cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Das hässliche Entlein wird zum Schwan
title: Liebe, Schönheit und Selbstnarration in Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey und Jane Eyre
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Coffey, Judith
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Liebe
subject: Begehren
subject: Weiblichkeit
subject: Literatur
subject: Frauenbild
subject: 800 Literatur und Rhetorik

description: Der Beitrag fokussiert auf die Protagonistinnen und zugleich Erzählerinnen von Stephenie Meyers Twilight-Saga und E. L. James’ Fifty-Shades-Trilogie und vergleicht sie mit ihrem Prototyp, Jane Eyre aus dem gleichnamigen Roman von Charlotte Brontë. Im Zentrum steht eine Analyse der Selbstbeschreibung von Bella, Ana und Jane als gewöhnlich, unscheinbar und wenig attraktiv. Indem diese Selbstbeschreibung in den Kontext des Gesamttextes – und damit der Liebesgeschichte und ihrer seit dem 19. Jahrhundert etablierten Begehrensökonomie – gestellt wird, kann herausgearbeitet werden, wie die Sichtweise der Erzählerinnen im Text gewichtet und punktuell infrage gestellt wird und wie sich die Protagonistinnen im Laufe der Erzählung in feminine und begehrenswerte Frauen verwandeln. Dadurch kann in den Blick genommen werden, welche spezifische Form weißer bürgerlicher heterosexueller Weiblichkeit in heteronormativen Liebesgeschichten entworfen und bekräftigt wird. / This article focuses on the heroines and firstperson narrators in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga and E. L. James’s erotic retelling Fifty Shades of Grey. I undertake a comparison with what can be identified as the prototype for these heroines, namely Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel. I use the fact that Bella, Ana and Jane describe themselves as ordinary, unremarkable and plain as my point of departure. By locating their selfnarration within the context of the love story, its long-established plot structure and its politics of desire, I aim to show how their view is weighted and questioned, and how the heroines’ transformation into feminine and desirable women is effected in the text. This reading enables me to analyse and criticise the specific form of white heterosexual bourgeois femininity that is produced and reinforced by heteronormative love stories.
Eunavfor Med – Operation Sophia : human rights implications of the fight against smugglers
Creators: name: Leifker, Maren
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: defence
European Union
European Convention on Human Rights
human rights
migrations
security
trafficking
Mediterranean countries

description: Second semester University: University of Seville.
description: The present thesis deals with the EUNAVFOR MED military operation of the EU that was launched in June 2015 in reaction to two tragic shipwrecks on the Mediterranean. Its aim is to prevent the further loss of life at sea by fighting the business of human smugglers. Against this background, the thesis analyses the human rights implications resulting from the Operation’s conduct in view of its adequacy as an answer to the humanitarian crisis on the Mediterranean. The thesis comes to the conclusion that a number of human rights issues are at stake, especially because the Operation lacks safeguards that could assure compliance with those standards. It suggests that the EU should alter the mandate in order to align it with its self-stated aim of international promotion of human rights that could be impeded by a loss of credibility resulting from the application of different standards to internal and external measures
Stabilities of affine Legendrian submanifolds and their moduli spaces
Creators: name: Kawai, Kotaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the notion of affine Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian manifolds and define a canonical volume called the $ϕ$-volume as odd dimensional analogues of affine Lagrangian (totally real or purely real) geometry. Then we derive the second variation formula of the $ϕ$-volume to obtain the stability result in some $η$-Einstein Sasakian manifolds. It also implies the convexity of the $ϕ$-volume functional on the space of affine Legendrian submanifolds. Next, we introduce the notion of special affine Legendrian submanifolds in Sasaki-Einstein manifolds as a generalization of that of special Legendrian submanifolds. Then we show that the moduli space of compact connected special affine Legendrian submanifolds is a smooth Fréchet manifold.
description: 33 pages, v3: minor corrections and added comments
Family History of Alcohol Use Disorder Affects Intrinsic Connectivity in Large-scale Brain Networks of Adults
Creators: name: Parrish, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Previous research has implicated large-scale neural networks, such as the salience
network (SN), central executive network (CEN), and default mode network (DMN) in
risk for a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Specifically, perturbations in network
interconnectivity of the SN has been theorized to reflect changes in salience processing,
such as that seen in alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and other addictive disorders. The aim
of this study was to investigate differences in intrinsic connectivity between adults with
and without a family history of AUDs. To address this, 58 adult participants (22 family
history positive (FHP), 36 family history negative (FHN)) underwent a resting state fMRI
scan and functional connectivity analyses were performed. Importantly, the groups did
not significantly differ in terms of their age, IQ, socioeconomic status, and alcohol
consumption, and none of the recruited participants had a lifetime history of substance
use disorders. Results show that FHP adults were characterized by decreased connectivity
between right frontoinsular cortex (rFIC), a critical node in the SN, and frontoparietal
regions of the CEN. Additionally, whole brain functional connectivity map contrasts
revealed potential differences in connectivity between ventral tegmental area (VTA),
another node in the SN, and DMN. These findings suggest dysfunctional interactions
between SN and CEN, typically identified as “task-positive networks”, may associate
with the familial transmission of AUDs. Future research should utilize effective
connectivity and imaging genetic approaches to more closely examine these group
differences at a systems neuroscience level of analysis.
Indigenous justice systems in Guatemala: barrier or opportunity for women?
Creators: name: Eger, Kristina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: administration of justice
Guatemala
indigenous peoples
women

