cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The invasibility of deciduous forest communities after disturbance: A case study of Carex brizoides and Impatiens parviflora invasion
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chmura D., Sierka E. 2007. The invasibility of deciduous forest communities after disturbance: A case study of Carex brizoides and Impatiens parviflora invasion. Forest Ecology and Management vol242, No. 2-3, 487-495.
Stability and Dynamic of strain mediated Adatom Superlattices on Cu<111>
Creators: name: Kappus, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Substrate strain mediated adatom density distributions have been calculated for Cu<111> surfaces. Complemented by Monte Carlo calculations a hexagonal close packaged adatom superlattice in a coverage range up to 0.045 ML is derived. Conditions for the stability of the superlattice against nucleation and degradation are analyzed using simple neighborhood models. Such models are also used to investigate the dynamic of adatoms within their superlattice neighborhood. Collective modes of adatom diffusion are proposed from the analogy with bulk lattice dynamics and methods for measurement are suggested. The explanation of surface state mediated interactions for superstructures found in scanning tunnelling microscopy experiments is put in question.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Citizenship Competencies and the Program of Education in Sexuality and Construction of Citizenship (PESCC): A Review of the Implementation of a Public Policy in Institutions of Primary and Secondary Education in Bucaramanga, Colombia
Creators: name: Beltrán Villamizar, Yolima Ivonne
name: Galvis Aparicio, Mayra Juliana
name: Vargas Beltrán, Gabriel Felipe
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: Civic education is becoming increasingly important in the Colombian context and is part of the educational priorities of the national government. Therefore, it has launched the Program of Sex Education and Construction of Citizenship (PESCC) that integrates the standards in civic competencies with those of Social and Natural Sciences in the development of educational projects that promote the exercise, respect and promotion of human, sexual and reproductive rights. The aim of this paper is to analyze the use of these competencies in the creation of the pedagogical matrices of the educational institutions involved in the implementation process of the PESCC and the use standards set by the Ministry of National Education (MEN). This implementation was carried out in 24 public institutions in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia, using the conceptual and methodological tools provided by the MEN. The conclusions suggest that educational innovations in citizenship must be accompanied by an evaluative process of the transformation of the institutions and the different actors of the educational community, in order to know the real impact of these initiatives on school life. Finally, some reflections are included for the implementation of this type of educational policies.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Das genetische Prinzip als Brücke zwischen Lebenswelt und Politik - Eine Lehrkunstwerkstatt zum Thema Zukunft
Creators: name: Petrik, Andreas
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: Dieser Beitrag will dazu anregen, den Fokus politikdidaktischer Debatten von theoretischen Konzeptionen auf die Gestaltung von Lernprozessen zu lenken. Er simuliert eine Lehrkunstwerkstatt (I.1.), in der sieben Unterrichtsmodelle zum Schlüsselthema Zukunft verglichen werden (I.2.). Dabei konkretisieren sich zwei typische Probleme: austauschbare, schnell veralternde Inhalte und der Transfer zu Analyse- und Urteils-Kategorien. Das genetische Prinzip wird als mögliche Abhilfe eingeführt: Es vernetzt Kategorien zu Konzepten und sucht nach besonderen Inhalten (Exempeln), die Lernende in Entdeckungsprozesse verwickeln (I.3.). Das Konzept Zukunft (Prognose - Utopie - Planung) (I.4.) lässt sich durch fünf genetische Zugänge erschließen: von subjektiven Vorstellungen aus (II.1.), auf den Spuren wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse (II.2.), mit Modellen politischer Realität (II.3.), anhand historischer Politikvorstellungen und Ursprüngen sozialer Neuerungen (beide II.4.). Fazit: Das genetische Prinzip erweist sich als hilfreiches Suchinstrument für ein politisches Kerncurriculum (II.5.).
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2004: Best Practice Lessons and Lesson Study
Multiculturalism in prime-time: a study of Urban Angel
Creators: name: Bowes, Janet P.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: FC 104 B68 1993
subject: Multiculturalism - Canada
subject: Urban angel (Television program)
subject: Television programs - Canada
subject: Mass media - Influence
subject: Canada - Race relations
subject: Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Canada

description: Bibliography: p. 176-181.
Evolution of luminosity function and obscuration of AGN: connecting X-ray and Infrared
Creators: name: Han, Yunkun
name: Dai, Benzhong
name: Wang, Bo
name: Zhang, Fenghui
name: Han, Zhanwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
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 2-10 keV hard X-ray and infrared (IR) luminosity function (LF) of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The composite X-ray to IR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of AGN used for connecting the hard X-ray LF (HXLF) and IR LF (IRLF) are modeled with a simple but well tested torus model based on the radiative transfer and photoionization code CLOUDY. Four observational determinations of the evolution of 2-10 keV HXLF and six evolution models of the obscured type-2 AGN fraction ($f_2$) have been considered. The 8.0 and 15 \micron LFs for the total, unobscured type-1 and obscured type-2 AGN are predicted from the HXLFs, and then compared with the measurements currently available. We find that the IRLFs predicted from HXLFs tend to underestimate the number of the most IR-luminous AGN. This is independent of the choices of HXLF and $f_2$, and even more obvious for the HXLFs recently measured. We show that the discrepancy between the HXLFs and IRLFs can be largely resolved when the anticorrelation between the UV to X-ray slope $α_{\mathrm{ox}}$ and UV luminosity $L_{\rm UV}$ is appropriately considered. We also discuss other possible explanations for the discrepancy, such as the missing population of Compton-thick AGN and possible contribution of star-formation in the host to the mid-IR. Meanwhile, we find that the HXLFs and IRLFs of AGN can be more consistent with each other if the obscuration mechanisms of quasars and Seyferts are assumed to be different, corresponding to their different triggering and fueling mechanisms. More accurate measurements of the IRLFs of AGN, especially that determined at smaller redshift bins and more accurately separated to that for type-1 and type-2, are very helpful for clarifying these interesting issues.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
S-isotope fractionation during SO42- and SO32- reduction
Creators: name: Wu, Xiao Lu
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QD 181 S1 W8 1993
subject: Sulphur - Isotopes
subject: Sulphates - Isotopes
subject: Cell fractionation

description: Bibliography: p. 77-80.
Citizenship and Transformative Human Rights Education: Surveys as ‘Praxis’ in the São Paulo Periphery
Creators: name: Tsolakis, Marika
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: In Latin America, citizenship is often viewed as a struggle for rights and has often been won through ground-up movements. For this reason, a transformative human rights education framework is useful for considering the roles and processes of citizenship education in Latin America. Using a case study of a programme that teaches about the right to education to disadvantaged youth from the São Paulo periphery, this article also highlights the use of surveys as a Frereian pedagogical tool in transformative human rights and citizenship education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Mixed RG Flows and Hydrodynamics at Finite Holographic Screen
Creators: name: Matsuo, Yoshinori
name: Sin, Sang-Jin
name: Zhou, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quark-gluon plasma with chemical potential and study renormalization group flows of transport coefficients in the framework of gauge/gravity duality. We first study them using the flow equations and compare the results with hydrodynamic results by calculating the Green functions on the arbitrary slice. Two results match exactly. Transport coefficients at arbitrary scale is ontained by calculating hydrodynamics Green functions. When either momentum or charge vanishes, transport coefficients decouple from each other.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Exploring the Limits and Potentials of Youth Participation in Public Policy at the State and Municipal Level: A Study in the State of Acre, Brazil
Creators: name: Queiroz, Lucicleia Barreto
name: Menezes, Isabel
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: In the last decade, youth entered the agenda of public policies in Brazil, recognizing not only the problems that affect young people, but also the need for a proactive perspective that views youngsters as playing a central role in the design and implementation of policy. This is a tendency that is also noticeable in other countries, and there is clearly a “vogue of youth participation” (Bessant 2004, 401) in public policy across the world. Research in the field tends to show that these experiences can be effective in promoting young people civic and political knowledge, attitudes and competences and therefore can become a strategy of non-formal citizenship education. However, there are critiques that participation in these initiatives risks pamphleteering and tokenism. The goal of this paper is to enter this debate by considering the Brazilian experience in the State of Acre and to explore whether and how opportunities for participation that youth public policies appear to stimulate are, in fact, perceived and experienced by groups involved in the process, from decision-makers to young people. Results show that, as in other countries, policies are still not living up to expectations and much more systematic work is necessary to guarantee that participation in youth policies is, in fact, a relevant citizenship experience.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Exploring the Keys to Citizen Formation in Teacher's Discourse: Implications of Teaching Citizenship in the Araucanía Region, Chile
Creators: name: León, Abelardo
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: The present article addresses the main points observed during a series of interviews carried out between 2008 and 2009 with  teachers of the 8th grade subject, Citizen Formation. All of the interviewees come from private and municipal educational institutions from the Araucanía region in Chile. The study revolved around two initial questions: how do teachers of the ninth region of the Araucanía deal with the notion of citizenship? And, in what way do they make sense of this concept? In this way we look to identify the elements in the discourse that form the notion of citizenship starting with the beliefs and interpretations given by the interviewees. In the results we can observe a tension between the concept the teachers have of themselves and their social role and, on the other hand, the way they should conceive the subject as a tool of the institutional character of the state.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Dawne plany urządzenia gospodarstwa rezerwatowego jako źródło informacji o przemianach zbiorowisk leśny objętych ochroną rezerwatową
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Holeksa J., Wilczek Z., Sierka E. (2008). Dawne plany urządzenia gospodarstwa rezerwatowego jako źródło informacji o przemianach zbiorowisk leśny objętych ochroną rezerwatową. [In:] Studia Naturae 54 (2): 107-119.
Improved techniques for stable isotope analyses of microlitre quantities of water and applications to paleoclimate and diagenesis using fluid inclusions in halite and dolomite
Creators: name: Yang, Wenbo
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QE 501.4 N9 Y36 1993a
subject: Isotope geology

