cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reconsidering School Readiness: Open Window or Closed Door?
Creators: name: Penner, Kari
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper will problematize conventional “school-readiness” discourse as evidenced in Supported Child Development Program (henceforth SCDP) assessment practices with young children with special needs from a postmodern theoretical stance. The prevailing school-readiness discourse proposes a maturational perspective as means for determining whether young children have the requisite physical, cognitive, and affective attributes needed for a successful school career. Young children with special needs undergo standardized assessments of their knowledge and abilities and are subsequently prescribed early intervention activities designed to ameliorate/reduce variances from normal developmental trajectories. These activities are widely used in early childhood classrooms so children will become ready for Kindergarten at age 5. Using standardized assessment with young children who have special needs can be problematic for a variety of reasons. The desire to prepare young children for mandated school, at a distant, future point based on results derived from standardized assessment tools serves to constrain them, and closes the door on opportunities for making their ways of knowing visible to others. SCDP Consultants and early childhood educators must recognize the influence they have for either encouraging or marginalizing the learning of young children with special needs. Raising awareness of children’s rights, inclusive practices, and assessment tactics that support learning through a strength-based orientation is crucial if children with special needs are to feel they are competent, contributing members of the classroom and larger society. Authentic assessment strategies, a useful pedagogical framework, and suggestions for conducting ethical assessment that open the window for viewing children’s capabilities through a new lens are considered.
Search for Anomalous Production of Di-lepton Events with Missing Transverse Momentum in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV
Creators: name: The OPAL Collaboration
name: Abbiendi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In total 1317 di-lepton events with significant missing transverse momentum were identified in a total data sample of 680 pb-1 collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies ranging from 183 GeV to 209 GeV. The number of di-lepton events, the dependence on centre-of-mass energy, and the event properties are consistent with expectations from Standard Model processes, predominantly W+W- production with both W bosons decaying leptonically. This topology is also an experimental signature for the pair production of new particles that decay to a charged lepton accompanied by one or more invisible particles. No evidence for new phenomena is apparent. Upper limits are presented on the production cross-section multiplied by the relevant branching ratio squared for sleptons, leptonically decaying charginos and charged Higgs bosons. Mass limits are also given.
description: 42 pages, 15 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Tia Maji – First Movement Soundscape
Creators: name: Clacherty, Bronwen
name: Bruinders, Sylvia
name: Damodaran, Sumangala
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: 190504 Performance and Installation Art

description: This audio clip was created by Bronwen Clacherty. It is a soundscape that accompanies the first movement of Clacherty’s doctoral performance, Tia Maji, which was performed on 2–4 October 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. In the audio clip you can hear the sound of Babu Bindu speaking, the sound of the sea, women speaking, and the sound of drinking water being collected from a cave. This sample accompanies Bronwen Clacherty’s (2021) PhD dissertation entitled “Understanding the History of Women’s Lives in Zanzibar Through Song and Story: A Gendered Perspective.”
The Flight Physics Concept Inventory: Development of a research-based assessment instrument to enhance learning and teaching
Creators: name: Genz, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work frames the first three publications around the development of the Flight Physics Concept Inventory (FliP-CoIn), and elaborates on many aspects in more detail. FliP-CoIn is a multiple-choice conceptual assessment instrument for improving fluid dynamics learning and teaching. I give insights into why and how FliP-CoIn was developed and how it is best used for improving conceptual learning. Further, this work presents evidence for several dimensions of FliP-CoIn's validity and reliability. Finally, I discuss key insights from the development process, the data analysis, and give recommendations for future research.
 This is a pre print version of the following book: Florian Genz, The Flight Physics Concept Inventory, 2025, Springer Spektrum, published with permission of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47515-4 and https://link.springer.com/book/9783658475147
description: Dies ist ein Vorabdruck des folgenden Werkes: Florian Genz, The Flight Physics Concept Inventory, 2025, Springer Spektrum, vervielf\"altigt mit Genehmigung von Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH. Die finale authentifizierte Version ist online verf\"ugbar unter: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47515-4 und https://link.springer.com/book/9783658475147
Ubiquity of metastable-to-stable crossover in weakly chaotic dynamical systems
Creators: name: Baldovin, Fulvio
name: Moyano, Luis G.
name: Majtey, Ana P.
name: Robledo, Alberto
name: Tsallis, Constantino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparative study of several dynamical systems of increasing complexity, namely, the logistic map with additive noise, one, two and many globally-coupled standard maps, and the Hamiltonian Mean Field model (i.e., the classical inertial infinitely-ranged ferromagnetically coupled XY spin model). We emphasize the appearance, in all of these systems, of metastable states and their ultimate crossover to the equilibrium state. We comment on the underlying mechanisms responsible for these phenomena (weak chaos) and compare common characteristics. We point out that this ubiquitous behavior appears to be associated to the features of the nonextensive generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics.
