cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Predictors of post-stroke depression: Validation of established risk factors and introduction of a dynamic perspective in two longitudinal studies
Creators: name: Ladwig, Simon
name: Werheid, Katja
name: Südmeyer, Martin
name: Volz, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: stroke
subject: depression
subject: dynamic risk factors
subject: multivariable analysis
subject: prospective longitudinal
subject: 150
subject: Schlaganfall
subject: Depression
subject: Risikofaktor
subject: Multivariate Analyse

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
code_data_submission.zip
Creators: name: Feng, Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography

description: Python script for paper "Medical Drone Service Response: Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity Implications" submitted to IJGIS.All of the functions can be found in 'hvd_location.py', including data preprocessing, heterogeneous cost calculation, location modeling, integer programming, and result output.
Development of new methods for ACYL C-O and C-N crosscoupling
Creators: name: Buchspies, Jonathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Amide and ester bonds are ubiquitous in organic synthesis, polymers, and drug discovery;therefore the development of catalytic amide and ester bond cross-coupling reactions is of broadinterest to selectively functionalize organic molecules. The use of amides and esters as acyltransfer reagents has been a burgeoning area in organic chemistry and the main challengeremains the development of new methods to selectively activate amide and ester bonds.This thesis describes our studies on: (1) the development of novel transition-metal-catalyzedtransformations of amides and esters by X–C(O) (X = NR2, OR) activation; (2) the developmentof new amide and ester precursors for cross-coupling reactions; (3) the development of new,robust catalytic systems for acyl-cross-coupling reactions of amides and esters.Specifically, this thesis addresses the development of pentafluorophenyl esters as highlyselective acylating reagents for the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling using Pd-phosphine catalysis.Then, the development of twisted N-acyl-phthalimides and electronically-activated N-acylcarbazoles and N-acyl-indoles by Nlp to Ar delocalization using Pd–NHC catalyst systems for acyl cross-coupling is described. Finally, the development of cross-coupling of various amidesusing well-defined, air- and moisture-stable Ni–NHC complexes is described.
Опыт прокатки многослойных листов на основе композиции сталей 08кп и У8
Creators: name: Шинкарев А.С.
name: Миронова М.О.
name: Салманов Э.А.
name: Скачков С.Д.
Publisher: name: Машиностроение и компьютерные технологии
Year: 2016
Subjects: МНОГОСЛОЙНЫЕ СТАЛЬНЫЕ МАТЕРИАЛЫ
ЛИСТОВАЯ ПАКЕТНАЯ ПРОКАТКА
ТЕМПЕРАТУРА ДЕФОРМАЦИИ

description: В работе исследуются механические свойства композиции сталей 08кп и У8, состоящей из 100 и 2500 чередующихся слоев, анализируется зависимость свойств от температуры нагрева перед прокаткой. Технология получения многослойных листов с устойчивой ультрамелкозернистой структурой основана на многократной горячей прокатке заготовки в виде композиции, состоящей из чередующихся металлических листов. Была проведена пакетная прокатка 100слойной композиции сталей 08кп и У8 при различных температурах: 800°С, 900°С, 1000°С и 1100°С, с нагревом перед каждым проходом. Были определены температурные зависимости, которые могут быть использованы при расчетах сил прокатки. Для всех температур прокатки были получены изображения микроструктуры материала.
Simulating disc galaxy bulges that are consistent with observed scaling relations
Creators: name: Christensen, C. R.
name: Brooks, A. M.
name: Fisher, D. B.
name: Governato, F.
name: McCleary, J.
name: Quinn, T. R.
name: Shen, S.
name: Wadsley, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed comparison between the photometric properties of the bulges of two simulated galaxies and those of a uniform sample of observed galaxies. This analysis shows that the simulated galaxies have bulges with realistic surface brightnesses for their sizes and magnitude. These two field disc galaxies have rotational velocities ~ 100 km/s and were integrated to a redshift of zero in a fully cosmological Lambda cold dark matter context as part of high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations. We performed bulge-disc decompositions of the galaxies using artificial observations, in order to conduct a fair comparison to observations. We also dynamically decomposed the galaxies and compared the star formation histories of the bulges to those of the entire galaxies. These star formation histories showed that the bulges were primarily formed before z = 1 and during periods of rapid star formation. Both galaxies have large amounts of early star formation, which is likely related to the relatively high bulge-to-disc ratios also measured for them. Unlike almost all previous cosmological simulations, the realistically concentrated bulges of these galaxies do not lead to unphysically high rotational velocities, causing them to naturally lie along the observed Tully-Fisher relation.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
title: Effectiveness of Interactive, Collaborative vs. Traditional, Lecture-Based Educational Interventions for Adolescents in Low-Income Areas to Increase Knowledge Regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections
Creators: name: Tagra, Nelan
name: Jimenez, Maia
name: Benedicto, Christina
name: Tucker, Christopher
name: Norman, Gerrard
name: Harris, Charmein
name: Green, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Aim: To assess whether teens who live in low-income areas who participate in interactive, collaborative sexually transmitted infections (STI) prevention education will have a significant increase in learning outcomes in comparison to students who participate in a traditional, lecture-based approach.

Background: More STIs are reported each year. Among those infected, young people are of the highest incidence at 50% of new STIs in the US annually. High STI incidence is an unintended health outcome as a result of engaging in risky sexual behaviors. This highlights the need to improve STI education among adolescents.

Methods: A quasi-experimental method will be used to evaluate the effect of student participation in the two educational teaching interventions about STI knowledge and prevention. Students in both experimental groups will complete A Survey of Current Knowledge on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexual Behaviour in Adolescents (Drago, 2016) questionnaire before and after each teaching intervention is presented.

Analysis: Paired sample t-tests will be used to evaluate individual difference on STI knowledge pre- and post-intervention. A total of 60 adolescents (ages 13-19) from low-income areas in Hampton Roads will be recruited for this study, with a goal of 30 in each experimental group.

Expected Findings: It is expected that the group who participates in the interactive, collaborative educational intervention will have a more significant difference in scores between the pretest and posttest.
Diffusion coefficients from signal fluctuations: Influence of molecular shape and rotational diffusion
Creators: name: Hahne, Susanne
name: Maass, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analysis of signal fluctuations of a locally fixed probe, caused by molecules diffusing under the probe, can be used to determine diffusion coefficients. Theoretical treatments so far have been limited to point-like particles or to molecules with circle-like shapes. Here we extend these treatments to molecules with rectangle-like shapes, for which also rotational diffusion needs to be taken into account. Focusing on the distribution of peak widths in the signal, we show how translational as well as rotational diffusion coefficients can be determined. We address also the question, how the distribution of interpeak time intervals and autocorrelation function can be employed for determining diffusion coefficients. Our approach is validated against kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
title: Referendum debate riposte
Creators: name: Smith, Mark
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2014

description: The nub of Garry Coutts' argument in favour of a 'No' vote is that the Independence Referendum is a distraction from 'real' politics. An alternative reading might be that, rather than being a sideshow, the Referendum has provided a focus for a revitalised politics, an outburst of participative democracy. In that sense it is a not an obsession on the part of the political class, as Garry suggests, but a challenge to the caucus politics that has dominated political life for the last couple of decades. For me, and thousands like me, politics has become interesting and relevant again. A couple of weeks ago, I went along to a Referendum event in Muirhouse. Two of the speakers, former senior figures in the Labour and trades union movements were appearing on their first public platform since the Iraq War scunnered them with 'real' politics. The Independence Referendum has reconnected them. Moreover, the fact that voter turnout of around 80% is anticipated might suggest that this debate has caught the imagination of the Scottish people in a way that 'business as usual' politics has singularly failed to do. And the reason it has done so is not that people are obsessed with constitutional niceties but because they begin to imagine what an independent Scotland might be able to do to tackle some of the key issues facing our country. The constitutional issue is not peripheral to tackling issues such as inequality, but central to it.
Phonetic based SoundEx & ShapeEx algorithm for Sindhi Spell Checker System
Creators: name: Bhatti, Zeeshan
name: Waqas, Ahmad
name: Ismaili, Imdad Ali
name: Hakro, Dil Nawaz
name: Soomro, Waseem Javaid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel combinational phonetic algorithm for Sindhi Language, to be used in developing Sindhi Spell Checker which has yet not been developed prior to this work. The compound textual forms and glyphs of Sindhi language presents a substantial challenge for developing Sindhi spell checker system and generating similar suggestion list for misspelled words. In order to implement such a system, phonetic based Sindhi language rules and patterns must be considered into account for increasing the accuracy and efficiency. The proposed system is developed with a blend between Phonetic based SoundEx algorithm and ShapeEx algorithm for pattern or glyph matching, generating accurate and efficient suggestion list for incorrect or misspelled Sindhi words. A table of phonetically similar sounding Sindhi characters for SoundEx algorithm is also generated along with another table containing similar glyph or shape based character groups for ShapeEx algorithm. Both these are first ever attempt of any such type of categorization and representation for Sindhi Language.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 5 Tables, Sindhi Computing, Sindhi Language
Majorcan Black Pig: a sustainable production system for high quality meat products
Creators: name: Tibau, J
name: Torrentó, N
name: Jaume, J
name: González, J
name: Čandek-Potokar, M
name: Batorek-Lukač, N
name: Quintanilla, R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Majorcan Black Pig (MBP) is a native breed from Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, characterized by its high rusticity and adaptation to Mediterranean climatic conditions, with ability to exploit the scarce natural resources. This pig population had a great importance in the economy and cultural heritage until mid-20th century. The introduction of leaner pig breeds, the impact of different diseases and rural migration led to a progressive decline of this breed. Recognized as an endangered autochthonous pig breed in Spain, MBP has a conservation and improvement program supported by Balearic Government technical services. The current census is close to 80 farms with more than 1,300 breeding pigs. MBP farms are managed in extensive conditions and the feeding regime is based on pasture, cereals, legumes, figs, almonds, acorns and Mediterranean shrubs, with eventual supplementation based on barley and green peas. Performances are largely dependent on available natural resources; mean productivity is 16 piglets/sow-year and a post-weaning growth around 500 g/day until the slaughtering target weight (140-160 kg). Compared with commercial breeds, MBP has a largely higher subcutaneous fat depot, with carcasses showing back fat depths reaching 7 cm and flare fat weights usually up to 6 kg. Important differences are also observed in meat quality, with the loin of MBP presenting higher intramuscular fat content (~8%), darker colour, slightly lower shear force, higher levels of MUFA (~50%) and lower levels of PUFA (<10%). The main products are the ‘Sobrassada de Porc Negre Mallorquí’, a specialty fat-rich cured sausage granted with a PGI certification, and the roasted ‘porcella’ (3 month purebred piglets). The proportion of animals devoted either to produce ‘porcella’ or to be fattened until a heavy slaughter weight depends upon the available natural resources. This practice represents a really sustainable production system. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (grant agreement no. 634476).
Mass-Loss Evolution of Close-In Exoplanets: Evaporation of Hot Jupiters and the Effect on Population
Creators: name: Kurokawa, Hiroyuki
name: Nakamoto, Taishi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During their evolution, short-period exoplanets may lose envelope mass through atmospheric escape owing to intense XUV (X-ray and extreme ultraviolet) radiation from their host stars. Roche-lobe overflow induced by orbital evolution or intense atmospheric escape can also contribute to mass loss. To study the effects of mass loss on inner planet populations, we calculate the evolution of hot Jupiters considering mass loss of their envelopes and thermal contraction. Mass loss is assumed to occur through XUV-driven atmospheric escape and the following Roche-lobe overflow. The runaway effect of mass loss results in a dichotomy of populations: hot Jupiters that retain their envelopes and super Earths whose envelopes are completely lost. Evolution primarily depends on the core masses of planets and only slightly on migration history. In hot Jupiters with small cores (~10 Earth masses), runaway atmospheric escape followed by Roche-lobe overflow may create sub-Jupiter deserts, as observed in both mass and radius distributions of planetary populations. Comparing our results with formation scenarios and observed exoplanets populations, we propose that populations of closely orbiting exoplanets are formed by capturing of planets at/inside the inner edges of protoplanetary disks and subsequent evaporation of sub-Jupiters.
description: 43 pages, 10 figures, accepted to be published in ApJ
Innovative patties from Majorcan Black Pig meat: results of a consumer study in Barcelona
Creators: name: Dilmé, J
name: Rivera-Toapanta, E
name: Vitale, M
name: Kallas, Z
name: Gil, M
name: Oliver, MA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The Majorcan Black Pig (MBP) is an untapped breed from Mallorca Island, in the Mediterranean Sea. The aim of the study was to innovate new, healthier products to expand demand and ensure the survival of MBP farms by identifying new market niches. To achieve this, bioactive compounds such as β-glucans and polyphenols were added to the patties, by including mushrooms (Boletus edulis) or blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum), respectively in their composition. A study with 120 consumers was carried out in Barcelona. The consumers had to test five types of MBP patties, three innovative treatments and two controls: MBP patties (A), MBP with porcini mushrooms (B), MBP with blueberries (C); Pork and beef (D) and beef (E). The experimental design consisted of three tests: (1) Blind test: consumers tasted the five types of patties (overall liking on a scale from 1 (dislike extremely) to 9 (like extremely)). (2) Expected test: Consumers indicated general acceptance to the description of the five treatments, with the information about the origin of the meat, production system and potential beneficial effects of the added healthy ingredients. (3) Informed test: Consumers repeated the sensory test, but with the same information as the previous test in each tasting. There were no significant differences according to gender in the blind test. MBP patty treatment had a significantly higher sensory acceptance than the rest (in both the Blind and Informed test). In addition, the average score obtained by the MBP patty was significantly higher in the Blind and Informed tests – which include a sensory evaluation – implying that it was the preferred one by the consumers. The

type of patties with vegetal ingredients were scored significantly lower than the other types of patties, and there was no significant effect of the information that had been given to consumers, indicating that consumers did not like so much the sensory characteristics of these patties (texture and flavor). There is a need to provide clear and understandable information to the consumers about the differential characteristics of the products, ensuring sensory quality. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (grant agreement no.634476).
Taking all positive eigenvectors is suboptimal in classical multidimensional scaling
Creators: name: Tsang, Jeffrey
name: Pereira, Rajesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91C15, 90C20

description: It is hard to overstate the importance of multidimensional scaling as an analysis technique in the broad sciences. Classical, or Torgerson multidimensional scaling is one of the main variants, with the advantage that it has a closed-form analytic solution. However, this solution is exact if and only if the distances are Euclidean. Conversely, there has been comparatively little discussion on what to do in the presence of negative eigenvalues: the intuitive solution, prima facie justifiable in least-squares terms, is to take every positive eigenvector as a dimension. We show that this, minimizing least-squares to the centred distances instead of the true distances, is suboptimal - throwing away positive eigenvectors can decrease the error even as we project to fewer dimensions. We provide provably better methods for handling this common case.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, 1 supplementary file
Some results on performances of Krškopolje pigs in project TREASURE
Creators: name: Batorek-Lukač, N
name: Tomažin, U
name: Škrlep, M
name: Čandek-Potokar, M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Krškopolje pig (KKP), a Slovenian autochthonous breed, has been little studied and more knowledge is needed about their growth potential and performances in different production systems. Present work aims to overview the preliminary results of H2020 project TREASURE, evaluating performance in different rearing systems: conventional (CON) organic (ORG) and traditional (TRD). Growth was evaluated in lactation (study 1, CON vs ORG, n=156), growing and fattening period (study 2, CON vs ORG n=36; and study 3, CON vs TRD n=12); main carcass traits were evaluated after slaughter at approximately 230 days of age (study 2 and 3). Results show that weight at weaning and growth rate in lactation were ≈20% lower in ORG than CON farms, whereas no major differences in growth rate were observed between pigs in two systems in growing/fattening period when similar nutritional value of the diet and feeding was provided. However, in fattening period pigs in ORG system had 13% higher daily gain than in CON system, which could be ascribed to high consumption of alfalfa hay and perhaps less feed dissipation. Yet no differences in body weight and carcass traits were noted between the two groups at the end of the trial. Similar daily gain was observed in KKP pigs raised in CON and TRD system during growing period (until app. 45 kg), whereas in the period between 45-90 kg pigs fed TRD meal (ad libitum), which is based on mix of cereals and root crops, achieved 49% lower daily gain (P<0.01) compared to those fed complete feed mixture (CON). Consequently CON pigs were heavier at slaughter (+32 kg, P<0.001), had increased backfat (+7 mm, P<0.05) and muscle (+18 mm, P<0.01) thickness, but were not different in meat % (P>0.05). Preliminary results presented provide some information about performance of KKP, however further studies are needed to know better its growth potential and nutritional needs. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (Grant agreement no. 634476).
Decolonial-Hispanophone Curriculum
Creators: name: Jupp, James C.
name: González Delgado, Micaela
name: Calderón Berumen, Freyca
name: Hesse, Caroline
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2020

description: In our essay, we advance a preliminary sketch of decolonial-Hispanophone curriculum and extend an invitation for a South-South dialogue between students, teachers, or activist educators from distinct intellectual traditions of the geo-regions called “the Americas.” After sharing provisional definitions, we plant the problem of doing curricular-pedagogical work within a historical trajectory emphasizing historical colonies and present-day coloniality. Planted in this way, we provide a preliminary sketch of decolonial-Hispanophone curriculum as one dimension of a transnational, contextual, and relational decolonial project. From this sketch, we theorize three historicized concepts: (a) the historicity of decolonial thought, (b) mestizx conceptualization, and (c) communality/pluriversality. We conclude the essay with an invitation for transnational South-South dialogue. Keywords: coloniality, decolonial curriculum, decolonial pedagogy, itinerant curriculum theory.
description: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 17 No. 1 (2020): Curriculum and Displaced Borders
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 17 No. 1 (2020): Curriculum and Displaced Borders
title: Curriculum and Displaced Borders
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2020

description: In a world where the borders among nations are increasingly displaced, where the very senses of nation, belonging, identity are questioned every day, the curriculum takes on new challenges.
description: Curriculum and Displaced Borders...1-2 Toward an Understanding of Attunement as an Autobiographical Theory of Education...3-15 Toward Decolonizing the Black and White A’nger cloth...16-30 (Re)Imagining the Responsible, National Citizen...31-48 El Currículo Decolonial-Hispanófono...49-71 Decolonial-Hispanophone Curriculum...72-94 Curriculum in International Contexts...95-100
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 16 No. 2 (2019): We are not Alone - the Subject of Teachers and the Auto/biographical in Curriculum Studies
title: We are not Alone - the Subject of Teachers and the Auto/biographical in Curriculum Studies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2019

description: Our hope is that this special issue will contribute to “the project of intellectualization” initiated by William Pinar (2015), encouraging its continued exploration through projects of thinking through teachers and the auto/biographical.
description: We are not Alone the Subject of Teachers and the Auto/biographical in Curriculum Studies...1-3 A Place to Think...4-14 We Were Taught to Colonize with Literature...15-21 Autobiography and Discourse Theory...22-30 Experiments in Creative Remembering...31-36 The Question of Curriculum in Dark Times...37-49 Just Lingering, a Complicated Conversation...50-61 Autobiography, Aesthetics and Politics...62-73 Breathing Life into the Territorial Acknowledgement...74-81
Observation of hysteretic phase-switching in silicon by piezoresponse force microscopy
Creators: name: Sekhon, Jagmeet S.
name: Aggarwal, Leena
name: Sheet, Goutam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of $180^o$ phase switching on silicon wafers by piezo-response force microscopy (PFM). The switching is hysteretic and shows remarkable similarities with polarization switching in ferroelectrics. This is always accompanied by a hysteretic amplitude vs. voltage curve which resembles the "butterfly loops" for piezoelectric materials. From a detailed analysis of the data obtained under different environmental and experimental conditions, we show that the hysteresis effects in phase and amplitude do not originate from ferro-electricity or piezoelectricity. This further indicates that mere observation of hysteresis effects in PFM does not confirm the existence of ferroelectric and/or piezoelectric ordering in materials. We also show that when samples are mounted on silicon for PFM measurements, the switching properties of silicon may appear on the sample even if the sample thickness is large.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Occurrence and core-envelope structure of 1--4x Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars
Creators: name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Weiss, Lauren M.
name: Petigura, Erik A.
name: Isaacson, Howard
name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Buchhave, Lars A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small planets, 1-4x the size of Earth, are extremely common around Sun-like stars, and surprisingly so, as they are missing in our solar system. Recent detections have yielded enough information about this class of exoplanets to begin characterizing their occurrence rates, orbits, masses, densities, and internal structures. The Kepler mission finds the smallest planets to be most common, as 26% of Sun-like stars have small, 1-2 R_e planets with orbital periods under 100 days, and 11% have 1-2 R_e planets that receive 1-4x the incident stellar flux that warms our Earth. These Earth-size planets are sprinkled uniformly with orbital distance (logarithmically) out to 0.4 AU, and probably beyond. Mass measurements for 33 transiting planets of 1-4 R_e show that the smallest of them, R < 1.5 R_e, have the density expected for rocky planets. Their densities increase with increasing radius, likely caused by gravitational compression. Including solar system planets yields a relation: rho = 2.32 + 3.19 R/R_e [g/cc]. Larger planets, in the radius range 1.5-4.0 R_e, have densities that decline with increasing radius, revealing increasing amounts of low-density material in an envelope surrounding a rocky core, befitting the appellation "mini-Neptunes." Planets of ~1.5 R_e have the highest densities, averaging near 10 g/cc. The gas giant planets occur preferentially around stars that are rich in heavy elements, while rocky planets occur around stars having a range of heavy element abundances. One explanation is that the fast formation of rocky cores in protoplanetary disks enriched in heavy elements permits the gravitational accumulation of gas before it vanishes, forming giant planets. But models of the formation of 1-4 R_e planets remain uncertain. Defining habitable zones remains difficult, without benefit of either detections of life elsewhere or an understanding of life's biochemical origins.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 16 No. 1 (2019): Different Curriculum Policies
title: Different Curriculum Policies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2019

description: This TCI issue includes different approaches on curriculum policies. There are articles from different countries and traditions. Perhaps these conclusions may be a contribution to improving democracy in curriculum policies.
description: Is there a Curriculum Path?...1-2 The Curricular Policies and How they are Translated in Secondary Education:...3-22 Curricular Centralization Policy in Brazil...23-37 Curriculum Policies of Gender and Sexuality in Brazil...38-60 Curriculum, Context and Otherness...61-74 Curricular Decolonization from Epistemologies of Diversity...75-81
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 15 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue: Non-Affirmative Education Theory in the Globopolitan Era
title: Special Issue: Non-Affirmative Education Theory in the Globopolitan Era
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2018

description: This special issue aims at advancing curriculum research in a transnational perspective by the help of both a critical, Bildung centered, non-affirmative education theory and discursive institutionalism. Given that this research program is recently initiated, the intention is here to explore in what ways these approaches might be fruitful for understanding of how different actors and practices, at different levels of the education system, within nation-states, with their different, historically developed education policies, mediate between the transnational, national, regional and local levels? We ask how non-affirmative theory of education be utilized as a frame of reference in understanding both curriculum reform work, teaching and educational leadership? Can discursive institutionalism operate as a complementary approach to education or curriculum theory, in understanding how educational policies, ideas and values relate to governance processes and educational practice at different levels?
description: Non-affirmative Education Theory and Discursive Institutionalism as Possibilities for Curriculum Research...1-3 A Contribution to Re-theorizing Curriculum Research...4-25 The Idea of Distance in Data-driven Curriculum Policy Making:...26-37 Curriculum Reform as a Political Statement in Developing Contexts:...38-49 Critiquing Curriculum Policy Reform in Finland and Australia:...50-82
Spin Gap in the Single Spin-1/2 Chain Cuprate Sr$_{1.9}$Ca$_{0.1}$CuO$_3$
Creators: name: Hammerath, F.
name: Brüning, E. M.
name: Sanna, S.
name: Utz, Y.
name: Beesetty, N. S.
name: Saint-Martin, R.
name: Revcolevschi, A.
name: Hess, C.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Grafe, H. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{63}$Cu nuclear magnetic resonance and muon spin rotation measurements on the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chain compound Sr$_{1.9}$Ca$_{0.1}$CuO$_3$. An exponentially decreasing spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T$_1$ indicates the opening of a spin gap. This behavior is very similar to what has been observed for the cognate zigzag spin chain compound Sr$_{0.9}$Ca$_{0.1}$CuO$_2$, and confirms that the occurrence of a spin gap upon Ca doping is independent of the interchain exchange coupling $J'$. Our results therefore generally prove the appearance of a spin gap in an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chain induced by a local bond disorder of the intrachain exchange coupling $J$. A low temperature upturn of 1/T$_1$ evidences growing magnetic correlations. However, zero field muon spin rotation measurements down to 1.5 K confirm the absence of magnetic order in this compound which is most likely suppressed by the opening of the spin gap.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Vote no to the constitutional sideshow
Creators: name: Coutts, Garry
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2014

description: The whole independence debate is a monumental sideshow. A waste of valuable time that could be spent on the key challenges facing our country. A waste of energy that should have been used to find solutions to the major problems of society. A huge waste of talent that has been diverted on to inconsequential matters of constitution rather than public policy and, worst of all, a tragic waste of human spirit.
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 15 No. 1 (2018): Curriculum, Culture and Resistance
title: Curriculum, Culture and Resistance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2018

description: The articles of this issue come from different research groups, different universities and countries, with different approaches, perhaps connected only through the perspective of thinking about the curriculum in a non-prescriptive way, open to defer. Perhaps what also connects these articles is the political option to say, in the face of any authoritarianism and any violence against the identity of the other, “We prefer not to accept it”.
description: “I prefer not to accept it”:...1-2 When the Nation Kills the Tribe:...3-12 Biological Evolution in Curricula of Countries with Different Links between State and Religion...13-33 World of Technology:...34-49 The Field of Curriculum Studies in the Journal Transnational Curriculum Inquiry (TCI) as an Effect of the Relations between Knowledge and Power:...50-67 A Framework for Cross-Cultural Curriculum Development...68-82
Dynamics of mobile interacting ferromagnetic films: theory and numerical implementation
Creators: name: Benassi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coating two nearby bodies with thin ferromagnetic films one obtains, below the Curie temperature, two interacting sets of magnetic domains. The dynamical properties of the bodies in presence of this domain interaction have never been investigated so far. In this work I derive a set of equations to simultaneously describe both the domain evolution within the two films and the dynamics of the coated bodies. The shape, size and mobility of the domains can be easily controlled with an external magnetic field or properly choosing the material properties, thus unravelling how the domain characteristics influence the system dynamics. This can be thus of great technological relevance, providing new means to control and actuate mechanical motion at the micro- and nano-scale.
Computing Minimum Tile Sets to Self-Assemble Colors Patterns
Creators: name: Johnsen, Aleck C.
name: Kao, Ming-Yang
name: Seki, Shinnosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.1

description: Patterned self-assembly tile set synthesis (PATS) aims at finding a minimum tile set to uniquely self-assemble a given rectangular color pattern. For $k \ge 1$, $k$-PATS is a variant of PATS that restricts input patterns to those with at most $k$ colors. We prove the {\bf NP}-hardness of 29-PATS, where the best known is that of 60-PATS.
Light Chargino Effects onto H -> gamma gamma in the MSSM
Creators: name: Hemeda, M.
name: Khalil, S.
name: Moretti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the implications of light charginos on the Higgs boson signal strength via gluon-gluon fusion and di-photon decay in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We show that enhancements are possible with a rate up to 25%. We also prove that they are possible for a high scale constrained version of the MSSM with non-universal Higgs and gaugino masses. In contrast, effects due to light charged Higgs bosons, that we also have investigated, are generically negligible in the γγdecay, though they may affect the b \bar b rate, hence the total width.
description: 5 pages, 5 Figures
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 14 No. 1-2 (2017): Special Issue: Voices, Tensions and Perspectives of Curriculum
title: Special Issue: Voices, Tensions and Perspectives of Curriculum
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2017

description: In this issue, we publish some articles with the ideas that were presented and discussed at the Curriculum-Society Colloquium: voices, tensions and perspectives, held in October 2016, at National Autonomous University of Mexico. These papers try to be a contribution to the internationalization of curricular studies in Latin America and the rest of the world. This issue is also in memory of William E. Doll, JR. As he wrote: "The linear, sequential, easily, quantifiable ordering system dominating education today - one focusing on clear beginnings and definite endings - could give way to a more complex, pluralistic, unpredictable system or network" (William E. Doll, JR. , in A post-modern perspective on curriculum, 1993). We try to honour his intention. Rest in peace, Bill Doll.
description: Curriculum: Voices, Tensions and Perspectives...1-4 Curriculum Theories in the World – Worlds...5-8 Theorizing the Curriculum...9-18 Internationalization and "Pensamiento Curricular Latinoamericano"...19-27 Dialogues and Circumstances as Unavoidable Topics in Curriculum Field...28-38 Curricular Change as a Generating Category, on Approval in Designing or Redesigning Practives in Educational Reform Contexts...39-46 Chiaroscuros in Curricular Innovations: between Desire and Reality...47-55 School and Future: Failed Interpellations...56-66 The Young People as Subjects of the Curricular Overdetermination...67-76 On the Subject of Educational Policies and Curriculum Transformation in Bolivia...77-82 The Culture and the Mexican Basic Education Curriculum...83-86 The CONEAU and its Influences on the Process of Curriculum Design in Argentine Universities...87-93 The Self-Assessment Processes in Reacredited Education Careers: Trends for Curricular Change...94-100 From Problematization to Reconfiguration of Curricular Design and Evaluation in Mexico (Postgraduate Courses in Education in Mexico: Case of ISCEEM)...101-109 Currere, Subjective Reconstruction and Autobiographical Theory...110-141 Transformation of Teachers as Active Agents in Curriculum Building...142-156 Reflection on Wisdom that Responds to Market Logic of David G. Smith...157-165
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 13 No. 2 (2016): Curriculum: Different Questions, Different Translations
title: Curriculum: Different Questions, Different Translations
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2017

description: Curriculum: Different Questions, Different Translations...1-2 Teacher Training Curriculum Policies in Brazil: Possibilities of Wordsmith Tools...3-12 Curriculum Management and the Role of Curriculum Actors...13-33 ICT Assessment in Teaching: Suggested Indicators for Brazilian and Portuguese Teachers...34-46 Towards a Curriculum of the Heart: Thinking, Growing, Feeling, and Connecting in Contemporary Education...47-59 Peer Review Process...60
Combined uranium-series and electron spin resonance dating from the Pliocene fossil sites of Aves and Milo’s palaeocaves, Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Creators: name: Yu, Wenjing
name: Herries, Andrew
name: Edwards, Tara R
name: Armstrong, Brian
name: Joannes-Boyau, R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Bolt’s Farm is the name given to a series of non-hominin bearing fossil sites that have often been suggested to be some of the oldest Pliocene sites in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. This article reports the results of the first combined Uranium-Series and Electron Spin Resonance (US-ESR) dating of bovid teeth at Milo’s Cave and Aves Cave at Bolt’s Farm. Both tooth enamel fragments and tooth enamel powder ages were presented for comparison. US-ESR, EU and LU models are calculated. Overall, the powder ages are consistent with previous uranium-lead and palaeomagnetic age estimates for the Aves Cave deposit, which suggest an age between ~3.15 and 2.61 Ma and provide the first ages for Milo’s Cave dates to between ~3.1 and 2.7 Ma. The final ages were not overly dependent on the models used (US-ESR, LU or EU), which all overlap within error. These ages are all consistent with the biochronological age estimate (<3.4–>2.6 Ma) based on the occurrence of Stage I Metridiochoerus andrewsi. Preliminary palaeomagnetic analysis from Milo’s Cave indicates a reversal takes place at the site with predominantly intermediate directions, suggesting the deposit may date to the period between ~3.03 and 3.11 Ma within error of the ESR ages. This further suggests that there are no definitive examples of palaeocave deposits at Bolt’s Farm older than 3.2 Ma. This research indicates that US-ESR dating has the potential to date fossil sites in the Cradle of Humankind to over 3 Ma. However, bulk sample analysis for US-ESR dating is recommended for sites over 3 Ma.
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016): What are we meaning by Curriculum?
title: What are we meaning by Curriculum?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2016

description: What are we meaning by Curriculum?...1-2 Education in an Era of Climate Change: Conversing with Ten Thousand Voices...3-13 The Power of Affections in the Curriculum Discursive Practices: Possibilities of the Development of a Relationship-Curriculum...14-23 The Curriculum in Tension: a Discussion of Universalism and Particularism...24-35 The University Curriculum and the Ecology of Knowledges towards building a Planetary Citizenship...36-55 Understanding the Process of Internationalization of Curriculum Studies in China: a Case Study...56-74
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2015): Ottawa Curriculum Conference
title: Ottawa Curriculum Conference
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2016

description: Ottawa Curriculum Conference...1-2 Challenges to Curriculum Theory in the 21st Century: Thinking the School Beyond the Basics...3-12 Dewey’s Trip to China: A Rejuvenation of his Democratic Spirit...13-25 Meetings, Dialogs and Interconnections in a Theoretical-analytical Perspective Design...24-30 From Telescope to Kaleidoscope: Post-structural Strategies for Bringing Multiplicity to Light in Teaching and Research...31-43 Living Between Truth and Reconciliation: Responsibilities, Colonial Institutions, and Settler Scholars...44-63
Electron states in a double quantum dot with broken axial symmetry
Creators: name: Gawarecki, Krzysztof
name: Machnikowski, Paweł
name: Kuhn, Tilmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the electron states in a system of two vertically stacked quantum dots. We investigate the influence of the geometrical symmetry breaking (caused by the displacement as well as the ellipticity of the dots) on the electron states. Our modeling is based on the 8-band kp method. We show that the absence of axial symmetry of the system leads to a coupling of the s state from one dot with the p and d states from the other. Our findings indicate, that this coupling can produce a strong energy splitting at resonance (on the order of several meV) in the case of closely spaced quantum dots. Furthermore, we show that in the presence of a piezoelectric field, the direction of the displacement plays an important role in the character of the coupling.
title: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 12 No. 1 (2015): Elusive Curriculum
title: Elusive Curriculum
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2015

description: Internationalization of Curriculum Studies through an Elusive Curriculum...1-2 Freire and the US Reconceptualization: Remembering Curriculum as International Conversation...3-12 What Are Course Syllabi Telling Students? Critical Discourse Analysis of Classroom Power Relationships...13-27 Cosmopolitanism: a Journey of Suffering and Forgiveness...28-39 Teacher Education in Canada and Denmark in an Era of 'Neutrality'...40-55 Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India by Meenakshi Thapan (editor)...56-63
Thermodynamic consistency, quark mass scaling, and properties of strange matter
Creators: name: Xia, C. J.
name: Peng, G. X.
name: Chen, S. W.
name: Lu, Z. Y.
name: Xu, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The previous thermodynamic treatment for models with density and/or temperature dependent quark masses is shown to be inconsistent with the requirement of fundamental thermodynamics. We therefore study a fully self-consistent one according to the fundamental differential equation of thermodynamics. After obtaining a new quark mass scaling with the inclusion of both confinement and leading-order perturbative interactions, we investigate properties of strange quark matter in the fully consistent thermodynamic treatment. It is found that the equation of state become stiffer, and accordingly, the maximum mass of strange stars is as large as about 2 times the solar mass, if strange quark matter is absolutely or metastable.
TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), Vol. 11 No. 2 (2014)
Creators: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Publisher: name: TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry)
Year: 2015

description: Students as Citizens: Conceptions of Citizenship in a Social Studies Curriculum...1-24 The Impacts of English on Taiwan’s Elementary Curriculum: Homeroom Teachers’ Perspectives...25-47 Hakbeolism: A Historical and Curricular Consideration of Korean Test-Focused Education...48-66 Why a Deterritorialized Curriculum?...67-75