cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stochasticity and traffic jams in the transcription of ribosomal RNA: Intriguing role of termination and antitermination
Creators: name: Klumpp, Stefan
name: Hwa, Terence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In fast growing bacteria, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is required to be transcribed at very high rates to sustain the high cellular demand on ribosome synthesis. This results in dense traffic of RNA polymerases (RNAP). We developed a stochastic model, integrating results of single-molecule and quantitative in vivo studies of E. coli, to evaluate the quantitative effect of pausing, termination, and antitermination on rRNA transcription. Our calculations reveal that in dense RNAP traffic, spontaneous pausing of RNAP can lead to severe "traffic jams", as manifested in the broad distribution of inter-RNAP distances and can be a major factor limiting transcription and hence growth. Our results suggest the suppression of these pauses by the ribosomal antitermination complex to be essential at fast growth. Moreover, unsuppressed pausing by even a few non-antiterminated RNAPs can already reduce transcription drastically under dense traffic. However, the termination factor Rho can remove the non-antiterminated RNAPs and restore fast transcription. The results thus suggest an intriguing role by Rho to enhance rather than attenuate rRNA transcription.
description: includes Supporting Information
Fuzzy mediation as a dynamic method of information fusion and shared control
Creators: name: Vincenti, Giovanni, 1978-
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer software -- Human factors
subject: Expert systems (Computer science)
subject: Command and control systems

description: Information fusion algorithms are designed to perform efficiently when dealing with multiple sensors and environments with a static set of integration rules. When placed in an environment with multiple controllers and the need for dynamic fusion, conventional algorithms do not extend to accomplish the task. Fuzzy Mediation is an innovative approach to creating an information fusion framework that can be used to mediate between an expert and a novice controller.     With this research, we explore different aspects of Fuzzy Mediation. We start with the demonstration of the concept in conceptual as well as static environments, and then we move on to simulations that place an expert controller and a one based on artificially intelligent algorithms at the commands of an agent. Finally we explore the reactions of human controllers to the Fuzzy Mediation framework in a setting of learning a new motor task.     The results show that Fuzzy Mediation is a successful extension of conventional information fusion techniques to accommodate for the dynamic interaction of two controllers directing an agent. We observed that the overall performance of the agent based on Fuzzy Mediation shows an improvement when compared to the performance of an agent directed solely by the novice controller. Moreover, this framework allows for a novice with no training to start interacting with the agent after observing very few examples. This situation would not be possible if an unsupervised novice controller directed an agent. When human controllers interact, Fuzzy Mediation shows its strengths as an index of how closely the two operators perform.     The results obtained through this research show that Fuzzy Mediation is a very promising dynamic extension of information fusion techniques. As this is a new approach to shared control, it sets the perfect ground for further research. The possible applications range from the automotive and aeronautical fields to the evaluation of training effectiveness and performance.
description: (D.Sc.) -- Towson University, 2007.
title: Rezension: Learn to Speak German. The Complete Interactive Course
Creators: name: Barabás, László
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Es wäre wahrscheinlich nicht als Selbstzweck müßig, sondern sogar für das Festhalten der Entwicklung der Inhalte des Begriffes "neue Medien" erforderlich, seine Besetzung zu erforschen. Diese fast schon selbstverständliche Wortverbindung für den Bereich des Fremdsprachenunterrichts hat in den letzten annähernd zwanzig Jahren für den Lerner und Lehrer im (Fremd-)Sprachenunterricht abgesondert von der Medienwelt der Öffentlichkeit ein Eigenleben entwickelt. Durch die rasante zahlenmäßige Verbreitung und durch den explosionsartigen Ausbau der Vielfältigkeit des PC bedeutet er eindeutig die Möglichkeit der Multimedialität seitens des "Lehrenden" und die der Interaktivität für den Lernenden.
Examining the effectiveness of K-12 professional development delivered through a hybrid-based learning environment
Creators: name: Larrimore, Diane Kay
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Teachers -- In-service training
subject: Teachers -- Training of
subject: Teachers -- Training of -- Computer network resources

description: During the last few years, K-12 teachers have requested professional development that is delivered through a learning environment that enhances and supports the critical knowledge they need to successfully prepare students for the 21st century. A hybrid-based learning environment, which is the seamless integration of the best practices of a traditional classroom with the most effective features of online learning, may be the active learning framework educators are seeking. The purpose of this mixed methodological research study is to examine and assess the experience of K-12 teachers who completed a hybrid-based, professional development course. These teachers? retention of knowledge, transference of content into classroom instructional practices and overall perceptions about the effectiveness of the hybrid-learning environment will be studied.
description: (Ed.D.) -- Towson University, 2006.
