cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Small-world of communities: communication and correlation of the meta-network
Creators: name: Ostilli, M.
name: Mendes, J. F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a network and a partition in n communities, we address the issues ``how communities influence each other'' and ``when two given communities do communicate''. We prove that, for a small-world network, among communities, a simple superposition principle applies and each community plays the role of a microscopic spin governed by a sort of effective TAP (Thouless, Anderson and Palmer) equations. The relative susceptibilities derived from these equations calculated at finite or zero temperature (where the method provides an effective percolation theory) give us the answers to the above issues. As for the already studied case n=1, these equations are exact in the paramagnetic regions (at T=0 this means below the percolation threshold) and provide effective approximations in the other regions. However, unlike the case n=1, asymmetries among the communities may lead, via the TAP-like structure of the equations, to many metastable states whose number, in the case of negative short-cuts among the communities, may grow exponentially fast with n and glassy scenarios with a remarkable presence of abrupt jumps take place. Furthermore, as a byproduct, from the relative susceptibilities a natural and efficient method to detect the community structure of a generic network emerges.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures; version conform to the published letter
title: A childminder approach: recognising a distinctive home-based pedagogy
Creators: name: Aaronricks, Kay
Publisher: name: Norland
Year: 2023

description: Although the longest-practised form of paid childcare in England, childminding is an underdeveloped area within research. Childminders employ a distinctive home-based pedagogical approach to the provision of childcare and education, and this research provided an opportunity to work more closely with childminders to better understand how they perceive themselves. The insights presented in this paper are in response to the question: what is a childminder? The data was collected as part of a collaborative action research study with a local group of childminders in England. Narrative writings and reflective discussion were thematically analysed, providing insights into the distinctive elements of a home-based childminding approach to childcare and education, based on the themes of family values, home and community environment, and care and education. These insights are underpinned by the notion that childminding offers a different approach to the provision of childcare and education than group-based provision. This research suggests that childminders should be supported to create a shared understanding of their distinctive pedagogical approach, through opportunities for shared learning experiences and with a focus on building communities of practice.
Additional file 2 of Exosomal IL-8 derived from Lung Cancer and Colon Cancer cells induced adipocyte atrophy via NF-κB signaling pathway
Creators: name: Xiong, Hairong
name: Ye, Jiaxin
name: Xie, Kairu
name: Hu, Wenjun
name: Xu, Ning
name: Yang, Hongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Fig. S2. Identification of EVs isolated from LLC and C26 tumor cells. A Western blot analyses of EVs markers, HSP70, CD9 and TSG101, together with the positive and negative controls (GAPDH versus Calnexin), respectively.
RNA secondary structure at the transcription start site influences EBOV transcription initiation and replication in a length- and stability-dependent manner
Creators: name: Bach, Simone
name: Demper, Jana-Christin
name: Biedenkopf, Nadine
name: Becker, Stephan
name: Hartmann, Roland K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA has the potential to form hairpin structures at the transcription start sequence (TSS) and reinitiation sites of internal genes, both on the genomic and antigenomic/mRNA level. Hairpin formation involving the TSS and the spacer sequence between promotor elements (PE) 1 and 2 was suggested to regulate viral transcription. Here, we provide evidence that such RNA structures form during RNA synthesis by the viral polymerase and affect its activity. This was analysed using monocistronic minigenomes carrying hairpin structure variants in the TSS-spacer region that differ in length and stability. Transcription and replication were measured via reporter activity and by qRT-PCR quantification of the distinct viral RNA species. We demonstrate that viral RNA synthesis is remarkably tolerant to spacer extensions of up to ~54 nt, but declines beyond this length limit (~25% residual activity for a 66-nt extension). Minor incremental stabilizations of hairpin structures in the TSS-spacer region and on the mRNA/antigenomic level were found to rapidly abolish viral polymerase activity, which may be exploited for antisense strategies to inhibit viral RNA synthesis. Finally, balanced viral transcription and replication can still occur when any RNA structure formation potential at the TSS is eliminated, provided that hexamer phasing in the promoter region is maintained. Altogether, the findings deepen and refine our insight into structure and length constraints within the EBOV transcription and replication promoter and suggest a remarkable flexibility of the viral polymerase in recognition of PE1 and PE2.
