cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Exploring the Utility of a Simple Model of Writing
Creators: name: Price, John
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Are speaking and writing very much alike, or significantly different, and how
do spoken language skills relate to writing? These are important questions,
with implications in both theoretical and practical domains. However,
notwithstanding a modest, but growing body of research, the nature of the
relationship between spoken and written language continues to remain
somewhat opaque at this point in time. The aim of this thesis was to explore
the relationship between spoken and written language in a group of Year 5
children (aged 9 -10) within two UK primary schools.
The investigation was framed by an alternative construction of a Simple
Model of Writing closely mirroring the structure of the model used to represent
the Simple View of Reading (SVR). In the proposed model, variability in
written language skills is seen to be substantially predicted by spoken
language and transcription skills. Seventy-four Year five students, aged nine
to ten, attending two primary schools in the South of England kindly provided
samples of their spoken language, written language, and transcription skills
(spelling and handwriting). The data was analysed using a range of statistical
measures designed to identify relationships between variables, with a primary
focus on the relationship between spoken and written language.
Analysis of the data confirmed the theoretical premise of the model, but
suggested that, at this point in their education, spelling had a greater effect
than spoken language skills on writing quality.
title: Erfahrungen von Frauen in der biographischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Familienplanung
Creators: name: Carraro, Mailin Jorinde
Year: 2019

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Erfahrungen Frauen im individuellen Auseinandersetzungsprozess mit dem Thema Familienplanung machen. Dabei wird ein qualitativ-interpretatives Forschungsdesign angewandt, das der Methodologie der Grounded-Theory folgt. Das empirische Material stellen vier biographisch narrative Interviews mit Frauen dar, die jeweils einer detaillierten Interpretation und Analyse unterzogen wurden. Über den Vergleich der vier Einzelfälle konnten fallübergreifende biographische Aspekte bzw. Dimensionen der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Familienplanung herausgearbeitet werden. Dies erfolgte zum einen auf einer theoretischen Ebene, zum anderen wurden die Deutungsmuster und Argumentationsstrukturen der Frauen selbst in den Vergleich miteinbezogen.
description: The present master thesis aims to outline women’s experiences in their individual confrontation with the issue of family planning. A qualitative-interpretative research design was used, following grounded-theory methodology. Four biographical narrative interviews built the empirical body, each having undergone a thorough and detailed interpretation and analysis. By drawing comparisons between cases, common biographical events and dimensions of the women’s experiences were highlighted. On the one hand, this took place on a theoretical level, on the other, the women’s individual interpretations and reasonings were considered in the comparison.
title: A Thematic Analysis of Young Adults’ Perspectives of Gambling and its Representation on Media
Creators: name: Rajmangal, Tanya
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: The impact of technology has been a key interest in gambling literature. Quantitative research studies appear to be prominent in the gambling field identifying positive correlations between positive attitudes towards gambling and problem gambling. Given the increased coverage of gambling in the media and the advances in technology, young people are more exposed to the behaviour. Young adults at the age of 18 are legal to gamble anywhere, it would be important for us to understand how they perceive gambling in order to shape support services for young people with problem gambling.  
This study aims to shed light on young adults’ perspectives of gambling and its representation in the media using a qualitative design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of 10 participants between 18-25 years of age as they were deemed as young adults. Thematic analysis (TA) was used to analysis the transcripts. The analysis revealed three main themes; ‘Temptation’, ‘Stay Away’ and ‘What Would Others Think?’. Each theme consisted of four subthemes which illustrates how the participants perceived gambling and the factors that contributed to their perspective and understanding. 
The research findings illustrated that society and the media play a vital role in providing the participants with details of gambling. Participants all appeared to be enticed by advertisements and chances of winning in gambling but displayed ambivalence due to the consequences and stereotypes in gambling. There appeared to be evidence of a dilemmatic element in regard to gambling which was understood as the participants battling with common-sense. 
The research highlights a need to raise awareness of the consequences of gambling amongst young people and shape support services to acknowledge the tensions that gambling clients may face. The limitations of the study, implications for Counselling psychologists and recommendations for future research are presented.
title: The Role of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid B Receptors in Alcohol Related Behaviours in Drosophila Models of Ethanol Tolerance and Preference
Creators: name: Ranson, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Alcohol is one of the most widely used and socially accepted psychoactive substances in the world, and its misuse was accountable for 3.3 million alcohol related deaths in the world in 2015. Whilst it is known that ethanol enhances the actions of the GABAB receptor, the role of the stimulation of this receptor in inducing acute and chronic effects, remains to be fully understood. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, offers the possibility to investigate behaviours such as preference and tolerance to alcohol, and to challenge them with pharmacological agents. In this study, the GABAB receptor agonist (SKF 97451) and antagonist (CGP 54626) were used to challenge the development of tolerance and the onset of preference to alcohol in wild type flies and in mutant lines with putative disruptions of GABAB receptor 1 or 2 subunit genes. Both compounds were able to alter the onset of tolerance measured as the time needed for half of a set of flies to be sedated by alcohol. Additionally, both drugs affected the preference developed by the flies towards alcohol containing food measure in a capillary feeder assay. The GABAB receptor mutant flies provided further evidence that the receptor is involved in the behavioural process studied. Overall the results indicate that the GABAB receptors are indeed part of a complex mechanism that result in alcohol induced behavioural changes. The data supports the usefulness of the Drosophila model and the need of further investigations into the GABAB receptor and to other potential pathways and mechanisms that could be contributing to the onset of such behaviours.
INFLATION IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Perkins, Mary Katherine
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This dissertation seeks to examine and reconceptualize the methodological presuppositions of current work in development theory. Heretofore, the basic concepts underlying the large body of literature on the problem of underdevelopment have yet to undergo any but the most superficial inspection. As a result, theories of development are based either upon an analogy between the economic mechanisms of developed economies and the operation of the economies of less developed countries (as in neoclassical theories of development), or they are based on the relations between advanced capitalist countries and less developed countries (as in "dependency" theories). However, the extent to which internal mechanisms generate phenomena which are not assimilable to models based on developed capitalism remains unexamined. This problem is acute in the theories advanced to explain the high rates of inflation characteristic of many less developed countries. Inflation tends to be viewed either as strictly political, i.e., as a matter of monetary policy, or as a result of trade with advanced capitalist countries. In order to place development theory on a more scientific footing, we employ a number of the categories developed by French structuralists, e.q., Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar. This procedure involves outlining a general concept of the transition from a precapitalist form of social organization to capitalism and examining the problem of inflation on this new terrain. Of special interest is the form of economic calculation implied by a particular mode of social organization and the transmutations undergone by this form in the process of transition to capitalism. Both the structure of relative prices and the absolute price level are studied in this light. Inflation, we show, plays a pivotal role in the struggle between social classes interested in maintaining the old order and those whose existence depends on a successful transition to capitalism.
INFLATION IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Perkins, Mary Katherine
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation seeks to examine and reconceptualize the methodological presuppositions of current work in development theory. Heretofore, the basic concepts underlying the large body of literature on the problem of underdevelopment have yet to undergo any but the most superficial inspection. As a result, theories of development are based either upon an analogy between the economic mechanisms of developed economies and the operation of the economies of less developed countries (as in neoclassical theories of development), or they are based on the relations between advanced capitalist countries and less developed countries (as in "dependency" theories). However, the extent to which internal mechanisms generate phenomena which are not assimilable to models based on developed capitalism remains unexamined. This problem is acute in the theories advanced to explain the high rates of inflation characteristic of many less developed countries. Inflation tends to be viewed either as strictly political, i.e., as a matter of monetary policy, or as a result of trade with advanced capitalist countries. In order to place development theory on a more scientific footing, we employ a number of the categories developed by French structuralists, e.q., Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar. This procedure involves outlining a general concept of the transition from a precapitalist form of social organization to capitalism and examining the problem of inflation on this new terrain. Of special interest is the form of economic calculation implied by a particular mode of social organization and the transmutations undergone by this form in the process of transition to capitalism. Both the structure of relative prices and the absolute price level are studied in this light. Inflation, we show, plays a pivotal role in the struggle between social classes interested in maintaining the old order and those whose existence depends on a successful transition to capitalism.
CHANGING ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN REGARD TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Wyche, Gloria Sonja
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Problem. This research proposed to determine the effects of an urban environmental instructional unit upon the environmental attitudes of undergraduate college students. The Hypothesis. The urban environmental attitudes of undergraduate college students who receive instruction according to an urban environmental studies unit, as identified within the context of the study, will differ significantly from those students who receive no urban environmental instruction. The Methodology. An urban environmental studies instructional unit was developed for this study. In addition, a preliminary attitude questionnaire was constructed and reviewed by a panel of jurors. A pilot study using the preliminary questionnaire was conducted and a statistical item analysis performed using the item responses of the students who participated in the pilot study. Twenty-two items from the preliminary questionnaire were selected for the final attitude questionnaire entitled Instrument For Determining Attitudes Toward the Urban Environment. The questionnaire was administered as a pretest and posttest to the experimental and control groups on the first and final day of the experimental time frame. An analysis of the students' gain scores (the difference between each students' pretest and posttest scores) was accomplished by the application of a one-way analysis of variance. An ancillary analysis of attitude changes for the experimental subjects was also completed by considering eight categories of affective statements. The gain scores (the difference between the pretest and posttest means) was the criterion for ranking the categories of affective statements. The Results and Conclusions. There was no statistical significance observed in the difference of the pretest scores for the experimental and control groups when tested at the alpha = 0.05 level. The research hypothesis was not rejected based upon the fact that there was statistical significance at the 0.0001 level. Positive mean gain scores were observed in every category of affective statements. The researcher concluded that the cognitive skills developed as a result of the urban environmental instructional program contributed to the experimental subjects' attitude change. Therefore, is is hoped that the subjects' behavior will be modified in the direction of influencing the alleviation and possibly the prevention of further deterioration of the urban environment.
CHANGING ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN REGARD TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Wyche, Gloria Sonja
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education

description: The Problem. This research proposed to determine the effects of an urban environmental instructional unit upon the environmental attitudes of undergraduate college students. The Hypothesis. The urban environmental attitudes of undergraduate college students who receive instruction according to an urban environmental studies unit, as identified within the context of the study, will differ significantly from those students who receive no urban environmental instruction. The Methodology. An urban environmental studies instructional unit was developed for this study. In addition, a preliminary attitude questionnaire was constructed and reviewed by a panel of jurors. A pilot study using the preliminary questionnaire was conducted and a statistical item analysis performed using the item responses of the students who participated in the pilot study. Twenty-two items from the preliminary questionnaire were selected for the final attitude questionnaire entitled Instrument For Determining Attitudes Toward the Urban Environment. The questionnaire was administered as a pretest and posttest to the experimental and control groups on the first and final day of the experimental time frame. An analysis of the students' gain scores (the difference between each students' pretest and posttest scores) was accomplished by the application of a one-way analysis of variance. An ancillary analysis of attitude changes for the experimental subjects was also completed by considering eight categories of affective statements. The gain scores (the difference between the pretest and posttest means) was the criterion for ranking the categories of affective statements. The Results and Conclusions. There was no statistical significance observed in the difference of the pretest scores for the experimental and control groups when tested at the alpha = 0.05 level. The research hypothesis was not rejected based upon the fact that there was statistical significance at the 0.0001 level. Positive mean gain scores were observed in every category of affective statements. The researcher concluded that the cognitive skills developed as a result of the urban environmental instructional program contributed to the experimental subjects' attitude change. Therefore, is is hoped that the subjects' behavior will be modified in the direction of influencing the alleviation and possibly the prevention of further deterioration of the urban environment.
title: Lesen mit digitalen Medien - ein Forschungsbericht
Creators: name: Scherabon, Kerstin
Year: 2019

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit widmet sich in Form eines ausführlichen Forschungsberichtes dem Thema „Lesen mit digitalen Medien“. Es wurde untersucht, wie und welche Aspekte betreffend, sich die Leseerfahrung ändert (oder ändern kann), wenn fiktionale Literatur nicht gedruckt sondern in Form eines E-Books auf digitalen Ausgabegeräten gelesen wird. Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragestellung wurden ca. 50 aktuelle Studien, welche das Thema empirisch untersuchten, ausgewertet und deren Ergebnisse in übersichtlicher Form zusammengefasst. Behandelte Aspekte waren etwa: Leseleistung, Vertrautheit, Orientierung im Text, Immersion, Theory of Mind sowie bestimmte körperliche Facetten des Lesens wie Haptik, Augen, Körper( haltung). Zwar kamen die analysierten Untersuchungen nicht zu durchgehend übereinstimmenden Ergebnissen, grundsätzlich lässt sich jedoch sagen, dass das Lesen mit digitalen Medien sich nicht zwingend von jenem gedruckter Bücher unterscheiden muss. Bei entsprechender Textpräsentation und einer gewissen Vertrautheit und Aufgeschlossenheit der Rezipierenden dem elektronischen Medium gegenüber, erwies sich das digitale Leseerlebnis in messbarer Hinsicht dem Lesen gedruckter Texte zumeist als gleichwertig (in manchen Fällen sogar als überlegen).
title: Die Donau als literarisches Motiv
Creators: name: Freudenthaler, Stefanie
Year: 2019

description: Diese Arbeit hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, die literarische Verarbeitung der Donau zu untersuchen. Sie konzentriert sich dabei zunächst auf die Herausarbeitung literarischer Motive, die in unmittelbarer Relation zu diesem Fluss stehen, um im Anschluss daran Mythen zu entlarven, die unser Gedächtnis prägen. Als Untersuchungsmaterial dienen dabei Prosatexte unterschiedlicher mitteleuropäischer Gegenwartsautoren. Nach einer Darlegung der Kulturgeschichte sowie der Charakteristik der Donau, die sich über mehrere Kapitel erstreckt und auch den Rhein miteinbezieht, wird überblicksmäßig ein Bestand an Donau-Motiven angeführt. In den darauf folgenden exemplarischen Analysen werden ebendiese herausgefiltert und anschließend in einer vergleichenden Untersuchung auf Mythen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die Omnipräsenz dieser Motive und zeigen, dass sich daraus historische Mythen herausbilden, die unser kollektives Erinnern prägen.
U.S. News and World Report Poll # 1992-USN592: Economic Attitudes II
Creators: name: U.S. News & World Report
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Presidential candidates (3); presidential vote intention (1); satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. (1); biggest problem facing the family (1); personal financial situation (3); employment situation and expectations (9); business conditions in the community (3); ability to afford certain things (12); effects of various economic policy measures (10); willingness to pay taxes to accomplish certain national goals (4); presidential candidate best able to handle certain policy areas (12).
Origin of Neutrino Masses on the Convex Cone of Positivity Bounds
Creators: name: Li, Xu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We exhibit the geometric structure of the convex cone in the linear space of the Wilson coefficients for the dimension-8 operators involving the left-handed lepton doublet L and the Higgs doublet H in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). The boundary of the convex cone gives rise to the positivity bounds on the Wilson coefficients, while the extremal ray corresponds to the unique particle state in the theory of ultraviolet completion.
Untersuchung zur Wirkung eines Pflanzenextrakts Petroselinum crispum subsp. tuberosum auf humane benigne und maligne Mammaepithelzellen (MCF-7 und MCF-12a)
Creators: name: Dudde, Franca
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Ein Pflanzenextrakt wurde aus der Petersilienwurzel hergestellt, die Inhaltsstoffe wurden ermittelt. Der LDH-Test wurde verwendet, um die zytotoxische Wirkung des Pflanzenextrakts auf die benignen und malignen Mammaepithelzellen zu ermitteln. Der MTT-Test wurde zur Untersuchung der Zellviabilität verwendet und der BrdU-Proliferationstest zur Erfassung der Zellproliferation. Zusätzlich wurden die Glukose und der pH-Wert im Zellüberstand bestimmt. Mit den gleichen Methoden wurde der Pflanzenextrakt in Kombination mit Tamoxifen untersucht. Immunhistochemisch erfolgte die Bestimmung der Hormonrezeptorexpression.
U.S. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO RURAL BOLIVIA, 1941-1974: THE SEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Creators: name: Heilman, Lawrence Charles
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430317
subject: Latin and South American history

description: This study will describe and assess U.S. Government assistance to the Bolivian Government to support Bolivia's rural development for the period 1941 to 1974. It will examine the major programs that evolved from the foreign development policy of the U.S. Government. The development strategy of the U.S. Government was a "trickle down" approach more concerned with developing agricultural production in the Oriente than improving the economic and social circumstances of Bolivia's majority population. This development approach will be described and examined in detail. When describing, explaining, and assessing U.S. Government development assistance efforts, an attempt will be made to examine the different dimensions of U.S. Government policy including the political, economic, and development policies. However, emphasis in the study will be given to the development dimension which deserves more attention by the social scientist examining the history of Bolivia since the Revolution of 1952. This approach will be pronounced since the phenomena to be examined are development programs and projects. Since the focus will be on U.S. Government assistance, the vast majority of the materials reviewed in reconstructing the historical record are U.S. Government documents. Though inspired by the political, economic, and social realities of Bolivia, U.S. development assistance efforts in Bolivia reflect to a great degree the U.S. historical experience from which a U.S. development philosophy evolved. U.S. economic and political foreign policy imperatives are less important influences in shaping the U.S. supported development effort in Bolivia. Subsequent to the 1952 Revolution, the investment pattern is one that had a strong production bias at the expense of promoting economic and social equity for the campesino population. Whereas the 1952 Revolution brought changes that immediately improved the life of the Indian, planned economic development sponsored by the U.S. Government after this revolution could be interpreted as institutionalizing a development philosophy in which growth in the agriculture and mining sectors was the paramount consideration. The striking exceptions to this trickle down approach to development are the projects started in the mid-sixties, which focused on the rural population of the Altiplano and the high valleys of Bolivia.
title: Mögliche Auswirkungen einer elterlichen Schizophrenie auf die kindliche Entwicklung
Creators: name: Sisovics, Anita
Year: 2019

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit soll aufzeigen, inwiefern ein Zusammenhang zwischen einer schizophrenen Erkrankung eines oder beider Elternteile und dem Bindungs- sowie Mentalisierungverhalten des Kindes besteht. Zunächst wird herausgearbeitet, welche Belastungen für die kindliche Entwicklung entstehen können, um zu zeigen, inwiefern ein Bedarf nach Unterstützung besteht. Daraufhin wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Unterstützungsangebote Kindern mit einem an Schizophrenie erkrankten Elternteil zur Verfügung stehen und wie solch eine Hilfe gestaltet ist. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in zwei Teile. Im Rahmen des theoretischen Teils wird mithilfe ausgewählter Autoren und Autorinnen das Krankheitsbild der Schizophrenie sowie die Bindungstheorie und das Konzept der Mentalisierung vorgestellt, um in einem weiteren Schritt einem Zusammenhang zwischen einer elterlichen Schizophrenie und der kindlichen Entwicklung nachzugehen. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass sich eine Schizophrenie der primären Bezugsperson belastend auf das Bindungsverhalten des Kindes auswirken kann. Ein nicht-mentalisierendes Verhalten der Mutter oder des Vaters, wie es oft im Rahmen einer schizophrenen Psychose vorkommt, führt häufig zu einem unsicher-gebundenen Bindungsverhalten sowie Bindungsstörungen. Jedoch stellt eine sichere Bindung eine Grundvoraussetzung dar, im Rahmen derer ein Kind eine gesunde Entwicklung erleben kann. Der empirische Teil beinhaltet neben einem Überblick über die Unterstützung, welche Kinder psychisch erkrankter Eltern zur Verfügung steht, drei leitfadengestützte Expertinneninterviews mit Vertreterinnen der „Hilfe für Angehörige psychisch Erkrankter“ (HPE), der „Psychosozialen Zentren“ (PSZ) und des Vereins „JoJo“ in Salzburg. Das Expertinnenwissen diente dazu, die theoretischen Erkenntnisse illustrierend und differenzierend zu ergänzen. Die Ergebnisse stützen die vorher getroffene Annahme, dass eine familiäre Unterstützung bei einer schizophrenen Erkrankung eines Elternteils notwendig ist, um dem Kind trotz der damit einhergehenden Belastungen eine bestmögliche Entwicklung zu ermöglichen.
null virtual object point model for the calibration of underwater stereo cameras to recover accurate 3D information
Creators: name: Dolereit, Tim
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences

description: The focus of this thesis is on recovering accurate 3D information from underwater images. Underwater 3D reconstruction differs significantly from 3D reconstruction in air due to the refraction of light. In this thesis, the concepts of stereo 3D reconstruction in air get extended for underwater environments by an explicit consideration of refractive effects with the aid of a virtual object point model. Within underwater stereo 3D reconstruction, the focus of this thesis is on the refractive calibration of underwater stereo cameras.
Rudolph, Comes de Habsburg...
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1700
Subjects: RudolfIII. ; von Habsburg-Laufenburg1270-1315

description: [Pater Wiederkehr Dietikon del.]
description: Zeichnung nach dem Sarkophag Habsburg-Laufenburg im Seitenschiff der ehemaligen Klosterkirche Wettingen
description: Unter dem Bild in brauner Tinte Abschrift der heute teils unleserlichen Grabinschrift: "Rudolph, Comes de Habsburg Ducj in Lauffenberg, Comitis Gottfridi, Rudolphi Regis / Romanorum Patruelis Filius, ab Henrico VII Imperatore, Praefectus tribus primis Helvetio- / rum Pagis, Tigurinis, item Tractui Tauriaco, auf der ersten Linien geschrieben, auf der and[...] / et Argoviae constitutus, postea tu eadem Praefectura privatus, aulam Regis Francorum petiit / et in itniere in monte Pessulano abiit, Corpus illius Maris-Stellam translatum in Sepulchro / hoc conditum est A.o 1314. Es ist dieses die wahr Grabstatt des Grafen von Habspurg."
description: Auf der Rückseite eine weitere Zeichnung, die möglicherweise die Grabplatte darstellt. Darunter in brauner Tinte beschriftet: "Dies ist die wahre Grabstatt des Grafen von Habsburg, nach P: Hergott [...] Genealogie / Sie steht in der Mutter Gottes Capell nahe bey / dem [...]."
Pennsylvania Economy League/The Pew Charitable Trusts Poll # 2004-24027: Presidential Election/State and Federal Government/Taxes/Gambling/Economy/Education/Health Care
Creators: name: Pennsylvania Economy League
name: Trusts, The Pew Charitable
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: John Kerry vs. Ralph Nader vs. George Bush (1); satisfaction with Pennsylvania (1); most important problem facing Pennsylvania (1); state government job performance (1); confidence in elected officials (2); most important problem facing the U.S. (2); most important problem facing family (2); terrorist attack (1); vote for president (1); financial situation (2); tax increases (2); gambling (2); economy (2); employment (2); public school performance (6); public school funding (3); greatest influence on public education (1); readiness to learn (1); involvement in local school board (1); health care (3).
title: Psychosoziales Belastungserleben von Volksschullehrer/innen im Rahmen der Zusammenarbeit mit Multiproblemfamilien
Creators: name: Ploderer, Veronika
Year: 2019

description: Die Lehrer/innentätigkeit kann aufgrund verschiedener Umstände sehr belastend sein. Einer dieser Gründe kann die Zusammenarbeit mit Multiproblemfamilien sein. Die Schwierigkeiten, die im Rahmen dieser entstehen, können sich auf die Psyche von Lehrpersonen auswirken und ihren Alltag wesentlich beeinflussen. Mit der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird daher der Frage nachgegangen, mit welchen Herausforderungen Lehrer/innen bei der Kooperation konfrontiert werden und welche Belastungserscheinungen sie mit sich ziehen. Demgegenüber ist es ebenso relevant darzustellen, ob Lehrer/innen in ihrer Grundausbildung auf solche Fälle vorbereitet werden. Diese Fragen sollen anhand der Zusammenführung einer ausführlichen Literaturrecherche und einer empirischen Untersuchung mittels Expert/inneninterviews beantwortet werden. Ziel ist es, mögliche Herausforderungen und Belastungsfolgen herauszuarbeiten und aus diesen Schlussfolgerungen hinsichtlich der Professionalisierung zu diskutieren.
description: Teaching can be very incriminating due to various reasons. One of these reasons can be the cooperation with multiproblem families. The troubles that arise in the context of this can affect the psyche of teachers and significantly influence their everyday lifes. This master's thesis treats the question, which challenges teachers are confronted with during a cooperation and thus overwhelm them. Nevertheless it is also relevant to describe if teachers are being prepared for such cases during their studies. These questions should be answered by the combination of a detailed literature research and an empirical study with expert interviews. The aim is, to demonstrate possible challenges and consequences of stress and to discuss these conclusions with regard to profession.
U.S. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO RURAL BOLIVIA, 1941-1974: THE SEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Creators: name: Heilman, Lawrence Charles
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study will describe and assess U.S. Government assistance to the Bolivian Government to support Bolivia's rural development for the period 1941 to 1974. It will examine the major programs that evolved from the foreign development policy of the U.S. Government. The development strategy of the U.S. Government was a "trickle down" approach more concerned with developing agricultural production in the Oriente than improving the economic and social circumstances of Bolivia's majority population. This development approach will be described and examined in detail. When describing, explaining, and assessing U.S. Government development assistance efforts, an attempt will be made to examine the different dimensions of U.S. Government policy including the political, economic, and development policies. However, emphasis in the study will be given to the development dimension which deserves more attention by the social scientist examining the history of Bolivia since the Revolution of 1952. This approach will be pronounced since the phenomena to be examined are development programs and projects. Since the focus will be on U.S. Government assistance, the vast majority of the materials reviewed in reconstructing the historical record are U.S. Government documents. Though inspired by the political, economic, and social realities of Bolivia, U.S. development assistance efforts in Bolivia reflect to a great degree the U.S. historical experience from which a U.S. development philosophy evolved. U.S. economic and political foreign policy imperatives are less important influences in shaping the U.S. supported development effort in Bolivia. Subsequent to the 1952 Revolution, the investment pattern is one that had a strong production bias at the expense of promoting economic and social equity for the campesino population. Whereas the 1952 Revolution brought changes that immediately improved the life of the Indian, planned economic development sponsored by the U.S. Government after this revolution could be interpreted as institutionalizing a development philosophy in which growth in the agriculture and mining sectors was the paramount consideration. The striking exceptions to this trickle down approach to development are the projects started in the mid-sixties, which focused on the rural population of the Altiplano and the high valleys of Bolivia.
Searches for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Galactic Centre with the KM3NeT/ARCA Neutrino Telescope
Creators: name: Saina, Adrian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are promising dark matter candidates that can self-annihilate into Standard Model (SM) particles with a probability ruled by their interaction cross-section. Indirect dark matter searches attempt to detect these annihilation products by looking for an excess of SM particles originating from regions where dark matter accumulates. Most structure formation models of our Galaxy predict a large over-density of dark matter particles in the Galactic Center, making it a good target for indirect searches. Being situated in the Mediterranean Sea, the KM3NeT neutrino telescope can detect an excess of neutrinos coming from this region as it offers good visibility of the Galactic Centre. An estimation of the sensitivity to the WIMPs interaction cross-section in the WIMP mass range between 50 GeV/c^2 and 100 TeV/c^2 is presented for the KM3NeT/ARCA detector in the configuration with six detection units.
Nutrient-pollutant-interactions in cadmium-contaminated soils amended with surface-modified bone char
Creators: name: Morshedizad, Mohsen
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment

description: The first ever surface modification of bone char, relying on promoting phosphorus-release through sulfur-oxidation and thereby soil pH decrease, was introduced and successfully characterized over different experiments. The results lead to the wider approval of bone chars as clean, renewable, cost-beneficial, fertility enhancer and cadmium-immobilizer soil amendments. Furthermore, depending on which advantage of bone chars has been determined by priority, an appropriate particle size of bone char would be wisely selected for optimizing phosphorus-fertilization and Cd-immobilization practices.
Newsweek Poll # 2009-NW04: A Post-Christian Nation?
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Satisfaction (1); Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama handling certain aspects of job (8); Michelle Obama (1); economic conditions (2); Obama turning around the economy (1); Obama administration efforts (2); Republican plan for economy (1); removing troops from Iraq (1); increasing US troops in Afghanistan (1); Republican plans for foreign threats (1); opinion of certain statements (4); religion influencing American life (2); religion answering modern problems (1); United States as Christian nation (1); influence on American politics (3); influences increasing or decreasing (3); Evangelical Christian influence on Republican Party (1); non-believer influence on Democratic Party (1); importance of religion/spirituality (1); religious/spiritual affiliation (5); changing religion (1); being raised in religion (5); religion effecting personal party affiliation/ideology (1).
Role of Agroforestry on Farmland Productivity in Semi-arid Farming Regions of Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Cosmas Parwada
name: Chipomho, Justin
name: Nyamande Mapope
name: Edmore Masama
name: Simango, Kennedy
name: Cosmas Parwada
name: Chipomho, Justin
name: Nyamande Mapope
name: Edmore Masama
name: Simango, Kennedy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Adoption
subject: Crop productivity
subject: Drought
subject: Low fertility
subject: Multi-purpose trees

description: Farmland productivity is low in the semi-arid regions (NR IV and V) of Zimbabwe due to desertification and land degradation. Nevertheless, demand for food is increasing geometrically hence the need to increase output per unit area. Agroforestry (AF) which is an ecologically based and dynamic system that integrates multi-purpose trees on farms can increase productivity and offer resilience to climate change vagaries. However, the role of AF in Zimbabwean smallholder farming systems is still not well investigated. Therefore, this review explores the role of agroforestry on agricultural productivity in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe. The aim was to enhance sustainable food security among the rural poor through sustainable agriculture. Incorporating multi-purpose trees on agricultural lands can significantly restore soil productivity and offer soil resilience to erosion by water and wind. If well implemented, the AF can be a viable option in mitigating the impacts of drought on agriculture in these drier and marginalized areas.
Constraining U (1)' models using long-range interactions in the light of IceCube data
Creators: name: Narang, Ashish
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube, with TeV-PeV energies, allow us to test neutrino physics in new energy and distance scales. One possibility is looking for new interactions between neutrinos and matter whose existence would ordinarily be too feeble to detect, except at high neutrino energies. We focus on well-motivated, economical new interactions introduced by gauging lepton-number symmetries that already exist in the Standard Model, Le-Lmu, Le-Ltau, and Lmu-Ltau. They introduce a new Z' boson that, if light, mediates a long-range potential between neutrinos and distant matter, separated by distances of up to gigaparsecs. This potential can significantly alter the oscillation probabilities of high-enery neutrinos en route to Earth and, as a result, also their flavor composition, i.e., the relative number of neutrinos of each flavor in the incoming flux. The high energies and long propagation distances of the IceCube neutrinos allow us to probe unexplored regions of the parameter space: tiny Z' masses, of 10-10-10-35 eV, and tiny adimensional couplings with the Z', of 10-24-10-35. We present refined constraints for Le-Lmu and Le-Ltau, and new limits on Lmu-Ltau, and projections, based on the measurement of flavor composition in IceCube and its planned upgrade, IceCube-Gen2.
AN ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS MODEL TO ASSIST THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION OF NIGERIA IN DEALING WITH THE CRITICAL PROBLEMS OF CONCERN TO THE UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: Oraemesi, Chukwuma John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Greater governmental control over higher education has become a common phenomenon in many countries. This trend has often led to much disruption and confusion, as in the case of Nigeria, where student unrest and violence and faculty strikes have led to the closure of the country's higher institutions, loss of lives and dismissal of faculty members and student ring-leaders. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the provisions and activities of the Nigerian Universities Commission--the government-established body in control of higher education--and to ascertain the factors that have caused the crises. Having identified the causes, and utilizing the systems approach in treating the problems in a unified way, an organizational systems model was developed as a proposal for more effective structuring of the commission and definition of its task. The university was treated as a subsystem of the social system of the country affected by the political, social, economic and cultural systems in its society. Three major problems were identified: communication, resource acquisition and faculties' condition of service. A literature review was conducted to determine those countries operating under similar educational systems and the range and configurations of systems models that have been applied to educational systems. A model was synthesized decentralizing the N.U.C. and creating a network of N.U.C. Province for each institution. Roles and responsibilities were clearly defined. The model was sent to experts for evaluation, followed by tape-recorded interviews. Human behavior is highly influenced by the design of the organization and the nature and way information and work flow through the organization. Therefore, behavior in organizations can be understood only by also understanding the entire organization as a complex of subsystems. A model is conceptualized as thinking made public. It is meant to clarify and generate information. However, a model cannot provide final answers and is not intended to. It has served its purpose if it provides fresh insights into the working of the systems.
AN ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS MODEL TO ASSIST THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION OF NIGERIA IN DEALING WITH THE CRITICAL PROBLEMS OF CONCERN TO THE UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: Oraemesi, Chukwuma John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: Greater governmental control over higher education has become a common phenomenon in many countries. This trend has often led to much disruption and confusion, as in the case of Nigeria, where student unrest and violence and faculty strikes have led to the closure of the country's higher institutions, loss of lives and dismissal of faculty members and student ring-leaders. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the provisions and activities of the Nigerian Universities Commission--the government-established body in control of higher education--and to ascertain the factors that have caused the crises. Having identified the causes, and utilizing the systems approach in treating the problems in a unified way, an organizational systems model was developed as a proposal for more effective structuring of the commission and definition of its task. The university was treated as a subsystem of the social system of the country affected by the political, social, economic and cultural systems in its society. Three major problems were identified: communication, resource acquisition and faculties' condition of service. A literature review was conducted to determine those countries operating under similar educational systems and the range and configurations of systems models that have been applied to educational systems. A model was synthesized decentralizing the N.U.C. and creating a network of N.U.C. Province for each institution. Roles and responsibilities were clearly defined. The model was sent to experts for evaluation, followed by tape-recorded interviews. Human behavior is highly influenced by the design of the organization and the nature and way information and work flow through the organization. Therefore, behavior in organizations can be understood only by also understanding the entire organization as a complex of subsystems. A model is conceptualized as thinking made public. It is meant to clarify and generate information. However, a model cannot provide final answers and is not intended to. It has served its purpose if it provides fresh insights into the working of the systems.
Lorenz Spengler
Creators: name: Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1774
Subjects: SPENGLER, LORENZ1720-1807

description: [gezeichnet von Johann Rudolf Schellenberg]
description: Steht als Vorzeichnung einer Radierung in Zusammenhang mit Füsslis Künstlergeschichte
description: Die Druckgraphik wird Schellenberg zugeschrieben, vgl. Brigitte Thanner: Schweizerische Buchillustration im Zeitalter der Aufklärung am Beispiel von Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, Winterthur 1987, Bd. 1, S. 146, Nr. 199
description: Joh. Caspar Füesslins Geschichte der besten Künstler der Schweiz, nebst ihren Bildnissen, Zürich 1774, Bd. 4, nach S. 150
title: Leerstand im Burgenland
Creators: name: Kirisits, Laura
Year: 2019

description: Von Leerstand betroffene Wohn- und Gewerbeobjekten nehmen, vor allem in den ländlichen Gebieten Österreichs, ständig zu. Unterschiedliche Ursachen führen zu dieser Entwicklung und bringen in ökonomischer, ökologischer sowie sozialer Sicht negative Folgen mit sich. Maßnahmen gegen diese Problematik können auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen ausgeführt werden. Gezielt soll die Innenentwicklung gefördert werden, um eine flächenhafte Ausdehnung von Wohngebieten und somit das Aussterben der Ortskerne zu vermeiden. Zudem kann die Attraktivität von Nachnutzungen leerstehender Gebäude durch bestimmte Strategien gesteigert werden. Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich im empirischen Teil mit Leerständen der südburgenländischen Gemeinde Oberwart. Durch Lernstandserhebungen der ausgewählten Untersuchungsgebiete und Interviews mit regionalen Experten und politischen Verantwortli-chen soll ein Überblick über die Leerstandssituation der Stadtgemeinde gegeben werden. Neben der Analyse der Leerstandssituation wird zudem ein Handlungskonzept für den Umgang mit Leerstand in der Gemeinde angeboten.
description: The number of residential and business properties which are facing vacancy, especially in rural areas, is increasing constantly. There are different root causes for this development which comes with economic, ecological and social impacts which are mainly negative. Ac-tions to solve these problems can be performed at several levels. One focus area should be the development of properties within the center to reduce extensive expansion of residential areas. This also reduces the extinction of city centers. There are also specific strategies to increase the attractiveness of the re-use of vacant properties. In the empirical part of this thesis the topic of vacancy in the city of Oberwart, which is located in southern Burgenland, is analyzed. In selected areas of inspection vacancies were located and several interviews with local experts and political responsible people were con-ducted to give an overview about the situation concerning vacancy within the township. Be-sides this analysis the work also consists of a concept of action to deal with the topic of vacancy within the city.
[Bauprojekt Kornhaus Zürich]
Creators: name: Boudhors, Pierre-Valentin
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1784
Subjects: Speicher
Bauzeichnung
Architekturzeichnung
Bauvorhaben

description: [Pierre-Valentin Boudhors]
description: Projekt-Zeichnungen für Kornhäuser an zwei verschiedenen Standorten in Zürich (oberhalb des Oberdorftors, gegenüber dem Schönenhof und am ehemaligen Hafen, dem heutigen Sechseläutenplatz). Boudhors Projekte wurden nicht ausgeführt, 1837-39 wurde jedoch ein Kornhaus nach Plänen von A. Negrelli am ehemaligen Hafen gebaut. Baugeschichte erwähnt in: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich, Band IV (Die Stadt Zürich), Basel 1939, S. 378
description: Die Mappe beinhaltet: 2 Pläne, 2 Fassaden-Ansichten, 2 Grundrisse und 1 Schnitt
Caspar Hafner [...]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1775

description: Brustbild im Profil nach rechts
description: J. R. fec.
description: Signiert und datiert am Ärmel auf Höhe der Schulter: " J. R. fec." und "1775"
description: Unten in brauner Tinte bezeichnet: "Caspar Hafner [...]"