description: Bibliography: p. 129-141.
Noncontact dielectric constant metrology of low-k interconnect films using a near-field scanned microwave probe
Creators: name: Talanov, Vladimir V.
name: Scherz, André
name: Moreland, Robert L.
name: Schwartz, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for noncontact, noninvasive measurements of dielectric constant, k, of 100-nm- to 1.5-μm-thick blanket low-k interconnect films on up to 300 mm in diameter wafers. The method has about 10 micron sampling spot size, and provides <0.3% precision and <2% accuracy for k-value. It is based on a microfabricated near-field scanned microwave probe formed by a 4 GHz parallel strip transmission line resonator tapered down to a few-micron tip size.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
The Impact of Civic Education on the Citizenship of Romanian Youth
Creators: name: Colceru, Emilian
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: This paper discusses the contribution of the public system of citizenship education to the development of civic attitudes of the youth in post-communist Romania. As one of the goals of the state is to create “good citizens”, there is a discipline called Civic culture in the compulsory system of education. However, the fact that the discipline lacks consistency determines young people not to manifest the desired civic attitudes, as shown in public surveys targeted on youth. Therefore, the paper discusses the failure of the state to develop “good citizenship” through citizenship education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2013 Citizenship and Civic Education in Postcommunist Countries
From Clock Synchronization to Dark Matter as a Relativistic Inertial Effect
Creators: name: Lusanna, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lecture at BOSS2011 on relativistic metrology, on clock synchronization, relativistic dynamics and non-inertial frames in Minkowski spacetime, on relativistic atomic physics, on ADM canonical tetrad gravity in asymptotically Minkowskian spacetimes, on the York canonical basis identifying the inertial (gauge) and tidal degrees of freedom of the gravitational field, on the Post-Minkowskian linearization in 3-orthogonal gauges, on the Post-Newtonian limit of matter Hamilton equations, on the possibility to interpret dark matter as a relativistic inertial effect connected with relativistic metrology (i.e. clock synchronization) in Einstein GR.
description: 90 pages. Lecture at BOSS2011
Discourse of discontent: the use of Arthurian legend by Morris, Swinburne, and Burne-Jones
Creators: name: Schierbeck, Dale
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: PN 685 S35 1993
subject: Arthur, King
subject: Arthur, King, in literature
subject: Morris, William, 1834-1896 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 - Criticism and interpretation

description: Bibliography: p. 126-138.
Skutki wprowadzania świerka na siedliska lasów liściastych na przykładzie Srebrnej Góry (Wyżyna Śląska)
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sierka E., Pierzchała Ł. (2006) Skutki wprowadzania świerka na siedliska lasów liściastych na przykładzie Srebrnej Góry (Wyżyna Śląska). Kształtowanie środowiska geograficznego i ochrona przyrody na obszarach uprzemysłowionych i zurbanizowanych 37, 47-53.
Postcommunist Citizens in an Integrated Europe
Creators: name: Konopacki, Stanisław
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the limits of European citizenship and European collective identity in the context of the latest enlargements of the EU, i.e. the accession of postcommunist countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 2004 and 2007. The introduction of transitional periods for the free movement of persons with regard to the ‘new European citizens’, as well as the deportation of Roma from France in 2010, demonstrate that something is amiss with the concept of EU citizenship and the ‘European identity’ which would permit such practices. It is a fear of the Other as an essential element of European identity. The paper concludes by drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, examing the prospects that they open up for thinking differently about European identity.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2013 Citizenship and Civic Education in Postcommunist Countries
Genetic factors predisposing to rheumatoid arthritis in Mexican Mayan Indians
Creators: name: Schmill Lopez, Norma
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QR 186.83 R48 S44 1993
subject: Rheumatoid factor
subject: Rheumatoid arthritis
subject: Immunogenetics
subject: Mayas - Diseases

