cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Our Fight is for Right": The NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters' Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936-1965
Creators: name: Bynum, Tommy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: "Our Fight is for Right": The NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters' Crusade for Civil Rights, 1963-1965  by  Tommy L. Bynum  Under the Direction of Jacqueline A. Rouse  ABSTRACT  At the 26th Annual Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1935, Juanita Jackson, special assistant to Walter White, challenged the Association to start a national youth movement. Aware of the impact of other youth movements, Jackson proposed that the NAACP rally its youth around the injustices that plagued their lives. In 1936, the NAACP?s National Board of Directors appointed Jackson as the first national youth director, and she, along with her successors, established a vibrant youth movement within the Association. Working within the scope of the Association?s national agenda, the youth councils and the college chapters staged anti-lynching demonstrations and campaigned for equal educational and employment opportunities and civil liberties. Indeed, the youth division gave young people a voice within the NAACP and harnessed their collective energy to fight against racial inequality.  Although the history of black youth activism has long been overshadowed by the dominant narratives of youth in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the untold story of the NAACP youth movement reveals that grass-roots organizing and nonviolent direct action (much of what has been associated with CORE and SNCC student activists) were methods the youth councils and college chapters employed in the 1930s and 1940s. It was these tactics, which continued throughout the 1950s and 1960, that provided a framework for youth activism within CORE and SNCC. Focusing largely on the youth councils, this research examines the NAACP youth movement and its influence on youth activism, providing a fuller understanding of youth?s role in the fight for civil rights from 1936 to 1965.  INDEX WORDS: Youth Councils, College Chapters, NAACP, Juanita Jackson, CORE, SNCC, Walter White
The Statistics of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Creators: name: Joerg Osterrieder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 10205 Financial Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Statistics
subject: 10401 Applied Statistics
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: We show the statistical properties of the most important cryptocurrencies, of which Bitcoin is the most prominent example. We characterize their exchange rates versus the US Dollar by fitting parametric distributions to them. It is shown that returns are clearly non-normal, with standard heavy-taileddistributions giving good descriptions of the data. The results are important for investment and risk management purposes.
title: Steckt die Seele in der DNA?
title: Ein phänomenologisch-evolutionärer Ansatz zum Leib-Seele-Problem
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Piesbergen, Christoph
name: Jakob, Marissa-Julia
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2020

description: Nach Schopenhauer ist das Leib-Seele-Problem das Kernproblem der Philosophie, wohingegen eine andere Ansicht es als Scheinproblem bezeichnete, insbesondere unter dem Einfluss des Behaviorismus und des logischen Empirismus. Unterschieden werden in der Hauptsache Dualismus, also die explizite Trennung von Leib und Seele, und Monismus, der ohne diese Unterscheidung auskommt. Nach einer Begriffsklärung sowie einem geschichtlichen und inhaltlichen Abriss verschiedener Strömungen und Theorien wird aufgezeigt, dass rein dualistische Lösungen des Leib-Seele-Problems heute kaum mehr in Betracht kommen. Der monistische Emergentismus und der auf dem Phänomenalismus gegründete Panpsychismus in seiner modernen, graduellen Variante bieten zwar einige lösungsorientierte, aber doch noch unbefriedigende Aspekte. Nur ein neuer, aus Gestalt- und Systemtheorie abgeleiteter phänomenologisch-evolutionärer Lösungsansatz samt den sich daraus ergebenden Schlussfolgerungen er-scheint haltbar und kann sich einer wissenschaftlichen Überprüfung stellen.
description: According to Schopenhauer, the mind-body problem is the central problem of philosophy, whereas another view called it a pseudo-problem, especially under the influence of Behaviorism and logical Empiricism. The main differences are Dualism, that is the explicit separation of mind and body and Monism, which does not require this distinction. After a clarification of terms, and a historical and contentual outline of various tendencies and theories, it is shown that dualistic solutions of the mind-body problem are hardly considered today. The monistic Emergentism and Panpsychism based on Phenomenalism in its modern, gradual variant offer some solution-oriented, but still unsatisfactory aspects. Only the System theory extended by a new phenomenological-evolutionary approach and the resulting conclusions seem tenable and can face scientific evaluation.
The Formation and Development of Chinese Communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia:  From Sojourners to Settlers, 1880-1965
Creators: name: Bronstein, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The study examines the formation and development of Chinese American populations in Augusta, Savannah, and Atlanta, Georgia from the beginnings of Chinese Exclusion period through the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965. Although people of Chinese ancestry were in an ambiguous position upon their arrival in the 1880s within the black-white dyad that defined southern race relations, they were able to negotiate this system, transforming themselves from being perceived as ?outsiders? before the 1940s to being treated as ?honorary whites? by the late 1960s.

