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This deliverable documents the EMC2 project’s public dissemination event in Austria, a two-day symposium hosted by the Urban Design Research Group at TU Wien (TUW-UD) on 20–21 February 202…

This deliverable documents the EMC2 project’s public dissemination event in Austria, a two-day symposium hosted by the Urban Design Research Group at TU Wien (TUW-UD) on 20–21 February 2025.  Delegates from all partner institutions—ESPACE (France), SMoG (Sweden), DESTEC (Italy)—joined TUW-UD in Vienna. The internal programme coordinated work in WP2 and WP3 and set the consortium’s 2025 dissemination plan. The public session (20 February) featured a welcome by Angelika Psenner, a project introduction by Giovanni Fusco, an overview of the DUT Partnership by Maximilian Jäger, and a keynote by Kurt Hofstetter (MA 50) on the “Potential for the 15-minute city in peripheral urban areas.” Project contributions included: TUW-UD on the catalogue of linear settlements and morphogenetic diagrams; SMoG on diachronic road network analysis; and ESPACE on a catalogue of settlement structures on the French Riviera. The document contains a report, timetable, photo documentation and announcement poster of the event, as well as the posters from the WP3 exhibition and research-led teaching.   This resource was produced within the emc2 project, which is funded by ANR (France, grant ANR-23-DUTP-0003), FFG (Austria, grant FO999905461), MUR (Italy, grant 2024/0017648) and Vinnova (Sweden, grant 2023-02581) under the Driving Urban Transition Partnership, which has been co-funded by the European Commission.

This study explored the difficulties and the ways the teacher education students manage lesson plan writing at Christ the King College de Maranding. A qualitative case design was utilized; fifteen stu…

This study explored the difficulties and the ways the teacher education students manage lesson plan writing at Christ the King College de Maranding. A qualitative case design was utilized; fifteen students from Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in English, provided information through a validated guide questionnaire. The Merriam & Tisdell served as the method for data examination, which helped the researchers identify recurring themes. Research findings showed that students faced difficulties in lesson plan writing because their understanding of the process is limited. It has been observed that these individuals struggled to create SMART objectives, while the use of different teaching methods, adding modern tools, and meeting the needs of every student led to many problems during lesson plan writing. Although these problems existed, the individuals used different methods to survive, which included working with friends, asking their teachers for help, and using internet tools. The information gathered helps to make classroom preparation stronger, while the information makes sure that the individuals are ready for the working position in the educational environment. These insights contribute to strengthening instructional preparation, ensuring student-teachers’ readiness for classroom practice, and guiding future research on lesson planning in the context of evolving educational demands.

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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions to shift abruptly from classroom learning to online platforms. Nursing students experienced academic disruption, limited clinical exp…

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions to shift abruptly from classroom learning to online platforms. Nursing students experienced academic disruption, limited clinical exposure, technological barriers, and social isolation, all of which contributed to heightened stress levels. Managing stress through simple coping strategies is essential to protect students’ mental wellbeing and academic performance. Deep-breathing exercises are known to stimulate relaxation and reduce physiological stress responses. Aim To assess stress levels before and after online deep-breathing guidance among BSc Nursing students during online learning, and to determine whether the intervention effectively reduces stress. Methods and Tools A quasi-experimental one-group pre-test post-test design was adopted among 60 purposively selected first- and second-year BSc Nursing students from a selected nursing college in Coimbatore. Data were collected using a self-structured questionnaire that included demographic details, online-learning-related variables, and a 20-item Likert-scale stress assessment tool. Participants received online guidance and daily demonstrations of deepbreathing exercises for five consecutive days, after which the same stress tool was administered again. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. Results The mean pre-test stress score was 46.62, indicating a moderate stress level. After the intervention, the mean post-test score decreased to 37.45, producing a mean difference of 9.17, demonstrating a significant reduction in stress. Findings confirmed that guided deep-breathing exercises were effective in reducing stress among nursing students during online learning. Discussion The study demonstrated that nursing students were psychologically impacted by online learning during the pandemic, echoing global findings that uncertainty, workload, network issues, lack of clinical exposure, and pandemic fear elevate stress. Deep-breathing exercises served as an accessible, low-cost coping strategy that could be practiced without equipment and produced immediate physiological relaxation. Therefore, integrating structured stress-management interventions—such as breathing practices—into nursing education may support students’ mental wellbeing, academic performance, and resilience during crisis-driven shifts to remote learning

Halemane’s Theory on the Collatz (3x+1) System     © Dr.(Prof.) Keshava Prasad Halemane, Professor - retired (2017JAN31) from Department of Mathematical And Computational Science…

Halemane’s Theory on the Collatz (3x+1) System     © Dr.(Prof.) Keshava Prasad Halemane, Professor - retired (2017JAN31) from Department of Mathematical And Computational Sciences, National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, Srinivasnagar, Mangaluru - 575025, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-3521 Independent Researcher @ SASHESHA (no affiliations; no funding; no data used; no conflict of interests) https://www.linkedin.com/in/keshavaprasadahalemane/ k.prasad.h@gmail.com     Abstract   This paper presents certain details about the development of Halemane’s Theory on the Collatz (3x+1) System.  The concept of binary-exponential-ladder BEL has been introduced, to enable effective merging/absorption of repeated application of the Collatz even-operator (x/2) whenever valid, within the corresponding BEL.  The set of all binary exponential ladders has a direct bijective mapping with the set of all positive integers.  Every positive odd integer corresponds to the unique defining-base-rung of a BEL; whereas every positive even integer corresponds to a non-base higher rung of the corresponding BEL.  The immediate-successor relation is defined as a unique one-to-one binary-relation on the set of binary exponential ladders, using the condensed compact Collatz odd-to-odd function.  Therefore, the network of binary exponential ladders BELnet provides an exact mathematical representation of the Collatz system.  Note that the condensed compact inverse Collatz (CTUHSK) odd-to-odd function defines the immediate-predecessor relation, which is shown to be a one-to-many mapping. A structured system framework H has been designed merely as a well-organized condensation of BELnet by exploiting the partial order relation in BELnet; to achieve a linear strict order in the structured system framework H.   An order-isomorphism is established between the relevant component Hs (with an invariant-base-element H0) of the structured system framework H and the set of positive integers.  This provides the necessary condition that starting with any integer in Hs the Collatz sequence converges to the trivial-cycle contained in BEL(1) which is the invariant-base-element or the sink-node H0 in Hs.   The sufficient condition is provided by a reductio-ad-absurdum argument (along with an exceptionally unique modular arithmetic characteristic property of the Collatz system) that is used to demonstrate domain exhaustion; having already captured all the modular-residue-classes in Hs; logically excluding the existence of any extraneous elements or objects or sub-systems such as disjoint loops/cycles H¥ and/or divergent chains H& or even any/all non-standard objects, in H.   Some directions for possible future research work on algorithmic / computational characteristics of the Collatz system have also been presented.  A situation has been identified wherein the emergence of global system properties through persistent local subsystem characteristics can be clearly demonstrated.   Halemane-Conjecture states that the upper limit on the number of odd (3x+1) operations required to reach the trivial-cycle {(1⇐2⇐4)} starting from any given positive integer and moving along the Collatz sequence, is the given number itself; the triad {(31⇐41⇐27)} being an exceptional limiting case.   This paper also presents certain exploratory studies on related systems – (1) Halemane’s (1.x+1)/2 System; (2) Halemane’s (2.x±1)/3 System; (3) Halemane’s (3.x±1)/4 System; and (4) Halemane’s (3.x+1)/4 System which is a clone of the Collatz (3x+1) System.     Keywords: Binary-Exponential-Ladder; Modular-Periodicity; Arborescence;          CTUHSK-Theorem; CTUHSK-Generative-Parameters;          Collatz-Thwaites-Ulam-Hasse-Syracuse-Kakutani (CTUHSK) Sequence;          Collatz-Thwaites-Ulam-Hasse-Syracuse-Kakutani (CTUHSK) Conjecture;          Order-Isomorphism; Dedekind-Peano Axioms; Convergence;          Halemane’s (1.x+1)/2 System; Halemane’s (2.x±1)/3 System;          Halemane’s (3.x±1)/4 System; Halemane’s (3.x+1)/4 System;          Halemane’s Conjecture on the Collatz (3x+1) System.     AMS MSC Mathematics Subject Classification:  11B83; 11Y55; 93A05; 93A99.     Summary   We established a two stage bijective mapping from the Collatz-domain to a meticulously designed structured system framework H with a careful reorganization & condensation :- in the first stage, a bijective mapping from the Collatz-domain to BELnet, that is the network of  Binary-Exponential-Ladders defined on the set of positive odd numbers; and then in the second stage, a bijective mapping from BELnet to the structured system framework H.  Then we established the order-isomorphism between the relevant component Hs (that is shown to be a well-ordered infinite linear sequence; or rather a hierarchy; or indeed an arborescence of the Binary-Exponential-Ladders having its root; with the invariant-base-element H0 of the structured system framework H) and the set of positive integers; providing the necessary condition.  A sufficient condition is provided through a reductio-ad-absurdum argument (along with an exceptionally unique modular arithmetic characteristic property of the Collatz system) that establishes domain exhaustion; having already captured all the modular (MOD3) residue-classes in Hs; and guarantees the non-existence of any extraneous objects like disjoint loops/cycles and/or divergent chains.  Since the Collatz (3x+1) Conjecture is restricted to the set of natural numbers, the existence of any non-standard ‘rogue’ and/or ‘ghost’ elements are of no concern here.   The entire dynamics of the Collatz (3x+1) system has been captured in a dynamically evolving graded algebraic structure of ideal based filtration scheme with divisibility classes for modulo-3 quotient-semiring generated by the primitive-root 2; along with a filtration shifting global affine transformation for a Euclidean expansion shift to the topmost coprime layer of that filtration scheme, avoiding the modulo-multiple-layer (zero layer) and also all the nilpotent layers with nilpotent elements (dead-end zero-divisors) like (6m-3) and (6m-0).  The trivial-cycle {(1⇐2⇐4)} is bypassed by an initialization phase for the filtration scheme, starting directly with the modul-9 coprime layer.  The transitive closure of the Collatz (3x+1) system is exactly represented by the transitive closure of this dynamically evolving algebraic system which is indeed the complete set of natural numbers.  This design for the system-dynamics-framework by itself provides a definitive-proof of the Collatz (3x+1) conjecture, establishing that the entire Collatz map is exactly represented by this dynamically-evolving graded-algebraic-structure defined on the set of all natural numbers; neither missing any natural-number nor including any extraneous-elements; providing both the necessary-&-sufficient condition simultaneously in one single sweep.   As a direction towards future research work, we have also presented a possible alternative approach in proving this convergence, using modular arithmetic for the conditions to be satisfied by the CTUHSK generative parameters or equivalently the exponents in a closed-form expression for generating the reverse Collatz sequence corresponding to any given positive odd number.   It is observed that the consistent & persistent application of the modular arithmetic characteristics associated with the local neighborhood of BELnet imposed by the CTUHSK function gives rise to the emergence of the global system property associated with the structured system framework that forms an arborescence (hierarchy) of BELnet.  This leads to an upper limit on the depth in the arborescence or the rank/level in the hierarchy that one needs to analyse in order to reach for the existence of a binary-exponential-ladder with the desired positive odd number as its defining-base-rung in BELnet.   Halemane-Conjecture states that the maximum number of odd (3x+1) operations required to reach the trivial-cycle {(1⇐2⇐4)} starting from any given positive integer and moving along the Collatz sequence, is limited by that given number itself; with the triad {(31⇐41⇐27)} as an exceptional limiting case.   Finally, in order to gain mastery over the Collatz (3x+1) system, it is proposed to understand some of the related systems of somewhat simpler algebraic/arithmetic/numerical characteristics.  We present four such systems - (1) Halemane’s (1.x+1)/2 System; (2) Halemane’s (2.x±1)/3 System; (3) Halemane’s (3.x±1)/4 System; and (4) Halemane’s (3.x+1)/4 System which is a clone of the Collatz (3x+1) System.  

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Abstract: The media has been credited with playing a role in the construction of public meanings for politically contentious economic policies. The 2023 Finance Bill in Kenya, in view of the politiciz…

Abstract: The media has been credited with playing a role in the construction of public meanings for politically contentious economic policies. The 2023 Finance Bill in Kenya, in view of the politicization and public reactions it sparked across Kenya, proved to be a good case for exploring the nexus between language, ideology and the public sphere. This study examines the use of linguistic and discourse strategies in media constructions of the Finance Bill 2023 in Kenyan newspapers. Using the tenets of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as enunciated by Fairclough's three-dimensional model of discourse, the research analyses the three April-March newspapers covering the 2023 Finance Bill, specifically the Daily Nation and the Standard in the period between March and July, 2023. Specifically, it draws attention to lexical and evaluational language, metaphor and figurative language as well as discursive strategy of representation and framing. The study reveals that the papers do not assume a passive or neutral reporting mode in their presentation of the 2023 Finance Bill, rather, they actively constructed various interpretations of the finance Bill through, for instance, a wide variety of lexemes and evaluative vocabulary used to depict the Finance bill in terms of its potential role in reforming the economy, causing citizens unbearable financial distress, and threatening the well-being of the citizenry in various ways. Also evident are various metaphorics and figures of speech which brought to fore salient concepts of the Bill such as the economic strain/burden, financial distress/pressure, livelihood as a burden and necessity or a quest for financial prosperity; also apparent are other discursive strategies of foregrounding government, opposition and public citizens' voices that helped construct the Finance Bill as sites of a multidirectional interaction and conflict.

La diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es una enfermedad crónica altamente prevalente que se asocia frecuentemente con otras comorbilidades, principalmente con patologías cardiovasculares y renales…

La diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es una enfermedad crónica altamente prevalente que se asocia frecuentemente con otras comorbilidades, principalmente con patologías cardiovasculares y renales. Este hecho, junto con las complicaciones derivadas de la propia enfermedad, tiene un gran impacto en la calidad de vida de las personas que la padecen. El reporte sobre síntesis para las políticas 'Atención sanitaria a la población con diabetes en País Vasco' incluye unas recomendaciones para la toma de decisiones derivadas del Atlas de la atención sanitaria de la diabetes en País Vasco, publicado en  https://cienciadedatosysalud.org/publicaciones/sintesis-para-las-politicas-diabetes-paisvasco-oct-26

Ushbu ishda Rosaceae oilasiga mansub Rosa canina L. o‘simligining farmakologik xususiyatlari va uning urug‘laridan olinadigan quruq ekstraktning biologik potensiali bo‘yicha ilmiy ad…

Ushbu ishda Rosaceae oilasiga mansub Rosa canina L. o‘simligining farmakologik xususiyatlari va uning urug‘laridan olinadigan quruq ekstraktning biologik potensiali bo‘yicha ilmiy adabiyotlar tahlil qilindi. Rosa canina L. tarkibida fenolik birikmalar, flavonoidlar, karotinoidlar, organik kislotalar, vitaminlar hamda yog‘ kislotalari kabi biologik faol moddalar mavjudligi aniqlangan. Adabiyot ma’lumotlariga ko‘ra, o‘simlik xomashyosi va undan olingan preparatlar antioksidant, yallig‘lanishga qarshi, gepatoprotektor va immunomodulyator faollik namoyon qilishi mumkin. Ayniqsa, urug‘lar tarkibidagi to‘yinmagan yog‘ kislotalari va boshqa lipofil komponentlar ulardan olinadigan ekstraktlarni farmatsevtik nuqtayi nazardan o‘rganish uchun muhim ahamiyatga ega. O‘simlikning biologik faol moddalari miqdori geografik kelib chiqishi, iqlim va tuproq sharoitlari, o‘simlikning rivojlanish bosqichi, xomashyoni yig‘ish vaqti hamda ekstraksiya texnologiyasiga bog‘liq ravishda o‘zgarishi mumkin. Shu sababli O‘zbekiston sharoitida o‘sadigan Rosa canina L. urug‘laridan standartlashtirilgan quruq ekstrakt olish va uning farmakologik xususiyatlarini o‘rganish dolzarb ilmiy yo‘nalishlardan biri hisoblanadi.

🌟 Skrub 0.11.0 has been released 🌟 What's Changed Main Features Add CategoricalEncoder combining OneHotEncoder and TargetEncoder by @faithlesstomas in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2244 ad…

🌟 Skrub 0.11.0 has been released 🌟 What's Changed Main Features Add CategoricalEncoder combining OneHotEncoder and TargetEncoder by @faithlesstomas in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2244 add caching to .skb.apply by @jeromedockes in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2017 FEAT - Optimize session encoder to improve performance by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2285 Exposing transformations applied by Cleaner and TableVectorizer by @emassoulie in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2122 Other Changes Adding banner linking to the DOI by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2265 Renaming TextEncoder -> LLMEncoder by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2255 MAINT - move the docs folder to the skrub folder by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2274 DOC - expanding the docstring of data ops by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2277 Support tuple unpacking of DataOps by @e-strauss in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2243 feat: take pipeline's estimator into account to decide tabular vectorizer options in TabularPipeline by @khaoulariad in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2152 MAINT - bumping minimum reqs for release 0.11 by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2280 fix(ToDatetime): accept pandas columns of datetime.date objects by @Sanjays2402 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2231 DOC - Adding guide on describing transformations by @rcap107 in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2297 feat: add accept_numeric kwarg to ToCategorical by @lisaleemcb in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2252 Fix Issue 2114: Accept estimators that don't inherit from sklearn.BaseEstimator in tabular_pipeline by @ljdyer in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2225 speed up dataop graph walk during checks by @jeromedockes in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2296 Dataop reports have links to source code by @jeromedockes in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2292 .skb.full_report(eval=False) by @jeromedockes in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2308 full_report -> report by @jeromedockes in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2310 New Contributors @Khadija-de made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2212 @ashwinvis made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2222 @ashiorkornortey made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2103 @amir-rezaei made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2230 @ShreyanshGoyal made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2216 @Jayant-kernel made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2245 @Hrafz made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2238 @dylanpulver made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2250 @khaoulariad made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2152 @Sanjays2402 made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2231 @vedant1100 made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2282 @ljdyer made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2225 @faithlesstomas made their first contribution in https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/pull/2244 Full Changelog: https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub/compare/0.10.1...0.11.0