description: Communication at next2003, Second Sardinian International Conference on News and Expectations in Thermostatistics, Villasimius (Cagliari) Italy, 21st-28th September 2003. Submitted to Physica A. Elsevier Latex, 17 pages, 8 figures
Food aid's intended and unintended consequences
Creators: name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of food aid. Micro-level evidence is presented on the impacts of food aid deliveries on household labour supply, production incentives, consumption patterns and natural resource use. At the meso-level, evidence on the impact of food aid on market development, market prices, informal insurance arrangements, and the behavior of implementing agencies is surveyed. Macro level evidence on the impact of food aid on balance of payments, economic growth, international trade, exchange rates and other factors is reviewed. Although food aid can have negative unintended consequences, the empirical evidence is thin and often contradictory. The available evidence suggests that harmful effects are most likely to occur when food aid arrives or is purchased at the wrong time, when food aid distribution is not well targeted to the most food insecure households, and when the local market is relatively poorly integrated with broader national, regional and global markets. These results imply the need for caution in basing food aid programming decisions on a relatively weak body of empirical evidence.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ag301t.pdf
Sesuvium trianthemoides Correll
Creators: name: Bohley, Katharina
name: Winter, Pieter J. D.
name: Kadereit, Gudrun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Sesuvium
Sesuvium trianthemoides

description: SESUVIUM TRIANTHEMOIDES Correll in Rhodora 68: 422. 1966.— TYPE: U. S. A., Texas: Kenedy County, dunes, 11 Jul 1947, Tharp 47431 (holotype: TEX!)
Slender procumbent to ascending, annual herb; stems pale and thin (diam ∼ 2.5 mm), roots relatively short; scattered large bladder cells on leaves and stems and fine white dots around the axils. Leaves oblanceolate, flat, lamina up to 20 mm long and 8 mm wide, with a distinct petiole, lateral flaps wide (∼ 2 mm). Flowers sessile, about 6 mm long, one pair of bracts at base; inconspicuous tepal teeth compared to other species of the genus. Stamens five. Ovary with 2 carpels and 2 styles. Fruit large and tapered capsules with broad bases, often exceeding the length of the tepals; styles rarely still attached to the ripe capsule, often only two short tips remain. Seeds up to 1.5 mm long, reniform, with a slightly structured seed coat, dull black, brown or grey.
Distribution and Habitat — The species appears to be strictly endemic in Texas, U. S. A (Fig. 9). It grows on sandy soil, probably near rivers.
Vernacular Name — Texas sea purslane.
Representative specimens examined — U. S. A. Texas, Kenedy County: Dunes, 11 Jul 1947, Tharp 47431 (TEX); San Patricio County: 9.7 km from Sinton, sandy soil along Aransas River, 28 Jun 1954, F. B. Jones 964 (BRIT).
Notes — Only two specimens were seen, since no other material was available. It would be very desirable to increase the number of specimens in collections. There is a close resemblance between S. trianthemoides and S. maritimum, but due to distinctive morphological traits such as large and tapered capsules and the 2-carpelate ovary their status as separate species seems justified.
description: Published as part of Bohley, Katharina, Winter, Pieter J. D. & Kadereit, Gudrun, 2017, Data from: A revision of Sesuvium (Aizoaceae, Sesuvioideae), pp. 109071 in Data in brief 48 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tk922, http://zenodo.org/record/10815406
General constraints on Horndeski wormhole throats
Creators: name: Korolev, Roman
name: Lobo, Francisco S. N.
name: Sushkov, Sergey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we consider the full Horndeski Lagrangian applied to wormhole geometries and present the full gravitational field equations. We analyse the general constraints imposed by the flaring-out conditions at the wormhole throat and consider a plethora of specific subclasses of the Horndeski Lagrangian, namely, quintessence/phantom fields, $k$-essence, scalar-tensor theories, covariant galileons, nonminimal kinetic coupling, kinetic gravity braiding, and the scalar-tensor representation of Gauss-Bonnet couplings, amongst others. The generic constraints analysed in this work serve as a consistency check of the main solutions obtained in the literature and draws out new avenues of research in considering applications of specific subclasses of the Horndeski theory to wormhole physics.
description: 16 pages. V2: Discussion and references added; matches published version
Tia Maji – Full Performance
Creators: name: Clacherty, Bronwen
name: Bruinders, Sylvia
name: Damodaran, Sumangala
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190504 Performance and Installation Art
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology

description: This video clip was filmed by Dex Goodman on 3 October 2019. It shows the full doctoral performance of Tia Maji, which was performed on 2–4 October 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. This video accompanies Bronwen Clacherty’s (2021) PhD dissertation entitled “Understanding the History of Women's Lives in Zanzibar Through Song and Story: A Gendered Perspective.”
