cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leaders with Class: A Case Study on the Role of K-12 Teaching Principals in Rural Alberta
Creators: name: Dennis, Jody L.
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: case study, teaching principal, principal, instructional leadership, teacher, school administrative leader
subject: Education--Administration

description: The purpose of this research inquiry was to gain a deeper understanding of the work performed to fulfil the duties of the teaching principal in a K-12 public education system. The study used a qualitative case study methodology and involved six participant teaching principals in semi-structured interviews, who held the position of teaching principal in Alberta for a period of five or more years. Key findings revealed that teaching principals have a complex workload. The participants shared examples of their duties in three areas: managing the school, instructional leadership, and teaching. While the teaching principals in this study subscribed to the qualities of servant leadership and were able to build relationships with staff and students, this added to the teaching principals multifaceted workload. Additionally, the teaching principals in this study believed they were well supported from their district office through teaching support, role modelling instructional leadership, and mentorship. They also created boundaries to save time and help support them in their daily work. It was also found that shrinking school budgets continued to decrease each year and the teaching principals in this study absorbed the reduced funding within their role, thereby, increasing their workload. Teaching principals in this study were found to enjoy teaching and used teaching to role model which strengthened trust and credibility with staff and students. Finally, teaching flattened the hierarchy of the school for the teaching principals in this study through their humble, servant attitude.
Low-Income Families in the District of Columbia: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
Creators: name: Dinan, Kinsey Alden
name: Cauthen, Nancy K.
name: Lazere, Ed
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Working poor
Working poor--Government policy
Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Poor families

description: About 85 percent of low-income children have parents who work, and most have at least one parent working full-time, year-round. Nonetheless, many of these parents are unable to afford basic necessities for their families, such as food, housing, and stable child care. Even a full-time job is not always enough to make ends meet, and many parents cannot get ahead simply by working more. As earnings increase—particularly as they rise above the official poverty level—families begin to lose eligibility for work supports. At the same time, work-related expenses, such as child care and transportation, increase. This means that parents may earn more without a family experiencing more financial security. In some cases, earning more actually leaves a family with fewer resources after the bills are paid.

The Family Resource Simulator, developed by the National Center for Children in Poverty, illustrates how this happens. This web-based tool calculates resources and expenses for a hypothetical family that the user "creates" by selecting city and state, family characteristics, income sources, and assets. The user also selects which public benefits the family receives when eligible and makes choices about what happens when the family loses benefits (e.g., does the family seek cheaper child care after losing a subsidy?).

The result is a series of charts that show the hypothetical family's total income from various sources as earnings rise, as well as the cost of basic family expenses. Using the Simulator, this report describes the experiences of two hypothetical families in the workforce.
title: Surveying and Editing the Metadata of Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
Creators: name: Ryerson, Anna
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMassChan
Year: 2023

description: In this talk, I will discuss my experience surveying and editing the metadata of a large crowdsourced public history archive. The Our Marathon collection includes nearly 8,000 items, with materials ranging from letters to collages to oral histories and other first-person accounts collected in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Along the way, collaborations were established between Northeastern University and the NPR radio station, WBUR, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Public Library. This archive bears some resemblance to other projects that used crowdsourced materials in response to a public trauma, such as the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank relating the experiences of Katrina and Rita. I added to and edited the Metadata Object Description Schema (or MODS) records from this collection, in order to clarify the copyright status, associated names and subjects of these materials, as well as the languages used in certain items, so as to improve discoverability for researchers viewing the collection through Northeastern University Library's Digital Repository Service. One of the biggest issues with these records initially was their lack of standardization and authorities, and in order to address these problems I needed to develop new ways of searching and surveying this collection. In working with this collection, I have realized that it presents some challenges that are perhaps unique to such a large, crowdsourced response to a shared trauma. Because this is a kind of memorial, with a goal of both community building and healing, it is important for users to be able to access this material on their own terms. Yet the large number of items in this collection require organization to allow for meaningful access.
Child Care in Colorado: Making Care More Affordable for Working Families
Creators: name: Dinan, Kinsey Alden
name: Cauthen, Nancy K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Child care--Finance
Child care--Government policy
Poor families

description: In Colorado, as in other states across the country, the high cost of child care puts reliable, high-quality care out of reach for many families. Child care subsidies can help, but current policies reach only a fraction of those in need of assistance. Moreover, families who do receive subsidies can find themselves penalized for working and earning more as just a small raise can trigger a substantial loss in benefits. Using results from NCCP's Family Resource Simulator, this report illustrates these policy challenges and discusses possible solutions that would better help Colorado's low- to moderate-income workers meet their child care needs.
The paradox of soft singularity crossing and its resolution by distributional cosmological quantitities
Creators: name: Keresztes, Zoltán
name: Gergely, László Á.
name: Kamenshchik, Alexander Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cosmological model of a flat Friedmann universe filled with a mixture of anti-Chaplygin gas and dust-like matter exhibits a future soft singularity, where the pressure of the anti-Chaplygin gas diverges (while its energy density is finite). Despite infinite tidal forces the geodesics pass through the singularity. Due to the dust component, the Hubble parameter has a non-zero value at the encounter with the singularity, therefore the dust implies further expansion. With continued expansion however, the energy density and the pressure of the anti-Chaplygin gas would become ill-defined, hence from the point of view of the anti-Chaplygin gas only a contraction is allowed. Paradoxically, the universe in this cosmological model would have to expand and contract simultaneously. This obviosly could not happen. We solve the paradox by redefining the anti-Chaplygin gas in a distributional sense. Then a contraction could follow the expansion phase at the singularity at the price of a jump in the Hubble parameter. Although such an abrupt change is not common in any cosmological evolution, we explicitly show that the set of Friedmann, Raychaudhuri and continuity equations are all obeyed both at the singularity and in its vicinity. We also prove that the Israel junction conditions are obeyed through the singular spatial hypersurface. In particular we enounce and prove a more general form of the Lanczos equation.
description: 12 pages; to be published in Phys.Rev.D
Microbial mRNAs in BEVs_EVCNA
Creators: name: Zempleni, Janos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 321004
subject: Nutritional science

description: Bovine milk extracellular vesicles, prepared by ultracentrifugation, contain microbial mRNA which are detectable in trac amounts in human plasma
Child and Youth Emergency Mental Health Care: A National Problem
Creators: name: Cooper, Janice L.
name: Masi, Rachel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Mental health policy
Child mental health
Teenagers--Mental health
Family services

description: This report reviews current practices for children, youth, and families visiting hospital emergency rooms for mental health conditions, and makes recommendations for policy actions to improve care and encourage more community-based services.
Mexican mixed-species forest shows resilience to high-intensity fire
Creators: name: Azpeleta Tarancón, Alicia
name: Fulé, Peter Z.
name: García-Arévalo, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sprouting
seeding
Climate
oak-pine forest
repeated measures

description: In the aftermath of a high-intensity wildfire in La Michilía Biosphere Reserve, Mexico, an initial study suggested a shift from an oak-pine forest to a grass-savanna ecosystem. We conducted repeated measurements on sixty permanent plots 1, 5, 10, and 20 years after the original wildfire at paired burned and unburned study sites to capture spatial and temporal dynamics in forest composition and structure. We found that the burned site regained most pre-wildfire characteristics two decades after the wildfire. The ongoing regeneration in the burned site suggests that despite the remaining differences, the site is approaching a complete recovery, with forest characteristics analogous to the unburned site. Our findings indicate that the combination of seeders' wildfire resistance and resprouters' post-wildfire sprouting strategies in mixed-species forests provide high resilience to high-intensity wildfire. Moreover, protecting La Michilía as a biosphere reserve and heightened public awareness of the natural environment likely played an indispensable role in facilitating the recovery of the post-wildfire ecosystem.
description: We re-sampled sixty permanent plots in the buffer zone of the MBR at approximately 2,245 m elevation in the burned and unburned study sites five (2001), ten (2006), and twenty years (2017) after the wildfire (Fig. 2). The 2017 measurement was conducted in early March, ahead of the 2017 growing season, so we considered it to represent the 2016 growth. Center plots were established in 1996 and remeasured in 1997 on a 100 x 100 m grid spacing (Fig. 3). For each 200 m2 circular fixed-area plot, we re-measured live tree overstory characteristics (species, condition class, diameter at breast height, and total tree height) and cut trees by species, and their diameter at stump height. We also measured dead woody biomass, litter (distinguishable plant parts like bark and twigs scattered on the forest floor), and duff (partially decomposed organic matter found between the litter layer and the A1 soil horizon, with minimal similarities to the original plant structure), along a planar transect from the center plot in the direction established in 1996. Additionally, we tallied tree species regeneration across height classes (less than 40 cm, between 40.1 and 80 cm, and between 80.1 and 130 cm) over a nested 40 m² circular plot. For the complete procedures of field sampling methods, please refer to the Field Sampling section in Fulé et al. (2000).
Facts About Trauma for Policymakers: Children's Mental Health
Creators: name: Cooper, Janice L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Mental health policy
Child mental health
Teenagers--Mental health
Psychic trauma in children
Psychic trauma

description: Trauma can result in long- and short-term problems. Research suggests that these can include physical and emotional health conditions and put those exposed to trauma at increased risk for chronic ill health and premature death. For children and youth, in addition to health problems, other consequences of trauma include difficulties with learning, ongoing behavior problems, impaired relationships and poor social and emotional competence. Children and youth exposed to trauma, especially violence, experience more learning and academic difficulties and behavioral and mood-related problems. Research also shows that the younger children are when they experience trauma, the more vulnerable they are to its effects on brain development.
Mapping and modelling the probability of tree-related power outages using topographic, climate, and stand data
Creators: name: Hirata, Felipe Gunji
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Trees routinely fall across electrical power lines during severe weather events interrupting the power distribution to residential and business customers. Electricity utilities are responsible for generating and distributing power to customers, and managing tree-related hazards adjacent to transmission and distribution lines. To clarify the circumstances under which tree-related outages occur, the relationship between outage frequency and various climate, topographic and stand attributes were investigated. These variables were then used to fit outage probability models using logistic regression. The first study modeled the probability of tree-related outages in the transmission grid across the province of British Columbia (BC) using climate and topographic data. The second study modeled the probability of tree-related outages in the distribution grid for the North Shore region of the BC Lower Mainland using climate, topographic, and stand data. Models for the province fitted the data quite well (c-values ranging from 0.74 to 0.77). The North Shore had the highest density of outages per length of circuit within the province. These local models fit the data less well than in the provincial study (c-values ranging from 0.62 to 0.63). Key variables selected by the models were MC2 average hourly precipitation, MC2 average hourly wind speed, MC2 top 5 events wind speed, BC Hydro annual average wind speed, elevation, ground slope, topographic exposure, crown closure, stand height, and stand age. Vegetation management plans should continue to reduce the risk of outages by eliminating hazard and danger trees from stands adjacent to power lines. The outage density and probability maps could be useful tools for locating circuits that are more susceptible to outages and in customizing local management and ROW design regimes.
MadAnalysis 5, a user-friendly framework for collider phenomenology
Creators: name: Conte, Eric
name: Fuks, Benjamin
name: Serret, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present MadAnalysis 5, a new framework for phenomenological investigations at particle colliders. Based on a C++ kernel, this program allows to efficiently perform, in a straightforward and user-friendly fashion, sophisticated physics analyses of event files such as those generated by a large class of Monte Carlo event generators. MadAnalysis 5 comes with two modes of running. The first one, easier to handle, uses the strengths of a powerful Python interface in order to implement physics analyses by means of a set of intuitive commands. The second one requires to implement the analyses in the C++ programming language, directly within the core of the analysis framework. This opens unlimited possibilities concerning the level of complexity which can be reached, being only limited by the programming skills and the originality of the user.
description: 118 pages; 5 figures; 25 tables; version accepted by CPC
The Phantom of the OPERA: Superluminal Neutrinos
Creators: name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This report presents a brief review on the experimental measurements of the muon neutrino velocities from the OPERA, Fermilab and MINOS experiments and that of the (anti)-electron neutrino velocities from the supernova SN1987A, and consequently on the theoretical attempts to attribute the data as signals for superluminality of neutrinos. Different scenarios on how to understand and treat the background fields in the effective field theory frameworks are pointed out. Challenges on interpreting the OPERA result as a signal of neutrino superluminality are briefly reviewed and discussed. It is also pointed out that a covariant picture of Lorentz violation may avoid the refutation on the OPERA experiment.
description: 10 latex pages. Final version for journal publication
Is C&RL Ready for a Data Sharing Policy?
Creators: name: Totleben, Kristen
name: Wang, Minglu
name: Ho, Adrian
Publisher: name: University of Rochester
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: In the summer of 2020, C&RL received a request from the ACRL Board of Directors to establish a registered report submission track as a major step to ensure C&RL’s high standards of rigorous methods. The request letter was signed by a group of ACRL members, led by Amy Riegelman, who later published an editorial on this topic (Amy Riegelman, 2021), calling C&RL to be more proactive in supporting open research practices. In order to increase C&RL’s rigor in supporting and implementing open research practices, it was recognized that both access to research data and transparency of research methods are necessary. From this line of thought, the C&RL Editorial Board, former Editor Wendi Arant Kaspar and Editor Kristen Totleben, have been engaged in an ongoing conversation on the possibility and the journal’s capacity to implement a data sharing policy. For the past three years, Editorial Board member Minglu Wang has been researching academic journals’ data sharing policies and reaching out to journal editors and editorial board members for consultation. Her efforts culminated in fall 2022 when she, Totleben, and Editorial Board member Adrian Ho conducted a survey (see Appendix) requesting input from colleagues in academic libraries regarding their perceptions of a data sharing policy and what types of data management support they would need or recommend.
Promoting Social-emotional Wellbeing in Early Intervention Services: A Fifty-state View
Creators: name: Cooper, Janice L.
name: Vick, Jessica
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Child development
Developmentally disabled children--Services for--Evaluation
Developmentally disabled children--Services for

description: In 2007 approximately 322,000 young children received services through the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) Part C, the Early Intervention Program for Infant and Toddlers with Disabilities. Yet research shows that only a fraction of children eligible for the program received services. Against the backdrop of this gap between need for services and service use, special concerns for young children with or at risk for social-emotional developmental delays stand in relief. Even fewer of these children received services to address their social-emotional developmental needs through Part C. In part, this state of affairs reflects the significant flexibility states have in the eligibility criteria used to identify children who will receive services under Part C. However, this flexibility results in significant differences in the number of children identified in specific states. Eligibility criteria are categorized into three groups: restricted, which includes in the determination neither clinical input nor children at-risk for developmental delay; narrow, which does include a clinical option but not at risk children; and liberal, which can include both the clinical option and at-risk children.
title: Трансформация инструментария корпоративного финансового контроллинга в условиях цифровизации бизнес-процессов
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет
Year: 2024

description: Монография посвящена решению актуальных проблем развития финансового контроллинга в условиях цифровой трансформации, актуализации протекающих бизнес-процессов и оценке эффективности применения корпоративных инструментов в финансовом контроллинге. Предложения и рекомендации будут способствовать увеличению эффективности финансового контроллинга на предприятиях в условиях цифровой трансформации и обеспечивать развитие инструментария. Адресована компаниям, работающим в структуре народного хозяйства, а также специалистам и управленческому персоналу предпринимательских структур в учебном процессе при подготовке и повышении квалификации.
Challenges and Opportunities in Children‘s Mental Health: A View from Families and Youth
Creators: name: Dababnah, Sarah
name: Cooper, Janice L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Child mental health services
Teenagers--Services for
Family services
Mental health policy
Mental health services--Evaluation

description: This report documents critical issues in children's mental health policy and service delivery from the perspective of stakeholders in the family and youth movement. The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) convened the meeting that this report summarizes, Best Practices in Policy for Children's Mental Health Consultation Meeting with Stakeholders: Family and Youth Perspectives. It was designed to solicit guidance from families and youth involved in the child mental health field to support a research study entitled Unclaimed Children Revisited. Among the key findings of the meeting was that through a family and youth lens, many effective practices, some with supporting policy, have emerged but not been taken to scale. Another set of core findings was that family members and youth acknowledged the gains made in children's mental health but cited obstacles to improved outcomes for children and families, such as service limitations, provider attitudes and training, lack of services integration, fiscal constraints, a weak infrastructure, and a sparse array of services. The report describes participants' perspectives on the status of family and youth support and advocacy systems. It also highlights selected current innovative interventions directed or heavily influenced by parents, youth, and community advocates that strengthen family and youth influence in mental health policy and service planning and advance improved mental health outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Use of high spatial resolution satellite data for monitoring and characterization of drought conditions in the northwestern Algeria
Creators: name: Malika, Abbes
name: Abderrahman, Hamimed
name: Aicha, Lafrid
name: Laounia, Nehal
name: Habib, Mahi
Publisher: name: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology
Year: 2018
Subjects: drought, NDVI, linear regression, SPI, Northwestern Algeria

description: Mining Science
Selecting a Grounded Theory Approach for Nursing Research
Creators: name: Singh, Shaminder
name: Estefan, Andrew
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2018
Subjects: grounded theory
philosophy
epistemology
ontology
methodology
method
decision making
nursing theory

description: We acknowledge funding for the research and authorship of this article from the University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing, Graduate Student Knowledge Translation Assistantship to Shaminder Singh. We also acknowledge funding for publication of this article from University of Calgary, Libraries and Cultural resources.
description: Grounded theory is a commonly used research methodology. There are three primary approaches to grounded theory in nursing research: those espoused by Glaser, Strauss and Corbin, and Charmaz. All three approaches use similar procedures, yet there are important differences among them, which implies that researchers need to make careful choices when using grounded theory. Researchers new to grounded theory need to find the most appropriate approach that fits their research field, topic, and researcher position. In this article, we compare the three grounded theory approaches. Choices of a grounded theory approach will depend on the researcher's understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of all three approaches. Practical aspects of grounded theory approaches should match the information processing styles and analytical abilities of the researcher and the intended use of the theory. We illustrate key aspects of decision making about which method to select by drawing upon the first author's experiences in his doctoral research.
Reduction operators and exact solutions of generalized Burgers equations
Creators: name: Pocheketa, Oleksandr A.
name: Popovych, Roman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35C05 (Primary) 35K57, 35A30 (Secondary)

description: Reduction operators of generalized Burgers equations are studied. A connection between these equations and potential fast diffusion equations with power nonlinearity -1 via reduction operators is established. Exact solutions of generalized Burgers equations are constructed using this connection and known solutions of the constant-coefficient potential fast diffusion equation.
description: 7 pages
HESPRI - Elevating Higher Education policies: an empowering SPRIngboard - Communication and Dissemination Plan
Creators: name: Caracentev, Sanda
name: Roșca, Dorina
name: Popa, Nicoleta Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: communication and dissemination plan

description: The main objective of the Communication and Dissemination Plan (deliverable 5.1) is to define and detail the internal and external strategies for dissemination and communication throughout HESPRI project lifetime. This document has five main sections covering the scope of deliverable 5.1; a general overview of dissemination and communication activities; a detailed description of internal and external communication strategies, including engagement with target audiences, online and offline dissemination tools; an evaluation and monitoring section including KPIs; and a final section on project partner obligations and engagement with the funder.
Improving the Odds for the Healthy Development of Young Children in Foster Care
Creators: name: Dicker, Sheryl
name: Gordon, Elysa
name: Knitzer, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Foster children
Foster children--Services for
Foster children--Government policy
Child development

description: Very young children are the fastest growing segment of the child welfare population. Over the past decade, the number of children under age five has increased by 110 percent in contrast to a 50 percent increase for all children. Over 30 percent of all children in foster care are under age five. Infants comprise the largest cohort of the young child foster care population, accounting for one in five admissions, and they remain in care twice as long as older children. Ensuring healthy development and permanency for these young children, given the range of risks they face, is a complex challenge that requires a unique mix of resources and strategies. Yet, there has been relatively little attention focused on linking child welfare practice with health care, early intervention, and other strategies that could effectively address the risks that these young children face and strengthen their families. This policy paper is intended to be a wake-up call—to challenge communities all over the country to attend to the needs of children in or at risk of foster care placement. It is about what child welfare agencies, courts, and other partners can do to improve the physical, developmental, and emotional health of young children in foster care. It highlights the special risks these children face and identifies strategies that service providers, courts, policymakers, and advocates can use to enhance the healthy development of young children in foster care and promote their prospects for permanency—whether that means reunification with their families or adoption.
In-medium hadronic spectral functions through the soft-wall holographic model of QCD
Creators: name: Colangelo, Pietro
name: Giannuzzi, Floriana
name: Nicotri, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scalar glueball and vector meson spectral functions in a hot and dense medium by means of the soft-wall holographic model of QCD. Finite temperature and density effects are implemented through the AdS/RN metric. We analyse the behaviour of the hadron masses and widths in the $(T,μ)$ plane, and compare our results with the experimental ones and with other theoretical determinations.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. matching the published version
Quantum noise properties of multiphoton transitions in driven nonlinear resonators
Creators: name: Leyton, V.
name: Peano, V.
name: Thorwart, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quantum noise properties of a weakly nonlinear Duffing resonator in the deep quantum regime, where only few quanta are excited. This regime is dominated by the appearance of coherent multiphoton resonances in the nonlinear response of the resonator to the modulation. We determine simple expressions for the photon noise spectrum and find that the multiphoton resonances also induces a multiple peak structure in that noise. When the corresponding multiphoton Rabi oscillations are underdamped, zero temperature quantum fluctuations determine comparable populations of all quasienergy states which belong to a resonant multiphoton doublet. Most interestingly, the quantum fluctuations probe the multiphoton transitions by inducing several peaks in the noise spectrum of the resonator observables. In particular, the noise of the photon number contains complete information about the multiphoton states and their stationary populations via pairs of nearly symmetric peaks at opposite frequencies. Their widths are determined by the damping of the Rabi oscillations and their heights are proportional to the stationary nonequilbrium populations. A finite detuning from a multiphoton resonance generates a quasielastic noise peak at zero frequency. In addition, we relate the stationary populations of the quasienergy states with an effective quantum temperature and discuss the role of a finite temperature.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Characterization of the reactivity of mineral additions by different microstructural and mechanical approaches
Creators: name: Salah, Bouglada Mohammed
name: Abdelghani, Naceri
name: Mohamed, Baheddi
Publisher: name: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology
Year: 2018
Subjects: microstructure, physico-chemical properties, reactivity, pozzolanicity, mineral additions

description: Mining Science
title: From ecosystems to people: examining the variability in the provision of ecosystem services by eelgrass meadows in Atlantic Canada
Creators: name: Prystay, Tanya S.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Seagrass meadows provide functions that support other species and ecosystem services that directly and indirectly benefit human wellbeing. However, growing in estuarine environments, seagrass meadows are exposed to interacting pressures from terrestrial and marine systems, resulting in their degradation worldwide. Efforts to conserve these social-ecological systems have met challenges, including insufficient maps to assess seagrass status and value, a limited understanding of seagrass meadow ecosystem traits underpinning the provision of ecosystem services, and a lack of public awareness necessary to support management decisions. This thesis presents multidisciplinary studies of eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that contribute toward addressing these challenges. In the first study, I evaluated the reproducibility of using remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) to collect seasonal maps of submerged eelgrass meadows in a temperate environment. I show that higher altitude surveys are beneficial when surveying in rapidly changing environments; however, RPAS surveys using three-colour band imagery alone may be insufficient to discriminate seasonal changes. In the second and third studies, I identified meadow structural and environmental traits underpinning eelgrass service as fish habitat and function as a coastal filter. In the second study, I show that shallower and more saline eelgrass meadows enhance diversity in fish life history traits. In the third study, I show that carbon and nitrogen content in the surface sediment was negatively related to sediment density, where isotopic ratios indicated that the carbon was predominantly derived from marine allochthonous (non-eelgrass) sources. Lastly, in the fourth study, using an online survey, I show strong awareness of eelgrass by Canadian coastal Atlantic community members, and support for conservation efforts. Participants identified fish habitat, coastal protection, and water quality maintenance as the three most important ecosystem services provided by eelgrass in Atlantic Canada. Together, the components of this thesis characterise three Newfoundland and Labrador eelgrass meadows, the services they provide, and synthesises the perception of eelgrass by Canadian coastal Atlantic community members. These findings are relevant to local management decision-making and eelgrass monitoring, while also contributing to the growing global characterization of the variability in eelgrass meadow function driving ecosystem services.
Low-Income Families in Illinois: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
Creators: name: Dinan, Kinsey Alden
name: Cauthen, Nancy K.
name: Fass, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Working poor
Working poor--Government policy
Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Poor families

description: About 85 percent of low-income children have parents who work, and most have at least one parent working full-time, year-round. Nonetheless, many of these parents are unable to afford basic necessities for their families, such as food, housing, and stable child care. Even a full-time job is not always enough to make ends meet, and many parents cannot get ahead simply by working more. As earnings increase—particularly as they rise above the official poverty level—families begin to lose eligibility for work supports. At the same time, work-related expenses, such as child care and transportation, increase. This means that parents may earn more without a family experiencing more financial security. In some cases, earning more actually leaves a family with fewer resources after the bills are paid.

The Family Resource Simulator, developed by the National Center for Children in Poverty, illustrates how this happens. This web-based tool calculates resources and expenses for a hypothetical family that the user "creates" by selecting city and state, family characteristics, income sources, and assets. The user also selects which public benefits the family receives when eligible and makes choices about what happens when the family loses benefits (e.g., does the family seek cheaper child care after losing a subsidy?).

The result is a series of charts that show the hypothetical family's total income from various sources as earnings rise, as well as the cost of basic family expenses. Using the Simulator, this report describes the experiences of two hypothetical families in the workforce.
Influence of pick layouts on the performance of bolter miner cutting head
Creators: name: Qiao, Shuo
name: Wang, Ailun
name: Liu, Zaizheng
name: Xia, Yimin
name: Liu, Jinshu
Publisher: name: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology
Year: 2018
Subjects: FEM, load fluctuation, pick layout, bolter miner, coal-rock cutting

description: Mining Science
The Challenge of Child Care: More Help Needed for Houston's Families
Creators: name: Dinan, Kinsey Alden
name: Briggs, Jodie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Child care--Finance
Child care--Government policy
Poor families

description: Houston families are working harder than ever. In fact, more than 75 percent of the children living in low-income families in Houston have parents who are employed, and the majority of these children — about 400,000 — have parents who work full-time, year-round. But, despite their best efforts, these parents are struggling to afford the most basic necessities for their families. In Houston, as elsewhere in Texas and the United States, a full-time job at low wages is not enough to make ends meet. Work supports such as the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and public health insurance can help narrow the gap between low earnings and the cost of basic expenses. But a critical Texas work support — child care assistance — is woefully underfunded and therefore out of reach for many qualified families. This fact sheet finds that child care is one of the largest expenses working families face, and unless they receive help with the cost of care, low-wage working parents remain unable to afford basic family necessities.
Statement of Janice L. Cooper, Ph.D.
Creators: name: Cooper, Janice L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Child mental health services
Teenagers--Mental health services
Families--Mental health services
Mental health services--Finance
Child mental health services--Finance

description: Statement on "Financing Mental Health for Children, Youth and Their Families," APA Congressional Briefing on Children's Mental Health, October 10, 2007.
MEAM potentials for Al, Si, Mg, Cu, and Fe alloys
Creators: name: Jelinek, Bohumir
name: Groh, Sebastien
name: Horstemeyer, Mark F.
name: Houze, Jeffery
name: Kim, Seong-Gon
name: Wagner, Gregory J.
name: Moitra, Amitava
name: Baskes, Michael I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A set of Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM) potentials for the interactions between Al, Si, Mg, Cu, and Fe was developed from a combination of each element's MEAM potential in order to study metal alloying. Previously published MEAM parameters of single elements have been improved for better agreement to the generalized stacking fault energy (GSFE) curves when compared with ab-initio generated GSFE curves. The MEAM parameters for element pairs were constructed based on the structural and elastic properties of element pairs in the NaCl reference structure garnered from ab-initio calculations, with adjustment to reproduce the ab-initio heat of formation of the most stable binary compounds. The new MEAM potentials were validated by comparing the formation energies of defects, equilibrium volumes, elastic moduli, and heat of formation for several binary compounds with ab-initio simulations and experiments. Single elements in their ground state crystal structure were subjected to heating to test the potentials at elevated temperatures. An Al potential was modified to avoid formation of an unphysical solid structure at high temperatures. The thermal expansion coefficient of a compound with the composition of AA 6061 alloy was evaluated and compared with experimental values. MEAM potential tests performed in this work, utilizing the universal Atomistic Simulation Environment (ASE), are distributed to facilitate reproducibility of the results.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, for PRB
Investigation of regulatory factors in the signal transduction network of herbivore-induced terpene production in maize
Creators: name: Irmer, Franziska
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Die Regulation der herbivor-induzierten Terpensynthese in Mais findet in einem Netzwerk von Faktoren statt. Ziel dieser Arbeit war, solche Faktoren zu finden und ihre Rolle im regulatorischen Netzwerk zu untersuchen. Mithilfe des Nested Association Mapping wurden Gene identifiziert, die an der Regulation der Terpensynthese beteiligt sind. Vergleiche der Gensequenzen zwischen Maislinien der NAM-Population, und homologen Gene in Arabidopsis und Reis, wurden genutzt um diese Gene zu charakterisieren. Die Expression nach Herbivorie wurde untersucht. Diese Arbeit konzentrierte sich auf zwei Quantitative Trait Loci mit Einfluss auf die Terpenemission. Es wurden jeweils mehrere Kandidatengene identifiziert. Einflüsse von Transposon-Insertionen in Genen wurden untersucht. Zusätzlich wurden zwei Transkriptionsfaktoren der Ereb-Genfamilie untersucht. Insgesamt wurden zwölf Kandidatengene identifiziert, und ihre Sequenzen, Expressionsmuster und Einfluss auf die Terpensynthese untersucht.
description: The regulation of herbivore induced terpene synthesis is controlled by a network of factors. This work aimed to identify such factors and investigate their role. Using Nested Association Mapping, candidate genes involved in the terpene regulation were identified. Their sequences in NAM lines were compared, and homologs in Arabidopsis and rice were used to characterize them. The gene expression after herbivory was tested. This work focused on two Quantitative Trait Loci influencing terpene emission. Several candidate genes for each QTL were identified. The influence of transposon insertions in candidate genes was tested. In addition, two transcription factors from the ereb gene family were investigated. Their expression isn’t regulated by herbivory, but sequence differences between maize lines correlate with terpene emission levels. In total, twelve candidate genes were identified. Their sequence, expression levels, and influence on terpene emission was investigated.
Boosting the t tbar charge asymmetry
Creators: name: Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
name: Juste, A.
name: Rubbo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a kinematical enhancement of the t tbar charge asymmetry at the LHC by selecting events with the t tbar centre of mass frame highly boosted along the beam axis. This kinematical selection increases the asymmetries and their significance up to a factor of two in a rather model-independent fashion. Hence, it can be a perfect complement to enhance model discrimination at the LHC.
description: LaTeX 15 pages. Enlarged discussions and several plots added. Final version to appear in PLB
Making Parents' Health Care a Priority
Creators: name: Dinan, Kinsey Alden
name: Briggs, Jodie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Families--Health and hygiene
Health services accessibility
Parents--Services for

description: Access to secure and affordable health insurance is critical for all Americans. In the public debate, children's coverage has received particular attention and support. But access to health care for parents is a key predictor of access to health care for children. To help inform the national debate on how to improve the health care system, this fact sheet examines current gaps in parents' access to health coverage, looks at the patchwork of policies that exists across the states, and argues that a national approach is needed.
Towards Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth and Their Families: Financing that Supports Knowledge
Creators: name: Cooper, Janice L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mental health services--Finance
Child mental health
Child mental health services
Teenagers--Mental health
Teenagers--Services for

description: This working paper provides a broad overview of sources of funding (and their policy roots) that underwrite children's behavioral health services illuminating the flaws and prospects of various policy choices. It aims to stimulate debate that will bring about changes that put financing in the service of better mental health, social functioning and educational well-being for children and youth with behavioral health problems and those at-risk and their families. It concludes with recommendations for policy action to create and sustain a support federal and state fiscal environment.
Schwarzian differential equations and Hecke eigenforms on Shimura curves
Creators: name: Yang, Yifan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11F12, secondary 11G18

description: Let $X$ be a Shimura curve of genus zero. In this paper, we first characterize the spaces of automorphic forms on $X$ in terms of Schwarzian differential equations. We then devise a method to compute Hecke operators on these spaces. An interesting by-product of our analysis is the evaluation $$_2F_1(1/24,7/24,5/6, -\frac{2^{10}\cdot3^3\cdot5}{11^4})=\sqrt6 \sqrt[6]{\frac{11}{5^5}} $$ and other similar identities.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures
A Literature Synthesis: Optimum Learning for All Students -- Implementation of Alberta’s 2018 Professional Practice Standards
Creators: name: Stelmach, Bonnie
name: Adams, Pamela
name: Brandon, Jim
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2019
Subjects: Professional Practice Standards
teaching
leadership
implementation

description: Literature Synthesis
description: This synthesis of the literature is designed to undergird our 4-university longitudinal mixed methods study Optimum Learning for All Students Implementing Alberta’s 2018 Professional Practice Standards. Our ambition is to gain insights into how and how well Alberta’s Teaching Quality Standard, Leadership Quality Standard, and Superintendent Leadership Quality Standard are being put into place, how the standards are impacting practice, and what changes occur over time in teaching and learning. Indeed, our longitudinal design is premised on “uncovering sustained changes and implementation success” (Derrington, 2019, p. 8). Given this, our goals in preparing this manuscript were to (a) synthesize scholarship on policy processes so that we can situate our inquiry into the standards in a process-oriented way; (b) provide a jurisdictional review of standards-based approaches to teaching and leadership and what we know to be effective with respect to this approach so that we can discern how Alberta’s standards and pathways to certification are positioned compared to others who have gone before us; and (c) synthesize scholarship that demonstrates the link between the professional practice standards and quality teaching and leadership so that we are anchored to evidence when interpreting the forthcoming empirical data. Considering the comprehensiveness of the professional practice standards, we covered the waterfront, so to speak. But though we plumbed many strands and sources of knowledge, we do not claim it to be exhaustive or necessarily complete.