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: Indigenous justice systems have often been criticised for violating women’s rights, yet it is not clear how justice systems in communities with changing power structures and influences from both ladino and indigenous migrants treat women’s conflicts. Based on interview material from a qualitative field study in three communities in Guatemala, this study aims to answer the question to what extent and in what way the community justice systems respond to rural and indigenous women’s conflicts. Women in the research area faced particular conflicts, especially domestic violence and violations of their property rights, yet these were rarely resolved in their communities. This was partly due to women’s reluctance to report their problems to community authorities because of a lack of information, confidence, confidentiality, fear of reprisal and alternative forums. Yet, even when women reported their conflicts, these were often rejected or not resolved satisfactorily in community reunions because of discrimination, power imbalances, lack of community support and ineffective agreements. From these findings this study concludes that women in the investigated communities face additional barriers to reporting and treating their conflicts than women in traditional indigenous communities. Human rights reforms have made minor improvements to women’s rights, but have failed to create a human rights consciousness.
Under our umbrella : the evolution of disability rights through legal instruments and increased civil society participation
Creators: name: Poitier, Federico Batista
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
people with disabilities
France
Zambia
political participation
law

description: Second semester University: Université de Montpellier
description: This research thesis was focused on the evolution of disability policy, from the perspectives of International, regional and national (Zambia and France) legislations that have been put in place for their protection. The main goal through this study, was to observe if there has been increased representation of people with disabilities in decision making policies that affect their everyday lives. The research in this study was collected through research of publications dealing with the past a current movements of disability policy, to observe the changes that have occurred in legislation and civil society coordination. This study yielded many positive, but also limiting factors to issues concerning people with disabilities. In the positive scope, there are very tangible changes that have occurred in legislation, with the most important instrument contributing to this change being the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Also with increased legislation, there has been more civil society participation of people with disabilities. In a negative scope, there are groups of persons with disabilities whose issues are still put at the margin and who are still treated undignified, as is the case with people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities.
Examining News Media Coverage of Mayoral Elections with Gay and Lesbian Candidates
Creators: name: Stidham, Justin W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In my research, I seek to explore the role that local news coverage plays in
mayoral elections with LGB candidates, specifically when news stories make references
to the sexuality of a candidate or to an issue that is considered an LGBT issue. I plan to
examine the news media coverage of mayoral elections, both those involving LGB
candidates and those not involving LGB candidates. I aim to examine what news
coverage of mayoral elections with LGB candidates looks like, including how local
media sources may make LGBT references, and determine under what conditions these
LGBT references are made. Furthermore, I intend to assess the potential political
implications for future LGB candidates in local elections.
title: Gender Inequity during the Ph.D.
title: Females in the Life Sciences Benefit Less from Their Integration into the Scientific Community
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Epstein, Nurith
name: Lachmann, Daniel
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Karriere
subject: Hochschule
subject: Universität
subject: Geschlechterdifferenz
subject: Frauen
subject: Frauenanteil
subject: Frauen in Führungspositionen
subject: 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse

description: Female researchers remain underrepresented in higher academic ranks, even within female-dominated fields, such as the life sciences. The phenomenon is often attributed to women’s lower publication productivity. The current article explores gender differences with respect to integration into the scientific community, pursued tasks during the Ph.D. (e.g., teaching and research), and publication productivity in the life sciences. Moreover, it explores how these variables relate to the intention of pursuing an academic research career. Survey data with recent Ph.D. graduates from the life sciences in Germany (N = 736) were analyzed through descriptive and multivariate analysis. Females had fewer publications as lead author (1.4 vs. 1.9, p = 0.05). There were no differences in pursued tasks, perceived integration into the scientific community, and co-authorship. However, Ph.D. characteristics affected females and males differently. Only male Ph.D. graduates benefited from being integrated into their scientific community by an increase in lead author publications. In contrast to male Ph.D. graduates, women’s academic career intentions were significantly affected by their integration into the scientific community and co-authorship. Results suggest that women may benefit less from their integration into the scientific community and may ascribe more importance to networks for their career progress.
Corporate accountability for economic, social and cultural rights abuses committed abroad: foreign victims access to remedy in home states
Creators: name: Brachotte, Sandrine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: corporate responsibility
economic social and cultural rights
victims