Role of c-axis pairs in V2O3 from the band-structure point of view
Creators: name: Elfimov, I. S.
name: Saha-Dasgupta, T.
name: Korotin, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The common interpretation of the LDA band structure of V$_{2}$O$_{3}$ is that the apparent splitting of the $a_{1g}$ band into a low intensity structure deep below the Fermi energy and a high intensity feature above it, is due to the bonding-antibonding coupling of the vertical V-V pair. Using tight-binding fitting to --as well as first-principles NMTO downfolding of-- the spin-up LDA+U $a_{1g}$ band, we show that there are other hopping integrals which are equally important for the band shape as the integral for hopping between the partners of the pair.
Young Adults From Black Communities Experience of Receiving Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Depression – A Qualitative Account
Creators: name: Nurse, Krystle
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: CBT
CBT for depression
IAPT
experience
Black communities
young adults
qualitative

description: CBT is proposed to be one of the most effective treatments for depression. Young adults experience a higher prevalence of mental health difficulties during this stage of life (Gulliver, Griffiths & Christensen, 2010). However, it is well documented that Black communities underutilise talking therapies (Lubian et al., 2016) and face barriers around accessing culturally appropriate services (Arday. 2018). In addition, people from minority ethnic communities have historically been underrepresented in health research (Guiliano et al., 2000). Thus, as a result, there appears to be little systematic research into how young Black adults experience this therapy model. This study aimed to explore the subjective experience of CBT for depression in young adults aged between 18 – 25 years old that identify as Black. Qualitative semi structured interviews were carried out with nine participants recruited from NHS services. Analysis was conducted using a critical realist epistemology and thematic analysis. The overarching themes identified were ‘The Therapy Experience’ and ‘Navigating Getting Help’. The findings suggest that despite participants reporting a mostly positive therapy experience, there were aspects they found challenging both before getting to therapy and within sessions. This study raised implications for clinical practice including a greater awareness of the widespread stigma and negative views held in Black communities around mental health. The need for therapists to consider the additional inequalities and vulnerabilities linked to being Black and young in this context. Further research should explore the experiences across different timeframes during treatment. It should also expand on the socio-structural issues that contribute to the conceptualisation of distress and help-seeking within Black communities. Clinical Psychologists should utilise the unique positions they hold within services by further highlighting and evidencing the access, engagement and practical applications of CBT within minority ethnic communities.
Οι Εορτές της Εκκλησίας. Λειτουργική και Χριστιανοπαιδαγωγική Προσέγγιση
Creators: name: Σερέτη Χρυσούλα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Εορτές
Αρετές-Άγιοι
Παιδί
Feasts
Virtues- Saints
Child

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη της επίδρασης των εορτών της Εκκλησίας στη ζωή του ανθρώπου. Εξετάσαμε την γέννηση και τη διαμόρφωση του εορτολογίου ανά τους αιώνες. Μελετήσαμε την σημαντικότητα και σπουδαιότητα των Δεσποτικών, των Θεομητορικών και των Αγιολογικών εορτών που πλουτίζουν το εκκλησιαστικό έτος και συμβάλουν στην εν Χριστώ αναγέννηση του ανθρώπου. Αναφερθήκαμε επίσης στις αρετές που προβάλλονται μέσα από το εορτολόγιο και συντελούν στη διαμόρφωση της προσωπικότητας του ανθρώπου. Ένα άλλο θέμα που θίξαμε ήταν τα λειτουργικά σύμβολα στοχεύοντας να αναδείξουμε ότι μέσα από αυτά φανερώνεται η αλήθεια της Εκκλησίας και το νόημα των εορτών. Η εργασία αυτή ολοκληρώθηκε με αναφορά στον ρόλο που διαδραματίζει η οικογένεια, το σχολείο και η Ενορία στη ζωή του νέου ανθρώπου. Εν κατακλείδι, όλη η προσωπικότητα του ανθρώπου διαμορφώνεται μέσα στην Εκκλησία με τiς εορτές, γιατί εκεί προβάλλονται η ζωή και τα πρότυπα του Χριστού, της Παναγίας και των Αγίων. Στη θεία Λειτουργία που τελείται σε κάθε εορτή, ο άνθρωπος έχει τη δυνατότητα να κοινωνήσει των θείων αχράντων Μυστηρίων και να μπολιάσει την ζωή του στην αιωνιότητα
description: The purpose of this postgraduate essay was to study the impact of Church feasts on human life. We have looked at the birth and formation of Heortologio over the centuries. We have studied the importance of the Despotic, Theometorical and Agiological feasts that enrich the ecclesiastical year and rebound to the renaissance of human in Christ. Also, we referred to the virtues which are showed off throughout the Heortologio and the virtues which shape a man’s personality. Another topic we touched upon was the liturgical symbols aiming at highlighting the truth of the Church and the meaning of the feast days. This essay was completed with reference to the impact of family, school and parish on young people’s lives. In conclusion, people’s personality is shaped through feasts inside the Church, because the life and paradigms of Christ are showed there, together with the ones of Holy Mary and the Saints. In the Divine Liturgy which is celebrated at every feast, a man can commune the Holy Sacraments and graft his life in eternity
Pioneer Anomaly and the Helicity-Rotation Coupling
Creators: name: Anderson, John D.
