cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hindernisse und Ressourcen eines Bildungsaufstiegs - Eine qualitative Studie mit jungen Erwachsenen mit tiefem sozioökonomischem Status und/oder Migrationshintergrund
Creators: name: Neuenschwander, Markus
name: Hänni, Stefanie
name: Makarova, Elena
name: Kaqinari, Tomas
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Junge Menschen aus sozial benachteiligten Familien mit oder ohne Migrationshintergrund werden mit ungleichen Bildungsgelegenheiten auf dem Weg in die tertiäre Bildung konfrontiert. Diese Studie analysiert Hindernisse, die aus Bildungsnachteilen resultieren können, und Ressourcen, die zu Bildungserfolg führen können. Die Studie basiert auf der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse von Interviews mit Bildungsaufsteigern und -aufsteigerinnen aus benachteiligten Milieus. Zusammenfassend zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass gute Beziehungen und soziale Unterstützung durch Eltern, Lehrpersonen sowie Mitschülerinnen und Mitschüler die Chance auf einen Bildungsaufstieg sowohl von einheimischen als auch von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund aus benachteiligten Milieus wesentlich begünstigen.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES IN ANNUAL REPORTS: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA
Creators: name: Seybold Report Journal
Publisher: name: Seybold Report Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nigeria, Corporate governance mechanisms, categories of voluntary disclosure, asset disclosure, Voluntary disclosure index

description: Abstract

This study aims to provide empirical evidence on the influence of corporate governance on voluntary disclosure in the annual report using some prominent corporate governance mechanisms such as board size, board independence, CEO duality, audit committee independence, and ownership concentration on voluntary disclosure, as well as different categories of VD after controlling the effect of some firm-specific factors for Nigerian firms. The study selects 25 non-financial and non-service firms listed on the Nigeria Exchange Group as of 2018 over five years. Data are drawn from all 25 companies from 2018–2022. The audited annual reports of the firms were scored on the extent of overall and four specific types of voluntary disclosures made. An appropriate panel data regression model is applied to examine the influence of CG on VD. The study’s findings show that voluntary disclosures among the firms are moderate even after adopting IFRS. Generally, corporate governance attributes such as board size, board independence, and ownership concentration are significant determinants of the extent of voluntary disclosures made by firms. However, CEO duality and auditor independence significantly negatively affect voluntary disclosures. Notably, no corporate governance mechanisms under consideration positively and significantly influence the social and board disclosure category.

 JEL Codes: G38, M4, M5, G34, M21

Keywords: Nigeria, Corporate governance mechanisms, categories of voluntary disclosure, asset disclosure, Voluntary disclosure index
Selbsterhobene Daten visualisieren
Creators: name: Beywl, Wolfgang
name: Pirani, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Aargauischer Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerverband (alv)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Luuise
subject: Schneeflocken
subject: Visualisierungen
subject: Selbsterhobene Daten
subject: Praxisbasierte Evidenz
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Lehrpersonen nutzen das Luuise-Verfahren, um wiederkehrend Störendes anzupacken oder anspruchsvolle Innovationen umzusetzen. Sie verbinden zielgerichtetes Planen mit Sichtbarmachen durch selbsterhobene Daten.
title: Dimostrazioni
Creators: name: Goffriller, Gabriele
Year: 2008

description: Das 35. Buch der Naturalis Historia von Plinius d. Ä. stellt die mit Abstand gehaltvollste Quelle zur griechischen Malerei der Antike dar. Aus der Fülle der von Plinius beschriebenen Merkmale werden sieben herausgegriffen und im Hinblick auf ihre Rezeption in der frühen Neuzeit untersucht. Direkte Vergleiche lassen technisch – stilistische Bezugnahmen erkennen, so etwa die angeblich von Apelles und den besten seiner Zeitgenossen angewandte Malerei in nur vier Farben, die sich auf neuzeitlichen Selbstbildnissen und anderen Werken von Fouquet, Dürer, Tizian, Gumpp, Velázquez und Rembrandt beobachten lässt. Diese Merkmale neuzeitlicher Kunstwerke werden als bewusst getätigte Äusserungen angesehen, durch die sich KünstlerInnen gattungsimmanent am kunsttheoretischen Diskurs beteiligen konnten. Die parallel dazu stattfindende literarische Verarbeitung der ‚sapientia veterum’ von Petrarca an zeigt, dass die Informationen aus der Naturalis Historia intensiv diskutiert und verbreitet wurden. Apelles als Künstler-Autor und Plinius selbst werden zum Vorbild für die nachfolgende Kunstgeschichtsschreibung von Alberti, Ghiberti, Dürer und Vasari wie es Apelles, Zeuxis, Protogenes und Pausias für die Maler der Neuzeit gewesen sind. Gleichzeitig mit Sujets der hellenistischen Malerei, die mittels Ekphrasen wiederaufgenommen oder auch nach diesen rein poetischen Schilderungen nun zum ersten Mal gemalte Realität wurden, bot sich den Künstlern der Neuzeit die Gelegenheit, auch über die ‚skills’ ihrer antiken Kollegen nachzudenken. Die Auseinandersetzung mit einer oder mehrerer dieser technisch-stilistischen Schwierigkeiten aufgenommen zu haben und die Bewältigung dieser Herausforderung zu Demonstrieren, kann als das eigentliche Grundthema mancher Kunstwerke verstanden werden.
description: Book 35 of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia provides the most valuable written source for our knowledge of hellenistic painting. Out of the variety of informations on technique and style Pliny gives, a group of seven features is selected to look at their perception in early modern times. By comparing features mentioned by Pliny – e.g. the art of painting in four colours, which Apelles and the best of his contemporary colleagues are said to have practiced – with self-portraits and other paintings by Fouquet, Duerer, Titian, Gumpp, Velázquez and Rembrandt, we are able to identify those features as painted references to the ancient text. These references are visual demonstrations of a mastered artistic challenge and important contributions to the Renaissance discourse on ancient painting by painters themselves. Beginning with Petrarc’s notes, the modern theoretical texts on painting give an impression of how Pliny’s text and Apelles in his double-role as artist and theorist influenced the writing on art and how important they were for Alberti, Ghiberti, Duerer and Vasari.
Lobothorax Bleeker 1857
Creators: name: Mohapatra, Sandeep Kumar
name: Roy, Sanmitra
name: Seth, Jaya Kishor
name: Tripathy, Basudev
name: Mohapatra, Anil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cymothoidae
Lobothorax

