cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Medizinethische Beratung in der Pränataldiagnostik - Potential für eine eigenverantwortliche Entscheidung
Creators: name: Westhauser, Eva Utta
Year: 2023

description: Der Ausgangspunkt dieser Masterarbeit ist die Pränataldiagnostik (PND), eine Untersuchung, die von schwangeren Frauen bzw. werdenden Eltern in der Frühschwangerschaft wahrgenommen wird, um feststellen zu können, ob das Kind im Mutterleib gesund ist. Das Angebot der PND hat sich in den letzten paar Jahren erweitert, insbesondere durch nicht invasive Tests, die mögliche genetische Abweichungen entdecken können und damit automatisch wahrgenommen werden. Diese Tests können mitunter zu weiteren invasiven Untersuchungen führen, – die weitere Schwangerschaft verläuft unter nervöser Angespanntheit und dem Warten auf Termine und Ergebnisse. Die Masterarbeit hat anhand einer medizinethischen Beratung, die sich an die werdenden Eltern wendet, bevor diese eine PND vornehmen lassen, untersucht, inwieweit ein beratendes Informationsgespräch und die Auseinandersetzung mit ethischen Fragen zu einer eigenverantwortlichen Entscheidung beitragen kann. Es konnten fünf Einzelberatungen durchgeführt werden, – wenige Schwangere und werdende Eltern waren an einer Beratung und Auseinandersetzung zu diesem Thema interessiert. Bei Paaren mit durch künstliche Befruchtung (IVF) induzierten Schwangerschaften kann dies anders interpretiert werden und eine beratende Unterstützung damit ein höheres Potential aufweisen. Die ausgewählte Methodik des explorativen Ansatzes der medizinethischen Beratung stellte einen guten Ausgangspunkt dar, denn sie ermöglichte offene Zugänge zu den einzelnen Personen und war unabhängig von der Konstellation, ob Einzel- oder Paarberatung, gut anwendbar. Die medizinethische Beratung nach den vier biomedizinischen Prinzipien hat aufgezeigt, dass eine individuelle Beratung zu einer Wiedergewinnung der Entscheidungsfindung in den komplexen Situationen der vorgeburtlichen Untersuchungen beitragen kann.
Superconducting transistors: A boost for quantum computing
Creators: name: Giazotto, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A niobium titanite nitride-based superconducting nanodevice in which the Josephson critical current can be modulated by a gate voltage - a Cooper-pair transistor - has proven a remarkably long parity lifetime exceeding one minute at temperatures close to absolute zero.
description: 2 pages, 1 color figure
Mathematical Modeling of Dengue Epidemic: Control Methods and Vaccination Strategies
Creators: name: Carvalho, Sylvestre Aureliano
name: da Silva, Stella Olívia
name: Charret, Iraziet da Cunha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Dengue is one of the most important infectious diseases in the world, in terms of death and economic cost. Hence, the modeling of dengue is of great importance to help us understand the dynamics disease, and interfering with its spreading mathematical by the proposition of control methods. In this work, control strategies in an attempt to eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito, as well as proposals for the vaccination campaign are evaluated. In our mathematical model, the mechanical control is accomplished through the environmental support capacity affected by a discrete function that represents removal of breeding. Chemical control is carried out from the use of insecticide and larvicidal. The efficacious of vaccination is studied through the removal of a fraction of individuals, proportional to the rate of vaccination, from the susceptible compartment and its transfer to the recovered compartment. Our major find is that the dengue fever epidemic is only eradicated with the use of an immunizing vaccine because control measures directed against the vector are not enough to halt disease spreading. Even where the infected mosquitoes are eliminated from the system, susceptible mosquitoes are still present, and infected humans cause dengue fever to reappear in the human population.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures. Theory Biosci. (2019)
A Qualitative Study on U.S. Maternal and Child Health Skills Perceived as Critical to Achieving National Performance Measures
Creators: name: Starr, Katie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This paper presents essential workforce skills needed to achieve federal performance measures using key informant qualitative interviews with U.S. maternal and child health (MCH) Title V leaders. The research addressed two questions: 1) which skills do MCH workforce leaders perceive as critical to achieving national performance measures? and 2) should the MCH workforce develop a set of core skills in order to address achieving all national performance measures or should the workforce foster essential skills according to each specific national performance measure? Ten key informant interviews were conducted and analyzed using qualitative methods. The results indicate that Title V leaders perceive evidence-based practice and data analysis skills, the ability to align MCH work with partners and consumers, and communication skills as critical to achieving performance measures. The results from this study can be used to inform workforce development and training content to ensure a competent MCH workforce.
A Padé approximant approach to two kinds of transcendental equations with applications in physics
Creators: name: Luo, Qiang
name: Wang, Zhidan
name: Han, Jiurong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we obtain the analytical solutions of two kinds of transcendental equations with numerous applications in college physics by means of Lagrange inversion theorem, and rewrite them in the form of ratio of rational polynomials by second order Padé approximant afterwards from a practical and instructional perspective. Our method is illustrated in a pedagogical manner for the purpose that students at the undergraduate level will be beneficial. The approximate formulas introduced in the paper can be applied to abundant examples in physics textbooks, such as Fraunhofer single slit diffraction, Wien's displacement law and Schrödinger equation with single or double $δ$ potential. These formulas, consequently, can reach considerable accuracies according to the numerical results, therefore they promise to act as valuable ingredients in the standard teaching curriculum.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
title: Emotionssensible Leseförderung im sprachheterogenen Klassenzimmer
Creators: name: Mangold, Johanna
Year: 2023

description: Die Leseförderung spielt seit Jahren -spätestens jedoch seit den PISA-Ergebnissen 2018- eine immer größere Rolle im Bildungskontext. Auch die Emotionen im Unterricht nehmen im Bereich der Bildungswissenschaften an Interesse in den letzten Jahren stetig zu. Jedoch ist die Forschungslage in der Emotionsforschung längst nicht populär und teilweise unzureichend in ihren Forschungsbereichen aufgestellt. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit schließt diese Lücke durch die Betrachtung der Leseförderung in einer sprachheterogenen 1. Klasse Mittelschule in Bezug auf die erlebten Emotionen der Schüler*innen. Die erlebten Emotionen werden differenziert in ihrer Wirkungsweise betrachtet, analysiert und interpretiert. Dabei werden gängige theoretische Konzepte der Emotionsforschung herangezogen. So bildet die Differenzierung zwischen positiv aktivierenden Emotionen (Freude, Stolz, Neugierde), positiv deaktivierender Emotion (Entspannung), negativ aktivierenden Emotionen (Angst, Stress, Nervosität, Ärger/Wut, Scham) sowie negativ deaktivierenden Emotionen (Hoffnungslosigkeit, Verzweiflung, Frust, Langeweile) die Grundlage der Interpretation. Aufgrund der Ergebnisse der Analyse wurden abschließend Kriterien entwickelt, wie emotionssensible Leseförderung im sprachheterogenen Klassenzimmer funktionieren kann.
Quantifying ionospheric effects on time-domain astrophysics with the Murchison Widefield Array
Creators: name: Loi, Shyeh Tjing
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Bell, Martin E.
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Lenc, Emil
name: Offringa, Andre R.
name: Hurley-Walker, Natasha
name: Bernardi, G.
name: Bowman, J. D.
name: Briggs, F.
name: Cappallo, R. J.
name: Corey, B. E.
name: Deshpande, A. A.
name: Emrich, D.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Goeke, R.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Hazelton, B. J.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Kasper, J. C.
name: Kratzenberg, E.
name: Lonsdale, C. J.
name: Lynch, M. J.
name: McWhirter, S. R.
name: Mitchell, D. A.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Morgan, E.
name: Oberoi, D.
name: Ord, S. M.
name: Prabu, T.
name: Rogers, A. E. E.
name: Roshi, A.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Subrahmanyan, R.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Waterson, M.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Whitney, A. R.
name: Williams, A.
name: Williams, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Refraction and diffraction of incoming radio waves by the ionosphere induce time variability in the angular positions, peak amplitudes and shapes of radio sources, potentially complicating the automated cross-matching and identification of transient and variable radio sources. In this work, we empirically assess the effects of the ionosphere on data taken by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope. We directly examine 51 hours of data observed over 10 nights under quiet geomagnetic conditions (global storm index Kp < 2), analysing the behaviour of short-timescale angular position and peak flux density variations of around ten thousand unresolved sources. We find that while much of the variation in angular position can be attributed to ionospheric refraction, the characteristic displacements (10-20 arcsec) at 154 MHz are small enough that search radii of 1-2 arcmin should be sufficient for cross-matching under typical conditions. By examining bulk trends in amplitude variability, we place upper limits on the modulation index associated with ionospheric scintillation of 1-3% for the various nights. For sources fainter than ~1 Jy, this variation is below the image noise at typical MWA sensitivities. Our results demonstrate that the ionosphere is not a significant impediment to the goals of time-domain science with the MWA at 154 MHz.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Report of the NC Institute of Medicine Task Force on Essentials For Childhood Chapter 3: Protective Factors Frameworks
Creators: name: Gaskin, Kiah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The NCIOM Task Force on Essentials for Childhood developed an integrated, comprehensive 5-year strategic plan to coordinate and prioritize the services, programs and/or policies of a number of state agencies that work to improve the lives of children and families. Specifically, the Task Force builds state and community capacity to expand primary prevention of child maltreatment efforts by incorporating the four goals of the CDC's Essentials for Childhood and applying a collective impact framework. Chapter 3 provides a review of 2 key protective factor frameworks by which the Task Force examined child maltreatment prevention: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Essentials for Childhood framework and the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families framework.
Cardiovascular Toxicity Associated With Medical Cannabinoid Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Watanabe, Alexandre
name: Navaravong, Leenhapong
name: Sirilak, Thitipong
name: Prasitwarachot, Ratthanon
name: Nathisuwan, Surakit
name: 2nd, Robert
name: Chaiyakunapruk, Nathorn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Therapeutics
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

description: The medical and recreational use of cannabis and cannabinoids has increased significantly since its legalization. It was estimated that 3.8% of the global adult population of about 188 million people use cannabis or cannabinoids, which results in cannabis or cannabinoids as the most commonly used illicit drugs. Public campaigns to legalize its use have been ongoing for decades, however, its success has become apparent recently. Currently in the United States, Marijuana is legal for adults over the age of 21 in 11 states and 33 states accept it for medical usage. With the legalization and increase in its use, the personal and public health concerns are increasing among the medical community. Studies have shown that smoking marijuana can cause micro and macroscopic injury to airways. However, there was no clear association between cannabis or cannabinoids use and development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. When looking at the association between cannabis usage and cancer development, studies have not shown any strong association between its use and cancer. There was no association between cannabis usage and development of head and neck or lung cancer. Interestingly, meta-analysis found slight increased risk of testicular cancer. As heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States, it is critical to look at cardiovascular effects of Cannabis or Cannabinoids. When looking at cardiovascular effects of Cannabis, animal and in vitro studies demonstrated that Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can interact with cannabinoid receptors on human cardiomyocytes and vascular smooth muscles. Case series and case control studies have suggested the possible association between cannabis use in patients and development of myocardial infarction. However, the comprehensive review and meta-analysis of the cardiovascular effect from cannabis is lacking. Given the lack of this informative evidence, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the evidence of cardiovascular effect/toxicity on cannabis and cannabinoids.
Professionelle Kompetenzen angehender Lehrkräfte erfassen – Zusammenhänge zwischen Diagnose-, Handlungs- und Reflexionskompetenz
Creators: name: Walz, Moritz
name: Roth, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510

description: In unserer Studie wird die Auswirkung der Diagnosekompetenz von Lehramtsstudierenden auf deren Handlungs- und Reflexionskompetenz untersucht. Nach der Messung ihrer Diagnosekompetenz mit dem Videotool ViviAn gestalten Studierende Lernumgebungen und erproben diese mit Schulklassen. Bei der Erprobung entscheiden sie, ob Interventionen notwendig sind, führen diese ggfs. durch und werden dabei videographiert. Über diese Videos reflektieren die Studierenden schließlich in einer Gruppendiskussion.
The Dust Enforcer
Creators: name: Wu Wu, Patricia
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: ‘The Dust Enforcer’ is an investigation into the anthropocene using dust as a material signature. It is presented in a 3D printed mask, extrapolated from a point-cloud self- portrait scan, and a remote-sensed moving image developed in collaboration with architect and researcher Dr Asad Khan. The anthropocene denotes that human induced actions have generated an unprecedented impact on the Earth system. In particular, human emitted aerosols have increased the proliferation of dust in the atmosphere, whose scale and magnitude is imperceptible to human sight. The work shown here is a data-driven speculative scenario of a dust saturated Earth, by laser scanning the forces exerted by and imprinted on the author’s body through gestural movements. The process seeks to capture the notion of humans as a geological force, whose boundaries do not terminate at the skin, but measured by its planetary transformations.
Conjurer l'absence: pratiques du tiers espace dans les littératures lesbiennes francophones
Creators: name: Maréchal, Mariève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tiers espace
Littératures lesbiennes francophones
Réalisme virtuel
Cultures du visible
Autodétermination

description: Les littératures lesbiennes francophones montrent, d’une part, que les lesbiennes sont absentes du réel, car leur existence est réduite à l’(in)visibilité publique, sociale et historique, sur laquelle elles n’ont pas le contrôle et qui voile leur capacité à se réfléchir et s’inventer par et pour elles-mêmes. D’autre part, elles développent un système de reconnaissance politique en parallèle du modèle dominant. L’objectif de cette thèse est de montrer ce que permettent la littérature, et spécifiquement les littératures lesbiennes francophones, pour conjurer cette absence des lesbiennes. Il est question, plus particulièrement, de montrer que cette occultation est freinée par des pratiques du tiers espace. Il s’agit d’une notion qui émerge des études postcoloniales, géographiques et queer of color. Elle dénote une manière de reconfigurer deux éléments, lieux, ou perspectives en un troisième qui dépasse leur condition première d’existence afin de rendre le réel plus habitable. En tant qu’outil littéraire, nous avançons qu’il s’agit autant d’une manière de lire que d’écrire. Dans la première partie, nous étudierons les trois principales cultures du visible mises en scène dans notre corpus à travers une pratique de lecture du tiers espace, c’est-à-dire en tournant notre regard vers de nouveaux lieux d’autorité dans lesquels les personnages parviennent à définir leur identité au-delà de ces cultures. Dans la deuxième partie, nous nous attarderons sur le réalisme virtuel en tant que pratique d’écriture du tiers espace. Nous nous pencherons sur ses deux dimensions, documentaire et interactive, qui réinventent aussi bien le passé que la prise de parole. Notre recherche est aussi audacieuse : elle ose nommer un corpus, celui des littératures lesbiennes francophones, participant à combattre l’absence réelle des lesbiennes de l’espace public, social et historique.
Influence of the density of states of graphene on the transport properties of graphene/MoS2/metal vertical field-effect transistors
Creators: name: Moriya, Rai
name: Yamaguchi, Takehiro
name: Inoue, Yoshihisa
name: Sata, Yohta
name: Morikawa, Sei
name: Masubuchi, Satoru
name: Machida, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed detailed studies of the current-voltage characteristics in graphene/MoS2/metal vertical field-effect transistors. Owing to its low density of states, the Fermi level in graphene is very sensitive to its carrier density and thus the external electric field. Under the application of a bias voltage VB between graphene and the metal layer in the graphene/MoS2/metal heterostructure for driving current through the van der Waals interface, the electric field across the MoS2 dielectric induces a shift in the Fermi level of graphene. When the Fermi level of graphene coincides with the Dirac point, a significant nonlinearity appears in the measured I-V curve, thus enabling us to perform spectroscopy of the Dirac point. By detecting the Dirac point for different back-gate voltages, we revealed that the capacitance of the nanometer-thick MoS2 layer can be determined from a simple DC transport measurement.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
The use of mobile phones for human rights protection: the experiences of Zimbabwean Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations
Creators: name: Mwenga, David
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: New technologies are emerging as a key part of the struggles for social change. In Africa, social change activists are increasingly relying on mobile phones to organise and mobilise protests for social change and to protect citizens from violence. Zimbabwe has experienced a long history of human rights violations stretching from the times of Rhodesia to post-coalition years. The violations have been in various forms, including the use of physical force and the constriction of political, media and electoral spaces. Human Rights NGOs, as part of civil society, have challenged the state over the violations in various ways, including through traditional and new media channels. Using case studies, namely the Zimbabwe Peace Project, (ZPP), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA, Zimbabwe) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC), the research investigates the potential of the mobile phone as a tool for contesting the constriction of media freedom, information access, freedom of expression and citizens’ right to human dignity, to life, political choice and free movement and association. The research is based on findings from interviews conducted between 2014 and 2016 with Zimbabwean human rights activists as well as from document analysis. The study established that the phone is a key tool through which NGOs and community activists (or volunteers) are offering protection to citizens by documenting, reporting and disseminating evidence of violence. It is also playing a significant role in legal interventions for victims of violence. Further, the device is empowering citizens to educate themselves about voting and mobilising for elections. Mobile technology is also facilitating the production of community media which is giving marginalised communities voices and opportunities to contribute towards, or participate in local and national dialogue and development. Equally important, it is opening pathways through which NGOs and human rights defenders are able to challenge state institutions that undermine the rule of law and justice. Finally, the study also established that in the face of legal, surveillance, interception and censorship strategies by the state, NGOs are mobilising networks, collaborative campaigns and circumvention and mobile-phone-mediated education and information tools to counter these strategies and tactics. The research is thus significant in terms of struggles from below in the context of new technologies for human rights and democratisation.
LGBTQ-Inclusive & Non-Stigmatizing HIV/AIDS Approaches to Reproductive Health and Safety Education e-Learning Module
Creators: name: Stewart, Cheyenne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: An e-learning module for middle school and high school health teachers on creating inclusive environments and health curricula for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth that incorporate non-stigmatizing HIV/AIDS education. The module examines health disparities for LGBTQ populations, social determinants of health, and structural inequities. The module is specific to North Carolina and is made for the Sexual Health Initiative –NC (SHIFT NC) in Durham, North Carolina to use as part of their Safe Schools Initiative.
The strong metric dimension of some generalized Petersen graphs
Creators: name: Kratica, Jozef
name: Kovačević-Vujčić, Vera
name: Čangalović, Mirjana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05C40

description: In this paper the strong metric dimension of generalized Petersen graphs $GP(n,2)$ is considered. The exact value is determined for cases $n=4k$ and $n=4k+2$, while for $n=4k+1$ an upper bound of the strong metric dimension is presented.
Colour (Re)Imagined
Creators: name: Pierce, Jo
name: Hoyes, Rebecca
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: With growing urgency for an eco-conscious approach to colour and print in textile design this paper seeks to outline how a collaborative practice by the authors has informed a series of workshops for students, enabling them to move towards a more conscious design practice.
 In 2018 the authors of this paper founded Colour Matter - a materials and colour research studio to develop projects and explore concepts through colour, its connectedness to people and planet. By using open ended research methods and by exploring material narratives the studio seeks to address some of the environmental challenges faced by the textile industry.
 The paper describes how the authors used their own collaborative practice to create a series of material prototypes as a response to the environmental challenges faced through print and dye techniques. The paper explores how this experience of prototype to pedagogy, ultimately supported students to pinpoint opportunities to embed a more conscious design approach within their print projects and enabled them to align with future industry directions.
 Presented here are a selection of collaborative research approaches used by the authors and reflection of how these approaches have informed a series of workshops and discussions for students. The paper documents a range of outcomes from final year print students that have drawn on our working methodology and have, in turn created opportunities for a more conscious approach to low impact print.
Towards a just future of Islamic finance: from a new historical comparative east-west perspective
Creators: name: Arakcheev, Alexey
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: Contemporary increased economic and social pressures have raised concerns among both state regulators and clientele about the ability of banks and others financial institutions to survive. One of the fastest growing and significant parts of the world financial system is Islamic finance, which extends worldwide and exploits a highly sophisticated financial products and procedures based on Shariah. Grounded on unconventional, ethical and religious maxims, Islamic finance seems to be a solution to the current worldwide financial disaster. Conventional and Islamic financial systems present two entirely different concepts. The former aims for the achievement of financial gain on behalf of a single firm, or even a single person, whereas the latter is in the interest of the whole society. Therefore, these two systems differ not only in regard to their philosophical foundations, but also in terms of the end results. Therefore, without taking into account the technical and juridical peculiarities, Islamic finance affords more Justice. This raises the question, what does the word “Justice” mean? The concept of social justice does not have a universal moral or indeed legal interpretation. This study analyses the background of theories of justice in order to explain the phenomenon of justice by putting it in both a social and religious context. This is done so that we can see Justice as a socio-philosophical category associated with religious dissimilarities as well as ethical norms in different societies, undivided from their religious roots. Finally, this thesis compared the Islamic and Conventional financial systems, their ethics and philosophical basis, and different legal systems in combination with various ideas of justice connected with different religions in order to elaborate the potential future of Islamic finance.
Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices: Governing marine transportation in the Canadian Arctic (Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories community report)
Creators: name: Carter, Natalie Ann
name: Dawson, Jackie
name: Parker, Colleen
name: Joyce, Jenna
name: Ogilvie, Annika
name: Weber, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Low impact shipping corridors
Inuit perspectives
Marine transportation governance
Culturally significant marine areas
Arctic shipping impacts

description: Ship traffic in the Canadian Arctic nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015. Corridors have been mapped in the Arctic Ocean as part of the Low Impact Shipping Corridors Initiative co-led by Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, and Canadian Hydrographic Service. Low impact shipping corridors are the current framework for governing shipping in the Canadian Arctic. The intent of the low impact shipping corridors is to reduce the likelihood of marine incidents by providing predictable levels of service to mariners transiting the corridors. Identification of Inuit and northerners’ perspectives on the potential impacts of marine vessels on marine areas used for cultural and livelihood activities, and on community members, and the inclusion of Inuit and northerners’ voices in the development of potential management strategies for the low impact shipping corridors and Arctic marine transportation are key considerations in the current prioritization of the corridors. This report reflects opinions gathered through participatory mapping, focus group discussions, and interviews with Ulukhaktok community members who were identified by local organizations as key knowledge holders. Analyses were aimed at understanding Inuit and northerners’ perspectives on the potential impacts of marine transportation on local marine use areas and community members, and on identification of potential management strategies for the low impact shipping corridors and for Arctic marine vessels management. This report was validated by the research participants.
Addressing the Needs of Mothers with Medically Fragile Infants Through Telephone Support Groups: A Grant Proposal Developed for the UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health
Creators: name: Brick, Jessye
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Background: Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) provide specialized medical care for a variety of conditions including premature birth, breathing difficulties, low birth weight, infections, birth defects, or a combination of these issues. In 2008, 10.2 percent of mothers in the United States reported that their infant had been admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit. Caring for medically fragile infants upon NICU discharge is often exceptionally challenging for parents. Their children may exhibit feeding difficulties, motor abnormalities, disorganized behavioral cues, or irritability. As a result, there is a critical need to provide additional support to these mothers, who are at an increased risk for stress, depression, anxiety, and subsequent adverse birth outcomes. Methods: A grant proposal was developed for the UNC Center for Maternail and Infant Health, which provides clinical care coordination for families with high-needs infants, expands research on maternal and infant care, and promotes evidence-based practices across North Carolina. The developed program strives to improve the continuum of care for mothers with medically fragile infants who have been discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at UNC Hospitals. Results: The program offers an empowerment-based curriculum via phone to mothers with medically fragile infants. Phone groups will be facilitated by an experienced social worker and will focus on infant development, self-care, navigating the health care and social services systems, and advocacy skills. Conclusion: This innovative application of simple technology has the potential to greatly improve the continuity and quality of support these women receive, thus enabling them to provide superior care for their child.
"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
Creators: name: Shcherbino, Ksenia
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This thesis offers a new reading of Christina Rossetti’s poetic texts which situates them within the context of liminality. I define liminality here as a site of ambiguity, change and unfulfilment between two states, whilst emphasising its potential for transformation and transgression. I examine multiple narratives – personal and communal, linear and cyclical, spatial and temporal – which emerge from Rossetti’s complex texts, and highlight two major approaches used: layering and silencing. The range of works I analyse includes both famous and lesser known poems, secular and spiritual writing, from “Winter: My Secret” (1857) and “Goblin Market” (1859) to “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children” (1865) and ““Resurgam” (1883). With this wide range, I demonstrate that similar approaches are used throughout Rossetti’s writing from her earliest poems to her later work. I begin the thesis with a focus on the fragmentation of the poetic self into observer and observed and examine the power acquired by the speakers/protagonists through the distance and seclusion of the liminal space. This enables the liminal space to shape a new identity for the speakers/protagonists. In Rossetti’s poetry, the liminal personae become defined by the space they inhabit, or are trapped in, on visual, physical, psychological and sound levels. This positioning helps them to acquire (or re-gain) personal history, memory and a voice. I proceed to explore the conflict between the seen and the unseen, revelation and illusion, in Rossetti’s work, paralleling this with photographic experiments by Lady Hawarden. This enables me to trace the use of the threshold in both poetic and visual languages. Rossetti’s speakers are unable to cross this threshold yet they still struggle to gain control over the outside world. From visual explorations I move on to consideration of sound and suggest that rhythm and rhyme function in the same way as Rossetti’s use of tropes of sight/deprivation of sight. Rossetti introduces rhythmical lapses and repetitive constructions as a means of controlling and shaping reality. Sound repetition subverts our expectations, while sound disruptions create negative spaces which serve as markers of the apocalyptic and the threshold. This idea of negative space is closely linked to the ideas of absence and unfulfilment and is pivotal in understanding Rossetti’s poetry. I argue that Rossetti’s theology is based on negation and that this is extended to her secular poems as well. Christina Rossetti’s poems are characterised by oppositions of absence and exuberant presence on all textual levels. In the final part of my thesis, I examine the transformation of the speaker’s/narrator’s self. I read the ideas of unfulfilment against the self-recognition of the speakers and show their inner splits and subsequent alienation. In this way, unnaming and silencing work as ways of defining the boundaries of the self through negation.
title: Determinants of flatter organizations: a literature review
Creators: name: Heurich, Julian Klaus
Year: 2022

description: Wie in dieser Studie festgestellt wurde, spielt die Organisationsstruktur eine grundlegende Rolle als kritische Facette von Unternehmen. Ihre Bedeutung zeigt sich in der Erleichterung des Managements von Abläufen, einschließlich des Verwaltens von Mitarbeitern, der Koordination und der Kommunikation sowohl innerhalb der jeweiligen Geschäftsabteilung als auch zwischen verschiedenen Abteilungen einer Organisation. Trotz der umfangreichen Forschungsarbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Organisationsstrukturierung sind sich die meisten Studien darin einig, dass es keinen spezifischen Weg gibt, um eine flache Organisationsstruktur effektiv umzusetzen. Infolgedessen ist die hierarchische Organisationsstruktur in den letzten Jahrzehnten in allen Unternehmen vorherrschend geblieben und setzt sich vor allem im Automobilsektor weiter durch. Als Reaktion auf die veränderten Wirtschafts- und Umweltbedingungen strukturieren die Unternehmen jedoch zunehmend ihre Organisation um, um den Übergang zu flexibleren und flacheren Organisationsstrukturen zu vollziehen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses Wandlungsprozesses sollte in dieser Studie untersucht werden, inwieweit sich das Umfeld der Automobilindustrie in den letzten Jahren verändert hat. Vor allem sollte ermittelt werden, auf welche Art und Weise sich Organisationen, die einer hierarchischen Struktur folgen, entschichten können. Diese Ziele wurden mit der Frage verknüpft, wie Organisationen, die eine flache Struktur aufweisen, skalieren und wachsen können, ohne neue hierarchische Ebenen hinzuzufügen. Im Grunde genommen bestand das Ziel dieser Studie darin, herauszufinden, auf welche Weise Organisationen im Automobilsektor eine flache Organisationsstruktur umsetzen können.
Sole_Zine: Obsession, Style & Place
Creators: name: Owen, Kayla
name: Owen, Paul
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: Sneakers, trainers, kicks, webs, strides, soles, creps, beaters, trabs, or trainees, whatever you call your footwear, there is a particular tribe who are obsessive about theirs... Sports shoe enthusiasts are attached to their possessions unlike any other conscious community.
 Sole-Zine is a poster zine project created by Paul Owen and Kayla Owen, dedicated to researching, documenting, and archiving British Trainer Culture. A sub-culture originally created by the Terrace Casuals movement of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Today, the sports shoe is a huge part of fashion’s multi-million-pound industry, with high end brands moving in on the action. Sole-Zine is an ongoing project that digitally archives artefacts, historical photography, magazine references, interviews, and other ephemera associated with British Trainer Culture. It is intended to demonstrate the impact and significance of trainers. From the craftspeople to the unique seekers and the under-represented sectors born out of this culture. Emphasising this much-loved fashion area gives rise to the tribes and cohesive socio-groups who define and are defined by values and tensions around status, belonging, and the need for individuality.
 Sole-Zine provides an openly accessible archive of specific cultural and material significance and acts as a living resource and reference point. By initially interviewing craftspeople within the restoration, customisation, and conversion processes and recording the materials, and techniques of the profession, the aim is to preserve the innovation, skill, artisanship, and tradition. This shared dialogue opens new fashion theory and critical debate, on creative practice surrounding fashion and textiles in the light of this ethical and sustainable development naturally evolving within this sub-culture. It also shines a light on a specific under-represented socio-group and a conscious community existing on the periphery of fashion.
Measurement-device-independent quantum communication with an untrusted source
Creators: name: Xu, Feihu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can provide enhanced security, as compared to traditional QKD, and it constitutes an important framework for a quantum network with an untrusted network server. Still, a key assumption in MDI-QKD is that the sources are trusted. We propose here a MDI quantum network with a single untrusted source. We have derived a complete proof of the unconditional security of MDI-QKD with an untrusted source. Using simulations, we have considered various real-life imperfections in its implementation, and the simulation results show that MDI-QKD with an untrusted source provides a key generation rate that is close to the rate of initial MDI-QKD in the asymptotic setting. Our work proves the feasibility of the realization of a quantum network. The network users need only low-cost modulation devices, and they can share both an expensive detector and a complicated laser provided by an untrusted network server.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: the security proof technique is based on arXiv:0802.2725, arXiv:0905.4225.
Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices: Governing marine transportation in the Canadian Arctic (Pond Inlet, Nunavut community report)
Creators: name: Carter, Natalie Ann
name: Dawson, Jackie
name: Joyce, Jenna
name: Ogilvie, Annika
name: Weber, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Low impact shipping corridors
Inuit perspectives
Marine transportation governance
Culturally significant marine areas
Arctic shipping impacts

description: Ship traffic in the Canadian Arctic nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015. Most of that increase happened in Nunavut waters. Corridors have been mapped in the Arctic Ocean as part of the Low Impact Shipping Corridors Initiative co-led by Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, and Canadian Hydrographic Service. Low impact shipping corridors are the current framework for governing shipping in the Canadian Arctic. The intent of the low impact shipping corridors is to reduce the likelihood of marine incidents by providing predictable levels of service to mariners transiting the corridors. Identification of Inuit and northerners’ perspectives on the potential impacts of marine vessels on marine areas used for cultural and livelihood activities, and on community members, and the inclusion of Inuit and northerners’ voices in the development of potential management strategies for the low impact shipping corridors and Arctic marine transportation are key considerations in the current prioritization of the corridors. This report reflects opinions gathered through participatory mapping, focus group discussions, and interviews with Pond Inlet community members who were identified by local organizations as key knowledge holders. Analyses were aimed at understanding Inuit and northerners’ perspectives on the potential impacts of marine transportation on local marine use areas and community members, and on identification of potential management strategies for the low impact shipping corridors and for Arctic marine vessels management. This report was validated by the research participants.
Coronal rain in magnetic arcades: Rebound shocks, Limit cycles, and Shear flows
Creators: name: Fang, X.
name: Xia, C.
name: Keppens, R.
name: Van Doorsselaere, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our earlier multidimensional, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coronal rain occurring in magnetic arcades with higher resolution, grid-adaptive computations covering a much longer ($>6$ hour) timespan. We quantify how in-situ forming blob-like condensations grow along and across field lines and show that rain showers can occur in limit cycles, here demonstrated for the first time in 2.5D setups. We discuss dynamical, multi-dimensional aspects of the rebound shocks generated by the siphon inflows and quantify the thermodynamics of a prominence-corona-transition-region like structure surrounding the blobs. We point out the correlation between condensation rates and the cross-sectional size of loop systems where catastrophic cooling takes place. We also study the variations of the typical number density, kinetic energy and temperature while blobs descend, impact and sink into the transition region. In addition, we explain the mechanisms leading to concurrent upflows while the blobs descend. As a result, there are plenty of shear flows generated with relative velocity difference around 80 km s$^{-1}$ in our simulations. These shear flows are siphon flows set up by multiple blob dynamics and they in turn affect the deformation of the falling blobs. In particular, we show how shear flows can break apart blobs into smaller fragments, within minutes.
Patterns of Perception Understanding Parkinson’s better through Arts and Science Research
Creators: name: Marr, Anne
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2023
Subjects: Textile and fashion design

description: Patterns of Perception is a collaborative project between a group of individuals with Parkinson’s, Central Saint Martins, English National Ballet, University College London and artist Ruairiadh O’Connell. It aims to help understanding what it is like to live with Parkinson’s Disease. It The cross-disciplinary project blends art, science, and human experiences with the aim of helping to create conversations about and better understanding of life with Parkinson’s.
 In 2019, a series of workshops ranging from textiles to dance and art took place to explore and understand the experience of Parkinson’s Disease. Alongside those workshops, participants created visual diaries to record and reflect their daily lives.
Heterogeneity in reading comprehension difficulties
Creators: name: James, Emma
name: Thompson, Paul
name: Bowes, Lucy
name: Nation, Kate
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Language and Literacy Education
subject: mixture modelling
subject: poor comprehenders
subject: reading
subject: reading comprehension

description: Identifying the prevalence and heterogeneity of reading comprehension difficulties in the ALSPAC sample
Sexual Violence Prevention at Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout Georgia
Creators: name: Dight, Katie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Sexual violence is a public health issue of epidemic proportions, particularly in regards to the high prevalence rates on college campuses in the United States. This paper begins with a review of the literature regarding campus sexual assault, with a specific focus on sexual violence at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) within Georgia. Georgia is home to seven HBCUs, which are located throughout the state and are a mix of public and private four-year institutions. The paper then describes a survey of key college and university administrators at these seven schools. Staff members (21 in total) were sent a survey regarding their perceptions of sexual violence on campus as well as their personal and the institution's effectiveness in responding to and preventing the problem. Staff were asked additional questions about the types of intervention and prevention programs and resources that exist on campus and information on the school's official guidelines and response protocols related to sexual assault on campus. Two key suggestions regarding enhanced prevention and intervention strategies are recommended.
Mimetic Attractors
Creators: name: Raza, Muhammad
name: Myrzakulov, Kairat
name: Momeni, Davood
name: Myrzakulov, Ratbay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the mathematical modeling for the cosmological attractors propagated in mimetic gravity upon which an interacting dark energy-dark matter is supposed to be existed. The average value of the interaction of these percentages, namely $Γ_i$ say, may be used to investigate generally the modeling of an attractor; the actual value could only be determined by data in any particular case. We have seen, for example, that it was led to investigate the subject of initially invariant submanifolds.