name: Mashhoon, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modification of the Doppler effect due to the coupling of the helicity of the radiation with the rotation of the source/receiver is considered in the case of the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft. We explain why the Pioneer anomaly is not influenced by the helicity-rotation coupling.
description: LaTeX file, 1 figure, 6 pages, v2: note and figure added at the end of the paper, to be published in Phys. Lett. A
The balancing act
Creators: name: Kuitert, Lizet
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2021

description: Public bodies acting in the construction industry have to deal with major transitional issues, such as globalization and urbanization, population ageing, climate change and digitalization. Moreover, the public domain, private parties and society are becoming increasingly interdependent. As a result, safeguarding public values in the built environment has become ever more complex. Public bodies face the challenge to adhere to collective public values while confronted with private and societal values of external partners. This means that they have to deal with value pluralism and value-conflicts. In research, scarce attention has been paid to providing guidance to practitioners for dealing with multi-value trade-offs in operational processes. Hence, this research provides a construction-sector specific operationalization and a network perspective to the field of public value research. This research highlights the important role to be played by public commissioning in terms of safeguarding public values. It consists of three qualitative studies that utilize a range of different methods, including interviews, observations and document analysis. By this the research provides a contemporary perspective through which to study and execute the safeguarding of public values by public clients in the transition towards network governance in the construction industry. The dynamics of the sector-specific value interests of public construction clients, the occurrence of value conflicts in commissioning, and the safeguarding processes within both internal and external commissioning are studied. The practical implications derived from the research were translated into a value dialogue tool that can be used by public construction clients to professionalize safeguarding in their daily practice.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 07 (2021): The balancing act
Tia Maji – Vibraphone Bowing
Creators: name: Clacherty, Bronwen
name: Bruinders, Sylvia
name: Damodaran, Sumangala
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: 190504 Performance and Installation Art

description: This audio clip was created by Bronwen Clacherty in February 2020, Cape Town, South Africa. It is an example of the vibraphone bowing sounds (played by Frank Mallows) that sonically represent the presence of women in Clacherty's doctoral performance of Tia Maji, which was performed on 2–4 October 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. This audio sample accompanies Bronwen Clacherty’s (2021) PhD dissertation entitled “Understanding the History of Women's Lives in Zanzibar Through Song and Story: A Gendered Perspective.”
Quiver Gauge Theories: Beyond Reflexivity
Creators: name: Bao, Jiakang
name: Colverd, Grace Beaney
name: He, Yang-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Reflexive polygons have been extensively studied in a variety of contexts in mathematics and physics. We generalize this programme by looking at the 45 different lattice polygons with two interior points up to SL(2,$\mathbb{Z}$) equivalence. Each corresponds to some affine toric 3-fold as a cone over a Sasaki-Einstein 5-fold. We study the quiver gauge theories of D3-branes probing these cones, which coincide with the mesonic moduli space. The minimum of the volume function of the Sasaki-Einstein base manifold plays an important role in computing the R-charges. We analyze these minimized volumes with respect to the topological quantities of the compact surfaces constructed from the polygons. Unlike reflexive polytopes, one can have two fans from the two interior points, and hence give rise to two smooth varieties after complete resolutions, leading to an interesting pair of closely related geometries and gauge theories.
description: 159 pages; v5: minor corrections
title: Development of lentiviral vectors targeted to P38MAPK inhibition and Akt activation in motor neurons of a mouse model of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Peviani, Marco
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by progressive loss of motor neurons in the cortex, brainstem and spinal cord. This leads to weakness and muscular atrophy that evolves to paralysis and death. Studies on patients and animal models of ALS suggest that the pathology is the consequence of the unbalance between pro-degenerative (p38MAPK) and pro-survival (Akt) pathways in motor neurons. In order to re-equilibrate this complex interplay, the major objective of this study was to develop a gene-based approach to target, in vivo, these two intracellular signaling proteins. We demonstrated for the first time that a construct derived from Hb9 promoter can be used in lentivectors to restrict transgene expression to motor neurons in vivo; moreover we found that induction of Akt pathway, through expression of constitutively activated Akt3 in motor neurons, prevents neuronal loss in SOD1G93A mice, although it does not influence their premature death. On the other hand, we used RNAi to downregulate p38MAPKalpha in a mouse model of ALS. We revealed that expression of p38MAPK-targeted shRNA in the spinal cord of presymptomatic mice reduces motor neuronal loss in the early phases of the pathology, but then it is not able to sustain neuronal survival during disease progression, eventually resulting in worsening of symptoms and shortening of life span. We found preliminary evidences that hyperactivation of microglial cells may be responsible for this more aggressive phenotype, suggesting that a fine tuning of microglial reactivity may be important to avoid pro-degenerative effects. Overall these data support the hypothesis that modulation of pro-degenerative and pro-survival pathways may help counteracting motor neuronal degeneration, and strengthen the evidence that preservation of neuronal perikaria is not sufficient to ameliorate disease progression in ALS. The peripheral compartment (axons, muscles) should be regarded as an additional target for potential therapeutic approaches.
Ground-State Phase Diagram of an Anisotropic S=1 Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Bond-Alternating Chain
Creators: name: Okamoto, Kiyomi
name: Tonegawa, Takashi
name: Kaburagi, Makoto
name: Sakai, Tôru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using mainly numerical methods, we investigate the ground-state phase diagram (GSPD) of an $S=1$ ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic bond-alternating chain with the $XXZ$ and the on-site anisotropies. This system can be mapped onto an anisotropic spin-2 chain when the ferromagnetic interaction is much stronger than the antiferromagnetic interaction. Since there are many quantum parameters in this system, we numerically obtained the GSPD on the plane of the magnitude of the antiferromagnetic coupling versus its $XXZ$ anisotropy, by use of the exact diagonalization, the level spectroscopy as well as the phenomenological renormalization group. The obtained GSPD consists of six phases. They are the $XY$1, the large-$D$ (LD), the intermediate-$D$ (ID), the Haldane (H), the spin-1 singlet dimer (SD), and the Néel phases. Among them, the LD, the H, and the SD phases are the trivial phases, while the ID phase is the symmetry-protected topological phase. The former three are smoothly connected without any quantum phase transitions. It is also emphasized that the ID phase appears in a wider region compared with the case of the GSPD of the anisotropic spin-2 chain with the $XXZ$ and the on-site anisotropies. We also compare the obtained GSPD with the result of the perturbation theory.
description: to be published in JPS Conf. Ser
Black and Asian Women’s Conceptualisations of Psychosis and Compulsory Admission within an Early Intervention Service
Creators: name: Nicholas, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: First Episode Psychosis
Early Intervention Service
Race
Gender
Sectioning
detention
Mental Health Act
Intersectionality

description: Aims: To explore the experiences of women from Black and Asian backgrounds, detained under the Mental Health Act (1983; 2007), on their journeys to accessing care for a First Episode Psychosis diagnosis. Background: Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups are sectioned under the Mental Health Act at significantly higher rates than White ethnic groups. BME groups are also more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis – a presentation primarily understood in services within the medical model of ‘mental illness’, and related to stereotypes of ‘dangerousness’. While quantitative research highlights the inequalities impacting Black men, BME women who show similar trends are often overlooked. Additionally, limited data exists about the lived experience of coercive pathways to psychosis care for these groups. Methodology: A critical realist research framework was used to qualitatively explore experiences of psychosis and services with Black and Asian women. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with women accessing Early Intervention for psychosis Services (EIS) and previously sectioned. Results: A thematic analysis identified three themes and six sub-themes: ‘Sense of Mistrust’; ‘Navigating Unsafe Systems’; and ‘Impact of Adversity’. Psychosis was characterised as feeling unable to trust others, and yourself. Initial interactions with services, particularly the police, were experienced as unfair, re-traumatising and potentially racialised. Trauma-informed and spiritual models to explain psychosis, felt neglected by services in favour of the medical model. However, social and psychological aspects of care offered by services, were described as unexpectedly helpful by the participants. Conclusion: It is proposed potentially unhelpful wider societal discourses, such as 'the Angry/Strong Black Woman', 'the Meek Asian Woman' and ‘psychosis is dangerous’ have an impact on experiences of accessing care for First Episode Psychosis. Recommendations discussed include: a systems-wide approach to tackling bias, acknowledging intersectionality, accommodating multiple beliefs in practice, and potential alternatives to detention under the Mental Health Act.