IAC-pop: Finding the Star Formation History of Resolved Galaxies
Creators: name: Aparicio, A.
name: Hidalgo, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IAC-pop is a code designed to solve the star formation history (SFH) of a complex stellar population system, like a galaxy, from the analysis of the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). It uses a genetic algorithm to minimize a chi2 merit function comparing the star distributions in the observed CMD and the CMD of a synthetic stellar population. A parametrization of the CMDs is used, which is the main input of the code. In fact, the code can be applied to any problem in which a similar parametrization of an experimental set of data and models can be made. The method internal consistency and robustness against several error sources, including observational effects, data sampling and stellar evolution library differences, are tested. It is found that the best stability of the solution and the best way to estimate errors is obtained by several runs of IAC-pop with varying the input data parametrization. The routine MinnIAC is used to control this process. IAC-pop is offered for free use and can be downloaded from the site http://iac-star.iac.es/iac-pop. The routine MInnIAC is also offered under request, but support can not be provided for its use. The only requirement for the use of IAC-pop and MinnIAC is referencing this paper and crediting as indicated in the site.
description: 38 pages, 18 figures; in press in the Astronomical Journal
Non-minimal Maxwell-Modified Gauss-Bonnet Cosmologies: Inflation and Dark Energy
Creators: name: Sadeghi, J
name: Setare, M R
name: Banijamali, A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that power-law inflation can be realized in non-minimal gravitational coupling of electromagnetic field with a general function of Gauss-Bonnet invariant. Such a non-minimal coupling may appear due to quantum corrections. We also consider modified Maxwell-$F(G)$ gravity in which non-minimal coupling between electromagnetic field and $f(G)$ occur in the framework of modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. It is shown that inflationary cosmology and late-time accelerated expansion of the universe are possible in such a theory.
description: 10 pages, no figure
Mainstreaming youth friendly services in public health facilities in urban Tanzania
Creators: name: Komwihangiro, Joseph
name: Isihaka Mwandalima
name: Stephens, Benjamin
name: Temba, Anna
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Access to and use of contraception among adolescents
and youth (ages 10–24) is critical for preventing unintended
pregnancies. Yet, in Tanzania, contraception use among these
age groups remains low (18%), while the total unmet need
for contraception remains high (22.8%).1 The percentage
of adolescent (15–19) childbearing has increased from 23%
(2010) to 27% (2015).2 Adolescent and youth face many
barriers to accessing contraception, particularly long-acting
reversible contraception (LARCs).
Despite investment in youth-friendly services (YFS) through
national and multinational programs, experience shows that
models adopting stand-alone youth clinics and separate-space
YFS provision demonstrate mixed results and can be often
unsustainable. Integration of YFS with existing contraceptive
and health service delivery units is a recognized high
impact enhancement with high potential for sustainability
and scale up.3
Health systems should be responsive to adolescent and
youth needs and should recognize that p
title: Empirical essays on the economics of climate change
Creators: name: Linsenmeier, Manuel
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2025

description: Climate change has been referred to as the world’s largest externality, motivating research and policies that in recent years appear to have gained additional momentum. This thesis compiles five empirical essays on the economics of climate change. The first three chapters study the costs of climate change. The last two chapters examine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. More specifically, the first two chapters identify causal effects of temperature variability to examine its possible costs under scenarios of future climate change. The third chapter studies the impacts of weather shocks in Europe paying particular attention to their heterogeneity by industry and average climate. The chapters apply novel strategies for causal identification and report evidence on new channels through which climate change affects society. The fourth chapter empirically studies the sequencing of mitigation policies by instrument type and the association between sequencing and the adoption of carbon pricing policies. The fifth chapter examines the international diffusion of carbon pricing policies and quantifies its contribution to global greenhouse gas emission reductions. Both chapters report novel evidence that speaks to current debates in research and policy about how to limit global warming.
Simultaneous Continuation of Infinitely Many Sinks Near a Quadratic Homoclinic Tangency
Creators: name: Catsigeras, Eleonora
name: Cerminara, Marcelo
name: Enrich, Heber
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37G35, 37D05

description: We prove that the $C^3$ diffeomorphisms on surfaces, exhibiting infinitely many sinksnear the generic unfolding of a quadratic homoclinic tangency of a dissipative saddle, can be perturbed along an infinite dimensional manifold of $C^3$ diffeomorphisms such that infinitely many sinks persist simultaneously. On the other hand, if they are perturbed along one-parameter families that unfold generically the quadratic tangencies, then at most a finite number of those sinks have continuation.
