cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Secure quantum dialogue via cavity QED
Creators: name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a secure quantum dialogue protocol via cavity QED is suggested by using the evolution law of atom in cavity QED. The present protocol employs both the two-step transmission and the unitary operation encoding. Two security checks are adopted to ensure its transmission security against the active attacks from an outside eavesdropper. The present protocol avoids the information leakage problem by using the entanglement swapping between any two Bell states via cavity QED together with the shared secret Bell state. Compared with the previous information leakage resistant quantum dialogue protocol via cavity QED, the present protocol takes advantage in quantum measurement.
description: 6 pages, 2 tables
Fault tolerant channel-encrypting quantum dialogue against collective noise
Creators: name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, two fault tolerant channel-encrypting quantum dialogue (QD) protocols against collective noise are presented. One is against collective-dephasing noise, while the other is against collective-rotation noise. The decoherent-free states, each of which is composed of two physical qubits, act as traveling states combating collective noise. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs, which play the role of private quantum key, are securely shared between two participants over a collective-noise channel in advance. Through encryption and decryption with private quantum key, the initial state of each traveling two-photon logical qubit is privately shared between two participants. Due to quantum encryption sharing of the initial state of each traveling logical qubit, the issue of information leakage is overcome. The private quantum key can be repeatedly used after rotation as long as the rotation angle is properly chosen, making quantum resource economized. As a result, their information-theoretical efficiency is nearly up to 66.7%. The proposed QD protocols only need single-photon measurements rather than two-photon joint measurements for quantum measurements. Security analysis shows that an eavesdropper cannot obtain anything useful about secret messages during the dialogue process without being discovered. Furthermore, the proposed QD protocols can be implemented with current techniques in experiment.
description: 11 pages, 1 table
Relations between recursive definitions and their memory efficient implementations
Creators: name: Paull, Marvin C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1977

description: Typically there are significant differences between the initial formulation of an algorithm and its ultimate implementation. For example the minimum path between two nodes in a weighted di-graph can be found by enumerating all paths between the two nodes and choosing the smallest. This approach can easily be formulated as a recursively defined function, which may in turn be implemented in a standard way. This is significantly different than Dykstra's algorithm, the favored shortest path implementation. On the one side, close to the problem statement, then there is an initial, simply formulated, but, often inefficient algorithm. On the other side, nearer to the final implementation, is an efficient algorithm. The study of the connection between these two is the subject of this paper. It will be assumed that the initial formulation of an algorithm is as a recursive definition and that this definition is in a standard form. The recursive definition though sufficient to provide the value of the function anywhere in its domain is non-deterministic as to which of a variety of sequential implementations are to be used to determine that value. The variety of implementations correspond to the various orders of substitution which are equally valid in evaluating such a definition. Some orders of evaluation become possible only if the primitive functions which enter into the recursive definition have appropriate properties. Different orders of evaluation will result in different memory requirements, but will not cause significant time differences in the resultant implementations. This dependence of memory requirements on the order of evaluation is the main subject of this paper. Note that the material in this paper with the exception of that after page 30, which covers examples and some discussion of a system for automatically producing good algorithms, is identical material appearing in DCS-TR-57.
A novel approach to generate correctly rounded math libraries for new floating point representations
Creators: name: Aanjaneya, Mridul
name: Gustafson, John
name: Nagarakatte, Santosh
name: Lim, Jay P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Floating point
Math libraries
Correctly rounded result
Elementary functions

description: Given the importance of floating-point~(FP) performance in numerous domains, several new variants of FP and its alternatives have been proposed (e.g., Bfloat16, TensorFloat32, and Posits). These representations do not have correctly rounded math libraries. Further, the use of existing FP libraries for these new representations can produce incorrect results. This paper proposes a novel methodology for generating polynomial approximations that can be used to implement correctly rounded math libraries. Existing methods produce polynomials that approximate the real value of an elementary function f(x) and experience wrong results due to errors in the approximation and due to rounding errors in the implementation. In contrast, our approach generates polynomials that approximate the correctly rounded value of f(x) (i.e., the value of f(x) rounded to the target representation). This methodology provides more margin to identify efficient polynomials that produce correctly rounded results for all inputs. We frame the problem of generating efficient polynomials that produce correctly rounded results as a linear programming problem. Our approach guarantees that we produce the correct result even with range reduction techniques. Using our approach, we have developed correctly rounded, yet faster, implementations of elementary functions for multiple target representations. Our Bfloat16 library is 2.3× faster than the corresponding state-of-the-art while producing correct results for all inputs.
“They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, Unwelcomeness, and Protesting Neighborhood Investment
Creators: name: Danley, Stephen
name: Weaver, Rasheda
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gentrification
Displacement
Exclusion
Urban social movements
Neighborhoods
Community

