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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) A synthesis of funds of Identity research: Purposes, tools, pedagogical approaches, and outcomes

This review illuminates the growing body of funds of identity (FoI) scholarship and explores its contribution to breaking down deficit thinking and enhancing the inclusivity and equity of education. FoI theory aims to complement the funds of knowledge conceptual framework that draws attention to knowledge and competences of minoritized students. FoI theory is distinctive because of its focus on funds that are personally meaningful for students. The concept of FoI and its relationship with funds of knowledge scholarship are described, followed by an analysis of insights from FoI empirical research: (1) methodological tools that researchers have developed to identify students’ FoI and (2) pedagogical approaches utilized to connect to students’ FoI. Finally, the review offers an examination of evidence that research has yielded for effects that result from making links to students’ FoI, and makes recommendations for future work. areas are learning envi-ronments for meaningful learning, identity development, and diversity in education.
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) A synthesis of funds of Identity research: Purposes, tools, pedagogical approaches, and outcomes

This review illuminates the growing body of funds of identity (FoI) scholarship and explores its contribution to breaking down deficit thinking and enhancing the inclusivity and equity of education. FoI theory aims to complement the funds of knowledge conceptual framework that draws attention to knowledge and competences of minoritized students. FoI theory is distinctive because of its focus on funds that are personally meaningful for students. The concept of FoI and its relationship with funds of knowledge scholarship are described, followed by an analysis of insights from FoI empirical research: (1) methodological tools that researchers have developed to identify students’ FoI and (2) pedagogical approaches utilized to connect to students’ FoI. Finally, the review offers an examination of evidence that research has yielded for effects that result from making links to students’ FoI, and makes recommendations for future work. are learning envi-ronments for meaningful learning, identity development, and diversity in education.
PEACE: Private and Energy-Efficient Algorithm for Cardiac Evaluation on the EDGE using Modified Split Learning and Model Quantization

The classification of Electrocardiograms (ECG) signals is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring cardiovascular diseases. Recently, there has been increasing interest in leveraging efficient machine learning models for ECG classification. Optimizing computational resources in this domain is crucial for real-time analysis and reducing power consumption. In this paper, we introduce an efficient and personal ECG classification system that combines privacy-preserving distributed machine learning with model quantization to decrease computational complexity. The system includes an efficient modified split learning mechanism that saves 71.7% of the communications overhead and 46.5% of the computational complexity at the client compared to the original split learning system. Furthermore, we employed post-training quantization to enhance the efficiency of the client model, resulting in a remarkable 50x reduction in dynamic power consumption. Overall, our proposed system can enable the use of ECG classifiers on portable medical devices much more efficiently while preserving the privacy of patient data.
New climate change scenarios reveal uncertain future for Central Asian glaciers

Central Asian water resources largely depend on (glacier) melt water generated in the Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges, located in the basins of the Amu and Syr Darya rivers, important life lines in Central Asia and the prominent water source of the Aral Sea. To estimate future water availability in the region, it is thus necessary to project the 5 future glacier extent and volume in the Amu and Syr Darya river basins. The aim of this study is to quantify the impact of uncertainty in climate change projections on the future glacier extent in the Amu and Syr Darya river basins. The latest climate change projections provided by the fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) generated for the upcoming fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 10 Change (IPCC) are used to model future glacier extent in the Central Asian region for the two large river basins. The outcomes are compared to model results obtained with the climate change projections used for the fourth IPCC assessment (CMIP3). We use a regionalized glacier mass balance model to estimate changes in glacier extent as a function of glacier size and projections of temperature and precipitation. The model 15
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Work values : Their emergence and their consequences for labour market behaviour

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An Organic Geochemical Approach to Address Stratigraphic Issues: A Case Study of the Layang-Layangan Beds, Labuan Island, Nw Sabah Basin

The three main geological units on Labuan Island which is located within the NW Sabah Basin include the Temburong, Setap Shale and Belait Formations. The Temburong Formation (deep marine turbidites) is the oldest, followed by Setap Shale (outer neritic to littoral) and Belait Formations (fluvial and shallow marine). The sediments are generally divided into two phases of sediment deposition by a major unconformity known as the Lower Miocene Te5 unconformity (after Brondijk, 1962), or more popularly referred to in the petroleum industry as the Deep Regional Unconformity, or DRU (Levell, 1987). This study is centred on the Layang-Layangan Beds that lie beneath the sandstone and conglomerate ridge of the fluvial Lower Belait Formation. Previous authors have assigned the Layang-Layangan Beds to all of the three major geological formations on Labuan Island; Belait Formation (Wilson & Wong, 1964; Lee, 1977; Albaghdady et al., 2003), Setap Shale Formation (Liechti et al., 1960), and Temburong Formation (Madon, 1994). This confusion is not surprising as the Tertiary sediments in the NW Borneo region can be very difficult to tell apart based on field observations or conventional geological methods alone. Geochemical results from the analyses of the Labuan sediments, which included thermal maturity related-data derived from Source Rock Analyzer (SRA), organic petrography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were able characterise the different sediments as each of them have significant differences in their geochemical properties to produce unique geochemical profiles. The Layang-Layangan Beds display similarities in its geochemical profile with the overlying Belait Formation, while the Temburong Formation has a different and distinct geochemical profile compared to the Layang-Layangan Beds and Belait Formation. However, the Setap Shale and Temburong Formations are geochemically quite similar to a certain extent. Consequently, the existence of the DRU on Labuan Island that is thought to separate the Layang-Layangan Beds and the Lower Belait Formation is put into question since this regional unconformity surface is supposed to represent a drastic change in depositional environment (deep marine to fluvial), which appears to be a lot more subtle and gradual as indicated by the geochemistry data. The geochemical analysis workflow to characterise outcrop geology as demonstrated in this study is relatively cheap and simple, and should be considered when other geological methods do not give convincing results. In addition to that, it serves as a good and reliable independent method to verify ambiguous geological interpretations.
Inter-Subjectivity Consensus, Geopolitical Structure and Building “One Belt and One Road”

In 2013, Chinese president Xi Jinping proposed a major initiative of building "One Belt and One Road", which has got much attention from domestic and foreign societies. Based on the constructivism theory and method, this paper analyzed the text of the vision and the action and other literatures, summed up four major consensus of building the Belt and the Road among the main bodies. Combining with the analysis of the current and future development trend of geopolitical structure, we put the material factors, interest and inter-subjectivity into the "G2+" structure, and analyzed the causal and construction mechanism of such structure on building "One belt and One Road". On this basis, the paper discussed how the countries, such as the United States, Russia, India and other countries along the belt and the road define their self-identity and interest. The set of different countries' identities and interests will have a major impact on building "One Belt and One Road". Overall, to build the "One Belt and One Road" will be a long process. At the local level, building the "One Belt and One Road" should focus on Central Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East in the near future, and should promote the construction of the Belt and the Road from far and near. At the top designing level, we should broadcast positively and guide according to the current four consensuses in the "One Belt and One Road" among the main bodies.
Environmental and sustainability aspects in public procurements: perceptions of the Brazilian public sector

: In general, government procurement accounts for between 10% and 16% of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), making it an important part of the economy. Therefore, government procurement policies should be discussed in terms of sustainable consumption and production patterns. However, imprecision and lack of clarity regarding environmental and sustainability aspects are often seen as obstacles to their advancement. In this study, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is used to evaluate the perceptions of public servants working in Brazilian government bidding and contracting departments on issues related to the inclusion of environmental and sustainability aspects in public procurement procedures. Five key factors were identified – “Perspective,” “Legal and Institutional Support,” “Market Relations,” “Acquisition Costs,” and “Public Servant Participation” – of which the latter factor emerged as the most relevant according to hierarchical evaluation. In this way, the participation of public servants in this debate, associated with professional training and improvement courses, is a fundamental condition for the success of the policies proposed.
Estimating Soil Quality Indicators Using Remote Sensing Data: An Application of Machine Learning Regression Models

Intensive agriculture has resulted in a decline in soil quality, presenting significant challenges in terms of increasing agricultural productivity while maintaining environmental sustainability. Consequently, farmers require methodologies that integrate low-cost technologies for data collection and processing with traditional soil quality assessment tools to estimate soil quality indicators (SQIs). This study presents an application of machine learning regression models to estimate soil quality in local-scale agricultural systems through the processing of a georeferenced-multidimensional database. Additionally, the impact of eight standardization methods on the performance of the machine learning models is investigated. The regression analysis results for the analyzed SQIs demonstrate satisfactory performance based on two metrics: negative mean square error and r2. These findings contribute to the establishment of an estimation model for SQIs using machine learning algorithms. Notably, indicators directly linked to chemical fertilizers, such as nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus, exhibit performance levels of 70%, 71%, and 92%, respectively.
Ellipticity and density at the inner core boundary from subcritical PKiKP and PcP data

SUMMARY The first part of this article gives new travel-time data for the phase PKiKP at subcritical distances (A < 1lOO) obtained at the Warramunga array in Northern Australia. A compilation of the PKiKP subcritical travel times obtained from previous studies has also been carried out. In the second part, differential PKiKP-PcP travel times at short distances (A < 45") are used to determine the inner core ellipticity and mean radius, subject to hypotheses on the equilibrium figure of the liquid core and the topography of the core-mantle boundary (CMB). The coherence of the PKiKP-PcP travel-time residuals is increased when Morelli & Dziewonski's CMB topography is taken into account. According to various hypotheses, the values obtained for the ellipticity range from (1.9 f 2.2) X lop3 to (5.6 f 1.7) X lop3. This denotes a small inner core flattening corresponding to a decrease of the polar radius from (1.6 f 1.8) to (5.0 f 1.5) km with respect to a spherical inner core. The preferred solutions which involve the CMB topography, are consistent with the ellipticity 2.43 X deduced from hydrostatic equilibrium of a rotating inner core. The last part of the paper concerns the amplitude variations of PKiKP. The amplitude ratio PKiKP/PcP at short distances (A < 45") is used to constrain the density jump 6p at the inner core boundary. 6p values of 1.35-1.66 g cmp3 are obtained for a quality factor in the liquid core ranging from 10 OOO to infinity. These values, as well as a possible stratification in the inner core, are in favour of an inner core composition which is not pure iron.
Leaving Home: Demographic, Endocrine, and Behavioral Correlates of Dispersal in Monogamous Owl Monkeys (Aotus Azarae) of Argentina

Natal dispersal, the movement of individuals from their birthplace to new areas in which they may breed, is an important aspect of life history that influences a variety of processes. Understanding dispersal not only increases our theoretical knowledge of the evolution of mating systems and social dynamics, but also provides insights essential for effective population management and for predicting the consequences that environmental changes may have on species’ distributions. This dissertation takes a holistic approach to explore natal dispersal at the level of the population, group, and individual in Azara’s owl monkey (Aotus azarae), a social monogamous primate native to South America. All data presented in this dissertation were collected at a long-term field site of the Owl Monkey Project in the Gran Chaco region of Formosa, Argentina. Chapter two examines dispersal at the level of the community, by exploring how demographic changes and environmental variables are associated with dispersal. The timing of dispersal was highly flexible, suggesting that delaying dispersal may be an adaptive strategy that owl monkeys utilize to minimize dispersal costs and maintain access to benefits provided by the natal group. Chapter three narrows the focus to the level of the group, and finds that behaviors, particularly agonism among group members, may function to regulate dispersal as well as mediate competition amongst adults and predispersed offspring. The next two chapters narrow the focus even further, to the individual level. Chapter four, which examines hormonal correlates of development and dispersal, finds that females experience the onset of sexual maturity prior to dispersing. Chapter five follows dispersing individuals thorough the entire process of dispersal to investigate the ultimate fates of dispersers. Dispersal strategies were highly variable, but individuals often prospected prior to permanently dispersing and almost always spent time as solitary “floaters”. Together, these investigations provide insight into both proximate and ultimate causes for dispersal and allow for the development of a multifaceted understanding of dispersal patterns in a socially monogamous primate. The holistic approach to understanding dispersal taken in this dissertation is one that could be useful for increasing our understanding of dispersal in many other taxa. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Anthropology First Advisor Eduardo Fernandez-Duque Second Advisor Theodore G. Schurr This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn. edu/edissertations/2238
Title : An electrophysiological investigation of reinforcement effects in attention de fi cit / hyperactivity disorder : Dissociating cue sensitivity from downstream effects on target engagement and performance

Objective: Neural hypo-sensitivity to cues predicting positive reinforcement has been observed in ADHD using the Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task. Here we report the first study using an electrophysiological analogue of this task to distinguish between (i) cue related anticipation of reinforcement and downstream effects on (ii) target engagement and (iii) performance in a clinical sample of adolescents with ADHD and controls. Methods: Thirty-one controls and 32 adolescents with ADHD aged 10-16 years performed the electrophysiological (e)-MID task – in which preparatory cues signal whether a response to an upcoming target will be reinforced or not – under three conditions; positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement (response cost) and no consequence (neutral). We extracted values for both cue-related potentials known to be, both, associated with response preparation and modulated by reinforcement (Cue P3 and Cue CNV) and target-related potentials (target P3) and compared these between ADHD and controls. Results: ADHD and controls did not differ on cue-related components on neutral trials. Against expectation, adolescents with ADHD displayed Cue P3 and Cue CNV reinforcement-related enhancement (versus neutral trials) compared to controls. ADHD individuals displayed smaller target P3 amplitudes and slower and more variable performance – but effects were not modulated by reinforcement contingencies. When age, IQ and conduct problems were controlled effects were marginally significant but the pattern of results did not change. Discussion: ADHD was associated with hypersensitivity to positive (and marginally negative) reinforcement reflected on components often thought to be associated with response preparation – however these did not translate into improved attention to targets. In the case of ADHD, upregulated CNV may be a specific marker Larger Cue P3 to reward (in green) in adolescents with ADHD compared to controls
The Potential Scenarios of the Impacts of Climate Change on Egyptian Resources and Agricultural Plant Production

The emissions of greenhouse gasses in Egypt are about 0.58% of the total emissions of the world in the year 2015, although Egypt is one of the countries most affected by the impacts of climate change. By assessment and analysis of the expected economic impacts of climate change by the year 2030, the Egyptian cultivated area will be reduced to about 0.949 million acres, equal to about 8.22% of the Egyptian cultivated area compared with the case of no sinking part of the Delta land, thus reducing crop area in Egypt to about 1.406 million acres, approximately to about 6.25% of crop area compared with the case of no sinking part of the Delta land, in addition to surplus in the Egyptian balance water to about 2.48 billion m3. In this case value of the Egyptian agriculture production will decrease by about 6.19 billion dollars, equal to about 6.19% compared with presumably no sinking of the Delta land. In the case of sinking 15% of Delta lands, with the change of the productivity and water consumption of most crops, the result will be a reduction in the cultivated area to about 0.94 million acres. In addition to decreasing the Egyptian crop area to about 1.39 million acres, with a deficit in the Egyptian balance water to about 4.74 billion m3 compared to the case of no sinking part of the Delta land, the cultivated area will decrease to about 8.17%, and the crop area will decrease 6.18%. Also, the value of the Egyptian agriculture production will decrease by about 12.51%. While compared to sinking part of the Delta land to about 15% of the total Delta area without the other impacts of climate change, the cultivated area will increase by about 0.06%; the crop area will increase by about 0.08%; also, the value of the Egyptian agriculture production will decrease by about 5.57%.
Structural Extension of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll Cross-Battery Approach to Include Measures of Visual-Motor Integration

STRUCTURAL EXTENSION OF THE CATTELL-HORN-CARROLL CROSS-BATTERY APPROACH TO INCLUDE MEASURES OF VISUAL-MOTOR INTEGRATION by Janell Hargrove Brooks In spite of the long-standing tradition of including measures of visual-motor integration in psychological evaluations, visual-motor abilities have not been included in the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities or its complementary crossbattery approach to assessment. The purpose of this research was to identify the shared constructs of a popular test of visual-motor integration and a test of intellectual functioning, and to investigate how a test of visual-motor integration would be classified within the CHC model. A large normative sample of 3,015 participants that ranged in age from 5 to 97 years completed the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II; Brannigan & Decker, 2003) and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition (SB5; Roid, 2003). Correlational analyses indicated positive moderate correlations across all age ranges between the Bender-Gestalt II Copy measure and the SB5 Nonverbal Visual-Spatial Processing subscale and between the Bender-Gestalt II Recall measure and the SB5 Nonverbal Visual-Spatial Processing and Nonverbal Working Memory subscales. Exploratory factor analyses revealed a three-factor model for four age groupings and four-factor model for one age grouping, suggesting factors which represent crystallized ability, fluid reasoning, and visual-motor ability. The results of this study suggest that the Bender-Gestalt II measures abilities that are not included in the SB5. Therefore, the Bender-Gestalt II would complement an intelligence test such as the SB5 in order to form a CHC Visual Processing (Gv) broad ability factor. These findings also address the need for further research to validate the constructs measured by newer versions of widely-used tests of cognitive ability. STRUCTURAL EXTENSION OF THE CATTELL-HORN-CARROLL CROSS-BATTERY APPROACH TO INCLUDE MEASURES OF VISUAL-MOTOR INTEGRATION by Janell Hargrove Brooks