cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for Quantum Fisher Information for estimating N partially coherent point sources - 6188007.pdf
Creators: name: Liang, Kevin
name: Sultan, Wadood
name: Vamivakas, Nickolas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1: Provides additional mathematical details regarding the derivations and models used in the main body.
Modernization of the Cytoscape ecosystem
Creators: name: Ono, Keiichiro
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Overview of the current Cytoscape ecosystem and a brief introduction to a new layer called Cytoscape CI (Cyberinfrastructure), that is a collection of microservices and reusable JS UI/visualization components for network biology.

Please visit https://github.com/CyComponent/CyWiki for more information.

This is from the lightning talk by the Cytoscape Core team member Keiichiro Ono (UCSD Trey Ideker Lab).

The video for this presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
Makeright Anti-Theft Bag Course Materials for HE Design Staff
Creators: name: Gamman, Lorraine
name: Thorpe, Adam
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330313
subject: Social design
classificationCode: 330315
subject: Textile and fashion design
classificationCode: 440204
subject: Crime and social justice

description: Makeright intended to create inspiring learning opportunities through co-design and creative materials that promote the development of communication and vocational skills. Additionally, it sought to contribute valuable research to knowledge exchange about best practice design education for prisoners. The Makeright courses aim to help prisoners, especially those who are neurodiverse and did not enjoy school, find new creative pathways for independent learning and life journeys towards desistance (living a crime-free life).
Bibliographie der Geschichte, Landes- und Volkskunde von Stadt und Kanton Zürich: 1. Oktober 1919 bis 20. September 1921
Creators: name: Stauber, Emil
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Arnold Kopp & Co.
Year: 1921
Subjects: subject: 010 Bibliografie
subject: Kanton Zürich
subject: Zürich
subject: Bibliografie
subject: Geschichte
subject: Landeskunde
subject: Volkskunde

description: Separatdruck aus dem "Zürcher Taschenbuch" auf die Jahre 1921/22.
title: Ländliche Regionen und Tourismusvermarktung zwischen Revitalisierung oder Exotisierung: das Beispiel Echigo-Tsumari
Creators: name: Klien, Susanne
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Ländlicher Raum
subject: Echigo-Tsumari
subject: Tourismusmarketing
subject: 306

description: Rural Areas and Tourism Branding between Revitalization and Exoticization: The Case of Echigo-Tsumari Since 2000 the international contemporary art festival Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial has been held in the southern part of Niigata Prefecture by a Tōkyō-based commercial art gallery in cooperation with municipal and prefectural authorities as a regional revitalisation project, attracting numerous visitors to Echigo-Tsumari, which is mostly known for its excellent rice, rather than as a tourist destination. In this qualitative study I analyze and compare tourist material issued by the organizing gallery, the prefectural revitalisation agency and the municipal tourist office. In addition to primary sources such as brochures and posters, I also draw on insights from participant observation, especially interviews with involved actors from the local tourist bodies, triennial staff, residents and representatives from administration. The discussion of selected information material also serves as an opportunity to rethink new tendencies in rural tourism in Japan such as the emphasis on iyashi (relaxation) or familiar terms such as satoyama (coexistence of man with nature) or genfūkei (traditional Japanese landscape) and general issues pertaining to the representation of rural areas in the national discourse.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 217
Bibliographie der Geschichte, Landes- und Volkskunde von Stadt und Kanton Zürich: 1. September 1926 bis 31. August 1927
Creators: name: Stauber, Emil
Publisher: name: Arnold Kopp & Co
Year: 1927
Subjects: subject: 010 Bibliografie
subject: Kanton Zürich
subject: Zürich
subject: Bibliografie
subject: Geschichte
subject: Landeskunde
subject: Volkskunde

description: Separatabdruck aus dem "Zürcher Taschenbuch" für das Jahr 1928
Bibliographie der Geschichte, Landes- und Volkskunde von Stadt und Kanton Zürich: 1. September 1927 bis 31. August 1928
Creators: name: Stauber, Emil
Publisher: name: Arnold Kopp & Co
Year: 1928
Subjects: subject: 010 Bibliografie
subject: Kanton Zürich
subject: Zürich
subject: Bibliografie
subject: Geschichte
subject: Landeskunde
subject: Volkskunde

description: Separatdruck aus dem "Zürcher Taschenbuch" für das Jahr 1929
title: Sutekina kurashi: Rückbesinnung auf Heim und Familie
Creators: name: Platz, Anemone
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Familienbild
subject: 306

description: Sutekina kurashi – Reconsidering home and family The social and economic changes Japan has gone through since the bubble burst in the beginning of the 1990s have left traces in the lives and living styles of people and have affected thoughts concerning housing and home as well as familial involvement. The starting point for this paper is the recent developments of the phenomenon of sugomori kazoku (homing family) that at first sight seems to be a direct consequence of the economic recession, obligating many people to spend more time at home than in times of economic stability in order to avoid unnecessary expenses. However, a second look shows that the way couples with children reconsider their home and family life has roots in an ongoing debate about the importance of familial contact and communication in the interest of the proper socialization of the children. In this context the recession is merely an enhancing factor. Quantitative and qualitative data illustrate how these trends have influenced families with young children in their understanding of and concern for their homes, new ways of home space organization, and have led to a growing interest in questions of interior design and domesticity.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 243
title: Massenmedialer Geschichtsrevisionismus im gegenwärtigen Japan: filmische Repräsentationen der "Tōkyō-Tribunal-Geschichtsauffassung"
Creators: name: Richter, Steffi
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Film
subject: Geschichtsrevisionismus
subject: 907

description: Mass Media and Historical Revisionism in Contemporary Japan: Cinematic Representations of the »Tōkyō Trial View of History« Historical revisionism – as a phenomenon of a fundamentally changing Japanese society during the last decade of the 20th century – is active in diverse contexts and on different levels: on the level of academic discussions about historiography or intellectual history among professional historians; in the mass media proliferation of historical images, as well as in history education, and in textbooks in particular. It is precisely the so-called third textbook debate, which revolved around the presentation of Japanese history in history textbooks that fuelled the activities of historical revisionism in contemporary Japan. The very name of the 1996-founded »Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform« (Atarashii rekishi kyōkasho wo tsukuru kai), which channeled these activities into a movement, exemplifies the importance of this medium. The undertakings of the actors involved, however, are by no means limited to the sphere of textbooks. The purpose of the paper, therefore, is to illuminate the complexity of these diverse interacting levels and media by focusing on two films about the so-called »Tōkyō Trial View of History«: »The Truth about Nanking« (Nankin no shinjitsu, director Mizushima Satoru, 2008) and »Best Wishes for Tomorrow« (Ashita e no yuigon, director Koizumi Takashi, 2008). This paper analyses the context of the production of these movies as well as their content in order to highlight the central themes of the »struggle for meaning« in historical debates.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 273
title: Die japanische Innenpolitik 2009/2010: Schwerpunkte und Tendenzen
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2009-2010
subject: 320

description: Japanese Domestic Policy 2009/2010: Highlights and Tendencies This report covers a period of almost exactly twelve months stretching from September 2009 to September 2010 – from the landslide victory in the Lower House election for the DPJ (and its miserable aftermath) to the crippling power struggle between Naoto Kan and Ichirō Ozawa which marked the DPJ presidential election in September 2010. While the governing coalition was lost in futile infighting, the opposition gained control over the Upper House – Japan now has to cope with a hung parliament, in which any legal initiative can be killed by a unified opposition in the second chamber. Nevertheless, this gives an opening to the Kan government: The opposition is far from being united. Over the past twelve months Japanese voters have witnessed the inability of the government to fundamentally tackle threatening economic problems (the rising yen, social instability etc.) and to wipe out political corruption. On the other hand, however, some far-reaching changes have also begun during the past year, some of them rather subtle, others almost revolutionary: »Destroyer« Ozawa finally seems to be losing his iron grip on domestic politics, the powerful business organizations are cutting the financial support for preferred political groups – and Japan’s voters have definitely become more critical and selective as was shown by the election results.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 23
title: Das Ende des Eisernen Dreiecks?
Creators: name: Rothacher, Albrecht
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaftspolitik
subject: Jiyū-minshutō
subject: Ministerialverwaltung
subject: Großbetrieb
subject: Geschichte 2009-2010
subject: 338

description: Japan’s Iron Triangle, Has it Finally Come to an End? This chapter starts out to investigate the political change of August 2009: Was it a democratic revolution or a passing voters’ revolt? Will it leave lasting effects on Japan’s political power structure, or will Japan’s postwar triad of power be able to reconstitute itself, once the DPJ government has gone? Basically we find a gradual erosion of all three power centers, that is: organized big business, the ministerial bureaucracy and the LDP’s parliamentary party and its factions, already during the stagnation crisis of 1992–2002. Big business became increasingly oriented to the world market and abandoned the neomercantilist confines of Japan Inc. The central ministries were made the scapegoat of Japan’s crisis and suffered from an unending onslaught on their standing and discretionary powers. The LDP split in 1993 and its factions lost their power already after the 1994 electoral reform, and most LDP members of parliament their – largely hereditary – seats and kōenkai organizations after the 2009 defeat. This pluralization was reinforced by profound socio-economic changes which led to a more disparate distribution of wealth and income, effectively ending Japan’s postwar middle-class society with its uniformity of values, life patterns and electoral loyalties. The current DPJ regime attempts to represent both parts of the LDP’s old clientele, but it has also co-opted representatives of larger segments of society into its decision-making structures, notably the Rengo trade union federation. Whether Japan’s new pluralist policies will be able to solve the country’s most intractable problems – its demographics and public fi nances – remains very doubtful. What seems clear, however, is that Japan’s postwar cohesive power elite as an »iron triangle« has disappeared, for better or for worse.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 61
The Effect on Family Farms of Changing Capital Gains Taxation at Death
Creators: name: McDonald, Tia M.
name: Durst, Ron
name: Whitt, Christine
name: McDonald, Tia M.
name: Durst, Ron
name: Whitt, Christine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Capital gains tax
subject: family farms
subject: estates
subject: stepped-up basis
subject: carry-over basis

description: This report presents a method for assessing impacts of changes to capital gains taxation at death for family farm estates, an approach which accounts for the structural changes in a person’s wealth portfolio that often occurs as a person ages. The method is applied to the American Families Plan, which proposes to eliminate stepped-up basis for inherited assets greater than $1 million for individuals’ estates and $2 million for married couples’ estates while deferring capital gains tax liability on business assets as long as the business remains family operated. The results suggest that of the estimated 32,174 family farm estates in 2021, 1.1 percent would owe capital gains taxes at death, 18.2 percent would not owe capital gains taxes at death but could have deferred tax liability if the farm assets do not remain family-owned and operated, and 80.7 percent would have no change to their capital gains tax liability.
title: Niedrige Fertilität als politische Herausforderung: Eine neue Perspektive auf staatliche Steuerungsversuche im Feld der demographischen Entwicklung Japans
Creators: name: Klein, Axel
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Bevölkerungspolitik
subject: 363

description: Political Responses to Low Fertility: A New Perspective on Attempts to Govern Japan’s Demographic Development Ageing of society has been a growing threat to most domains of life in Japan. Economy, society and the political system will be just as heavily affected as social security systems, education and family structures. One crucial instrument to fight this development is pro-natal policy. Since the early 1990s, the political elite has agreed on the urgent need to come up with policy to encourage young Japanese to have (more) children, and since then, the goal of pro-natal policy has not been contested by any political party. In spite of this unanimity, however, the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition governments for the most part did not present the issue as a priority on their agenda. Why? This paper takes a psychological approach to add new insights into this question. The intrinsic motivation of ten national lawmakers from both ruling parties is analyzed in order to test the explanatory potential of the approach itself as well as to understand the behavior of individual social policy actors. The results of the study confirm the approach’s applicability and also show that the intrinsic motivation of most of the examined lawmakers was insufficient to turn them into (badly needed) effective policy sponsors.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 99
title: Auf der Suche nach einer neuen globalen Rolle: Japanische Außenpolitik 2009/2010
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2009-2010
subject: 327

description: In Search of a New Global Role: Japanese Foreign Policy 2009/2010 This article documents and analyzes the changes Japanese foreign policy went through in 2009 and 2010. It covers the most important bilateral relationships and four policy areas. The most important event of this period is the first change of government after more than five decades of almost uninterrupted LDP rule in September 2009. One of the core foreign policy demands of the new DPJ administration under Prime Minister Hatoyama was a re-assessment of US-Japan relations with the objective to make them fairer and more balanced, and the idea to establish some kind of East-Asian Community. Both demands strongly influenced its foreign policy behavior in the first year of the DPJ administration.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 123
title: Krisenherde im Meer: Japans Territorialkonflikte
Creators: name: Beck, Andreas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: China
subject: Südkorea
subject: Russland
subject: Kurilen
subject: Senkaku-gunto
subject: Tokto
subject: Territorialer Anspruch
subject: 327

description: Hot spots at Sea: Japan’s Territorial Conflicts Territorial conflicts are found all around the globe. Many scholars consider them to be one of the main reasons why wars break out between nations. Especially in Asia, territorial conflicts are common to almost every state, causing regular friction in a highly sensible region. Even a relatively small state such as Japan has three unresolved territorial disputes on her agenda: the Northern Territories, the Senkaku Isles and the Takeshima Islands. This article examines Japans territorial conflicts from a constructivist point of view, focusing on identity and perception as variables. It analyzes the material and ideational value of the disputed islands and clarifies that the territorial conflicts are more about clashing identities than about resources.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 149
Controlling the Invasion : The Progress of the EcoBLITZ and EcoRESTORATION Monitoring Project in Pacific Spirit Regional Park
Creators: name: Hao, Raymond
name: Sheline, Meg
name: Yu, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: With globalization and world travel becoming a commonplace in today’s society, invasive species have become an increasing problem worldwide. Unique ecosystems such as the temperate rainforests of British Columbia are under attack by these invaders, threatening to replace the native flora. Invasive plants are particularly concerning. As of 2014, 849 invasive plant species have become established in British Columbia, which account for 86.8% of all alien species recorded in BC. One hotspot is the Coastal Western Hemlock Zone located on the west coast of British Columbia, notably Metro Vancouver (Figure A). These invasive species have taken over and dominated native forests, prompting extensive restoration efforts in order to preserve the natural ecosystems. Starting in 2014, Metro Vancouver Regional Parks (MVRP) in partnership with Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) restored five sites in Pacific Spirit Regional Park through their EcoBLITZ program through the removal of invasive plants and replacement with native plants in five sites with the goal of returning the site to its natural state (Figure B). Since 2018, PSPS has led teams of volunteers into the park to continually monitor the progress of their past restoration from 2018 - 2022. This monitoring includes taking note of the presence (or absence) of both common invasive plants and target native plants as well as tree health and general site characteristics.
title: Japans Wirtschaft unter der DPJ-Regierung: Zwischen Stillstand und Reform
Creators: name: Rehn, Detlef
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2009-2010
subject: 330

description: Japan’s Economy under DPJ Rule: Between Stagnation and Reform Compared to the 2008/2009 financial crisis, Japan’s economy at present is in a much better shape. The economy has returned back to a growth path, and many companies are in the black again. However, the sustainability of this development is somewhat doubtful. In addition to discrepancies between a fairly good export performance and a fragile domestic demand, there are new political insecurities due the change of governmental power from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). This paper analyzes the situation of the Japanese economy of early autumn 2010. First, the main goals of DPJ economic policy are evaluated. Especially in regard to environment and climate, the DPJ is much stricter than its LDP predecessors. Second, it shows how Japan‘s economy will perform in the coming months in the areas of exports, private consumption and investment. Whereas the future in all of the areas looks cloudy, the expensive Japanese yen and deflation belong to the biggest problems the policy makers have to solve. Third, it discusses Japan‘s role in a globalized world, especially vis-à-vis the emerging economies. More and more, countries like China or Korea emerge as strong competitors to Japan, fighting successfully for example to win lucrative infrastructural projects and to secure precious mining resources in the developing world. Against this background, the proper ways to deal with this situation have recently become a major topic of attention in Japan.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 183
title: Japans öffentliche Verschuldung: Droht der Staatsbankrott?
Creators: name: Rövekamp, Frank
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Öffentliche Schulden
subject: 336

description: Will Japan Go Bankrupt? Japan’s public debt has been soaring in recent years. At 189%, the debt-to-GDP ratio is the highest in the industrialized world. New debt issuance in the fiscal budget for 2010 exceeds tax revenues for the first time since World War II. A fiscal crisis in the near future is not expected, however, as 95% of Japanese government bonds are held by domestic investors. With historically low interest rates below 1.5%, the cost of servicing the debt also will remain manageable for the time being. Still, these favorable conditions will change as Japan’s ageing population increasingly uses their savings to support their consumption. Lower savings will result in reduced supply of capital which will lead to higher interest rates. Furthermore, increased foreign investment will be needed to fulfill the demand. Without consolidation of the public finances, therefore, a fiscal crisis seems inevitable in the mid- to long-term. In order to achieve fiscal consolidation, an increase in the value/added tax and further reforms to limit spending are urgently required. These measures, however, are unpopular with the electorate, and it remains to be seen whether the current government will take the necessary steps in time.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 205
The Changing Composition of Family Budgets for Selected Groups of Corn Belt Farmers, 1940-42
Creators: name: Cochrane, Willard W.
name: Grigg, Mary D.
name: Cochrane, Willard W.
name: Grigg, Mary D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1946
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Farm Management
Financial Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpt from the Introduction: The immediate objectives of this study are to describe the composition of farm family budgets, classified by income size and household size, and to measure the change in the composition of farm family budgets associated with changes in income and in household size. In other words, to determine to what extent the decision-making units--farm families in this case--allocate their income differently when their incomes change and/or their actual size is modified. Can we give answers, for Corn Belt farmers at least, to such problems as: Do families who experience an increase in income allocate that income between different lines of expenditure in the same way as the families into whose income class they have just moved? Or is the difference in household size a more significant factor in the allocation of income than the level of income itself?
title: Japans Deregulierungszonen als wirtschaftspolitisches Experimentieren
Creators: name: Pascha, Werner
name: Schmitt, Petra
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Deregulierung
subject: Liberalisierung
subject: Freie Wirtschaftszone
subject: 343

description: Japan’s Special Zones for Deregulation as a Case of Economic Policy Experimentalism In recent years, economic globalization, fast-paced technological innovation, concern over democratic legitimation and environmental issues have severely challenged conventional policy solutions. Due to the complexities and the uncertainties surrounding newly emerging threats and opportunities, it has been difficult for policy makers to design adequate, innovative economic policy mechanisms. For these reasons, policy experiments have received a new interest among scholars and policy makers. The basic idea is that experiments allow for the search for superior solutions that can later be implemented elsewhere as well. Th ere are few case studies that study economic policy experimentalism, and in this paper the authors contribute one for Japan. For this country, it can hardly be denied that in recent years there was a strong need for new and better solutions in response to pressing policy challenges. The deregulation zones (tokubetsu ku’iki), introduced by national law enacted in December 2002, under the auspices of the reformist Koizumi government, might be interpreted as a Japanese approach to the new interest in policy experimentalism. The authors proceed as follows: After discussing a number of methodological issues about policy experimentalism, noting that a policy of implementing experiments may help to overcome the limits of human knowledge while making use of evolutionary processes and competition, but may also serve the self-interest of actors, they then discuss the Japanese case study. First, they deal with the goals set out for the program. Second, they discuss the conditions under which the program was implemented and reorganized. Third, they look more specifically into the organizations and processes of the program. Finally, they try to derive a number of conclusions about how to evaluate the Japanese »experiment with policy experiments«. Basically, the program can be seen as a success, as it has survived the years of the Koizumi reform optimism and is even considered by the new DPJ-led government as part of a project to raise the influence of ordinary citizens in policymaking. The strongest point about the deregulation zone program is its openness towards various stimuli and experiences. It can be used to reform the national level, but also serves a purpose through inducing regional competition. One potential weakness rests in the still-significant influence of the bureaucracy as a potential veto player. Nevertheless, the complex interaction of evolving changes in hundreds of zones, which is difficult to control for any actor, offers a considerable force towards progress.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 225
title: Geschäftsstrategie, Führungsstruktur und Arbeitsmotivation in Niederlassungen multinationaler japanischer Unternehmen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Wada, Yoshinori
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Multinationales Unternehmen
subject: Niederlassung
subject: Deutschland
subject: Management
subject: 658

description: Strategy, Governance Structure and Work Motivation in Subsidiaries of Japanese Multinational Enterprises in Germany This paper investigates the characteristics of Japanese multinational enterprises (MNE) through the behavior of subsidiaries in Germany especially in terms of strategies, governance structure and work motivation. We conducted a survey on the member of Düsseldorfer Japanese Industry and Chamber of Commerce and analyzed the results of the survey using expectations drawn from standard theoretical frameworks of MNE in Barlett and Goshal (1989), Doz and Hamel (1998), and Doz, Santos and Williamson (2001), among others. We show that Japanese MNE tends to use the headquarters in Japan to control directly the management of subsidiaries abroad, and attempts to gain competitive advantage in the global market through proprietary technology and products. Our findings thus demonstrate the opposite of what standard theory expects, especially localization of management and cooperation with competitors or contractors. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the work motivation of Japanese expatriates differs from that of local workers.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 265
title: Die japanische Diskussion über soziale Ungleichheit in der Bildung: Erklärungsansätze und Lösungsvorschläge
Creators: name: Canstein, Julia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Schule
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: 371

description: The Japanese Debate about Social Inequality in Education: Explanations and Suggestions for Reducing Inequalities Since the end of the 1960s, the issue of social inequality in education has been discussed among Japanese educational sociologists. And Japanese teachers’ unions, too, have put social inequality in education on their agendas. Social inequality in education is regarded in this debate as the existence of a connection between the family background of a child and its educational attainment and achievement. The debate has produced different explanations for the existence of such a connection. Based on these explanations, suggestions are put forward on how social inequality in education can be reduced. This article discusses the Japanese debate about social inequality in education, focusing on its results. Which sorts of strategies are suggested in order to reduce social inequality in education in Japan? And in these strategies, what is similar or different from the academic debate in Germany and internationally? Among the explanations for the existence of social inequality in education in Japan, one main focus is on the costs for education and the different resources families have to bear these costs. Suggestions for reducing social inequality refer to this explanation and propose political measures on the macro level aimed at creating more economic equality among schoolchildren and their families. However, the putting into action of a singular measure targeting certain inequalities might cause the increase of other inequalities. Another suggestion put forward in the debate proposes reducing social inequality in education on the micro level of the single schools by using the concept of »effective schools« – schools which are successful in educating all students, regardless of their family background. While in the United States, a number of schools have already undergone a process to become an »effective school«, in Japan more empirical research is still necessary for a realization of this suggestion. To sum up, discussing the Japanese debate in an international perspective shows that on the one hand, the debate in Japan has produced specific strategies for reducing inequalities which are based on the characteristics of the Japanese educational system. On the other hand, it becomes clear that certain »rules« and »recommendations« for a reduction of social inequality in education seem to apply universally, regardless of the national debate in which they are put forward. Social inequality in education has to be tackled with a combination of measures, on different levels, and based on sufficient empirical research.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 291
title: Krieg und Erinnerung zwischen Mündlichkeit und Medien: Streifzüge durch japanische Gedächtnisdiskurse
Creators: name: Wittkamp, Robert
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Kollektives Gedächtnis
subject: 306

description: War and Memory through the Lens of Orality and Media: A Stroll through Japanese Discourses on Memory In 1995, Andreas Huyssen noted a worldwide »memory boom«. This is particularly true for Germany, where memory, remembrance, and oblivion belong to the core themes of cultural studies. Nevertheless, the question as to whether the paradigm of memory – which is sometimes incorrectly reduced to the concept of »zakhor«, the Jewish vow to remember – is suitable enough to be applied to Japanese discourses. This paper will demonstrate that discourses on memory and remembrance are flourishing in Japan, too, and that they are embedded in the worldwide memory boom. This paper will further explain why and how memory and remembrance are connected with the war. It will show its origins in Japanese historiography and the dispersion into other fields of research. By examining a project by a Japanese newspaper designed to explore the Japanese public memory of the 20th century, this paper will show that the topics of memory and remembrance have already spread beyond universities and into Japanese society. The aim of this paper is not to rigorously critique the different discourses of memory and remembrance, but rather to make several observations from the standpoint of German cultural studies where the aspects media and cultural memory are of crucial importance.
description: Japan 2010 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 329
Is Vancouver’s Proposed Road Toll Regressive? : An Empirical Analysis of Congestion Pricing
Creators: name: See-Fernandez, Justine
name: Sriram, Aditi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Vancouver is proposing to implement transport pricing in its Metro Core in an attempt to reduce pollution, however there has been pushback because of the hypothesis that the burden of this toll would fall most heavily on low-income populations. This research study tests this hypothesis empirically by understanding at a Census Tract (CT) level which communities would be disproportionately impacted. Results from this study show that the toll burden falls on people from higher income CTs who have the ability to substitute their means of transportation with public transit. These results are similar to the existing literature on transport pricing in other metropolitan cities, mitigating concerns that this toll would be environmentally progressive but economically inequitable.
title: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 12 No. 1SpecialIssue (2022): Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
title: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ethiopian Journal Of Health And Biomedical Sciences
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2022

description: EMBEDDED IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH ON COMPASSIONATE AND RESPECTFUL CARE SERVICES IN THE ETHIOPIAN HEALTH SYSTEM...1-3 The role of Community Engagement on Compassionate, Respectful and Caring health service: Perceived effectiveness among health staff in the health system of Ethiopia...39-49 Community engagement platforms for Compassionate Respectful and Caring health service: challenges and opportunities, in Sululta district, Ethiopia...51-63 Importance of CRC In-Service Training on Implementation of Compassionate and Respectful Care Delivery, in Gondar Town Governmental Health Facilities Northwest Ethiopia...19-37 How to strengthen the Monitoring and Evaluation System to improve Compassionate, Respectful, and Caring services in Ethiopia: An implementation study...65-82 Exploring the Impact of Division of Labor among Health Workforce on Compassionate, Respectful, And Caring Health Professional implementation at Felege-Hiwot Referral Hospital, Amhara Region, North-West Ethiopia...83-93 The role of Performance appraisal system on Compassionate, Respectful, and Caring health care delivery in Northwest Ethiopia: an implementation study...95-110 Exploring barriers and enablers of compassionate and respectful care implementation in pre-service education in Ethiopia...5-18
NLRP3 inflammasome: significance and potential therapeutic targets to advance solid organ transplantation
Creators: name: Karsalari, Pershia Davoodi
name: Ashari, Kosar Asna
name: Rezaei, Nima
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: NOD-like receptor (NLR) family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome, integral to innate immunity, has become a pivotal figure in the inflammatory cascade. This article provides an overview of the NLRP3 inflammasome, reviewing its complicated structure, as well as the diverse signals that trigger its assembly. Furthermore, we explored the intricate relationship between the NLRP3 inflammasome and acute and chronic rejection in solid organ transplantation. Solid organ transplantation stands as a crucial medical intervention, yet its efficacy is challenged by immune-mediated complications, including acute rejection, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and chronic allograft rejection. We also investigated the encouraging potential of immunosuppressive therapies targeting NLRP3 signaling to alleviate inflammatory responses linked to transplantation. In recent years, the NLRP3 inflammasome has garnered considerable attention owing to its critical functions spanning diverse fields. This study highlights the critical function of the NLRP3 inflammasome and presents insights, offering fresh perspectives on how its modulation might help to improve the outcomes among patients who undergo solid organ transplantations.
The Noctua Modeling Tool
Creators: name: Carbon, Seth
name: Mungall, Chris
name: Dietze, Heiko
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We present Noctua, a modern web application and stack for modeling complex biology. Noctua directly models information as a graph, escaping many of the pitfalls of more "tabular" modeling. Noctua also presents a rich, interactive, and collaborative user interface, as well as a complete set of tooling for data extraction and integration.

The Gene Ontology GO project aims to create a comprehensive and up-to-date model of biological systems based on annotating knowledge graphs (ontologies) with curated and generated information. Over its existence, the project has aimed to capture this information with ever increasing richness and specificity. The traditional storage format for GO annotations, the tabular GAF, has undergone several iterations, but can no longer support the types of annotations required by current use cases. To move forward, the project has adopted LEGO, a graph-base abstraction for modeling biology. The Noctua application and stack was created to annotate
information with the LEGO abstraction, but has the built-in flexibility to be used in any number of pathway or workflow models.

The current main end user client application for Noctua presents a real-time collaborative graph editing environment, allowing users to assemble graphs representing biological knowledge, including aspects such as references and evidence. The user environment uses typed inputs combined with a click, drag, and connect interface for easy and intuitive graph editing. As multiple users work on the same model, no matter the client, it updates the common environment in real time, allowing for easy discussion, presentation, and collaboration.

The Noctua stack is composed of three layers: the client, written in JavaScript using the jsPlumb and AmiGO/BBOP libraries; the communication layer, written in JavaScript and providing client-to-client and client-to-server communication; and the graph engine, a Java server that uses OWL to model and OWL universe tools
for reasoning. This stack is strongly separated, respecting protocol and common patterns. For example, while the main user interface is a graph editor, it could be easily replaced by a different client that could speak the same wire protocol--the flexibility of the framework allows for the easy creation of alternate clients, such as the form or REPL based ones.

The Noctua stack is being actively used by the Gene Ontology, with the produced annotations finding their way back into the pipelines of several model organism databases. As well, Noctua data produced for the GO is loaded into AmiGO \citep{AmiGO}, where it is available for exploration and made available to be consumed in clients via our JavaScript API. The data modeling and retrieval systems for the client are available as separate packages, allowing third parties to create their own clients or embed annotation widgets in their own resource pages.

The video for this presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
Post-growth ambitions and growth-based realities in sustainable land-use planning
Creators: name: Lamker, Christian
name: Terfrüchte, Thomas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: land-need-modelling
subject: land consumption
subject: land-use planning
subject: planning instruments
subject: post-growth planning
subject: sustainable land-use
subject: 710

description: Governments have developed, agreed, and often embraced ambitious targets to meet sustainability and climate change demands. The use of land is foundational for long-term success and one of the most crucial resources where absolute limits of development become tangible. In Europe, success in stopping the expansion of settlement uses through building on natural or agricultural land remains limited in scope and speed. While planning instruments could be open for versatile uses, a pro-growth pathway continues at all planning scales. The premise of this article is that growth fixation is inscribed in planning instruments. We build on post-growth planning literature to conceptualize the relevance of (post-)growth for land-use planning. Two examples of planning instruments (modelling regional land use needs, density concepts) and their application in German case studies illustrate wherein growth has been locked and within which potentials for change lie. We investigate inscribed premises of the causal relation between population and household growth to land consumption that are leading to a divergence between the need for land and the provision of land. By doing so, we position post-growth planning to understand contemporary challenges in reducing the net consumption of land, and as a crucial body of thought that better accounts for the tangible limits of available land.
description: Urban planning;9(2)
Open source, open access, and open data: why science moves faster in an open world
Creators: name: Salzberg, Steven
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Human Genome Project established a practice of sharing data rapidly, prior to publication, that has since become a model for many projects in genomics. Data sharing has been slow to penetrate other fields because of many factors, some of which I will discuss in this talk. Nevertheless, sharing of methods, data, and results helps science move ahead faster, and openness is essential for the continual process of checking and self-correction that good science requires. I will discuss some of the successes as well as some noteworthy mistakes that have been discovered thanks to open science.

The video for this keynote presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
Biopython project update 2016
Creators: name: Brueffer, Christian
name: Antão, Tiago
name: Cock, Peter
name: Talevich, Eric
name: Hoon, Michiel De
name: Wibowo Arindrarto
name: Pritchard, Leighton
name: Anuj Sharma
name: Rasche, Eric
name: Rosenfeld, Aaron
name: Skennerton, Connor T.
name: Galardini, Marco
name: Piotrowski, Markus
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Biopython Project is a long-running distributed collaborative effort, supported by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which develops a freely available Python library for biological computation.

This presentation was given at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2016 in Orlando. We presented details of the latest Biopython releases – 1.66 and 1.67 – and development version – 1.68-dev – and new developments regarding Biopython docker containers, our continuous integration process, and our website.

The video for this keynote presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
Bridging the gap: unique strategies to improve access and implementation of stroke rehabilitation in LMICs – a scoping review
Creators: name: Gandhi, Dorcas B. C.
name: Mascarenhas, Rinita
name: Zarreen, Sania
name: Chawla, Nistara S.
name: Pandian, Jeyaraj D.
name: English, Coralie
name: Solomon, John M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The demand for stroke rehabilitation is rising across Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This review explores the determinants affecting access to and utilization of post-stroke physical rehabilitation in LMICs. A systematic literature search across multiple databases retrieved 463 articles, of which 35 studies included were from Asia, Africa, and South America met the inclusion criteria. During the review process, 2 additional relevant studies were identified and added. A descriptive synthesis was conducted to identify key determinants influencing rehabilitation access and use. Three major categories of determinants emerged: (1) Contextual factors, including traditional/spiritual beliefs, reliance on alternative medicine, gender disparities, poor awareness, and environmental barriers; (2) Personal factors, such as apathy toward rehabilitation, lack of clinical guidance, and psychological challenges (fatigue, depression, cognitive impairment); (3) Resource-related factors, including high out-of-pocket costs, low provider pay, insufficient infrastructure, inadequate health policies, limited professional training, and poor rehabilitation curricula. Recommendations focus on capacity building, service delivery, extended support, and treatment content. LMICs face unique, context-specific challenges in stroke rehabilitation, requiring tailored solutions. Addressing these barriers necessitates region-specific strategies that align with health system structures, governmental policies, economic resources, professional education, and clinical practice guidance. Rehabilitation providers are encouraged to adopt a clinical decision-making framework that is contextual, patient-centered, and sensitive to available resources.Stroke rehabilitation teams should implement a standardized checklist at discharge and follow-ups.Government and non-government organizations must work to overcome persistent barriers.Policymakers should suppourt by investing in workforce training, strengthening infrastructure, and expanding community-based rehabilitation programs. Rehabilitation providers are encouraged to adopt a clinical decision-making framework that is contextual, patient-centered, and sensitive to available resources. Stroke rehabilitation teams should implement a standardized checklist at discharge and follow-ups. Government and non-government organizations must work to overcome persistent barriers. Policymakers should suppourt by investing in workforce training, strengthening infrastructure, and expanding community-based rehabilitation programs.