We Thank You Lord
Creators: name: Heston, Thomas F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1985
Subjects: spirituality
music
medicine

description: This song is about cultivating gratitude for our gifts, overcoming obstacles to serving others, and how a dying patient's courage reminds us that even in dire circumstances, we can provide comfort and strength. Healing Gifts In the still of the night, a melody rises,
 Notes of comfort to soothe weary souls.
 My hands are rough, but with care, I apply
 Balms to the hurting, making spirits whole. Mysterious the workings of mind and soul,
 Questioning always as we grow old.
 Yet with knowledge and skill, we ease our pain,
 And music's sweet waves bring joy again. A teacher shares their gifts of learning,
 Lighting a spark of insight yearning.
 And songs that speak of what's unsaid,
 Lift the sick from their weary beds. So let's give thanks for each talent and skill,
 For gifts that cure in a friendly way.
 We share our blessings as best we are able,
 We'll scatter darkness; we'll bring brighter days. With compassion and care, we dry up tears,
 With love in our songs, we calm anxious fears.
 Our gifts flourish when freely given,
 They bring hope, joy, and reasons for living. So use your talents well, whatever they be,
 To serve one another, to help those in need.
 Lift your soul, offer care and might,
 Fill the world with your healing light.
Medication adherence, social support, and recovery: perspectives of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and their families
Creators: name: Krutis, Susan Denise
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Medication non-adherence for individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders is a problem with serious consequences to personal health, family relationships, and the community at large. Occupational therapists in mental health facilitate medication management strategies and need to be informed in order to determine best practice approaches. This study utilized a qualitative multiple case-study approach to examine the lived experiences of four consumers and four families relative to psychiatric medication adherence, social support, and recovery. In-depth, semi-structured interviews and brief recovery surveys were completed. Results suggest that consumers in this study incorporated medications as a process that illustrated development of self-awareness. Consumers? desire for greater autonomy in early adulthood emerged as a powerful influence on their sense of liminality. Parents articulated that medications were necessary for their adult children?s illnesses, and that decisions about how to support their adult children were complicated. The findings of this study have important implications for occupational therapists in the delivery of client-centered mental health care to support individuals and their families with medication adherence.
description: (Sc. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
We Thank You Lord
Creators: name: Heston, Thomas F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: spirituality
music
medicine

description: This song is about cultivating gratitude for our gifts, overcoming obstacles to serving others, and how a dying patient's courage reminds us that even in dire circumstances, we can provide comfort and strength. Healing Gifts In the still of the night, a melody rises,
 Notes of comfort to soothe weary souls.
 My hands are rough, but with care, I apply
 Balms to the hurting, making spirits whole. Mysterious the workings of mind and soul,
 Questioning always as we grow old.
 Yet with knowledge and skill, we ease our pain,
 And music's sweet waves bring joy again. A teacher shares their gifts of learning,
 Lighting a spark of insight yearning.
 And songs that speak of what's unsaid,
 Lift the sick from their weary beds. So let's give thanks for each talent and skill,
 For gifts that cure in a friendly way.
 We share our blessings as best we are able,
 We'll scatter darkness; we'll bring brighter days. With compassion and care, we dry up tears,
 With love in our songs, we calm anxious fears.
 Our gifts flourish when freely given,
 They bring hope, joy, and reasons for living. So use your talents well, whatever they be,
 To serve one another, to help those in need.
 Lift your soul, offer care and might,
 Fill the world with your healing light.
An X-ray view of 82 LINERs with Chandra and XMM-Newton data
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Martin, O.
name: Masegosa, J.
name: Marquez, I.
name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Jimenez-Bailon, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of an homogeneous X-ray analysis for 82 nearby LINERs selected from the catalogue of Carrillo et al. (1999). All sources have available Chandra (68 sources) and/or XMM-Newton (55 sources) observations. This is the largest sample of LINERs with X-ray spectral data (60 out of the 82 objects) and significantly improves our previous analysis based on Chandra data for 51 LINERs (Gonzalez-Martin et al. 2006). It increases both the sample size and adds XMM-Newton data. New models permit the inclusion of double absorbers in the spectral fits. Nuclear X-ray morphology is inferred from the compactness of detected nuclear sources in the hard band (4.5-8.0 keV). Sixty per cent of the sample shows a compact nuclear source and are classified as AGN candidates. The spectral analysis indicates that best fits involve a composite model: absorbed primary continuum and (2) soft spectrum below 2 keV described by an absorbed scatterer and/or a thermal component. The resulting median spectra parameters and their standard deviations are: G=2.11, =0.54 keV, =21.32 and =21.93. We complement our X-ray results with our analysis of HST optical images and literature data on emission lines, radio compactness and stellar population. Adding all these multiwavelength data, we conclude that evidence do exist supporting the AGN nature of their nuclear engine for 80% of the sample (66 out of 82 objects).
