) is N-monomethylated. These modified amino acids, whose forcefield parameters have been developed in this work, alter Cx26 structure around the Ca2+coordination site. Structural changes were assessed from the analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We observed a strict relation between the chemical properties of the post-translational modifications and significantly different responses of Cx26 to Ca2+-binding, while charge-adding modifications have destabilising effects upon calcium coordination, the uncharged ones share the same structural properties of the wild-type counterpart. Overall, these findings suggest the critical role of the electrostatic network flanking the Ca2+ coordination site in maintaining the native tertiary and quaternary structures.