Light deflection in Weyl gravity: critical distances for photon paths
Creators: name: Pireaux, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Weyl gravity appears to be a very peculiar theory. The contribution of the Weyl linear parameter to the effective geodesic potential is opposite for massive and nonmassive geodesics. However, photon geodesics do not depend on the unknown conformal factor, unlike massive geodesics. Hence light deflection offers an interesting test of the Weyl theory. In order to investigate light deflection in the setting of Weyl gravity, we first distinguish between a weak field and a strong field approximation. Indeed, the Weyl gravity does not turn off asymptotically and becomes even stronger at larger distances. We then take full advantage of the conformal invariance of the photon effective potential to provide the key radial distances in Weyl gravity. According to those, we analyze the weak and strong field regime for light deflection. We further show some amazing features of the Weyl theory in the strong regime.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures (see published version for a better resolution, or online version at stacks.iop.org/CQG/21/1897)
Models for "Learning Safe and Optimal Control Strategies for Storm Water Detention Ponds"
Creators: name: Goorden, Martijn A.
name: Larsen, Kim G.
name: Nielsen, Jesper E.
name: Nielsen, Thomas D.
name: Rasmussen, Michael R.
name: Srba, Jiri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Models for the paper "Learning Safe and Optimal Control Strategies for Storm Water Detention Ponds" accepted for ADHS'21. Instructions on reproducability of the results in the paper with the models are in "Readme.txt".
description: This work is supported by Villum Synergy project CLAIRE and ERC Advanced Grant LASSO.
Coherent states for exactly solvable potentials
Creators: name: Shreecharan, T.
name: Panigrahi, Prasanta K.
name: Banerji, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general algebraic procedure for constructing coherent states of a wide class of exactly solvable potentials e.g., Morse and P{ö}schl-Teller, is given. The method, {\it a priori}, is potential independent and connects with earlier developed ones, including the oscillator based approaches for coherent states and their generalizations. This approach can be straightforwardly extended to construct more general coherent states for the quantum mechanical potential problems, like the nonlinear coherent states for the oscillators. The time evolution properties of some of these coherent states, show revival and fractional revival, as manifested in the autocorrelation functions, as well as, in the quantum carpet structures.
description: 11 pages, 4 eps figures, uses graphicx package
Supplementary figures, tables, and analyses from Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant–hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes
Creators: name: Sonne, Jesper
name: Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni
name: Maruyama, Pietro K.
name: Araújo, Andréa C.
name: Chávez-González, Edgar
name: Coelho, Aline G.
name: Cotton, Peter A.
name: Marín-Gómez, Oscar H.
name: Lara, Carlos
name: Lasprilla, Liliana R.
name: Machado, Caio G.
name: Maglianesi, Maria A.
name: Malucelli, Tiago S.
name: González, Ana M. Martín
name: Genilda M. Oliveira
name: Oliveira, Paulo E.
name: Ortiz-Pulido, Raul
name: Rocca, Márcia A.
name: Licléia C. Rodrigues
name: Sazima, Ivan
name: Simmons, Benno I.
name: Tinoco, Boris
name: Varassin, Isabela G.
name: Vasconcelos, Marcelo F.
name: O'Hara, Bob
name: Schleuning, Matthias
name: Rahbek, Carsten
name: Sazima, Marlies
name: Dalsgaard, Bo
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Interactions between species are influenced by different ecological mechanisms, such as morphological matching, phenological overlap and species abundances. How these mechanisms explain interaction frequencies across environmental gradients remains poorly understood. Consequently, we also know little about the mechanisms that drive the geographical patterns in network structure, such as complementary specialization and modularity. Here, we use data on morphologies, phenologies and abundances to explain interaction frequencies between hummingbirds and plants at a large geographical scale. For 24 quantitative networks sampled throughout the Americas, we found that the tendency of species to interact with morphologically matching partners contributed to specialized and modular network structures. Morphological matching best explained interaction frequencies in networks found closer to the equator and in areas with low-temperature seasonality. When comparing the three ecological mechanisms within networks, we found that both morphological matching and phenological overlap generally outperformed abundances in the explanation of interaction frequencies. Together, these findings provide insights into the ecological mechanisms that underlie geographical patterns in resource specialization. Notably, our results highlight morphological constraints on interactions as a potential explanation for increasing resource specialization towards lower latitudes.