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University
description: The lack of corporate accountability for human rights abuses committed in developing countries remains one of the major obstacles to the universal respect of fundamental human rights. To remedy this situation, the international community of States and academics have been considering the role that home States could play in the regulation and adjudication of extraterritorial corporate activities. In that context, the present thesis proposes to focus on the specific question of the possibility for victims of extraterritorial corporate economic, social and cultural rights abuses to obtain remedies from the concerned corporation in the home State. More precisely, it analyses whether, and if so, under which conditions, current international law requires or encourages home States to provide these remedies, on the basis of the combined study of two recent documents: the United Nations Guiding Principles Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, and the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Furthermore, for a better understanding of the potential concrete implications of these documents, the present thesis assesses the UK and Dutch legislation and legal practice with regard to their content. Finally, the thesis concludes that, from a general point of view, these documents represent a great step forward for the re-shaping of the international legal order and thus for the creation of worldwide corporate accountability. However, the thesis also concludes that they are insufficient because they do not consider the specific question of the existence of a home State’s duty to compel its corporations to remedy their extraterritorial economic, social and cultural rights abuses.
Nectria asiatica Hirooka, Rossman & P. Chaverri, Stud. Mycol.
Creators: name: Yang, Qin
name: Du, Zhuo
name: Liang, Ying-Mei
name: Tian, Cheng-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Nectriaceae
Nectria
Nectria asiatica

description: Nectria asiatica Hirooka, Rossman & P. Chaverri, Stud. Mycol. 68: 35–56. 2011.
 Description and illustration:— Seifert (1985).
 Habitat:—On dead woody substrata, Acer sp., Betula lutea, Prunus sp., Sorbus commixta, and Zelkova serrata.
 Distribution:—Asia (China, Japan).
 Notes:— Nectria asiatica is known only from China and Japan. In China, its specimens and isolates were examined by Zhuang, culture CBS 126568 = A.R. 4639 (Hirooka et al. 2011). This species is characterized by 1- septate ascospores, short stipitate sporodochia, and ellipsoidal, budding mature conidia slightly constricted at septum (Seifert 1985).
description: Published as part of Yang, Qin, Du, Zhuo, Liang, Ying-Mei & Tian, Cheng-Ming, 2018, Molecular phylogeny of Nectria species associated with dieback and canker diseases in China, with a new species described, pp. 199-214 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13706646
Biases in the Health-Assessment Process
Creators: name: Araiza, Ashley
name: Freitas, Antonio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project describes a follow-up study to our previously pre-registered studies (osf.io/z8bhx, osf.io/xjp47, and osf.io/3w2ua), in which we observed that the association between endorsing health behaviors and rating the items assessing those behaviors as accurate measures of health is stronger when the health-assessment items are ambiguous. In this study, we first aim to replicate this finding for a fourth time, this being the second time it is hypothesized and pre-registered a priori. Moreover, we will test whether this effect is reduced by making participants believe that they will be accountable for their ratings.
The landscape of RUNX1 mutations in breast cancer and its therapeutic potential
Creators: name: Ariffin, Nur Syamimi
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Background

 Breast cancer remains the leading cause of female morbidity and mortality despite advances in screening, therapy and surveillance. In 2020, approximately 2.26 million cases have been reported with 685,000 women died from breast cancer. Current therapeutic strategies aim to treat the disease after it has developed. However, side effects constantly present and cancer cells become resistant. Thus, there is a need to find alternative therapeutic strategies that target carcinogenic pathways with greater specificity and lower toxicity. The finding of RUNX1 mutations in luminal breast cancer patients has put it in a spotlight as it is implicated in the disease development and progression. In view of this, there is a potential for RUNX1 to be the therapeutic target for breast cancer. Therefore, this study was conducted to understand the gravity of RUNX1 mutations in breast cancer patients and its association with the progress of the disease.

 Methods

 Data obtained from cBioPortal was analysed on 7823 male and female breast cancer patients comprising 8393 profiled samples from 20 combined studies. 243 of these patients express at least one RUNX1 mutation.

 Results

 RUNX1 is in the top 30 most mutated genes in breast cancer with the frequency of 3.3% for each of the profiled samples to express at least one RUNX1 mutation. The majority of these mutations are found in women with the left side of the breast has more mutations than the right side and they are detected as early as stage I of the disease. It is also found that ER-positive breast cancer patients express higher number of RUNX1 mutations than ER-negative breast cancer patients. Additionally, the liver, bone and lymph node have the highest RUNX1 mutations of 2820, 1792 and 1103 respectively comparative to other organs that have mutations ranging from 18-511 only.

 Conclusions

 RUNX1 mutagenicity is prominent in breast cancer, many of which have led to gain-of-function, loss-of-function, possibly loss-of-function, and switch-the-function of RUNX1. Revelation of these changes may provide insight into developing novel therapeutic strategies for breast cancer so it can replace the diversity of hormone receptor status and the expression of surface molecules that have been used as a guide for therapy decisions.
A Lower Bound for Immersions of Real Grassmannians
Creators: name: Lochbaum, Marshall
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The cohomology of the real Grassmann and flag manifolds is discussed at length, making use of Stiefel-Whitney classes. It is shown that the tangent bundle of the Grassmannian splits into line bundles over the flag manifold. Additionally, it is found that the cohomology of the flag manifold is exactly the polynomial algebra ℤ(subscript 2)[𝑒(subscript 1),...,𝑒(subscript 𝑛)], for one-dimensional classes 𝑒(subscript 𝑖), modulo the relation ∏(subscript 𝑖)(1 + 𝑒(subscript 𝑖))=1. Using facts about this ring to compute the dimension of the Stiefel-Whitney class of the normal bundle to the Grassmannian, we find a lower bound for immersions of certain real Grassmannians. In particular, G(subscript 𝑛)(ℝ(superscript 𝑛+𝑘)) with 𝑛≤2(superscript 𝑠)≤𝑘 and 𝑛+𝑘≤2(superscript 1+𝑠) cannot be immersed in dimension less than 𝑛(2(superscript 𝑠+1)-1).
Learning to know the other : the power of intercultural dialogue in improving human rights in multicultural societies
Creators: name: Rosón Sánchez, María
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: multiculturalism
intercultural relations
human rights
minority groups
integration
Thessaloniki
Greece

description: Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
description: The increasing cultural diversity of European societies is an issue that can bring great benefits to everyone living in the continent. However, if not handled properly, it can also have terrible consequences in regards to the respect for the human rights of all its members, particularly for those who do not share the majoritarian culture. In order to address this situation, intercultural dialogue appears as the most effective instrument to prevent conflicts, by including minorities and guaranteeing the right of every member in the society to have a cultural identity of their own. Holding that the practice of intercultural dialogue is needed, this thesis argues that its promotion at every level shall be encouraged, a task that involves different actors such as political leaders, the European Union and the national governments, mass media and civil society. Therefore, in order to prove the outcomes of intercultural dialogue, a case study of several initiatives in the city of Thessalonki, Greece, has been carried out, pointing out the benefits and also the challenges that its practice implies in the current context of the country. In order to improve its practice, some recommendations have been formulated aiming to contribute to its improvement not only in the city, but also to be generalized in the wider European context.
Nowcasting Indian GDP with Google Search data
Creators: name: Qian, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Gross domestic product is an important indicator for measuring overall economic health, and accurate forecasts are essential in crafting monetary and economic policy. Developing economies are constrained by the availability and quality of economic time series data. With increasing global Internet penetration, search data is an appealing source for supplementing traditional economic data. Using India as a case study, this paper uses a dynamic factor model with with a Kalman filter to generate predictions for GDP. This paper has two contributions to the Indian context. First, a multifactor model yielded better predictions than a single factor. Second, incorporating Google Search data did not improve prediction accuracy.
Linear maps between C*-algebras preserving extreme points and strongly linear preservers
Creators: name: Burgos, María J.
name: Márquez-García, Antonio C.
name: Morales-Campoy, Antonio
name: Peralta, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B49, 15A09, 46L05, 47B48

