cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Agilität, Praxisbezug und Teamarbeit im Softwareentwicklungsprojekt der Ingenieurinformatik
Creators: name: Neumann, Frank
name: Kratsch, Christina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ingenieurinformatik
subject: Projektmodul
subject: Lehrkonzept
subject: Praxisbezug
subject: Teamarbeit
subject: Agiles Projektmanagement
subject: Scrum

description: Projektmodule haben sich in Informatik-Studiengängen als eine Lehrform etabliert, mit der Studierenden die Gelegenheit gegeben wird, Lösungen für Aufgabenstellungen mit hohem Praxisbezug im Team zu konzipieren und zu implementieren. Hierbei werden die in anderen Modulen erworbenen Fachkenntnisse aktiviert und zur Anwendung gebracht. Für das Softwareentwicklungsprojekt im 4. Fachsemester des Studiengangs Ingenieurinformatik der HTW Berlin wird ein Konzept entwickelt, mit dem wichtige Anforderungen und Trends der heutigen Arbeitswelt adressiert werden sollen. Dazu gehören neben der Teamarbeit auch die Anwendung von agilen Methoden sowie ein für die HAWs typischer starker Praxisbezug. Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Artikels wird der für die Umsetzung dieses Lehrkonzepts notwendige organisatorischen Rahmen sowie dessen iterative Weiterentwicklung beschrieben. Für eine abschließende Bewertung des Projektmoduls werden die Evaluierungsergebnisse der in das Modul involvierten Studierenden in Hinblick von Kriterien wie Praxisbezug, Teamarbeit und Projektmanagementfähigkeiten ausgewertet.
The Recovery Divide: Poverty and the Widening Gap Among Mississippi Children and Families Affected by Hurricane Katrina
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Garfield, Richard M.
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Disaster victims
Disasters--Social aspects
Child disaster victims
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: Six months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, a Columbia-led research team conducted a random household survey of people who had been displaced by the disaster in Louisiana. Mental health disability and psychological strain were rampant, people’s lives were chaotic, and their futures were uncertain. The children who had been displaced were often socially and medically adrift – many of them were disengaged from schools, without medical homes, and living among very fragile families1. One year after the hurricane, we replicated the study among residents of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast who had been heavily impacted or displaced by the hurricane. Based on interviews conducted with randomly sampled residents, it appears that the situation remains dire or is worsening for a number of people. Furthermore, there is evidence of an economic determinism at work, in that those who had been struggling to maintain their financial footing at the time of the hurricane – particularly the working class and the working poor – have been forced back down the socioeconomic ladder towards impoverishment and dependency.
The first wave of research on populations affected by Katrina reflected the impact of the initial response – consequences of evacuation, displacement, and massive economic and social loss2. One year out from the hurricane, circumstances are driven by the opportunities for long-term recovery, or by the boundaries of how far people can recover. Recovery has become a test of resilience – who will bounce back, both in terms of people and in terms of geography? The premise of much recovery policy is to invest in geographically-based recovery – the bricks and mortar of critical infrastructure, housing, and markets – with the notion that once a place has recovered, the population’s recovery will follow as well. Findings from the Mississippi Child & Family Health (M-CAFH) study suggest that the population recovery – particularly among the most economically and socially vulnerable – may be lagging significantly behind that of other infrastructure recovery.
title: Global Demand and Supply Sentiment: Evidence from Earnings Calls
Creators: name: Taskin, Temel
name: Ruch, Franz Ulrich
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: This paper quantifies global demand, supply and uncertainty shocks and compares two major global recessions: the 2008–09 Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. We use two alternate approaches to decompose economic shocks: text mining techniques on earnings calls transcripts and a structural Bayesian vector autoregression model. The results highlight sharp contrast in the size of supply and demand shocks over time and across sectors. While the Great Recession was characterized by demand shocks, COVID-19 caused sizable disruptions to both demand and supply. These shocks were broad-based with varying relative importance across major sectors. Furthermore, certain sub-sectors, such as professional and business services, internet retail, and grocery/department stores, fared better than others during the pandemic.
description: Dans cette étude, les auteurs quantifient les chocs de demande, d’offre et d’incertitude à l’échelle mondiale, et ils comparent deux grandes récessions mondiales : la Grande Récession de 2008-2009 et la pandémie de COVID-19. Ils utilisent deux méthodes pour analyser ces chocs économiques, soit 1) des techniques de traitement automatique du langage naturel appliquées à des transcriptions de présentations des résultats financiers et 2) un modèle vectoriel autorégressif structurel avec estimation bayésienne. Les résultats révèlent des contrastes marqués dans l’ampleur des chocs d’offre et de demande au fil du temps et selon les secteurs. Tandis que la Grande Récession s’est caractérisée par des chocs de demande, la pandémie de COVID-19 a engendré des perturbations considérables à la fois de la demande et de l’offre. Ces chocs ont été généralisés et d’importance variable selon les grands secteurs économiques. En outre, certains sous-secteurs se sont mieux tirés d’affaire que d’autres durant la pandémie, comme ceux des services professionnels et aux entreprises, de la vente au détail sur Internet, ou encore les épiceries et les grands magasins.
title: Austro-Hungarian Enemy Aliens (USA)
title: Austro-Hungarian Enemy Aliens (USA)
Creators: name: Phelps, Nicole M.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: USA
subject: Österreicher
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--United States
subject: Aliens--United States