description: Genus Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857
Remark on the genus. The genus Lobothorax was redescribed and distinguished from the superficially similar genera, Ceratothoa and Glossobius, by Yu & Bruce (2006). Yu & Bruce (2006), Ravichandran et al. (2019) and Aneesh et al. (2021) use the following characters for the identification of the genus, body narrow with a wide rostrum; anterolateral margin of pereonite 1 expanded, with prominent lobes; cephalon dorsoventrally flattened and enclosed by the anterolateral margin of pereonite 1; eyes distinct, visible; antennula and antenna are 8 and 9 segmented respectively; pereopods 1–3 small and pereopods 4–7 large; coxae shorter than respective pereonite; pereonites 5 7 are smaller in length than pereonite 1 4; pleonite 1 laterally overlapped by pereonite 7; pereopods 5 7 with raised carina; pleopods with well-developed lateral lobes; uropodal rami sub-equal in length, not extending beyond the posterior margin of the pleotelson.
description: Published as part of Mohapatra, Sandeep Kumar, Roy, Sanmitra, Seth, Jaya Kishor, Tripathy, Basudev & Mohapatra, Anil, 2025, A new species of fish parasitic isopod, Lobothorax bharat sp. nov. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758 (Scombriformes: Trichiuridae), India, pp. 325-340 in Zootaxa 5594 (2) on page 327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5594.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14954398
Examining LEGEND-1000 cosmogenic neutron backgrounds in Geant4 and MCNP
Creators: name: Barton, C. J.
name: Xu, W.
name: Elliott, S. R.
name: Massarczyk, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, extremely low backgrounds are necessary. An understanding of in-situ cosmogenic backgrounds is critical to the design effort. In-situ cosmogenic backgrounds impose a depth requirement and especially impact the choice of host laboratory. Often, simulations are used to understand background effects, and these simulations can have large uncertainties. One way to characterize the systematic uncertainties is to compare unalike simulation programs. In this paper, a suite of neutron simulations with identical geometries and starting parameters have been performed with Geant4 and MCNP, using geometries relevant to the LEGEND-1000 experiment. This study is an important step in gauging the uncertainties of simulations-based estimates. To reduce project risks associated with simulation uncertainties, a novel alternative shield of methane-doped liquid argon is considered in this paper for LEGEND-1000, which could achieve large background reduction without requiring significant modification to the baseline design.
description: Pre-print for article submission to JINST
Social inequalities, length of hospital stay for chronic conditions and the mediating role of comorbidity and discharge destination: A multilevel analysis of hospital administrative data linked to the population census in Switzerland
Creators: name: Bayer-Oglesby, Lucy
name: Zumbrunn, Andrea
name: Bachmann, Nicole
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 360 - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