description: Accepted for publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 pages, 12 figures. Catalogs only at: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~gmo4/O.Gonzalez-Martin-LINERs_xray.pdf
Additional file 9 of Exploration of binary protein–protein interactions between tick-borne flaviviruses and Ixodes ricinus
Creators: name: Lemasson, Manon
name: Caignard, Grégory
name: Unterfinger, Yves
name: Attoui, Houssam
name: Bell-Sakyi, Lesley
name: Hirchaud, Edouard
name: Moutailler, Sara
name: Johnson, Nicholas
name: Vitour, Damien
name: Richardson, Jennifer
name: Lacour, Sandrine A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9. Homo sapiens orthologues of Ixodes ricinus genes and encoded proteins identified by yeast two-hybrid screening and gap repair.
title: Rezension: Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch als Fremdsprache. Das neue einsprachige Wörterbuch für Deutschlernende
Creators: name: Hufeisen, Britta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Darauf haben wir, die wir im nichtdeutschsprachigen Ausland im Rahmen der Sprachlehre und des germanistischen Studiums tätig sind (die Rezension habe ich geschrieben, als ich noch an der University of Alberta tätig war), schon sehr lange gewartet -- ein einsprachiges Wörterbuch.
Additional file 1 of Association of functional genetic variants in TFF1 and nephrolithiasis risk in a Chinese population
Creators: name: Wang, Qiangdong
name: Jiang, Yan
name: Du, Mulong
name: Yang, Lei
name: Yuan, Qinbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The distribution of the demographic characteristics of discovery set.
Galactic neutron stars I. Space and velocity distributions in the disk and in the halo
Creators: name: Sartore, N.
name: Ripamonti, E.
name: Treves, A.
name: Turolla, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. Neutron stars (NSs) produced in the Milky Way are supposedly ten to the eighth - ten to the ninth, of which only $\sim 2 \times 10^{3}$ are observed. Constraining the phase space distribution of NSs may help to characterize the yet undetected population of stellar remnants. Methods. We perform Monte Carlo simulations of NS orbits, under different assumptions concerning the Galactic potential and the distribution of progenitors and birth velocities. We study the resulting phase space distributions, focusing on the statistical properties of the NS populations in the disk and in the solar neighbourhood. Results. It is shown that $\sim 80$ percent of NSs are in bound orbits. The fraction of NSs located in a disk of radius 20 kpc and width 0.4 kpc is $\lesssim 20$ percent. Therefore the majority of NSs populate the halo. Fits for the surface density of the disk, the distribution of heights on the Galactic plane and the velocity distribution of the disk, are given. We also provide sky maps of the projected number density in heliocentric Galactic coordinates (l, b). Our results are compared with previous ones reported in the literature. Conclusions. Obvious applications of our modelling are in the revisiting of accretion luminosities of old isolated NSs, the issue of the observability of the nearest NS and the NS optical depth for microlensing events. These will be the scope of further studies.
description: 11 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: Rezension: BRAND, LINDA M., JUTTA KRESIN-MURAKAMI & KARL PECHATSCHEK: Die Schöne ist angekommen. Ein Grammatikkrimi
Creators: name: Weissteiner, Renate
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Daß Grammatik auch spannend sein kann, beweist Die Schöne ist angekommen. Verfaßt in der neuen deutschen Rechtschreibung, bietet dieser Grammatikkrimi eine originelle Kombination zwischen Grammatikvermittlung und Krimi. Das Üb ungsbuch ist unterteilt in zehn Kapitel mit insgesamt 20 ausgewählten Schwerpunkten zur deutschen Grammatik und wendet sich an Lernende zu Beginn der Mittelstufe als Wiederholung des Grammatikpensums der Grundstufe oder aber an Grundstufenlerner zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung "Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache". Dem Vorwort des Autorenteams kann entnommen werden, daß die Auswahl der grammatischen Schwerpunkte und des Wortschatzes sich an den Anforderungen des "Zertifikats Deutsch als Fremdsprache" orientiert. Im Anhang wird zudem der Inhalt der erzählten Geschichte in 60 Testfragen zusammengefaßt, welche wiederum dem Prüfungsteil "Strukturen und Wortschatz" entsprechen.
title: 'Ein Ausländer ist ein Ausländer ist ein Ausländer' oder: Die sprachlichen (Fehl-)Schritte in Richtung Interkulturalität: deutsche Bezeichnungen für Nicht-Inländer
Creators: name: Mazza, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wenn Shakespeare Julia ausrufen läßt: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet" (Romeo and Juliet, 11,2), kann ich ihm - ausnahmsweise - nicht beipflichten. Hinter der Aussage steht der Gedanke, daß es gleichgültig ist, wie ein Gegenstand benannt wird. Es ist aber alles andere als belanglos, denn eine Bezeichnung reflektiert die Ansicht des Namengebers und bedingt die Erfahrung des Betrachters.