"At the time I didn’t know what was going on, so they diagnosed me with schizophrenia": The lived experience of being diagnosed with schizophrenia for people of Black African and/or Black Caribbean heritage: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Gordon, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Schizophrenia
Black
Black African
Black Caribbean
Counselling Psychology
IPA
Mental Health
Psychiatric Diagnosis

description: Schizophrenia has long been a contested and controversial psychiatric diagnosis. Over the last six decades, research has consistently demonstrated that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), specifically people of Black African and/or Black Caribbean descent in the United Kingdom (UK) are more likely to face mental health inequalities and be diagnosed with schizophrenia in comparison to other ethnic groups (Fernando, 2002; 2008; 2010; Read & Dillon, 2013b; Nazroo, 2020). However there has been a paucity in research into the lived experience of receiving a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This research seeks to contribute to the field of counselling psychology and allied professions by exploring the lived experience of receiving a diagnosis of schizophrenia amongst this specific population. The phenomenon was investigated by adopting Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) (Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2009). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants and subsequently analysed using IPA. The Six-Stages of Analysis was used (Smith et al., 2009) as a process of interacting with the data within an inductive and iterative cycle (Smith, 2007). The consisted of close interaction between the researcher and the text, using line-by-line analysis of each participant’s transcribed interview (Smith et al., 2009). The findings revealed that participants were engaged in a range of meaning-making processes regarding their experiences relating to the diagnosis. Four super-ordinate themes emerged from the data: ‘Schizophrenia is a form of social control’, ‘Living with schizophrenia is a dynamic sentence’, “A spiritual dimension to this experience” and ‘Being Black in the mental health system’. The findings highlighted that receiving a psychiatric diagnosis is not a static event located at one point in time. Rather it is a multifaceted process that is engaged with by the recipient on multiple levels beyond the diagnosis. The implications for Counselling Psychology and allied fields are reviewed, as well as limitations and suggestions for future research were discussed.
Band gap reconstruction at the interface between black phosphorus and a gold electrode
Creators: name: Orlova, N. N.
name: Ryshkov, N. S.
name: Zagitova, A. A.
name: Kulakov, V. I.
name: Timonina, A. V.
name: Borisenko, D. N.
name: Kolesnikov, N. N.
name: Deviatov, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate charge transport through the interface between a gold electrode and a black phosphorus single crystal. The experimental $dI/dV(V)$ curves are characterized by well developed zero-bias conductance peak and two strongly different branches. We find that two branches of asymmetric $dI/dV(V)$ curves correspond to different band gap limits, which is consistent with the theoretically predicted band gap reconstruction at the surface of black phosphorus under electric field. This conclusion is confirmed by experimental comparison with the symmetric curves for narrow-gap (WTe$_2$) and wide-gap (GaSe) metal-semiconductor structures. In addition, we demonstrate p-type dopants redistribution at high bias voltages of different sign, which opens a way to use the interface structures with black phosphorus in resistive memory applications.
description: final version
Depinning transition of dislocation assemblies: pileup and low-angle grain boundary
Creators: name: Moretti, Paolo
name: Miguel, M. -Carmen
name: Zaiser, Michael
name: Zapperi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the depinning transition occurring in dislocation assemblies. In particular, we consider the cases of regularly spaced pileups and low angle grain boundaries interacting with a disordered stress landscape provided by solute atoms, or by other immobile dislocations present in non-active slip systems. Using linear elasticity, we compute the stress originated by small deformations of these assemblies and the corresponding energy cost in two and three dimensions. Contrary to the case of isolated dislocation lines, which are usually approximated as elastic strings with an effective line tension, the deformations of a dislocation assembly cannot be described by local elastic interactions with a constant tension or stiffness. A nonlocal elastic kernel results as a consequence of long range interactions between dislocations. In light of this result, we revise statistical depinning theories and find novel results for Zener pinning in grain growth. Finally, we discuss the scaling properties of the dynamics of dislocation assemblies and compare theoretical results with numerical simulations.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Optical conductivity and the sum rule in the DDW state
Creators: name: Aristov, D. N.
name: Zeyher, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The density-wave with d-wave order parameter (DDW) is possibly realized in the underdoped regime of high-T_c cuprates. The DDW state is characterized by two branches of low-lying electronic excitations, and the quantum mechanical current has in particular an inter-branch contribution. The latter component causes a finite-frequency response in the optical conductivity and a reduction of the Drude contribution. We show that this redistribution of the spectral weight leaves the optical sum mostly intact, so that the restricted optical sum rule is only weakly violated.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, SCES04 proceedings
Co-creating a pedagogical support document to support meaningful curriculum and enhanced quality
Creators: name: Lytwyn, Monica L.P.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Although Early Learning Frameworks have recently been published by the provincial government in Manitoba, Canada, varied quality still exists in child care centres in this province. This project investigates the potential of a Pedagogical Support Document to enhance quality in Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC), as a follow up to the Early Learning Frameworks, by way of further supporting early childhood educators’ pedagogical practice. I argue that a Pedagogical Support Document can contribute to ELCC quality and I make suggestions for its content and dissemination. More specifically, I recommend that the content of a Pedagogical Support Document include broad principles that afford professional judgment and interpretation, based on observation and documentation strategies. In addition, I suggest that a Pedagogical Support Document be conceptualized as a living document that is co-created by policy makers and early childhood educators over time. This approach allows ELCC programs to develop contextually relevant curriculum with locally constructed outcomes for children. Finally, I recommend that ongoing professional development related to the Pedagogical Support Document is necessary in order to make meaningful and sustainable policy and practice connections in Manitoba.
Tia Maji – Third Movement Soundscape
Creators: name: Clacherty, Bronwen
name: Bruinders, Sylvia
name: Damodaran, Sumangala
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: 190504 Performance and Installation Art

description: This audio clip was created by Bronwen Clacherty in July 2019, Cape Town, South Africa. It is a soundscape that Clacherty created for her doctoral performance of Tia Maji, which was performed on 2–4 October 2019 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. This soundscape is found in the third movement of Tia Maji and was created from recordings of the research participants singing and working as seaweed farmers. This soundscape accompanies Bronwen Clacherty’s (2021) PhD dissertation entitled “Understanding the History of Women's Lives in Zanzibar Through Song and Story: A Gendered Perspective.”
Idempotence of finitely generated commutative semifields
Creators: name: Kala, Vítězslav
name: Korbelář, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12K10, 16Y60, 20M14, 11H06, 52A20

description: We prove that a commutative parasemifield S is additively idempotent provided that it is finitely generated as a semiring. Consequently, every proper commutative semifield T that is finitely generated as a semiring is either additively constant or additively idempotent. As part of the proof, we use the classification of finitely generated lattice-ordered groups to prove that a certain monoid associated to the parasemifield S has a distinguished geometrical property called prismality.
description: 16 pages
Έρευνα Σχετικά με την Πιστοποίηση Βιολογικών Προϊόντων στην Ελλάδα
Creators: name: Στοΐλα, Ανατολή Λυδία Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Βιολογική Πιστοποίηση
Φορείς Ελέγχου
Βιολογικά Πρότυπα
Organic Certification
Control Bodies
Organic Standards

description: Η παρούσα εργασία έχει ως σκοπό τη διερεύνηση της πιστοποίησης των βιολογικών προϊόντων (συγκεκριμένα των τροφίμων) στην Ελλάδα, με έμφαση στον Νομό Θεσσαλονίκης. Η εργασία διεξήχθη μέσα στην πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης, από τα τέλη του 2019 έως τις αρχές του 2021. Το ερευνητικό της κομμάτι έλαβε μέρος σε τρεις από τις τέσσερεις βιολογικές λαϊκές της Θεσσαλονίκης, σε τρία εξειδικευμένα καταστήματα βιολογικών προϊόντων, και μέσω διαδικτύου. Η καταγραφή των δεδομένων έγινε με τη χρήση ερωτηματολογίων, τα οποία απευθύνθηκαν σε παραγωγούς, καταναλωτές και σε φορείς ελέγχου και πιστοποίησης βιολογικών προϊόντων. Η ελλιπής ενημέρωση που διαπιστώθηκε από τους καταναλωτές σε σχέση με τον ρόλο και τις διαδικασίες ελέγχου και πιστοποίησης των βιολογικών προϊόντων θέτει τα διάφορα ζητήματα εμπιστοσύνης προς την αποτελεσματικότητα της βιολογικής πιστοποίησης, και προς τον τομέα των βιολογικών προϊόντων γενικότερα
description: The aim of the present paper is to investigate the certification of organic products (specifically organic food) in Greece, with emphasis on the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. The paper was conducted in the city of Thessaloniki, from late 2019 to early 2021. The research part was carried out in three of the four organic farmer’s markets in Thessaloniki, in three organic shops and via the internet. The data were collected through the use of questionnaires, which were addressed to producers, consumers, and control and certification bodies of organic products. The lack of information found by consumers, regarding the role and procedures of control and certification of organic products, raises various issues of confidence in the effectiveness of organic certification, and in the field of organic products in general