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Letter From Clayton N. Fidler to Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 10, 1948
No full textA handwritten letter from Clayton N. Fidler addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 10, 1948. Within, Fidler provides Shoemaker with knowledge about what Ash Wednesday was called in his locality and the customs that followed. A story about a childhood game like hide and seek is also detailed.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1117/thumbnail.jp
David P. Fidler, SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease
No full textGuilloux Alain, Ruiz-Lescot Nicolas. David P. Fidler, SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°92, 2005. pp. 63-64
Relativistic bias in neutrino cosmologies
No full textHalos and galaxies are tracers of the underlying dark matter structures. While their bias is well understood in the case of a simple Universe composed dominantly of dark matter, the relation becomes more complex in the presence of massive neutrinos. Indeed massive neutrinos introduce rich dynamics in the process of structure formation leading to scale-dependent bias. We study this process from the perspective of general relativity employing a simple spherical collapse model. We find a characteristic signature at the neutrino free-streaming scale in addition to a large-scale feature from general relativity. The scale-dependent halo bias opposes the suppression in the matter distribution due to neutrino free-streaming and leads to corrections of a few percent in the halo power spectrum. It is not only sensitive to the sum of the neutrino-masses, but respond to the individual masses. Accurate models for the neutrino bias are a crucial ingredient for the future data analysis and play an important role in constraining the neutrino masses
Educational and professional possibilities of persons with physical impairments on the field of sport
No full textV magistrskem delu smo ugotavljali, kakšne so izobraževalne možnosti oseb z gibalno oviranostjo na področju športa, kateri so dejavniki poklicne izbire oseb z gibalno oviranostjo in v koliki meri se osebe z gibalno oviranostjo ukvarjajo s športom. V teoretičnem delu smo osvetlili problematiko terminologije s področja oseb z invalidnostjo, ki se pojavlja v slovenskem prostoru, podrobneje prikazali različne klasifikacije in problematiko uveljavljanja pravic oseb z invalidnostjo do enakih možnosti na različnih sferah življenja, teorije poklicne/karierne orientacije ter organiziranost športa invalidov v Sloveniji na sistemski ravni. Podatke za empirični del smo pridobili s pomočjo anketnega vprašalnika namenjenega slovenskim fakultetam, ki izobražujejo poklice povezane s športom (N=3), in anketnega vprašalnika namenjenega osebam z gibalno oviranostjo, pri čemer smo se omejili na osebe z okvaro hrbtenjače (N=127). Ugotovili smo, da si osebe z gibalno oviranostjo v Sloveniji lahko pridobijo tako profesionalno kot amatersko izobrazbo s področja športa, vendar je informiranost oseb z okvaro hrbtenjače o teh možnostih majhna. Želeni poklic je zaradi okvare hrbtenjače nedostopen skoraj polovici oseb z okvaro hrbtenjače. Tem osebam je pri odločitvi za poklic pomembno prepričanje, da bodo šolanje zmogli in uspešno zaključili, zelo pomembni pa so tudi dejavniki, povezani z dostopnostjo in prilagojenostjo izobraževalne ustanove in delovnega mesta, kjer se lahko opravlja poklic. Med dejavniki socializacije, ki vplivajo na izbiro vpisa na izobraževalno ustanovo oziroma na izbiro poklica, osebe z okvaro hrbtenjače v največji meri izpostavljajo sprejemanje invalidnosti in spoštovanje potrebnih prilagoditev s strani profesorjev in vrstnikov, podporo družine in zagotovitev asistenta pri premagovanju arhitektonskih ovir. Po okvari hrbtenjače se s športom ukvarja več oseb kot pred okvaro hrbtenjače, vendar z drugimi športnimi panogami. Po okvari hrbtenjače upade rekreativna in naraste tekmovalna raven ukvarjanja s športom. Integracija oseb z okvaro hrbtenjače v športna društva je majhna, njihovi trenerji so večinoma osebe brez invalidnosti, kar ni v skladu z željami oseb z okvaro hrbtenjače in njihovim mnenjem o pomembnosti prenosa znanja med osebami z enako ali podobno invalidnostjo. Dokazani so številni ugodni vplivi plavanja in rekreativnega potapljanja na osebe z okvaro hrbtenjače. Stopnja plavalne pismenosti oseb z okvaro hrbtenjače je visoka, rekreativno potapljanje teh oseb pa v porastu.In this thesis, we have tried to find out what are the educational possibilities for the people with a physical impairment in the field of sports, which are the factors of their career choices and to what extent are they involved in sport. In the theoretical part, we put a focus on the terminology issues in the field of persons with impairments that occur in the Slovenian area. We further show the different classifications and issues of their rights to equal opportunities in different spheres in life of the persons with impairments. Then we discuss the theory of professional guidance and organization of sport on the system level for the persons with impairments in Slovenia. We acquired the data for the empirical part with the questionnaire which was given to the Slovenian faculties that educate sport professions (N=3) and the questionnaire that was intended for persons with a physical impairment whereby it was given to the persons with spinal cord injury (N=127). We have found out that people with physical impairment in Slovenia can acquire both professional and amateur education in the field of sport but the information about such opportunities for the people with spinal cord injury is limited. The desired occupation is inaccessible to half of the people with spinal cord injury. To those people it is of great importance the belief that they will be able to complete the education successfully. Very important are also factors related to accessibility and adjustment of educational institutions and the workplace, where they can pursue the profession. People with spinal cord injury are convinced that the socialization factors affecting the choice of enrolment at an educational institution or on the choice of profession, are largely the acceptance of disability and the respect for the necessary adjustments by teachers and peers, as well as the support of their families and the possibility of an assistant who can help to overcome architectural barriers. After the spinal cord injury more people practice sport than before injury, just they take part in the different sport disciplines. After spinal cord injury the recreational level decreases and the level of competition increases. The integration of the people with the spinal cord injury into the sport societies is small and their trainers are mostly without a disability. This is against their wishes because they believe that it is of great importance that the knowledge is transferred between people with the same or similar disability. It has been proven that there are many good influences, which are the result of people with spinal cord injury being involved in swimming and recreational diving. The level of swimming literacy of the people with spinal cord injury is high and the recreational diving of these persons is rising
Rousseau on International Relations. Éd. by Stanley Hoffmann and David P. Fidler, 1991
No full textLeclercle Jean-Louis. Rousseau on International Relations. Éd. by Stanley Hoffmann and David P. Fidler, 1991. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°24, 1992. Le matérialisme des Lumières. pp. 513-514
Cosmological -body simulations including radiation perturbations
No full textCosmological -body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian approximation, thus discarding general relativistic effects such as the coupling between matter and radiation ( photons and neutrinos). In this paper we investigate novel hybrid simulations which incorporate interactions between radiation and matter to the leading order in General Relativity, whilst evolving the matter dynamics in full non-linearity according to Newtonian theory. Our hybrid simulations come with a relativistic space-time and make it possible to investigate structure formation in a unified framework. In the present work we focus on simulations initialized at , and show that the extracted matter power spectrum receives up to corrections on very large scales through radiation. Our numerical findings compare favourably with linear analytical results from Fidler et al. (2016), from which we deduce that there cannot be any significant non-linear mode-coupling induced through linear radiation corrections
The Role of Epistemic Communities in the Global Response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Implications for Global Health Governance
No full textThe aim of this thesis was to understand the role of epistemic communities in the global response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), through the theoretical lens of Social Constructivism, in order to explain the extent to which ideational factors and normative power constructed through them contributed to the shaping of Global Health Governance (GHG) surrounding infectious disease outbreaks. The methodology of this thesis combined key informants interviews with archival document‐based research. Archival research consisted of gathering and reviewing government documents, publications of intergovernmental organizations, media reports, press briefings, and policy papers. Discourse analysis was employed to systematically examine the wide range of data gathered. The thesis explored how different discourses have driven the changes in public health reasoning and practice, in the form of prioritisation of certain actions in the global response to SARS at various points in time. In order to show the ideational shifts over time, the SARS story was divided into three key phases in terms of the progress of the outbreak. This thesis finds that the global response to the SARS outbreak over three phases was shaped by contestation among various discourses, which framed the perceived priority issues and policy responses pursued. These ideas did not simply arise as governing norms, but ideational success occurred as a result of collective advancement by actors who were coalesced around particular policy ideas. The thesis provided an account of the interplay between policy ideas and key actors, in the form of epistemic communities, and how epistemic communities served as key sources of advice to policy making during the SARS outbreak. The thesis demonstrates that in many ways, the GHG of SARS mirrored, the GHG of other global health issues in terms of framing of issues and the actors in the formation of and justification for interests in global health. By illustrating the origins and significance of the multiplicity of ideas shaping collective action on SARS, this thesis underscores that governance response in terms of policy outcomes is the product of reconciling health with a plethora of competing priorities, and political economic goals via social construction of reality. The thesis considered the implications of the findings for conceptual understanding of GHG of infectious diseases, and for strengthening policies and practices to address the global infectious disease outbreaks
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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Evolution or extinction? Reflections on the future of research in educational leadership and management
No full textConsideration of the quality, relevance and utility of research in educational leadership and management has been a growing concern of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners, but there is little agreement about its current state or priorities for development. The article reflects on the key criticisms that have been made of research in educational leadership and management in this issue, and elsewhere. It considers how we might begin to devise better ways of understanding its audiences, judging its quality and identifying priorities for the future. It argues that the research reflects its capture by those with particular interests or values, and impacts in ways which are complex and indirect. If educational leadership and management research is to be secure in its perceived value and contribution in the future, several developments are needed, including a greater emphasis on interdisciplinarity, an expansion of the range of methodologies, particularly qualtitative studies; and these shifts must be evident in training researchers as well as in the conduct of research
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