description: In some of Camden, NJ’s most underdeveloped neighborhoods, new investment is perceived as a catch-22. Such investment is badly needed, but residents fear gentrification and the creation of white spaces. Our study examines that puzzle, that residents protest badly needed investment, using ethnographic and interview data from residents and Camden, NJ, as a case study for examining community understanding of gentrification. In doing so, we draw upon gentrification literature that focuses on displacement pressure and exclusionary displacement, but argue that the Camden case points towards a different dimension of gentrification. Our findings show how (1) exclusion and “unwelcomeness” created by the development of white spaces is conceptualized by residents as being distinct from the impact such exclusion has on future displacement and (2) that residents internalize that exclusion from white spaces, dampening their support and increasing their resistance for new development. Our findings represent a contribution to the discussion on displacement pressure, which focuses primarily on exclusion through financial and economic pressure on residents, and shows that racialized exclusion is, itself, a fundamental element of residential fear of gentrification. We point to an opportunity to address fears of gentrification not only through economic means but also by focusing on issues of access and exclusion in urban space as a direct response to such residential fears.
Фізична особа - учасник цивільних відносин
Creators: name: Kostruba, Anatoliy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject of law
civil relationship
civil legal relations
content of legal relations
civil law
legal education

description: Лекція присвячена загальним питанням цивільного права. Розглянуто аспекти цивільної правосуб'єктності фізичної особи та її роль у впливі на виникнення, зміну та припинення цивільних відносин. Розкривається структура цивільної правосуб'єктності фізичної особи. Дається аналіз таких складових як правоздатність і дієздатність. Наведено наслідки юридичної невизначенності місцезнаходження фізичної особи. Проаналізовано такі юридичні категорії як обмеження дієздатності, визнання фізичної особи недієздатною.
description: https://youtu.be/4YsWH59tgkI
COVID-19 propels information literacy many years forward
Creators: name: Charles, Leslin H.
name: Todorinova, Lily
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Partnerships
Remote instruction
Information literacy

description: Prior to March 2020, New Brunswick Libraries at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) were focusing on two important instructional partnerships. Namely, the sustainability of a longstanding relationship with the Writing Program (WP) in the School of Arts and Sciences and the development of a new collaboration and The Equal Opportunity Fund (EOF). In the WP, each semester, there are 50+ sections of an undergraduate writing course, Research in the Disciplines, with over 90% requiring in-person information literacy (IL) instruction. Also, nearly 300 traditionally under-represented students participating in the federally funded (EOF) program were expected on campus for their First Year Experience Summer Seminar to be followed in the Fall 2020 by the RU 1st Seminar. With the advent of COVID 19 in New Jersey (the epicenter of the virus in the US) RU went completely remote. This new normal has forced us to demonstrate agility in ways not previously possible. In fact, the new environment has propelled us to achieve a type of service that had been many years still ahead of us. Prior to COVID 19 we were looking to update traditional in-person one shot IL sessions while employing the use of complementary online tutorials. Now, more flexible types of library interactions are being offered, various Learning Management System capabilities are being utilized, and librarians are able to be embedded in creative new ways. This presentation will highlight on-going efforts to design and assess this new customized virtual approach to teaching IL in these two programs.
The Undergraduate Experience: Is it Enhanced Through Employment as a Library Student Worker?
Creators: name: Charles, Leslin H.
name: Lotts, Megan
name: Todorinova, Lily
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Library employment
Library employees
Students--Employment
Undergraduate experience
Undergraduates