description: We study new classes of linear preservers between C$^*$-algebras and JB$^*$-triples. Let $E$ and $F$ be JB$^*$-triples with $\partial_{e} (E_1)$. We prove that every linear map $T:E\to F$ strongly preserving Brown-Pedersen quasi-invertible elements is a triple homomorphism. Among the consequences, we establish that, given two unital C$^*$-algebras $A$ and $B,$ for each linear map $T$ strongly preserving Brown-Pedersen quasi-invertible elements, then there exists a Jordan $^*$-homomorphism $S: A\to B$ satisfying $T(x) = T(1) S(x)$, for every $x\in A$. We also study the connections between linear maps strongly preserving Brown-Pedersen quasi-invertibility and other clases of linear preservers between C$^*$-algebras like Bergmann-zero pairs preservers, Brown-Pedersen quasi-invertibility preservers and extreme points preservers.
The Impact of Telehealth on Rural Cancer Care: A Review of Current Practices and Guidelines
Creators: name: Baldwin, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Rural oncology patients have poor access to oncology care which negatively impacts quality of care and delivery of treatment. Recent telehealth interventions show evidence of improvement on this problem. Policies and guidelines regarding telehealth have enhanced cohesiveness within the field and have the potential to further improve patient care. This review summarizes research on telehealth interventions for rural oncology patients and of related guidelines and standards of practice. The literature review included searches of PubMed and CINAHL using telehealth related terms and was limited to articles published in English in the last ten years (2008 - 2018). A review of guidelines and standards of practice searched health-related organization databases for policies, protocols, and guidelines related to the use of teleoncology and telehealth. Sixteen research articles that evaluated the use of telehealth on cancer care were reviewed. Ten guidelines, policies, and recommendation documents were reviewed that summarized group stances and protocols for telehealth use. Review of the literature reveals the following significant benefits of teleoncology to rural patients: high patient and provider satisfaction, increased access to care, improved symptom management, cost-effectiveness, and safety of the intervention. While research studies on rural teleoncology are limited, existing research demonstrates positive findings on care for the rural cancer patient. Current guidelines and standards help to standardize the practice of telehealth, but further development of guidelines specific to teleoncology are needed to help promote uptake of the practice and reduce barriers to care.
Optimal Estimation of Recurrence Structures from Time Series
Creators: name: Graben, Peter beim
name: Sellers, Kristin K.
name: Fröhlich, Flavio
name: Hutt, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recurrent temporal dynamics is a phenomenon observed frequently in high-dimensional complex systems and its detection is a challenging task. Recurrence quantification analysis utilizing recurrence plots may extract such dynamics, however it still encounters an unsolved pertinent problem: the optimal selection of distance thresholds for estimating the recurrence structure of dynamical systems. The present work proposes a stochastic Markov model for the recurrent dynamics that allows to derive analytically a criterion for the optimal distance threshold. The goodness of fit is assessed by a utility function which assumes a local maximum for that threshold reflecting the optimal estimate of the system's recurrence structure. We validate our approach by means of the nonlinear Lorenz system and its linearized stochastic surrogates. The final application to neurophysiological time series obtained from anesthetized animals illustrates the method and reveals novel dynamic features of the underlying system. As a conclusion, we propose the number of optimal recurrence domains as a statistic for classifying an animals' state of consciousness.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to EPL. External Supplement available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301525222_GrabenEA_EPLsupp
Nectria lateritia Rossman, Mycol. Pap.
Creators: name: Yang, Qin
name: Du, Zhuo
name: Liang, Ying-Mei
name: Tian, Cheng-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Nectriaceae
Nectria
Nectria lateritia

description: Nectria lateritia (P. Karst.) Rossman, Mycol. Pap. 150: 22. 1983.
 Description and illustration:— Hirooka et al. (2012).
 Habitat:—On the bark and dead wood of dicotyledonous trees, including Manihot utilissima (Euphorbiaceae).
 Distribution:—Asia (China, Malaysia), South America (Brazil, Venezuela).
 Notes:— Nectria lateritia was recorded from Eriobotrya japonica in China (Tai 1979). It was described and illustrated by Rossman (1983) and by Samuels & Brayford (1994). This species is similar to both N. pseudocinnabarina and N. pseudotrichia in the structure of its ascomatal wall, synnematous anamorph. However, N. lateritia differs from these species in having 3-septate, striate ascospores (Hirooka et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Yang, Qin, Du, Zhuo, Liang, Ying-Mei & Tian, Cheng-Ming, 2018, Molecular phylogeny of Nectria species associated with dieback and canker diseases in China, with a new species described, pp. 199-214 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13706646
Human trafficking into peacekeeping areas: the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Creators: name: Kuneviciute, Ieva
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: peace keeping
trafficking
Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina

description: Second semester University: University of Padua.
description: This thesis deals with human trafficking into peacekeeping areas, and especially the paradoxical link between a peacekeeping mission and intensified human trafficking to a host country: it has been proved that arrival and presence of international personnel increase the demand for trafficked persons, nevertheless, peacekeeping personnel is also found to be involved in sexual exploitation and abuse against the local population, including human trafficking mainly for forced prostitution. International community acknowledged and addressed this issue in early 2000s by adopting various instruments prohibiting sexual exploitation and abuse by international staff. Gender mainstreaming policies are now also included in the mandates of peacekeeping missions. The main focus of the thesis is to analyse and compare the effects of two UN peacekeeping missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and Kosovo (UNMIK). The case study is conducted in order to examine the trends of human trafficking, and adequacy and effectiveness of international and national policies and other measures taken to address this issue and combat human trafficking into peacekeeping areas. The thesis concludes that there was a strong link between increased human trafficking and the presence of international personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Nevertheless, peacekeeping personnel were alleged of sexual exploitation against local population. Finally, gender mainstreaming policy is recommended as one of the best approach to address this issue.
An Exploration of Out of School Time Programs Designed for Low-Income Elementary Students in the United States
Creators: name: Doran, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Low-income students in the United States face a number of educational challenges that their middle and high income peers do not face, and often do not achieve to the same extent as middle or high income students. Little progress has been made in the last few decades to eliminate this achievement gap. One model for eliminating this gap is to implement effective out of school time (OST) programs designed for low-income students. Many studies have shown that these programs can produce positive academic and socio-emotional/behavioral outcomes. In this literature review, the findings of fifteen studies are outlined including the effective features of OST programs as well as their positive impact on students’ academic and socio-emotional/behavioral outcomes. The literature review shows how OST programs that implement effective features can serve as a model for reducing the achievement gap between low and high income students.
Cold-gas outflows in typical low-redshift galaxies are driven by star formation, not AGN
Creators: name: Sarzi, Marc
name: Kaviraj, Sugata
name: Nedelchev, Boris
name: Tiffany, Joshua
name: Shabala, Stanislav S.
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Middleberg, Enno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energetic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is an important ingredient for regulating the star-formation history of galaxies in models of galaxy formation, which makes it important to study how AGN feedback actually occurs in practice. In order to catch AGNs in the act of quenching star formation we have used the interstellar NaD absorption lines to look for cold-gas outflows in a sample of 456 nearby galaxies for which we could unambigously ascertain the presence of radio AGN activity, thanks to radio imaging at milli-arcsecond scales. While compact radio emission indicating a radio AGN was found in 103 galaxies (23% of the sample), and 23 objects (5%) exhibited NaD absorption-line kinematics suggestive of cold-gas outflows, not one object showed evidence of a radio AGN and of a cold-gas outflow simultaneously. Radio AGN activity was found predominantly in early-type galaxies, while cold-gas outflows were mainly seen in spiral galaxies with central star-formation or composite star-formation/AGN activity. Optical AGNs also do not seem capable of driving galactic winds in our sample. Our work adds to a picture of the low-redshift Universe where cold-gas outflows in massive galaxies are generally driven by star formation and where radio-AGN activity occurs most often in systems in which the gas reservoir has already been significantly depleted.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters, 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Nectria triseptata Z. Q. Zeng & W. Y. Zhuang
Creators: name: Yang, Qin
name: Du, Zhuo
name: Liang, Ying-Mei
name: Tian, Cheng-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Nectriaceae
Nectria
Nectria triseptata

description: Nectria triseptata Z.Q. Zeng & W.Y. Zhuang, Nova Hedwigia, 101: 330. 2015.
 Description and illustration:—Z.Q. Zeng & W.Y. Zhuang (2015).
 Habitat:—On a rotten twig.
 Distribution:—Asia (China).
 Notes:— Nectria triseptata is most similar to N. novaezelandiae based on their perithecial morphology. However, the latter differs in having shorter asci (69–92 μm long) and smaller ascospores (17.5–24 μm vs. 6.5–9 μm) (Zeng & Zhuang 2015).
description: Published as part of Yang, Qin, Du, Zhuo, Liang, Ying-Mei & Tian, Cheng-Ming, 2018, Molecular phylogeny of Nectria species associated with dieback and canker diseases in China, with a new species described, pp. 199-214 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13706646
Primordial fluctuations from complex AdS saddle points
Creators: name: Hertog, Thomas
name: van der Woerd, Ellen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One proposal for dS/CFT is that the Hartle-Hawking (HH) wave function in the large volume limit is equal to the partition function of a Euclidean CFT deformed by various operators. All saddle points defining the semiclassical HH wave function in cosmology have a representation in which their interior geometry is part of a Euclidean AdS domain wall with complex matter fields. We compute the wave functions of scalar and tensor perturbations around homogeneous isotropic complex saddle points, turning on single scalar field matter only. We compare their predictions for the spectra of CMB perturbations with those of a different dS/CFT proposal based on the analytic continuation of inflationary universes to real asymptotically AdS domain walls. We find the predictions of both bulk calculations agree to first order in the slow roll parameters, but there is a difference at higher order which, we argue, is a signature of the HH state of the fluctuations.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, journal version, minor corrections
Systematic study of longitudinal and transverse helicity amplitudes in the hypercentral Constituent Quark Model
Creators: name: Giannini, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predictions of the hypercentral Consituent Quark Model for the nucleon helicity amplitudes are briefly reported. Some future perspectives are also discussed.
Reproductive tourism in Europe: legal and ethical issues : the cases of Sweden and Greece
Creators: name: Pikramenou, Nikoletta
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: human reproductive technology
Greece
Europe
moral and ethical aspects
legal aspects
Sweden