Lean secure webmail server on a bare PC
Creators: name: Appiah-Kubi, Patrick
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Webmail server design and implementation on a bare PC poses daunting challenges and innovative opportunities that are revolutionary in server designs. Making the Webmail server secure through the Transport Layer Security (TLS) makes the design even more immense for a bare PC. This thesis focused on the design, implementation, performance and security analysis of a Webmail server that runs on a bare PC, without an operating system (OS) or kernel. The bare PC approach poses numerous design challenges which are solved in this research. Secure Webmail servers are complex, large and require intricate components to develop. As a result a lean system was developed for this research. The lean concept proliferates through architecture, design and implementation of the Webmail server. The lean concept also helps to build small protocol suit, intertwining of protocols, limited requirement space, simple user interfaces and minimal design options. The dissertation provides a detail architectural design, steps of implementation, experimental setup and the results of experiments conducted in a LAN and WAN environments. The performance of the bare PC Webmail server is compared with conventional Webmail servers. Performance is evaluated by measuring the processing time for login requests; inbox requests with a varying number of emails; and composing emails, retrieving email messages and sending attachments of various sizes. The throughput for various email sizes, stress test, the processing time, response time with a varying number of connections, and the total time, the average processing time for the POST command with a varying number of users, the CPU Utilization and load distribution are all measured and analyzed. The results show that the performance of the bare PC Webmail server is significantly better than that of the OS-based servers. Designing secure systems on a bare PC is a major milestone that must be crossed. The TLS protocol in its own dimension is a complicated protocol that needs thorough understanding in order to build on a bare PC platform. The secure Webmail server development of bare PC posed many demanding hurdles that needed careful attention. Issues with encryption/decryption algorithms, handshake, and certificate verification, private/public key and key cutting algorithms needed to be resolved. Novel design features of the server include intertwining the TLS, HTTP and TCP protocols to reduce inter-layer communication overhead, and using a separate TLS task per connection to improve performance. This novel architectural and design features could be used as a basis for developing future high performance systems. It could also serve as a stepping stone to the development of new paradigms in the computing environment.
description: (D. Sc.) -- Towson University, 2011.
title: Interkulturelle Ligaturen
Creators: name: Kniffka, Hannes
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Was passiert, wenn zwei verschiedene Kulturen miteinander in Kontakt kommen? Welche Veränderungen erfahren die Träger der Kulturen, die in ihnen lebenden Menschen, wenn sie welche erfahren? Welche die Sprachmittel, derer sie sich bedienen? Gibt es Sprachmittel, oder besser Sektionen sprachlichen Verhaltens, die von besonderer Relevanz sind bei/in "Kulturkontakt" (fortan KK), die wichtiger, häufiger, zentraler sind als andere?
Additional file 6 of Exploration of binary protein–protein interactions between tick-borne flaviviruses and Ixodes ricinus
Creators: name: Lemasson, Manon
name: Caignard, Grégory
name: Unterfinger, Yves
name: Attoui, Houssam
name: Bell-Sakyi, Lesley
name: Hirchaud, Edouard
name: Moutailler, Sara
name: Johnson, Nicholas
name: Vitour, Damien
name: Richardson, Jennifer
name: Lacour, Sandrine A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Protein alignment of Ir1.
Additional file 7 of Exploration of binary protein–protein interactions between tick-borne flaviviruses and Ixodes ricinus
Creators: name: Lemasson, Manon
name: Caignard, Grégory
name: Unterfinger, Yves
name: Attoui, Houssam
name: Bell-Sakyi, Lesley
name: Hirchaud, Edouard
name: Moutailler, Sara
name: Johnson, Nicholas
name: Vitour, Damien
name: Richardson, Jennifer
name: Lacour, Sandrine A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7. Drosophila melanogaster orthologues of Ixodes ricinus genes and encoded proteins identified by yeast two-hybrid screening and gap repair.
Information input and retrieval by people with cognitive disabilities
Creators: name: Hu, Ruimin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation reports studies on information input and retrieval by people with Down syndrome and other types of cognitive disabilities. The first study investigated the use of three input techniques (keyboard/mouse, word prediction, and speech recognition) by individuals with Down syndrome and neurotypical children. The results suggest that the performance of participants with Down syndrome vary substantially. The high performing participants with Down syndrome are capable of using the keyboard or the word prediction software to generate text with performance similar to that of the younger neurotypical participants. The second study investigated the use of different search methods and content structure during information retrieval by people with various types of cognitive disabilities. The results suggest that of the three conditions (narrow/deep structure, broad/shallow structure, and search engine), the participants were most efficient and successful when using the search engine, while the broad/shallow structure resulted in the longest time and highest failure rate.
description: (D. Sc.) -- Towson University, 2012.
Free energy functionals for efficient phase field crystal modeling of structural phase transformations
Creators: name: Greenwood, Michael
name: Provatas, Nikolas
name: Rottler, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase field crystal (PFC) method has emerged as a promising technique for modeling materials with atomistic resolution on mesoscopic time scales. The approach is numerically much more efficient than classical density functional theory (CDFT), but its single mode free energy functional only leads to lattices with triangular (2D) or BCC (3D) symmetries. By returning to a closer approximation of the CDFT free energy functional, we develop a systematic construction of two-particle direct correlation functions that allow the study of a broad class of crystalline structures. This construction examines planar spacings, lattice symmetries, planar atomic densities and the atomic vibrational amplitude in the unit cell of the lattice and also provides control parameters for temperature and anisotropic surface energies. The power of this new approach is demonstrated by two examples of structural phase transformations.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Quality of life in families with a transition aged young adult on the autism spectrum
Creators: name: Demchick, Barbara Benen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to describe family quality of life (FQOL) from the perspective of families with youth on the autism spectrum at or nearing the age of transition from school to adulthood. A qualitative phenomenology approach was used. Participants included ten families made up of six mothers, two fathers, and two grandmothers. The primary form of data collection was two in- depth interviews. Observations and field notes supplemented interview data, and previously administered Maryland Autism Services Surveys (MASS) were examined to contribute to the triangulation of the data. Trustworthiness of the data was enhanced by the presence of a second researcher during data collection and analysis, peer debriefing, and member checking. Another purpose of this study was to explore sensory processing in these transition aged youth, and to investigate the influence of sensory processing difficulties on family life. This was explored through the interviews, and through administration of the Adolescent/ Adult Sensory Profile, which was filled out by the family members. Results of the qualitative study revealed three themes that describe FQOL from the participants? perspectives: changes associated with puberty and associated disorders that manifest or worsen during puberty affect autism and challenge quality of life; occupations are influenced and restricted when there is a family member on the autism spectrum; and the onus of responsibility for transition falls on the family. The investigation into sensory processing in young adults revealed the existence of difficulties in sensory processing, with trends noted in the types of difficulties seen in these young adults. Sensory processing influenced FQOL, with families modifying activities to accommodate their young adult?s sensory needs. Implications of these results for the study of occupation and for the practice of occupational therapy are discussed.
description: (Sc. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
title: M-Linie und A-Linie: Zur Bedeutung migrationsbezogener Forschung für die interkulturelle Fremdsprachendidaktik
Creators: name: Röttger, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Nachdem die interkulturelle Fremdsprachendidaktik auf der einen Seite sowie die Interkulturelle Pädagogik und Zweitsprachendidaktik auf der anderen Seite einander in den vergangenen Jahren wenig zur Kenntnis genommen haben, werden in letzter Zeit Stimmen laut, die im Hinblick auf das Zusammenwachsen Europas und die zunehmende Mobilität und Migration eine weniger scharfe Trennung der interkulturellen A-(auslandsorientierten) und M-(migrationsbezogenen) Linie fordern.¹ Vor diesem Hintergrund soll zunächst die Entwicklung der Interkulturellen Pädagogik nachgezeichnet werden, um anschließend Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den Richtungen festzustellen und zu zeigen, wie die Erkenntnisse der Interkulturellen Pädagogik und DaZ-Forschung für die fremdsprachendidaktischen Bemühungen um interkulturelles Lernen und interkulturelle Kommunikation genutzt werden könnten.