description: Bibliography: p. 91-100.
Using Experimental Methods to Investigate Discriminatory Tendencies: A Lesson Report
Creators: name: Chen, Yu-Wen
name: Masch, Lena
name: Finze, Kristin
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: Using dictator games in experimental analysis, this lesson report demonstrates the process and results of a postgraduate class project in which university students were instructed to scientifically investigate and explore one of German society’s most hotly-contested issues: the level of discriminatory tendencies of non-Muslims towards Muslims. The results of this class project show little or no discriminatory tendencies toward Muslims. Instead, the university students under our investigation tended to act favorably, or at the very least, fairly toward Muslims. We expect that this lesson report can demonstrate how a postgraduate course can be conducted in an innovative way, empowering students to collect primary data and finishing a small scientific project during the span of a semester.

Dieser Bericht stellt die Prozesse und Ergebnisse einer experimentellen Studie eines Postgraduierten-Kurses der Universität Greifswald dar. Wir zeigen, wie Studierende das Thema Migration innovativ untersuchen können, indem sie neben theoretischen Lerninhalten an experimentelle Methoden sowie die Primärforschung herangeführt werden. Anhand eines Diktatorspiels wurden die teilnehmenden Studenten angeleitet, ein in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers debattiertes Thema wissenschaftlich zu untersuchen: Diskriminierende Tendenzen von Nicht-Muslimen gegenüber Muslimen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie lassen jedoch nicht auf diskriminierende Tendenzen der Studenten schließen. Stattdessen deuten sie darauf hin, dass sich die Studierenden zumindest fair gegenüber Muslimen verhalten.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2014 Social Sciences in Higher Education
Interview with Vera Maria Ferrão Candau
Creators: name: Bannell, Ralph Ings
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: This article is an interview on human rights education with one of Latin Americás most prominent human rights educators, Professor Vera Candau. The interview covers her trajectory in human rights education, the relationship between human rights education, liberalism and socialism, the question of interculturality and the role of human rights education inschools and informal educational contexts.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Continuing the Conversation on the Chilean Student Movement
Creators: name: Hernandez, Ivette
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: This current article is an interview made with Francisco Figueroa. Francisco is a Chilean university student who was Vice-President of Student Federation from University of Chile between 2010 and 2011. He, like other students, was leading the mass student demonstrations in 2011 who demanded a radical reform of the Chilean education system. As a militant of Autonomous Left and director of Fundacion Nodo XXI, he gave in this interview his own political opinion about process of political construction of the student movement and what challenges the student movement is currently facing in order to create possibilities for a deep social and radical transformation of democracy and education in the Chilean society.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
Review of the Book: Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo and Paula López-Caballero, eds., Unexpected Citizens. The Making of Citizenship in Mexico.
Creators: name: Rockwell, Elsie
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
The amplitude of sunspot minimum as a favorable precursor for the prediction of the amplitude of the next solar maximum and the limit of the Waldmeier effect
Creators: name: Ramesh, K. B.
name: Lakshmi, N. Bhagya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear relationship between the maximum amplitudes (R$_{max}$) of sunspot cycles and preceding minima (R$_{min}$) is one of the precursor methods used to predict the amplitude of the upcoming solar cycle. In the recent past this method has been subjected to severe criticism. In this communication we show that this simple method is reliable and can profitably be used for prediction purposes. With the 13-month smoothed R$_{min}$ of 1.8 at the beginning, it is predicted that the R$_{max}$ of the ongoing cycle will be around 85$\pm$17, suggesting that Cycle 24 may be of moderate strength. Based on a second order polynomial dependence between the rise time (T$_R$) and R$_{max}$, it is predicted that Cycle 24 will reach its smoothed maximum amplitude during the third quarter of the year 2013. An important finding of this paper is that the rise time cycle amplitude relation reaches a minimum at about 3 to 3.5 years corresponding to a cycle amplitude of about 160. The Waldmeier effect breaks at this point and T$_{R}$ increases further with increase in R$_{max}$. This feature, we believe, may put a constraint on the flux transport dynamo models and lead to more accurate physical principles based predictions.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Multi-Zone Models of Superbursts from Accreting Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Keek, L.
name: Heger, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superbursts are rare and energetic thermonuclear carbon flashes observed to occur on accreting neutron stars. We create the first multi-zone models of series of superbursts using a stellar evolution code. We self-consistently build up the fuel layer at different rates, spanning the entire range of observed mass accretion rates for superbursters. For all models light curves are presented. They generally exhibit a shock breakout, a precursor burst due to shock heating, and a two-component power-law decay. Shock heating alone is sufficient for a bright precursor, that follows the shock breakout on a short dynamical time scale due to the fall-back of expanded layers. Models at the highest accretion rates, however, lack a shock breakout, precursor, and the first power law decay component. The ashes of the superburst that form the outer crust are predominantly composed of iron, but a superburst leaves a silicon-rich layer behind in which the next one ignites. Comparing the model light curves to an observed superburst from 4U 1636-53, we find for our accretion composition the best agreement with a model at three times the observed accretion rate. We study the dependence on crustal heating of observables such as the recurrence time and the decay time scale. It remains difficult, however, to constrain crustal heating, if there is no good match with the observed accretion rate, as we see for 4U 1636-53.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
F(ictive)acts: history and contemporary Canadian fiction
Creators: name: Scraba, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: PS 8191 H5 S38 1993
subject: Canadian fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
subject: Historical fiction, Canadian (English) - History and criticism

