cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MATHEMATICS PREPARATION AND MATHEMATICS IN-SERVICE TRAINING NEEDS AND PREFERENCES OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF THE HEARING IMPAIRED IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Goodstein, Harvey
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Problem. This research attempted to appraise the mathematical preparation of elementary and secondary teachers of mathematics employed at the residential and day schools for the deaf in the United States, and to assess their mathematics in-service training needs and preferences. The Procedure. A forty-item questionnaire was mailed to 48 residential and 17 day schools for the deaf nationwide. The primary data were obtained from responses to questionnaire items made by a sample of 88 elementary and 44 secondary teachers of mathematics at selected schools. In the analysis of data, the statistical methods used here included t-tests, frequency and percentage distributions, and point and interval estimates. The Conclusions. The analysis of data led to the following conclusions: (1) The number of mathematics content courses taken by the teachers is significantly less than the minimum number as recommended by the Committee on Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM), and also significantly less than those taken by the public school teachers. (2) The number of mathematics methods courses taken by the teachers is about the same as those taken by the public school teachers. (3) The teachers have infrequently participated in a mathematics in-service program. (4) The teachers want to participate in an in-service program in mathematics. (5) For mathematics in-service training, the teachers prefer applications of mathematics in real-life situations, or any practical mathematics topic specific enough for direct classroom use. Furthermore, the teachers do not want a general, theoretical, or abstract mathematics kind of topic not relevant to their teaching. (6) The teachers consider it important that they be given the opportunity to select topics for a mathematics in-service program they are participating in. Among the hearing-impaired teachers, the service of a paid-for, qualified or certified interpreter is considered a very important incentive for participation. (7) While the schools do encourage and support professional growth of teachers, the schools have not encouraged the teachers to participate in an in-service program in mathematics nor have the schools encouraged the teachers to grow professionally in mathematics. (8) Although the teachers are adequately trained to teach the deaf, and feel confident about the mathematics they are teaching, they not only may fail to keep up with the current developments in mathematics education, but may be inadequately prepared to teach mathematics as well.
Komburg ob Steinbach
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1863

description: Dargestellt wird ein Blick von Nordosten aus der Unterlimpurgerstrasse mit dem Torturm auf Steinbach (Schwäbisch Hall) mit der ehemaligen Klosteranlage Grosscomburg
description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: Oben rechts ist das Blatt mit "Schw.41" bezeichnet
ASSOCIATIVE FACTORS FOR STEPFATHER INTEGRATION WITHIN THE BLENDED FAMILY
Creators: name: Hafkin, Marc I.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study was designed to add empirical knowledge to current information on remarriage and the stepfather. Based upon the premise that a satisfactory spousal relationship is pivotal for successful stepfather integration, the variables of involvement with stepchildren, discipline, and financial conflict were explored. Fifty stepfather couples who had married during 1978 to 1979 were chosen from the Marriage License Bureau in Montgomery County, Maryland. Twenty-five stepfathers had biologic children and the remaining half did not. At least one stepchild under the age of twelve was in residence at the time of the study. Subjects were located by telephone and visited in their homes where they filled out self-report questionnaires. The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976) measured spousal satisfaction, the Integrative Variable Questionnaire procured data on perceived stepfather involvement with stepchildren, discipline and finances, and a demographic questionnaire gathered descriptive data. The major hypothesis stated that stepfathers who experienced a greater degree of marital satisfaction were expected to report a greater degree of integration. Results of a Pearson Product Moment Correlation did not confirm the hypothesis, although a slight relationship was found (r = .38). The second hypothesis stated that spousal satisfaction would be positively correlated with stepfather involvement with stepchildren. A very slight positive correlation was found to exist (r = .22). However, when an analysis was performed for stepfathers who did not have biological children, a marked increase was noted (r = .42). The third hypothesis stated that spousal satisfaction would correlate negatively with stepcouple conflict over discipline. Results indicated a significant correlation, although the value was not large enough to be considered important (r = -.30). The last hypothesis indicated that spousal satisfaction would correlate negatively with financial conflict. Results showed a significant and important correlation (r = -.57) between the variables.