description: Social factors are recognized determinants of morbidity and mortality and also have an impact on use of medical services. The objective of this study was to assess the associations of educational attainment, social and financial resources, and migration factors with length of hospital stays for chronic conditions. In addition, the study investigated the role of comorbidity and discharge destination in mediating these associations. The study made use of nationwide inpatient data that was linked with Swiss census data. The study sample included n = 141,307 records of n = 92,623 inpatients aged 25 to 84 years, hospitalized between 2010 and 2016 for a chronic condition. Cross-classified multilevel models and mediation analysis were performed. Patients with upper secondary and compulsory education stayed longer in hospital compared to those with tertiary education (β 0.24 days, 95% CI 0.14–0.33; β 0.37, 95% CI 0.27–0.47, respectively) when taking into account demographic factors, main diagnosis and clustering on patient and hospital level. However, these effects were almost fully mediated by burden of comorbidity. The effect of living alone on length of stay (β 0.60 days, 95% CI 0.50–0.70) was partially mediated by both burden of comorbidities (33%) and discharge destination (30.4%). (Semi-) private insurance was associated with prolonged stays, but an inverse effect was observed for colon and breast cancer. Allophone patients had also prolonged hospital stays (β 0.34, 95% CI 0.13–0.55). Hospital stays could be a window of opportunity to discern patients who need additional time and support to better cope with everyday life after discharge, reducing the risks of future hospital stays. However, inpatient care in Switzerland seems to take into account rather obvious individual needs due to lack of immediate support at home, but not necessarily more hidden needs of patients with low health literacy and less resources to assert their interests within the health system.
YANGI O'ZBEKISTONDA MA'NAVIY-MA'RIFIY MUHITNI TAKOMILLASHTIRISHNING KONSEPTUAL ASOSLARI
Creators: name: Kunisheva, Nadira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada Yangi O‘zbekiston strategiyasida ma’naviy sohani yangi bosqichga ko‘tarish va ma’naviy tahdidlardan muhofaza qilish shartlari va konseptual asoslari haqida so‘z yuritiladi.
Scintillation Properties of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals Prepared by Ligand-Assisted Reprecipitation and Dual Effect of Polyacrylate Encapsulation toward Scalable Ultrafast Radiation Detectors
Creators: name: Cova, Francesca
name: Erroi, Andrea
name: Zaffalon, Matteo L.
name: Cemmi, Alessia
name: Di Sarcina, Ilaria
name: Perego, Jacopo
name: Monguzzi, Angelo
name: Comotti, Angiolina
name: Rossi, Francesca
name: Carulli, Francesco
name: Brovelli, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (LHP-NCs) embedded in polymeric hosts are gaining attention as scalable and low-cost scintillation detectors for technologically relevant applications. Despite rapid progress, little is currently known about the scintillation properties and stability of LHP-NCs prepared by the ligand assisted reprecipitation (LARP) method, which allows mass scalability at room temperature unmatched by any other type of nanostructure, and the implications of incorporating LHP-NCs into polyacrylate hosts are still largely debated. Here, we show that LARP-synthesized CsPbBr3 NCs are comparable to particles from hot-injection routes and unravel the dual effect of polyacrylate incorporation, where the partial degradation of LHP-NCs luminescence is counterbalanced by the passivation of electron-poor defects by the host acrylic groups. Experiments on NCs with tailored surface defects show that the balance between such antithetical effects of polymer embedding is determined by the surface defect density of the NCs and provide guidelines for further material optimization.
OpenSoundLab – A virtual sound laboratory for the arts
Creators: name: Zeller, Ludwig
name: Barfuss, Hannes
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2022

description: How can a virtual sound laboratory allow for new and exciting ways of sonic interaction in the context of the arts? Our project addresses this question by developing the virtual sound lab ‘OpenSoundLab’ (as an open-source fork of ‘SoundStage VR’ by Logan Olson) that introduces to the artistic and musical production of sonic media with the help of the VR goggles ‘Meta Quest 2’. The aim is to combine the physical experience of working on spatial experimental systems, which is often perceived as positive and productive, with the advantages of digital tools and thus to enable independent learning and experimentation. The virtual lab allows to become familiar with the basics of creative sound generation and processing. Specially produced video tutorials play a central role here, which can be viewed at any time within the virtual environment and thus make it possible to study in individual lab environments independently of time and place. Furthermore, ‘OpenSoundLab’ may serve as an open-source tool for the professional and academic community of musicians, performers, and artists alike. In our reflection, we develop the notion of ‘cooking’ sound while ‘flowing’ in a mixed environment and apply this to experimental work in a virtual sound laboratory.
Distraction and the Use of Modern Communication Devices in the Train Driver's Cab
Creators: name: Stoller, Nicole
name: Brüngger, Jonas
name: Wahrstätter, Stefan
name: Dittrich, Melisa
name: Nisoli, Giulio
name: Hostettler, Karin
name: Fischer, Katrin
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: railway
subject: train driver
subject: distraction
subject: digital devices
subject: 003 - Systeme

description: Swiss railway companies provide their train drivers with modern communication devices such as cell phones and tablets. The use of these devices is necessary for train drivers to perform their tasks. However, the use of these devices can distract the drivers to an extent not to be underestimated. Increasing irregularities and unsafe actions, including signals passed at danger, can be attributed at least to a certain extent to the distraction of train drivers by these mobile and other digital devices in the driver’s cab. The final goal of this study was to identify appropriate measures to reduce distraction or its consequences without restricting the scope of action of the train drivers or hindering them in the performance of their primary tasks (i. e., safe train driving). We investigated which digital devices and which of their functions in the driver’s cab lead to distraction in what situations. For this purpose, we conducted 14 qualitative observations in the driver’s cab and six interviews with rail experts. Based on the results, we suggested how to address distraction in the driver’s cab from a work psychology and design perspective. To achieve a holistic approach, we developed measures that address the individual driver as well as the design of technology and the organizational processes. The development and validation of appropriate measures was realized in close collaboration with experts of several railway companies. The outcome is a set of 26 preventive and protective measures. Preventive measures aim to avoid distraction, e.g., by restricting irrelevant information from entering the driver’s cab during the ride. Protective measures reduce the negative consequences of distraction, e.g., the feature of manual and temporary suppression of incoming messages. By carefully selecting and implementing these measures, the railway companies can ultimately support their train drivers to use modern communication devices in the driver’s cab safely and sensibly.
To Touch or not to Touch? Differences in Affordance Resonating with Materialities. Hard and Soft Sensors embedded in an Artistic Research Setting
Creators: name: Kovacevic, Toni
name: Kellermeyer, Jonas
name: Torpus, Jan-Lewe
name: Kellner, Sophie Stephanie
name: Spindler, Cedric
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ubiquitous Computing
subject: Human Computer Interaction
subject: 003 - Systeme