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University.
description: Reproductive tourism refers to the travelling of citizens from their country of residence to another country in order to receive fertility treatment through assisted reproductive technology (ART)1. In Europe, the reasons why people seek reproductive treatments outside their national boundaries are diverse but mainly because regulations differ a lot among countries. The legislations concerning ART are usually based upon different ethical perceptions and convictions. Sweden is considered as a country with restricted legislation on ART and many Swedish citizens seek ART services abroad. On the other hand, Greece is not considered as a country with a restricted legal framework and it constitutes a destination for “reproductive tourists”. Although “reproductive tourism” could be considered as a safe solution for infertile individuals, the phenomenon is often presented as problematic because it is often associated with legal implications as well as health dangers for the parties involved. In the end of this thesis, possible solutions to these problematic effects will be addressed in the light of the fact that “reproductive tourism” is an expanding phenomenon.
Bringing minority rights home : the effective protection of minorities in the enlarged European Union: possible goal or just a myth?
Creators: name: Pirkova, Eliska
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: minority rights
European Union

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki
description: This thesis analyses whether the European Union needs to establish a legal framework to protect the rights of national minorities living in its Member States. It focuses mostly on the accession process to the European Union, as minority protection constitutes one of the Copenhagen Political Criteria. This matter is examined trough a case studies of Slovakia, Latvia and Turkey, countries with complicated situations of their minority groups. It shows how strong impact, if any the EU conditionality had within the candidate states regarding minority protection. As it is demonstrated, the European Union has not resolved these problems, largely because the European Union lacks consistent and uniform standards on minority protection. It is argued that as the European Union enlarges further, there is a strong need for consistent and uniform standards of internal and external protection of minority rights. In its conclusion the study proposes several possible alternatives that could help the European Union to ensure consistency of standards in the accession process, as well as resolve remaining issues of minorities internally.
A System for Sensing Human Sentiments to Augment a Model for Predicting Rare Lake Events
Creators: name: Pabico, Jaderick P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fish kill events (FKE) in the caldera lake of Taal occur rarely (only 0.5\% in the last 10 years) but each event has a long-term effect on the environmental health of the lake ecosystem, as well as a devastating effect on the financial and emotional aspects of the residents whose livelihood rely on aquaculture farming. Predicting with high accuracy when within seven days and where on the vast expanse of the lake will FKEs strike will be a very important early warning tool for the lake's aquaculture industry. Mathematical models to predict the occurrences of FKEs developed by several studies done in the past use as predictors the physico-chemical characteristics of the lake water, as well as the meteorological parameters above it. Some of the models, however, did not provide acceptable predictive accuracy and enough early warning because they were developed with unbalanced binary data set, i.e., characterized by dense negative examples (no FKE) and highly sparse positive examples (with FKE). Other models require setting up an expensive sensor network to measure the water parameters not only at the surface but also at several depths. Presented in this paper is a system for capturing, measuring, and visualizing the contextual sentiment polarity (CSP) of dated and geolocated social media microposts of residents within 10km radius of the Taal Volcano crater ($14^\circ$N, $121^\circ$E). High frequency negative CSP co-occur with FKE for two occasions making human expressions a viable non-physical sensors for impending FKE to augment existing mathematical models.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, appeared in Proceedings of the Joint 12th International Agricultural Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 65th PSAE National Convention, and 26th Philippine Agricultural Engineering Week (PSAE 2015), KCC Convention and Events Center, General Santos City, Philippines, 19-25 April 2015
Nectria pseudocinnabarina Rossman, Mem.
Creators: name: Yang, Qin
name: Du, Zhuo
name: Liang, Ying-Mei
name: Tian, Cheng-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Hypocreales
Nectriaceae
Nectria
Nectria pseudocinnabarina

description: Nectria pseudocinnabarina Rossman, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 49: 260. 1989.
 Description and illustration:— Hirooka et al. (2012) and Zhuang (2013).
 Habitat:—On the bark of dicotyledonous trees.
 Distribution:—Asia (China), Caribbean, South America.
 Notes:— Nectria pseudocinnabarina was described by Rossman (1989) and re-assessed by Samuels & Brayford (1994). A similar ascomatal wall structure was observed in N. lateritia, N. pseudadelphica, and N. pseudotrichia, species known only from tropical regions. Their ascospore differences clearly distinguish these four species (Hirooka et al. 2012). Zhuang (2013) described and illustrated N. pseudocinnabarina, which had been collected from Hebei and Qinghai provinces in China, and his description agreed well with that given by Hirooka et al. (2012).
description: Published as part of Yang, Qin, Du, Zhuo, Liang, Ying-Mei & Tian, Cheng-Ming, 2018, Molecular phylogeny of Nectria species associated with dieback and canker diseases in China, with a new species described, pp. 199-214 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13706646
Understanding Student Opinions on Race, Meritocracy, and Diversity in a Race-Conscious Age
Creators: name: Arney, Kathleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This study, modeled after a 2016 study by Natasha Warikoo at Harvard, Brown, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities, examines student opinions on race, meritocracy, and diversity through the lens of affirmative action. It focuses on the opinions of students at a Southern University to illuminate the tools students use to navigate racial issues and provide an understanding of current racial attitudes. “Opinions on affirmative action policy” was chosen as the proxy for student attitudes on race, meritocracy, and diversity because of student awareness, relevance to student life, and the opportunity to examine how students understand meritocracy and diversity when systematic inequality seemingly places the two at odds. This study attempts explorational understanding of how students navigate racial issues on campus, which will be used to develop existing knowledge on Southern, college-educated, student opinions. Data on student opinions was collected through an online survey, with approximately 470 student respondents and 16 in-depth interviews. The survey gathered information on student demographics as well as general attitudes on issues of race, meritocracy, and diversity on campus. The interview questions launched deeper discussion of these topics with open-ended questions aimed at better understanding how students manage concepts of race relations. The quantitative data was analyzed using factor analysis and logistic regression models and the qualitative data were used to explain trends in the quantitative findings. Findings suggest that while race was previously considered the most significant influence on people’s opinions about affirmative action, political affiliation is increasing in its significance related to how students manage concepts of race, meritocracy, and diversity. These findings provide insight to the college student mindset during an era marked by changing dynamics in race relations due to the Trump campaign and administration and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Replication Data and Code for "Air Pollution Mortality from India's Coal Power Plants: Unit-level Estimates for Targeted Policy"
Creators: name: Singh, Kirat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This file contains all the data and code needed to replicate the results and figures in the manuscript "Air Pollution Mortality from India's Coal Power Plants: Unit-level Estimates for Targeted Policy". Selected intermediate datasets are also provided in case users do not wish to re-compute the entire pipeline. A README file is provided that contains instructions on how to run the pipeline.
The role of EU in the management of humanitarian crises in Africa: a critical analysis of the situation of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Creators: name: Ngueuleu Djeuga, Isidore Collins
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: humanitarian assistance
Africa
Congo
humanitarian intervention
European Union

description: Second semester University: University of Deusto, Bilbao
description: Following its ambition to become a major actor in the international security and peacebuilding, the European Union has developed in Africa a strong and comprehensive framework for humanitarian crisis management. Taking DRC as the first case of experimentation, EU and its member states have taken the necessary steps to implement the new humanitarianism consisting in managing a crisis by taking in account both humanitarian needs and crisis management and peacebuilding activities. This has led to a strong humanitarian commitment through ECHO, two military interventions and two civilian crisis management missions, in addition to member states bilateral cooperation. But this strong involvement making EU and member states the first donor of DRC is weaken by a lack of coordination stemming from the difficult dialogue between the community pillar and the common and foreign policy pillar, but also by different views between the European Commission and the European Council. This has led us to two main conclusions. First the action of EU is weakened because of a lack of coordination within EU and between EU and other actors. This can explain the incoherence between EU actions and the need on the field or the different views and priorities between EU and the member states. Second EU actions are weakened because of bad monitoring of the measures taken to tackle the root causes of the humanitarian situation such as embargo on arms, judicial initiatives. But also lack of proactive measures such as binding mechanisms to prevent Human Rights violations by European multinationals involved in illicit mining trade in the East and to hold them accountable in case of violation. This study tries to understand through DRC the role of EU as an international actor in humanitarian crisis management in Africa.