cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Learning to Teach Primary Mathematics: A Case Study
Creators: name: Ashfield, Jean E.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: The National Numeracy Strategy (1999), a UK national initiative aimed at raising standards in mathematics, placed considerable emphasis on whole class interactive teaching, as a means to improve teaching and raise levels of attainment. In this research I consider how a group of primary PGCE student teachers, on a one year initial teacher education (ITE) course, developed their understanding and implementation of interactive teaching in mathematics, examining the interplay of personal and contextual influences on their practice as novice teachers. The two-year study (Sept 2004 - Dec. 2006) drew on qualitative data from observations, interviews and discussions with students, and later as qualified teachers. Data collected illuminated three issues of particular relevance to the research; students' interpretation of interactive teaching in mathematics; their implementation of this approach; and factors influencing their classroom practice. Four features emerged as key components of interactive teaching; pupils' active involvement; questioning; discussion; and creative problem-solving. The stage of development, internal factors such as limited mathematics knowledge, low levels of confidence and behaviour management issues, and external factors such as teachers' pre-determined plans, schools' expectations, and Standard Assessment Test targets, were all seen to mitigate against students' use of creative and challenging features of interactive teaching. The role of schools and their mentors emerged as a key factor in students' development from novice to competent teachers, in particular, their use of cognitively challenging aspects of interactive teaching in mathematics. My study suggests NSS demands for whole-class teaching with pace and urgency, and the Government's insistence on schools meeting ever-higher targets, has driven new teachers back to traditional, didactic teaching of rules and processes, heavily weighted towards SATs questions. This raises questions about the impact ITE might have on students as innovative, creative teachers, if, once qualified, they revert to seemingly safe practice, learned from experienced teachers.
Effects of a Stimulus' Valence and Utility on the Observing Response of Tufted Capuchins
Creators: name: Casey, Anna H.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Pigeons will step on a treadle to produce a discriminative stimulus indicating whether key pecking will produce food. Learning theorists attribute this “observing response” to the conditioned reinforcing power that accrues to the stimulus through its occasional pairing with food. Subsequently, cognitive theorists argued treadle stepping is due to the stimulus’ informative value because it informs about the likelihood of reinforcement. One view of the literature supports the notion that the information-theory hypothesis explains human and other primate observing behavior, whereas a conditioned-reinforcement interpretation is appropriate for pigeons and rats. Here, it is proposed that emission of observing responses is maintained by whether a discriminative stimulus (a) signals reward is proximal or not (positive or negative valence), and (b) enables greater or lesser response efficiency (large or small utility). Eight capuchins were trained in four observing-response experiments that varied a discriminative stimulus’ valence and utility. If cognitive theorists are correct that observing responses serve to reduce uncertainty about reinforcement, stimuli predicting reward is imminent (good news) or not (bad news) should support observing behavior in all experiments because they inform equally well. However, if the conditioned-reinforcement thesis is correct, good news should support more observing than bad news except when the utility of that bad news is large. The results support the conditioned-reinforcement hypothesis and suggest that observing behavior can be explained as due to learning-theory conceptions regardless of species’ phyletic level.
RESULTS OF MAGNESIUM FERTILIZER RESEARCH IN PUERTO RICO
Creators: name: Hernandez-Medina, E.
name: Hernandez-Medina, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: The results obtained in studies undertaken to determine the influence of magnesium on the yield of various crops of economic importance in Puerto Rico ar-e briefly summarized as follows: 1. Magnesium Lncr-ea aed significantly yields of sweet potatoes when this nutrient wa:s applied to a Lares clay and Sabana Seca sandy clay soils. 2. The application of magnesium sulfate as spray and in the soil relieved grapefruit trees from visual symptoms of deficiency of magnesium. Heavy shedding of the leaves was corrected by using this nutrient. 3. On a highly alkaline soil magnesium applications to the soi.l were not effective in correcting magnes:i.um deficiency in citrus trees. However, magnesium sprays were quite effective in controlling visual syrptoms of magnesium deficiency. 4. There was a significant yield increase of marhetable coffee in favour of magnesium-treated trees. The difference inyield in favour of magnesium-treated trees was equivalent to a 43 percent over the check or untreated trees. 5. Magnesium was responsible for increasing signif:icantly pineapple yields. Highest fruit yields were associated with the highest leaf magnesium content. A significant correlation was found between relative yields and leaf magnesium content. 6. Yields of plantains were increased by 90.9 percent by the application of magnesium. Plantains receiving no magnesium exhibited deficiency symptoms, including yellowing of the older leaves and reduced growth. Foliar composition of the plantains at 7 months predicted their yield response to magnesium. Lowest plantain yields were associated with a leaf magnesium content of 0.15 while h:ighest plantain yields
Effects of a Stimulus' Valence and Utility on the Observing Response of Tufted Capuchins
Creators: name: Casey, Anna H.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Pigeons will step on a treadle to produce a discriminative stimulus indicating whether key pecking will produce food. Learning theorists attribute this “observing response” to the conditioned reinforcing power that accrues to the stimulus through its occasional pairing with food. Subsequently, cognitive theorists argued treadle stepping is due to the stimulus’ informative value because it informs about the likelihood of reinforcement. One view of the literature supports the notion that the information-theory hypothesis explains human and other primate observing behavior, whereas a conditioned-reinforcement interpretation is appropriate for pigeons and rats. Here, it is proposed that emission of observing responses is maintained by whether a discriminative stimulus (a) signals reward is proximal or not (positive or negative valence), and (b) enables greater or lesser response efficiency (large or small utility). Eight capuchins were trained in four observing-response experiments that varied a discriminative stimulus’ valence and utility. If cognitive theorists are correct that observing responses serve to reduce uncertainty about reinforcement, stimuli predicting reward is imminent (good news) or not (bad news) should support observing behavior in all experiments because they inform equally well. However, if the conditioned-reinforcement thesis is correct, good news should support more observing than bad news except when the utility of that bad news is large. The results support the conditioned-reinforcement hypothesis and suggest that observing behavior can be explained as due to learning-theory conceptions regardless of species’ phyletic level.
Post-Euphoria in Electronic Music Making
Creators: name: Baron, Guy
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2021
Subjects: music composition; practice research

description: Engaging in a range of electronic music making techniques, this doctoral, practice-based project examines the creative interpretation of “post-euphoria”: a concept conceived here to describe a retrospective subjectivity that encapsulates reminiscing and an afterglow feeling in relation to lost euphoric experiences. The study aims to establish a musical aesthetic the responds to this concept using DAW tools, to form a body of musical work comprising a collection of recordings. Identifying a lack of available practice-based studies on music production practices that deal with memory and recollection, particularly in connection with electronic dance music and its concomitant cultural events, the research contributes insights to this underexplored area.
To examine how post-euphoria can be interpreted through electronic music making, the research firstly conducts interviews with comparable electronic music practitioners whose work is informed by themes of recollection and reminiscing in the context of electronic dance music. Insights gained in the interviews then inform the main creative investigation, which is pursued by utilising the DAW Ableton Live and its built-in tools. Developed as part of the creative investigation are production and compositional strategies and a body of ten original recordings, accompanied by this critical exegesis that examines and contextualises the creative practices established.
Undertaking the study enabled an understanding of ways in which elements of electronic music production can be used figuratively to embody conceptual meanings relating to reminiscing and recollection. It further demonstrates how electronic dance music tropes can be employed, alongside sampling-inspired and self-remixing techniques, to connote a sense of missing euphoria and to suggest transformations that occur in the memory of fleeting experiences. Finally, the study shows how these musical elements can be incorporated within a songwriting framework and as part of an integrated collection of corresponding recordings, to further the musical interpretation of post-euphoria.
Additional file 5 of Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose
Creators: name: Munster, Jolanda M. Van
name: Daly, Paul
name: Blythe, Martin J.
name: Ibbett, Roger
name: Kokolski, Matt
name: Sanyasi Gaddipati
name: Lindquist, Erika
name: Vasanth R. Singan
name: Barry, Kerrie W.
name: Lipzen, Anna
name: Chew Yee Ngan
name: Petzold, Christopher J.
name: Chan, Leanne Jade G.
name: Arvas, Mikko
name: Raulo, Roxane
name: Pullan, Steven T.
name: Delmas, Stéphane
name: Grigoriev, Igor V.
name: Tucker, Gregory A.
name: Simmons, Blake A.
name: Archer, David B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Expression of CAZyme encoding genes over Miscanthus time courses. a The total number of genes encoding plant-polysaccharide active CAZymes and that are significantly induced in cultures with untreated and pretreated Miscanthus as compared to the Glu 48 h control (DESeq padj
Significance of the nuclear Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Receptor in Cancer
Creators: name: Manzar, Mavra
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2021

description: This present study was carried out at London South Bank University. The focal point of the study was my passion to learn more about cancer and to have a better understanding of nuclear insulin-like growth factor receptor 1 association with oncology. This study was planned to be an experimental study, in which I was supposed to conduct co-immunoprecipitation and Western blot experiments, as well as kinase assay, in order to validate previous bioinformatic results by Dr. Aleem’s team. However, the major problem that I faced was due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. 

It was not possible to go to the lab due to the lockdown. We, therefore, decided to do a literature review instead. The objective was to make this study as accurate as possible. I apologize, in advance, for any error found which were certainly not knowingly made. Above all, the purpose of the study will be served if it becomes source of knowledge for general public.
RESPONSES OF RED SPANISH 􀀀PI􀀀NE􀀀A~􀀀L􀀀E TO VARIOUS POTASSIUM LEVELS
Creators: name: Cibes, H. R.
name: Gonzalez-Tejera, E.
name: Cibes, H. R.
name: Gonzalez-Tejera, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: An experiment was initiated on December 1963, to determine the effect of various potassium levels upon the growth, chemical composition, fruit yield and 􀀀q􀀀U􀀀~􀀀l􀀀i􀀀t􀀀y of the Red Spanish pineapple grown in gravel culture. Composite samples of "D" leaf were obtained at various time intervals during the growing period. The chemical data showed an increase concentration of potassium and a decrease concentration of calcium and magnesium in the foliage, as a result of potassium increments in the nutrient solution. Slips-suckers production, green leaf weight and fresh stem weight increased significantly with addition of potassium. There were significant differences in mean-fruit weight, Brix, and Total acidity of the juice which were affected favourably as a result of increments of potassium in the nutrient solution. However, the fruit-core diameter, fruit-to-crown 􀀀r􀀀a􀀀t􀀀i􀀀o􀀀~ crown weight and root weight were not affected significantly.
Dynamics of quantum correlations in a Qubit-Oscillator system interacting via a dissipative bath
Creators: name: Badveli, Revanth
name: Jagadish, Vinayak
name: Akshaya, S.
name: Srikanth, R.
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement dynamics in a bipartite system consisting of a qubit and a harmonic oscillator interacting only through their coupling with the same bath is studied. The considered model assumes that the qubit is coupled to the bath via the Jaynes-Cummings interaction, whilst the position of the oscillator is coupled to the position of the bath via a dipole interaction. We give a microscopic derivation of the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad equation for the considered model. Based on the Kossakowski Matrix, we show that non-classical correlations including entanglement can be generated by the considered dynamics. We then analytically identify specific initial states for which entanglement is generated. This result is also supported by our numerical simulations.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, Accepted in Open Systems & Information Dynamics for publication
The Immunity of Polymer-Microemulsion Networks
Creators: name: Hed, Guy
name: Safran, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of network immunity, i.e., the robustness of the network connectivity after a random deletion of edges or vertices, has been investigated in biological or communication networks. We apply this concept to a self-assembling, physical network of microemulsion droplets connected by telechelic polymers, where more than one polymer can connect a pair of droplets. The gel phase of this system has higher immunity if it is more likely to survive (i.e., maintain a macroscopic, connected component) when some of the polymers are randomly degraded. We consider the distribution $p(σ)$ of the number of polymers between a pair of droplets, and show that gel immunity decreases as the variance of $p(σ)$ increases. Repulsive interactions between the polymers decrease the variance, while attractive interactions increase the variance, and may result in a bimodal $p(σ)$.
description: Corrected typos
Appendices from Modelling COVID-19 contagion: risk assessment and targeted mitigation policies
Creators: name: Cont, Rama
name: Kotlicki, Artur
name: Renyuan Xu
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A: Demographic regions. B: Social contact rates.
FERTILI ZER RESEARCH ON FOOD CROPS AND VEGETABLES IN JAMAICA
Creators: name: Payne, Hugh
name: Payne, Hugh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Previous work on the fertilizer requirements of food crops and vegetables is reviewed, and an attempt is made to assess the present position in Jamaica With regard to research on the fertilizer requirements of these crops. A lack of balance in fertilizer research is 􀀀m􀀀a􀀀n􀀀i􀀀j􀀀~􀀀e􀀀s􀀀t􀀀e􀀀d in an undue emphasis on certain crops e.g. Irish potatoes, and an almost total disregard of others e.g. sweet potatoes, red kidney beans, etc. The need for a balanced co-ordinated programme involving a wider variety of crops than formerly and for an intensification of fertilizer research is stressed.
US-Sino Joint Education Ventures in China: A Stakeholder Analysis of Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Duke Kunshan University, and Schwarzman Scholars
Creators: name: Olson, Lucas
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: Elite US-Sino joint education ventures in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have brought together diverse stakeholders to create a learning environment that supports innovation in the context of China’s transformation to a service-based economy. These diverse stakeholders include: university administration, faculty, and students; government agencies; and industry. Theories of strategical alliances are useful in understanding how these stakeholders interact and influence these institutions during their establishment. Important insights can be learned about how to build successful cross-border education partnerships in a complex social environment. Three descriptive case studies were conducted through in-depth interviews, site visits, and official documentation. The first case is the Hopkins-Nanjing Center at Nanjing University—the first US-Sino venture established in 1986. The second case is Duke Kunshan University, and the third case is the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, heralded as the Rhodes Scholarship of China.
US-Sino Joint Education Ventures in China: A Stakeholder Analysis of Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Duke Kunshan University, and Schwarzman Scholars
Creators: name: Olson, Lucas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Elite US-Sino joint education ventures in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have brought together diverse stakeholders to create a learning environment that supports innovation in the context of China’s transformation to a service-based economy. These diverse stakeholders include: university administration, faculty, and students; government agencies; and industry. Theories of strategical alliances are useful in understanding how these stakeholders interact and influence these institutions during their establishment. Important insights can be learned about how to build successful cross-border education partnerships in a complex social environment. Three descriptive case studies were conducted through in-depth interviews, site visits, and official documentation. The first case is the Hopkins-Nanjing Center at Nanjing University—the first US-Sino venture established in 1986. The second case is Duke Kunshan University, and the third case is the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, heralded as the Rhodes Scholarship of China.
Reinventing Donor Family Portraiture: Hans Holbein the Younger's Darmstadt Madonna
Creators: name: Wu, Jennifer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines how Hans Holbein the Younger negotiated the genre of donor family portraiture in the Darmstadt Madonna (1526/1528) by creating a contemporary representation of the patron Jakob Meyer’s family. In early sixteenth-century Basel, reforms within the Catholic Church and the advent of Protestantism contested late medieval concepts of gender, kinship, and piety. I argue that the Darmstadt Madonna addressed this tumultuous context by partially reorienting the focus of traditional devotionally-themed paintings from the holy figures to the donor family. In this transitional work, Holbein offered an innovative and complex representation of the Meyer family members, their interconnections, and their relations with the depicted holy figures. The painting inventively satisfied Jakob Meyer’s ostensible objectives in representing his family’s exemplary devotional practices, his own paternal authority, and the Meyers’ procreative continuity through their daughter, Anna.
Reinventing Donor Family Portraiture: Hans Holbein the Younger's Darmstadt Madonna
Creators: name: Wu, Jennifer
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: This thesis examines how Hans Holbein the Younger negotiated the genre of donor family portraiture in the Darmstadt Madonna (1526/1528) by creating a contemporary representation of the patron Jakob Meyer’s family. In early sixteenth-century Basel, reforms within the Catholic Church and the advent of Protestantism contested late medieval concepts of gender, kinship, and piety. I argue that the Darmstadt Madonna addressed this tumultuous context by partially reorienting the focus of traditional devotionally-themed paintings from the holy figures to the donor family. In this transitional work, Holbein offered an innovative and complex representation of the Meyer family members, their interconnections, and their relations with the depicted holy figures. The painting inventively satisfied Jakob Meyer’s ostensible objectives in representing his family’s exemplary devotional practices, his own paternal authority, and the Meyers’ procreative continuity through their daughter, Anna.
Fertilizer Use and Crop Yields: A List of References
Creators: name: McNeill, John M.
name: McNeill, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1945
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This bibliography lists publications containing original experimental data on the effects of fertilizer use on crop yields. It is limited to the United States and territories, and covers the period 1925-45, with a few items published in 1945. References are mainly to publications of the State agricultural experiment stations and of agricultural research agencies of the Federal Government and to periodical and other articles reporting research conducted by these agencies. No attempt has been made, however, to cover the general periodical literature on the subject. Annual, biennial, and other reports of the State experiment stations and of Federal research agencies, although not listed in this bibliography, are sources of information on research in progress. Items marked with an asterisk (*) have not been examined. Call numbers following the citations are those of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Library.
On non-commutative twisting in etale and motivic cohomology
Creators: name: Hornbostel, J.
name: Kings, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we use ideas of the non-abelian Iwasawa main conjecture to prove a result about the first Galois cohomology of continuous Galois modules V_p(j) for large Tate-twist j and V_p a Q_p vector space. We show that under a technical hypothesis that H^1(K, V_p(j)) is generated by twists of norm-compatible units in an infinite tower of number fields with elements in V_p(j-1). This confirms a consequence of the non-abelian Iwasawa main conjecture. Using the "Bloch-Kato-conjecture" a similar result is proven for motivic cohomology with finite coefficients.
description: 22 pages
THE TIES THAT BIND: A SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF A LARGE GANG SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORK IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Lugo, Kristina A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the effect of network position on the probability that a sex trafficking network member avoided indictment in this gang RICO prosecution, and what that says about the functioning of trafficking networks and their resistance to fragmentation strategies by law enforcement. Ties between members, particularly involving members that broker relationships between otherwise disconnected individuals or groups, are hypothesized to be conduits through which benefits flow, such as power, information, or influence. Others hypothesize that brokerage positions can hold disadvantages, so that an advantageous position in one network may be disadvantageous in another. An individual in a brokerage position might also use his/her power strategically to block the flow of benefits between others.This study used police and court data to examine how brokerage, measured in different ways, influenced the probability of avoiding indictment. This is the first social network analysis of an individual human trafficking network in the United States, and it is the largest such study of a human trafficking network in terms of network size examined. It is distinctive in that it includes extensive data on both indicted and unindicted individuals in sufficient numbers to use broad boundaries and include the impact of porous network borders. Avoiding indictment is the dependent variable and is used as a proxy for survival, which is an important utility to be maximized when examining criminal trafficking networks as business enterprises. Results support the notion that relying on betweenness centrality alone to measure brokerage does not work as predictably well in larger networks; its effect was miniscule and statistically insignificant in every model where degree centrality, or the sheer number of people one is connected to, was included. This is contrary to the results of several network analyses involving smaller networks for a few important reasons, including the presence of multiple redundant ties and the lengths of paths between individuals in larger, more mature networks. Clustering coefficient emerged as a measure of brokerage worthy of more study.Important insights are also offered regarding the symbiotic relationships between perpetrators and victims. On a practical level, the goal of this study was to explore the extent to which identifying brokers in a sex trafficking network could help police target network members that would best fragment a network, thus reducing its ability to operate and exploit victims.
Identitätsbildung von trans\*Migrant\*innen. Eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung heteronormativer Machtstrukturen
Creators: name: Weiher, Nele
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Die Frage danach, wie sich Identitäten bilden ist eine Frage, die sich in vielen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen findet: Sowohl die Soziologie und die Politikwissenschaften als auch Psychologie, Cultural Studies oder die Gender Studies befassen sich mit diesem Themengebiet. So vielfältig wie die Forschungsgebiete sind auch die Annahmen über Identitätsbildung. Die Annahmen darüber, wie sich Identitäten bilden, unterliegen stetiger Veränderungen. Dennoch lassen sich Theorien identifizieren, die bis heute einen Einfluss auf Identitätstheorien haben: René Descartes stellte die Annahme auf, dass es einen inneren (unveränderbaren) Wesenskern gibt, welcher sich unabhängig von der Gesellschaft ausbildet. Dieses Denken eines atomistischen Individuums findet sich in der klassischen Subjektphilosophie wie auch im liberalen Denken bei John Locke und Immanuel Kant wieder. Wurde hier noch das Einzelsubjekt in den Vordergrund gestellt, änderte sich diese Annahme und Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel legte den Grundstein für ein Denken jenseits des atomistischen Subjekts und bezieht die Gesellschaft und die Anerkennung durch Andere in die Identitätsbildung mit ein. Das kommunitaristische und republikanische Denken setzt sich vom liberalen Gedanken des atomistischen Individuums ab, Charles Taylor sieht die Ermöglichung von Identität nur durch die Anerkennung des signifikanten Anderen als gegeben. Ausgeweitet wurde dies durch eine genealogische, diskursive Perspektive, welche Identität als veränderbar und sich prozesshaft bildend begreift. Auch bezieht diese Perspektive die Machtstrukturen mit ein, in welche die Individuen eingebunden sind. Nach Michel Foucault, der einen produktiven Machtbegriff entwickelte, demnach Macht nicht nur unterwirft, sondern auch produktiv wirkt, werden Identitäten in den bestehenden Machtverhältnissen ermöglicht oder nicht ermöglicht. Rekurrierend auf dieses Verständnis entwickelt Judith Butler das Konzept der heterosexuellen Matrix und verdeutlicht, wie diese die gesamte Gesellschaft durchzieht und als kontrollierende Instanz sich auf die Identitätsbildung auswirkt. Welche Strukturen es sind, die sich auf die Identitätsbildung auswirken, welche Identitäts-Kategorien greifen, ist der Ansatzpunkt der vorliegenden Dissertation mit dem Titel „Identitätsbildung von trans\*Migrant\*innen. Eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung heteronormativer Machtstrukturen“.
title: Inclusion or illusion?: Policies and practices for children with disabilities and their families in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Bulgaria
Creators: name: Bećirević, Majda
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: This study examines the social exclusion of disabled children and their families in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Bulgaria and aims to identify opportunities for and obstacles to social inclusion. Both countries have experienced major socio-political and economic changes associated with the transition from communism to an open market economy and democracy. They are in the process of aligning their policies and practices to a European Union favoured agenda of social inclusion and human rights. The thesis identifies key professional practices and views towards disability which are persistent and constitute major obstacles to inclusion. On the other hand a number of opportunities for inclusion have been identified in the processes of policy reform, parents' activism and the development of community care. The study also explores how current international pressures originating from supranational and international agencies, such as the European Union, World Bank and International Monetary Fund support or hinder inclusion efforts. The thesis explores the complexity of inclusion and it provides an understanding of the extent to which the idea is an illusion when it is not fully embraced by the stakeholders and countries concerned. This qualitative research reports and analyses the views of a variety of actors; children with disabilities and their parents, professionals who work in residential institutions and special schools, policy makers, social workers and representatives of NGOs and international organizations. These interviews tell the story of how policies and practices affect individual families and children with disabilities and in so doing provides a distinctive critique of the current situation.
THE TIES THAT BIND: A SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF A LARGE GANG SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORK IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Lugo, Kristina A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: This dissertation examines the effect of network position on the probability that a sex trafficking network member avoided indictment in this gang RICO prosecution, and what that says about the functioning of trafficking networks and their resistance to fragmentation strategies by law enforcement. Ties between members, particularly involving members that broker relationships between otherwise disconnected individuals or groups, are hypothesized to be conduits through which benefits flow, such as power, information, or influence. Others hypothesize that brokerage positions can hold disadvantages, so that an advantageous position in one network may be disadvantageous in another. An individual in a brokerage position might also use his/her power strategically to block the flow of benefits between others.This study used police and court data to examine how brokerage, measured in different ways, influenced the probability of avoiding indictment. This is the first social network analysis of an individual human trafficking network in the United States, and it is the largest such study of a human trafficking network in terms of network size examined. It is distinctive in that it includes extensive data on both indicted and unindicted individuals in sufficient numbers to use broad boundaries and include the impact of porous network borders. Avoiding indictment is the dependent variable and is used as a proxy for survival, which is an important utility to be maximized when examining criminal trafficking networks as business enterprises. Results support the notion that relying on betweenness centrality alone to measure brokerage does not work as predictably well in larger networks; its effect was miniscule and statistically insignificant in every model where degree centrality, or the sheer number of people one is connected to, was included. This is contrary to the results of several network analyses involving smaller networks for a few important reasons, including the presence of multiple redundant ties and the lengths of paths between individuals in larger, more mature networks. Clustering coefficient emerged as a measure of brokerage worthy of more study.Important insights are also offered regarding the symbiotic relationships between perpetrators and victims. On a practical level, the goal of this study was to explore the extent to which identifying brokers in a sex trafficking network could help police target network members that would best fragment a network, thus reducing its ability to operate and exploit victims.
Effective transmission conditions for reaction-diffusion processes in domains separated by thin channels
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Apratim
name: Gahn, Markus
name: Neuss-Radu, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a reaction--diffusion equation in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via small channels periodically distributed within a thin layer. The height and the thickness of the channels are of order $ε$, and the equation inside the layer depends on the parameter $ε$ and an additional parameter $γ\in [-1,1)$, which describes the size of the diffusion in the layer. We derive effective models for the limit $ε\to 0 $, when the channel-domain is replaced by an interface between the two bulk-domains.
Modulational Instability and Complex Dynamics of Confined Matter-Wave Solitons
Creators: name: Salasnich, L.
name: Parola, A.
name: Reatto, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the formation of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^7$Li atoms induced by a sudden change in the sign of the scattering length from positive to negative, as reported in a recent experiment (Nature {\bf 417}, 150 (2002)). The numerical simulations are performed by using the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with a dissipative three-body term. We show that a number of bright solitons is produced and this can be interpreted in terms of the modulational instability of the time-dependent macroscopic wave function of the Bose condensate. In particular, we derive a simple formula for the number of solitons that is in good agreement with the numerical results of 3D GPE. By investigating the long time evolution of the soliton train solving the 1D GPE with three-body dissipation we find that adjacent solitons repel each other due to their phase difference. In addition, we find that during the motion of the soliton train in an axial harmonic potential the number of solitonic peaks changes in time and the density of individual peaks shows an intermittent behavior. Such a complex dynamics explains the ``missing solitons'' frequently found in the experiment.
description: to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, DO YOU SAY SOMETHING? THE ROLE OF LEGITIMACY AND TRUST IN POLICING MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN COUNTERTERRORISM
Creators: name: Kearns, Erin Marie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: In 2006, Omar Hammami travelled to Somalia and joined Al Shabaab. In the years since, dozens of Americans including Douglas McCain and Zakia Nasrin have traveled to Syria and joined ISIS. During the same time, Dylan Roof, Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the Tsarnaev brothers, and others have carried out attacks—or attempted to do so—here at home. Sometimes friends or family members have alerted police to suspicions of terrorism like these, while other times they have not. The need to counter terrorism has raised questions about the appropriate methods that police should employ to this end. Yet, current concerns about policing terrorism coincide with national responses to police interactions more generally with members of minority groups.I address two puzzles about interactions between communities and police. First, why do some people alert police to crime—specifically potential extremist violence—while others do not? Contrary to conventional explanations about racial and sociodemographic differences, I find that views of law enforcement's legitimacy, trust in individual police officers, and community norms about handling conflict are the strongest predictors of citizen cooperation. So, second, why do some police departments do a better job than others developing positive relationships with minority communities to increase cooperation? I find that support for relationship building and social distance predict views about community policing both with minorities and in counterterrorism.I combine an experimental design and quantitative survey research. Data come from two sources: community members and police officers. For the community sample, I conducted an online survey where participants were asked about their views of and experience with police. Propensity to report crimes was measured using choice-based conjoint experiments, which allow comparison of multiple covariates simultaneously. Participants evaluated a series of crime pairs with randomly assigned characteristics and indicated their likelihood of reporting each to police.I then conducted roll call surveys in three Washington, DC area police departments. Participants were asked about experience with, and support for, community policing and views on community policing to address various crimes and with different minority groups. Combining data from both groups, I compare police expectations to reports from the community.
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, DO YOU SAY SOMETHING? THE ROLE OF LEGITIMACY AND TRUST IN POLICING MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN COUNTERTERRORISM
Creators: name: Kearns, Erin Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In 2006, Omar Hammami travelled to Somalia and joined Al Shabaab. In the years since, dozens of Americans including Douglas McCain and Zakia Nasrin have traveled to Syria and joined ISIS. During the same time, Dylan Roof, Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the Tsarnaev brothers, and others have carried out attacks—or attempted to do so—here at home. Sometimes friends or family members have alerted police to suspicions of terrorism like these, while other times they have not. The need to counter terrorism has raised questions about the appropriate methods that police should employ to this end. Yet, current concerns about policing terrorism coincide with national responses to police interactions more generally with members of minority groups.I address two puzzles about interactions between communities and police. First, why do some people alert police to crime—specifically potential extremist violence—while others do not? Contrary to conventional explanations about racial and sociodemographic differences, I find that views of law enforcement's legitimacy, trust in individual police officers, and community norms about handling conflict are the strongest predictors of citizen cooperation. So, second, why do some police departments do a better job than others developing positive relationships with minority communities to increase cooperation? I find that support for relationship building and social distance predict views about community policing both with minorities and in counterterrorism.I combine an experimental design and quantitative survey research. Data come from two sources: community members and police officers. For the community sample, I conducted an online survey where participants were asked about their views of and experience with police. Propensity to report crimes was measured using choice-based conjoint experiments, which allow comparison of multiple covariates simultaneously. Participants evaluated a series of crime pairs with randomly assigned characteristics and indicated their likelihood of reporting each to police.I then conducted roll call surveys in three Washington, DC area police departments. Participants were asked about experience with, and support for, community policing and views on community policing to address various crimes and with different minority groups. Combining data from both groups, I compare police expectations to reports from the community.
Local Spillovers in Bankruptcy
Creators: name: Chen, Jess
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this dissertation is three-fold. First, I improve on spatial cluster tests. These tests identify geographic clusters where data are spatially correlated. I develop a new test called the Local Modified Moran's I, which performs better than existing tests under certain scenarios. Second, I use new data to understand the role of spillovers in bankruptcy filings. I examine how someone - an individual or a business - may decide to file for bankruptcy based on the bankruptcy filings of others around them. Third, I begin to bridge the gap between spatial econometrics and spatial statistics by using spatial statistics, including the Local Modified Moran's I, to examine bankruptcy spillovers.
Local Spillovers in Bankruptcy
Creators: name: Chen, Jess
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The objective of this dissertation is three-fold. First, I improve on spatial cluster tests. These tests identify geographic clusters where data are spatially correlated. I develop a new test called the Local Modified Moran's I, which performs better than existing tests under certain scenarios. Second, I use new data to understand the role of spillovers in bankruptcy filings. I examine how someone - an individual or a business - may decide to file for bankruptcy based on the bankruptcy filings of others around them. Third, I begin to bridge the gap between spatial econometrics and spatial statistics by using spatial statistics, including the Local Modified Moran's I, to examine bankruptcy spillovers.
title: Основы конструирования элементов интерьерной среды
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет промышленных технологий и дизайна
Year: 2017

description: Учебное пособие по освоению дисциплины «Основы конструирования элементов интерьерной среды» предназначено для студентов направления подготовки 54.03.01 – Дизайн, профиль «Дизайн интерьера» всех форм обучения и состоит из нескольких разделов, освещающих методы комплексного проектирования оборудования и элементов интерьерной среды с целью дать учащимся общие представления об объектах, их конструктивных и инженерных решениях, а также об используемых технологиях, инструментах и материалах.
title: The Protestant-Catholic divide on Prince Edward Island, Canada: its creation, growth and resolution
Creators: name: Beck, Callum Vere
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis traces the origin and growth of the sectarian divide between Protestants and Catholics on Prince Edward Island, situating it in the wider context of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, the north-eastern United States and Britain. All of these areas had relatively good relations between Protestants and Catholics from 1780 to the mid-1830s, then experienced a period of intense sectarian conflict into the late 1870s, but thereafter the Atlantic provinces took a unique path in managing sectarian tensions. The event which brought buried religious animosities to the surface on P.E.I. was the Belfast Riot of 1847. These negative feelings grew until a sectarian firestorm was ignited by the Bible Question of 1856. For the next two decades battles over religion and education kept the two groups so divided that for much of that time political affiliation was determined by religion. The education wars were resolved by 1877, but the sectarian tensions that fuelled them were only sublimated through the use of elite accommodation and the implementation of a de facto separate school system These 'gentlemen's agreements' circumscribed relations between the two denominations on the Island for the next eighty years. They proved quite effective in keeping the peace but with the side effect of institutionalizing religious division in the society. A second round of education battles (1957-69) ended the separate school system and was the main factor in healing the divide on P.E.I. This work's uniqueness lies primarily in its focus on the Belfast Riot as a seminal event in articulating sectarian division, and in its extensive use of oral history in the study of Protestant-Catholic relations. Its main contribution, in addition to enhancing understanding of P.E.I.'s history and Protestant-Catholic relations in general is in suggesting a frame of reference for similar oral research to be done in other religiously-divided communities.
Distinct solutions to generated Jacobian equations cannot intersect
Creators: name: Rankin, Cale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that if two $C^{1,1}(Ω)$ solutions of the second boundary value problem for the generated Jacobian equation intersect in $Ω$ then they are the same solution. In addition we extend this result to $C^{2}(\overlineΩ)$ solutions intersecting on the boundary, via an additional convexity condition on the target domain.
description: Submitted Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society November 2019. Accepted December 2019