Additional file 1 of Sarcopenia index as a predictor of clinical outcomes among older adult patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Zhao, Xuanna
name: Su, Ruoxin
name: Hu, Rongwei
name: Chen, Yujuan
name: Xu, Xiaoyong
name: Yuan, Yalian
name: Zhang, Jinhong
name: Zhang, Wenchao
name: Yang, Yu
name: Chen, Min
name: Li, Dongming
name: Wu, Bin
name: Huang, Dan
name: Wu, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
Tag Clusters as Information Retrieval Interfaces
Creators: name: Knautz, Kathrin
name: Soubusta, Simone
name: Stock, Wolfgang G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents our design of a next generation information retrieval system based on tag co-occurrences and subsequent clustering. We help users getting access to digital data through information visualization in the form of tag clusters. Current problems like the absence of interactivity and semantics between tags or the difficulty of adding additional search arguments are solved. In the evaluation, based upon SERVQUAL and IT systems quality indicators, we found out that tag clusters are perceived as more useful than tag clouds, are much more trustworthy, and are more enjoyable to use.
Evaluation results from flagship PHE project poised to advance integration of voluntary family planning across the Lake Victoria Basin
Creators: name: Dorah Taranta
name: Sono  Aibe
name: Honzak, Cara
name: Margoluis, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Population-Health-Environment (PHE) programming involves the integration of voluntary family planning (FP) with health and environment programming. Since the 1990s, there have been numerous PHE programs sharing at least one objective – to increase uptake of voluntary FP in communities vulnerable to rapidly changing environments, often in some of the most remote societies of the world. While PHE projects have shown increased contraceptive uptake among these populations, the PHE field has been challenged to explicitly incorporate advocacy and institutionalization elements, and then to document the complex ways community-based programming, health systems, policymakers and institutions interact to support these changes.

The Health of People and Environment in Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE-LVB) project (2011-2017), implemented by Pathfinder International, is the first PHE project in Eastern Africa to incorporate the components needed to ensure the PHE field’s progress – robust advocacy, a scale up strategy, and monitoring and evaluation. In 2017 Pathfinder conducted a large-scale internal evaluation of the project, in parallel with an external evaluation supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The results of the internal evaluation are outlined herein, but it should be noted that the external evaluation generally confirmed these findings.
Integrated strategies for complex issues: Population, Health, and the Environment (PHE) in remote western Tanzania
Creators: name: Leisher, Craig
name: Magige, Hellen
name: Margoluis, Cheryl
name: Honzak, Cara
name: Josaphat Mshighati
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Poverty, rapid population growth, and a remote location threaten the health and well-being of the communities and environment of the Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) in Western Tanzania. Population growth rates in the GME are among the country’s highest at 4.4% per annum. Prior to project inception (2011), communities had a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 8.4, and a low contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) of 17% compared to the rural average of Tanzania at 31% (2010). Poor health conditions persist and the remote location makes access to health services challenging. Most households are subsistence farmers who fish seasonally and depend upon natural resources for their survival. As of 2011, fish stocks were in decline from overfishing, and more forests were being cleared for farmland each year. This situation places stress on human health and natural resources, resulting in a cycle of poverty, poor health outcomes, and environmental degradation. The Tuungane project reaches out to these “last-mile” underserved communities to address the complex issues that they face through an integrated population, health and environment (PHE) approach. This approach brings together contraception, reproductive and maternal health, and conservation programming to support community members in their pursuit of living healthy lives in balance with their environment.
Additional file 1 of Clinical features and markers to identify pulmonary lesions caused by infection or vasculitis in AAV patients
Creators: name: Wang, Yujuan
name: Qu, Zhuan
name: Liang, Wei
name: Chen, Xinghua
name: Chen, Cheng
name: Cheng, Hui
name: Hu, Haiyun
name: Wei, Zhongpin
name: Su, Ke
name: Yang, Lianhua
name: Wang, Huiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. More clinical features of the subjects.
The Nainital-Cape Survey-III : A Search for Pulsational Variability in Chemically Peculiar Stars
Creators: name: Joshi, S.
name: Mary, D. L.
name: Chakradhari, N. K.
name: Tiwari, S. K.
name: Billaud, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Nainital-Cape survey is a dedicated research programme to search and study pulsational variability in chemically peculiar stars in the Northern Hemisphere. The aim of the survey is to search such chemically peculiar stars which are pulsationally unstable. The observations of the sample stars were carried out in high-speed photometric mode using a three-channel fast photometer attached to the 1.04-m Sampurnanand telescope at ARIES. The new photometric observations confirmed that the pulsational period of star HD25515 is 2.78-hrs. The repeated time-series observations of HD113878 and HD118660 revealed that previously known frequencies are indeed present in the new data sets. We have estimated the distances, absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures and luminosities of these stars. Their positions in the H-R diagram indicate that HD25515 and HD118660 lie near the main-sequence while HD113878 is an evolved star. We also present a catalogue of 61 stars classified as null results, along with the corresponding 87 frequency spectra taken over the time scale 2002-2008. A statistical analysis of these null results shows, by comparison with past data, that the power of the noise in the light curves has slightly increased during the last few years.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Towards a random laser with cold atoms
Creators: name: Guerin, William
name: Mercadier, Nicolas
name: Michaud, Franck
name: Brivio, Davide
name: Froufe-Pérez, Luis S.