Sensitivity of the IceCube-Gen2 Neutrino Telescope for SN Neutrinos
Creators: name: Mariscal, Cristian Jesús Lozano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: While optimized for detecting neutrinos in the multi-GeV and TeV region, IceCube is also capable of detecting the large flux of MeV neutrinos from Galactic Core Collapse Supernovae that stream through the detector. This is achieved by analyzing the collective enhancement of the PMT rate on top of a low dark rate in the cold and inert ice deep in the Antarctic Glacier. For sufficiently close Supernovae, the cubic-km size of the IceCube detector provides a sensitivity to details of the neutrino light curve that is competitive with dedicated Mton neutrino detectors. When applied to the data of the IceCube-Gen2 detector, a similar method would enhance the sensitivity by roughly 60% compared to the case with IceCube alone. However, if one additionally exploits local coincidences between PMTs in the multi-PMT modules of IceCube-Gen2, the dark rate can be reduced substantially and the distance reach may be extended by a factor of 5 or more. Furthermore, the sensitivity during the burst onset and cooling phases, as well as the determination of the average energy of the positrons from the inverse beta reaction, will be much improved. The details depend on the dark rates introduced by the PMTs and the glass pressure housing as well as on the efficiency of vetoing atmospheric muons. Work is under way to study various options of introducing passive photon collection devices that could substantially increase the effective optical module volume and further enhance Gen2's sensitivity to Core Collapse Supernovae.
The Minnesota Poll # 79
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Television viewing (3); income tax return (2); veteran bonus (3); coal strike (4); oleomargarine (3); deciding own birth (1); noticing other people (2); US-Russian war possibility (4); ending Cold War (1); hydrogen bomb (5); APAW Organization (1); marriage license (2); divorces (2); divorce ease (4); domestic relations courts (1); relationship status (1); crackers (5).
title: What do parents report of the Education, Health and Care needs assessment process?
Creators: name: Lucy-May, Bentley
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Abstract
The relatively recent Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND 2014) legislation called for a ‘stronger voice’ for parents in educational planning for their children and higher aspirations for children and young people. 

This study was designed to investigate what parents report of the Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment process (also ‘statutory assessment’) since the inception of the SEND (2014) reforms, particularly if the aims of the reforms have been met from parents’ perspectives. The research is exploratory as there is currently little known about parents’ experiences of statutory assessment since the SEND (2014) reforms and it is also emancipatory, where parents of children and young people with special educational needs and disability represent a traditionally marginalised group. The study further aims to improve practice for Educational Psychologists (EPs) who have a central role in statutory assessment, as well other professionals who may also be involved. 

Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from parents whose children were undergoing statutory assessment. Data was collected from each parent at three points in the process and data was analysed using a thematic analysis described by Braun and Clarke (2013). The findings indicate that in order for the aims of the (2014) reforms to met, this can only be realised in the social spaces created by parents and professionals working together. In order for professionals working within statutory assessment procedures to deliver the aims of the SEND (2014) reforms there needs to be a greater focus on ensuring co-construction and meaningful participation for parents in practice. It was found that this was particularly important when working with parents who have less means of creating their own conditions of empowerment.
The Minnesota Poll # 82
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Work week length (4); retirement age (4); fair employment laws (2); gas tax (1); party controlling legislature (2); cutting state spending (1); best party for various issues (6); governor candidate preferences (2); official state bird (3); federal census (2); Harry Truman job performance (2); professional licenses (4); real estate dealings (2); real estate licenses (4); people in the news (4); Brannan farm plan (4); Joseph McCarthy evaluation (4); Community Chest (4).
Temporal clustering of ANTARES neutrinos coming from the directions of radio-bright blazars
Creators: name: Illuminati, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: A promising directional correlation between IceCube muon neutrino candidates and a catalog of radio-bright blazars has been reported [ApJ 894 (2020) 101, ApJ 908 (2021) 157]. The analysis presented in this contribution targets the same radio catalog using the data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope in 13 years of operation. In particular, a search for space and time clustering of the events from the direction of the radio-bright blazars is performed by means of an unbinned time-dependent maximum likelihood method. In the search, two profiles (gaussian and box shapes) are assumed for the neutrino arrival distribution. For both profiles, the central time and duration of the flare are treated as free parameters in the likelihood maximization, together with the number of signal events and the energy spectral index of the neutrino emission. The results of the search, in terms of most significant neutrino flares and corresponding best-fit values of the free parameters, are presented.
title: Cognitive Function in Type 2 Diabetes: A Study Using Younger Adults
Creators: name: Lucas, Katy
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Background: The rising rates of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) around the world have serious economic and health implications, often related to the complications of the condition. One such problem is the impact of diabetes on cognitive function. In older adults with T2DM, there is an established relationship between diabetes and cognitive impairment in people with and without dementia. Emerging evidence suggests this may also be the case for younger adults, as the occurrence of cognitive deficits in people with T2DM is related to the severity and duration of the condition. In some parts of the world, T2DM has become the most common diabetes phenotype in children. Therefore, exploring the cognitive function of younger adults with T2DM is important, to understand the pathogenesis and sequelae of the condition across the lifespan.
Aims: To investigate if younger adults with T2DM show signs of cognitive impairment, and how this relates to diabetes-related health indicators. 
Method: Ten people with T2DM were recruited from a diabetes clinic in London, and completed a battery of cognitive tests assessing processing speed, attention, executive function, learning and memory.  Estimates of optimal (premorbid) ability were also derived.  Clinically relevant markers for diabetes were recorded, including Hba1c and lipid profiles. 
Results: Scores on cognitive tests suggested deficits in attention and processing speed, but executive function was a relative strength. Scores were not declined relative to one measure of optimal ability across the group. Health markers related to diabetes were correlated with several cognitive domains, although not consistently: total cholesterol levels showed the strongest associations, and not always in the direction anticipated.
Conclusions: Due to the small sample size, any profiles and associations should be treated cautiously. Further research in this area is needed, and cognitive impairment in people with T2DM should be attended to routinely in clinical services.
ASSOCIATIVE FACTORS FOR STEPFATHER INTEGRATION WITHIN THE BLENDED FAMILY
Creators: name: Hafkin, Marc I.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: This study was designed to add empirical knowledge to current information on remarriage and the stepfather. Based upon the premise that a satisfactory spousal relationship is pivotal for successful stepfather integration, the variables of involvement with stepchildren, discipline, and financial conflict were explored. Fifty stepfather couples who had married during 1978 to 1979 were chosen from the Marriage License Bureau in Montgomery County, Maryland. Twenty-five stepfathers had biologic children and the remaining half did not. At least one stepchild under the age of twelve was in residence at the time of the study. Subjects were located by telephone and visited in their homes where they filled out self-report questionnaires. The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976) measured spousal satisfaction, the Integrative Variable Questionnaire procured data on perceived stepfather involvement with stepchildren, discipline and finances, and a demographic questionnaire gathered descriptive data. The major hypothesis stated that stepfathers who experienced a greater degree of marital satisfaction were expected to report a greater degree of integration. Results of a Pearson Product Moment Correlation did not confirm the hypothesis, although a slight relationship was found (r = .38). The second hypothesis stated that spousal satisfaction would be positively correlated with stepfather involvement with stepchildren. A very slight positive correlation was found to exist (r = .22). However, when an analysis was performed for stepfathers who did not have biological children, a marked increase was noted (r = .42). The third hypothesis stated that spousal satisfaction would correlate negatively with stepcouple conflict over discipline. Results indicated a significant correlation, although the value was not large enough to be considered important (r = -.30). The last hypothesis indicated that spousal satisfaction would correlate negatively with financial conflict. Results showed a significant and important correlation (r = -.57) between the variables.
title: An Exploration of how Individuals Affected by Social Anxiety Experience Relationships with Others.
Creators: name: Mcsorley, Ronan
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Social anxiety causes disruption to relational functioning leading some researchers to describe it as an interpersonal problem (Alden & Taylor, 2004, 2010). However, research exploring interpersonal aspects of social anxiety is strikingly limited. Furthermore the research that has been conducted is predominantly informed by a positivist and quantitative framework. The way in which socially anxious individuals ‘experience’ interpersonal relationships with others is therefore poorly understood. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by adopting a phenomenological approach. The aim of this research is to uncover the understandings, explanations and perceptions socially anxious individuals have of interpersonal relationships. Six socially anxious individuals were recruited from UK based social anxiety support groups and interviewed about important relationships in their lives. The data generated was subjected to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis leading to four superordinate themes: ‘The Desire for Intimacy’, ‘Interpersonal Barriers’, ‘Interpersonal Adaptations’ and ‘Intimacy’. These superordinate themes, along with their corresponding subordinate themes, capture the rich phenomenological world of the participants and provide insight into the way socially anxious individuals experience interpersonal relationships with others. These findings are discussed in the context of the existing literature. Implications for clinical practice and further research are suggested.
title: An exploration of self-disgust in females with eating disorders
Creators: name: Marinho, Fatima Pinto
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Abstract
Background and Aims: Research suggests that the emotion of disgust plays a role in psychological distress associated with eating, body shape and weight related concerns, though evidence is inconsistent. Recent theoretical and empirical literature have highlighted the potential relevance of the emotion of disgust towards the self (i.e. self-disgust) in various presentations of psychological distress. However, research in this area remains in its infancy. This study aimed to build on emerging research by employing a qualitative approach to gain more of an understanding of the perspectives of women who experience psychological distress associated with eating, body shape and weight. 
Method: Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with women with an eating disorder diagnosis. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. 
Results: Four main themes were developed: the interpersonal and sociocultural context of self-disgust, self-disgust as both transient and enduring, self-disgust as a complex emotional experience, and the on-going struggle to protect the self. The findings highlight how self-disgust appears to be understood as emerging in the context of being harshly judged and treated in relation to one’s body weight and shape, and not fitting in societal expectations regarding body size. Self-disgust also appeared to be understood as having trait and state-like components as well as cognitive-affective aspects congruent with an emotion schema, and be experienced in conjunction with other emotions. Participants appeared to employ a number of strategies to manage feelings of self-disgust, including calming breathing, distraction and avoidance.
Conclusions: This study emphasises the potential usefulness of an increased clinical awareness of self-disgust to support individuals experiencing psychological distress associated with eating problems. The theoretical, clinical and research implications are discussed, and possible limitations of this study are considered. It is hoped that the present findings will contribute to better outcomes for those experiencing psychological distress associated with eating problems.
Energy and Economic Benefits of LED Adoption in Malaysia Highway Lighting System
Creators: name: Yousif, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The paper aims to investigate sustainable lighting technology for Malaysia highways to reduce the power consumption, the carbon emission and to create a healthy environment for the future generations. This can be achieved through the replacement of the existing conventional High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) lighting system with the (LED) lighting system. The study focused on the identification and calculation of the electrical power consumption and life cycle cost for both lighting systems. The results of cost and consumption are analysed by comparing both types to determine the energy and economic benefits of (LED) adoption in Malaysia highways. The method used in data collection is gathered from manufacturer-lighting specification, as well as from questionnaire of highway concessionaire of Malaysia. Results of utilization of LED have shown that the percentage of saving energy reaches 50-60 % and 70-80 % reduction in life cycle cost compared to the HPS. The project return on investment has been estimated to be 2.39 y. The implementation of LED will reduce 6.6 % of the total electrical consumption in Malaysia since the highway lighting systems consumption represent 12.1 % of the total electricity consumption in Malaysia. Furthermore, the reduction in Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emission will drop by 50-60 % since the emission from electricity consumed for highway lighting system represent 12 % of the total emission in Malaysia. Finally, the investigation and findings are of major benefit to Malaysian highway that can assist the decision maker to choose the most sustainable and green option.
title: The Theatre of Life: Collective Narrative Practice with Trans Young People in the Community
Creators: name: Mills, Dane
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2017

description: Although the body of literature exploring issues important for the lives of trans people has explored different forms of oppression, there is currently a paucity of research exploring responses to oppression specifically for young trans people. This research works with young trans people as ambassadors who contribute to the research design, analysis and procedure as participatory action researchers. Responses to oppression may be important to understand if we are to contribute to the changes needed at wider levels. For example community, institutional and social levels. The aims of this project are to join with young people who identify as trans, through meeting with them at a trans community interest group. By working in partnership with ambassadors we drew upon liberation psychology to guide the project and as a result we co- created and co-facilitated a group session. This session invited 5 other young trans people to talk about their lives. The research aim was to create a context to enable young people to tell stories of the everyday forms of resistance to oppression. This was done through the aid of a poster and by using the metaphor of a theatre stage to guide their story whilst also providing a safe position from which to tell it, and was named ‘The Theatre of Life’. 
These stories were analysed using a ‘narrative analysis’ where participants and ambassadors were involved in quality checks. The results found were primarily that the ‘Theatre of Life’ session can generate stories of resistance from young trans people. Their collective story of resistance was named ‘A Chorus of Self-Love As a Radical Act’. It explores the importance of queer community, overshadowed aspects of identity, finding safety and inspiring others to initiate social change beyond the trans community. The results also identify relevant audience members with whom these stories will resonate in order to create social action (community, institutional and political), as well as for therapeutic use. The results also produce opportunities for sharing stories using the creative arts (e.g. theatre, performance, art, spoken word, poetry) for increased impact and wide reach.
Search for isosinglet heavy neutrinos at the CMS Collaboration
Creators: name: Jihun Kim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: After the discovery of neutrino oscillations, the smallness of the Standard Model neutrino masses is one of the most intriguing questions in neutrino physics today. A leading theoretical candidate to explain this phenomenon is known as the "seesaw" mechanism, in which a new heavy Majorana neutrino (N) state is postulated. Here we present the recent efforts to search for this postulated heavy neutrino at the CMS collaboration using the LHC Run 2 data. The data were collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1. The variety of search strategies, covering various N production modes I.e., via charged current Drell-Yan, Wγ fusion and same-sign WW fusion processes, producing final states with two or three leptons and with different types of reconstructed jets, leads to a wide range of search sensitivity of N mass ranging from 1 GeV up to 25 TeV. We also discuss the future prospect of follow-up searches which are now vividly ongoing and expected to be published.