description: Bibliography: p. 234-241.
Civic Education and Democratic Socialisation: From Passive Subject to Active Citizen in Post-Communist States and Beyond
Creators: name: Bruen, Jennifer
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: Several studies suggest that some post-communist states or regions such as, for example, the former German Democratic Republic engage in a narrower form of civic education in schools which focuses on the transmission of facts. They also indicate that such civic education produces citizens more likely to accept the status quo than to criticially analyse and attempt to transform it. This paper posits, however, that this is also the case in the Republic of Ireland, a state with an apparently very different historical background. Attitudinal data from the European/World Values Survey and the European Social Survey is used to investigate this possibility by comparing eastern Germany and the Republic of Ireland on key items relating to attitudes towards politics and society. The results provide tentative support for this notion indicating that attitudes in both eastern Germany and the Republic of Ireland tend towards the compliance end of the compliancetransformation spectrum underlining the importance of broader forms of civic education for democratic socialisation both in post-communist states and more generally.

Einige Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass Staaten, die den Kommunismus durchlaufen haben, eine begrenztere Form von Politikunterricht an Schulen durchfuhren und auf diese Weise Burger heranziehen, die dazu tendieren, den Status Quo zu akzeptieren anstatt politische Entscheidungen kritisch zu hinterfragen und die Politik aktiv mitzugestalten. Die Moglichkeit, jedoch, dass dies auch in einem Staat mit einem ganz anderen geschichtlichen Hintergrund, wie zum Beispiel die Republik Irland, der Fall sein konnte, wird zur Diskussion gestellt. Mit Hilfe von Daten zu politischen Einstellungen aus der European/World Values Survey und der European Social Survey soll diese Frage untersucht werden. Die Ergebnisse unterstutzen zum Teil diese Idee und zeigen, dass Einstellungen in sowohl der fruheren Deutschen Demokratischen Republik als auch in der Republik Irland eher eine Tendenz zu Anpassung aufweisen, was die Wichtigkeit der politischen Bildung für demokratische Sozialization nicht nur in Staaten, die den Kommunismus durchlaufen haben sondern im Allgemeinen betont.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2013 Citizenship and Civic Education in Postcommunist Countries
Preparation, structure and reactions of acyclic phosphorus-nitrogen-chalcogen anions
Creators: name: Seay, Michelle Antoinette
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: QD 181 P1 S43 1993
subject: Phosphorus compounds
subject: Nitrogen compounds
subject: Cyclic compounds
subject: Anions

description: Bibliography: p. 107-112.
Electromagnetic cloaking of cylindrical objects by multilayer or uniform dielectric claddings
Creators: name: Valagiannopoulos, Constantinos A.
name: Alitalo, Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that dielectric or even perfectly conducting cylinders can be cloaked by a uniform or a layered dielectric cladding, without the need of any exotic or magnetic material parameters. In particular, we start by presenting a simple analytical concept that can accurately describe the cloaking effect obtained with conical silver plates in the visible spectrum. The modeled structure has been originally presented in [S. A. Tretyakov, P. Alitalo, O. Luukkonen, C. R. Simovski, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 103, p. 103905, 2009], where its operation as a cloak in the optical frequencies was studied only numerically. We model rigorously this configuration as a multi-layer dielectric cover surrounding the cloaked object, with excellent agreement to the simulation results of the actual device. The concept of using uniform or multilayer dielectric covers, with relative permittivities larger than unity, is then successfully extended to cloaking of impenetrable objects such as conducting cylinders.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Converging with World Trends: The Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Citizen in Post-Socialist Romanian Citizenship Education
Creators: name: Szakács, Simona
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: Based on thematic content analysis of textbooks, curricula, and an overview of educational legislation after the 1989 change of political regime in Romania, this paper presents empirical evidence to argue that that postsocialist citizenship education displays surprising similarities with converging post-war changes in the concept of the ‘good citizen’. The findings suggest a complex picture of change combining liberal, communitarian and cosmopolitan renditions of the new citizen, all having a common thread: the shift towards a post-national ethos delinking the citizen from the exclusive purchase of national belonging and decoupling citizen action from the absolute duty to the patria. Such significant changes are often overlooked due to the dominant focus on the failures to comply with an idealized Western liberal model. However, they invite us to reconsider current understandings of both the pitfalls and the opportunities of post-socialist citizenship education by considering them from a different angle: that of wider socio-cultural change that is gradually being institutionalised at the world level.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2013 Citizenship and Civic Education in Postcommunist Countries
How to Grow English Lawn in Moldova? Reflecting on the Reasons to establish and those to Participate in the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union
Creators: name: Zichner, Helga
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2013

description: In the framework of its Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the EU opens up certain facets of its education policy for members of the educational systems of the direct neighbour countries. Bearing the important role of education for processes of nation building and the related formation of citizens in mind, I analyse the meanings of this extension because the reordering of the relations with the new neighbours after the last enlargement of the EU is one of the main aims of the ENP. In the paper I would like to address this issue from two perspectives: Firstly, I want to take a look at the rhetoric employed in EU documents on internal and external education policy. Drawing on the concept of citizenship and its double role for differentiating between insiders and outsiders of a community and realting individuals to a politcal community, the question arises what kind of integration the EU intends for formal non-EU citizens by offering them certain opportunities of participation. The thesis is that the attitude towards participants from non-member states remains without a clear “finalite”, reflecting thus one of the overall problems of the ENP. Secondly, I want to look at the level of individual participants in the programme Erasmus Mundus and the meanings their stays abroad have for them. I will show in how far their experiences abroad impact on their daily practices as citizens of their countries.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2013 Citizenship and Civic Education in Postcommunist Countries
An infinite-dimensional generalization of Zenger's lemma
Creators: name: Drnovšek, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A30, 46B45

description: We prove an infinite-dimensional generalization of Zenger's lemma that was used in the proof of the fact that the convex hull of the point spectrum of a linear operator is contained in its numerical range. Two relevant examples are given, and possible application in the Arrow-Debreu model is also discussed.
description: The paper will appear in J. Math. Anal. Appl
Two-loop electroweak corrections to high energy large-angle Bhabha scattering
Creators: name: Penin, A. A.
name: Ryan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the dominant logarithmically enhanced two-loop electroweak corrections to the electron-positron scattering differential cross section in the high energy limit for large scattering angles. Depending on the scattering angle and energy the two-loop corrections may exceed one percent and are important for the high-precision luminosity spectrum determination at a future linear collider.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Science, curriculum, and teaching: a critical hermeneutic interpretation
Creators: name: Seel, Keith E.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Q 181 S48 1993
subject: Science - Study and teaching
subject: Science - Curricula
subject: Science - Curricula - Research
subject: Critical theory
subject: Habermas, Jurgen, 1929-

description: Bibliography: p. 210-214.
A Survey on how Description Logic Ontologies Benefit from Formal Concept Analysis
Creators: name: Sertkaya, Baris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although the notion of a concept as a collection of objects sharing certain properties, and the notion of a conceptual hierarchy are fundamental to both Formal Concept Analysis and Description Logics, the ways concepts are described and obtained differ significantly between these two research areas. Despite these differences, there have been several attempts to bridge the gap between these two formalisms, and attempts to apply methods from one field in the other. The present work aims to give an overview on the research done in combining Description Logics and Formal Concept Analysis.
description: Invited paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, (CLA 2010)
Parametrizations of Ideals in K[x,y] and K[x,y,z]
Creators: name: Constantinescu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C05, 13D02, 13D40, 13P10

description: We parametrize the affine space of Artinian affine ideals of K[x,y] which have a given initial ideal with respect to the degree reverse lexicographic term order. The fact that the term order is degree compatible allows us to extend the parametrization to the projective case, namely zero-dimensional subschemes of the projective plane, with some extra assumption and to determine the Betti strata of these Groebner cells. This allows us to prove a formula due to A. Iarrobino for the codimension of the Betti strata of codimension two punctual schemes in the projective plane.
description: 23 pages
Towards a feminist environmental ethic
Creators: name: Severs, Sandra M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: GE 42 S49 1993
subject: Environmental ethics
subject: Feminism
subject: Ecofeminism
subject: Philosophy of nature

description: Bibliography: p. 151-156.
description: This thesis examines the contributions of feminism to the theoretical quest for an ecologically sound environmental ethic. Set in the context of John Rodman's analysis of the currents of thought discernible in the history of the contemporary environmental movement, the thesis examines attempts by philosophy to extend the bounds of moral standing to species and ecosystems. It looks at attempts by other philosophers to rethink the criteria for moral standing and to craft new ways of thinking of the relationship of humans to the environment. Chapter One examines Moral Extensionism, concluding with an overview of Ecological Sensibility's Deep Ecology. Using the classifications of Karen Warren and Alison Jaggar, Chapter Two examines the main strands of feminism and their response to the historical/ philosophical parallels between women and nature. Chapter Three critiques these feminist traditions. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of the possible contribution of feminism to environmental ethics.
Strain Tunable Band-gaps of Two-dimensional Hexagonal BN And AlN: An FP-(L)APW+lo Study
Creators: name: Behera, Harihar
name: Mukhopadhyay, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using full potential density functional calculations within local density approximation (LDA), we found strain tunable band gaps of two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal BN (h-BN) and AlN (h-AlN) by application of in-plane homogeneous biaxial strain. The direct band gap of 2D h-BN turns indirect for compressive strains below 1.53% and remains direct under tensile strains up to 10%. However, the band gap of 2D h-AlN remains indirect for strains up to $\pm10%$. While our result on 2D h-BN corroborates the reported strain effect on 2D h-BN (based on pseudo-potential method), our result on the strain tunable band gap of 2D h-AlN is something new. These results may find application in fabrication of future nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) based on 2D h-BN and h-AlN.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures. Two errors in the published paper are corrected here: the reference [12] in the 8th line in the 1st column of page 273 should be [10]; In the caption of Figure 1, h-BN is replaced by h-AlN and vice versa. Presented in the 56th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2011; SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu, India, December 19-23, 2011
DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4, Phi-4, and LLaMA-3.3 generate correct code for LoRaWAN-related engineering tasks
Creators: name: Fernandes, Daniel
name: Matos-Carvalho, João P.
name: Fernandes, Carlos M.
name: Fachada, Nuno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.2; I.2.7; C.2.1; I.2.9
subject: 68N19 (Primary) 68T50, 94A05 (Secondary)

description: This paper investigates the performance of 16 Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating LoRaWAN-related engineering tasks involving optimal placement of drones and received power calculation under progressively complex zero-shot, natural language prompts. The primary research question is whether lightweight, locally executed LLMs can generate correct Python code for these tasks. To assess this, we compared locally run models against state-of-the-art alternatives, such as GPT-4 and DeepSeek-V3, which served as reference points. By extracting and executing the Python functions generated by each model, we evaluated their outputs on a zero-to-five scale. Results show that while DeepSeek-V3 and GPT-4 consistently provided accurate solutions, certain smaller models -- particularly Phi-4 and LLaMA-3.3 -- also demonstrated strong performance, underscoring the viability of lightweight alternatives. Other models exhibited errors stemming from incomplete understanding or syntactic issues. These findings illustrate the potential of LLM-based approaches for specialized engineering applications while highlighting the need for careful model selection, rigorous prompt design, and targeted domain fine-tuning to achieve reliable outcomes.
description: The peer-reviewed version of this paper is published in Electronics at https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14071428. This version is typeset by the authors and differs only in pagination and typographical detail
Composition and evolution of Interstellar Grain mantle under the effects of photo-dissociation
Creators: name: Das, Ankan
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the chemical evolution of interstellar grain mantle by varying the physical parameters of the interstellar medium (ISM). To mimic the exact interstellar condition, gas grain interactions via accretion from the gas phase and desorption (thermal evaporation and photo-evaporation) from the grain surface are considered. We find that the chemical composition of the interstellar grain mantle is highly dependent on the physical parameters associated with a molecular cloud. Interstellar photons are seen to play an important role towards the growth and the structure of the interstellar grain mantle. We consider the effects of interstellar photons (photo-dissociation and photo-evaporation) in our simulation under various interstellar conditions. We notice that the effects of interstellar photons dominate around the region of lower visual extinction. These photons contribute significantly in the formation of the grain mantle. Energy of the incoming photon is attenuated by the absorption and scattering by the interstellar dust. Top most layers are mainly assumed to be affected by the incoming radiation. We have studied the effects of photo-dissociation by varying the number of layers which could be affected by it. Model calculations are carried out for the static (extinction parameter is changing with the density of the cloud) as well as the time dependent case (i.e., extinction parameter and number density of the cloud both are changing with time) and the results are discussed in details. Different routes to the formation of water molecules are studied and it is noticed that around the dense region, production of water molecules via O$_3$ and H$_2$O$_2$ contributes significantly. At the end, various observational evidences for the condensed phase species are summarized with their physical conditions and are compared with our simulation results.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; 2011MNRAS.tmp.1403D
Fluctuating initial condition and smoothening effect on elliptic and triangular flow
Creators: name: Haque, Md. Rihan
name: Roy, Victor
name: Chaudhuri, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In heavy ion collisions, event-by-event fluctuations in participating nucleon positions can lead to triangular flow. Generally, one uses Monte-Carlo Glauber model to obtain the participating nucleon positions. To use in a hydrodynamic model, the positions needs to be smoothened. We study the effect of smoothening of Glauber Monte-Carlo initial conditions on elliptic and triangular flow. It is shown that integrated as well as differential elliptic and triangular flow remain largely unaltered, irrespective of functional form of the smoothening function, or the smoothening parameter
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika [Unity in Diversity]: From Dynastic Policy to Classroom Practice
Creators: name: Farisi, Mohammad Imam
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, in its narrowest sense, a policy on religious tolerance, as it is operationalized in social studies textbooks and in classroom practice in Indonesia. The focus of the research is on six electronic textbooks used by students aged 7-12 years, in Indonesian elementary schools which are further considered in the context of Indonesian teachers’ actual experience of the operationalisationof Bhinneka Tunggal Ika in a classroom setting. The study shows that the textbooks and classroom practice are able to describe and transform a concept such as  Bhinneka Tunggal Ika into a real and meaningful concept or practice for students as practiced in the family, the school, the wider community and at a national level as well as in  religious ceremonies, architecture, and gotong-royong (or reciprocal) activities. However, the state also has a political goal and this concept should also be viewed as underlying cultural policy designed to build a character and civilization appropriate to a pluralistic Indonesian nation.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2014 Insights into Citizenship Classrooms: The Art of Documentation & Description
Noncontact electrical metrology of Cu/low-k interconnect for semiconductor production wafers
Creators: name: Talanov, V. V.
name: Scherz, A.
name: Schwartz, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have demonstrated a technique capable of in-line measurement of dielectric constant of low-k interconnect films on patterned wafers utilizing a test key of ~50x50 μm in size. The test key consists of a low-k film backed by a Cu grid with >50% metal pattern density and <250 nm pitch, which is fully compatible with the existing dual-damascene interconnect manufacturing processes. The technique is based on a near-field scanned microwave probe and is noncontact, noninvasive, and requires no electrical contact to or grounding of the wafer under test. It yields <0.3% precision and 2% accuracy for the film dielectric constant.
The relative importance of fuels and weather on fire behaviour in subalpine forests in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains
Creators: name: Bessie, Wayne Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: SD 421.37 B47 1993
subject: Fire weather - Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alberta)
subject: Forest fires - Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alberta)
subject: Fire ecology - Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alberta)
subject: Forest ecology - Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alberta)

description: Bibliography: p. 64-68.