Additional file 2 of IL-33-mediated activation of mast cells is involved in the progression of imiquimod-induced psoriasis-like dermatitis
Creators: name: Zhou, Xuyue
name: Hu, Yu
name: Liu, Lingxi
name: Liu, Lihao
name: Chen, Hongying
name: Huang, Dan
name: Ju, Mei
name: Luan, Chao
name: Chen, Kun
name: Zhang, Jiaan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Demographics of patients whose skin samples were collected and Table S2 Primers for real-time PCR analysis.
title: Rezension: STEMMER, BRIGITTE: What's on a C-test taker's mind? Mental processes in C-test taking
Creators: name: Hufeisen, Britta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Wer etwas über Tests wissen möchte, die den Lernfortschritt psycholinguistisch messen, sollte dieses Buch lesen. Stemmer gibt einen gründlichen Überblick über frühere und neuere Tests, ihre Entwicklung, Testmethoden, vergleicht sie miteinander, bewertet sie und setzt sie in Relation zum C-Test. (Der C-Test ist ein Verfahren, bei dem aus bestimmten Textpassagen jedes x-te Element ausgelassen wird und von den Probanden zu ersetzen ist.) Sie überprüft und referiert, inwiefern die verschiedenen Tests tatsächlich prüfen, was sie abzuprüfen vorgeben. Kombinierte Testverfahren (z.B. C-Test und Introspektion) werden referiert und kritisch evaluiert.
Classification of life by the mechanism of genome size evolution
Creators: name: Li, Dirson Jian
name: Zhang, Shengli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The classification of life should be based upon the fundamental mechanism in the evolution of life. We found that the global relationships among species should be circular phylogeny, which is quite different from the common sense based upon phylogenetic trees. The genealogical circles can be observed clearly according to the analysis of protein length distributions of contemporary species. Thus, we suggest that domains can be defined by distinguished phylogenetic circles, which are global and stable characteristics of living systems. The mechanism in genome size evolution has been clarified; hence main component questions on C-value enigma can be explained. According to the correlations and quasi-periodicity of protein length distributions, we can also classify life into three domains.
description: 53 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
title: Rezension: FUNK, HERMANN UND KOENIG, MICHAEL: Eurolingua Deutsch 1
Creators: name: Niedenthal, Carola
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Cornelsen hat sich ein hohes Ziel gesteckt: Der Verlag hat für die Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch ein Lehrwerksystem für Erwachsene entwickelt, das auf einem einheitlichen Lernkonzept basiert. Es wäre interessant, der Fr age nachzugehen, ob sich dieses Lernkonzept auf die ausgewählten Sprachen gleich gut anwenden läßt und ob es auch durchgeführt wird. Doch im folgenden zu einer anderen Zielsetzung, nämlich der Frage: Wie sieht das Lernkonzept für Eurolingua Deutsch 1 aus?
A SIP server and user agent with SRTP for VoIP on a bare PC
Creators: name: Alexander, Andre
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Bare PC applications run on ordinary desktops and laptops without the support of an operating system (OS) or kernel. They provide immunity against attacks targeting an underlying OS, and have been shown to perform better than applications running on conventional systems due to their reduced overhead. In this dissertation, we describe a SIP server and user agent (UA) with SRTP that are designed for VoIP on a bare PC. We give details of their implementation and present experimental results evaluating their performance.      The server and UA include streamlined SIP functions and message handling, efficient CPU tasking, protocol and application intertwining, and direct Ethernet-level data manipulation. In particular, the server provides registration, proxy, and redirection services, and the UA is integrated with lean implementations of the necessary protocols within the bare PC softphone.     We evaluate the performance of the bare PC SIP server by determining its throughput and latency in a dedicated test network with and without authentication. We also report internal timings for the server. The server?s performance is compared with that of the OpenSER and Brekeke SIP servers running on Linux and Windows respectively. Our results show that the bare PC SIP server has low cost for internal SIP-related operations, and higher throughput and lower latency than the OS-based servers except in a few cases that need further optimization.      We also implement SRTP to secure VoIP conversations on a bare PC softphone. Experiments to evaluate UA performance with SRTP are conducted using the bare PC softphone, and Twinkle and snom softphones running on Linux and Windows respectively. Pre-defined SRTP transforms based on AES counter mode encryption with HMAC-SHA-1 authentication are tested. Measured internal timings for SRTP operations indicate that authentication is more expensive than encryption regardless of key or tag size. Measured values of jitter, delta (packet interarrival time) and throughput show that the addition of SRTP protection to VoIP traffic over RTP has a negligible effect on voice quality.
description: (D. Sc.) -- Towson University, 2010.