2tes Thor & S. Michaels-Kapelle. Kloster Komburg
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1863

description: Dargestellt wird die sich am Tor befindende Michaelskapelle der ehemaligen Klosteranlage Grosscomburg in Steinbach (Schwäbisch Hall)
description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: Oben rechts ist das Blatt mit "Schw.42" bezeichnet
The Minnesota Poll # 238
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Seat belt usage (2); vehicle inspections (1); license plate costs (2); butter usage (1); oleomargarine usage (2); oleomargarine tax (1); election interest (1); attitude toward political parties (2); agreement with various statements (4); approval of various people (5); voter registration (2); voter participation (1); mock ballot preferences (4); election losses (2); work ethic (1); relaxation ability (2); overtime rates (3); legislature based on population (4); John F. Kennedy assassination report (3); one or more individuals involved in Kennedy assassination (1); Lyndon Johnson description (1); Barry Goldwater description (1); newspaper readership (5).
S. Bartholomaeus Kapelle. Kloster Komburg [...]
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1863

description: Dargestellt wird ein Lesepult in der Bartholomäuskapelle der ehemaligen Klosteranlage Grosscomburg in Steinbach (Schwäbisch Hall)
description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: Oben rechts ist das Blatt mit "Schw.45" bezeichnet
SIR RANULPHE CREWE AND THE QUEST FOR PREFERMENT, 1559-1646
Creators: name: Imhoof, Thomas Werner
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history

description: The aims of early Stuart government were ill-matched with the political and financial realities of early seventeenth-century England. The crown sought to perpetuate its national sovereignty against strong counter-pressures from local and regional interests. Because there was no structure of sovereignty, James I and Charles I had to rely on an archaic and inefficient legal system and on their favorite courtiers to propound and enforce their will. In practice, the crown was dependent upon the good will of the English gentry to keep the peace. The gentry represented themselves in parliament, and they consistently failed to vote the crown enough money to pursue its policies or to pay for the costs of governing. The main organs of central government, the Privy Council and the itinerant justices of assize, were insufficient to their tasks of collecting revenues and enforcing the laws. The crown's resulting chronic indebtedness forced reliance on a quest for preferment at London, a system of politicking and profiteering engendered by the king's need to rely on favorites. Somerset and Buckingham, the favorites of James I and Charles I, resorted to wide-scale corruption in their operation of the patronage system. This kept the government afloat financially, but it undermined the crown's authority by sapping its power of appointment, by entrenching rich men of uncertain loyalties in powerful offices, and by corrupting the chief ideological value of the early Stuart system: honor. Sir Ranulphe Crewe was a second-echelon servant of the law. He allied himself with a group of "reformers"--Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, and Sir Francis Bacon. He played a key role in the elevation of Buckingham to preeminent political influence by his important legal and political contributions, including the creation of impeachment procedures. He was appointed Chief Justice of England in 1625. In 1626 he was dismissed from the bench for cause. His dismissal materially affected the already uncertain constitutional position of the English judges. Crewe never again held office. He failed to regain royal favor, and he lived to see his finances ruined by depression and civil war.
The Minnesota Poll # 258
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Airline machinist strike (3); banning strikes (3); approval of various people (6); Vietnam War opinions (5); race relations concerns (2); black power (1); African Americans favoring violence (1); Sunday school success (2); famous weddings (4); party affiliation (1); attention to primary elections (1); governor candidate preferences (7); voter participation (3); sales tax (2); excise taxes (1); gun regulations (3); newspaper readership (2).
SIR RANULPHE CREWE AND THE QUEST FOR PREFERMENT, 1559-1646
Creators: name: Imhoof, Thomas Werner
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The aims of early Stuart government were ill-matched with the political and financial realities of early seventeenth-century England. The crown sought to perpetuate its national sovereignty against strong counter-pressures from local and regional interests. Because there was no structure of sovereignty, James I and Charles I had to rely on an archaic and inefficient legal system and on their favorite courtiers to propound and enforce their will. In practice, the crown was dependent upon the good will of the English gentry to keep the peace. The gentry represented themselves in parliament, and they consistently failed to vote the crown enough money to pursue its policies or to pay for the costs of governing. The main organs of central government, the Privy Council and the itinerant justices of assize, were insufficient to their tasks of collecting revenues and enforcing the laws. The crown's resulting chronic indebtedness forced reliance on a quest for preferment at London, a system of politicking and profiteering engendered by the king's need to rely on favorites. Somerset and Buckingham, the favorites of James I and Charles I, resorted to wide-scale corruption in their operation of the patronage system. This kept the government afloat financially, but it undermined the crown's authority by sapping its power of appointment, by entrenching rich men of uncertain loyalties in powerful offices, and by corrupting the chief ideological value of the early Stuart system: honor. Sir Ranulphe Crewe was a second-echelon servant of the law. He allied himself with a group of "reformers"--Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, and Sir Francis Bacon. He played a key role in the elevation of Buckingham to preeminent political influence by his important legal and political contributions, including the creation of impeachment procedures. He was appointed Chief Justice of England in 1625. In 1626 he was dismissed from the bench for cause. His dismissal materially affected the already uncertain constitutional position of the English judges. Crewe never again held office. He failed to regain royal favor, and he lived to see his finances ruined by depression and civil war.
title: Zur Verbesserung der Reliabilität im Reaktionszeitexperiment durch Fehler- und Ratekorrekturen
Creators: name: Mayer, Anna-Maria
Year: 2019

description: In einem 2AFC-Experiment wird die Testperson instruiert, so schnell und so genau wie möglich zu reagieren. Reagieren Testpersonen genau, reagieren sie langsamer als sie könnten. Reagieren Testpersonen schnell, machen sie eher fehlerhafte Reaktionen. Fehlreaktionen gehören genauso wie richtige Reaktionen zur Performanz von Testpersonen, werden allerdings oft aus der Analyse von z.B. der mittleren Reaktionszeit ausgeschlossen (entspricht dem Reduced-Sample Schätzer). Aus statistischer Sicht handelt es sich bei Fehlreaktionen um ein Zensierungsproblem. Die Kaplan-Meier Methode und eine adaptierte Form des Aalen-Johansen Schätzers können, angepasst an die Daten eines Reaktionszeitexperimentes, als Korrektur für Fehlreaktionen verwendet werden. Einige Fehlreaktionen sind auf Ratedurchgänge rückführbar. Diese Ratedurchgänge können mit der Kill-the-Twin Prozedur korrigiert werden. Es ist annehmbar, dass die theoriegeleitete Korrektur von Fehlreaktionen die „wahre“ Performanz einer Testperson besser abbildet und daher auch reliabler ist. Bei der Berechnung der Reliabilität sollte der Reduced-Sample Schätzer schlechter abschneiden, als die Fehlerkorrekturen alleine und diese wiederum schlechter als Fehler- mit Ratekorrekturen. In den vier verwendeten Reaktionszeittests ist diese Annahme tendenziell bestätigt. Unter Anwendung von Fehler- und Ratekorrekturen verbessert sich die Reliabilität in allen Verfahren geringfügig.
description: In a 2AFC-Experiment, participants are usually asked to respond as fast and as accurate as possible. This instruction results in a conflict of strategies: If a participant responds accurately, the velocity of the response decreases. If a participant responds fast, wrong reactions are made more frequently. Wrong reactions are often excluded from the analysis f.e. of average reaction times (= reduced-sample estimator). From a statistical point of view, a wrong reaction results in a censoring problem, which could be resolved with the Kaplan-Meier method or an adapted version of the Aalen-Johansen estimator. Wrong reactions are sometimes caused by guessing trials. If guessing trials are subtracted from the data, theoretically, the “true” performance should be estimated even more accurately. The Kaplan-Meier method, the Aalen-Johansen estimator and a combination of both with the Kill-the-Twin procedure should lead to more accurate, hence more reliable estimations of median reaction times. A tendency towards more reliable estimations for wrong-reaction-corrections in combination with guessing corrections was found, followed by more reliable estimations for wrong-reaction-corrections compared to the reduced-sample estimator.