description: Student employment on campus can be one of the best predictors of academic success. There are many implied benefits for students working in the libraries, including greater understanding of library resources, as well as proximity to services and people with expertise. This poster will present the findings of a study about undergraduate student workers employed at a major university Research Library. The authors surveyed approximately 350 student workers, and received 120 responses and 64 completed surveys. The survey gathered information about undergraduate student workers, including who they are and how they engage with university clubs, organizations, and partnering units, such as residence halls and tutoring centers. The authors will investigate the library contribution to the undergraduate experience of student workers. They will investigate if there is a correlation between academic success (perceived or real) and working in an academic research library. Further the authors will address whether working in an academic research library helps students form community or provides them with valuable peer networking opportunities. This project’s raw data was evaluated using Qualtrics. The results of this survey will inform new programs and activities to enhance the experience of the undergraduate library student worker and provide additional mentorship and professional development.
Design and development of mobile application to co-create and collect local heritage stories
Creators: name: Ying, Aurelia Liu Mei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Social media technologies are changing the way people interact with heritage. With the prevalence of social media, grassroots communities are now able to come together and connect with their shared past easily - beyond highly curated memory institutions. However, preliminary studies showed that user participation in community digital heritage initiatives beyond social networks, tend to be low. Hence, the study seeks to design a user-centered mobile application to collect heritage stories based on the collective intelligence framework. The study contributes insights and design guidelines on how such platform can be designed to enhance heritage education through stories.
Sex composition of children and spousal sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Muchomba, Felix M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Intimate partner violence
Son preference
Fertility
Sub-Saharan Africa

description: Objective In societies with a cultural preference for sons over daughters, women who do not bear sons may be at increased risk for spousal violence. This study examined whether women with daughters only are at an elevated risk for spousal sexual violence compared to women with sons only in sub-Saharan Africa. The study tested the hypothesis that the association between sex composition of children and spousal sexual violence would be observed only in large families. Methods Data were from the most recent (as at February, 2016) Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 22 sub-Saharan African countries for 37,915 women. Odds ratios comparing experience of spousal sexual violence of women with sons only to those with daughters only were estimated, separately for women with three or fewer children and those with four or more children, controlling for age, age at first cohabitation, age at first birth, educational attainment, urban residence, and household wealth. Results Having daughters only was associated with a greater likelihood of spousal sexual violence among women with many children (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.02–2.30) but not among those with few children (AOR = 0.92; 95% CI = 0.82–1.04). Conclusions for practice A higher risk of sexual violence for women without sons suggests that son preference may have implications on women’s health and wellbeing. Efforts to further understand and address increased risk of sexual violence for women without sons should consider son preference and intra-couple conflict concerning fertility intentions.
Thermocapillary approaches to the deliberate patterning of polymers
Creators: name: Singer, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Marangoni forces
Block copolymers
Laser writing
Polymer composites
Lithography

description: The phenomenon of thermocapillarity, the response of fluids to thermal gradients due to thermal alteration of their surface tension, was first reported over a century ago. Since then, research has focused generally on either the fundamentals or mitigation of this effect during the processing of materials. Only in the past two decades has the deliberate use of thermocapillary forces for the patterning of polymers been actively pursued, either for the ordering of internal structure or the introduction of topographic features. This review seeks to highlight this work and further identify directions for further investigation. In particular, while thermocapillary forces are often inextricably bound to other mechanisms, there are emerging directions in the deliberate coupling of forces to improve the capabilities of each mechanism. Further, the applications of thermocapillary patterning to polymer-nanoparticle composites has recently provided another promising route to active architectures.
Designing Robust Biotechnological Processes Regarding Variabilities using Multi-Objective Optimization Applied to a Biopharmaceutical Seed Train Design
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Tanja Hernández
name: Sekulic, Anton
name: Lange-Hegermann, Markus
name: Frahm, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.1; J.3
subject: 60G15, 62G05, 68T01, 92-04, 92-08, 92C37

description: Development and optimization of biopharmaceutical production processes with cell cultures is cost- and time-consuming and often performed rather empirically. Efficient optimization of multiple-objectives like process time, viable cell density, number of operating steps & cultivation scales, required medium, amount of product as well as product quality depicts a promising approach. This contribution presents a workflow which couples uncertainty-based upstream simulation and Bayes optimization using Gaussian processes. Its application is demonstrated in a simulation case study for a relevant industrial task in process development, the design of a robust cell culture expansion process (seed train), meaning that despite uncertainties and variabilities concerning cell growth, low variations of viable cell density during the seed train are obtained. Compared to a non-optimized reference seed train, the optimized process showed much lower deviation rates regarding viable cell densities (
Solving the General Consistent Labeling (or Constraint Satisfaction) Problem: Two Algorithms and their Expected Complexities
Creators: name: Nudel, Bernard
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1983