To explore this transition, this project analyzes generational differences between immigrants and their children. Before the 1920s, the mostly Chinese immigrant male population concerned themselves with establishing viable businesses for sending remittances back to family in China and creating social institutions that helped the men cope with decades of separation from their families. The men avoided possible conflict with Jim Crow by having their businesses and residences in black or immigrant areas. Some men cultivated better relations with whites by attending Sunday schools that catered to Chinese immigrants.

The mutation from ?outsider? to ?honorary white? status began when prosperous Chinese men started sending for wives to join them in the 1910s, thus ushering in a new pattern of planned long-term settlement in the state. Families successfully challenged the older perception by joining white churches, enrolling their children in white schools, and building social ties with white community leaders. Second generation Chinese Americans reaped the benefits of this strategy in the 1950s and 1960s by gaining access to housing in white neighborhoods, employment opportunities in white-collar occupations, and acceptance as partners in marriages with European Americans.
Demon of the Lost Cause: General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Writing of Civil War History
Creators: name: Moody, III, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation will examine the formation of the myth that William T. Sherman laid waste to the state of Georgia in 1864, and almost single-handedly invented the concept of ?total war.? It will also examine how Sherman?s reputation has evolved over the years from accusations of being a Southern sympathizer and traitor at the end of the Civil War to the modern image of Sherman as the destroyer of the old South. William Tecumseh Sherman was the most controversial general of the American Civil War. The modern image of Sherman is either a destructive monster who violated the laws of civilized warfare or a strategic genius who invented modern warfare. Both of these images have evolved over the years. In large part, they have been the product of Lost Cause writers trying to reinterpret the history of the war, but also the product of Union generals and politicians attempting to glorify their own place in the history of the war, men with personal grudges against the general and modern historians using Sherman to make their own arguments about contemporary society. The sources used for this dissertation were the journals, letters and memoirs of the participants. The Official Records of both the Union and Confederacy were examined as well as nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers and magazines. This dissertation will show that the modern conception of General Sherman is not the same as the historical fact, but rather a post-war creation. Individuals? agendas have created and sustained the myth of Sherman to explain defeat in the Civil War, justify later military strategy, condemn later conflicts and for personal gain. It is not enough to know that historical events as commonly understood are inaccurate; it is important to understand how and why these inaccuracies came about.
La seguridad de los periodistas durante las protestas sociales
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Comunicación
periodistas
protesta social
seguridad
Ecuador
Libertad de expresión

description: Participación como editorialista en el informativo de la mañana, de 6:30 a 8:00, de Radio Loja, 97.7, que se emite desde la ciudad de Loja en Ecuador.
Post et al. - Electronic Supplementary Material from Highly individualistic rates of plant phenological advance associated with arctic sea ice dynamics
Creators: name: Post, Eric
name: Kerby, Jeffrey
name: Pedersen, Christian
name: Steltzer, Heidi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Post et al. online supplement
How a Country Treats its Own Nationals is No Longer a Matter of Exclusive Domestic Concern: A History of the Alien Tort Statute Litigations in the United States for Human Rights Violations Committed in Africa, 1980-2008
Creators: name: Akoh, Harry
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: International law today is a discipline rife with dissensions. This is largely because international law has meant different things to different generations of scholars and nation-states. In 1996 a United States circuit court in Atlanta affirmed a civil judgment against an Ethiopian defendant in an action initiated by Ethiopian citizens for violations of that country?s law and international law. But about a decade earlier in 1984 another appeal court denied to enforce claims against Libyan and Palestinian defendants under international law because according to the court, international law is dedicated exclusively to the relationship between independent states and not their citizens.

Although such different interpretations may appear startling, over the previous centuries, courts have eschewed one view while embracing the other. It is thus imperative to examine what constitutes international law or under what authority a U.S. court could challenge another state?s treatment of its own citizens, in its own land, under its own laws. The Judiciary Act of 1789 which created the Alien Tort Statute, a relatively obscure piece of legislation is at the center of these actions. But what was the original intent of the Alien Tort Statute? Is it possible to reconstruct the meaning of that statute?

To answer these questions, this dissertation critically interrogated the meaning of international law and the law of nations as it existed at the time of the founding of the United States. What was called the law of nations and subsequently international law revealed multiple meanings. In unpacking the history of the Alien Tort Statute, this dissonance was reflected in the conflicts which assailed the discipline. This dissertation therefore reproduces the dissensions as it analyzes and reconstructs a hitherto unexplored front in this debacle: lawsuits filed by some Africans in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute against their leaders and corporations for egregious human rights violations in Africa. In the end therefore, the issue becomes, can justice and reparations be achieved in United States courts for human rights violations committed in Africa?
The Path of Good Citizenship: Race, Nation, and Empire in United States Education, 1882-1924
Creators: name: Stratton, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The Path of Good Citizenship illuminates the role of public schools in attempts by white Americans to organize republican citizenship and labor along lines of race and ethnicity during a time of anxiety over immigration and the emergence of the U.S. as a global power. By considering U.S. schools as both national and imperial institutions, it presupposes that the formal education of children served as multilayered exchanges of power through which myriad actors constructed, debated, and contested parameters of citizenship and visions of belonging in the United States. Using the discursive narratives of American exceptionalism, scientific racialism, and patriotism, authors of school curricula imagined a uniform Americanness rooted in Anglo?Saxon institutions and racial character. Schools not only became mechanisms of the U.S. imperial state in order to control belonging and access supposedly afforded by citizenship, but simultaneously created opportunities for foreigners and ?foreigners within? to shape their own relationships with the nation. Ideological attempts to construct a nation that excluded and included on the basis of race and foreignness had very real implications. Using comparative case studies of Atlanta?s African?Americans, San Francisco?s Japanese, and New York?s European immigrants, this dissertation shows how policies of segregation, exclusion, and Americanization both complicated and sustained designs for a national body of citizens and workers. Schools trained many of these students for citizenship that included subordinate labor roles, limited social mobility, and marginalized national identity rooted in racial difference. These localized analysis reveal the contested power dynamics that involved challenges from immigrant and non?white communities to a racial nationalism that often slotted them into subordinate economic and social categories. Taken together, curricula and policy reveal schools to be integral to the mutually sustaining projects of nation?building and empire?building.
THE ISSUE OF THE ATTITUDE TO HEAVEN IN PERSONAL SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Kodirova, Muattar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this article, the significance of the sky and music in the spiritual development of a person is revealed based on Abdul Qadir Gilani's work "Sirul Asror". Information is also given about the clarification of the world of meaning through mathematics and enlightenment.
Dubbing Modernization: The United States, France, and the Politics of Development in the Ivory Coast, 1946-1968
Creators: name: Bamba, Abou
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: I argue that competing visions of development guided the interventions of the United States and France in the West African country of Ivory Coast during the late colonial and early independence periods from 1946 through the 1960s. Indeed, the postwar arrival of American modernity provided an opportunity for nationalist leaders to triangulate the relationship between metropolitan France and colonial Ivory Coast. The ensuing politics of triangulation forced French colonial officials, diplomats, and development experts to ?dub? modernization in order to bolster (neo)colonial ties between France and the Ivory Coast. By dubbing I mean the effort to translate and adapt for French purposes development concepts and techniques first elaborated in the United States. I explore these issues in case histories of the port of Abidjan, Kossou dam, and San Pedro development projects. I highlight the discursive as well as institutional frameworks that shaped the development of Ivory Coast. In the early twentieth century, French colonialism?s mission civilisatrice and mise en valeur posited that the colonizers were rational and productive, while the colonized were backward and incompetent to exploit their natural resources. After the Second World War, the ascendant American modernization paradigm added a new level of valuation to colonialism?s moral economy. It proposed a dynamic and progressive teleology in which the colonized could become modernized and actually ?work by themselves? to reproduce hegemonic U.S. technological, economic, and political norms. Modernization was a civilizing project as well, but in contrast French (neo)colonialism now appeared static and paternalistic. French attempts to recuperate their position in the Ivory Coast deployed the epistemic memories of decades of work in the colony but ironically involved promoting forms of regional planning pioneered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. To reach these insights, I have used an interdisciplinary historical methodology that is multiarchival and multisited. My dissertation is based on research in numerous French and American archives as well as oral histories with French and American actors who participated in the (post)colonial development drive in the Ivory Coast.
Conditions
Creators: name: Wasinger, Grace
name: Sievers, Kaitlyn
name: Bognar, Emma
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023

description: Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: plot-focused condition (PF) and rolls-count condition (RC). In the PF condition, participants were instructed to simply pay close attention to the plot of the story, relationships between characters, etc. In the RC condition, participants were given a behavioral task in which they noted what each player rolled for and the number. (For example, Perception 15). For my project’s initial analyses, I do not plan to assess differences between the two groups.
MT models for multilingual CLuBS engine (en-de-fr-es)
Creators: name: España-Bonet, Cristina
name: Henning, Sophie
name: Ramthun, Roland
name: Stiller, Juliane
name: Genabith, Josef Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: MT models
Marian
Multilingual

description: Pre-trained models from the CLuBS project for multilingual translation in the domain of psychology. The models are trained with Marian for English-French-German-Spanish translation. The complete translation pipeline can be found here: https://github.com/clubs-project/DBtranslator But the models can be use independently with Marian decoder.
Finding their Place in the World: Meiji Intellectuals and the Japanese Construction of an East-West Binary, 1868-1912
Creators: name: Racel, Masako
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The Meiji era (1868-1912) in Japanese history was characterized by the extensive adoption of Western institutions, technology, and customs. The dramatic changes that took place caused the era?s intellectuals to ponder Japan's position within the larger global context. The East-West binary was a particularly important part of the discourse as the intellectuals analyzed and criticized the current state of affairs and offered their visions of Japan?s future. This dissertation examines five Meiji intellectuals who had very different orientations and agendas: Fukuzawa Yukichi, an influential philosopher and political theorist; Shimoda Utako, a pioneer of women's education; Uchimura Kanz?, a Christian leader; Okakura Kakuz?, an art critic; and K?toku Sh?sui, a socialist. Also considered here are related concepts such as "civilization (bunmei)," "barbarism," and "imperialism." Close examination of the five intellectuals' use of the East-West binary reveals that, despite their varied goals, they all placed Japan as the leader of the Eastern
world. Collectively, Meiji intellectuals? use of the East-West binary elevated both East and West, while largely deemphasizing the middle part of Eurasia and "South," such as Africa and South America.
Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: Alternative SEM Models, Placement of Number of Taxa, and Correlations from Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory's impact on plant biodiversity
Creators: name: S. Naeem
name: Case Prager
name: Weeks, Brian
name: Varga, Alex
name: Flynn, Dan F. B.
name: Griffin, Kevin
name: Muscarella, Robert
name: Palmer, Matthew
name: Wood, Stephen
name: Schuster, William
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This file contains additional information in support of the study.
Creating Community: A History of the East Washington Community in East Point, Georgia
Creators: name: Shannon, Lisa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation explores the inception, evolution, and history of the East Washington community, located in East Point, Georgia. This African American community was strategically created in 1912, when the city council passed its first residential segregation ordinance. This research uses oral histories and other documents to reveal the survival techniques that enabled East Washington residents to endure the turmoil of Jim Crow racial segregation from the community?s 1912 inception, through urban renewal, integration, white flight, and the return of African Americans in the 1980s that resulted in their population majority. First, it identifies the people who chose to migrate to this area, where they came from and what enticed them to settle in East Point. Second, it discusses the network of institutions that they built and depended upon, including businesses, schools and churches, in order to maintain their largely autonomous community. Finally, it demonstrates the methods East Washington citizens employed to build a community that educated, protected, and nurtured children who became elected city officials, fire chiefs, professors, attorneys, physicians, teachers, dentists, human rights activists, and productive citizens of society.
Hypothesis
Creators: name: Sievers, Kaitlyn
name: Bognar, Emma
name: Wasinger, Grace
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023

description: 1) Does expertise affect transportation into table-top role-playing narratives and audience plot comprehension? Hypothesis: A) The more expertise the participant has with the game, the more they will be transported into the story. Additionally, B) the more expertise the participant has with the game, the better their plot comprehension. 2) Hypothesis: The more the story surprises the viewer, the less their competence need will be satisfied 3) Compare if traditional media findings of novelty and surprise effects are replicated in actual play media. A) Novelty will be positively associated with intrinsic viewing motivation in actual play media. B) Surprise will be positively associated with intrinsic viewing motivation in actual play media. C) Surprise will be positively associated with willingness to recommend the show in actual play media. D) Novelty will be positively associated with willingness to recommend the show in actual play media.
Dependent Variable
Creators: name: Sievers, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023

description: The Assessment of Media Engagement and Satisfaction Scale (AMES): This scale, created by Adachi et al. (2018), uses a Likert-style 1 = “Not at all true” to 5 = “Very true” scale. This was used to measure intrinsic viewing motivation, novelty, surprise, willingness to recommend to others, and some aspects of competence needs satisfaction. • Green and Brock’s (2000) Transportation Scale measured transportation levels. Responses on 12 items were recorded using a 7-point Likert-type scale (1 = “Strongly Disagree” to 7 = “Strongly Agree”) -Player Experience of Satisfaction (PENS) scale (Ryan et al., 2006) was a supplementary measure of competence needs satisfaction. (1= “Not at all true”, 5= “Very true”). • Expertise was assessed using several questions compiled by the principal investigator, Emma Bognar. The first measured knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons, ranging from 0 = “None” to 5 = “Significant knowledge (e.g., have played many times)”. The second question asked whether the participant had ever played a video game that used rules from Dungeons and Dragons (0 = “Never” to 2 = “A lot”). The third question asked whether the participant had ever played a table-top role-playing game other than Dungeons and Dragons (0 = “No” and 1 = “Yes”). The summation of these questions creates an “Expertise” index. Higher scores indicate higher levels of expertise
Suffrage Is Not The Goal: Medicine, Law, and Radical Thought in the Struggle to Legalize Birth Control, 1870-1930
Creators: name: Thompson, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation examines the relationship between law, medicine, and the arguments for legal birth control in the United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.  The project demonstrates that birth control activism, often considered a fringe aspect of the larger women?s movement, was deeply ingrained in the larger agenda of women?s liberation before the turn of the twentieth century. Feminist reformers? responses to medical and legal conceptions of women?s disabilities also shaped arguments for female sexual freedom and reproductive rights. As physicians and lawyers alike argued over women?s capacity for reason, women?s rights activists responded with the latest scientific thinking on gynecology, anatomy, and eugenics to prove that women should not only be able to vote or work outside the home, but also control marriage and sex. They helped to redefine the idea of women as legal persons not only deserving of full citizenship, but of possessing the right to their own bodies. Many of these assertions grew out of these reformers? belief in the most radical philosophies of the day such as Spiritualism, New Thought, Free Love, and Free Thought, the doctrines of which revered science and rejected conventional social constraints on gender.
Yet the association between social radicalism and birth control also hurt the cause. By contrast, scientific and legal justifications for women?s privacy in matters of sex made the legalization of contraception far more appealing to a suspicious public.  Tracking the evolution of this conversation illustrates why Margaret Sanger and her contemporary Mary Ware Dennett inherited these discourses in the beginning of the twentieth century. Dennett?s influence on the early birth control movement equaled Sanger?s, and their ideological battle over the significance of legal birth control for society symbolized the diverse tensions of the feminist movement in this era. Their differing tactics represent conflicting strains of thought within the women?s movement about the achievements and limits of legal reform and social radicalism. Dennett?s commitment to arguments of sex equality, coupled with her distrust of eugenics and medical authority, contributed to the growing public support for birth control by the 1930s.
Race, Culture, and French National Identity: North African, West African, and Antillean Communities in Paris, 1950-1990
Creators: name: Turner, Dennise
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Examining the place of immigrants in French society between 1950 and 1990, this dissertation traces both official policies and public reactions toward immigration, and immigrant responses to their treatment. Increased negative perceptions of North Africans during the 1970s and 80s, and escalating acts of violence and discrimination against them, sparked a national debate on the compatibility of Islam with French identity. North Africans? presence in France seemed to throw into question common notions of ?Frenchness? because the practices that characterized Islamic culture differentiated Muslims from other ethnic and religious minorities. I investigated North African, West African, and Antillean immigrant communities in Paris through the intersection of race, religion, and culture in order to explore changing French attitudes toward ethnic minorities and their cultural identities. My dissertation focuses on how these communities were or were not accepted into the French ?nation,? and what their integration or lack thereof said about conceptions of what it meant to be ?French.? In addition to offering a study of the government?s role in establishing or modifying perceptions about French identity, I also evaluate race and culture from the perspective of the immigrants themselves. This project thus offers an analysis of immigrants of color and the discourses and policies of the institutions that helped define certain ethnic groups encoded as ?racially other? as also culturally inassimilable. The dissertation argues that the state?s construction of racially distinct citizens and immigrant communities as different limited their access to the nation and their acceptance by the general public. In the 1980s, the growing popularity of extreme right political rhetoric glorifying the nation and its supposed heritage gave voice to racism and fears of losing a uniquely French culture. An implicit racial hierarchy prevented immigrant groups and ethnic minorities from fully integrating into the nation. At the same time, ethnic groups from North Africa, West Africa, and the Antilles worked to redefine ?Frenchness? along more inclusive lines in order to minimize tensions and improve relations between these groups and those who seemed more unquestionably ?French.?
LOW-COST SENSING SOLUTIONS FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS (submitted poster)
Creators: name: Marios Vlachos
name: Chrysoula Papathanasiou
name: Valantis Tsiakos
name: Georgios Tsimiklis
name: Angelos Amditis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract:

Real-time environmental monitoring in desert areas is often particularly challenging. This paper presents a sophisticated Wireless Sensor Network system comprising WSNs and communication gateways and creating a versatile Internet of Things (IoT) and Satellite Internet of Things (SatIoT) solution adaptable to diverse environmental conditions, including deserts. The WSNs are strategically deployed to measure environmental parameters, while communication gateways collect and transmit the gathered data to a cloud-based data management platform. Multiple communication protocols, including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, LTE, and satellite interfaces, ensure flexibility and adaptability to different deployment scenarios and geographical locations. The transmission algorithm prioritizes network connectivity availability, enabling robust, reliable and stable data transmission to the cloud. This comprehensive system facilitates real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis, and insights into air quality conditions. The low-cost WSNs, with their compact design and energy-efficient features, offer an affordable and valuable tool for widespread deployment in environmental monitoring applications.
Perceived social pressure not to experience negative emotion is linked to selective attention for negative information
Creators: name: Bastian, Brock
name: Pe, Madeline Lee
name: Kuppens, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Social norms and values may be important predictors of how people engage with and regulate their negative emotional experiences. Previous research has shown that social expectancies (the perceived social pressure not to feel negative emotion (NE)) exacerbate feelings of sadness. In the current research, we examined whether social expectancies may be linked to how people process emotional information. Using a modified classical flanker task involving emotional rather than non-emotional stimuli, we found that, for those who experienced low levels of NE, social expectancies were linked to the selective avoidance of negative emotional information. Those who experienced high levels of NE did not show a selective avoidance of negative emotional information. The findings suggest that, for people who experience many NEs, social expectancies may lead to discrepancies between how they think they ought to feel and the kind of emotional information they pay attention to.
American Poly: A History
Creators: name: Gleason, Christopher
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In the 1980s, a coalition of individuals who hoped to make ethical non-monogamy a socially acceptable lifestyle created the contemporary polyamory movement. Many of those who made up this movement were ex-hippies who had deep connections to the communal and free love movements of the 1960s. Although they were initially ridiculed in the public sphere, during the past 20 years polyamory has become an increasingly accepted cultural phenomenon. This dissertation examines the intellectual and cultural foundations of the polyamory movement from the 1920s until its birth in the 1980s. It then traces the movement?s inception, before detailing how its ideas became culturally influential by the second decade of the 21stcentury.
Tests based on sign depth for multiple regression
Creators: name: Horn, Melanie
name: Müller, Christine H.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: sign test
subject: nearest neighbor method
subject: Traveling Salesman Problem
subject: Shortest Hamiltonian Path
subject: multiple regression
subject: data depth
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: The extension of simplicial depth to robust regression, the so-called simplicial regression depth, provides an outlier robust test for the parameter vector of regression models. Since simplicial regression depth often reduces to counting the subsets with alternating signs of the residuals, this led recently to the notion of sign depth and sign depth test. Thereby sign depth tests generalize the classical sign tests. Since sign depth depends on the order of the residuals, one generally assumes that the D-dimensional regressors (explanatory variables) can be ordered with respect to an inherent order. While the one-dimensional real space possesses such a natural order, one cannot order these regressors that easily for D > 1 because there exists no canonical order of the data in most cases. For this scenario, we present orderings according to the Shortest Hamiltonian Path and an approximation of it. We compare them with more naive approaches like taking the order in the data set or ordering on the basis of a single quantity of the regressor. The comparison bases on the computational runtime, stability of the order when transforming the data, as well as on the power of the resulting sign depth tests for testing the parameter vector of different multiple regression models. Moreover, we compare the power of our new tests with the power of the classical sign test and the F-test. Thereby, the sign depth tests based on our distance based approaches show similar power as the F-test for normally distributed residuals with the additional benefit of being much more robust against outliers.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;7/2020
CO2-Bepreisung in den Sektoren Verkehr und Wärme: Optionen für eine sozial ausgewogene Ausgestaltung
Creators: name: Frondel, Manuel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Stromsteuer
subject: Kohlendioxidsteuer
subject: Verteilungswirkungen
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620
subject: Inzidenz
subject: Energiesteuer

description: Die Einführung einer nationalen CO2-Bepreisung ab dem Jahr 2021 ist beschlossene Sache: In den Sektoren Verkehr und Wärme soll ein nationales Emissionshandelssystem etabliert werden, in dem die CO2-Preise in den Jahren 2021 bis 2025 fixiert sind und beginnend mit 25 Euro je Tonne sukzessive ansteigen. Dies bringt höhere Kostenbelastungen für die Verbraucher mit sich. Um dennoch eine breite Akzeptanz für eine CO2- Bepreisung zu gewinnen, wäre ein vielversprechender Ansatz, die daraus resultierenden Einnahmen wieder vollständig an die Verbraucher zurückzugeben. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert dieser Beitrag drei Alternativen zur Rückverteilung der zusätzlichen staatlichen Einnahmen: a) eine pauschale Pro-Kopf-Rückerstattung für private Haushalte, b) die Senkung der Stromkosten durch (i) die Steuerfinanzierung der Industrieausnahmen bei der EEG-Umlage und (ii) die Senkung der Stromsteuer und c) gezielte Zuschüsse für besonders betroffene Verbraucher, etwa in Form einer Erhöhung des Wohngelds. Am treffsichersten im Hinblick auf die Entlastung bedürftiger Haushalte wäre die dritte Alternative. Mit den restlichen Mitteln könnte die unter ökologischen Gesichtspunkten zunehmend obsolet werdende Stromsteuer reduziert werden. Wenngleich es gute Gründe sowohl für eine Pro-Kopf-Rückerstattung als auch für eine Stromsteuersenkung gibt, hat eine Stromsteuersenkung mehrere Vorteile gegenüber einer Pro-Kopfpauschale, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Sektorkopplung und die Transaktionskosten des Rückverteilungsaufwands, welche bei einer Stromsteuersenkung vernachlässigbar wären.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;6/2020
Radioactivity of natural medicinal preparations contained extracts from peat mud available in retail trade used externally
Creators: name: Karpińska, Maria
name: Kapała, Jacek
name: Raciborska, Agnieszka
name: Kulesza, Grzegorz
name: Milewska, Anna
name: Stanisław Mnich
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: In this work were identified and measured the activity of radioactive isotopes present in medicinal preparations from peat mud and estimated the doses obtained from them during therapy. Radioactivity of 22 preparations from peat mud and 20 water samples from water of the North-East region of Poland was studied. The median of the total activity was 24.8 Bq kg−1. Total maximal isotope activity was observed in the Iwonicka Cube 146 Bq kg−1 while considerable amounts of isotopes were found in the Kolobrzeska Peat Mud Paste 112 Bq kg−1. The doses obtained during therapy were within the range of 11 nSv–13 μSv depending on extracts of medicinal preparations from peat mud. The probability that such a small dose would stimulate biological effects is low. However, some clinicians believe that one of the possible therapeutic mechanisms in the treatment of rheumatoid disorders is the induction of immune response by ionising radiation.
"We Are Not Hired Help:" The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike, the Rise of Modern Conservatism, and the Potency of Teacher Power
Creators: name: Noll, Jody
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description:
On February 19,1968 more than 27,000 teachers across the state of Florida mailed in their letters of resignation creating the country?s first statewide teacher strike. By going on strike Florida?s teachers fought for and gained improvements in education and their profession. This dissertation explores the political and social factors that led to strike. In doing so, it examines how a population boom led to a rise in modern conservatism that served as a bellwether for the South?s switch to the Republican Party. Finally, this dissertation examines the strike itself and the years that followed to provide an analysis on the important role that teachers played in the shaping of political and social policy within the United States.
Increasing production rate in U-type assembly lines with sequence-dependent set-up times
Creators: name: Şahin, Murat
name: Kellegöz, Talip
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: U-shaped assembly lines are commonly used in just-in-time production systems as they have some advantages over straight lines. Although maximizing production rates on these lines by assigning tasks to stations is common practice in industrial environments, studies on the stated assembly line balancing problem are limited. This article deals with maximizing the production rate on U-shaped assembly lines under sequence-dependent set-up times. Sequence-dependent set-up times mean that after a task is performed, a set-up time, the duration of which depends on adjacent tasks, is required to start the next task operation. These set-ups are considered by dividing them into two groups, named forward and backward set-ups, to make the problem more practical. Two heuristics based on simulated annealing and genetic algorithms are improved beside the mathematical model. Experimental results show that solving the stated problem using the mathematical model is nearly impossible, while heuristics may obtain solutions that have acceptable deviations from the lower bounds.
Construction and catalytic activities of polyoxometalate-based compound containing helical chains
Creators: name: Sha, Jing-Quan
name: Xi-Ya Yang
name: Sun, Long-Jiang
name: Li, Shu-Xian
name: Sheng, Ning
name: Ji-Shen Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A polyoxometalate-based, inorganic–organic hybrid compound containing a helical structure along the a axis, [Ag(pyttz)2][H2PW12O40]·2H2O (p-pyttz = 3-(pyrid-4-yl)-5-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)-1,2,4-triazolyl), has been isolated and structurally characterized. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that the new compound possesses two helical channels constructed by the left- and right-handed helical chains, respectively, which are fused together through sharing POMs dimer fabricating a 3-D framework with {44·53·63} {44·53·63} topolopy. The new compound displays good acid-catalytic activity toward the synthesis of Aspirin and good oxidation-catalytic activity to the decomposition of Rhodamine B dye; the catalytic reaction kinetics are discussed.
Diet and foraging of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in a contaminated harbour
Creators: name: McCallum, Erin S.
name: Marentette, Julie R.
name: Schiller, Claire
name: Shagun Jindal
name: Empringham, Kyle
name: Marsh-Rollo, Susan
name: Pettitt-Wade, Harri
name: Koops, Marten A.
name: Fisk, Aaron T.
name: Balshine, Sigal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Anthropogenic pollution and the introduction of invasive species are two contributing factors to ecosystem degradation. Although Hamilton Harbour (Ontario, Canada), a highly impacted ecosystem, is well-studied, the diet, trophic position, and foraging behaviour of the invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in this area is not well understood. In this study, we compared digestive tract contents, foraging behaviour, and stable isotope values of Round Goby from sites of low and high sediment contamination in Hamilton Harbour. We also assessed prey availability by conducting sediment invertebrate abundance analyses at these sites. Regardless of site, Chironomids, Cladocerans, Copepods and Dreissenids were the most common food items found in Round Goby digestive tracts, and females always had heavier gut contents compared to males. Fish from the high contamination site consumed fewer prey items, had lower gut fullness scores, and fed at a lower trophic level based on lower δ13C and δ15N values. Our results suggest that Round Goby living in highly contaminated areas are feeding less than Round Goby from areas of lower contamination, but that these diet differences do not reflect differences in prey availability. Fish from the high contamination site also typically moved more slowly while foraging. Taken together, these results provide an analysis of the main prey items of Round Goby in Hamilton Harbour, and demonstrate how polluted environments can impact diet, trophic position, and foraging of an introduced fish species.
Diet and foraging of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in a contaminated Harbour
Creators: name: McCallum, Erin S.
name: Marentette, Julie R.
name: Schiller, Claire
name: Shagun Jindal
name: Empringham, Kyle
name: Marsh-Rollo, Susan
name: Pettitt-Wade, Harri
name: Koops, Marten A.
name: Fisk, Aaron T.
name: Balshine, Sigal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Anthropogenic pollution and the introduction of invasive species are two contributing factors to ecosystem degradation. Although Hamilton Harbour (ON, Canada), a highly impacted ecosystem, is well-studied, the diet, trophic position, and foraging behaviour of the invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in this area is not well understood. In this study, we compared digestive tract contents, foraging behaviour, and stable isotope values of Round Goby from sites of low and high sediment contamination in Hamilton Harbour. We also assessed prey availability by conducting sediment invertebrate abundance analyses at these sites. Regardless of site, chironomids, cladocerans, copepods and dreissenids were the most common food items found in Round Goby digestive tracts, and females always had heavier gut contents compared to males. Fish from the high contamination site consumed fewer prey items, had lower gut fullness scores, and fed at a lower trophic level based on lower δ13C and δ15N values. Our results suggest that Round Goby living in highly contaminated areas are feeding less than Round Goby from areas of lower contamination, but that these diet differences do not reflect differences in prey availability. Fish from the high contamination site also typically moved more slowly while foraging. Taken together, these results provide an analysis of the main prey items of Round Goby in Hamilton Harbour, and demonstrate how polluted environments can impact diet, trophic position, and foraging of an introduced fish species.