description: In this paper, we present theoretical basics, creative development processes, and partial evaluation results of human behavior and attitude in a dramaturgically staged interactive environment. The installation is set up in a media lab and the separate rooms are carefully designed to provoke emotional and cognitive human reactions. The corresponding installed sensor-actuator system includes different types of embedded sensors and tangible interfaces to create a fully embodied experience for participants walking through the artistic research facility. We evaluate and compare two opposite design approaches to investigate the impact of dramaturgy, design strategies, and furnishing on affective human-machine correlations and appropriation processes.
title: Kulturpolitische Konzepte zum Aufbau nationaler Identität in Lateinamerika
Creators: name: Achberger, Marga
Year: 2008

description: Die Arbeit „Kulturpolitische Konzepte zum Aufbau nationaler Identität in Lateinamerika. Mexiko und Peru im Vergleich“ untersucht mit Hilfe der Methode der Hermeneutik die historische Entwicklung der jeweiligen nationalen Identitätsdiskurse und die von den Regierungen dieser Länder forcierten kulturpolitischen Strategien zur Etablierung eines nationalen Bewusstseins in der Bevölkerung. Es zeigt sich dabei, dass sich insbesondere die populistischen Regierungen von Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940) in Mexiko und jene von Augusto B. Leguía (1919-1930) und Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) in Peru eines kulturellen Nationalismus zur Integration der großteils indigenen Bevölkerung in eine homogene Nation nach westlichem Vorbild bedienten. Den postrevolutionären Regierungen Mexikos gelang es dabei in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Intellektuelle und Künstler in ihre Kultur- und Identitätspolitik mit einzubeziehen und so Erfolge bei der Verbreitung von Vorstellungen einer auf der Mestizaje aufbauenden Mexicanidad zu verbuchen. Währenddessen entwickelten in Peru Intellektuelle wie José Carlos Mariátegui und Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre ein außerhalb der Regierungspolitik stehendes nationales Projekt. In den späten 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahren unternahm die Militärregierung Velasco den Versuch, die bisher nur ansatzweise erfolgte Umsetzung einer umfassenden nationalistischen staatlichen Kulturpolitik zur Konstruktion einer peruanischen Nation nachzuholen Auf lange Sicht erzielte diese jedoch nicht den gewünschten Effekt. Insgesamt gesehen war die Hegemonie des Staates im nationalen Identitätsdiskurs in Mexiko ebenso wie in Peru nie absolut. Alternative kollektive Identitäten sozialer Gruppen konnten sich weiterhin gegenüber den staatlichen Einflüssen halten.
Brand Loyalty und User Engagement in der TWINT App
Creators: name: Schär, Savannah
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie FHNW
Year: 2022
Subjects: Brand Loyalty
User Engagement
Mobile Payment
Applikationen
Gamification
Ästhetik
Perceived ease of use
Task-Technology-Fit
Emotionen

description: TWINT ist mit mittlerweile 4.5 Millionen aktiven Nutzer:innen die führende Mobile Payment Applikation der Schweiz. Die TWINT AG hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, langfristig zu einer „Love Brand“ zu werden, welche stark in den Alltag der Nutzenden integriert und aus diesem nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Um diesem Ziel näher zu kommen, sollen die Brand Loyalty und das User Engagement erhöht werden. Zu diesem Zweck wird in vorliegender Arbeit untersucht, mit welchen psychologischen Faktoren die Brand Loyalty und das User Engagement zusammenhängen, und wie diese bereits in der TWINT App umgesetzt werden. Anhand der Literatur konnten die Faktoren Gamification, Perceived ease of use, Ästhetik, Task-Technology-Fit und Emotionen identifiziert werden. Es zeigte sich, dass alle Faktoren, abgesehen von negativen Emotionen, einen Einfluss auf die Brand Loyalty und das User Engagement haben. Vor allem bei den Faktoren Gamification und positiven Emotionen besteht noch Verbesserungspotenzial. Darum werden Handlungsempfehlungen vorgeschlagen, wie diese umgesetzt werden können.
Capturing the successes and failures during pandemic teaching: An investigation of university students’ perceptions of their faculty’s emergency remote teaching approaches
Creators: name: Nussli, Natalie
name: Oh, Kevin
name: Davis, Jason P.
Publisher: name: SAGE
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: online teaching
subject: emergency remote teaching
subject: post-COVID-19 education
subject: hybrid teaching
subject: mobile pedagogy
subject: ubiquitous learning
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: This research investigates teacher candidates’ experiences during two semesters of imposed remote instruction during a pandemic. Through qualitative research interviewing, the perceptions of a purposeful sample of five preservice teachers were captured to investigate the faculty’s emergency remote teaching approaches. The theory-based interview guide was developed based on six concepts, namely, feedback, care, student engagement, choices, collaboration, and autonomous learning. The results present factors affecting the quality of feedback. Several challenges were identified in the way and the timing in which content was structured, presented, and released. The interviewed participants’ engagement levels were determined by regular synchronous interaction, highly structured learning platforms, and precise communication. The challenges of collaboration, a lack of social cohesion, and a lack of adaptations made to the digital curriculum affected students’ motivation, engagement, and efficiency levels. Distinct structures, clearly communicated purposes, and a well-defined organization were considered to be key to ensuring learning autonomy. The study contributes to refocusing efforts with a view towards post-pandemic teaching.
title: Auseinandersetzung mit der Entnazifizierung in der Memoirenliteratur
Creators: name: Platzer-Stessl, Eveline Maria
Year: 2008

description: Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Entnazifizierung in der Memoirenliteratur. Wie ging der Entnazifizierungsprozess realpolitisch über die Bühne, bzw. welchen Zeitraum nahm er in Anspruch? Welche Rolle spielte dabei der Umstand, dass Österreich zumindest am Beginn der Nachkriegszeit nicht über volle politische Souveränität verfügte (Besatzungszonen)? Angeblich wurden die ehemaligen Eliten ausgetauscht, aber war das praktisch überhaupt möglich, wenn man den wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg des Landes nicht gefährden wollte? Der erste Abschnitt widmet sich der Geschichte und Kontinuität der politischen Lager Österreichs und greift damit ein Thema auf, das sich auch in der Memoirenliteratur inhaltlich widerspiegelt. Daran anschließend werden besonders exponierte Persönlichkeiten der verwendeten Memoirenliteratur verschiedener politischer Richtungen – darunter auch die Gründungsmitglieder des VdU – näher vorgestellt. In Folge soll ein Überblick über die Entnazifizierungsmaßnahmen in Österreich gegeben werden, dabei sollen die Probleme hinsichtlich der juristischen Beschlussfassung und der realpolitischen Durchführung der Entnazifizierungsmaßnahmen näher durchleuchtet werden. Das vierte Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit der Gründung des VdU und der sich daraus entwickelnden politischen Dynamik im Hinblick auf die Wiederintegration ehemaliger Nationalsozialisten. Am Ende der Arbeit werden die Schwerpunkte und Perspektiven der ausgewählten Memoiren nochmals zusammenfassend resümiert, um etwaige Tendenzen herauszufiltern. Der Zeitrahmen dieser Arbeit erstreckt sich von 1945 bis 1956, also von der Gründung der Provisorischen Regierung Renner bis zu der Übernahme des VdU durch die den nationalen Flügel in der Partei und der Gründung der FPÖ.
Patterns of students’ well-being in early adolescence: A latent class and two-wave latent transition analysis
Creators: name: Kassis, Wassilis
name: Janousch, Clarissa
name: Sidler, Petra
name: Aksoy, Dilan
name: Favre, Céline Anne
name: Ertanir, Beyhan
name: Nazari, Nabi
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Resilience
subject: Well-being
subject: School
subject: Adolescence
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Adolescence is a developmental stage with high risks in terms of psychological challenges and adjustments related to subjective well-being. Thus far, the findings reported a general decrease in school-related well-being over time. We considered well-being a multidimensional and latent construct that included both feeling good and functioning well at the individual level, and focused on the interplay between hedonic and eudemonic factors. Data of = 377 high school students in Switzerland were used by conducting an online longitudinal study with two waves. Baseline data was gathered in autumn 2019 and the subsequent time point occurred 1 year later (2020; grades seven and eight). By applying a person-oriented analytical approach via latent class and latent transition analyses, we were able to identify and compare longitudinally three distinct well-being patterns and the respective trajectories. Regarding the distribution of the well-being patterns for both waves, significant changes over time were identified: particularly from wave 1 to wave 2, where there was an increase for the low and high well-being patterns, yet a decrease for the middle pattern. Comparing the stability of the respective patterns over time, the high well-being level showed the highest stability of all identified patterns. Multinomial logistic regression of covariates to the identified latent status membership established for both waves showed low but significant effects of socio-demographic variables. At wave 1, having a migration background was associated with a significant increase of being in a low versus high well-being level pattern. At wave 2, being female was associated with a significant increase of being in a low versus high and in a middle versus high well-being pattern.
In situ characterization of the reaction-diffusion behavior during the gradient interphase formation of polyetherimide with a high-temperature epoxy system
Creators: name: Zweifel, Lucian
name: Brauner, Christian
name: Teuwen, Julie
name: Dransfeld, Clemens
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620 - Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: This study presents two novel methods for in situ characterization of the reaction-diffusion process during the co-curing of a polyetherimide thermoplastic interlayer with an epoxy-amine thermoset. The first method was based on hot stage experiments using a computer vision point tracker algorithm to detect and trace diffusion fronts, and the second method used space- and time-resolved Raman spectroscopy. Both approaches provided essential information, e.g., type of transport phenomena and diffusion rate. They can also be combined and serve to elucidate phenomena occurring during diffusion up to phase separation of the gradient interphase between the epoxy system and the thermoplastic. Accordingly, it was possible to distinguish reaction-diffusion mechanisms, describe the diffusivity of the present system and evaluate the usability of the above-mentioned methods.
Soziale Roboter auf dem Weg in die Praxis
Creators: name: Schulze, Hartmut
name: Kauffeld, Simone
name: Tanner, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soziale Roboter
subject: Akzeptanz
subject: Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion
subject: 003 - Systeme

description: Soziale Roboter oder genauer Roboter mit sozialen Funktionen nehmen in strategischen Überlegungen zur Zukunft in Arbeits-, Wirtschafts-, Gesundheitsbereichen und auch im Privaten und der Freizeit eine gewichtige Rolle ein (Strünck et al. 2022; Ulhøi und Nørskov 2022). Die Kompensation und der Ausgleich eines Mangels an Fachkräften werden über die Industrie hinaus zunehmend auch in Branchen des wissensintensiven Sektors wie denen der Gesundheit und Pflege, der Bildung und Dienstleistung als wesentliche Potenziale gesehen (Tsai et al. 2022). Die hier angesprochenen Roboter sind zunehmend mobil, d. h. sie können sich auf Basis von Sensoren, Aktuatoren und künstlicher Intelligenz in Räumen orientieren und bewegen. Und sie werden zunehmend autonom, d. h. sie können selbsttätig Zielhierarchien abarbeiten und werden unabhängiger von menschlicher Intervention. In der Industrie zeigt sich diese neue Generation in Gestalt von „kollaborierenden Robotern“ (sog. COBOTs), die ihre Schutzräume verlassen und zunehmend Hand in Hand mit Menschen z. B. in der Montage zusammenarbeiten. In Dienstleistungs-, Gesundheitsund Bildungsbereichen handelt es sich demgegenüber v. a. um „Service Roboter“ (IFR 2022, S. 7), die zusätzlich mit sozial-kommunikativen Funktionen ausgestattet sind und prototypisch z. B. in Einkaufszentren, Krankenhäusern, Altersheimen, im Bahnhof sowie im Schul- und im betrieblichen Weiterbildungskontext eingesetzt werden.
Osteocytes signaling events induced by intermittent vs continuous Teriparatide treatment affect in vitro osteoblast differentiation and mineralization
Creators: name: Bertacchini, Jessika
name: Smargiassi, Alberto
name: Checchi, Marta
name: Tenedini, Elena
name: Montosi, Giuliana
name: Vinet, Jonathan
name: Ferretti, Marzia
name: Palumbo, Carla
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Osteocyte; Osteoblast; Teriparatide; Wisp-2; mineralization; gene array

description: PTH(1-34), also known as Teriparatide, is an active anabolic drug used in the treatment of some forms of osteoporosis and occasionally exploited to speed fracture healing. The effect of such therapies are dependent on the type of administration, in fact it has been largely demonstrated that a short administration of Teriparatide (also called intermittent) increases the bone mass, meanwhile a long administration of the same agent (known as continuous) leads to an increased resorption. The molecular reason why the type of administration is so critical for the fate of the bone remodeling is still largely unknown but it is probably due to the fact that it affects several signaling pathways and alters the biological activity of a cohort of cells: osteoblasts, lining cells, osteoclasts, and osteocytes. In the present work, we firstly focused the attention on molecular events induced by intermittent vs continuous Teriparatide treatment in a well-known osteocytes in vitro model, the MLO-Y4 cells. By the use of a gene array platform, we found many molecules upregulated or downregulated depending on the the temporal administration modes, suggesting that the drug affects in diverse manner the osteocytes related signaling pathways. In particular, we paid attention to Wisp-2, a protein of the Wnt pathway that has been demonstrated to be able to interact and influence the differentiation of osteoblasts into osteocytes and their mineralization. Secondly, through the mineralization assay, we analyzed the functional effects, involving the differentiation of osteoblast IDG-SW3 cell line, upon the conditioning culture with MLO-Y4 medium, that were pre-treated with short and long time administration of Teriparatide. These findings, consistent with the crucial role performed by osteocytes on osteoblast differentiation, clarify the molecular events downstream the short treatment with Teriparatide, suggesting that the perturbation of certain signaling patwhays, such as the Wnt pathway, is crucial for the positive regulation of bone formation.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Supplement) 2017
It All Begins on the Surface
Creators: name: Russell, Catherine
name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: It All Begins on the Surface, Being a Sedimentologist in the Anthropocene is a set of discussions transcribed and edited toward an article for the Anthropocene Curriculum materials emerging from the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, and as part of the extended Temporary continent. project. These generous discussions began as conversations between Dr. Catherine Russell, Anthropocene sedimentologist and US-UK Fulbright-Lloyd’s Visiting Scholar at the University of New Orleans, and Jamie Allen. It all started on a walk, continued on a bus trip, and proceeded through online calls, messaging, and email, including during a pandemic and its lockdowns, for quite a long time—three touching and delicate years of intermittent check-ins paying witness to changing perspectives, sometimes difficult realizations, and the generative magic of discussion between people with rather different perspectives. When the Anthropocene River group witnessed the ongoing transformations taking place along the Mississippi River, it was already clear that we are in a period in which the world will increasingly expect, need, and rely on “answers” from people like Catherine—geologists, geoscientists, geographers, and the like. That is, those wehope can help us make sense of “the Earth,” and, perhaps, how to better be Earthlings.
Headwaters at the Head Waters
Creators: name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: The “precise” geographical location of a river’s source is a label attributed much significance across a range of disciplinary contexts. Yet, as the example of the Mississippi asserts, the headwaters designation is typically one that is far from clear-cut. Despite this, the Mississippi’s touristically designated “source” remains a fixture on maps of North American territory and collective cultural consciousness alike, as Jamie Allen for Temporary continent. describes in this short reflection.
title: Schreiben über Stalinismus und Kommunismus
Creators: name: Bisanz, Irene
Year: 2008

description: In ihren autobiografischen Texten, die heute der RenegatInnenliteratur zugeordnet werden, berichten Margarete Buber-Neumann („Als Gefangene bei Stalin und Hitler“ 1949, „Von Potsdam nach Moskau“ 1957, „Freiheit, du bist wieder mein…“ 1978) und Susanne Leonhard („Gestohlenes Leben“ 1956) von ihrer Zuwendung und späteren Abwendung von der kommunistischen Partei, von der Emigration in die Sowjetunion sowie der Gefangenschaft in den Lagern unter Stalin und – in Buber-Neumanns Fall – unter Hitler. Die Textanalyse der Zeuginnenberichte widmet sich zuerst der Frage, ob Autobiografien authentisch sein können und wie Authentizität erzeugt wird. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht schließlich die Form der literarischen Verarbeitung traumatischer Erfahrungen und der politisch heiklen Vergangenheit. Der Zeitpunkt des Schreibens und die unterschiedlichen politischen Ausgangspunkte der Autorinnen in Bezug auf den Kommunismus spielen dabei eine entscheidende Rolle und wirken sich deutlich auf die Beschreibung des Wegs zum Kommunismus und zur Partei, den Blick auf Stalin und die Sowjetunion sowie die Wiedergabe der Erfahrungen in der Gefangenschaft aus. Ein Abriss über die Rezeption der Texte vertieft die Frage nach deren politischen Dimension und veranschaulicht das Problem des „Entweder – oder“ der kommunistischen beziehungsweise antikommunistischen Ideologie, zwischen welcher sich die Texte bewegen. Weiters sind in der Untersuchung der Texte genderspezifische Fragen relevant: die Position einer dominierenden männlichen Figur im Text, das Frauenbild der Autorinnen, die Darstellung des (weiblichen) Körpers in der Gefangenschaft sowie die Rolle von Zwischenmenschlichkeit und Sexualität.
Recomposing the E-Meter
Creators: name: Allen, Jamie
name: Miyazaki, Shintaro
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: sound
subject: technology
subject: imaginary
subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: Focusing on the example of the E-meter, an electrical instrument used in Church of Scientology ‘audits’, Recomposing the E-meter is a practical hardware workshop and conceptual inquiry into the heterogeneous discourses this circuitry has provoked. A collaboration with Shintaro Miyazaki, the workshop supports people to make their own version of this galvanic detector, analyzing and recomposing its function. Participants create their own Scientology™ E-meter, and in the process better understand the over-coded, apocryphal, technological imaginary that continues to be built around it. Recomposing the E-Meter forms part of a series of projects on the topic of Apocryphal Technologies.
Reptile Brain
Creators: name: Carver, Louise Emily
name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Onassis Foundation
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: Chimeras. Inventory of Synthetic Cognition is a collective glossary on Artificial Intelligence exploring the synthetic nature of cognition from a variety of perspectives: interspecies, crip, monstrous, feminist, distributed, and decolonial, amongst others. Contributions to the lexicographical compendium include entries on the "Reptile Brain" and "Technogenesis". The publication is edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach, produced with the Onassis Foundation in Athens, and forecasts into speculative terrains.
How to be (Ir)rational
Creators: name: Carver, Louise Emily
name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Tropic Editions
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: Almanac readers perennially write in to request advice. They want to know how to predict futures, and the terms of trade that might be available. This guide moves through the changing, strange nature of exchange in times beyond the Anthropocene, wherein worth is re-evaluated and values are liquidized.
ECONOMIC VALUEATION OF AGRO BIODIVERSITY AND ITS DETRMINANT IN WEST GOJJAM ZONE, AMHARA REGION, ETHIOPIA: CHOICE EXPERIMENT APPROACH
Creators: name: Teshager Mazengia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: ECONOMIC VALUEATION OF AGRO BIODIVERSITY AND ITS 

DETRMINANT IN WEST GOJJAM ZONE, AMHARA REGION, 

ETHIOPIA: CHOICE EXPERIMENT APPROACH
Converging orexinergic and reticular thalamic inputs on thalamic paraventricular neurons in normal conditions and experimental sleeping sickness
Creators: name: Bertini, Giuseppe
name: Lorenzetto, Erika
name: Laperchia, Claudia
name: Bentivoglio, Marina
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroinflammation; diencephalon; African trypanosomiasis; immunofluorescence; confocal microscopy; orexin

description: A subset of excitatory neurons in the lateral hypothalamus, known to express the peptide orexin/hypocretin (Ox), play a key role in maintaining wakefulness. Projections from Ox neurons are widely distributed in the neuraxis but terminations are heavily concentrated in the thalamus along the midline, especially the paraventricular thalamic nucleus (PVT). The same areas receive afferents from inhibitory, GABAergic neurons expressing parvalbumin (Pv) in the thalamic reticular nucleus (Rt), which has long been considered essential for sleep regulation. While the two circuitries have been regarded as distinct, we tested the hypothesis that PVT neurons represent a common target for both afferent systems by means of confocal microscopy of multiple immunofluorescence labeling in the mouse brain. Calretinin (Cr) was used as marker of PVT neurons. Almost 90% of PVT perikarya were contacted by Pv+ terminals, confirming the prominent role of Rt in modulating PVT activity. Interestingly, about a third of these neurons were also reached by Ox+ terminals, suggesting a key role of the thalamic midline in integrating information pertaining vigilance state control. PVT cells receiving Ox+ but not Pv+ contacts were observed only rarely. In mice infected with the parasite Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the causal agent of the neuroinflammatory disease “sleeping sickness”, Pv+ afferents into PVT were largely preserved, while orexinergic fibers appeared fragmented and reduced in density. Importantly, the fraction of PVT perikarya receiving both Pv+ and Ox+ terminals was reduced by about 50%. The substantially decreased convergence of the two regulatory systems, in association with infection-induced disrupted sleep and sleep/wake cycles, further supports the hypothesis that PVT contributes to vigilance and arousal in physiological conditions.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Supplement) 2017
Understanding the Device Physics of Organic Solar Cells through Low Temperature Measurements
Creators: name: TANG, YAHUI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 401699
subject: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: While the record efficiency of organic solar cells reaches 18% due to the development of non-fullerene materials, little agreement has been achieved on the mechanisms behind the success. This project, therefore, investigated the device physics in these new-generation organic solar cells, mainly through low-temperature device measurements. Through this project, significant advances in understanding the device physics of organic solar cells have been made, with the critical role that temperature plays in the operation of non-fullerene based organic solar cells highlighted. The findings of this thesis potentially pave a pathway towards a better design of organic photovoltaic materials and devices.
The importance of definitions in crystallography
Creators: name: Anosova, Olga
name: Kurlin, Vitaliy
name: Senechal, Marjorie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 51F20, 51N20, 51K05

description: This paper was motivated by the articles "Same or different - that is the question" in CrystEngComm (July 2020) and "Change to the definition of a crystal" in the IUCr newsletter (June 2021). Experimental approaches to crystal comparisons require rigorously defined classifications in crystallography and beyond. Since crystal structures are determined in a rigid form, their strongest equivalence in practice is rigid motion, which is a composition of translations and rotations in 3-dimensional space. Conventional representations based on reduced cells and standardizations theoretically distinguish all periodic crystals. However, all cell-based representations are inherently discontinuous under almost any atomic displacement that can arbitrarily scale up a reduced cell. Hence comparing millions of known structures in materials databases needs continuous distance metrics.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. The latest version is maintained at https://kurlin.org/research-papers.php#IUCrJ2024
The cerebellum-periaqueductal gray connectivity: a constrained spherical deconvolution tractography study
Creators: name: Bertino, Salvatore
name: Cacciola, Alberto
name: Basile, Gianpaolo
name: Santoro, Giuseppe
name: Righi, Maria
name: Bruschetta, Daniele
name: Vermiglio, Giovanna
name: Cutroneo, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Periaqueductal gray; cerebellum; MRI; tractography; SIFT

description: The periaqueductal gray (PAG) is a relevant neuronal station situated in the midbrain, which play a pivotal role in triggering behavioral responses to stressful stimuli, such as pain or threat. Current knowledge concerning PAG functions is based on several tract-tracing studies conducted on animals, which unveiled PAG connectivity to both cortical and subcortical areas [1]. Considering that descending projections to spinal cord reach the dorsal horn and connections to motor related cortical areas have never been described yet, the neural structure which best fits PAG modulation of motor behavior is the cerebellum. Direct connections between PAG and cerebellar cortex were firstly described in cats and neurophysiological studies conducted on animals, suggesting either direct or undirect PAG influence to cerebellar activity. In the last decades, the rise of diffusion weighted imaging and tractography have made possible to reliably reconstruct white matter pathways in the human brain. To the best of our knowledge, few tractography studies explored PAG connectivity in humans and the evidences concerning direct or undirect connections with the cerebellar cortex are still sparse. Aimed at investigating PAG connectivity with particular focus on PAG-cerebellum connections, we used high quality diffusion weighted imaging data of thirty healthy subjects from the Human Connectome Project. Fiber tracts have been reconstructed using Spherical Informed Filtering of Tractograms, a novel algorithm improving streamline reconstruction and selection [2]. Connectivity analysis revealed that the PAG is mainly connected with subcortical structures, such as the thalamus and the cerebellum. Taken together our results show a direct interplay between the PAG and the cerebellum, thus suggesting the cerebellum as a likely candidate to modulate complex features of motor behavior in stressful conditions, such as adaptation after social defeat and computing strategies to avoid threatening situations.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Supplement) 2017