cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Relative Rise in Sea-level during the Late Holocene at Six Salt Marshes in the Puget Basin, Washington
Creators: name: Beale, Harriet
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 1990

description:
Relative sea-level changes during the past several thousand years were determined at six marshes in three areas of the Puget Basin, Washington, to identify sites of vertical crustal movement, to provide data on regional relative sea-level history, and to collect data that may be used to monitor a proposed acceleration in the rate of eustatic sea-level rise due to global warming. Six salt marshes were cored to obtain radiocarbon ages of basal fossil peat deposits. Uncertainty in relating fossil marsh plants to elevations of former sea-levels reflects both the vertical range in which the plants occur today at the six study sites, and the responses of salt marshes to the variations in tidal range that accompany rising sea-levels.

Stratigraphic analysis reveals a rise in relative sealevel at all sites. Radiocarbon ages of peat samples indicate a relative sea-level rise of approximately 2-3 ± 0.5 m between 5000 and 3000 years ago and approximately 1 _+ 0.5 m between 3000 and 1000 years ago. Relative sea-level in the Puget Basin has probably not risen more than about 1 m in the past 1000 years. These data correlate with those of previous studies from southeastern Vancouver Island and the Fraser Lowland.

No conclusive evidence of either sudden crustal subsidence or differential tilting across the region was found at the six marshes examined, although slow, steady subsidence of the forearc basin of the Cascadia subduction zone may account for some of the apparent eustatic sea-level rise. Differential crustal displacements of more than 1 m have probably not occurred at Padilla Bay in the past 4500 years, at Quilcene Bay in the past 3000 years, and on San Juan Island in the past 800 years.

Should an acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise from global warming be in progress, erosion observed at marshes on San Juan Island may represent an early signalj Coastal areas with the greatest vulnerability to an accelerated sea-level rise, however, are in southern and eastern Puget Sound, where larger tidal ranges would register the greatest increases in amplitude, so that the highest tides would reach even higher elevations than those otherwise expected for the predicted sea-level rise.
Lessons learned from Covid-19
Creators: name: Niebert, Kai
Publisher: name: Progress in Science Education (PriSE)
Year: 2021

description: Background: Research from various disciplines indicates that the human endeavour has shifted the earth into a new geologic epoch: the Anthropocene, in which we are stressing several planetary boundaries. Many political papers see education as key to making the Anthropocene a sustainable epoch. This paper evaluates evidence on the effects of education for sustainability. It asks which role education must play in our endeavour to shape a sustainable future. Purpose of this study is to evaluate existing approaches within education for sustainable development and position them relative to political and scientific demands. Setting: The paper sets a three-step approach by (1) evaluating the global challenges of the 2020s based on evidence on the great acceleration of resource use, the approaching of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch and the planetary boundaries. Central concepts of education to cope with these challenges like sustainability competences are analysed (2) and (3) programs aiming to implement these competences are evaluated. Results: The paper shows that sustainability competences often are too abstract and that programs on education for sustainability often have a very limited impact on learners’ consciousness and behaviour. Based on data on sustainability policies and recent data on the Covid-19-lockdown the paper shows the limited effect of current strategies on education for sustainability. Conclusions: Based on the empirical findings the paper concludes that when education for sustainability focuses on leaners’ competences to participate politically, it has a higher chance of success and a higher chance of having a positive effect on the sustainability challenges of the 21st century than a focus on learners consciousness or environmental behaviour. Keywords: education for sustainable development, science education, Anthropocene, political education
description: Progress in Science Education (PriSE), Vol. 4 No. 3 (2021): Special Issue: Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung lehren: von der Argumentation zur Umsetzung
Ralf Busch, Die spätbronzezeitliche Siedlung an der Walkemühle in Göttingen. Teil I: Archäologische Untersuchungen
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Hans
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Ralf Busch, Die spätbronzezeitliche Siedlung an der Walkemühle in Göttingen. Teil I: Archäologische Untersuchungen. — Göttinger Schriften zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, herausgegeben von H. Jankuhn und K. Raddatz, Bd. 16. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1975. 75 S.; 93 Taf.; 1 Grabungsplan (im Anhang)
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 46 (1977): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Dr. August Lax. 9. April 1905 - 11. Dezember 1976
Creators: name: Claus, Martin
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 46 (1977): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Professor Dr. Kurt Tackenberg zum 80. Geburtstag
Creators: name: Claus, Martin
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 47 (1978): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of digital care platform CMyLife for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia: results of a patient-preference trial
Creators: name: Verweij, Lynn
name: Ector, Geneviève I. C. G.
name: Smit, Yolba
name: van Vlijmen, Bas
name: van der Reijden, Bert A.
name: Hermens, Rosella P. M. G.
name: Blijlevens, Nicole M. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Validated questionnaires with scores and internal consistency.
Decay process of quantum open system at finite-temperature
Creators: name: Xiao, X.
name: Gao, Y. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the formal solution to the Heisenberg equation, we revisit an universal model for a quantum open system with a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a boson bath. The analysis of the decay process for a Fock state and a coherent state demonstrate that this method is very useful in dealing with the problems in decay process of the open system. For finite temperature, the calculations of the reduced density matrix and the mean excitation number for the open system show that an initial coherent state will evolve into a temperature-dependant coherent state after tracing over the bath variables. Also in short-time limit, a temperature-dependant effective Hamiltonian for the open system characterizes the decay process of the open system.
title: Stratigraphy, Lithology, and Depositional Environment of the Black Prince Formation Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico
Creators: name: Spencer, Patrick Kevin
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 1980