name: Carminati, Rémi
name: Eremeev, Vitalie
name: Goetschy, Arthur
name: Skipetrov, Sergey E.
name: Kaiser, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atoms can scatter light and they can also amplify it by stimulated emission. From this simple starting point, we examine the possibility of realizing a random laser in a cloud of laser-cooled atoms. The answer is not obvious as both processes (elastic scattering and stimulated emission) seem to exclude one another: pumping atoms to make them behave as amplifier reduces drastically their scattering cross-section. However, we show that even the simplest atom model allows the efficient combination of gain and scattering. Moreover, supplementary degrees of freedom that atoms offer allow the use of several gain mechanisms, depending on the pumping scheme. We thus first study these different gain mechanisms and show experimentally that they can induce (standard) lasing. We then present how the constraint of combining scattering and gain can be quantified, which leads to an evaluation of the random laser threshold. The results are promising and we draw some prospects for a practical realization of a random laser with cold atoms.
description: Accepcted for publication by J. Opt. A for the special issue on nanolasers and random lasers (to be published early 2010)
Hybrid prediction of optimal milling conditions
Creators: name: Beik Khormizi, Mohammad Sina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis presents a physics-guided neural network model to predict the frequency response function (FRF) at the tool tip and a Bayesian learning method to reach the optimum cutting conditions with the highest material removal rate by a few cutting tests. The spindle assembly is one of the weakest parts in the machine tool and contributes to the chatter. The undesired vibrations lead to a poor surface finish and can damage the tool, tool holder, and spindle. The FRF of the spindle up to the flange is obtained experimentally by three impact modal tests and the inverse receptance coupling method. The Timoshenko beam based finite elements model is used to calculate the free-free FRF of arbitrary tools and tool holders. Then, the spindle, tool, and tool holder are coupled using the receptance coupling method to obtain the tool tip FRF. The modal parameters are extracted from the FRF to build a dataset of different tools and tool holders geometry with the corresponding modal parameters. A deep neural network (DNN) is then trained using the simulated dataset and fine-tuned using the experimental impact modal tests to overcome the inaccuracies and uncertainties in the model and measurements. The model’s predictions are verified with experimental impact modal tests and showed computationally efficient predictions. This thesis also presents a hybrid method to find the stable combination of cutting conditions with the highest material removal rate (MRR). The FRF is used to calculate the analytical stability lobes using the zero-order stability solution. Then, the cutting conditions with the highest analytical MRR are found, and the Bayesian algorithm is applied to search for the optimum cutting conditions with few cutting tests. The method is verified on a milling machining center.
Seps (Gongylus) ocellatus Gray
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Cordylidae
Seps
Seps ocellatus

description: Seps (Gongylus) ocellatus Gray liz.
Süd-Algerien v. H. Miville. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 707, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Asymmetries involving dihadron fragmentation functions: from DIS to e+e- annihilation
Creators: name: Bacchetta, Alessandro
name: Ceccopieri, Federico A.
name: Mukherjee, Asmita
name: Radici, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a model calculation of dihadron fragmentation functions, we fit the spin asymmetry recently extracted by HERMES for the semi-inclusive pion pair production in deep-inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized proton target. By evolving the obtained dihadron fragmentation functions, we make predictions for the correlation of the angular distributions of two pion pairs produced in electron-positron annihilations at BELLE kinematics. Our study shows that the combination of two-hadron inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and electron-positron annihilation measurements can provide a valid alternative to Collins effect for the extraction of the quark transversity distribution in the nucleon.
description: 11 pages, RevTeX style, 6 figures in eps format
title: Education professionals who home-educate – from maverick anomaly to bridge-building opportunity?
Creators: name: Pattison, Harriet D. A
Publisher: name: Norland
Year: 2023

description: In UK law, home education is a legal and equal alternative to mainstream schooling. It is increasingly popular, although it has a poor public image and politically has been associated with safeguarding issues, radicalisation and inadequate educational standards. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a substantial minority of home educators are themselves education professionals. This research evaluates the position of education professionals who home-educate (EPHEs), seeking to ascertain their capacity to act within social networks as conduits of understanding around home education. Interviews with four EPHEs were analysed, using both deductive and inductive coding, to explore the dual identities and positioning of EPHEs as both mainstream schooling professionals and minority home-education practitioners. In particular, analysis focuses on the social-capital potential inherent in these double-facing identities. Using social network theory, particularly the concepts of bonding and bridging, three main categories of this position are explored: identity, bridging potential, and community and political consciousness. Using the four participants as examples of a type, the paper concludes that EPHEs do have the potential capacity to build authentic relations of greater understanding and reciprocity between home educators and the wider public and political community and that this potential could be harnessed in productive and transformative ways that would enhance democracy and social justice in educational opportunities.
title: Gender quotas & positive action: An attack on meritocracy?
title: Structural incentives for gender balance in research organisations
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: SOLERA, Cristina
name: Cipriani, Nastassja
name: Holm Bodin, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: MINDtheGEPs

description: Taking steps to address gender imbalances is essential to ensure women's career progress and promote diverse and inclusive research environments. Positive action (sometimes referred to as positive discrimination or affirmative action) is widely acknowledged as a crucial tool for achieving this goal. However, resistance persists, and opinions diverge about which are the most effective and valid strategies. Do gender quotas or economic incentives challenge meritocracy? Can balancing the numbers really improve institutions and knowledge? 
This policy brief provides an overview of the multifaceted debate around positive action, the arguments for, arguments against, and pathways for implementation. The policy brief draws insight from the Gender Equality Plan development process of and interviews performed by MINDtheGEPs. It ends by presenting two case studies from Italian universities.
A coupled map lattice model for spontaneous pore formation in anodic oxidation
Creators: name: Sakaguchi, Hidetsugu
name: Zhao, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a coupled map lattice model for the spontaneous pore formation in anodic oxidation in two dimensions and perform numerical simulations, after we explain steady flat solutions, their linear stability and a single pore solution for a model of Parkhutik and Shershulsky.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
title: A profession in transition: childminding in Ireland
Creators: name: O'Regan, Miriam
Publisher: name: Norland
Year: 2023

description: Currently, childminding (family childcare/day care) in Ireland remains predominantly informal childcare, outside regulation, with little support and no formal competence requirements for the profession. However, the new National Action Plan for Childminding (2021–2028) lays out a pathway towards regulation, support and subsidies for all paid, non-relative childminders. This article draws on recent doctoral research, which outlines the practices and professionalism of paid childminders with a view to informing upcoming changes.
The research was conducted primarily within the framework of ecocultural theory. A pragmatic, mixed-method approach was adopted. Following an initial online survey (n = 325) and a world cafe forum (n = 40), semi-structured interviews (n = 17) were conducted using the Ecocultural Family Interview for Childminders.
Findings revealed two significant cultural models of practice and pedagogy: the Close Relationship model and the Real-Life Learning model. In addition, a distinctive understanding of professionalism and a shared professional code of practice were found among childminders.
In conclusion, childminders in the study rejected an imposed professionalism in favour of a consultative approach sensitive to the agency of self-employed childminders. In developing professional 21st-century childminding, Ireland must develop a regulatory system specific to Irish childminding.
Vergani, V. (2020). Nascita. Una fenomenologia dell'esistenza
Creators: name: Bisceglia, Aldo
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2021

description: L'ingombrante questione della mortalità e l'approccio tecnico-scientifico dei saperi positivi nei confronti del tema della nascita sono le questioni da cui prende avvio il recente libro di Mario Vergani, Nascita. Una fenomenologia dell'esistenza. Lungi dal voler rimuovere il tema della morte, l'autore, confrontandosi con la fenomenologia classica e contemporanea, si concentra sulle implicazioni teoriche e sulle trasformazioni di senso di un'esistenza pensata primariamente come natale e non come mortale. La rivoluzione copernicana delle filosofie della nascita risiede nell'aver posto al centro del discorso filosofico la nascita (senza escludere la morte) come la mia nascita, come quell'evento misterioso, sempre condiviso, che tuttavia riguarda solo me, e che non può essere osservato da nessun sapere naturalistico-biologicistico né socio-culturale. A questi saperi tecnici che nulla sanno dire di questo segreto che io sono, va preferita un'indagine filosofica, e più specificamente fenomenologico-esistenziale che sappia abitare il bordo dell'esistenza seguendo le sue invisibili tracce lasciate in tutte le dimensioni dell'esistenza umana: metafisica, etica, politica, affettiva, relazionale, storica.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 5 No 1 (2021): Emilio Betti: A Humanist between Law and Philosophy
High-excitation emission lines near eta Carinae, and its likely companion star
Creators: name: Mehner, Andrea
name: Davidson, Kris
name: Ferland, Gary J.
name: Humphreys, Roberta M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to study the distribution of gas and ionizing radiation around eta Car and their implications for its likely companion star, we have examined high-excitation emission lines of [Ne III], [Fe III], etc., in spectra obtained with the HST/STIS instrument during 1998-2004. Our principal results, some of them unexpected, are: (1) The high-excitation fluxes varied systematically and non-trivially throughout eta Car's 5.5-year spectroscopic cycle. Instead of rising to a plateau after the 1998 "event," they changed continuously with a maximum in mid-cycle. (2) At one significant location a brief, strong secondary maximum occurred just before the 2003.5 spectroscopic event. (3) These emission lines are strongly concentrated at the "Weigelt knots" several hundred AU northwest of the star. With less certainty, [Ne III] appears to be somewhat more concentrated than [Fe III]. (4) A faster, blue-shifted component of each feature appears concentrated near the star and elongated perpendicular to the system's bipolar axis. This structure may be related to the equatorial outflow and/or to dense material known to exist along our line of sight to the star. (5) Using the photoionization program Cloudy, we estimated the range of parameters for the hot secondary star that would give satisfactory high-excitation line ratios in the ejecta. Teff = 39000 K and L = 400000 Lsun, for example, would be satisfactory. The allowed region in parameter space is wider (and mostly less luminous) than some previous authors suggested.
Mura, G. (2021). Pensare la parola. Per una filosofia dell’incontro
Creators: name: Busacchi, Vinicio
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2021

description: Il libro di Gaspare Mura Pensare la parola. Per una filosofia dell’incontro esce in versione aggiornata e ampliata per tab edizioni (Roma) a vent’anni esatti dalla sua prima edizione. È libro importante che ha goduto di una felice serie di ristampe. Un libro importante, di autore importante: Gaspare Mura, noto e prolifico filosofo e teologo italiano, è professore emerito di filosofia presso la Pontificia Università Urbaniana; ha operato in diverse istituzioni vaticane ricoprendo, tra le altre cose, l’incarico di consultore del Pontificio consiglio della cultura (dal 1993 al 2015). La sua ricerca speculativa...
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 5 No 1 (2021): Emilio Betti: A Humanist between Law and Philosophy
Periodicity in Al/Ti superconducting single electron transistors
Creators: name: MacLeod, Sarah J.
name: Kafanov, Sergey
name: Pekola, Jukka P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experiments on single Cooper-pair transistors made of two different superconducting materials. We chose Ti and Al to create an energy gap profile such that the island has a higher gap than the leads, thereby acting as a barrier to quasiparticle tunneling. Our transport measurements demonstrate that quasiparticle poisoning is suppressed in all our TiAlTi structures (higher gap for the island) with clear 2e periodicity observed, whereas full quasiparticle poisoning is observed in all AlTiAl devices (higher gap for the leads) with e periodicity.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, 1 table Version 3: Replaced incorrect label on x-axis of Fig. 3 "Q_g/e --> Q_g/2e"
Towards mutually assured survival? : comparing nuclear and fossil fuel non-proliferation treaties and exploring the potential of 'righteous' norm-building
Creators: name: Luymes, Eden
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change, yet they remain un-named in the Paris Agreement - the current global climate treaty. Despite international cooperation to address climate change, studies find that state governments plan to increase fossil fuel production and extraction over the next decade. There have been many calls from academic and activist communities alike to address the supply and production of fossil fuels globally – rather than the demand or consumption, which the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC currently focus on. Building on these movements, the Fossil Fuel Non- Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT) Initiative has called for a treaty to end the production of fossil fuels. In calling for a “non-proliferation treaty” this Initiative draws a direct parallel between the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a fossil fuel treaty. This raises many questions about the bold comparison of fossil fuels to nuclear weapons, including the strengths and weaknesses of such a comparison. This paper draws on interviews with FFNPT founders and proponents, as well as the Initiative’s publications, to identify the strategies and limitations of this movement. I identify the Initiative’s key strategies, including rhetorically reframing fossil fuels as an existential threat, building a first-movers club of states, and unifying subnational pressures to end fossil fuel expansion. Moreover, I emphasize the barriers to their approach: realist power-dynamics, the difficulty to secure the interest of great fossil fuel powers, and neoliberal hegemony in international relations. Finally, I turn to cosmopolitan and constructivist theory, and argue that the Initiative is not merely building a treaty – they are seeking to build robust anti-fossil fuel norms based on climate justice appeals in a process I identify and coin as ‘righteous norm-building.’ Drawing on the work of Adam Bower (2017), I explore how this norm-building strategy can bear on great fossil fuels powers that are external to a binding treaty. Additionally, drawing on the work of Lea Ypi (2012), I highlight how this approach builds on and unifies subnational and grassroots climate movements to pressure powerful states from within. Righteous norm-building, though challenging, can help overcome the realist barriers and power-dynamics the Initiative faces.
GIC Valuation
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: GIC Valuation

description: Guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) is a financial instrument that offers a return based on a corresponding GIC rate and the performance of a basket of certain stock and bond market indices. To determine the rate of return, the percentage change in each index level from the initial level is calculated. Here the initial level is set two days after purchase, while the final level is set to the arithmetic average of the last 11 month-ending index levels and the level one day prior to maturity.
description: https://osf.io/9rpb3/wiki/home/
Central exclusive production at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Albrow, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In CDF we have observed several exclusive processes: 2-photon --> e+e- and --> mu+mu-, photon+pomeron --> J/psi and psi(2S), and pomeron+pomeron --> chi_c. The cross sections agree with QED, HERA photoproduction data, and theoretical estimates of gg --> chi_c with another gluon exchanged to screen the color. This observation of exclusive chi_c, together with earlier observations of exclusive dijets and exclusive 2-photon candidates, support some theoretical predictions for p+p --> p+H+p at the LHC. Exclusive dileptons offer the best means of precisely calibrating forward proton spectrometers.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, talk at DIFF 2008 and ISMD08
title: “Relationships are what matter most to infants and young children” – an interview with Dr Penelope Leach
Creators: name: Luff, Paulette
Publisher: name: Norland
Year: 2023

description: Penelope Leach, PhD, CBE, child psychologist, is a very well-known name, especially for the generation of parents who raised their children in the 1980s and 1990s with reference to her books: Babyhood (Leach, 1974), an account of child development accessible to the non-specialist, and Your Baby and Child (Leach, 1977; 1988; 1997), a book of common-sense childcare advice based on insights from child development, now in a new edition (Leach, 2022).
Dr Penelope Leach has long been an important advocate for the wellbeing of young children, upholding children’s rights in many different roles and campaigns, including as Chair of the Child Development Society, 1994–95; Vice-President of the Health Visitors’ Association, 1988–99; and a founding member of the Association for Infant Mental Health UK, from 1998.
Meaning and Spirit in Betti’s Hermeneutics
Creators: name: Oliva, Mirela
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2021

description: Betti’s account of meaning is spiritual. Betti follows in Hegel’s footsteps and explores the objectivations of the spirit, which he calls representative forms. The interpretation of these forms must capture their meaning from inside and refrain from attributing them an extraneous meaning. Betti invokes, in this sense, the classic hermeneutic canon Sensus non est inferendus, sed efferendus. Interpretation is however not a mere transmission of content from the text to the interpreter but a spiritual union between the interpreter and the objectivation of the spirit. This spiritual nature of meaning makes up the originality of Betti.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 5 No 1 (2021): Emilio Betti: A Humanist between Law and Philosophy
A Signature of Cosmic Strings Wakes in the CMB Polarization
Creators: name: Danos, Rebecca J.
name: Brandenberger, Robert H.
name: Holder, Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate a signature of cosmic strings in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We find that ionization in the wakes behind moving strings gives rise to extra polarization in a set of rectangular patches in the sky whose length distribution is scale-invariant. The length of an individual patch is set by the co-moving Hubble radius at the time the string is perturbing the CMB. The polarization signal is largest for string wakes produced at the earliest post-recombination time, and for an alignment in which the photons cross the wake close to the time the wake is created. The maximal amplitude of the polarization relative to the temperature quadrupole is set by the overdensity of free electrons inside a wake which depends on the ionization fraction $f$ inside the wake. The signal can be as high as $0.06 {\rm μK}$ in degree scale polarization for a string at high redshift (near recombination) and a string tension $μ$ given by $G μ= 10^{-7}$.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
BO'LAJAK MUTAXASSISLARNI TAYYORLASHDA REPETITORLIK TIZIMINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISHNING PEDAGOGIK SHARTLARI
Creators: name: Nuruxammadova Farangizxon Saidburxon qizi Nurmatova Firdavsxon Rustamjon qizi Mehmonaliyeva Mufazzalxon Ibrohimjon qizi Maktabgacha va boshlang'ich ta'lim o'quvchilari
name: Qo'qon davlat pedagogika instituti boshlang'ich ta'lim fakulteti Fakultetlararo pedagogika va psixologiya kafedrasi o'qituvchisi Nurmatova Madina Odiljonning qizi.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Maqolada tarbiyachining o'quvchilar hayotidagi o'rni, ularning ilmiy munozaralarda ishtirok etishi, o'quvchilarning barcha fanlar bo'yicha bilimlar tizimini o'zlashtirishi, o'quvchining intellektual yetukligi, ta'lim-tarbiyaning inson ongini boyitishi, o'qituvchilarning ishtiroki haqida so'z boradi. turli intellektual faoliyat bilan sinfda talabalar.
Tayanch iboralar: 
Ustoz, talaba yoshlar, intellektual tarbiya, aqliy yetuklik, donolik, tarbiya, kuzatish, izlanish.
ҲУҚУҚБУЗАРЛИКЛАР ПРОФИЛАКТИКАСИНИНГ ЎЗИГА ХОС ХУСУСИЯТЛАРИ
Creators: name: Закирова, Адина
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Мақолада ҳуқуқбузарликлар профилактикасининг мазмун моҳияти, ҳуқуқий асосларида белгиланган вазифаларнинг аҳамиятли томонлари ҳамда республикамизда олиб борилаётган ҳуқуқбузарликлар профилактикасининг  муҳим жиҳатлари борасида фикр юритилган.
RECONMATIC E-Newsletter #2
Creators: name: RECONMATIC Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In our second issue for 2022, you will find the project’s online dissemination kit and some very interesting articles on key concepts and definitions for Waste Management in the Construction Industry and the RECONMATIC’s #WASTEie dataset for standardising construction and demolition (C&D) waste information exchange. You will also find a blog article informing on the current landscape and future plan of China in (C&D) waste management, as more than ten Chinese partners are represented in the RECONMATIC project by the China Association of Circular Economy. Last but not least, you will learn more about the project and the sector by exploring our report on the sector events where our partners have participated in.
Additional file 6 of Systematic and benchmarking studies of pipelines for mammal WGBS data in the novel NGS platform
Creators: name: Lin, Qun-ting
name: Yang, Wei
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Qi-gang
name: Liu, Yong-feng
name: Yan, Qin
name: Sun, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Fig S6. The shortcoming for datasets. a The percentile of T base in reads. b The ratio of reads with different CG percentages. c The distritbution of depth according to chromosomes in four samples and two platforms. d The relationship betweent GC percentage and different depth reads. e The overlap CpG sites between two platforms in different filter parameters.
Long Distance Correlations in Molecular Orientations of Liquid Water and Shape Dependant Hydrophobic Force
Creators: name: Kanth, J. M. Pradeep
name: Vemparala, Satyavani
name: Anishetty, Ramesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Liquid water, at ambient conditions, has short-range density correlations which are well known in literature. Surprisingly, large scale molecular dynamics simulations reveal an unusually long-distance correlation in `longitudinal' part of dipole-dipole orientational correlations. It is non-vanishing even at 75 Å and falls-off exponentially with a correlation length of about 24 Å beyond solvation region. Numerical evidence suggests that the long range nature of dipole-dipole correlation is due to underlying fluctuating network of hydrogen-bonds in the liquid phase. This correlation is shown to give a shape dependant attraction between two hydrophobic surfaces at large distances of separation and the range of this attractive force is in agreement with experiments. In addition it is seen that quadrupolar fluctuations vanish within the first solvation peak (3 Å)
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Ancient stars beyond the Local Group: RR Lyrae variables and Blue Horizontal Branch stars in Sculptor Group Dwarf Galaxies
Creators: name: Da Costa, G. S.
name: Rejkuba, M.
name: Jerjen, H.
name: Grebel, E. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used Hubble Space Telescope ACS images to generate color-magnitude diagrams that reach below the magnitude of the horizontal branch in the Sculptor Group dwarf galaxies ESO294-010 and ESO410-005. In both diagrams blue horizontal branch stars are unambiguously present, a signature of the existence of an ancient stellar population whose age is comparable to that of the Galactic halo globular clusters. The result is reinforced by the discovery of numerous RR Lyrae variables in both galaxies. The occurrence of these stars in the first direct confirmation of the existence of ancient stellar populations beyond the Local Group and indicates that star formation can occur at the earliest epochs even in low density environments.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters