cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Migration performance of Atlantic salmon post-smolts in a Norwegian fjord system
Creators: name: Plantalech Manel-La, Núria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The migratory behaviour of hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) postsmolts during their seaward migration was examined using acoustic telemetry. The first study focused on the swimming depths of eight post-smolts relative to the water-column salinity and temperature using depth sensitive acoustic transmitters. Individuals were released at the mouth of the Eio River and manually tracked during the first hours of their sea migration in a Norwegian fjord system. Vertical salinity and temperature distributions were recorded along the tracked post-smolts' trajectory. Post-smolts were tracked for a mean of 11.4 ± 1.9 hours after release over a mean distance of 8.7 ±3.4 km from release into the fjord. Mean swimming depth was 1.6 m with a range of 0.5 - 2.1 m. The results of this study suggest no overall preference for salinity concentration with post-smolts spending on average 68% of the time in salinity concentrations lower than 20 practical salinity units (psu) during the sea migration. The second study compared the behaviour of two distinct populations with different inherent migratory distances to the ocean in a common-garden experiment. Atlantic salmon post-smolts of Rivers Flekke (20 km from the open ocean, n = 80) and Lærdal (144 km from the open ocean, n = 79) origin were tagged with acoustic transmitters and released in spring of 2005 and 2006 at the mouth of the river Opo, in Sørfjorden, Western Norway. The post-smolts' migratory behaviour was continuously monitored using acoustic listening stations at three areas in Sørfjorden (2.5 - 35 km from the release point). The high percentage of post-smolts detected 35 km from release site (84% in 2005 and 81% in 2006) suggested a high survival and was independent of the fish origin. The post-smolts' progression rate from release to the end of area 3 (means, 2005: 0.6 bl s ̄¹ and 2006: 0.7 bl s ̄¹) was not dependent on fish origin in either of the two years. This study is the first to describe the swimming behaviour, including swimming depth, of fjord-migrating post-smolts
Measured Words: Politics and Performance in the Federal Bureaucracy
Creators: name: Putansu, Steven R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: For nearly 50 years, a fundamental issue of governance has been performance management, and government practitioners and public administration scholars have faced the task of developing and utilizing systems to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of government entities. The costs of the federal government, which continue to increase as a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from federal stimulus in response to the economic collapse of 2008, and from the growing size of mandatory public spending, all coupled with increasing federal debt as a percentage of GDP, continue to exert pressure on the federal government to find ways to meet these goals. However, the relationship between performance management and government decision making is not well-understood, and examples of failed performance efforts occur as often, or more, than examples of success.This research addresses the nexus between government decision making and performance management, specifically exploring whether, how, and the circumstances under which performance information or other technical factors are likely to successfully impact decision making. There are two literatures, which developed separately, that inform this research. The first examines decision making, and offers three types of models to explain decision making processes. The second examines performance management design, implementation, and outcomes, and shows the promises and pitfalls of the performance mindset. The first broadly focuses on political and technical factors that impact decision making, while the second narrowly focuses on the utilization, or lack thereof, of performance information. This is one of the first studies to integrate the lessons from these two literatures in order to understand the successes and failures of performance efforts.Performance management has the potential to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of government programs, but the results of this study indicate that political and technical conflict play an important role in the relative value of factors in the decision making process, and that the use of performance information is influenced by this conflict. This research examines the complexities of the decision making process through applied historical analysis, and contributes to an improved understanding of the potential value of performance management in multiple government contexts.
Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital Building, and Appointee-Careerist Relations
Creators: name: Resh, William G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In examining the administrative presidency from the seldom-analyzed perspective of careerists in the executive branch, in unpacking the concept of trust in unconventional ways, and in linking this expanded definition of trust to intellectual capital development as a precursor to successfully advancing presidential agendas administratively, this dissertation combines insights from cognate research fields of organization theory, social psychology, management studies, and social capital theory to offer a unique framework for studying the administrative presidency. This work investigates the means and extent by which the George W. Bush administration, during its second term, was able to increase the reliability, and reduce the cost, of information to achieve its policy goals through administrative means. More precisely, I examine how Bush's use of the "administrative presidency" conditioned levels of trust between appointees and careerists, which subsequently conditioned the level of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing within organizations.
Bericht zum Fachseminar „Moorschutz in Niedersachsen – ein Erfahrungsaustausch“
Report on the expert seminar „Peatland protection in Lower Saxony - An exchange of experiences “
Creators: name: Blanke, Bernd
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Household Food Security in the United States, 2009
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
name: Andrews, Margaret
name: Carlson, Steven
name: Nord, Mark
name: Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
name: Andrews, Margaret
name: Carlson, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: low food security
subject: very low food security
subject: hunger
subject: food expenditures
subject: food spending
subject: food pantries
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
subject: SNAP
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: WIC

description: Eighty-five percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2009, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.7 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 5.7 percent with very low food security. In households with very low food security, the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Prevalence rates of food insecurity and very low food security were essentially unchanged from 14.6 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively, in 2008, and remained at the highest recorded levels since 1995, when the first national food security survey was conducted. The typical food-secure household spent 33 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Fifty-seven percent of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to the 2009 survey.
Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital Building, and Appointee-Careerist Relations
Creators: name: Resh, William G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In examining the administrative presidency from the seldom-analyzed perspective of careerists in the executive branch, in unpacking the concept of trust in unconventional ways, and in linking this expanded definition of trust to intellectual capital development as a precursor to successfully advancing presidential agendas administratively, this dissertation combines insights from cognate research fields of organization theory, social psychology, management studies, and social capital theory to offer a unique framework for studying the administrative presidency. This work investigates the means and extent by which the George W. Bush administration, during its second term, was able to increase the reliability, and reduce the cost, of information to achieve its policy goals through administrative means. More precisely, I examine how Bush's use of the "administrative presidency" conditioned levels of trust between appointees and careerists, which subsequently conditioned the level of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing within organizations.
The Food Assistance National Input-Output Multiplier (FANIOM) Model and Stimulus Effects of SNAP
Creators: name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Hanson, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Automatic Stabilizer
subject: fiscal stimulus
subject: multipliers
subject: jobs impact
subject: Input-Output Multiplier Model
subject: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier model
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
subject: Food Stamp Program

description: USDA's Economic Research Service uses the Food Assistance National Input-Output Multiplier (FANIOM) model to represent and measure linkages between USDA's domestic food assistance programs, agriculture, and the U.S. economy. This report describes the data sources and the underlying assumptions and structure of the FANIOM model and illustrates its use to estimate the multiplier effects from benefits issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program). During an economic downturn, an increase in SNAP benefits provides a fiscal stimulus to the economy through a multiplier process. The report also examines the different types of multipliers for different economic variables that are estimated by input-output multiplier and macroeconomic models and considers alternative estimates of the jobs impact. FANIOM's GDP multiplier of 1.79 for SNAP benefits is comparable with multipliers from some macroeconomic models.
DOES SIZE MATTER? INFLUENCE OF THE BODY SIZE OF GAMMARUS MINUS SAY 1818 ON BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN KARST SPRINGS OF VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
Creators: name: Seabolt, Chris
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This first of its kind study sought to examine how variation in body size of sexually mature Gammarus minus, a benthic amphipod found in freshwater karst springs, covaried with measures of macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in carbonate spring benthic communities. For each spring, three diversity indices were calculated from the macroinvertebrate inventory in addition to total macroinvertebrate richness and log abundance. Richness and log abundance were calculated for the non-insect, insect, EPT, and non-EPT components of the macroinvertebrate. Relative abundance of each component was also determined. Linear regression was used to analyze the relationship between these measures and average head length of amplexing males and females. For total community measures, only the Margalef index was significantly negatively related to head length. The richness, relative abundance, and log abundance of insects and EPT components also showed a negative relationship with head length. No other measures were significantly related to head length.
Charge ordering and interlayer phase coherence in quantum Hall superlattices
Creators: name: Shevchenko, S. I.
name: Fil, D. V.
name: Yakovleva, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of the existence of states with a spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in multilayer electron systems in a high perpendicular to the layers magnetic field is investigated. It is shown that phase coherence can be established in such systems only within individual pairs of adjacent layers, while such coherence does not exist between layers of different pairs. The conditions for stability of the state with interlayer phase coherence against transition to a charge-ordered state are determined. It is shown that in the system with the number of layers N\leq 10 these conditions are satisfied at any value of the interlayer distance d. For N>10 there are two intervals of stability: at sufficiently large and at sufficiently small d. For N\to \infty the stability interval in the region of small d vanishes
description: 10 pages
title: Application of Transformations for Orthogonality
Creators: name: Shabuz, Md. Zillur Rahman
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: In the statistical analysis of multivariate data, principal component analysis is widely used to form orthogonal variables. Realizing the difficulties of interpreting the principal components, Garthwaite et al. (2012) proposed two transformations, each of which yield surrogates of the original variables. Recently, Garthwaite and Koch (2016) proposed a transformation that also produces orthogonal components and can be used to partition the contribution of individual variables to a quadratic form. The aim of this thesis is to discover and explore applications of these transformations. We consider bootstrap methods for forming interval estimates of the contribution of individual variables to a Mahalanobis distance and their percentages. New bootstrap methods are proposed and compared with the percentile, bias-corrected percentile, non-studentized pivotal, and studentized pivotal methods via a large simulation study. The new methods enable use of a broader range of pivotal quantities than with standard pivotal methods, including vector pivotal quantities. Both equal-tailed intervals and shortest intervals are constructed; the latter are particularly attractive when (as here) squared quantities are of interest. Using a transformation to orthogonality, new measures are constructed for evaluating the contribution of individual variables to a regression sum of squares. The transformation yields an orthogonal approximation of the columns of the predictor scores matrix. The new measures are compared with three previously proposed measures through examples, and the properties of the measures are examined. We consider one new procedure and two older procedures for identifying collinear sets. The new procedure is based on transformations that partition variance inflation factors into contributions from individual variables, and they provide detailed information about the collinear sets. The procedures are compared using three examples from published studies that addressed issues of multicollinearity.
Tonkinospira defixa
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Grego, Jozef
name: Vermeulen, Jaap J.
name: Reischütz, Alexander
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Jochum, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Gastrocoptidae
Tonkinospira
Tonkinospira defixa

description: Tonkinospira defixa (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912)
(Fig. 6)
 Systenostoma defixa Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: 22–23, pl. 1, figs 18–19. (type locality: Ile de la Table, baie d’Along [«Table Island» in the Halong Bay; the exact location of that island could not be located]).
 Systenostoma defixa — Pilsbry, 1917: 226, pl. 38, figs 15–16.
 Tonkinospira defixa — Jochum et al., 2014: 32, fig. 1.
 Types examined. 1 shell syntype (H: 1.09 mm, D: 1.57 mm, Fig. 6) (MNHN-IM-2000-32866), Île de la Table, Baie d’Along, coll. Demange.
 Other material examined. Tonkin, coll. S.H. Jaeckel ex Rolle, SMF 202926/3; RBINS Dautzenberg Collection reg. nr. IG 10591 (tray 844), 2 shells (probably syntypes).
 Diagnosis. A small Tonkinospira species with a strongly depressed shell, dense spiral striation, and a peristome that is not adnate to penultimate whorl.
 Description. Shell small for the genus; strongly depressed with conical dorsal side and strongly widened body whorl; body whorl bluntly keeled; 4.25 whorls, regularly increasing except for the body whorl; protoconch consists of 1.25 whorls, finely pitted and with dense, regularly strong spiral striations; teleoconch with irregular, rough radial growth lines, and dense, regular spiral striation, ca. 28 in number in the middle shell line from apertural view; aperture strongly oblique to shell axis from lateral view; aperture ovate-oblong; peristome expanded but not reflected; aperture not adnate to penultimate whorl; umbilicus wide.
 Differential diagnosis. This species is characterized by its depressed shell, keeled body whorl and wide umbilicus.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Grego, Jozef, Vermeulen, Jaap J., Reischütz, Alexander, Hunyadi, András & Jochum, Adrienne, 2019, New Tonkinospira Jochum, Slapnik & Páll-Gergely, 2014 species from Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hypselostomatidae), pp. 517-535 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 525, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0041, http://zenodo.org/record/4576444
Pollenanalytische Rekonstruktion der Vegetations- und Landnutzungsgeschichte des südlichen Ostallgäus (Bayern)
Vegetation and land use history reconstructed by pollen analysis of the Spitalmoos (Allgäu, Bavaria)
Creators: name: Stojakowits, Philipp
name: Friedmann, Arne
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2013

description: Abstract: A radiocarbon dated pollen diagram of the Spitalmoos reveals the holocene vegetation and landscape development in the formerly glaciated area of the Eastern Allgäu near the alpine border. The investigated profile dates from the Preboreal up to now. During the Preboreal pine woods with some Betula cover the area. Ulmus immigrates and spreads together with Corylus in the early Boreal followed by the spreading of Quercus and Tilia. Later Fraxinus, Acer and also Picea reach the Northern Alpine Foreland. Depending on the site conditions, mixed oak forests rich in Ulmus and Tilia or forests dominated by Picea reign up to the Atlantic period. At about the same time Abies and Fagus immigrate. But Fagus prevails very slowly against the strong competition of already established tree species. Nevertheless Fagus becomes the dominant tree species in the Subboreal. The human influence in the area is registered as from the Bronze Age. In the Subatlantic period three larger clearing phases (Roman Age, Middle Ages, Modern Era) were detected leading to the decline of Fagus and Abies stocks. Synchronous the non tree pollen values and especially the frequencies of Poaceae and anthropogenic indicators increase. Cerealia pollen were also identified.
description: Zusammenfassung: Anhand eines 14C-datierten Pollendiagramms des Spitalmooses kann die Vegetations- und Landschaftsentwicklung im südlichen Ostallgäuer Jungmoränengebiet nahe dem morphologischen Alpenrand rekonstruiert werden. Das untersuchte Profil reicht vom Präboreal bis in die Gegenwart. Im Präboreal herrschen lichte Pinus-Wälder mit geringen Betula-Anteilen vor. Ulmus wandert ein und kommt im frühen Boreal zusammen mit Corylus zur Massenausbreitung. Nachfolgend breiten sich zuerst Quercus und Tilia sowie später Fraxinus, Acer und auch Picea aus. Je nach Standort dominieren entweder ulmen-, eichen- und lindenreiche Laubmischwälder oder von Picea beherrschte Wälder bis in das Atlantikum. Im frühen Atlantikum erreicht Picea ihre postglaziale Maximalverbreitung. Etwa zeitgleich wandern Abies und Fagus ein. Fagus kann sich jedoch nur langsam gegen die starke Konkurrenz bereits etablierter Baumarten durchsetzen, wird aber im Subboreal zur dominanten Baumart. Der anthropogene Einfluss ist im Gebiet ab der Bronzezeit erfasst. Im Subatlantikum konnten drei größere Rodungsphasen (Römerzeit, Mittelalter, Neuzeit) nachgewiesen werden. Diese führen zu einem Rückgang der Fagus- und Abies-Bestände. Gleichzeitig nehmen die Nichtbaumpollen-Anteile und besonders die Werte der Poaceen und Kulturzeigerarten zu. Auch Getreidepollen konnte nachgewiesen werden. Der heutige Wald- und Offenlandanteil besteht seit ca. 250 Jahren.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Bericht zum Fachseminar „Perspektiven für den Moorschutz in Niedersachsen“
Report on the expert seminar „Perspectives of peatland protection in Lower Saxony“
Creators: name: Belting, Susanne
name: Blankenburg, Joachim
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2014

description: Die Fachseminare zum Moorschutz in Niedersachsen an der Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz (NNA), die in Kooperation mit der DGMT stattfinden, sind bereits zur Tradition geworden. Am 25. und 26. Juni 2014 trafen sich auch in diesem Jahr 60 Teilnehmer zu einem sehr interessanten Informationsaustausch im Camp Reinsehlen in Schneverdingen und einer Exkursion in den Landkreis Osterholz am zweiten Tag. Die Organisation der Veranstaltung wurde von JOACHIM BLANKENBURG (DGMT) und BERND SALOMON (NNA) durchgeführt. Dass der Moorschutz in Niedersachsen wieder zu einem wichtigen Thema geworden ist, spiegelt sich in dem großen Interesse an diesem Seminar wider, nicht alle Anmeldungen konnten berücksichtigt werden.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: conference
DOES SIZE MATTER? INFLUENCE OF THE BODY SIZE OF GAMMARUS MINUS SAY 1818 ON BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN KARST SPRINGS OF VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
Creators: name: Seabolt, Chris
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology

description: This first of its kind study sought to examine how variation in body size of sexually mature Gammarus minus, a benthic amphipod found in freshwater karst springs, covaried with measures of macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure in carbonate spring benthic communities. For each spring, three diversity indices were calculated from the macroinvertebrate inventory in addition to total macroinvertebrate richness and log abundance. Richness and log abundance were calculated for the non-insect, insect, EPT, and non-EPT components of the macroinvertebrate. Relative abundance of each component was also determined. Linear regression was used to analyze the relationship between these measures and average head length of amplexing males and females. For total community measures, only the Margalef index was significantly negatively related to head length. The richness, relative abundance, and log abundance of insects and EPT components also showed a negative relationship with head length. No other measures were significantly related to head length.
ACRE Program Payments and Risk Reduction: An Analysis Based on Simulations of Crop Revenue Variability
Creators: name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Arriola, Christine
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Dismukes, Robert
name: Arriola, Christine
name: Coble, Keith H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Public Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: crop revenue variability
subject: Average Crop Revenue Election
subject: ACRE
subject: farm risk management

description: Crop revenue variability, which differs across crops and their growing regions and the geographic levels at which revenue is measured, is the focus of the Average Crop Revenue Election, an agricultural commodity program that was first available to producers in 2009. Using an empirically-based simulation model of an extensive set of representative farm acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton, we analyze how ACRE payments would vary under different guarantee price and expected market price scenarios and how ACRE payments and risk reduction would be distributed across crops and regions.
Leadership: Perspectives from Arts Managers
Creators: name: Taylor, Trisha
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: Arts organizations face many challenges to survive. In order to ensure the future of our cultural capital, the next generation of arts leaders must be prepared to face these challenges and lead their organizations appropriately. While young arts professionals can read a wealth of information about leaders in other disciplines, their leadership experiences, and the leadership qualities that they value, little arts management specific information is available to them. To increase the resources available to leaders, this study asked which qualities current arts leaders themselves consider to be the most useful in their own leadership experiences. Second, what leadership means to them in the context of their own jobs as well as if this view of leadership has changed for them during the course of their careers. In conclusion, arts leaders value many of the same qualities as noted in other sources, with notable preferences toward passionate, visionary, collaborative leaders.
Entropic N-bound and Maximal Mass Conjecture Violations in Four Dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT)-dS Spacetimes
Creators: name: Clarkson, R.
name: Ghezelbash, A. M.
name: Mann, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the class of four-dimensional Taub-Bolt(NUT) spacetimes with positive cosmological constant for some values of NUT charges are stable and have entropies that are greater than that of de Sitter spacetime, in violation of the entropic N-bound conjecture. We also show that the maximal mass conjecture, which states "any asymptotically dS spacetime with mass greater than dS has a cosmological singularity", can be violated as well. Our calculation of conserved mass and entropy is based on an extension of the path integral formulation to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
description: 37 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, few typos corrected, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Leadership: Perspectives from Arts Managers
Creators: name: Taylor, Trisha
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Arts organizations face many challenges to survive. In order to ensure the future of our cultural capital, the next generation of arts leaders must be prepared to face these challenges and lead their organizations appropriately. While young arts professionals can read a wealth of information about leaders in other disciplines, their leadership experiences, and the leadership qualities that they value, little arts management specific information is available to them. To increase the resources available to leaders, this study asked which qualities current arts leaders themselves consider to be the most useful in their own leadership experiences. Second, what leadership means to them in the context of their own jobs as well as if this view of leadership has changed for them during the course of their careers. In conclusion, arts leaders value many of the same qualities as noted in other sources, with notable preferences toward passionate, visionary, collaborative leaders.
Bericht über Sektionstagung und Exkursion zum Thema Renaturierung von kalk- und basenreichen Niedermooren (23. bis 25.05.2014 in Blossin, Brandenburg)
Creators: name: Trepel, Michael
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2014

description: Vom 23. - 25. Mai 2014 fand in Blossin die Tagung der Sektionen I und V in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stiftung NaturSchutzFonds Brandenburg zum Thema Renaturierung von kalk- und basenreichen Niedermooren statt. Die Veranstaltung konzentrierte sich auf die praktische Umsetzung von Moorrenaturierungsmaßnahmen in der glazial geprägten Jungmoränenlandschaft Norddeutschlands.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: conference
Veröffentlichungen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum zum Thema „Moor und Torf“ aus dem Jahre 2007 und 2008 mit Nachträgen für frühere Jahre
Publications on „Peat and Peatland“ from the German language area in 2007 and 2008 with additions for earlier years
Creators: name: Steffens, Peter
name: Hacker, Eilhard
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2008

description: Die vorliegende Zusammenstellung der Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet „Moor und Torf“ umfasst 154 Titel.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
PIERRE BOURDIEU'S THEORY OF CAPITAL AND PARENTAL SCHOOL CHOICE DECISIONS: A NATIONAL STUDY
Creators: name: Waits, Tiffany
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: School choice, whereby parents choose their child's school rather than send them to their geographically assigned school, has been heavily researched from multiple angles and perspectives over the course of the past two decades. Both advocates and opponents of school choice have argued the benefits and detriments related to allowing parents to self-select their children's schools. This study seeks to uniquely study the topic through the sociological lens of theorist Pierre Bourdieu. Using the National Household Education Survey (NHES), the study operationalizes, applies, and quantitatively analyzes the effect of Bourdieu's four forms of capital; economic, cultural, symbolic, and social, on parental school choice decisions and their reasons for doing so. Results indicate that cultural, economic, and symbolic capital are all valid predictors of school choice, such that those with high levels of capital will be more likely to choose a school for their child than those with low levels of these forms of capital. Results also found that parents with higher levels of cultural and economic capital were more likely to choose their child's school for academic reasons, while those with lower levels of cultural and economic capital were more likely to report choosing their child's school for logistical or practical reasons. The study's findings, through their operationalization and application, are an important contribution to Bourdieu's theory of capital, lending powerful support to the way that the forms of capital are reproduced to the next generation. The findings also provide warning that school choice may not be equitable, and that differences between those who choose and their reasons for doing so could be another source of the reproduction of social stratification.
What is the potential for a second peak in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in emerging and developing economies? Insights from a SIRASD model considering the informal economy
Creators: name: Pires, Marcelo A.
name: Crokidakis, Nuno
name: Cajueiro, Daniel O.
name: de Menezes, Marcio Argollo
name: Queirós, Silvio M. Duarte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the potential scenarios from a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Asymptomatic-Symptomatic-Dead (SIRASD) model. As a novelty, we consider populations that differ in their degree of compliance with social distancing policies following socioeconomic attributes that are observed in emerging and developing countries. Considering epidemiological parameters estimated from data of the propagation of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil -- where there is a significant stake of the population making their living in the informal economy and thus prone to not follow self-isolation -- we assert that if the confinement measures are lifted too soon, namely as much as one week of consecutive declining numbers of new cases, it is very likely the appearance of a second peak. Our approach should be valid for any country where the number of people involved in the informal economy is a large proportion of the total labor force. In summary, our results point out the crucial relevance of target policies for supporting people in the informal economy to properly comply with preventive measures during the pandemic.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, 3 appendices, to appear in IJMPC
Kolloquium „Ökologie und Schutz der Moore“
Colloquium „Ecologie and protection of mires“
Creators: name: Schweikle, Volker
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2008

description: Das Syndikat des Naturparks Nordvogesen (SYCOPARC) und der Naturpark Pfälzerwald luden zum deutsch-französischen Kolloquium vom 19. bis 21. Juni in Bitche (Lothringen, Frankreich) im Herzen des grenzüberschreitenden Biosphärenreservats Nordvogesen-Pfälzerwald (www.biosphere-vosges-pfaelzerwald.org). Die Veranstaltung wurde gemeinsam vom Fachzentrum Moore Frankreichs (Pôle relais tourbières), der Groupe d’Etude des Tourbières (GET) und dem Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe organisiert. Die Regionalräte Lothringens und des Elsass, das Umweltministerium Rheinland-Pfalz und die Europäische Union finanzierten das Kolloquium i.R. von INTERREG. Es ist Teil einer Reihe interregionaler Begegnungen die von der GET auf Schloß Goutelas (Département Loire) begonnen wurde.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Effects of electrostatic fields and Casimir force on cantilever vibrations
Creators: name: Chumak, A. A.
name: Milonni, P. W.
name: Berman, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of an external bias voltage and fluctuating electromagnetic fields on both the fundamental frequency and damping of cantilever vibrations is considered. An external voltage induces surface charges causing cantilever-sample electrostatic attraction. A similar effect arises from charged defects in dielectrics that cause spatial fluctuations of electrostatic fields. The cantilever motion results in charge displacements giving rise to Joule losses and damping. It is shown that the dissipation increases with decreasing conductivity and thickness of the substrate, a result that is potentially useful for sample diagnostics. Fluctuating electromagnetic fields between the two surfaces also induce attractive (Casimir) forces. It is shown that the shift in the cantilever fundamental frequency due to the Casimir force is close to the shift observed in recent experiments of Stipe et al. Both the electrostatic and Casimir forces have a strong effect on the cantilever eigenfrequencies, and both effects depend on the geometry of the cantilever tip. We consider cylindrical, spherical, and ellipsoidal tips moving parallel to a flat sample surface. The dependence of the cantilever effective mass and vibrational frequencies on the geometry of the tip is studied both numerically and analytically.
FARE Share Summer 2016 Newsletter
Creators: name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Xu, Qin
name: Fox, Glenn
name: McKenney, Dan
name: Scott-Dupree, Cynthia
name: Deaton, Brady
name: Whittingham, Nathaniel
name: Piedrahita, Natalia
name: Hailu, Geta
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Xu, Qin
name: Fox, Glenn
name: McKenney, Dan
name: Scott-Dupree, Cynthia
name: Deaton, Brady
name: Whittingham, Nathaniel
name: Piedrahita, Natalia
name: Hailu, Geta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: What's Inside? Our cover story highlights how the 2016 Census results will allow us to examine the evolution of farming in Canada. Inside, researchers revisit a 20-year-old study of grain corn yields and find a common result. Another study explores whether Canadian consumers are saving at the pumps when the price of crude oil drops. On the back page, read about the effects of productivity, trade and the exchange rate on Canada’s food manufacturing industry.
CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND THE ROLE OF THE USDA: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Variyam, Jay
name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Variyam, Jay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: obesity
subject: nutrition
subject: dietary and health effects
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: School Breakfast Program
subject: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
subject: WIC
subject: food assistance programs
subject: poor families

description: The rapid increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children is one of the most serious public health concerns in the United States today. Although most of USDA's child nutrition programs were established in response to documented problems of underconsumption and undernutrition among the low-income population, they now have the potential to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. This brief examines the how USDA food assistance and nutrition programs can be used to help further that goal.
The colored Jones polynomials of the figure-eight knot and its Dehn surgery spaces
Creators: name: Murakami, Hitoshi
name: Yokota, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27 57M50

description: We calculate limits of the colored Jones polynomials of the figure-eight knot and conclude that in most cases they determine the volumes and the Chern--Simons invariants of the three-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgeries along it.
description: 17 pages
Deputy ministers and politicization in the government of Canada : lessons learned from the 2006-2007 Conservative transition
Creators: name: Wells, Shannon Leigh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis analyses the 2006-07 Conservative transition in the Government of Canada by asking the following: is there evidence of overt partisan politicization of the deputy ministers during this transition? Significantly, there is no evidence of overt politicization. Harper has not forced departure of incumbent deputy ministers, nor has he appointed a significant number of known partisan allies from outside the public service. Instead, Harper has retained the overwhelming majority of deputy ministers who served the previous Liberal government. However, the 2006-07 transition also suggests considerable lateral career mobility of deputy ministers within the highest levels of government. The thesis argues that lateral mobility is explained by the "corporate" governance structure in the government of Canada, according to which deputy ministers are expected to identify with the government's broad policy goals and mobilize support for them. High degrees of lateral mobility during the Conservative transition provide evidence to suggest that a potentially rigid bureaucratic system can be made responsive to the policy priorities of a new government without compromising the professional norms of a non-partisan, career public service.
Projectors, matrix models and noncommutative monopoles
Creators: name: Valtancoli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interconnection between the finite projective modules for a fuzzy sphere, determined in a previous paper, and the matrix model approach, making clear the physical meaning of noncommutative topological configurations.
description: 22pages, LaTeX, no figures
IMPORTANCE OF CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS TO AGRICULTURE: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF
Creators: name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Hanson, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: School Breakfast Program
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program
subject: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
subject: WIC
subject: food assistance programs
subject: farm production
subject: food consumption
subject: value added
subject: employment

description: This research brief estimates the impact of specific USDA child-nutrition programs on production, value added, and jobs on U.S. farms, looking at the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and a combined group of school programs (the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, Special Milk, and Summer Food Service Programs).
Superfield theory and supermatrix model
Creators: name: Park, Jeong-Hyuck
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the noncommutative superspace of arbitrary dimensions in a systematic way. Superfield theories on a noncommutative superspace can be formulated in two folds, through the star product formalism and in terms of the supermatrices. We elaborate the duality between them by constructing the isomorphism explicitly and relating the superspace integrations of the star product Lagrangian or the superpotential to the traces of the supermatrices. We show there exists an interesting fine tuned commutative limit where the duality can be still maintained. Namely on the commutative superspace too, there exists a supermatrix model description for the superfield theory. We interpret the result in the context of the wave particle duality. The dual particles for the superfields in even and odd spacetime dimensions are D-instantons and D0-branes respectively to be consistent with the T-duality.
description: 1+16 pages, no figure; expanded version, references added; Convention for Clifford algebra improved
title: In defensione[m] Catholici fidei sancteq[ue] Romane ecclesie aduersus Pickarditos valdenses cuncta [christi]anorum regna sparsim in odium cleri ac ecclesiastice potestatis eneruationem pestifera co[n]tagione inficientes; [1501]
title: Opus perutile sermonum. nouiter ex c[o]missione moderni. Summi pontificis collectum. pro informatione predicatorum. declarans. q[uam] ta[n]tummodo sub obedientia ipius Sancte Romane et apostolice sedis colitur et venerat illa vera et vnica fides sine qua nemo saluari potest. Si quis leui pretio conparare velit supra nota: tum opus inue[n]iet in hospitio
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016

description: Ablassbrief. - 1 Bl. beidseitig bedruckt. - Erscheinungsjahr im Text: Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo primo.
Projectors, matrix models and noncommutative instantons
Creators: name: Valtancoli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We deconstruct the finite projective modules for the fuzzy four-sphere, described in a previous paper, and correlate them with the matrix model approach, making manifest the physical implications of noncommutative topology. We briefly discuss also the U(2) case, being a smooth deformation of the celebrated BPST SU(2) classical instantons on a sphere.
description: 28 pages, LaTeX, no figures
A New Derivative-Free Linear Approximation for Solving the Network Water Flow Problem with Convergence Guarantees
Creators: name: Wang, Shen
name: Taha, Ahmad F.
name: Sela, Lina
name: Giacomoni, Marcio
name: Gatsis, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Addressing challenges in urban water infrastructure systems including aging infrastructure, supply uncertainty, extreme events, and security threats, depend highly on water distribution networks modeling emphasizing the importance of realistic assumptions, modeling complexities, and scalable solutions. In this study, we propose a derivative-free, linear approximation for solving the network water flow problem (WFP). The proposed approach takes advantage of the special form of the nonlinear head loss equations and, after the transformation of variables and constraints, the WFP reduces to a linear optimization problem that can be efficiently solved by modern linear solvers. Ultimately, the proposed approach amounts to solving a series of linear optimization problems. We demonstrate the proposed approach through several case studies and show that the approach can model arbitrary network topologies and various types of valves and pumps, thus providing modeling flexibility. Under mild conditions, we show that the proposed linear approximation converges. We provide sensitivity analysis and discuss in detail the current limitations of our approach and suggest solutions to overcome these. All the codes, tested networks, and results are freely available on Github for research reproducibility.
description: Water Resources Research, In Press, February 2020
REIMBURSEMENT TIERING IMPROVES TARGETING BUT DECREASES PARTICIPATION IN THE CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF
Creators: name: Ghelfi, Linda M.
name: Ghelfi, Linda M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program
subject: CACFP
subject: tiering
subject: food assistance programs
subject: nutrition
subject: dietary and health effects
subject: child nutrition
subject: poor families

description: The Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study found that family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program serve fewer children but more of the children are from low-income families. Prior to the tiered reimbursement system, which started in 1997, 21 percent of the children served were from low-income families. Post tiering, that number rose to 45 percent.
FOOD INSECURITY IN HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN: FOOD ASSISTANCE RESEARCH BRIEF
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Nord, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: hunger
subject: food insecurity
subject: food security
subject: food assistance

description: Household food security, defined as access at all times to enough food for active healthy living, is taken for granted by most American children. However, some parents do have difficulty at times getting enough food for themselves and, more rarely, for their children. This brief examines the extent to which the diets and eating patterns of American children are disrupted because their families cannot always afford enough food.