description:
The Black Prince Formation (new manuscript name) of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico is subdivided into four lithologic facies representing four environments of deposition. The first lithofacies consists of the basal member of the type section of the Black Prince Limestone and is a result of erosion and reworking of the underlying Escabrosa Limestone. The three limestone lithofacies suggest deposition on a shallow shelf under supratidal, intertidal and subtidal conditions. Cyclic fluctuations in sea level are seen in the rock record in the vertical alternation of lithofacies. Six unconformities are recognized and these are traceable throughout the region.

The microfauna of the Black Prince Formation is correlative with faunas described elsewhere in North America and indicates that the Black Prince Formation was deposited during late Chesterian (Mississippian) and Morrowan (Pennsylvanian) time. The end of Black Prince deposition is marked by the abrupt appearance of advanced species of Profusulinella suggesting that a major hiatus is present between the Black Prince Formation and overlying rocks.
Additional file 1 of Surface electromyography to quantify neuro-respiratory drive and neuro-mechanical coupling in mechanically ventilated children
Creators: name: Koopman, Alette A.
name: van Dijk, Jefta
name: Oppersma, Eline
name: Blokpoel, Robert G. T.
name: Kneyber, Martin C. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Absolute values electrical muscle activity of diaphragm and parasternal intercostals in two ventilation modes and at reducing PS levels.
title: Environmental Interpretation Plan for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Rosalie
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2018

description:
As lead researcher and developer of the Interpretation Plan for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, this document will detail the background, research, and process involved to develop such a plan for the US Forest Service. I will first conceptualize Interpretation as a profession and its relation to and with Environmental Education with supporting research to help give context to the next section: an introduction to my project. After introducing the Interpretation Plan, I will detail my work and process to develop the Foundational Information, or the core of the Plan. Finally, I will conclude with my challenges, learnings, and lessons from this project. In addition, there will be an appendix that includes the actual Interpretation Plan for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail.
IGSN IDs All Sample Types, All Disciplines
Creators: name: Edmunds, Rorie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: DataCite
IGSN
IGSN ID
samples
Digital Object Identifier
DataCite IGSN webinar 2022

description: In October 2021, DataCite and the International Generic Sample Number (IGSN) e.V. announced a partnership to foster worldwide adoption, implementation, and utilization of persistent identifiers for material samples. Under this partnership, DataCite is ensuring the ongoing sustainability of the IGSN ID infrastructure, and is working with the IGSN e.V. to scale both IGSN IDs usage and sample community engagement and to develop sample identifier practice standards.

 The Partnership announced in September 2022 that DataCite DOI services were launched for registering IGSN IDs, and are now available to all DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations. The partners are also establishing disciplinary Communities of Practice to inform how the DataCite Metadata Schema can better support material samples.

 DataCite and IGSN e.V. invite you to a webinar, where we will showcase:
 - The history of the IGSN ID and the future plans of the IGSN e.V.
 - IGSN ID use cases and incorporation into samples workflows
 - An exemplar Community of Practice for archaeological samples
 - Recommendations & best practices for sample metadata, including a hands-on demonstration of descriptive metadata in DataCite services

 This webinar is aimed at anyone with an interest in the collection management of material samples in the broadest sense. It is timed for the APAC and EMEA regions, with a similar webinar planned for the Americas (and EMEA) in 2023. The webinar will be presented in English and will last 60 minutes, including time for Q&A. The slides and recording will be shared afterwards through the DataCite Zenodo Community and YouTube Channel, respectively. This presentation by Rorie Edmunds gives an introduction to IGSN IDs. A recording of the presentation can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcyj5qU-Bso
Infrared Measurement of the Pseudogap in P-Doped and Co-Doped BaFe2As2 High-Temperature Superconductors
Creators: name: Moon, S. J.
name: Schafgans, A. A.
name: Kasahara, S.
name: Shibauchi, T.
name: Terashima, T.
name: Matsuda, Y.
name: Tanatar, M. A.
name: Prozorov, R.
name: Thaler, A.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: Sefat, A. S.
name: Mandrus, D.
name: Basov, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on infrared studies of charge dynamics in a prototypical pnictide system: the BaFe2As2 family. Our experiments have identified hallmarks of the pseudogap state in the BaFe2As2 system that mirror the spectroscopic manifestations of the pseudogap in the cuprates. The magnitude of the infrared pseudogap is in accord with that of the spin-density-wave gap of the parent compound. By monitoring the superconducting gap of both P- and Co-doped compounds, we find that the infrared pseudogap is unrelated to superconductivity. The appearance of the pseudogap is found to correlate with the evolution of the antiferromagnetic fluctuations associated with the spin-density-wave instability. The strong-coupling analysis of infrared data further reveals the interdependence between the magnetism and the pseudogap in the iron pnictides.
Matter ouside a Static Higher-dimensional Black Hole
Creators: name: Rogatko, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We considered matter fields composed of a perfect fluid in the static higher-dimensional spherically symmetric asymptotically flat black hole spacetime. The proof of the nonexistence of perfect fluid matter in such a background was provided under the auxiliary condition, which can be interpreted as a relation connecting the stellar mass and the black hole mass in question.
description: 14 pages, RevTex, to be published in Phys.Rev.D15
Balancing Acts: Domestic Careers and Enforced Reproduction of Female Court Dwarfs in Early Modern Europe
Creators: name: Corona, Aylin
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disability studies
subject: Early Modern Europe
subject: Reproduction and childbirth
subject: Early modern careers
subject: Dwarfism
subject: Gender studies
subject: Intersectionality

description: There is a growing call for the inclusion of intersectionality within disability studies and history. Included in this is the history of court dwarfs in Early Modern Europe, specifically the life experiences of female court dwarfs. Previous scholarship has too often generalized the lives of court dwarfs and highlighted experiences unique to male court dwarfs. These experiences reveal early gender expectations on disabled women not experienced by their male counterparts. This thesis exposes in detail how the lives of three women were impacted based on two key points: their accepted careers within domesticity and their experiences through enforced reproduction. Finally, this thesis divulges in the use of gendered language and imagery to reinforce such expectations and ideas. All three women balanced life as entertainers within the private and public spheres. They dealt with dehumanization while also gaining autonomy and privileges not granted to women of lower status, suggesting a complex period of servitude with some freedom. This thesis highlights the importance of intersectionality in research and the sources themselves. Included sources range from portraits and narrative scenes to letters and memoirs.
A Classical Framework for Nonlocality and Entanglement
Creators: name: Groessing, Gerhard
name: Fussy, Siegfried
name: Pascasio, Johannes Mesa
name: Schwabl, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on our model of quantum systems as emerging from the coupled dynamics between oscillating "bouncers" and the space-filling zero-point field, a sub-quantum account of nonlocal correlations is given. This is explicitly done for the example of the "double two-slit" variant of two-particle interferometry. However, it is also shown that the entanglement in two-particle interferometry is only a natural consequence of the fact that already a "single" two-slit experiment can be described on a sub-quantum level with the aid of "entangling currents" of a generally nonlocal nature.
description: Invited talk presented by G. Groessing at QTRF-6 in Vaxjo, Sweden, 10-15 June 2012. 14 pages, 5 figures
Fantastic worlds : Black feminist aesthetics in young adult fiction
Creators: name: Taylor, Charlotte Terese
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Black feminism
Afrofuturism
Afrofuturist feminism
Young adult literature
Fantasy
Resources
Power
Survival

description: This project examines how the young adult (YA) fantasy genre is used by Black female authors as both a response to the current sociopolitical climate and as a way to (re)imagine power and survival for Black girls. It looks toward three YA fantasy novels– L.L. McKinney’s A Blade So Black, Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation, and Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone–all written by Black women and published in 2018 in order to examine how the protagonists of each mobilize resources as a way to gain power and survive. Each of the young Black female protagonists utilize resources that center undervalued sources of knowledge such as emotion, magic, myth, and the body. I refer to these sources as “Black feminist aesthetics.” This project examines how Black feminist aesthetics are integral to the protagonists attainment of power and their survival. It also examines how Black feminist aesthetics allow the protagonists to embrace alternative identities, roles, and relations than those typically offered young Black girls. A purpose of this project is to highlight that the stakes for Black girls seeing themselves in the literature they read are much higher than just representation. For young Black girls living in a world in which their bodies are vulnerable, and their lives are devalued, how Black girls show up in literature becomes important for how Black girls are treated in the world. Moreover, the existence of Black female characters who make and take power in imaginative ways while living within worlds that are violent toward them, offers readers the freedom to also imagine alternative, creative, and subversive ways to live within their own worlds. Afrofuturism and Black feminism provide the framework for such imaginings. The confluence of the two, Afrofuturist feminism, demonstrates how essential it is to center Black feminist thought in the imagining of transgressive, prosperous, and equitable Black futures.
Origin of thermoelectric response fluctuations in single-molecule junctions
Creators: name: Dubi, Yonatan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermoelectric response of molecular junctions exhibits large fluctuations, as observed in recent experiments [e.g. Malen J. A. {\sl et al.}, Nano Lett. {\bf 10}, 3406 (2009)]. These were attributed to fluctuations in the energy alignment between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the Fermi level at the electrodes. By analyzing these fluctuations assuming resonant transport through the HOMO level, we demonstrate that fluctuations in the HOMO level alone cannot account for the observed fluctuations in the thermopower, and that the thermo-voltage distributions obtained using the most common method, the Non-equilibrium Green's function method, are qualitatively different than those observed experimentally. We argue that this inconsistency between the theory and experiment is due to the level broadening, which is inherently built-in to the method, and smears out any variations of the transmission on energy scales smaller than the level broadening. We show that although this smearing only weakly affects the transmission, it has a large effect on the calculated thermopower. Using the theory of open quantum systems we account for both the magnitude of the variations and the qualitative form of the distributions, and show that they arise not only from variations in the HOMO-Fermi level offset, but also from variations of the local density of states at the contact point between the molecule and the electrode.
Inertia and chiral edge modes of a skyrmion magnetic bubble
Creators: name: Makhfudz, Imam
name: Krueger, Benjamin
name: Tchernyshyov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a vortex in a thin-film ferromagnet resembles the motion of a charged massless particle in a uniform magnetic field. Similar dynamics is expected for other magnetic textures with a nonzero skyrmion number. However, recent numerical simulations revealed that skyrmion magnetic bubbles show significant deviations from this model. We show that a skyrmion bubble possesses inertia and derive its mass from the standard theory of a thin-film ferromagnet. Besides center-of-mass motion, other low energy modes are waves on the edge of the bubble traveling with different speeds in opposite directions.
description: updated simulation details
Advancing diagnostics to address antibacterial resistance: The diagnostics and devices committee of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group
Creators: name: Banerjee, Ritu
name: Kreiswirth, Barry N.
name: Klausner, Jeffrey D.
name: Petzold, Elizabeth
name: Lautenbach, Ebbing
name: Diagnostics and Devices Committeea of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group
name: Patel, Robin
name: Hanson, Kimberly E.
name: Tsalik, Ephraim L.
name: Evans, Scott R.
name: Bonomo, Robert A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Diagnostics are a cornerstone of the practice of infectious diseases. However, various limitations frequently lead to unmet clinical needs. In most other domains, diagnostics focus on narrowly defined questions, provide readily interpretable answers, and use true gold standards for development. In contrast, infectious diseases diagnostics must contend with scores of potential pathogens, dozens of clinical syndromes, emerging pathogens, rapid evolution of existing pathogens and their associated resistance mechanisms, and the absence of gold standards in many situations. In spite of these challenges, the importance and value of diagnostics cannot be underestimated. Therefore, the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group has identified diagnostics as 1 of 4 major areas of emphasis. Herein, we provide an overview of that development, highlighting several examples where innovation in study design, content, and execution is advancing the field of infectious diseases diagnostics.
title: Instructions for Caring
Creators: name: Haack, Tracy
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2018

description:
Instructions for Caring is a collection consisting of juxtaposed lyric essays, braided essays, and poetry. Through research and fragmented personal narrative, each work meditates on human connection and mental illness. The fragmented nature of Instructions for Caring situates human biology and environmental conditions in close conversation with lived experience in the first-person point-of-view. Research into the history of state-run mental health facilities and the evolution of treatment methods contextualizes memory in an attempt to get closer to understanding empathy and care. The research asks how what we call mental illness lives within bodies or is expressed by bodies, the way lived experiences, biology, and the environment may contribute to atypical behavior.
title: Improved Thermal and Mechanical Properties and Increased Miscibility of Polybenzoxazine in Blends with Functionalized Thermoplastics and Particles
Creators: name: Brown, Emily A.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2018

description:
The solubility, polymerization, and the macromolecular characterization of cured blends of BPA-based benzoxazine (BA-a) in end group tosylated poly(ethylene glycol) (mPEGOTs), polysulfone (PSUOTs), and poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PDLLAOTs) are studied and compared to their hydroxyl terminated analogues. The cure temperature for BA-a blends with tosylated polymers was reduced by ~60 °C compared to that of the pure BA-a. This confirms that the tosylated polymer is an accelerant for BA-a ring opening polymerization (ROP). There are two proposed mechanism for the production of free tosylate and cationic BA-a based initiators as a cure catalyst for BA-a ROP – where the former was detected by TGA-FTIR and TGA-MS. SEM confirmed a grafted polymer network from BA-a and mPEGOTs, P(BA-a)-graft-mPEGOTs, this homogenous microstructure was also found in PBA-a/PSUOTs blends. The glass transition temperature and the thermal stability of the P(BA-a)-graft-mPEGOTs can be tuned based on the composition of the BA-a/mPEGOTs resin. The potential applications of such grafted polymers may lead to novel materials for the biomedical plastics, electronics, membranes, and aerospace industries. Further blends were prepared with microparticles of silica (SiOH) and the tosylate- (SiOTs) and phenyl- (SiPh) functionalized analogues. Increased modulus of PBA-a was found in all silica blends, the reduction in cure temperature was found only in blends of BA-a and SiOTs. By SEM, PBA-a/SiOTs blends were determined to have a unique morphology. Three benzoxazine-based surfactants were synthesized from the coupling of p-hydroxy methylbenzoxazine with mPEGOTs. All three surfactants had good monomer loading, up to 4.72 monomer to surfactant by mass.
Atmospheric Extinction Coefficients and Night Sky Brightness At the Xuyi Observational Station
Creators: name: Zhang, H. -H
name: Liu, X. -W.
name: Yuan, H. -B.
name: Zhao, H. -B.
name: Yao, J. -S.
name: Zhang, H. -W.
name: Xiang, M. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the optical broadband atmospheric extinction coefficients and the night sky brightness at the Xuyi Observational Station of Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). The measurements are based on CCD imaging data taken in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey g, r and i bands with the Xuyi 1.04/1.20m Schmidt Telescope for the Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (XSTPS-GAC), the photometric part of the Digital Sky Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (DSS-GAC). The data were collected in more than 130 winter nights from 2009 to 2011. We find that the atmospheric extinction coefficients for the g, r and i bands are 0.70, 0.55 and 0.38 mag/airmass, respectively, based on observations taken in several photometric nights. The night sky brightness determined from images of good quality has median val- ues of 21.7, 20.8 and 20.0 mag/arcsec2 and reaches 22.1, 21.2 and 20.4 mag/arcsec2 under the best observing conditions for the g, r and i bands, respectively. The relatively large extinction coefficients compared with other good astronomical observing sites are mainly due to the relatively low elevation (i.e. 180 m) and high humidity of the Station.
description: 10pages, 5 figures; Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
How theatre adapts : integrating art, commerce, and the adaptation industry
Creators: name: Malafronte, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Adaptation
Adaptation industry
Performance
Prestige
Commercial theatre

description: From the big-budget stages of Broadway to more experimental, independent theatre scenes, cross-medium adaptations dominate the landscape of U.S. theatre. The proliferation of adaptations into theatre— and the extreme concentration of budgetary resources, acclaim, and audience reach that attend them— is the observation that launched this research. This thesis converges scholarship from theatre studies, performance studies, and adaptation studies to position cross-medium adaptation as an effective strategy to maintain the economic viability of theatre without compromising the oft-lauded qualities of liveness and ephemerality. Through two case studies, I map relationships between the theatre, book, and film industries— and their stakeholders— to further an understanding of adaptation within a multi-industrial system of production that impacts both the artistic and business practices of cultural production. Participation in what Simone Murray calls the adaptation industry provides links to other, non-theatrical entertainment industries, and creating work in this system enables some aspects of contemporary theatrical production while constraining others. Adaptation therefore accelerates the commodification of theatre by linking a theatrical performance to the extant product of its non-theatrical source. Disney Theatrical Productions, Ltd. embraces this commodification as a way of enabling theatrical production through a multi-pronged set of business synergy strategies, which the company deploys by activating a network of cross-divisional relationships within the larger Walt Disney Company. This approach facilitates theatrical production, though sometimes at the expense of artistry. Elevator Repair Service, by contrast, utilizes adaptation as a set of formal constraints to be made visible through performance. Despite this oppositional approach, Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz retains the associational benefits of adaptation by trading on the prestige of its canonical source, The Great Gatsby. This thesis articulates the industrial forces at play in both of these cases while centering practitioners in an analysis of theatrical adaptation within a multi-industrial system. Ultimately, this research contributes to a growing body of scholarship on theatrical adaptations and argues for theatre makers’ agency to navigate the potential business benefits to working in adaptation while defraying potential artistic costs.
Additional file 1 of Parent involvement in child anthropometric measurement
Creators: name: Rae, Sarah
name: Ong, Frank
name: Dennis, Cindy-Lee
name: Hamilton, Jill
name: Pullenayegum, Eleanor
name: Maguire, Jonathon
name: Birken, Catherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
A new proscenium : exploring interactive live performance in a socially distant digital world
Creators: name: Conard, Jordan Christopher
name: 0000-0002-4887-5100
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Theatre
Theater
Liveness
Entertainment
Cross-medium
Virtual
Low-latency
Video
Ndi
Touchdesigner
OBS
OBS.ninja
Frank Wo/Men Collective
Interactive Theatre
Experimental
Engagement
Audiences
Bespoke

description: In the era of virtual entertainment and social distancing protocols, many live entertainment industries are asking how they might create engaging experiences that connect audiences and performers. Is it possible to merge Theatre, Television, and Gaming into a new medium that plays to the strengths of each of these forms? What actions can be taken to successfully combine mediums and maintain liveness? How can we remotely and virtually connect audiences and performers? In a connected world, with entertainment at our fingertips, my curiosity in cross medium entertainment has been given an opportunity, as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, to devise and create a system that would allow for audiences and performers to connect in real-time from anywhere in the world. While the prevalence of producing streamed theatre over Zoom places a temporary band-aid on the problem of being unable to congregate in person; Existing technologies allow for connections to be found for audiences and performers alike in live entertainment, using low latency video streaming, audience voting, bespoke website user interfaces, and audience dictated diverting storylines; audiences and performers can indeed connect via a new spin on live entertainment. While there are inevitably obstacles encountered with emerging technologies and techniques, I conclude the live entertainment industry should explore the convergence of mediums rather than settle for the limitations of virtual Zoom Theatre or recorded Theatre performances. Through a new residency presented by Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox in December of 2020, my collaborators and I, the Frank Wo/Men Collective, explored and designed a new medium that brought together features of theatre, film, television, and gaming. The resulting production revealed that the combination of mediums can in fact create engaging experiences that open up a wild variety of engaging opportunities for the audience and the performers alike. While the COVID-19 pandemic will eventually end, there will be a long-lasting effect on the live entertainment industry as some people may choose to avoid congregating with large groups for years to come. The solutions and explorations presented serve as a starting point for others interested in this live entertainment medium.
title: Exploring the Relationship Between Revenue Management and Hotel Loyalty Programs
Creators: name: Buckley, Melissa Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2015

description: Loyalty programs are a staple of the hospitality industry. As time progressed, there has been a shift among the structure of loyalty programs to not only reward the large spend of casino players, but also to compensate other frequent travelers of the hotel. As hotels continue to offer increasing benefits and compensation while reevaluating the tier structure of loyalty programs, research was necessary to discover if these loyalty programs are extracting the maximum revenue per guest and creating overall revenue for the hotel.
The purpose of the study was to uncover the relationship between revenue management and hotel loyalty programs. While some research has been conducted on the relationship between customer relationship management and revenue management (Shoemaker & Lewis, 1999; Wang, 2011), further research was necessary to bridge the gap between hotel loyalty programs and revenue management (Wilco, Shanshan & Eric, 2011). Little evidence existed on whether revenue management and hotel loyalty programs work cohesively, or even if they should.
A pilot study of a focus group was conducted to assess the general relationship between revenue management and hotel loyalty programs, followed by thirteen in-depth interviews. After the interviews were transcribed, content analysis was performed, followed by the use of Atlas.ti to further analyze the data. Participants' were asked questions regarding the interaction of revenue management and hotel loyalty programs. Overall, the goal was to understand consumer behavior to drive repeat business; if a hotel can generate repeat business, then an emotional connection may develop between the hotel/brand and the guest. Revenue management used a loyalty program as a tool to track and gather data on the customer.
Ripplingen – ein bislang unbekannter Adelssitz an der Saar
Creators: name: Kühn, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 51, Nr. 4 (2010): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Polarization rotation theory for field-induced-phase transitions in BaTiO3 single crystal
Creators: name: Zhang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have proposed the polarization rotation theory to understand the underlying physics of the large piezoelectric effect in ferroelectric crystals by referring to the coherent rotation model in ferromagnetism. When both the electric field energy and crystalline anisotropy energy are taken into account, the polarization in BaTiO3 crystal can be rotated toward the field direction. The numerical results have indicated the highly anisotropic polarization rotations and the field-induced-phases with different symmetries in the crystal. This theory is helpful for understanding the polarization reversal and the electromechanical effect in ferroelectric materials.
description: 18 pages,2 figures, 1 table
Pre-solution of the perturbed motion of artificial satellite
Creators: name: Hassan, Inalds A.
name: Metwally, Hayman Z.
name: Basha, Mohammad A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors try to find a good solution of an artificial satellite motion under the influence of J2 gravity in terms of KS variables by using Picard Iterative Method. The result shows that there are many solutions for this problem depends on the initial guess solutions, so the choice of correct and convince initial guess is very difficult. Applications of the method applied on many satellites.
description: 6 pages, 0 figures, conference paper
A new $(γ_n,σ_k)-$ KP hierarchy and generalized dressing method
Creators: name: Yao, Yuqin
name: Huang, Yehui
name: Zeng, Yunbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new (γ_n,σ_k)-KP hierarchy with two new time series γ_n and σ_k, which consists of γ_n-flow, σ_k-flow and mixed γ_n and σ_k evolution equations of eigenfunctions, is proposed. Two reductions and constrained flows of (γ_n,σ_k)-KP hierarchy are studied. The dressing method is generalized to the (γ_n,σ_k)-KP hierarchy and some solutions are presented.
description: 14 pages, to appear in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
Adding generators in cyclic groups
Creators: name: Sander, J. W.
name: Sander, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11B13, 20K01, Secondary 05C25

description: For a cyclic group $a$, define the atom of $a$ as the set of all elements generating $a$. Given any two elements $a,b$ of a finite cyclic group $G$, we study the sumset of the atom of $a$ and the atom of $b$. It is known that such a sumset is a disjoint union of atoms. The goal of this paper is to offer a deeper understanding of this phenomenon, by determining which atoms make up the sum of two given atoms and by computing the exact number of representations of each element of the sumset.
Local topological properties of asymptotic cones of groups
Creators: name: Conner, Greg
name: Kent, Curt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define a local analogue to Gromov's loop division property which is use to give a sufficient condition for an asymptotic cone of a complete geodesic metric space to have uncountable fundamental group. As well, this property is used to understand the local topological structure of asymptotic cones of many groups currently in the literature.
Das Verhältnis von deutscher und slawischer Keramik im 11./12. Jahrhundert auf dem Weinberg in Hitzacker (Elbe) als chronologisches Problem
Creators: name: Wachter, Berndt
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 46 (1977): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Broadband super-Planckian thermal emission from hyperbolic metamaterials
Creators: name: Guo, Yu
name: Cortes, Cristian L.
name: Molesky, Sean
name: Jacob, Zubin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the fluctuational electrodynamics of metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion and show the existence of broadband thermal emission beyond the black body limit in the near field. This arises due to the thermal excitation of unique bulk metamaterial modes, which do not occur in conventional media. We consider a practical realization of the hyperbolic metamaterial and estimate that the effect will be observable using the characteristic dispersion (topological transitions) of the metamaterial states. Our work paves the way for engineering the near-field thermal emission using metamaterials.
title: Epistemic Practices
title: A framework for characterising engineering students’ epistemic cognition
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Isaac, Siara
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: Solving complex, open-ended problems is frequently characterised as the central activity of engineering. Such problem solving requires a high level of epistemic sophistication, however, few studies have investigated the relationship between epistemic cognition and engineering students’ problem solving strategies. While there are several models of epistemic cognition, they consistently characterise approaching knowledge as though there is a single, absolute correct answer as naïve. Higher epistemic sophistication is taken to involve more nuanced beliefs such as perceiving knowledge as relative, contingent, and contextual. However, decades of active research have failed to produce robust quantitative instruments. This thesis exploits a recent conceptual development which posits that selecting an effective epistemic approach for a specific knowledge claim is a better measure of sophistication. By focusing on observable, fine-grained actions to characterise how engineering students approach, justify, and evaluate contexualised scientific knowledge, this study eschews overarching epistemic beliefs in favour of epistemic practices to develop a rich portrait of engineering problem solving. The grounded theory analysis of the think-aloud problem solving protocols and interviews with 30 undergraduate engineering students produced a set of eight epistemic practices, each of which are described at four levels of sophistication. While the strict separation between epistemic beliefs and actions is distinctive of this project, five of the epistemic practices are coherent with prior models and three are novel and engineering-specific: equations as imperfect models of reality, precision and estimates, and answer‐checking strategies. Finally, this study proposes the diversity of students’ epistemic practices as a measure of epistemic sophistication, rather than effectiveness. Diversity has the dual benefits of being reflective of expert problem solving and attenuating the effects of students’ prior knowledge, disciplinary background, and the specific activity. The epistemic practices are presented as a coherent framework that is accessible to engineering teachers and facilitates application in other contexts.
Ein mesolithischer Dünenfundplatz bei Minstedt, Stadt Bremervörde, Kr. Rotenburg (Wümme). Materialvorlage aus einer Grabung 1958
Creators: name: Franke, Friedrich-Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 47 (1978): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Die Germanen. Geschichte und Kultur der germanischen Stämme in Mitteleuropa. Ein Handbuch in zwei Bänden. Ausgearbeitet von einem Autorenkollektiv unter Leitung von Bruno Krüger
Creators: name: Raddatz, Klaus
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Die Germanen. Geschichte und Kultur der germanischen Stämme in Mitteleuropa. Ein Handbuch in zwei Bänden. Ausgearbeitet von einem Autorenkollektiv unter Leitung von Bruno Krüger. Band I: Von den Anfängen bis zum 2. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung. — Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. Herausgegeben von Joachim Herrmann. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976. 568 S.; 133 Abb., davon 8 farbige, 55 einfarbige und 7 mehrfarbige Taf.; 5 Tabellen; 3 Faltkarten
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 47 (1978): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Hidden polymorphs drive the vitrification in B2O3
Creators: name: Ferlat, Guillaume
name: Seitsonen, Ari Paavo
name: Lazzeri, Michele
name: Mauri, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the conditions which favor crystallisation or vitrification of liquids has been a long-standing scientific problem. Another connected, and not yet well understood question is the relationship between the glassy and the various possible crystalline forms a system may adopt. In this context, B2O3 is a puzzling case of study since i) it is one of the best glass-forming systems despite an apparent lack of low-pressure polymorphism ii) it vitrifies in a glassy form abnormally different from the only known crystalline phase at ambient pressure iii) it never crystallises from the melt unless pressure is applied, an intriguing behaviour known as the crystallisation anomaly. Here, by means of ab-initio calculations, we discover the existence of novel B2O3 crystalline polymorphs with structural properties similar to the glass and formation energies comparable to the known ambient crystal. The resulting configurational degeneracy drives the system vitrification at ambient pressure. The degeneracy is lifted under pressure, unveiling the origin of the crystallisation anomaly. This work reconciles the behaviour of B2O3 with that from other glassy systems and reaffirms the role played by polymorphism in a system's ability to vitrify. Some of the predicted crystals are cage-like materials entirely made of three-fold rings, opening new perspectives for the synthesis of boron-based nanoporous materials.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. This is the initial version as submitted to Nature Materials. Final version contains supplementary information. See doi:10.1038/nmat3416
Chemical Trend of Superconducting Transition Temperature in Hole-doped Delafossite of CuAlO_2, AgAlO_2 and AuAlO_2
Creators: name: Nakanishi, Akitaka
name: Katayama-Yoshida, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed the first-principles calculations about the superconducting transition temperature T_c of hole-doped delafossite CuAlO_2, AgAlO_2 and AuAlO_2. Calculated T_c are about 50 K(CuAlO_2), 40 K(AgAlO_2) and 3 K(AuAlO_2) at maximum in the optimum hole-doping concentration. The low T_c of AuAlO_2 is attributed to the weak electron-phonon interaction caused by the low covalency and heavy atomic mass.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 tables, SSC in printing