Symmetry Energy and the Isoscaling in Reactions on Enriched Tin Isotopes
Creators: name: Danagulyan, A. S.
name: Balabekyan, A. R.
name: Hovhannisyan, G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coefficients of symmetry energy term for fragments with Z=4,11,12 measured in multifragmentation reactions initiated by proton and deuteron with energy of 3.65A GeV on enriched tin isotopes 112,118,120,124Sn are determined. The dependence of isoscaling parameter on the excitation energy, the temperature of fragmenting systems and the density ratio for heavy mass products are analised.
description: 6 page, 1 figure
title: Rezension: BÖKE, KARIN, JUNG, MATTHIAS & WENGELER, MARTIN (Hrsg.), Öffentlicher Sprachgebrauch. Praktische, theoretische und historische Perspektiven
Creators: name: Mazza, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der Sammelband, Georg Stötzel zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet, versteht sich als eine Erweiterung und Vertiefung (vgl. S. 11) des von Stötzel u.a. verfaßten und 1995 erschienenen Buches Kontroverse Begriffe. Geschichte des öffentlichen Sprachgebrauchs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Herausgeberin und die Herausgeber, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie und Linguistik der Heinrich-HeineUniversität Düsseldorf, wollen an Stötzels Arbeit anknüpfen, indem sie die gesellschaftliche Bedeutsamkeit des öffentlichen Sprachgebrauchs wiederum thematisieren und anhand linguistischer Analysen die politische Dimension der Sprache zu erhellen versuchen. Als politisch relevant betrachten sie die Sprache vor allem, weil diese im Prozeß der Meinungsbildung "kein beliebiger 'Code', kein zufälliges Hilfsmittel zum Gedankenaustausch" ist. Vielmehr: Das "Werkzeug Sprache wirkt auf den Verlauf des öffentlichen Diskurses und seine gesellschaftlichen Folgen selbst ein" (S. 9). Sprache ist in diesem Sinn nicht nur ein Instrument zur Meinungsvermittlung, sie ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Meinungskonstitution des einzelnen und somit der öffentlichen Willensbildung.
Qualität «Made in Switzerland»: Fachkräftemangel bei der AMANN Hälg Kompressoren AG
Creators: Sabine, Hoidn
OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
Publisher: name: Open Education Platform for Management Schools
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Business administration
subject: Fachkräftemangel
subject: Industriebranche
subject: Human Resources
subject: KMU
subject: Massnahmen

description: Die AMANN Hälg Kompressoren AG ist der führende Hersteller von ölfreien und gasdichten Kolbenkompressoren für die Verdichtung von Druckluft und Gasen. Der aktuelle Fachkräftemangel stellt das Unternehmen vor grosse Herausforderungen. Die HR-Abteilung der AMANN Hälg Kompressoren AG hat deshalb von der Geschäftsleitung den Auftrag erhalten, eine nachhaltige Strategie zur Bewältigung des Fachkräftemangels zu erarbeiten. Diese Strategie sollte mittel- und langfristig greifen, aber auch bereits kurzfristige Massnahmen, die sofort umgesetzt werden können, beinhalten, um den geplanten Geschäftsgang nicht zu gefährden.
The massive Dirac field on a rotating black hole spacetime: Angular solutions
Creators: name: Dolan, Sam
name: Gair, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The massive Dirac equation on a Kerr-Newman background may be solved by the method of separation of variables. The radial and angular equations are coupled via an angular eigenvalue, which is determined from the Chandrasekhar-Page (CP) equation. Obtaining accurate angular eigenvalues is a key step in studying scattering, absorption and emission of the fermionic field. Here we introduce a new method for finding solutions of the CP equation. First, we introduce a novel representation for the spin-half spherical harmonics. Next, we decompose the angular solutions of the CP equation (the mass-dependent spin-half spheroidal harmonics) in the spherical basis. The method yields a three-term recurrence relation which may be solved numerically via continued-fraction methods, or perturbatively to obtain a series expansion for the eigenvalues. In the case $μ= \pm ω$ (where $ω$ and $μ$ are the frequency and mass of the fermion) we obtain eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in closed form. We study the eigenvalue spectrum, and the zeros of the maximally co-rotating mode. We compare our results with previous studies, and uncover and correct some errors in the literature. We provide series expansions, tables of eigenvalues and numerical fits across a wide parameter range, and present plots of a selection of eigenfunctions. It is hoped this study will be a useful resource for all researchers interested in the Dirac equation on a rotating black hole background.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures. Minor corrections, to match published version
Additional file 8 of Exploration of binary protein–protein interactions between tick-borne flaviviruses and Ixodes ricinus
Creators: name: Lemasson, Manon
name: Caignard, Grégory
name: Unterfinger, Yves
name: Attoui, Houssam
name: Bell-Sakyi, Lesley
name: Hirchaud, Edouard
name: Moutailler, Sara
name: Johnson, Nicholas
name: Vitour, Damien
name: Richardson, Jennifer
name: Lacour, Sandrine A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8. Aedes aegypti orthologues of Ixodes ricinus genes and encoded proteins identified by yeast two-hybrid screening and gap repair.
title: Gaussian estimates vs. elliptic regularity on open sets
Creators: name: Böhnlein, Tim
name: Ciani, Simone
name: Egert, Moritz
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Given an elliptic operator L=-div(A∇·) subject to mixed boundary conditions on an open subset of Rd, we study the relation between Gaussian pointwise estimates for the kernel of the associated heat semigroup, Hölder continuity of L-harmonic functions and the growth of the Dirichlet energy. To this end, we generalize an equivalence theorem of Auscher and Tchamitchian to the case of mixed boundary conditions and to open sets far beyond Lipschitz domains. Yet, we prove the consistency of our abstract result by encompassing operators with real-valued coefficients and their small complex perturbations into one of the aforementioned equivalent properties. The resulting kernel bounds open the door for developing a harmonic analysis for the associated semigroups on rough open sets.
Large-scale horizontal flows in the solar photosphere V: Possible evidence for the disconnection of bi-polar sunspot groups from their magnetic roots
Creators: name: Svanda, Michal
name: Klvana, Mirek
name: Sobotka, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (Svanda et al., 2008, A&A 477, 285) we pointed out that, based on the tracking of Doppler features in the full-disc MDI Dopplergrams, the active regions display two dynamically different regimes. We speculated that this could be a manifestation of the sudden change in the active regions dynamics, caused by the dynamic disconnection of sunspots from their magnetic roots as proposed by Schuessler & Rempel (2005, A&A 441, 337). Here we investigate the dynamic behaviour of the active regions recorded in the high-cadence MDI data over the last solar cycle in order to confirm the predictions in the Schuessler's & Rempel's paper. We find that, after drastic reduction of the sample, which is done to avoid disturbing effects, a large fraction of active regions displays a sudden decrease in the rotation speed, which is compatible with the mechanism of the dynamic disconnection of sunspots from their parental magnetic structures.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
technical reports of the CEC2005, CEC2014 and SOCO2010 test suites
Creators: name: Camacho Villalón, Christian Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Full description of the 50 static benchmark continuous functions belonging to the CEC'05 and CEC'14 "Special Session on Single Objective Real-Parameter Optimization'' and to the Soft Computing (SOCO'10) Test Suite on Scalability of Evolutionary Algorithms and other Metaheuristics for Large Scale Continuous Optimization Problems''
A comparison of audio comments and written comments: student and instructor preferences and instructor feedback patterns
Creators: name: Cavanaugh, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Providing feedback to students on their writing represents one of the most important features of an online writing course. Two methods of providing feedback to student writing-written commentary and audio commentary-have emerged in the literature. However, most studies examining these two methods have been conducted in face-to-face classes, where students can approach the instructor for clarification about the commentary. The limited studies that have been conducted on written and audio commentary in online classes have often featured non-writing classes in which revision of work was not a part of the course design and in which the commentary was given to various tasks in the class, not to student papers. This study examined the use of written and audio feedback in five 100-level online composition classes. Through instructor surveys and interviews, student surveys and interviews, and quantitative analysis of the comments themselves, the study examined how commenting patterns change between written and audio commentary, whether the provision of audio commentary represents a scalable option for instructors, what form of commentary students preferred for comments on different aspects of their papers, whether instructors found one method to result in more student improvement in writing over the other method, and whether students found one method to result in improvement in their writing over the other method. The findings indicated that significantly more words were used for audio commentary than for written commentary but that an interaction effect occurs across instructors in their commenting patterns between the use of written and audio commentary. The findings also show that student comprehension on global- and middle-level issues in papers is improved through the use of audio over written commentary. The findings were not conclusive on whether one medium results in more improvement in student writing over the other medium. Instructors do find the use of audio commentary a scalable option when compared to the use of written commentary, with audio delivering more words than written commentary but with roughly the same time investment. In combining audio and written commentary, audio may be more effective for global- and middle-level concerns and written for micro-level concerns.
description: (Ed. D.) -- Towson University, 2013.
The awareness of the profession of audiology among college students
Creators: name: Donai, Jeremy James
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Audiology -- Vocational guidance

description: It is important for the profession of audiology to attract a large number of highly qualified students into the field early in their academic career, as they are making decisions regarding major field of study and eventual career path. This study was conducted to examine the awareness of the profession of audiology and the Communication Science and Disorders (CSD) department among college freshman students at California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U). Fifty-four percent of the students reported being unfamiliar with the profession of audiology, while 46% reported some degree of familiarity with the profession. Most of the students (88%) who were familiar with the profession were unaware of the undergraduate program in Communication Science and Disorders at their university. Many of these students reported their first encounter with the profession occurred during their high school experience. Recommendations regarding future recruiting and general audiology awareness activities are discussed.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2005. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.