cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
04. Aspiring to quality teacher–parent partnerships in Vietnam: Building localised funds of knowledge
Creators: name: Hedges, Helen
name: Fleer, Marilyn
name: Fleer-Stout, Freya
name: Hanh, Le Thi Bich
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: Collaborative and reciprocal teacher–parent partnerships have been established in prior research as vital in empowering ethnic-minority children to be competent learners who value their home background, culture, and language and also learn the language used by teachers as the medium of education. Such collaborative relationships may be challenging to imagine and achieve in countries that have complex political, cultural, social, and economic histories. This paper demonstrates, through a case study in Vietnam, how partnership relationships might be reconceptualised. The research team, comprising both international and local researchers, sought to collectively identify teacher–parent partnership practices that foregrounded local funds of knowledge, and generated a zone of potential development for dialogue about quality practices for teacher–parent partnerships. Through a transformative collaborative workshop process, a tool for aspiring towards quality teacher–parent partnerships was developed. Drawing upon cultural-historical theory, the paper argues that the tool captured the dialectical relations between everyday concepts from practice and academic concepts of quality from the literature (Vygotsky, 1987). These concepts challenged teachers’ beliefs and assumptions about families’ backgrounds and knowledges, thus enabling teachers to consider more reciprocal relationships and build greater insights into the existing funds of knowledge held by families and communities than previously.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 49–68 (incl. Appendix)
03. Studying perspectives on kindergarten mealtime: Methodological reflections
Creators: name: Hansen, Stine Rosenlund
name: Hansen, Mette Weinreich
name: Kristensen, Niels Heine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: Drawing on a recent doctoral research project that examined the everyday life perspectives during kindergarten mealtime, this paper discusses the methodological issues related to the concepts of child and adult perspectives during mealtime, and to the children’s participation in research. Through the paper, we take part in a critical discussion of the dichotomization of child and adult perspectives (Lee, 2001; Spyrou, 2011; Wyness, 2013). Instead, we suggest to approach perspectives as something that is created through situated interactions between human and nonhuman elements. We argue that perspectives could be studied as constructed from a net of human, material, and discursive elements. In doing so, we also question children’s participation in research as a source for production of knowledge that is more authentic than that produced by adults (Gallacher & Gallagher, 2008; Lomax, 2012). Hence, the kindergarten mealtime will provide the arena for discussing methodological issues that are relevant beyond studies on food and meals.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 33–48
02. Emergent science in preschool: The case of floating and sinking
Creators: name: Larsson, Jonna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: This article studies an activity in a Swedish preschool setting where children’s elaborations and understandings of floating and sinking are central. In a Swedish preschool context, it is advocated by the National Agency for Education (2016) that different forms of knowledge and ways of learning are used within the institutions to form a coherent whole. Based on a cultural-historical framework (Fleer, 2010; Hedegaard, 2012; Vygotsky, 1978, 1987), it is argued that if children are supported by a teacher, who mediates a cultural and historical, as well as institutional, perspective of knowledge, children may enhance their knowledge of science. Data was collected using a video-based technique called shadowing (Czarniawska 2007), and the overall study was framed within a case-study methodology. The analyzed activity show four children collaborating and exploring a range of aspects related to floating and sinking together with one teacher, acted out in a playful but focused manner. The results show that aspects such as the item, the fluid, and the way children handled the items to remove or add weight, were found important by the children. They used everyday language to talk about size, holes, weight, amount of water, and what changing preconditions would mean when different objects were placed in water. Their vocabularies were enhanced during the activity and seemed to foster emergent notions of density and Archimedes’ principle, indicating that the language used has the potential to mediate the progress of both spontaneous and scientific concepts, where scientific concepts are understood as emergent.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 16–32
Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie
Creators: name: Hambuch, Doris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Documentary films
subject: Poetics
subject: United Arab Emirates

description: This article proposes to establish a sub-category called “docupoetry” to classify the documentary films by Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the unique composition, cinematography, and use of poetic devices, such as rhythm, symbolism, and personification of settings, which render the proposed classification beneficial for viewers. Based on Michael Renov’s concept of the poetic documentary as well as on the poetic mode theorized by Bill Nichols, this study finds the definition of a separate sub-category warranted to understand documentaries such as those by Alghanem.
01. Go Edvin! Pedagogical structuring of activities to support toddler participation in an early childcare programme
Creators: name: Kultti, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development

description: The present paper addresses children’s participation through pedagogical structuring in an early childcare programme in Australia. Research shows inequality in participatory opportunities depending on skills in the spoken (majority) language. Against this background, the focus in the present study is on participatory opportunities for toddlers with a first language other than English. The toddlers’ participation was video recorded over a six-week period. Participatory opportunities are understood in terms of pedagogical structuring, with an institutional and an interactional level. Through the use of a model of conditions for participation as an analytic tool, teachers’ attending to children’s perspective as a starting point for guidance is shown to characterize the pedagogical structuring. Non-verbal actions can become a useful tool for interaction, and offer a starting point for experiencing extended communication at an early age. In addition, the study shows an alternative way of interpreting decision-making in relation to the youngest children. A pedagogy built on a nuanced understanding of conditions for participation is emphasized and discussed.
International Research in Early Childhood Education, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 2–15
El amor como acto y consciencia
Creators: name: Rosado-Zaidi, Samuel
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Una discusión del amor como voluntad, como acto de trabajo y autenticidad. El ensayo discute la necesidad de ser críticos con la ideología y nuestra relación con la otredad, así como los límites de la lógica y su abuso para justificar actos atroces. El ensayo explora la consciencia de clase como un proceso de elección y, en última instancia, del amor. Jóvenes, mujeres, indígenas y diversidades han sido, en algún momento de la historia, consideradas como personas sobrantes; el ensayo explora la destrucción de la consciencia de clase y el ascenso del fascismo al interior de nuestra discusión con el otro. Un modo de alienación con respecto al otro y a uno mismo es la culpa, pero ¿quién y cuándo dejamos de ser inocentes? El acto libre de elegir al otro como finalidad es la sustancia del amor y de la lucha de clases.
Easier contagion and weaker ties make anger spread faster than joy in social media
Creators: name: Jichang Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems
subject: 80709 Social and Community Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: The two datasets are Weibo data which are used in paper named "Easier contagion and weaker ties make anger spread faster than joy in social media". (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03656)
Any issues please feel free to contact Jichang Zhao through jichang@buaa.edu.cn.
The first dataset, named "users_data", includes 11,753,609 tweets posted by 92,176 users from Sep., 2014 to Mar., 2015. "tweets.txt" and "graph.txt" are the tweets with emotion label and the follow relationship of all users, respectively. In "graph.txt", every line is a following relation which contain two columns. The first item is the follower and the second is the followee. In "tweets.txt", each tweet is represented by three items which respectively are user's id, created time and emotion. If there is a "==>" in the line, it means that this is a retweet and the tweet after "==>" is the original one.
The second dataset, which is in the "event_tweets" directory, includes 40,005,242 tweets of 616 different events. Each file in the directory contains tweets that related to the the specific event. And tweets are represented by the created time and the emotion label.
Presentation at Society for Risk Analysis: Prognostication of Clean Water and Drinking Water Under the Trump Administration
Creators: name: Haas, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Outline of my presentation
MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS OF TOURISM MANAGEMENT COLLEGE STUDENTS: EXAMINING THE ACADEMIC, PERSONAL, AND SOCIAL VARIABLES
Creators: name: Abalajon, Jhonnel J.
name: Cabantud, Roselyn P.
name: Deleña, Justine L.
name: Deleña, Justine L.
name: Jarencio, Hyacinth J.
name: Lizada, Aiza A.
name: Llegue, Gary L.
name: Lotilla, Ramy Lloyd L.
name: Magallanes, Jocelyn A.
name: Obien, Ginalyn J.
name: Tanque, Kirsty G.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: This study, titled "Motivational Factors of Tourism Management College Students," employs a descriptive research design combined with quantitative data analysis to explore the motivations driving students in this field. A total of 266 respondents were randomly selected from a population sample of 216 tourism management students, utilizing both Google Forms and physical surveys. The survey included demographic profiles and motivational factors, with content validity established through expert review. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS software, employing mean scores and percentages for interpretation, while qualitative data underwent thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke's (2006) six-phase approach.
Learning Broadcast Protocols
Creators: name: Fisman, Dana
name: Izsak, Noa
name: Jacobs, Swen
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: The problem of learning a computational model from examples has been receiving growing attention. For the particularly challenging problem of learning models of distributed systems, existing results are restricted to models with a fixed number of interacting processes. In this work we look for the first time (to the best of our knowledge) at the problem of learning a distributed system with an arbitrary number of processes, assuming only that there exists a cutoff, i.e., a number of processes that is sufficient to produce all observable behaviors. Specifically, we consider fine broadcast protocols, these are broadcast protocols (BPs) with a finite cutoff and no hidden states. We provide a learning algorithm that can infer a correct BP from a sample that is consistent with a fine BP, and a minimal equivalent BP if the sample is sufficiently complete. On the negative side we show that (a) characteristic sets of exponential size are unavoidable, (b) the consistency problem for fine BPs is NP hard, and (c) that fine BPs are not polynomially predictable.
System Dependency and Social Identity Salience: A Comment on Bonnot and Krauth-Gruber (2017)
Creators: name: Rubin, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

description: This brief commentary discusses the following paper: Bonnot, V., & Krauth‐Gruber, S. (2017). System‐justifying behaviors: When feeling dependent on a system triggers gender stereotype‐consistent academic performance. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2201 It is proposed that (1) manipulations of system dependency may also manipulate social identity salience, (2) measures of system dependency may also measure social identity salience, and consequently that (3) social identity salience can explain the effects of system dependency. This proposal is consistent with recent claims that personal and/or group motives (personal and/or social identity) can explain system justification effects more parsimoniously than system justification theory’s proposition that these effects are motivated by a separate system justification motive.
MyGene2 automated match report: SF3B4
Creators: name: Team, The MyGene2
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine

description: MyGene2.org is free, public, searchable & browsable website. Families with rare genetic conditions, clinicians, and researchers families who are interested in sharing health and genetic information can create MyGene2 profiles and use these to connect with other families, clinicians, and researchers who may have or be studying the same condition. If multiple MyGene2 profiles potentially match on a shared gene of interest, MyGene2 automatically generates a match report summarizing the information in these profiles. This automated match report is shared publicly to help facilitate further research and/or connections between the submitters of the MyGene2 profiles and other interested parties. This is an automated match report for SF3B4.
Education-based interventions for informal carers of people with dementia: a meta-analysis. PROSPERO 2014 CRD42014014606
Creators: name: Laparidou, Despina
name: Middlemass, Jo
name: Bridle, Christopher
name: Karran, Terence
name: Siriwardena, Niro
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: C841 - Health psychology
L510 - Health & welfare

description: A summary of key features from an updated meta-analysis protocol registered with PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews.
The City of Baghdad in Iraqi Fiction: Novelistic Depictions of a Spatiality of Ruin
Creators: name: Al-Shamali, Farah
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: History
subject: Space

description: The Iraqi novel has contended with brutish forms of violence for the better part of the past century that have essentially reshaped the narrative experience unto space. Writers are confronted with the challenge of typifying a search for meaning in and amongst character-altering ruin. At the height of its maturity today, as various works convey spatial woundedness particularly in the city of Baghdad, there is a relationship between fiction and urban reality symbolizing an image of complexity. They play host to a fantastical blending of the real and unreal. They see through to the mediational potencies of absurdist violence, one that is acted out this performativity on the page a matter of survival. The selected works respectively depict the pre-revolutionary capital before moving into the bitter decades to follow. Many build worlds that are mired in the crippling present day engaging the normativity of the spatial wound to make sense of the nonsensical. The novels Hunters in a Narrow Street, The Corpse Washer, Frankenstein in Baghdad and Tashari and short story "The Corpse Exhibition" work towards that end. They critically ponder decrepitude and death as it joins life in the realm of the real, legitimate ruination of place as aesthetic in the liminal imaginary and create the conditions with which to imagine the spatial afterlife of destruction. The extracted articulations and thoughts around each are informed by the critical theoretical lenses of three landmark thinkers of space and place and how the latter equates to the emotionality of man.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOR AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING OF DepEd TEACHERS AS MEDIATED BY FINANCIAL SELF-EFFICACY
Creators: name: Obenza, Brandon
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Finance
subject: Financial management
subject: Well-being
subject: Self-efficacy

description: This non-experimental quantitative study investigated the mediating effect of financial self-efficacy (FSE) on the financial management behavior (FMB) and financial well-being (FWB) of teachers. Moreover, this study employed descriptive correlational research design. The study utilized stratified random sampling to identify 103 teachers from the Department of Education (DepEd) Regions XI and XII. The survey was conducted online using adopted questionnaires measuring the respondents' FSE, FMB, and FWB levels. The study constructs demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity indices based on the Cronbach's Alpha, Average Variance Extracted (AVE) results, and Heterotriat-monotrait ratio (HTMT). The findings revealed that DepEd teachers showed moderate levels of FSE and FWB, and high level of FMB. Moreover, it was found that significant direct effects exist to each path in the hypothesized mediation model, as well as significant indirect and total effects. Thus, the teachers’ FSE partially mediated the relationship between FMB and FWB.
Religion in Science Fiction Syllabus
Creators: name: Brett, Adam DJ
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Religious Studies

description: Science fiction is not only a source of escapism but also a space of moral reasoning and reflection. Science fiction embeds religious themes into images and then utilizes them as sources for knowing and understanding the world. It is here in the spaces of the imagination where world critique and world reimagining unfold. The relationship between religion, media, and culture underscores the challenges and promises of thinking through the use and abuse of religious images, and the power and promise of aestheticized religion.
Phytoremediation of metals using lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf.) grown under different levels of red mud in soil amended with biowastes
Creators: name: Gautam, Meenu
name: Pandey, Divya
name: Madhoolika Agrawal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Due to hostile condition of red mud (RM), its utilization for vegetation is restricted. Therefore, RM with biowastes as soil amendment may offer suitable combination to support plant growth with reduced risk of metal toxicity. To evaluate the effects of RM on soil properties, plant growth performance, and metal accumulation in lemongrass, a study was conducted using different RM concentrations (0, 5, 10, and 15% w/w) in soil amended with biowastes [cow dung manure (CD) or sewage-sludge (SS)]. Application of RM in soil with biowastes improved organic matter and nutrient contents and caused reduction in phytoavailable metal contents. Total plant biomass was increased under all treatments, maximally at 5% RM in soil with SS (91.4%) and CD (51.7%) compared to that in control (no RM and biowastes). Lemongrass acted as a potential metal-tolerant plant as its metal tolerance index is >100%. Based on translocation and bioconcentration factors, lemongrass acted as a potential phytostabilizer of Fe, Mn, and Cu in roots and was found efficient in translocation of Al, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr, As, and Ni from roots to shoot. The study suggests that 5% RM with biowastes preferably SS may be used to enhance phytoremediation potential of lemongrass.
Towards deconstructive nonalignment: a complexivist view of curriculum, teaching and learning
Creators: name: Gough, Noel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Complex systems are open, recursive, organic, nonlinear and emergent. Reconceptualising curriculum, teaching and learning in complexivist terms foregrounds the unpredictable and generative qualities of educational processes, and invites educators to value that which is unexpected and/or beyond their control. Nevertheless, concepts associated with simple systems persist in contemporary discourses of higher education, and continue to inform practices of complexity reduction through which educators and administrators seek predictability and control. I focus here on two specific examples of complexity reduction in higher education, namely, the widespread adoption of ‘constructive alignment’ as a curriculum design principle and the similarly widespread imperative for teaching to be an ‘evidence-based’ practice modelled on Western medical science. I argue that a totally ‘aligned’ curriculum risks being oppressive, but that tactics of deconstructive nonalignment can be deployed to mitigate this risk. I also argue that acknowledging the complexity of higher education should dispose researchers to value multiple and diverse concepts of evidence rather than reduce them to understandings privileged by Western medical science.
Power Ultrasound, Microwaves, and Nanomagnetite Organocatalyst: A Comparison Protocol in Anti-selective Aldol and Mannich Reaction
Creators: name: Safaei-Ghomi, Javad
name: Safura Zahedi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: An efficient, rapid, and energy-efficient approach to asymmetric Mannich reaction was developed using different conditions such as ultrasonic and microwave irradiations in the presence of nano-Fe3O4–L-proline as nanomagnetic organocatalyst. This work has been successful in achieving the comparison trend under different conditions. Good yields of the desired products were obtained by ultrasound-assisted reaction utilizing of Fe3O4–L-proline NPs. The major advantages of this protocol are accessible conditions, easy work up, shorter reaction time, anti-selectivity, and higher yields in comparison with other methods.
Zero-field ODMR and relaxation of Si-vacancy centers in 6H-SiC
Creators: name: Singh, Harpreet
name: Anisimov, Andrey N.
name: Baranov, Pavel G.
name: Suter, Dieter
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: silicon vacancy
subject: silicon carbide
subject: ODMR
subject: temperature dependend ODMR
subject: 530

description: Silicon vacancies in silicon carbide (SiC) have been proposed as interesting candidates for quantum technology applications such as quantum sensing and quantum repeaters. SiC exists in many polytypes with different plane stacking sequences, and in each polytype, the vacancies can occupy a variety of different lattice sites. In this work, we focus on the three important charged silicon vacancies in the 6H-SiC polytype. We record the photoluminescence and continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectra at different radio-frequency power levels and different temperatures. We individually select the zero-phonon lines of the different silicon vacancies at low temperatures and record the corresponding ODMR spectra. ODMR allows us to correlate optical and magnetic resonance spectra and thereby separate signals from V1 and V3. The results also explain the observed sign change of the ODMR signal as a function of temperature.
description: Materials Research Express;10(11)
Case StudyEstimating diesel fuel exposure for a plumber repairing an underground pipe
Creators: name: Finn, Mary
name: Stenzel, Mark
name: Gurumurthy Ramachandran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We estimated the diesel fuel exposure of a plumber repairing an underground water line leak at a truck stop. The repair work was performed over three days during which the plumber spent most of his time in a pit filled with a mixture of water and diesel fuel. Thus, the plumber was exposed via both the inhalation and dermal routes. While previously asymptomatic, he was diagnosed with acute renal failure 35 days after working at this site. No measurements were available for estimating either inhalation or dermal exposures or the cumulative dose and, therefore, two different approaches were used that were based on simple models of the exposure scenario. The first approach used the ideal gas law with the vapor pressure of the diesel fuel mixture to estimate a saturation vapor concentration, while the second one used a mass balance of the petroleum hydrocarbon component of diesel fuel in conjunction with the Henry's Law constant for this mixture. These inhalation exposure estimates were then adjusted to account for the limited ventilation in a confined space. The inhalation exposure concentrations predicted when handling the water layer alone is much lower than that expected from the organic layer. This case study illustrates the large differences in inhalation exposure associated with volatile organic layers and aqueous solution containing these chemicals. The estimate of dermal exposure was negligible compared to the inhalation exposure because the skin presents a much smaller surface area of exposure to the contaminant compared to the lungs. The methodology presented here is useful for situations where little information is available for more formal mathematical exposure modeling, but where adjustments to the worst-case exposures, estimated simply, can provide reasonable exposure estimates.
Aldo Rossi's Transatlantic Cross-fertilization: American 'Urban Facts' and Reinvention of Design Methods
Creators: name: Charitonidou, Marianna
Publisher: name: Il Poligrafo
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines the relationship of Aldo Rossi's encounter with the American context with the tension between architecture as art-object manifestation and architecture as reflection of reality in Rossi's work, which becomes particularly apparent during the period of his stays in the United States, and the impact that the American "urban facts" had on his experience of architectural objects as objects of affection. Rossi's encounter with New York is interpreted here as an expression of the ambiguity between the individual and collective dimension of his approach. The comparison of Rossi's approach with Oswald Mathias Ungers and John Hejduk's modus operandi is useful for understanding his thought. Rossi shared with Hejduk an interest in individual memory and poetic imagination and with Ungers his concern about collective memory and genius loci. The way Rossi's concern about individual expression and architecture's civic effectiveness evolved during his teaching in the United States should be interpreted in conjunction with the transformation of the status of architectural drawings, and the redefining of architecture's role in the city.
Dreamer of Tomorrow
Creators: name: Shehzad Zaidi, Ali
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Urdu poetry
subject: Urdu literature
subject: Pakistani literature
subject: Panjabi literature
subject: South Asian poetry
subject: South Asians

description: This essay examines the stellar, wind, eagle, and light imagery in Muneer Niazi’s “Futility,” “Now is Not the Time,” “Signaling to a Friendly Star to Keep Shining,” and “Horizons.
Phytoremediation of metals using lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf.) grown under different levels of red mud in soil amended with bio-wastes
Creators: name: Gautam, Meenu
name: Pandey, Divya
name: Madhoolika Agrawal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Due to hostile condition of red mud (RM), its utilization for vegetation is restricted. Therefore, RM with bio-wastes as soil amendment may offer suitable combination to support plant growth with reduced risk of metal toxicity. To evaluate the effects of RM on soil properties, plant growth performance and metal accumulation in lemongrass, a study was conducted using different RM concentrations (0, 5, 10 and 15% w/w) in soil amended with bio-wastes (cowdung manure (CD) or sewage-sludge (SS)). Application of RM in soil with bio-wastes improved organic matter and nutrient contents, and caused reduction in phytoavailable metal contents. Total plant biomass was increased under all treatments, maximally at 5% RM in soil with SS (51.7%) and CD (91.4%) compared to control (no RM and bio-wastes). Lemongrass acted as a potential metal tolerant plant due to metal tolerance index >100%. Based on translocation and bioconcentration factors, lemongrass acted as potential phytostabilizer of Fe, Mn and Cu in roots and was found efficient in translocation of Al, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr, As and Ni from roots to shoot. The study suggests that 5% RM with bio-wastes preferably SS may be used to enhance phytoremediation potential of lemongrass.
Identification and quantification of oxidized organic aerosol compounds using derivatization, liquid chromatography, and chemical ionization mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Ranney, April P.
name: Ziemann, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A systematic approach for identifying and quantifying molecular components of complex organic aerosol mixtures is presented. The approach combines methods developed previously for derivatizing carbonyl, hydroxyl, carboxyl, and ester functional groups, which are commonly present in oxidized organic aerosol, with liquid chromatography, UV detection, and chemical ionization-ion trap mass spectrometry. The original derivatization-spectrophotometric methods were modified for compatibility with liquid chromatography and then evaluated by analyzing a variety of standard compounds that contain one or more functional groups. Detection limits for carbonyl, hydroxyl, carboxyl, and ester analysis are approximately 0.003, 0.02, 0.01, and 1 nmole, respectively. Mass spectral analysis of derivatives using isobutane and ammonia as reagent gases for chemical ionization can be used to determine compound molecular weight, and characteristic fragmentation patterns provide structural information for use in compound identification. The methods will be useful for analyzing the chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed in laboratory studies to obtain information needed to develop quantitative reaction mechanisms that can be incorporated into atmospheric models to better predict the formation, composition, and fate of SOA. Copyright © 2017 American Association for Aerosol Research
Latinx Culture and the Essay
Creators: name: Padilla, Yolanda
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hispanic Americans
subject: Essays

description: Latinx authors have used the essay form for everything from personal recollection and spiritual reflection to cultural affirmation and aesthetic evaluation. However, given that Latinx communities find themselves in a perpetual state of crisis, whether because of immigration policies, racial conflicts, or other structural inequities, Latinx writers often use even their most personal essays to engage pressing social and political debates, even if obliquely. At the same time, these authors take advantage of the essay's dialogic nature in their explorations of contentious issues, so that the process they go through in reaching their conclusions and the dialogue the process opens with the reader are as important as the conclusions themselves. While Latinx authors blur and blend the boundaries among different types of essays, I identify three broad strands of the Latinx essay that have been significant: the Latinx crónica, the personal essay, and the radical feminist essay.
Estimating Diesel Fuel Exposure for a Plumber Repairing an Underground Pipe
Creators: name: Finn, Mary
name: Stenzel, Mark
name: Gurumurthy Ramachandran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We estimated the diesel fuel exposure of a plumber repairing an underground water line leak at a truck stop. The repair work was performed over three days during which the plumber spent most of his time in a pit filled with a mixture of water and diesel fuel. Thus, the plumber was exposed via both the inhalation and dermal routes. While previously asymptomatic, he was diagnosed with acute renal failure 35 days after working at this site. No measurements were available for estimating either inhalation or dermal exposures or the cumulative dose and, therefore, two different approaches were used that were based on simple models of the exposure scenario. The first approach used the ideal gas law with the vapor pressure of the diesel fuel mixture to estimate a saturation vapor concentration, while the second one used a mass balance of the petroleum hydrocarbon component of diesel fuel in conjunction with the Henry's Law constant for this mixture. These inhalation exposure estimates were then adjusted to account for the limited ventilation in a confined space. The inhalation exposure concentrations predicted when handling the water layer alone is much lower than that expected from the organic layer. This case study illustrates the large differences in inhalation exposure associated with volatile organic layers and aqueous solution containing these chemicals. The estimate of dermal exposure was negligible compared to the inhalation exposure because the skin presents a much smaller surface area of exposure to the contaminant compared to the lungs. The methodology presented here is useful for situations where little information is available for more formal mathematical exposure modeling, but where adjustments to the worst case exposures, estimated simply, can provide reasonable exposure estimates.
Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens
Creators: name: Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
name: Clair J., Hutchings-Budd
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bible. Genesis
subject: Bible. Revelation
subject: Creation--Mythology
subject: Antichrist
subject: Apocalyptic literature
subject: Gaiman, Neil
subject: Pratchett, Terry

description: In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the character of Adam Young, who is himself named after the first human described in Genesis, I examine how Good Omens intersects with the cultural inheritance of the Bible, and specifically with literary and popular cultural engagements with Genesis and Revelation. Approaching the novel primarily via its literary and cinematic intertexts, I position Adam Young as a literary construct who in turn names and shapes other beings out of material from his own mental library. Like his namesake, in Genesis to whom God delegated the naming of the animals, I consider how the Adam of Good Omens uses naming to define the world around him and in doing so, asserts his humanity over his supernatural origins.
Identification and Quantification of Oxidized Organic Aerosol Compounds Using Derivatization, Liquid Chromatography, and Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Creators: name: Ranney, April P.
name: Ziemann, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A systematic approach for identifying and quantifying molecular components of complex organic aerosol mixtures is presented. The approach combines methods developed previously for derivatizing carbonyl, hydroxyl, carboxyl, and ester functional groups, which are commonly present in oxidized organic aerosol, with liquid chromatography, UV detection, and chemical ionization-ion trap mass spectrometry. The original derivatization-spectrophotometric methods were modified for compatibility with liquid chromatography and then evaluated by analyzing a variety of standard compounds that contain one or more functional groups. Detection limits for carbonyl, hydroxyl, carboxyl, and ester analysis are approximately 0.003, 0.02, 0.01, and 1 nmole, respectively. Mass spectral analysis of derivatives using isobutane and ammonia as reagent gases for chemical ionization can be used to determine compound molecular weight, and characteristic fragmentation patterns provide structural information for use in compound identification. The methods will be useful for analyzing the chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed in laboratory studies to obtain information needed to develop quantitative reaction mechanisms that can be incorporated into atmospheric models to better predict the formation, composition, and fate of SOA.
Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit ?
Creators: name: Ranjan, Pragya
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Caste
subject: Premchand, A., 1933-
subject: Kafan (Premacanda)
subject: Short story
subject: Dalits
subject: Dalits in literature
subject: Caste-based discrimination

description: It is an article on Premchand's most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this morality is governed by the uppermost castes, who are generationally privileged, both socially and financially. The morality they practise is very much dependent on the availability of resources. The funeral rites, the marriage customs, and the work ethic they advocate are nearly impossible to follow for characters like Ghisu and Madhav who are generationally crushed under the burden of being Dalits. The callousness and the moral depravity of both of them are not represented as an intentional fallacy but rather an imposed one by the varna system.
Signos dodecafónicos: discurso musical en el Sanjuanito futurista de Salgado
Creators: name: Yánez, Sebastián
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musical analysis
subject: Music--Semiotics
subject: Twelve-tone system

description: The short piano piece Sanjuanito futurista, written by Luis Humberto Salgado in 1944, is considered the first dodecaphonic composition in Ecuadorian musical history. Even though the Sanjuanito futurista has been studied previously by other authors, none have researched semiotically the musical discourse that may be found in it. This paper presents an exhaustive enquiry on the musical structures of Sanjuanito futurista, and their symbolical connotations; using these musical signs as a basis, a coherent musical discourse is then put forward. The techniques of paradigmatic analysis, performance analysis and musical semiotics, particularly the theoretical background developed by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Jean Molino, have been employed in this research project. The main result of this enquiry is the dialectical description of the Sanjuanito futurista, which resembles a dialogue and conflict between modernity and tradition; this finding expands the theoretical horizons found in the literatura about this piece. This and other results of this study may prove useful as a listening and performance guide, and may also serve as a starting point for further research on Salgado’s musical output.
Patterns of fish diversity, community structure and ecological integrity of River Yamuna, India
Creators: name: A. P. Sharma
name: M. K. Das
name: K. K. Vass
name: R. K. Tyagi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The Yamuna River, one of the most important and sacred rivers of the northern plains of India, is highly polluted. The river originates at the Yamunotri glacier, traverses 120 km to emerge onto the Indo-Gangetic plains at Dakpathar in Uttarakhand, and finally joins the Ganges River at Allahabad after traversing 1376 km. During 2007–2010 this study assessed the fish diversity, community structure, and ecological status in a 1200 km stretch of the river from Dakpathar to Allahabad. The waters were alkaline (pH 7.6–8.0). Dissolved oxygen was high at most sites (7.3–9.8 mg l−1), except at Wazirabad and Agra (3.4–3.7 mg l−1). A total of 143 fish species were recorded in the river. Cyprinidae was the most abundant family followed by Schilbeidae, Bagridae, and Sisoridae, respectively. The abundance was dominated by 48 species with = > 250 individuals caught. The highest intersite species similarities were recorded between Yamunanagar and Panipat, followed by Wazirabad and Hamirpur, and Yamunanagar and Allahabad. The middle stretch of the river was dominated by small-bodied erytopic, indigenous, and exotic fish species with periodic and opportunistic life history strategies, and had reduced abundances of the large–bodied, prized Indian Major Carps. A trophic shift towards dominance of carnivore catfish species was evident. Multivariate analysis indicated 83.50% of the total variability in species composition in the river could be attributed to gradients of the environmental variables: dissolved oxygen, turbidity, conductivity, total dissolved solids, stream velocity, and water temperature. Insufficient flows in the middle stretch of the river have altered fish habitat availability, resulting in changes in fish composition and assemblage patterns. The study will aid efforts to conserve the aquatic communities and their habitats in the river.