Leuchter i Kloster Komburg b Schw. Hall
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1863

description: Dargestellt wird ein Radleuchter aus der ehemaligen Klosteranlage Grosscomburg in Steinbach (Schwäbisch Hall)
description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: Oben rechts ist das Blatt mit "Schw.44" bezeichnet. Teilweise hat Johann Rudolf Rahn die Massangaben notiert
A method for precisely determining the transition energies of 83mKr
Creators: name: Rodenbeck, Caroline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The nuclear isomer 83mKr is used at many experiments for calibrations. At the neutrino mass experiment KATRIN, monoenergetic conversion electrons from the 32.2-keV transition of 83mKr are regularly used to investigate inhomogeneities in the electric potential inside the tritium source and to calibrate the energy scale. The absolute precision of this energy scale is limited by the uncertainty (500 meV) on the transition energy --- a limitation which impacts the important comparison of the measured beta spectrum endpoint with the 3He--3H mass difference determined in Penning trap measurements. The poster presents a novel method for precisely determining the transition energies of 83mKr by leveraging the existence of conversion electrons from the direct transition. The method uses precision electron spectroscopy of conversion electrons from all three transitions (9.4 keV, 32.2 keV, and 41.6 keV). These measurements are to be performed under the same conditions at the KATRIN experiment, made possible by the ppm-precise retarding high voltage defining the relative energy scale. We acknowledge the support of Helmholtz Association (HGF); Ministry for Education and Research BMBF (05A17PM3, 05A17PX3, 05A17VK2, 05A17PDA, 05A17WO3, 05A20VK3, 05A20PMA and 05A20PX3); Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP); the doctoral school KSETA at KIT; Helmholtz Young Investigator Group (VH-NG-1055); Max Planck Research Group (MaxPlanck@TUM); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (Research Training Group grant nos. GRK 1694 and GRK 2149); Graduate School grant no. GSC 1085-KSETA and SFB-1258 in Germany; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (CANAM-LM2015056, LTT19005) in the Czech Republic; the Department of Energy through grants DE-FG02-97ER41020, DE-FG02-94ER40818, DE-SC0004036, DE-FG02-97ER41033, DE-FG02-97ER41041, DE-SC0011091 and DE-SC0019304; and the Federal Prime Agreement DE-AC02-05CH11231 in the USA. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 852845). We thank the computing cluster support at the Institute for Astroparticle Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF CRIMINAL SANCTIONS ON AFDC FRAUD: AN ECONOMETRIC STUDY
Creators: name: Methodios, Yannis Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research measures the general deterrent effect of the risk of conviction and severity of punishment on the incidence of AFDC fraud in the State of Maryland. This study also determines the impact of law-enforcement expenditures and various socioeconomic factors on fraud rates. The enforcement of laws against welfare cheating and the treatment of fraudulent cases resemble the operation of the broader Criminal Justice System. Thus, this inquiry considers fraud as a specific offense which can be studied as an application of general economic theories of crime deterrence. A three-equation simultaneous econometric system is taken from one of such theories and adjusted to reflect the welfare environment. The model uses pooled cross-section and time-series aggregate data and the Maryland counties as the units of analysis. The results indicate that the expected cost of punishment (i.e., the product of the probability of conviction and the severity of punishment) produces a significant deterrent effect. However, the generated effect is not necessarily significant from a policy viewpoint. The impact of the size of the defrauded AFDC grant and the unemployment rate were found to outweigh the deterrent effect of the cost of punishment and expected earnings from employment. Also, the results show that increases in fraud rates and crime rates, other than AFDC fraud, reduce the magnitude of the deterrent effect of the cost of punishment. On the other hand, increases in investigative expenditures and productivity of investigators/prosecutors/judges were found to augment the effect of the cost of punishment. Similarly, the data analysis detected high costs of punishment in wealthy counties. Finally, the study found investigative resources to be allocated in an incremental manner and to be insensitive to prevailing rates and social losses from fraud. This inquiry concludes that the expected cost of punishment imposed on potential AFDC cheaters in the State of Maryland does not lead to fraud control and prevention. This will be achieved only when the expected cost of punishment at least equals the expected illegal gains from fraud. Strategies to achieve this goal are suggested by the findings of this study.
War Survey
Creators: name: Office Of Public Opinion Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Peace talks with Adolf Hitler (1); blame for war (1); German people on war (1); satisfaction with government's conduct of war (1); war production rate if Republicans were in power (1); consequences of a Russian win (1); U.S. trying to win war (1); aiding Russia (1); German vs. Russian government (1); government takeover of war industries (1); taxing incomes (1); vote in 1940 presidential election (1).
THE DETERRENT EFFECT OF CRIMINAL SANCTIONS ON AFDC FRAUD: AN ECONOMETRIC STUDY
Creators: name: Methodios, Yannis Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: This research measures the general deterrent effect of the risk of conviction and severity of punishment on the incidence of AFDC fraud in the State of Maryland. This study also determines the impact of law-enforcement expenditures and various socioeconomic factors on fraud rates. The enforcement of laws against welfare cheating and the treatment of fraudulent cases resemble the operation of the broader Criminal Justice System. Thus, this inquiry considers fraud as a specific offense which can be studied as an application of general economic theories of crime deterrence. A three-equation simultaneous econometric system is taken from one of such theories and adjusted to reflect the welfare environment. The model uses pooled cross-section and time-series aggregate data and the Maryland counties as the units of analysis. The results indicate that the expected cost of punishment (i.e., the product of the probability of conviction and the severity of punishment) produces a significant deterrent effect. However, the generated effect is not necessarily significant from a policy viewpoint. The impact of the size of the defrauded AFDC grant and the unemployment rate were found to outweigh the deterrent effect of the cost of punishment and expected earnings from employment. Also, the results show that increases in fraud rates and crime rates, other than AFDC fraud, reduce the magnitude of the deterrent effect of the cost of punishment. On the other hand, increases in investigative expenditures and productivity of investigators/prosecutors/judges were found to augment the effect of the cost of punishment. Similarly, the data analysis detected high costs of punishment in wealthy counties. Finally, the study found investigative resources to be allocated in an incremental manner and to be insensitive to prevailing rates and social losses from fraud. This inquiry concludes that the expected cost of punishment imposed on potential AFDC cheaters in the State of Maryland does not lead to fraud control and prevention. This will be achieved only when the expected cost of punishment at least equals the expected illegal gains from fraud. Strategies to achieve this goal are suggested by the findings of this study.
CNN/ORC Poll: Congress/Iraq/Economy
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama keeping promises (1); Obama handling certain issues (4); Congressional party preference (2); Congressional vote for/against Obama (1); opinion of people in the news (12); party to handle certain issues (9); trust in government (1); fear of terrorism victimization (1); safer from terrorism attacks before/after 9/11 (1); dealing with terrorist attacks (4); economic conditions (2); cause of economic problems (2); funding stem cell research (1); War in Iraq (4); troops in Iraq (1); possibilities for troops involved in Iraq (4); troop surge into Iraq (1); George W. Bush handling Iraq (1); War in Afghanistan (1); troops in Afghanistan (1); capture/kill Osama bin Laden (1); peace in the Middle East (1).
MULTIPHOTON EFFECTS IN RUTILE
Creators: name: Royce, Gerald A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5108
subject: Quantum physics

description: Multiphoton effects are investigated in crystalline rutile TiO(,2) using Nd:YAG laser photons. The 1.06 micron laser is operated in Q-switched mode with intensities up to 1.4 x 10('6) watts/cm('2) on the rutile crystal. Photoconductivity measurements provide data indicating a mixture of modes for electrons to be photoionized. Assuming aluminum impurity as the contributing sites, the first order photionization cross section is found to be 1.5 x 10('-26) cm('2) and second order cross section is found to be 7.7 x 10('-51) cm('4)-s. No appreciable change in cross section is observed for circular versus linear polarization of the laser. Observations of the photo-emission of the laser illuminated crystal provide radiative relaxation times on the order of 100 nanoseconds with emission peaks at 4500 and 5000 angstroms plus a near infrared continuum out to 1 micron. The thermoluminescence of rutile shows a number of trapping levels between 0.4 and 0.8 eV below the conduction band. These are attributed to an aluminum impurity.
MULTIPHOTON EFFECTS IN RUTILE
Creators: name: Royce, Gerald A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Multiphoton effects are investigated in crystalline rutile TiO(,2) using Nd:YAG laser photons. The 1.06 micron laser is operated in Q-switched mode with intensities up to 1.4 x 10('6) watts/cm('2) on the rutile crystal. Photoconductivity measurements provide data indicating a mixture of modes for electrons to be photoionized. Assuming aluminum impurity as the contributing sites, the first order photionization cross section is found to be 1.5 x 10('-26) cm('2) and second order cross section is found to be 7.7 x 10('-51) cm('4)-s. No appreciable change in cross section is observed for circular versus linear polarization of the laser. Observations of the photo-emission of the laser illuminated crystal provide radiative relaxation times on the order of 100 nanoseconds with emission peaks at 4500 and 5000 angstroms plus a near infrared continuum out to 1 micron. The thermoluminescence of rutile shows a number of trapping levels between 0.4 and 0.8 eV below the conduction band. These are attributed to an aluminum impurity.
Measurement of cosmogenic 9Li and 8He production rates at RENO
Creators: name: Hyungi Lee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We report the measured production rates of unstable isotopes 9Li and 8He produced by cosmic muon spallation on 12C using two identical detectors of the RENO experiment. Their β-decays accompanied by a neutron make a significant contribution to backgrounds of reactor antineutrino events in precise determination of the smallest neutrino mixing angle. The mean muon energy of its near (far) detector with an overburden of 120 (450) m.w.e. is estimated as 33.1 ± 2.3 (73.6 ± 4.4) GeV. Based on roughly 3 100 days of data, the cosmogenic production rate of 9Li (8He) isotope is measured to be 44.2 ± 3.1 (10.6 ± 7.4) per day at near detector and 10.0 ± 1.1 (2.1 ± 1.5) per day at far detector. This corresponds to yields of 9Li (8He), 4.80 ± 0.36 (1.15 ± 0.81) and 9.9 ± 1.1 (2.1 ± 1.5) at near and far detectors, respectively, in a unit of 10−8μ−1g−1cm2. Combining the measured 9Li yields with other available underground measurements, an excellent power-law relationship of the yield with respect to the mean muon energy is found to have an exponent of α = 0.76 ± 0.05.