description: The Consistent Labeling Problem is of considerable importance in Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research and Symbolic Logic. It has received much attention, but most work has addressed the specialized binary form of the problem Furthermore, none of the relatively notion, but most work has addressed the specialized binary form of the problem Furthermore, none of the relatively few papers that treat the general problem have dealt analytically with the issue of complexity. In this paper we present two algorithms for solving the general Consistent Labeling Problem and for each of these the expected complexity is given under a simple statistical model for the distribution of problems. This model is sufficient to expose certain interesting aspects of complexity for the two algorithms. Work currently in progress will address more subtle aspects by extension to more refined statistical models.
Valorización de biopolímeros marinos para aplicaciones en medicina regenerativa.
Creators: name: Valcárcel, J.
name: Fernández-Sampayo, L.
name: Salgado, P.
name: Riveiro, R.
name: Ramos, U.
name: Pérez-Martín, R.I.
name: Sotelo, C.G.
name: Vázquez, J.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Los residuos y descartes generados por la industria pesquera representan una fuente valiosa de biomateriales que pueden ser recuperados mediante procesos de valorización. Algunos de estos materiales son ampliamente investigados en medicina regenerativa, en muchos casos proyectando aplicaciones con potencial impacto en el envejecimiento saludable. Dentro de una perspectiva de sostenibilidad, se describen los procesos de obtención, características y aplicaciones del sulfato de condroitina, ácido hialurónico, quitosano, gelatina y colágeno de origen marino, ya que, por su bioactividad, accesibilidad y abundancia presentan una mayor viabilidad como productos de alto valor en medicina regenerativa.
STEAM++ An Extensible End-To-End Framework for Developing IoT Data Processing Applications in the Fog
Creators: name: Gomes, Márcio Miguel
name: Righi, Rodrigo da Rosa
name: da Costa, Cristiano André
name: Griebler, Dalvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: IoT applications usually rely on cloud computing services to perform data analysis such as filtering, aggregation, classification, pattern detection, and prediction. When applied to specific domains, the IoT needs to deal with unique constraints. Besides the hostile environment such as vibration and electric-magnetic interference, resulting in malfunction, noise, and data loss, industrial plants often have Internet access restricted or unavailable, forcing us to design stand-alone fog and edge computing solutions. In this context, we present STEAM++, a lightweight and extensible framework for real-time data stream processing and decision-making in the network edge, targeting hardware-limited devices, besides proposing a micro-benchmark methodology for assessing embedded IoT applications. In real-case experiments in a semiconductor industry, we processed an entire data flow, from values sensing, processing and analyzing data, detecting relevant events, and finally, publishing results to a dashboard. On average, the application consumed less than 500kb RAM and 1.0% of CPU usage, processing up to 239 data packets per second and reducing the output data size to 14% of the input raw data size when notifying events.
First-principles investigation on thermal properties and infrared spectra of imperfect graphene
Creators: name: Wang, Jifen
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Graphene
First-principles
Defects
Thermal properties
Optical spectra
Specific heat

description: In this study we used first-principles density functional theory to investigate the thermal and optical properties of graphene. Graphene phonon properties were first calculated by the density-functional perturbation theory and then used to acquire thermal properties such as the specific heat, free and total energy, and entropy, as well as the infrared and Raman spectra. Results show that the peaks of phonon density of states at about 40 and 45.5 THz in the perfect graphene (G) were shifted to 40.5 and 46 THz in the imperfect graphene (G-D), respectively. There are peaks at 16.5, 19, 25, and 43.5 THz in the G-D curve, while there is no obvious peak at same frequencies in that of the G. The specific heat and entropy are lower for the G-D than for the G at temperature > 280 K, but the tendency is slightly reversed at temperature < 200 K. The total energy, change in vibrational internal energy, and change in the vibrational Helmholtz free energy are all lower for the G-D than for the G. The Helmholtz free energy for the G-D is higher at temperature > 1300 K, but lower at temperature below 1250 K than for the G. In the infrared (IR) spectrum, no absorption peak exists for perfect graphene, but strong absorption is found at about 233, 830 and 1392 cm-1 for the G-D. The character peak of sp2 carbon atom in-plane vibration in the Raman spectrum is shifted from 1589 cm-1 for the G to 1530 cm-1 for the G-D. The defects in the G-D caused the peaks and splits in the IR and Raman spectra.
Observability-Aware Intrinsic and Extrinsic Calibration of LiDAR-IMU Systems
Creators: name: Lv, Jiajun
name: Zuo, Xingxing
name: Hu, Kewei
name: Xu, Jinhong
name: Huang, Guoquan
name: Liu, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is essential to fuse LiDAR and inertial measurements, which are usually available in robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-IMU calibration method within the continuous-time batch-optimization framework, where the intrinsics of both sensors and the spatial-temporal extrinsics between sensors are calibrated without using calibration infrastructure such as fiducial tags. Compared to discrete-time approaches, the continuous-time formulation has natural advantages for fusing high rate measurements from LiDAR and IMU sensors. To improve efficiency and address degenerate motions, two observability-aware modules are leveraged: (i) The information-theoretic data selection policy selects only the most informative segments for calibration during data collection, which significantly improves the calibration efficiency by processing only the selected informative segments. (ii) The observability-aware state update mechanism in nonlinear least-squares optimization updates only the identifiable directions in the state space with truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD), which enables accurate calibration results even under degenerate cases where informative data segments are not available. The proposed LiDAR-IMU calibration approach has been validated extensively in both simulated and real-world experiments with different robot platforms, demonstrating its high accuracy and repeatability in commonly-seen human-made environments. We also open source our codebase to benefit the research community: {\url{https://github.com/APRIL-ZJU/OA-LICalib}}.
Imagining Institutional Care, Practicing Domestic Care: Inscriptions around Aging in Southern Ghana
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Care
Discourses
Institutional care
Aging
Ghana

description: Elder care has become a significant national conversation in Ghana due to urban and international migration, lower birth rates, family nuclearization, and longer life spans. In the rural towns of Ghana’s Eastern Region, new elder care practices and discourses are emerging. These age-inscriptions signal the agency of older persons, which is often neglected and overlooked. Discursively, older adults express curiosity about Western care facilities, a heterodox idea in relation to the orthodox position expressed by the Ghanaian government and NGOs which support kin care for older adults. Through this heterodox discourse, aged persons are able to critique the state and the church for not providing care and re-imagine a Western institution as fitting their locally constructed needs. On the other hand, pragmatically, aged persons and their children are adapting existing practices of adolescent fosterage to help provide elder care, a practice which is not discursively elaborated, and is therefore alterodox. Both age-inscriptions are less articulated than standardized discourses about the significance of adult children’s care, the orthodox position. This paper therefore illustrates how social change in norms occurs, through older people’s anxiety about their own aging, the use of their imagination, and their refashioning of existing care practices.
Síntese de um alginato fluorescente para aplicações biomédicas.
Creators: name: Araújo, M.
name: Bidarra, S.J.
name: Alves, P.M.
name: Valcarcel, J.
name: Vázquez, J.A.
name: Barrias, C.C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Neste capítulo descrevemos a síntese de um alginato fluorescente com potenciais aplicações biomédicas. O alginato foi funcionalizado por um método reacional simples, envolvendo carbodiimida seguida de uma reacção ‘click’, ambas realizadas em meio aquoso. Após funcionalização, foi possível obter hidrogéis de alginato por reticulação iónica, os quais mantiveram cerca de 80% da sua fluorescência inicial após longos períodos de incubação em condições fisiológicas. O hidrogel fluorescente demonstrou ser citocompatível na presença de células epiteliais, suportando a sua viabilidade, actividade metabólica, proliferação e morfogénese. Este hidrogel foi também utilizado com sucesso na bioimpressão de padrões ordenados de células encapsuladas em microgéis.
Librarians’ Use of Images on LibGuides and Other Social Media Platforms
Creators: name: Anderson, Katie Elson
name: Still, Julie M.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: LibGuides
Profile images
Librarians
Social media
Facebook (Electronic resource)
LinkedIn (Electronic resource)
Library instruction
Library orientation
Online communication
Sex differences
Gender Differences

description: This study compared the use of librarians’ profile images across Web platforms designed for librarian-patron communication. The primary focus was LibGuides profiles at a peer group of ARL institutions. Librarians are currently using a variety of options, including professional head shots, casual head shots, other photos, alternate images, avatars, and no image. Where possible, results were also analyzed by gender. For a smaller selection of libraries, LibGuides photos were compared with Facebook photos to see if different images were used for a professional versus a personal social media setting. This research was done in December 2010 and duplicated in May 2012 to track changes over time. The later study also reviews profile images for the smaller selection of libraries in LinkedIn and ALA Connect. The findings provide a baseline for further comparative research, could also inform individual librarians’ image choices based on patterns among their peers, and gives the profession a starting point for discussions about the types of images librarians use.
Prediction of Self-Ignition Fire Propagation and Coal Loss in An Inclined Seam
Creators: name: Wang, Yan-Ming
name: Li, Xueqin
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Combined heat transfer
Coal fires
Fire propagation
Fuel loss

description: The thermo-chemical processes of coal spontaneous combustion in a practical inclined outcrop seam were investigated in order to understand underground mineral self-ignition, fire propagation, and reserves loss. A heat and mass transfer model of porous coal-bearing stratum was employed, combining convection and radiation with transient exothermic source which is coupled with coal oxidation, oxygen supply, and fuel consumption. It is found that spontaneous combustion firstly occurs under lean oxygen condition and fire development controlled by the reaction heat release in the early oxidation process shifts to oxygen restriction after coal self-ignition. The stratum porosity affects significantly the fire propagation. Fire propagation rate slightly increases as the inclined angle decreases. Compared with indirect surface survey, the predicted reverses loss is more reasonable; and thus, the present model could provide a useful reference to loss estimation in coal fire hazards.
Data-flow-based Testing of Object-Oriented Libraries
Creators: name: Ryder, Barbara G.
name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999

description: Data-flow-based testing is a well-established approach to program testing. Much object-oriented code is written as libraries; hence data-flow-based testing of object-oriented libraries is of great importance. However, finding def-use associations in libraries written in object-oriented languages (e.g., C++ and Java) is difficult because of unknown aliasing between parameters, unknown concrete types of the parameters, dynamic dispatch and exceptions. We present the first algorithm for finding def-uses in object-oriented libraries that overcomes the above difficulties. We also show how the information computed by our algorithm can be used in generating relevant test cases.
title: Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2017
title: NIR 2017 (englisch)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: UNFCCC
subject: emissions inventory
subject: greenhouse gas emission
subject: Climate | Energy

description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (⁠UNFCCC⁠), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process.
Raman spectroscopy for cartilage damage severity, degradation and repair assessment.
Creators: name: Casal-Beiroa, P.
name: Blanco, F.J.
name: Magalhães, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common rheumatic disease, characterized by progressive cartilage degradation. Current gold-standard diagnosis present limitations for detecting early stages of the disease, apart from being subjective to the reader. Raman spectroscopy (RS) has been recently described as a label-free, non-invasive tool to detect chemical and molecular changes in cartilage, producing a unique fingerprint of the tissue. This technique presents high potential as early diagnosis tool, promoting the discovery of optical biomarkers. Moreover, due to its specificity, RS could also be applied as a tool to monitor clinical outcomes as well as preconditioning of cell- or scaffold-based regenerative medicine therapies for cartilage repair and OA.
The changing landscape of JIBS authorship
Creators: name: Vo, Alexandra
name: Cantwell, John
name: Piepenbrink, Anke
name: Shukla, Pallavi
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Research collaboration
Geographic diversity
Mobility
First-time author
Migration

description: In this study, we examine the landscape of JIBS authorship over time to assess: (1) the accessibility of JIBS to new contributors, and (2) the diversity of authors contributing to JIBS. Our analysis of author data from 1972 to 2014 shows that JIBS is becoming more accessible, as indicated by the high and sustained proportion of first-time contributors to the journal. This is also evident from the recent decline in the share of authors with multiple past JIBS publications. With regard to diversity, our findings show that JIBS has a much wider geographic scope of authors on its landscape in comparison to previous decades. This may be attributed partly to increasing travel and communication in scholarly communities, and partly to the increased migration of scholars in the recent decades. Our analysis of migration patterns of JIBS authors suggests that about 51 % of prominent international business scholars are employed outside their country of birth. Of the 49 % employed in their country of birth, 12 % are return migrants. In our sample, China, South Korea and Canada have the highest number of returnees. The USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and China have the highest number of natives, whose country of birth, country of PhD-granting institution and country of university affiliation are identical.
Healthcare provider characteristics that influence the implementation of individual-level patient-centered outcome measure (PROM) and patient-reported experience measure (PREM) data across practice settings: a protocol for a mixed methods systematic review with a narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Wolff, Angela C.
name: Dresselhuis, Andrea
name: Hejazi, Samar
name: Dixon, Duncan
name: Gibson, Deborah
name: Howard, Fuchsia
name: Liva, Sarah
name: Astle, Barbara
name: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl
name: Noonan, Vanessa K.
name: Edwards, Lisa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Substantial literature has highlighted the importance of patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs, respectively) to collect clinically relevant information to better understand and address what matters to patients. The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesize the evidence about how healthcare providers implement individual-level PROMs and PREMs data into daily practice. Methods: This mixed methods systematic review protocol describes the design of our synthesis of the peer-reviewed research evidence (i.e., qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods), systematic reviews, organizational implementation projects, expert opinion, and grey literature. Keyword synonyms for “PROMs,” PREMs,” and “implementation” will be used to search eight databases (i.e., MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Embase, SPORTDiscus, Evidence-based Medicine Reviews, and ProQuest (Dissertation and Theses)) with limiters of English from 2009 onwards. Study selection criteria include implementation at the point-of-care by healthcare providers in any practice setting. Eligible studies will be critically appraised using validated tools (e.g., Joanna Briggs Institute). Guided by the review questions, data extraction and synthesis will occur simultaneously to identify biographical information and methodological characteristics as well as classify study findings related to implementation processes and strategies. As part of the narrative synthesis approach, two frameworks will be utilized: (a) Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify influential factors of PROMs and PREMs implementation and (b) Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) to illicit strategies. Data management will be undertaken using NVivo 12TM.
title: The right to be hurt
title: testing the boundaries of consent
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bergelson, Vera
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021

description: People's right to consent to pain, injury or death has always been one of the most controversial issues in criminal law and moral philosophy. In recent years, that issue has moved to the forefront of public, legislative, and academic debates in the United States and abroad due to a series of high-profile criminal trials, which involved consenting victims in various contexts - from sadomasochism and cannibalism to experimental medical treatment and mercy killing.
description: Currently, American criminal law does not recognize consent of the victim as a defense to bodily harm, except in a few historically defined circumstances. That rule has been criticized for its arbitrary scope, outdated rationales, and potential for moralistic manipulation. Yet, despite those criticisms, no principled alternative has been worked out. This article is an attempt to develop a set of normative requirements for a new rule governing consensual bodily harm and a general defense of consent.
description: The new rule would treat valid (voluntary and rational) consent of the victim as a defense of partial or complete justification. Partial justification is warranted by the mere fact that consensual harm does not involve at least one aspect of a paradigmatic offense, namely a rights' violation. The victim was a "co-author" of his own injury and thus the perpetrator should not bear full responsibility for it. Complete justification, on the other hand, would require that, in addition to the victim's consent, the perpetrator had a "good reason" for his harmful action: he intended to achieve a better balance of harms/evils and benefits and, in fact, managed to achieve it. This article rejects the absolute character of today's law. Instead, it promotes a balancing test that takes into account the severity of harm to the victim's interests and dignity as well as the importance of the reasons that caused the harmful act.
Seeking shelter : homelessness and COVID-19
Creators: name: Baral, Stefan
name: Bond, Andrew
name: Boozary, Andrew
name: Bruketa, Eva
name: Elmi, Nika
name: Freiheit, Deirdre
name: Ghosh, S. Monty
name: Goyer, Marie Eve
name: Orkin, Aaron M.
name: Patel, Jamie
name: Richter, Tim
name: Robertson, Angela
name: Sutherland, Christy
name: Svoboda, Tomislav
name: Turnbull, Jeffrey
name: Wong, Alexander
name: Zhu, Alice
Publisher: name: Canadian Science Publishing
Year: 2021

description: Those experiencing homelessness in Canada are impacted inequitably by COVID-19 due to their increased exposure, vulnerability of environment and medical comorbidities, and their lack of access to preventive care and treatment in the context of the pandemic. In shelter environments one is unable to effectively physically distance, maintain hygiene, obtain a test, or isolate. As a result, unique strategies are required for this population to protect them and those who serve them. Recommendations are provided to reduce or prevent further negative consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic for people experiencing homelessness. These recommendations were informed by a systematic review of the literature, as well as a jurisdictional scan. Where evidence did not exist, expert consensus from key providers and those experiencing homelessness throughout Canada was included. These recommendations recognize the need for short-term interventions to mitigate the immediate risk to this community, including coordination of response, appropriate precautions and protective equipment, reducing congestion, cohorting, testing, case and contact management strategies, dealing with outbreaks, isolation centres, and immunization. Longer-term recommendations are also provided with a view to ending homelessness by addressing the root causes of homelessness and by the provision of adequate subsidized and supportive housing through a Housing First strategy. It is imperative that meaningful changes take place now in how we serve those experiencing homelessness and how we mitigate specific vulnerabilities. These recommendations call for intersectoral, collaborative engagement to work for solutions targeted towards protecting the most vulnerable within our community through both immediate actions and long-term planning to eliminate homelessness.
Benchmarking Econometric and Machine Learning Methodologies in Nowcasting
Creators: name: Hopp, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: J.4

description: Nowcasting can play a key role in giving policymakers timelier insight to data published with a significant time lag, such as final GDP figures. Currently, there are a plethora of methodologies and approaches for practitioners to choose from. However, there lacks a comprehensive comparison of these disparate approaches in terms of predictive performance and characteristics. This paper addresses that deficiency by examining the performance of 12 different methodologies in nowcasting US quarterly GDP growth, including all the methods most commonly employed in nowcasting, as well as some of the most popular traditional machine learning approaches. Performance was assessed on three different tumultuous periods in US economic history: the early 1980s recession, the 2008 financial crisis, and the COVID crisis. The two best performing methodologies in the analysis were long short-term memory artificial neural networks (LSTM) and Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR). To facilitate further application and testing of each of the examined methodologies, an open-source repository containing boilerplate code that can be applied to different datasets is published alongside the paper, available at: github.com/dhopp1/nowcasting_benchmark.
Knowledge representation and problem solving In MDS
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Chitoor V.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1981

description: This work presents a new approach for using a first order theory to generate procedures for solving goal satisfaction problems without using general theorem proving. The core of the problem solving system has three basic components: an inferencing mechanism based on residues, a control structure for "means-end" analysis that uses natural deduction, and a generalization scheme that is based on the structure of statements in the domain theory itself. The work represents a beginning in the development of knowledge-based systems that can generate their own problem solving programs, evolve with experience and adapt to a changing domain theory.
Virtual Empathic Experiences for Real-World Empathy in Dementia Care
Creators: name: McGuire, Liam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the use of virtual experiences for improving learning outcomes in dementia care training, focusing on the Virtual Dementia Experience (VDE) developed for Dementia Australia as a case study. It seeks to determine whether such a virtual experience can change conceptions of real-world situations and potentially instigate behavioural changes in those situations, such as in the case of dementia carers and their care practice, and discuss findings relevant for the broader application of serious games technologies in training and education.
Innovative sensors for age-related diseases
Creators: name: Frasco, M.F.
name: Moreira, F.T.C.
name: Martins, G.
name: Castaño-Guerrero, Y.
name: Carneiro, M.C.C.G.
name: da Rocha, L.
name: Pereira-Cameselle, R.
name: Ozcelik, A.
name: Bolaño, S.
name: Alonso-Gómez, J.L.
name: Riveiro, A.
name: Schiussi, S.
name: Oliveira, A. L.
name: Sousa-Castillo, A.
name: Correa-Duarte, M.A.
name: Sales, M.G.F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Point-of-care diagnosis is evolving together with the fast development in terms of detection and quantification ability of the sensing techniques. This chapter covers 5 different topics of innovative (bio)sensors that were designed with the aim of giving new insights to overcome many of the hurdles that still impair the widespread use of portable sensing technology. Novelty was achieved by applying inexpensive materials with tuned functions and refined recognition towards biomarkers of various age-related pathologies. Diverse strategies were followed in order to attain improved properties on relevant parameters of sensor performance such as selectivity, sensitivity, biocompatibility and autonomy. Thus, the foreseen biomedical applications are vast.
Quantum non-Markovian environment-to-system backflows of information: non-operational vs. operational approaches
Creators: name: Budini, Adrián A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum memory effects can be qualitatively understood as a consequence of an environment-to-system backflow of information. Here, we analyze and compare how this concept is interpreted and implemented in different approaches to quantum non-Markovianity. We study a non-operational approach, defined by the istinguishability between two system states characterized by different initial conditions, and an operational approach, which is defined by the correlation between different outcomes associated to successive measurement processes performed over the system of interest. The differences, limitations, and vantages of each approach are characterized in detail by considering diverse system-environment models and dynamics. As a specific example, we study a non-Markovian depolarizing map induced by the interaction of the system of interest with an environment characterized by incoherent and coherent self-dynamics.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures