cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU
Creators: name: Veras, Dimitri
name: Crepp, Justin R.
name: Ford, Eric B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct imaging searches have begun to detect planetary and brown dwarf companions and to place constraints on the presence of giant planets at large separations from their host star. This work helps to motivate such planet searches by predicting a population of young giant planets that could be detectable by direct imaging campaigns. Both the classical core accretion and the gravitational instability model for planet formation are hard-pressed to form long-period planets in situ. Here, we show that dynamical instabilities among planetary systems that originally formed multiple giant planets much closer to the host star could produce a population of giant planets at large (~100 AU - 100000 AU) separations. We estimate the limits within which these planets may survive, quantify the efficiency of gravitational scattering into both stable and unstable wide orbits, and demonstrate that population analyses must take into account the age of the system. We predict that planet scattering creates a population of detectable giant planets on wide orbits that decreases in number on timescales of ~10 Myr. We demonstrate that several members of such populations should be detectable with current technology, quantify the prospects for future instruments, and suggest how they could place interesting constraints on planet formation models.
description: 13 pages (emulateapj format), 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Appreciate the Awesomeness of the Universe: Eamonn Ansbro at the OAE's 3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Creators: name: Ansbro, Eamonn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy Education

description: Students can be encouraged to astronomy by what I call the ‘Amazing Astronomy Program Initiative’. It is important that students own projects and feel connected in an exciting new way of using remote observing. Students carry out astronomy observations and research projects using robotic telescopes from there schools and colleges. Projects of interest can be adaptable with hands-on activities focusing on concepts in astronomy, digital imaging, light & colour, etc. These elements alone are designed to support authentic inquiry: e.g., requesting images with a robotic telescope; using image processing software to enhance and make measurements of images; asking questions; connecting science to everyday life.
CDH Project Charter – Princeton Geniza Project 2020-2021
Creators: name: Budak, Nick
name: Rustow, Marina
name: Koeser, Rebecca Sutton
name: Doroudian, Gissoo
name: Ermolaev, Natalia
name: Luescher, Stephanie
name: Richman, Rachel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Project Charter

description: Project charter for CDH Research Partnership - Geniza 2020-2021. The charter is the foundational document that describes the rationale, goals, plan of work, resources needed, terms and conditions, and outcomes of a Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton (hereafter CDH) project. Charters are written by core members of a project team in a series of planning meetings taking place over the course of a month. The planning process is intensive, collaborative, and requires substantial input from everyone on a team. Charters serve as formalized agreements among all team members on such crucial questions as scope, technical design, infrastructural needs, and success criteria.
 This is a digital copy of a “living document” at a single point in time. Charters are amended as necessary throughout the project lifecycle to document major changes and note when the “Built by CDH” Software Warranty and “Built by CDH” Long Term Service Agreement take effect, and serve as part of the CDH project archive. Certain components of the Charter, such as the Roadmap, are intended to be updated more frequently as development progresses and priorities naturally shift. For more information, see the Charter amendment policy located in the Agreements section of this Charter.
 CDH charters and their planning documents exist in several forms as we have refined them over the years and tailored them to the several types of projects we have supported. For more about CDH project management, including the charter process, visit: https://cdh.princeton.edu/research/project-management.
title: Rezension: Niehoff, Marion (2003), Fremdsprachenlernen mit Multimedia. Anforderungen aus Sicht der NutzerInnen. Eine qualitative Untersuchung zum selbstorganisierten Lernen
Creators: name: Mitschian, Haymo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die großen Erwartungen, die der anspruchsvolle Titel weckt, werden—um es vorweg zu nehmen—leider enttäuscht. Die an der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder entstandene Dissertation liefert nur marginale Erkenntnisse zum Fremdsprachenlernen mit Multimedia, weil weder das eine noch das andere in einer fundierten Weise erfasst wird. Den Kern der Arbeit bildet die teilnehmende Beobachtung und Befragung von acht Personen, die mit Hilfe marktüblicher Lernsoftware Fremdsprachenkenntnisse auf Grundstufenniveau in den Sprachen Chinesisch, Englisch, Französisch, Isländisch, Niederländisch und Spanisch zu erwerben versuchen. Das "selbstorganisiert" im Untertitel bezieht sich auf den Umstand, dass das Lernen kursunabhängig stattfindet, das "qualitativ" ergibt sich, weil bei der geringen Anzahl der VPN mit Quantitäten nichts zu machen ist.
?By some kind of Jewish practice?: a case study of doctor Roderigo Lopez and the Early Modern New Christian experience
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Lacy
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: The Early Modern period saw dramatic changes in European society. The New Christian phenomenon, which began in 1492 with the expulsion of Jews from Spain, coincided with the beginning of this period and has long been identified as a catalyst in the modernization of Western culture. Occupying a unique place within European society, New Christians straddled pre-existing boundaries between religious and social groups; they were ideally placed to take advantage of the social, political, and economic shifts then taking place. The lives of some New Christians like Roderigo Lopez support the notion that, in certain cases, potential economic and political gain often outweighed the taboo of utilizing the services of Jews and those of Jewish descent. The intersection of core ?Jewish? values, combined with the unique societal position of New Christians, allowed Lopez and those like him to succeed, where pre-existing notions said they ?should not.?
description: The Iberian Peninsula and the creation of the new Christian phenomenon, 1391-1497 -- Jewish history and the new Christian experience in England and the Netherlands in the Early Modern Period -- Doctor Roderigo Lopez, a case study -- Comparative studies
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Increasing the reading rate of Braille through telegraphic text and scaffolding
Creators: name: Eskenazi, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: Braille reading is a significantly slower process than sighted reading, but manipulations can be introduced to affect this speed (Knowlton & Wetzel, 1996). This study removed 20% of words within the text (known as telegraphic text) and provided context-based scaffolding to increase reading rate and maintain high levels of recall. Participants read six stories, were timed for reading rate, answered questions concerning details, and completed a demographic questionnaire about their reading experiences with Braille. Telegraphic text significantly increased reading rate and scaffolding significantly increased participants? memory for story details. Age, age of Braille acquisition, and age of blindness were negatively correlated with reading rate and amount of time spent using Braille was positively correlated with reading rate. User preference does not coincide with either speed or ability to recall story details. Implications for future research and applied technologies are discussed.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Screening effects in a density functional theory based description of molecular junctions in the Coulomb blockade regime
Creators: name: Stadler, R.
name: geskin, V.
name: Cornil, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recently introduced a method based on density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green's function techniques (NEGF) for calculating the addition energies of single molecule nano-junctions in the Coulomb blockade (CB) regime. Here we apply this approach to benzene molecules lying parallel and at various distances from two aluminum fcc (111) surfaces, and discuss the distance dependence in our calculations in terms of electrostatic screening effects. The addition energies near the surface are reduced by about a factor of two, which is comparable to previously reported calculations employing a computationally far more demanding quasi-particle description.
Additional file 2 of Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Aranda-Reneo, Isaac
name: Pedraz-Marcos, Azucena
name: Pulido-Fuentes, Montserrat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S2. Risk factor analysis of each burnout subtype.
Analyzing the impact of high school principal's messages on student perceptions of the high school experience
Creators: name: Lawrence, Danielle A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Communication in education
subject: School principals

description: This thesis looks at whether communication practices used by the high school principals can impact students? perceptions of the high school experience upon or nearing graduation. The case study method was used to sample two schools in the Baltimore City Public School System (BPCSS). Interviews with principals were conducted to analyze the cognitive process of message development. Focus group discussions were conducted with students to analyze student responses to principals? messages and school themes. Findings from my study can be used for recruitment and retention efforts within schools, as well as add to communication research for measuring message success. The theoretical frameworks to support my study are: O?Keefe?s (1988) Theory of Message Design Logics (MDL) and Bandura?s (1977) Social Learning Theory (SLT), as well as Grunig and Hunt?s (1984) two-way communication model.
description: Thesis (M.S.)--Towson University, 2011.
Shining a light on campus offenses: a look at student offending and victimization at Towson University
Creators: name: Kirsch, Janet Julia
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: With only forty percent of crimes reported, the underreporting of criminal incidents is a national problem as well as a campus problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the crimes that occur at Towson University. Since drug and alcohol usage is a hidden crime and not likely to be reported, this study also examined the extent of drug and alcohol usage. The objective was to see if there was a correlation between drug and alcohol usage and criminal incidents on campus. This study also determined if certain characteristics were related to a student?s involvement in campus crimes.     Data analyses found that campus crimes are underrepresented. The analyses also showed that there is a significant positive relationship between marijuana usage and campus offending and victimization. Also, there is a significant positive relationship between involvement hours and victimization as well as between fraternity membership and victimization.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Additional file 1 of Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Aranda-Reneo, Isaac
name: Pedraz-Marcos, Azucena
name: Pulido-Fuentes, Montserrat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Descriptive statistics for the BCSQ-36 scale (n = 252).
Regional Variation in Indonesian
Creators: name: Yanti
name: Shiohara, Asako
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Indonesia
subject: Malay
subject: Linguistic variation

description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. SOAS Linguistics Webinars
 Summer 2020
 August 4 Yanti (Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya)
 & Asako Shiohara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Indonesia is home to more than 600 indigenous languages; however, because of the recent social change, more and more younger people learn Indonesian, the national language, as their first language. While a decline of indigenous languages occurs, new urban varieties, which inherit the features of indigenous languages, are emerging in large cities. This talk describes the linguistic features observed in such urban varieties and discusses how people’s identities are reflected in the use of these varieties. This talk is based on the data in a semi-parallel corpus we built using a picture task.
Purification and characterization of a toxic protein of clostridum botulinum type E, strain Iwanai.
Creators: name: Bains, Hardial Singh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Clostridium botulinum type E, strain Iwanai, was grown in a dialysate apparatus, modified from the original apparatus of Vinet and Fredette (1951), using GPB1 medium with 0.5 percent dextrose and 1.0% sodium thioglycollate, for five days at 30° C. The toxin was precipitated from the cell-free toxic filtrate with 0.60 saturated ammonium sulfate at 4° C overnight. The toxic precipitate was obtained by centrifugation at 4,500 R.P.M. at 0° C for 45 minutes and dissolved in 0.01 M sodium acetate buffer at pH 5.5. The preparation was dialysed for 24 hours against the same buffer in versene-treated dialysis sacs and the insoluble material was removed by centrifugation. This preparation was then applied to ion-exchange columns. DEAE (Selectacel) cellulose, suspended and kept in 2 M NaC1 at 4° C, was packed into columns under gravity flow at room temperature, washed with 1N HC1 and equilibrated with 0.01 M sodium acetate buffer at pH 4.5. The toxin, eluted by the same buffer, reprecipitated and rechromatographed, was further analysed in the ultracentrifuge and with electrophoresis. Toxicity of the pure preparation was found to be 7.5 x 10⁶ MLD/mg N, the sedimentation coefficient, S₂₀W = 1.70, and the molecular weight 18,600. Partial amino acid analysis on this preparation was also carried out.
rGenomeTracks: Extending Epigenomic Visualization Methods in R
Creators: name: Elashkar, Omar
name: Kim, Deok Ryeong
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: High throughput sequencing technologies have been proved useful in a plethora of omics. Epigenomics is an area of active research that innovatively blends different biological techniques with sequencing to gain new insight into epigenetic regulations like chromatin accessibility, genome topology and nucleosome positioning. One of the cornerstones of analyzing such data is to be able to visualize it. R has been limited by the difficulty of visualizing epigenetic data in a quick way ought to data size. Hence we created rGenomeTracks, an R package based on pyGenomeTracks python package that offers customizable, publication-ready figures in a quick way. rGenomeTracks make it easier for R users to have a smooth workflow without the need of interacting with python.
Chromosomal behaviour during meiosis in mosses
Creators: name: Dill, Frederick John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The primary purpose of the present work was to examine meiosls in mosses, concentrating on the detail of prophase I, a meiotic stage which has been described in detail only in Pleurozium schreberi. Secondarily, an investigation was undertaken to study the effect of heat stress on meiosls. Hypnum circinale Hook, and Brachythecium frigidum (C.M.) Besch. were used to study meiosis. The procedure of preparing spore mother cell squashes was similar to that used by Steere et al. (1954), with modifications in handling the plants prior to fixation to ensure against production of heat induced anomalies. Except for late prophase I, meiosis in both species conformed to that found in P. schreberi. In H. circinale and B. frigidum diplotene was followed by chromosome elongation and resulted in a diffuse stage. This stage is morphologically analogous to the dictyotene stage of the growing oocytes of many animals, and appears to have been described, in plants, only in Balsamina hortensis. It is probable that the stage occurs in many moss families; at present its functional significance is unknown. In the heat stress experiments, plants of H. circinale were either maintained under laboratory temperatures while being studied or they were treated with a heat shock over a period of four or six hours with the maximum temperature in the general ranges of 25°C., 31°C., and 36°C. The maximum temperature was maintained for 4 hours in the 25°C. experiment and 1/2 hour in the remaining experiments. The heating and cooling gradients were almost equivalent (1°C./5 min.), and the starting and finishing temperature was 14°C. The temperature of the natural environment during the study ranged between 7-ll°C Severe anomalies, including chromosome clumping and multiple association, precocious disjunction, chromosome contraction, spindle breakdown and inhibition, premature meiotic induction and meiotic abortion were observed to some extent in spore mother cells from all treatments except the ones from the 25°C. heat shock experiment. Room temperature accelerates prophase I stages of H. circinale. The time available for these stages appears to be too brief for synthesis of necessary products leading to active stages, thus causing severe abnormalities which result in abortion of meiosis. On the basis of these results, it is apparent that cytologists working with moss material should take care in handling the plants prior to fixation to ensure against heat induced meiotic anomalies.
THGEM operation in Ne and Ne/CH4
Creators: name: Cortesi, M.
name: Peskov, V.
name: Bartesaghi, G.
name: Miyamoto, J.
name: Cohen, S.
name: Chechik, R.
name: Maia, J. M.
name: Santos, J. M. F. dos
name: Gambarini, G.
name: Dangendorf, V.
name: Breskin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The operation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures, features high multiplication factors at relatively low operation potentials, in both single- and double-THGEM configurations. We present some systematic data measured with UV-photons and soft x-rays, in various Ne mixtures. It includes gain dependence on hole diameter and gas purity, photoelectron extraction efficiency from CsI photocathodes into the gas, long-term gain stability and pulse rise-time. Position resolution of a 100x100 mm^2 X-rays imaging detector is presented. Possible applications are discussed.
description: Submitted to JINST, 25 pages, 33 figures
Group topologies coarser than the Isbell topology
Creators: name: Dolecki, S.
name: Jordan, F.
name: Mynard, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54C35, 54C40, 54A10

description: The Isbell, compact-open and point-open topologies on the set $C(X,\mathbb{R})$ of continuous real-valued maps can be represented as the dual topologies with respect to some collections $α(X)$ of compact families of open subsets of a topological space $X$. Those $α(X)$ for which addition is jointly continuous at the zero function in $C_α(X,\mathbb{R})$ are characterized, and sufficient conditions for translations to be continuous are found. As a result, collections $α(X)$ for which $C_α(X,\mathbb{R})$ is a topological vector space are defined canonically. The Isbell topology coincides with this vector space topology if and only if $X$ is infraconsonant. Examples based on measure theoretic methods, that $C_α(X,\mathbb{R})$ can be strictly finer than the compact-open topology, are given. To our knowledge, this is the first example of a splitting group topology strictly finer than the compact-open topology.
The auditory steady-state response: a web based tutorial
Creators: name: Harrington, Ashlee A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Following an extensive literature review, an online tutorial was developed on the Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR). The literature review covers the following areas: auditory evoked potentials, history o the ASSR, neural generators of the ASSR, terminology unique to the ASSR, recording stimuli, stimulation techniques, analysis techniques for the ASSR, technical and recording parameters for the ASSR, subject factors, frequency and place specificity of the ASSR, clinical applications, calibration, and other considerations and future directions. The purpose of this website is to be a central information source of evidence-based practice for Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) students and clinical audiologists with less than five-years experience with this auditory evoked potential. This website is easy to navigate, has animated figures describing various topics of the ASSR, and includes printer friendly downloads. The major topics of the website include: neural generators of the ASSR, terminology unique to the ASSR, stimuli utilized, stimulation techniques, analysis techniques, technical and recording parameters, subject variables, threshold estimation, calibration, and clinical applications.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
CO interferometry of gas-rich spiral galaxies in the outskirts of an intermediate redshift cluster
Creators: name: Geach, James E.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Coppin, Kristen
name: Moran, Sean M.
name: Edge, Alastair C.
name: Ellis, Richard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer 3mm observations of CO(1-0) emission in two 24um-selected starburst galaxies in the outskirts (2-3xR_virial) of the rich cluster Cl0024+16 (z=0.395). The galaxies' inferred far-infrared luminosities place them in the luminous infrared galaxy class (LIRGs, L_FIR>10^11 L_Sun), with star formation rates of ~60 M_Sun/yr. Strong CO(1-0) emission is detected in both galaxies, and we use the CO line luminosity to estimate the mass of cold molecular gas, M(H_2). Assuming M(H_2)/L'_CO = 0.8 M_Sun/(K km^-1 pc^2), we estimate M(H_2) = (5.4-9.1)x10^9 M_Sun for the two galaxies. We estimate the galaxies' dynamical masses from their CO line-widths, M_dyn~1-3x10^10 M_Sun, implying large cold gas fractions in the galaxies' central regions. At their current rates they will complete the assembly of M_Stars~10^10 M_Sun and double their stellar mass within as little as ~150Myr. If these galaxies are destined to evolve into S0s, then the short time-scale for stellar mass assembly implies that their major episode of bulge growth occurs while they are still in the cluster outskirts, long before they reach the core regions. Subsequent fading of the disc component relative to the stellar bulge after the gas reservoirs have been exhausted could complete the transformation of spiral-to-S0.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
A usability study of elder adults utilizing social networking sites
Creators: name: Arfaa, Jessica Emily
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: In order to find out how well current social networking sites serve the elderly especially for the ones with little to no computer experience, a preliminary study involving an accessibility investigation of 19 popular social media sites and a discussion with 8 elder adults in a computer training class was conducted. The result shows various accessibility issues on the popular social media sites and the problems encountered by the elderly. To further investigate how to design a social networking site that is accessible and usable for the elderly, an iterative design approach containing two rounds of usability study was applied. This research consisted of three phases: a baseline usability study collecting the performance data of 22 participants 65 years of age and older completing a set of tasks on a social media site; a redesign of the social media site interface incorporating design guidelines and feedback received during baseline study; and a usability study comparing the performance of the new prototype against the original design. In addition, the impact of the computer experience toward individual's performance on using the social networking site was also investigated. The result of this study shows that the newly designed interface prototype improved the accessibility and usability of the social media site for the elderly. Although the computer experience has association with the actual performance on the social networking sites, the perception of the usability of the site was not significantly different between participants with different level of computer experience. Simple and consistent layout, readable text, limited scrolling, grouped information, and easy access to training are keys to making the site accessible and usable for the elderly. The accessible social networking site has the potential for the elderly to live a more independent life through the access of resources and ideas, the fostering of communication and collaboration, the facilitation of learning and training, and the building of meaningful relationships with friends, families, and people of similar interests.
description: (D.Sc.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Frequency Limits on Naked-Eye Optical Transients Lasting from Minutes to Years
Creators: name: Shamir, Lior
name: Nemiroff, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How often do bright optical transients occur on the sky but go unreported? To constrain the bright end of the astronomical transient function, a systematic search for transients that become bright enough to be noticed by the unaided eye was conducted using the all-sky monitors of the Night Sky Live network. Two fisheye continuous cameras (CONCAMs) operating over three years created a data base that was searched for transients that appeared in time-contiguous CCD frames. Although a single candidate transient was found (Nemiroff and Shamir 2006), the lack of more transients is used here to deduce upper limits to the general frequency of bright transients. To be detected, a transient must have increased by over three visual magnitudes to become brighter than visual magnitude 5.5 on the time scale of minutes to years. It is concluded that, on the average, fewer than 0.0040 ($t_{dur} / 60$ seconds) transients with duration $t_{dur}$ between minutes and hours, occur anywhere on the sky at any one time. For transients on the order of months to years, fewer than 160 ($t_{dur} / 1$ year) occur, while for transients on the order of years to millennia, fewer than 50 ($t_{dur}/1$ year)$^2$ occur.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
title: Rezension: Linthout, Gisela (2004), Handlungsorientierter Fremdsprachenunterricht. Ein Trainingsprogramm zur Kompetenzentwicklung für den Beruf
Creators: name: Oebel, Guido
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Gründe für das Entstehen des nachfolgend besprochenen Bandes sind vielfältig: Das Unterrichtsfach Deutsch als Fremdsprache (DaF) sieht sich insbesondere in unserer von Schnelllebigkeit gekennzeichneten (Arbeits-) Welt und angesichts wachsender Dominanz der Weltsprache Englisch gravierenden Veränderungen ausgesetzt. Diese Entwicklung hat u.a. dazu geführt, dass neben das Deutsche als traditionelle Fremdsprache insbesondere in jüngster Vergangenheit weitere Varianten unterschiedlicher Bedeutung treten: Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ), Deutsch als Begegnungssprache oder Deutsch als internationale Verkehrssprache in wenngleich ausschließlich spezifischen Bereichen—vor allem angesichts der gerade erst erfolgten EU-Erweiterung primär gen Osten.
Succinct Representation of Codes with Applications to Testing
Creators: name: Grigorescu, Elena
name: Kaufman, Tali
name: Sudan, Madhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by questions in property testing, we search for linear error-correcting codes that have the "single local orbit" property: i.e., they are specified by a single local constraint and its translations under the symmetry group of the code. We show that the dual of every "sparse" binary code whose coordinates are indexed by elements of F_{2^n} for prime n, and whose symmetry group includes the group of non-singular affine transformations of F_{2^n} has the single local orbit property. (A code is said to be "sparse" if it contains polynomially many codewords in its block length.) In particular this class includes the dual-BCH codes for whose duals (i.e., for BCH codes) simple bases were not known. Our result gives the first short (O(n)-bit, as opposed to the natural exp(n)-bit) description of a low-weight basis for BCH codes. The interest in the "single local orbit" property comes from the recent result of Kaufman and Sudan (STOC 2008) that shows that the duals of codes that have the single local orbit property under the affine symmetry group are locally testable. When combined with our main result, this shows that all sparse affine-invariant codes over the coordinates F_{2^n} for prime n are locally testable. If, in addition to n being prime, if 2^n-1 is also prime (i.e., 2^n-1 is a Mersenne prime), then we get that every sparse cyclic code also has the single local orbit. In particular this implies that BCH codes of Mersenne prime length are generated by a single low-weight codeword and its cyclic shifts.
Coexistence of Non-Conventional Condensates in Two-Level Bose Atom System
Creators: name: Corgini, M.
name: Rojas-Molina, C.
name: Sankovich, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Bogolyubov approximation and using the Bogolyubov inequalities we give a simple proof of the coexistence of two non-conventional Bose-Einstein condensates in the case of some superstable Bose system whose atoms have an internal two-level structure and their energy operators in the second quantized form depend on the number operators only.
description: 17 pages
title: Rezension: Grum, Urška (2012), Mündliche Sprachkompetenzen deutschsprachiger Lerner des Englischen. Entwicklung eines Kompetenzmodells zur Leistungsheterogenität.
Creators: name: Marx, Nicole
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die zur Veröffentlichung überarbeitete und mit einem Tibertius-Preis (Preis der Berliner Hochschulen für hervorra- gende Dissertationen) dotierten Dissertationsstudie von Urška Grum behandelt ein innerhalb der deutschen Fremd- sprachenforschung und der Sach- und Fremdsprachendidaktik äußerst aktuelles Thema: die Bewertung und Analyse spontaner, mündlicher (Englisch-) Kompetenzen deutscher Schüler und Schülerinnen (SuS). Hierbei fokussiert die Studie nicht nur SuS im Regelunterricht Englisch, sondern nimmt auch eine bilinguale Lerngruppe ins Visier. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des Projekts Deutsch-Englische Züge in Berlin, DEZIBEL) unter der Leitung von Wolf- gang Zydatiß.
title: Rezension: Foschi Albert, Marina; Hepp, Marianne; Neuland, Eva & Dalmas, Martine (Hrsg.) (2010), Text und Stil im Kulturvergleich. Pisaner Fachtagung 2009 zu interkulturellen Wegen germanistischer Kooperation.
Creators: name: Cinato, Lucia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das Buch präsentiert die Ergebnisse der internationalen Fachtagung Texte unter sprachvergleichender und kultur- kontrastiver Perspektive – Wege der akademischen Kooperation mit dem Ziel einer interkulturellen Germanistik (Pisa, 22. bis 25. Oktober 2009) und stellt die dritte aus der Zusammenarbeit der Herausgeberinnen hervorgegange- ne Publikation im Bereich der germanistischen Textforschung dar.
CDH Project Charter – Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary 2019-20
Creators: name: Belcher, Wendy Laura
name: Koeser, Rebecca Sutton
name: Munson, Rebecca
name: Doroudian, Gissoo
name: Martin, Meredith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: project charter

description: Project charter for CDH research collaboration project Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary The charter is the foundational document that describes the rationale, goals, plan of work, resources needed, terms and conditions, and outcomes of a Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton (hereafter CDH) project. Charters are written by core members of a project team in a series of planning meetings taking place over the course of a month. The planning process is intensive, collaborative and requires substantial input from everyone on a team. Charters serve as formalized agreements among all team members on such crucial questions as scope, technical design, infrastructural needs, and success criteria. A draft of each project charter is peer-reviewed by all CDH staff, and optionally by additional partners or stakeholders, at a “design review” before the start of project work. It is circulated at least one week before the review takes place in an open comment period. Questions and concerns from this period may be raised at the design review. Project teams have two weeks after the design review to address any issues raised and make any requested changes. Project work only begins (and funds are released) once the charter has been finalized and signed by the Project Director (PI) and the CDH Faculty Director. Charters are amended as necessary throughout the project lifecycle to document major changes and note when “Built by CDH” Software Warranty and “Built by CDH” Long Term Service Agreement take effect, and serve as part of the CDH project archive. CDH charters and their planning documents exist in several forms as we have refined them over the years and tailored them to the several types of projects we have supported. For more about CDH project management, including the charter process, visit: https://cdh.princeton.edu/research/project-management/ Cite this document: Belcher, Wendy Laura, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Rebecca Munson, Gissoo Doroudian, and Meredith Martin. CDH Project Charter — Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary 2019-20. Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton. 2019. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3359178
Sniffing though the Evidence: Leveraging Shiny to Conduct Meta Analysis on COVID-19 and Smell Loss
Creators: name: Ramirez, Vicente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ESMARConf2022
evidence synthesis
meta-analysis
RStats

description: Early in the coronavirus pandemic, scientists sought to understand the symptoms associated with COVID-19. Among those most frequently reported was the loss of the sense of taste and smell. To estimate the prevalence of smell loss, we conducted a meta-analysis. However, the dissemination of new literature necessitated that we continue to track and update our analysis. To address this issue, we leveraged the ability of R shiny applications to update and disseminate our analysis. From June 2020 to May 2021, our web-based dashboard provided the public with daily analysis updates, which estimated the prevalence of smell loss. This approach proved to be an effective method of disseminating findings to our field's broader community. While the coronavirus pandemic is an exceptional example of rapid updates to the literature, the framework presented may apply to several other fields and topics.
Projektmanagement bei der Energieagentur St.Gallen
Creators: Claudia, Brönnimann
Ronald, Ivancic
Martina, Bechter
OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
Publisher: name: Open Education Platform for Management Schools
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business administration
subject: Projektmanagement
subject: Projektplanung
subject: Projektorganisation
subject: Stakeholdermanagement

description: In einer zunehmend projektbasierten Arbeitswelt hängt Erfolg mehr denn je davon ab, wie Menschen Projekte managen und entsprechende Fähigkeiten erlernen. Anhand dieser Fallstudie können die vielfältigen Themen des Projektmanagements, wie Projektplanung und -organisation sowie Stakeholdermanagement und Kommunikation, am Beispiel der Energieagentur St.Gallen praxisnah eingeübt werden.
Effects of pink background noise, song selection, and iPod volume levels on the audibility of songs to bystanders
Creators: name: Longenbach, Kate M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Recently, media attention has been focused toward the effects of personal mp3 players and their potentially damaging effects on hearing when listening at high levels. The current study aimed to determine whether the ability to overhear someone else?s iPod from a distance away was indicative of dangerous listening levels, or levels greater than or equal to 85 dB(A).     An iPod Touch with standard earbuds was placed on a KEMAR mannequin in a sound treated test suite. The output from the iPod was recorded and measured from 2 feet four inches away to simulate a passer-by. Stimuli included five popular songs at nine volume settings on the iPod ranging between 0 and 100 percent volume. Recordings were mixed with four background noise conditions: quiet (31.6 dB(A) ambient noise, 45 dB(A), 60 dB(A), and 75 dB(A) of pink noise and played through an eight speaker array. Fifty participants (mean age of 23 years) with normal hearing were recruited to participate in the study. They were seated in the center of the sound treated booth and instructed to say ?yes? when they were able to hear the music stimuli over the background noise.     The results suggested that when listening in a quiet setting, participants were likely to overhear someone else?s iPod; however, the probability that the song had a long-term average output level than or equal to 85 dB(A) FFE was low. As background noise levels increase, the ability to overhear iPods decreases. Positive predictive value increased for the louder background noise conditions indicating that if a person is able to overhear someone else?s iPod in noisy listening setting, it is more likely that the person is listening at a level greater than or equal to 85 dB(A). In the loudest background noise condition of 75 dB(A), the background noise completely masked all of the songs rendering them inaudible to the listeners, even songs with peak outputs greater than or equal to 85 dB(A). This study concluded that the ability to overhear someone else?s iPod does not necessarily indicate they are listening at a dangerous volume level, and not overhearing someone?s iPod does not necessarily indicate they are listening at a safe volume level.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
A statistical analysis of the Two Dimensional XMM-Newton Group Survey: The impact of feedback on group properties
Creators: name: Johnson, Ria
name: Ponman, Trevor J.
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) We present a statistical analysis of 28 nearby galaxy groups from the Two-Dimensional XMM-Newton Group Survey (2dXGS). We focus on entropy and the role of feedback, dividing the sample into cool core (CC) and non cool core (NCC) systems, the first time the latter have been studied in detail in the group regime. The coolest groups have steeper entropy profiles than the warmest systems, and NCC groups have higher central entropy and exhibit more scatter than their CC counterparts. We compare the entropy distribution of the gas in each system to the expected theoretical distribution ignoring non-gravitational processes. In all cases, the observed maximum entropy far exceeds that expected theoretically, and simple models for modifications of the theoretical entropy distribution perform poorly. Applying initial pre-heating, followed by radiative cooling, generally fails to match the low entropy behaviour, and only performs well when the difference between the maximum entropy of the observed and theoretical distributions is small. Successful feedback models need to work differentially to increase the entropy range in the gas, and we suggest two basic possibilities. We analyse the effects of feedback on the entropy distribution, finding systems with a high measure of `feedback impact' to reach higher entropy than their low feedback counterparts and also to show significantly lower central metallicities. If low entropy, metal-rich gas has been boosted to large entropy in the high feedback systems, it must now reside outside 0.5r_500, to remain undetected. We find similar levels of enrichment in both high and low feedback systems, and argue that the lack of extra metals in the highest feedback systems points to an AGN origin for the bulk of the feedback, probably acting within precursor structures.
description: 24 pages, 21 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Judean pillar figurines: a study
Creators: name: Shapiro, Allen L.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: [From Chapter 1: Introduction] Over one thousand small female terra cotta figurines have been discovered in almost every archaeological excavation within the region of ancient Judah in contexts dating from the eighth to the sixth century B.C.E (Kletter 1996: 4, 40-41)[?] These standing ?pillar? female figurines are characterized by moulded or handmade heads, large exaggerated breasts, and columnar lower bodies. Some of the bodies are solid and handmade or moulded like the head; some bodies are wheel-turned and hollow (Kletter 1996: 19)[?]  Intriguingly, despite their large number, wide spread distribution and remarkable appearance, the absence of any inscriptions on the JPFs or any direct biblical or other textual statements directly linking to the JPFs has sparked a vigorous debate among scholars concerning the figurine?s function and purpose[?]  This present study seeks to discover new insights, such as differences in the various types of JPFs found in the geographical regions of ancient Israel and the contexts of the finds, breakage patterns, and assemblages with other objects to suggest conclusions concerning their purpose. To this end, I created a database derived from Raz Kletter?s published tabulation and catalogue of the typology, location, context, changes in the size and shape of the figurines in various regions, breakage patterns, and the site, square, location of the finds of JPFs, the association of JPFs with other artifacts, and bibliographic reference to each find (Kletter 1996: 147-231)[?]  The data in this study suggests three possible uses of the JPFs: (1) objects used in sorcery 6 or magic, (2) cult objects for fertility or other feminine purposes; or (3) objects representing or related to the goddess Asherah. In many ways these three are similar.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Self-injurious behavior and eating disorders: psychological correlates and short-term treatment
Creators: name: Martin, Lindsay M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Lifetime self-injurious behavior (SIB) has been linked to heightened eating disorder symptomatology and general psychopathology (Muehlenkamp, et al., 2011). This study examines the lifetime prevalence, psychological variables, and short-term outcomes in a large sample of eating disordered inpatients with a history of self-injury. Patients who were currently engaging in purely impulsive SIB or purely compulsive SIB were also compared using identical dependent variables. SIB+ patients were 64% of the sample, and were found to be younger, have lower ages of eating disorder onset, and higher BMIs at admission. They were also more likely to engage in purging, have greater eating disorder sympomatology, and general psychopathology. No significant differences were found between patients with current impulsive SIB and compulsive SIB, nor were there any differences in short-term treatment outcome variables. Future studies must focus more on the current SIB, type of SIB, and effect of SIB+ on long-term treatment outcomes.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Faculty and student perspectives on multicultural infusion and diversity in doctorate level audiology programs: a two-part analysis
Creators: name: Lighty, Devlin K.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Fifty-nine faculty members and 300 students in doctorate level audiology programs completed on-line surveys that addressed issues related to (1) diversity and (2) multicultural infusion. The two surveys, one designed for faculty participants and the other designed for student participants, consisted of questions that asked respondents to provide demographic information, to rate their opinion of statements regarding diversity and multicultural infusion issues using a 9-point scale (ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree), and to provide comments on a number of survey items. Responses and comments were examined and the results indicated that faculty and students shared similar opinions regarding these two issues. Results indicated that the majority of the respondents were supportive of diversity and multicultural infusion in audiology graduate programs; however, respondents were not in favor of increasing diversity by adjusting admissions criteria and were not in favor of addressing multicultural issues in every course. There were few significant differences in response patterns between non-minority and minority respondents.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
The occupational lives of individuals with visual impairment
Creators: name: Nastasi, Julie Ann
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: The occupational lives of individuals with visual impairment reveal adaptation to a world clearly processed through vision. Through a collective case study, the researcher collected and analyzed data on the occupational lives of three individuals with visual impairment. Occupational adaptation served as the theory underpinning the study. Instruments to collect data included a demographic questionnaire, visual assessments, the Self-report Assessment of Functional Visual Performance, the MOS Social Support Survey, semi-structured interviews, and observations. The researcher analyzed the data by case study and across the case studies. Three themes emerged from the cross-case analysis: an occupational life of doing, an occupational life rich with well-being, and an occupational life filled with motivation for independence. The participants were highly motivated to complete their occupations and activities independently. Participation in activities in the home and community environments provided participants with life satisfaction and happiness. Problem solving skills, adaptations, and support of family and friends allowed the participants to achieve relative mastery of their occupations.
description: (Sc. D.) -- Towson University, 2014.