description: Austrian and Hungarian citizens working in war-related industries were exempt from many restrictions on enemy aliens, but many labor leaders and intellectuals were arrested and interned, often without evidence of wrongdoing. All enemy aliens were subject to xenophobic harassment, which often resulted in violence.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Unanticipated Consequences of Pandemic Flu: Transportation Related Issues: A Preliminary Literature Review
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Fuller, Elizabeth J.
name: Wong, Melissa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Emergency management
Emergency management--Planning
Schools--Safety measures
Epidemics

description: Broadly speaking, plans for the containment and treatment of pandemic flu lead to a set of circumscribed outcomes, which include process outcomes (e.g., numbers of individuals vaccinated, numbers of health care workers vaccinated, numbers of intensive care beds opened up) as well as health outcomes (e.g., flu-related morbidity and mortality, transmission rates, and attack rates). Less well-known or researched are other health outcomes, such as excess morbidity and mortality from untreated or undertreated illness and injury distinct from influenza, and social outcomes related to such issues as increased crowding, health system congestion, increasing scarcity of resources (including monetary resources), major population shifts, and degradation of various workforces (health care, urban infrastructure such as police and sanitation, critical infrastructure, etc.) with their consequent effects.
title: Harnessing Conversational AI in Higher Education: The Education Buddy - An Innovative Intervention for International Students Facing Study Difficulties
Creators: name: Hänel, Martin
name: Söllner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Education Buddy
subject: Conversational Agent
subject: Digital Learning
subject: Coach
subject: Integration

description: As Germany anticipates a demographic shift necessitating reliance on foreign professionals, the integration of international students becomes critical. Despite being a preferred non-English speaking study destination, the country's academic environment – encompassing course materials, lectures, and organizational aspects – is predominantly German. This poses a significant language barrier for the 440,000 foreign students currently studying in Germany, potentially impeding their academic success and future professional integration. To mitigate this, we introduce the Education Buddy, a Conversational Agent (CA) designed to assist international students in navigating their studies. The Education Buddy emerges as a potentially effective tool for facilitating the successful participation of international students within the German academic system.
title: Historiography 1918-Today: Bulgaria (South East Europe)
title: Historiography 1918-Today: Bulgaria (South East Europe)
Creators: name: Minkov, Stefan Marinov
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Bulgarien
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Bulgaria

description: The Bulgarian historiography of World War One can be divided into three periods: a period between the two world wars, a period of ideological interpretation (1944-1989, though a tendency toward objective research and new areas of study was already visible during the 1970s) and a period of new approaches (after 1989). Overall, Bulgarian researchers have dealt with a limited set of questions concerned with Bulgaria’s role in World War One. This gives rise to opportunities for further research and inquiry into considerable quantities of unprocessed documents.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Stravinsky, Igor
title: Stravinsky, Igor
Creators: name: Fladt, Hartmut
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Stravinsky, Igor
subject: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

description: Having gained success throughout Europe with his compositions for the ''Ballets Russes'' (centered in Paris), Russian-born Igor Stravinsky took refuge from World War I in Switzerland from 1914 to 1920. Here, adjusting to the constrained circumstances, he began to write scores for reduced instrumentation. The ensuing aesthetics of condensed radicalism culminated in'' L’Histoire du soldat'' (1918) – a quite up-to-date fairy-tale play.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Influenza Pandemic (Africa)
title: Influenza Pandemic (Africa)
Creators: name: Phillips, Howard
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Afrika
subject: Spanische Grippe
subject: Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919

description: This article provides the first continent-wide overview of the catastrophic, worldwide “Spanish” influenza pandemic in Africa. It focuses on the virus’ arrival, the countermeasures that vainly tried to stem it, its lethal and paralyzing impact on town and country, and the immediate and longer-term consequences that flowed from its ravages. The article also addresses the questions of why the pandemic was so severe south of the Sahara and how it was linked to World War I.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Garfield, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Health services accessibility
Disaster victims
Disaster victims--Mental health
Child disaster victims
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Hurricane Rita (2005)

description: The individuals and families who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and who have ended up in FEMA-subsidized community housing in Louisiana are facing a second crisis, one in which untreated and undertreated chronic medical problems and incipient mental health issues will overwhelm patients and providers. Among the displaced, children may be particularly vulnerable. In New Orleans alone, approximately 110,000 children under age eighteen — 85% of the pre-Katrina pediatric population — have not returned to the city since the hurricanes. These children, and others from outside of New Orleans, have been scattered throughout the Gulf Coast and across the fifty states. Louisiana's school enrollment dropped by 70,000 students, many of whom have resettled in other states, some who have not yet returned to school in Louisiana. The Louisiana Child & Family Health Study focused on the displaced population living in FEMA-subsidized housing in Louisiana, and who may be among the most needy. According to interviews with adults in 665 randomly selected households at trailer communities and hotels throughout the state, this displaced group of children and families suffers from a constellation of serious medical and mental health problems. Parents report high rates of asthma, behavioral problems, and learning disabilities among their children. Despite that, access to continuous medical care, appropriate mental health care, medications, specialized medical equipment, and specialty medical care, is either fragmented at best, or absent altogether. The medical and mental health needs documented in this report may be regarded as the consequence of inadequately treated chronic diseases, psychological and emotional traumas secondary to the chaos and despair of a massive dislocation, and the social deprivations of the chronically-poor and the newly-impoverished. At a deeper level, though, the problems relate to the loss of stability in people's lives: families that are increasingly fragile, children who are disengaged from schools, and the wholesale loss of community, workplace, and health care providers and institutions.
Quantised orbital angular momentum transfer and magnetic dichroism in the interaction of electron vortices with matter
Creators: name: Lloyd, Sophia
name: Babiker, Mohamed
name: Yuan, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the very recent experimental realisation of electron vortices, we consider their interaction with matter, in particular the transfer of orbital angular momentum in the context of electron energy loss spectroscopy, and the recently observed dichroism in thin film magnetised iron samples. We show here that orbital angular momentum exchange does indeed occur between electron vortices and the internal electronic-type motion, as well as center of mass motion of atoms in the electric dipole approximation. This contrasts with the case of optical vortices where such transfer only occurs in transitions involving multipoles higher than the dipole. The physical basis of the observed dichroism is explained.
title: RSF-Lab’23: Konzepte und Anwendungen zur resilienten digitalen Landwirtschaft
Creators: name: Kuntke, Franz
name: Eberz-Eder, Daniel
name: Trapp, Matthias
name: Reuter, Christian
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Resilienz
subject: Edge Computing
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Smart Farming
subject: RSF

description: Neben positiven Aspekten wie der Produktivitätssteigerung bringt die Digitalisierung auch neue Gefahren mit sich. Entsprechend muss der Prozess gerade in Bereichen von gesellschaftlich enormer Bedeutung kritisch begleitet werden, um eine fundierte Entscheidung bei Auswahl und Entwicklung neuer Technologien zu treffen. Die Vision ist hierbei ein resilientes Smart Farming (RSF), bei dem die Fortschritte der Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft genutzt werden, ohne dabei die Ausfallsicherheit der landwirtschaftlichen Primärproduktion und somit die Lebensmittelversorgung der Verbraucher zu gefährden. Dieser Workshop konzentriert sich auf die Bewältigung dieser Forschungsherausforderungen und liefert Beiträge zu verschiedenen Themenbereichen. Dazu gehören (1) ein Hofbox-Ansatz basierend auf etablierten Open-Source Werkzeugen, (2) ein mobiles Assistenzsystem für den Transport von künstlichen Besamungsportionen, (3) die historische Perspektive auf kritische Infrastrukturen in der Region Rhein/Main, und (4) eine Messenger-Applikation zur Notfallkommunikation mittels LoRaWAN- basierten IoT-Setups.
title: Technology Readiness Levels of Reinforcement Learning methods for simulation-based production scheduling
Creators: name: Seipolt, Arne
name: Buschermöhle, Ralf
name: Höfinghoff, Maximilian
name: Korn, Goy-Hinrich
name: Schumacher, Marcel
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Technology Readiness
subject: Reinforcement Learning
subject: Simulation
subject: Production Scheduling

description: Digital Twins (DT) are nowadays widely used and provide a benefit for the companies using it. One service of the DT is the simulation of a production process. This enables an optimization of the production process by simulation optimization, for example with Reinforcement Learning (RL). To support researchers and practitioners in deciding which algorithm is suitable for an implementation under real-life conditions, a literature research is performed, and a Machine Learning Technology Readiness Level is assigned to the different RL-Algorithms. It can be shown that recent research focuses mainly on model free value based and evolutionary algorithms, and both are suitable for an implementation in a real-world scenario. Both algorithms can outperform widely applied dispatching rules. Nevertheless, it should be evaluated why other algorithms are not in the focus of recent research and how the algorithms perform in comparison to each other.
title: On the Use of Process Containers for Running Vulnerable Programs more Securely
Creators: name: Siebel, Nils T.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: process containers
subject: OS kernel namespaces
subject: security
subject: hardening

description: This article explains how a running program can be fortified against hacker attacks by encapsulating it in a process container. The methodological focus here is on namespaces which reduce or inhibit file system, networking and other activities of a process. This helps to limit potential changes or damage to the file system should the process be under the control of an attacker due to a security flaw. In the second, practical part of this article is a case study compares the firejail and bwrap tools that help to configure this namespace functionality on Linux systems. Details are given on how certain major programs like Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice and the popular PDF viewer Evince can be run more safely and at the same time without practical restrictions.
title: The Netherlands
title: The Netherlands
Creators: name: Kruizinga, Samuël
name: Moeyes, Paul
name: Klinkert, Wim
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Niederlande
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Netherlands

description: The Netherlands remained neutral during the First World War, but was nevertheless significantly affected by it. Its army remained fully mobilized to counter any possible threat, and its economy felt the strain of both belligerents’ attempts to control the world’s sea lanes and supplies. Neutrality also created its own unique problems, as the Dutch government had to care for thousands of refugees, detain soldiers who had entered her territory, and attempted to censor a partisan press. In 1917-1918, the government proved unable to deal with the manifold problems created by the next-door war and neutrality, sparking widespread unrest.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Diversity and equity considerations in academic integrity
Creators: name: Adams, Jennifer D.
name: Turner, Kristal Louise
name: Eaton, Sarah Elaine
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2021
Subjects: academic integrity
academic misconduct
STEM
equity
diversity

description: Academic integrity has been a long-standing issue in postsecondary education that has been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid move to virtual learning. While there is research on academic integrity and related administrative policies, one area that has not been thoroughly explored is the relationship between diversity and equity and academic integrity—in other words, which students are most likely to be reported and receive harsher penalties. In this presentation, we will discuss existing research on diversity and equity and academic integrity. We will also facilitate a discussion aimed at articulating academic integrity considerations and generating working frameworks for proactive and equitable approaches to student learning and success for in participants’ own contexts.
5G-IANA - D5.2 Validation methodology
Creators: name: Schmitting, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: [Deliverable pending final approval by the EC]. D5.2 ‘Validation methodology’ of the 5G-IANA project has been developed by task T5.1 ‘Validation methodology and plan’. The main objective of the deliverable is to provide a common validation methodology and technique that may be used not only within the Use Case (UC) deployments of the 5G-IANA project partners but also by third party experimenters wanting to use the 5G-IANA platform for experimentation purposes.
title: Von der Theorie zur Praxis: Erfahrungen bei der akademischen Begleitung vonKI-ProjekteninKMUs
Creators: name: Bäumer, Frederik S.
name: Brandt-Pook, Hans
name: Maoro, Falk
name: Schultenkämper, Sergej
name: Stecker, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Theorie-Praxis-Transfer

description: Die Integration von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Unternehmen wird zunehmend wichtiger, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir unsere akademischen Erfahrungen bei der Begleitung von KI-Projekten in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen (KMUs) vor. Wir präsentieren mehrere Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Branchen, in denen wir beratend tätig waren. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine strukturierte Umsetzung von KI-Projekten dazu beitragen kann, die Herausforderungen zu meistern. Der Theorie-Praxis-Transfer zielt darauf ab, Eintrittsbarrieren in das Themenfeld KI abzubauen und Ängste in den KMUs zu nehmen.
Mississippi Child and Family Health Study — Toplines
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Garfield, Richard M.
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Disaster victims
Child disaster victims
Disaster victims--Services for
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: During the period of August 6 through August 26, 2006, the Columbia-led Mississippi Child & Family Health Study conducted an assessment among Mississippi residents displaced or heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The purpose of the study was to gather information that could inform local, state, and federal policymakers about the health and social service needs of displaced and impacted populations living in transitional community-based settings, such as trailer parks, and in community settings that had been heavily damaged or destroyed by the hurricane. Using FEMA damage assessment maps, the team randomly sampled 150 census blocks across the three most heavily impacted counties along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Each of the census blocks contained between 1 - 80 housing units, with an average of 8 - 10 housing units. An advance team visited each of the census blocks and drew maps of all the housing "footprints," whether existing housing structures, or as in many cases, concrete slabs where houses had previously existed. The field team interviewed residents of 243 households in these community settings. Additionally, based on lists of trailer parks provided by FEMA, thirteen trailer parks were randomly selected, stratified by size and whether they were FEMA-developed parks or pre-existing commercial parks. The field team interviewed 333 residents in the selected parks. The respondents reported on their health status and health care needs, described their children's physical and mental health needs, and talked about the resources available to them as well as their plans for the future. The 576 households sampled are representative of approximately 14,000 households in the heavily impacted areas, encompassing over 37,000 individuals. The margin of error for most of the reported rates is + 4 points. Among households with children present, one child was randomly selected using a Kish sampling technique, and the adult respondent was asked about the child's health. Results reporting child-level data have been weighted proportional to the number of children in the household.
Simulating protostellar evolution and radiative feedback in the cluster environment
Creators: name: Klassen, Mikhail
name: Pudritz, Ralph E.
name: Peters, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiative feedback is among the most important consequences of clustered star formation inside molecular clouds. At the onset of star formation, radiation from massive stars heats the surrounding gas, which suppresses the formation of many low-mass stars. When simulating pre-main-sequence stars, their stellar properties must be defined by a prestellar model. Different approaches to prestellar modeling may yield quantitatively different results. In this paper, we compare two existing prestellar models under identical initial conditions to gauge whether the choice of model has any significant effects on the final population of stars. The first model treats stellar radii and luminosities with a ZAMS model, while separately estimating the accretion luminosity by interpolating to published prestellar tracks. The second, more accurate prestellar model self-consistently evolves the radius and luminosity of each star under highly variable accretion conditions. Each is coupled to a raytracing-based radiative feedback code that also treats ionization. The impact of the self-consistent model is less ionizing radiation and less heating during the early stages of star formation. This may affect final mass distributions. We noted a peak stellar mass reduced by 8% from 47.3 Msun to 43.5 Msun in the evolutionary model, relative to the track-fit model. Also, the difference in mass between the two largest stars in each case is reduced from 14 Msun to 7.5 Msun. The HII regions produced by these massive stars were also seen to flicker on timescales down to the limit imposed by our timestep (< 560 years), rapidly changing in size and shape, confirming previous cluster simulations using ZAMS-based estimates for prestellar ionizing flux.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
5G-IANA - D7.5 Communication tools V2
Creators: name: García, Andrea Suárez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: [Deliverable pending final approval by the EC]. This deliverable, D7.5 - Communication tools V2, is an updated version of D7.4 - Communication tools, issued in M9, and analyses the performance and impact achieved by the communication tools, channels, and materials defined in D7.4.
Marianne Williamson's New Era Education Agenda in a Highly Charged Political World
Creators: name: Fisher, Robert M.
Publisher: name: In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute : Calgary, AB.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Marianne Williamson, John Dewey, Randall Auxier, Ken Wilber, education, futures, new era education, New Age, pedagogy

description: Marianne Williamson has long been on an educational and political path to heal and transform the legacy of predatory capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism and other forms of oppression. Her running for the leader of the Democratic National Party in 2020, and stepping up as a woman leader to be a potential President of the United States in a highly charged polarizing political climate has made her an international figure to be taken seriously. In particular, from all of her political policies presented, and her earlier publishing, this paper looks at her transformative vision, thinking and actions as a nascent but substantial educational philosophy for the 21st century—which, the author calls Williamson’s “new era education.” Several examples of her promotion of new “educations” for a dangerous world are presented as a scaffolding to future research and development of a Williamsonian (like a Deweyian) Education for children and adults.
At the Crossroads of Contested Representations : The 'Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf' in Pakistan's Politics
Creators: name: Ali, Bizaa Zeynab
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: South Asians
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Pakistan is currently faced with virulent socio-religious polarization that ultimately manifests itself across the political spectrum. The 'radical' right-wing religious forces are vehemently competing with so called 'liberal' elements for decisive representation. These two contested positions do not seem to reflect the aspirations of the majority of ordinary people of Pakistan, who do not support religious fundamentalism or espouse overly secular, liberal values but have not found a 'definitive voice' or a 'representative space' in the political or public sphere. In this context it is particularly interesting to study the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI), one of the 'emerging' political parties in Pakistan which reflects such mainstream concerns. Significantly a prominent feature on its agenda is the aim to 'bridge the polarized divide' in the Pakistani society. The PTI describes itself as a Centrist party with no professed affiliations with the religious right-wing or the liberal groups in Pakistan. At times the PTI agenda overlaps with one group or the other, but since it does not wholly endorse the positions of either camps it is looked down upon by both the liberal elite and the right-wing groups. This is a dilemma that the PTI faces when it seeks representation in the public sphere, which is dominated by these two factions. This paper seeks to study the PTI's current place in the religiously polarized sphere of Pakistan politics and how it navigates its way through the current political scene.
Field and experimental constraints on the deformation and breakup of injected magma
Creators: name: Hodge, Kirsten FitzGerald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Understanding the growth and differentiation of silicic magma chambers is a central issue in volcanology. Specifically, the injection, deformation and breakup of new pulses of magma can influence how the chamber evolves thermally and chemically, as well as the potential for eruption. Magmatic structures (e.g. enclaves, ladder dikes, and schlieren) preserved in plutonic and volcanic rocks record information about the physical processes that occur within the chamber prior to solidification. A key outstanding issue is how to use magmatic structures to extract information about magma rheology and host chamber dynamics within the chamber and during magma ascent--processes that are inherently inaccessible to direct observation. This thesis is an attempt to elucidate the fundamental physics that governs the breakup of an injected magma into a preexisting chamber. One major obstacle for the popular model that mafic inputs trigger big eruptions (Pallister et al., 1992, Murphy et al., 1998) and govern the long-term growth of silicic chambers is the way the new magma is injected. In particular, the scale length at which thermal and compositional heterogeneity is introduced controls how efficiently heat is transferred and the extent to which chamber convection causes mixing. This thesis provides a new understanding of how injections breakup to such small sizes, which can lead to a greater efficiency for mixing and remobilization of an otherwise immobile magma. I use field and experimental studies to investigate specific magmatic features preserved in plutonic and volcanic rocks that can be used to constrain the magma rheology within the chamber at the time of deformation. First, I use experiments and scaling theory to investigate the mechanical and rheological conditions leading to the deformation and breakup of analog crystal-rich dikes. Second, I use field observations of ``ladder dikes'' from the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, together with experiments and scaling theory to demonstrate that prior to solidification, these features are deformed and broken by shearing motions in the magma chamber. And third, using experimental results along with thermodynamic and modeling constraints on key physical properties of the injected and host magmas, I use size distributions of enclaves preserved in lava flows to characterize the flow regime governing enclave formation.
title: Duma
title: Duma
Creators: name: Peeling, Siobhan
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Russland / Duma
subject: Russia. Gosudarstvennia Duma

description: The Tsar reluctantly granted an elected legislative assembly, the State Duma, during the 1905 Russian Revolution. The first two Dumas were dissolved amidst bitter conflict and the third did little to resolve Russia’s pressing social and economic issues. The wartime Duma shifted from patriotic support to opposition to the Tsar’s government.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Dual Enrollment Programs: Easing Transitions from High School to College
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Hughes, Katherine Lee
name: Karp, Melinda Jane Mechur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Education and state
School management and organization
Educational leadership

description: Research demonstrates clear economic benefits for students who continue education beyond high school (NCES, 2001). Yet the transition from high school to college is an unsuccessful one for many. Of those high school graduates who entered postsecondary education for the first time in the 1995-1996 school year, 37 percent had left two years later without having earned a degree or certificate. This slippage results from a variety of causes. Some students are unsure how to apply for college or how to pay for it; some are academically unprepared for higher education; some face a frustrating task of balancing school and work. As postsecondary education becomes increasingly necessary to gain access to most reasonably well-paid jobs, the sharp division between high schools and colleges becomes more problematic.
Magnetoelektrische 3-3-Komposite durch Zonenschmelzen von Co1-xNixFe2O4/Ba1-xSrxTiO3-Eutektika : [kumulative Dissertation]
Creators: name: Breitenbach, Martin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Eutektische Komposite aus ferrimagnetischen Co1-xNixFe2O4 und ferroelektrischen Ba1-xSrxTiO3 wurden erfolgreich mittels optischem Zonenschmelzverfahren hergestellt. Der Einfluss von Atmosphäre und Wachstumsgeschwindigkeit während des Prozesses, sowie die Auswirkung der Sr-Substitution in Ba1-xSrxTiO3 und der Ni-Substitution in Co1-xNixFe2O4 wurden untersucht. REM- und HR-STEM-Bilder offenbarten eine Vielzahl verschiedener geometrischer Strukturen, welche zusätzlich via EDX Line Scan analysiert wurden. Diese Bilder zeigen rissfreie Phasengrenzen hoher Qualität mit wenig Poren zwischen den Komponenten, was mit einer hohen Dichte einhergeht. Magnetoelektrische (ME) Messungen bestätigen eine magnetoelektrische Kopplung zwischen den beiden Phasen mit einem maximalen Koeffizienten von αME = 1.3 mV Oe-1 cm-1, in Abhängigkeit von Prozessparametern wie Wachstumsgeschwindigkeit und Atmosphäre, Sr- beziehungsweise Ni-Substitution und der eingestellten Messparameter.
description: Eutectic composites containing ferromagnetic Co1-xNixFe2O4 and ferroelectric Ba1-xSrxTiO3 were grown successfully by floating zone technique. The influence of growth rate and atmosphere during the floating zone process as well as the influence of Sr-substitution in Ba1-xSrxTiO3 and Ni-substitution in Co1-xNixFe2O4 were investigated. SEM and HR-STEM images revealed a variety of geometric structures which have been investigated further by EDX line scans. Those micrographs also show crack free interfaces of high quality between both components with very low porosities which corresponds with a high density. Magnetoelectric (ME) measurements confirmed a magnetoelectric coupling between both phases showing a ME hysteresis and maximum αME of 1.3 mV Oe-1 cm-1, depending on growth rate and atmosphere during the floating zone process, Sr and Ni-substitution of the compounds and measurement parameters.
The Value of Student Right-to-Know Data in Assessing Community College Performance
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Crosta, Peter Michael
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Traditionally, community colleges were judged on their number of enrollments and their ability to provide postsecondary education to a wide variety of students. Recently, however, state and federal policymakers have become increasingly concerned with student outcomes, and some states have even begun to consider linking the funding of community colleges to their performance on student outcome measures. In 1990, Congress passed the Student Right-to- Know (SRK) and Campus Security Act. It requires that all colleges report graduation rates to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in order for their students to receive federal financial aid. These Student Right-to-Know graduation rates are part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The SRK rates are the only performance measures available for virtually every undergraduate institution in the nation, including community colleges, but critics assert that the rates understate the success of community colleges in several important ways.
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Portugal)
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Portugal)
Creators: name: Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro De
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portugal
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Politik
subject: Portugal--Politics and government--1910-1926

description: Founded in October 1910, the Portuguese Republic was soon mired in turmoil. The victorious Portuguese Republican Party, in reality a broad ideological coalition united only by the desire to topple the monarchy, soon fragmented acrimoniously, first into a variety of factions, and later into separate parties. The hope that the war might lead, if not to a reunification of the original party, then at least to a dignified truce that would enhance the regime’s prestige (an important objective among interventionists), soon showed itself to be vain. Conflict between and within the parties increased until, exhausted, the regime as it had existed succumbed in December 1917.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Beyond Student Right-to-Know Data: Factors That Can Explain Community College Graduation Rates
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Calcagno, Juan Carlos
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Kienzl, Gregory S.
name: Leinbach, D. Timothy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges
Educational evaluation

description: Policymakers, educators, and researchers recognize the importance of community colleges as open door institutions that provide a wide range of students with access to college. At the same time, competing demands for the state funds that would support community colleges have resulted in reduced public allocations and higher student tuition fees. Understandably, therefore, both state policymakers and parents are increasingly focused on the returns to their public or private investments in education, and the outcomes of community college attendance are now under greater scrutiny. To facilitate the evaluation of the colleges, there are now available data, through the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act (1990), which amended the Higher Education Act, on every college’s graduation rate for fall semester cohorts of first-time, fulltime (FTFT) students in degree programs. This information is known as the Student Right-to-Know (SRK) data. A related public concern is how the outcomes of community college students can be improved. Therefore, attempts are now being made to clarify the way that specific students define success and to identify the college policies and practices that can promote success for all students. For
some community college students, college completion, defined as earning a degree or certificate, is the appropriate measure of success. For other students, success is demonstrated by transferring to a baccalaureate institution. Still others are satisfied with completing courses that increase their knowledge or skill level in a particular area even though their educational experience is not considered successful as defined by traditional educational outcomes.
5G-IANA - D4.1 First report on 5G-IANA nApp Toolkit and VNFs Repository development
Creators: name: Andolfi, Matteo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: [Deliverable pending final approval by the EC]. This deliverable has the objective to provide a first report regarding the implementation and the activities performed in Work Package (WP) 4 “5G-IANA nApps toolkit development”. These activities include the design and the development of several components which compose the nApp toolkit. The nApp toolkit offers functionalities to the developers to create, to store and to manage network applications (nApps) inside the 5G-IANA Automotive Open Experimental Platform (AOEP) using a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
title: Civil-Military Relations during World War I (Portugal)
title: Civil-Military Relations during World War I (Portugal)
Creators: name: Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro De
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portugal
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Politik
subject: Militär
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Portugal

description: Portugal went to war in March 1916 with a government and an army that did not sit comfortably with each other. The young republican regime’s relationship with its armed forces was difficult despite its popularity among a small number of officers and a larger number of non-commissioned officers (NCOs). The Republic was seen as essentially hostile to the existence of a powerful officer caste. Matters were made worse by Portugal’s controversial intervention in the Great War and the subsequent decision to send an expeditionary force to France. Many within the army saw themselves as a sacrificial offering made by politicians for purely partisan gain. Unsurprisingly, the army was a mainstay of the anti-interventionist Sidónio Pais, who took power in December 1917 and held it until his murder one year later.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Educational Outcomes of Postsecondary Occupational Students
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Alfonso, Mariana
name: Scott, Marc
name: Leinbach, D. Timothy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: This Brief discusses a research study that was conducted to determine the rates of degree completion of community college occupational students compared with other types of postsecondary students, and to identify factors that might explain those differences. Much of the existing literature on college persistence and completion is focused on baccalaureate students and pays little attention to students in community colleges, and even fewer studies consider differences by students’ program of study. Therefore, it is important to investigate whether students in occupational programs in community colleges persist in postsecondary education and attain degrees at similar rates as their academic and baccalaureate peers.
title: 4. Workshop Künstliche Intelligenz in der Umweltinformatik
Creators: name: Abecker, Andreas
name: Bruns, Julian
name: Naumann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Umweltinformatik
subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Maschinelles Lernen
subject: Umweltmonitoring
subject: Umweltschutz
subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Nachhaltigkeit

description: Im Rahmen des INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2023 der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V. im Herbst 2023 in Berlin findet die vierte Auflage des Workshops KIU zur Nutzung von Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Umweltinformatik statt. In der KIU-Workshopreihe werden seit 2020 anwendungsorientiert und interdisziplinär innovative Beiträge der KI für wichtige Fragen von Umweltschutz und Nachhaltigkeit vorgestellt und diskutiert. Auch der vierte Workshop soll dabei helfen, eine deutschsprachige Wissenschafts- und Anwendungscommunity zu diesen Themen zu etablieren, um langfristig die Kreativität und die Wirkung dieses wichtigen Aufgabenfelds zu unterstützen.
5G-IANA - D7.3 Communication strategy and plan V2
Creators: name: Andrea Suárez García (VICOM)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: [Deliverable pending final approval by the EC]. The current document presents the progress made on 5G-IANA communication and liaison tasks during the first 21 months of the project. It constitutes an updated version of D7.2-Communication strategy and plan, submitted in M9.
Statistical analysis of sampling methods in quantum tomography
Creators: name: Kiesel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum physics, all measured observables are subject to statistical uncertainties, which arise from the quantum nature as well as the experimental technique. We consider the statistical uncertainty of the so-called sampling method, in which one estimates the expectation value of a given observable by empirical means of suitable pattern functions. We show that if the observable can be written as a function of a single directly measurable operator, the variance of the estimate from the sampling method equals to the quantum mechanical one. In this sense, we say that the estimate is on the quantum mechanical level of uncertainty. In contrast, if the observable depends on non-commuting operators, e.g. different quadratures, the quantum mechanical level of uncertainty is not achieved. The impact of the results on quantum tomography is discussed, and different approaches to quantum tomographic measurements are compared. It is shown explicitly for the estimation of quasiprobabilities of a quantum state, that balanced homodyne tomography does not operate on the quantum mechanical level of uncertainty, while the unbalanced homodyne detection does.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures