cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fallbeispiel Lucy – Fallbeispiel einer Jugendlichen mit Lernschwierigkeiten Version 0.1
Creators: name: Lutz, Stephanie
name: Durner, Natalie
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fallbeispiel, Lernschwierigkeiten, Einzelfallraster, protektive Faktoren, Risikofaktoren, Sonderpädagogik, Inklusion, problem-based learning (PBL), problemorientiertes Lernen
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Das Fallbeispiel Lucy wurde von Expertinnen in der sonderpädagogischen und inklusiven Praxis entwickelt. Das realitätsnähe, aber fiktive Fallbeispiel kann in der Lehrkräftebildung eingesetzt werden. Es ist in deutscher und englischer Sprache als veränderbares Werk mit Open Access veröffentlicht.
Zusätzlich kann das Einzelfallraster für pädagogische Diagnostik (Lutz, 2023) als Strukturierungshilfe verwenden werden, um übersichtlich protektive und Risikofaktoren in Bezug auf das Fallbeispiel und dessen Umfeld darzustellen.
Why are ‘feminine’ crafts like basket weaving disparaged by politicians?
Creators: name: Green, Sue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Basket weaving. It doesn’t sound much of an insult does it? But Education Minister Simon Birmingham appeared to use the term in this way in an interview following opposition leader Bill Shorten’s budget reply speech. Birmingham reacted disdainfully to Shorten’s commitment to fund fees for TAFE students, sneering at Labor’s “disastrous VET FEE-HELP program that subsidised everything from energy healing to basket weaving.” Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen described this comment as an insult to TAFE teachers. Bowen is right, of course. But more than that, this insult derives its power from denigrating and trivialising crafts traditionally practised by women. By extension, it denigrates women themselves.
Gift and danger
Creators: name: Hyland, Richard
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2014
Subjects: custom
gift giving
exchange
gift law
Mauss
danger
common law
Civil Law

description: The intensity of the law’s interaction with gift giving suggests that examining their relationship might produce interesting insights about both gift giving and the law. Yet no social scientist has seriously examined the gift norms included in modern systems of private law. The complexity of gift law is due to the interaction of two competing social ideas: the law’s concern that gift giving represents a danger to society; and the power of customary gift obligations to engender and maintain social relationships. The law gets involved in gift giving when it feels that the parties need some protection, and this involvement varies considerably among legal systems. Some systems are suspicious of inter vivos transfers, while others tend to view gifts as they view exchange. Since the law’s formal requirements do not displace customary obligations this field provides an opportunity to examine how the law is shaped by the customary obligations Mauss elaborated.
Maßnahmen zur Verminderung des Eintrages von Mikroschadstoffen in die Gewässer
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerbelastung
subject: Arzneimittel
subject: Textilindustrie
subject: Antibiotika
subject: Neonicotinoide
subject: Abwasserbehandlung
subject: Mikroschadstoffe
subject: Terbutryn
subject: Diclofenac
subject: Biozide
subject: Kläranlagen
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wasser

description: Aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen der Phase 1wurden in der Phase 2 des Forschungsprojektes weitergehende Arbeiten zur Konkretisierung von quellenorientierten Maßnahmen zur Emissionsminderung von Mikroschadstoffen aus dem Bereich Importtextilien, Arzneistoffe und ausgewählten Bioziden, zur Relevanzbewertung der Stoffe derEU-Watch-List für Deutschland, zur deutschlandweiten Modellierung von Stoffeinträgen und zugehörigen Emissionsminderungsmaßnahmen, zur Aktualisierung und Erweiterung der Kosten- und Effizienzdaten einer 4. Reinigungsstufe auf kommunalen Kläranlagen, zur Kostenträgerschaft sowie zum volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen der Emissionsminderungsmaßnahmen durchgeführt.Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen der Phase 1 wurden in der Phase 2 des Forschungsprojektes weitergehende Arbeiten zur Konkretisierung von quellenorientierten Maßnahmen zur Emissionsminderung von Mikroschadstoffen aus dem Bereich Importtextilien, Arzneistoffe und ausgewählten Bioziden, zur Relevanzbewertung der Stoffe der EU-Watch-List für Deutschland, zur deutschlandweiten Modellierung von Stoffeinträgen und zugehörigen Emissionsminderungsmaßnahmen, zur Aktualisierung und Erweiterung der Kosten- und Effizienzdaten einer 4. Reinigungsstufe auf kommunalen Kläranlagen, zur Kostenträgerschaft sowie zum volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen der Emissionsminderungsmaßnahmen durchgeführt.
Supplementary materials - Parity, Lactation, and Genetics Shape Cow Microbiome
Creators: name: Gurgul, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Supplementary File 1. Results of the feed (TMR) chemical analysis.

Supplementary File 2. Levels of the analyzed metabolic markers in the studied animals, categorized into low, normal, and high groups.

Supplementary File 3. Statistical analysis of the analyzed metabolic markers.

Supplementary File 4. Composition of the rumen microbiome (genus- and phylum-level) across all analyzed samples.

Supplementary File 5. Phylum-level microbiome alterations across subsequent lactations.

A- Alpha diversity indices and statistical tests for differences among lactation groups; B- Beta diversity indices and statistical tests for differences among lactation groups; C- Microbiome composition in various lactation groups.

Supplementary File 6. Statistical analysis of phylum- and genus-level abundance differences among lactation and DIM groups.

A- First lactation; B- Second lactation; C- Third and later lactations. E – Early lactation (30–60 DIM); M – Mid-lactation (80–120 DIM); L – Late lactation (160–200 DIM).

Supplementary File 7. Phylum-level microbiome alterations during lactation.

A- Alpha diversity indices and statistical tests for differences among different days in milk (DIM) groups; B- Beta diversity indices and statistical tests for differences among different days in milk groups; C- Microbiome composition across different days in milk groups. E – Early lactation (30–60 DIM), M – Mid-lactation (80–120 DIM), L – Late lactation (160–200 DIM).

Supplementary File 8. Results of the differential abundance analysis of microbiome genera in animals with different metabolic marker levels (low, medium, high).

Supplementary File 9. List and comparative analysis of genera associated with the levels of analyzed metabolic markers.

Supplementary File 10. Statistical analysis of SNP polymorphisms across different chromosomes.

Supplementary File 11. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the studied cattle population based on genetic distances among the animals.

The plot includes lactation and days in milk criteria.

Supplementary File 12. Manhattan plots for all phyla used in the microbiome GWAS.

Supplementary File 13. Results of microbiome GWAS analysis (MLMA) for selected phyla and genera associated with the levels of analyzed metabolic markers.

Chr – Chromosome, bp – Position, A1 – Allele 1 with effect b, b – Effect of the A1 allele, se – Standard error of b, p – p-value of the MLMA.
Real-Time Safety Optimization of Connected Vehicle Trajectories Using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Ghoul, Tarek
name: Sayed, Tarek, 1965-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Speed advisories are used on highways to inform vehicles of upcoming changes in traffic conditions and apply a variable speed limit to reduce traffic conflicts and delays. This study applies a similar concept to intersections with respect to connected vehicles to provide dynamic speed advisories in real-time that guide vehicles towards an optimum speed. Real-time safety evaluation models for signalized intersections that depend on dynamic traffic parameters such as traffic volume and shock wave characteristics were used for this purpose. The proposed algorithm incorporates a rule-based approach alongside a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient reinforcement learning technique (DDPG) to assign ideal speeds for connected vehicles at intersections and improve safety. The system was tested on two intersections using real-world data and yielded an average reduction in traffic conflicts ranging from 9% to 23%. Further analysis was performed to show that the algorithm yields tangible results even at lower market penetration rates (MPR). The algorithm was tested on the same intersection with different traffic volume conditions as well as on another intersection with different physical constraints and characteristics. The proposed algorithm provides a low-cost approach that is not computationally intensive and works towards optimizing for safety by reducing rear-end traffic conflicts.
„Nun sag, wie hast du‘s mit der Religion?“
Creators: name: Brinskele, Herta
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für freie psychoanalytische Forschung und Individualpsychologie
Year: 2020

description: Publikationen zu den Schlagworten Religion, Glauben und Psychotherapie sind mittlerweile so vielfältig wie zahlreich. Überlegungen zum Umgang mit religiösen Themen in der Psychotherapie scheinen mir hingegen auf Voraussetzungen zu beruhen, die nicht ausreichend reflektiert werden. So verstehe ich meinen Beitrag zunächst als Versuch, unterschiedliche Perspektiven zum Thema Religion und Glauben zu eröffnen. Ein theoretischer Exkurs zu den Begriffen Signifikant und Signifikat soll darauf aufmerksam machen, dass Bedeutungen nicht von einer unabhängigen Macht vorgegeben sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund versuche ich anschließend meine praktische Arbeit als Psychotherapeutin verständlich zu machen, insbesondere wenn es darum geht, religiöse Themen zu bearbeiten. Zwei kurze Ausschnitte aus Therapieprotokollen leiten mich in der abschließenden Diskussion zu den Themen Wissbegier und Schuld. Ich plädiere für einen kritischen Blick sowohl auf Gemeinsamkeiten als auch auf Unterschiede zwischen Psychotherapie und Religion, versuche aber zu zeigen, dass die vergleichende Auseinandersetzung unglaublich spannend sein kann und sehr hilfreich dabei, die jeweilige Position nicht in dogmatische Fesseln zu legen.
description: Zeitschrift für freie psychoanalytische Forschung und Individualpsychologie, Nr. 2 (2020): Spiritualität und Religion
"Trying to Find the Middle Ground": Drug Policy and Harm Reduction in Black Communities
Creators: name: Eversman, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Sage Publications
Year: 2014
Subjects: African Americans
Blacks--United States
Race
Ethnicity
Drug legalization
War on drugs
Drug control
Drugs
Mass incarceration
Imprisonment
Discrimination in capital punishment
Bias in the criminal justice system
Race--Public opinion
Drugs--Law and legislation

description: U.S. federal drug policy has long emphasized criminalization and incarceration, and many negative policy outcomes have disproportionately impacted communities of color and Blacks in particular. The framework of harm reduction informs a range of alternative policy strategies from decriminalization to legalization, treating drugs more as a public health than a criminal justice issue. While Black communities are seen as opposing harm reduction with illicit drugs, Black leadership has recently supported ending the war on drugs. Using in-depth interviews with 21 substance abuse service providers in a Northeastern U.S. urban hub, this study explores views toward the potential impact of, and support for, harm reduction illicit drug policies in Black U.S. communities. Cognizant of the racially skewed impact of drug policies, respondents endorsed policy changes but were generally mixed on harm reduction, opposing liberalization of "hard" drugs, yet supporting it for marijuana given its link to race-based policing. Respondents indicate many Black communities need more than drug policy change, at best seeing harm reduction as only part of larger scale reinvestment. Findings inform considerations of reforming drug policy strategies and priorities for these communities, given views toward illicit drugs and racially skewed outcomes of current drug policy.
Geostrategic aspects of policies on food security in the light of recent global tensions – Insights from seven countries
Creators: name: Rudloff, Bettina
name: Mensah, Kristina
name: Wieck, Christine
name: Kareem, Olayinka
name: Montesclaros, Jose Ma Luis
name: Orden, David
name: Sonddergaard, Neils
name: Yu, Wusheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Security and Poverty
International Relations/Trade

description: This study contributes to the recent literature on geostrategic aspects of economic policy and the objective of economic security by addressing food security as a subcategory within economic security. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this study analyses whether and how the relevance of food security as a national policy goal has changed. It focuses on the questions of whether countries’ policy choices towards this objective have initiated longer-term strategic shifts, rather than just acute reactions, and analyses the extent to which these adjustments are influenced by underlying geopolitical considerations. To answer these questions, developments in food security policies are identified, focusing primarily on the perspective of security of supply. This perspective fits with the recent political focus and current initiatives by many countries aiming at national economic and supply security in general.
Nanofiltration and sensing of picomolar chemical residues in aqueous solution using an optical porous resonator in a microelectrofluidic channel
Creators: name: Huang, Lei
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chemical residues
Nanoscale sensing
Molecular sensing
Optical sensor
Microelectrofluidics
Molecules

description: For the first time the use a porous microresonator placed in a microelectrofluidic system for integrated functions of nano filtration and sensing of small biomolecules and chemical analytes in extremely dilute solution was proposed and investigated. As an example, aminoglycosides in drug residues in food and livestock products were considered as the trace chemical analyte. The filtration process of the charged analyte in aqueous solution driven by an applied electrical field and the accompanied optical whispering-gallery modes in the resonator are modeled. The dynamic process of adsorption and desorption of the analyte onto the porous matrix is studied. The analyte deposition inside the porous structure will alter the material refractive index of the resonator, and thus, induce optical resonance frequency shift. By measuring the optical frequency shift, the analyte concentration as well as the absorption/desorption process can be analyzed. Through an intensive numerical study, a correlation between the frequency shift and the analyte concentration and the applied electrical voltage gradient was obtained. It reveals a linear relationship between the resonance frequency shift and the analyte concentration. The applied electrical voltage enhances substantially the filtration capability and the magnitude of the optical frequency shift, pushing the porous resonator-based sensor to function at the extremely dilute picomolar concentration level for small bio/chemical molecules down to the sub-nanometer scale. Moreover, use of the second-order whispering-gallery mode is found to provide better sensitivity as compared with the first-order mode.
Anti-Tumor Effects of Ginsenoside 20(S)-Protopanaxadiol and 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Combination in Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Ben-Eltriki, Mohamed
name: Deb, Subrata
name: Shankar, Gehana
name: Meckling, Gray
name: Hassona, Mohamed
name: Yamazaki, Takeshi
name: Fazli, Ladan
name: Chin, Mei Yieng
name: Tomlinson Guns, Emma S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: In spite of possessing desirable anticancer properties, currently, limited clinical success has been achieved with 20(S)-protopanaxadiol (aPPD) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (calcitriol). This study is designed to evaluate if the combination of aPPD with calcitriol can inhibit human prostate cancer xenograft growth by using nuclear receptor signaling. Athymic male nude mice were utilized to establish an androgen-independent human prostate cancer C4-2 cell castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) xenograft model. Mice were treated orally for six weeks with 70 mg/kg aPPD administered once daily or three times per week with 4 µg/kg calcitriol or in combination or only with vehicle control. Contrary to our expectations, calcitriol treatment alone increased C4-2 tumor growth. However, the addition of calcitriol substantially increased aPPD-mediated tumor growth suppression (76% vs. 53%, combination vs. aPPD alone). The combination treatment significantly increased levels of cleaved caspase-3 apoptotic marker compared to vehicle-treated or aPPD-treated C4-2 tumors. The mechanistic elucidations indicate that tumor inhibition by the aPPD and calcitriol combination was accompanied by elevated vitamin D receptor (VDR) protein expression. In silico data suggest that aPPD weakly binds to the native LBD pocket of VDR. Interestingly, the combination of aPPD and calcitriol activated VDR at a significantly higher level than calcitriol alone and this indicates that aPPD may be an allosteric activator of VDR. Overall, aPPD and calcitriol combination significantly inhibited tumor growth in vivo with no acute or chronic toxic effects in the C4-2 xenograft CRPC nude mice. The involvement of VDR and downstream apoptotic pathways are potential mechanistic routes of antitumor effects of this combination.
University Faculty Describe their Use of Moving Images in Teaching and Learning and their Perceptions of the Library's Role in that Use
Creators: name: Otto, Jane
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Video in teaching and learning
Faculty use of libraries
Moving images
Library video collections
Audio-visual education
Libraries--Special collections--Video recordings

description: The moving image plays a significant role in teaching and learning; faculty in a variety of disciplines consider it a crucial component of their coursework. Yet little has been written about how faculty identify, obtain, and use these resources, and what role the library plays. This study, which engaged teaching faculty in a dialogue with library faculty, revealed a gap between faculty’s film and video information retrieval needs and provision of access by the library. Ultimately, the findings of this study can inform and transform library practices to make more moving images available for use in coursework and research.
Evaluation of in vitro antioxidant and cardioprotective properties of selected plant methanolic extracts from Sarawak, Malaysia
Creators: name: Adasuriyya, Isuriy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study assessed the antioxidant properties of ten aqueous alcoholic extracts of edible leafy plants using various in vitro methods, including cell culture-based assays. Half of the extracts contained very high total phenolic contents (>4 mg GAE/100 mg dry plant powder), often associated with high antioxidant properties. Of these, Dillenia suffruticosa and Eugenia polyantha consistently showed high antioxidant activities. Both extracts afforded protection against H2O2-induced oxidative damage on H9c2(2-1) rat myoblast cell line, with E. polyantha (LD50 = 60 mg/L) being a better candidate for antioxidative cardioprotective agent than D. suffruticosa (LD50 = 650 mg/L), due to its lower cytotoxicity.
RAQAMLI MATEMATIKA TA'LIMIDA O'QUVCHILARNING MUAMMOLI FIKRLASH KO'NIKMALARINI RIVOJLANTIRISH
Creators: name: Sobirova, Dinora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada raqamli texnologiyalar yordamida matematika ta’limi jarayonida o‘quvchilarda muammoli fikrlash ko‘nikmalarini shakllantirish masalasi yoritiladi. Zamonaviy raqamli vositalar orqali o‘quvchilarning mustaqil fikrlashi, tahlil qilish va mantiqiy muammolarni hal etish salohiyatini rivojlantirish imkoniyatlari tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, raqamli platformalarning ta’limdagi amaliy ahamiyati va o‘quv jarayoniga integratsiyasi muhokama qilinadi.
Supplementary data previously unreported biostratigraphic analyses Weber area.docx
Creators: name: Bland, Kyle
name: Strogen, Dominic
name: Morgans, Hugh EG
name: Harvey, Hannah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 40301 Basin Analysis
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: 40310 Sedimentology
subject: 40313 Tectonics

description: This document gives details of new biostratigraphic analysis carried out as part of this study in the Weber area of the East Coast Basin, eastern North Island, New Zealand. The location of samples is shown in Figures S1. Samples are listed by fossil record file number (U24/f____), field number and lab number (F______). These results have only previously been reported in unpublished internal GNS reports.
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
Creators: name: Fishman, Daniel B.
name: Messer, Stanley B.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association
Year: 2013
Subjects: Unity in applied psychology
Case studies
Positivism
Postmodernism
Philosophical pragmatism
Pragmatism
Pragmatic Case Study Method
Pragmatic case studies

description: To unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.
The role of model-based segmentation in the recovery of volumetric parts from range data
Creators: name: Metaxas, Dimitris
name: Dickinson, Sven J.
name: Pentland, Alex
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: We present a method for segmenting and estimating the shape of 3-d objects from range data. The technique uses model views, or aspects, to constrain the fitting of deformable models to range data. Based on an initial region segmentation of a range image, regions are grouped into aspects corresponding to the volumetric parts that make up an object. The qualitative segmentation of the range image into a set of volumetric parts not only captures the coarse shape of the parts, but qualitatively encodes the orientation of each part through its aspect. Knowledge of a part's coarse shape, its orientation, as well as the mapping between the faces in its aspect and the surfaces on the part provides strong constraints on the fitting of a deformable model (supporting both global and local deformations) to the data. Unlike previous work in physics-based deformable model recovery from range data, the technique does not require pre-segmented data. Furthermore, occlusion is handled at segmentation time and does not complicate the fitting process, as only 3-D points known to belong to a part participate in the fitting of a model to the part. We present the approach in detail and apply it to the recovery of objects from range data.
Once bitten, twice shy? Gender differences in the remarriage decision after a gray divorce
Creators: name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Remarriage
Gray divorce
Gender
Aging

description: Gray divorces, or divorces at and over the age of 50, are increasing in the United States. This article explores this population’s interest in remarrying after a divorce by sex within the context of a prospective, role exit theoretical framework. In-depth, qualitative interviews with 40 women and 39 men who have experienced a gray divorce were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. There were significant gender differences with respect to receptivity to remarriage among those who had undergone a gray divorce. More specifically, the most common theme expressed by women involved firmly rejecting remarriage as a part of their futures. The remaining themes articulated by women were conditional pro-remarriage views and then even less commonly, unconditional pro-remarriage views. In contrast, the most common theme among men was that they remained very open to remarriage, either unconditionally or under specified conditions; only a small number rejected the prospect entirely. These findings highlight the differences in the remarriage decision from both the female and male perspectives for this population.
Review of Tolkien, J.R.R., trans; ed. Christopher Tolkien. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Creators: name: Croft, Janet Brennan
Publisher: name: Mythopoeic Society
Year: 2014
Subjects: Beowulf
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

description: Review of Tolkien's Beowulf translation focuses on its relation to his other works rather than the translation per se.
Quebec on Screen : Brian Moore’s film adaptations of The Luck of Ginger Coffey and Black Robe
Creators: name: McIlroy, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This talk was delivered on June 4th, 2021 via zoom for a symposium based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, entitled “Brian Moore at 100.” The artistic contribution of Irish-Canadian novelist and screenwriter, Brian Moore (1921-1999), was the topic of the symposium.
Towards a Flexible User Interface to Relational Database Systems: Processing Simple Second Order Queries
Creators: name: Imieliński, Tomasz
name: Rozenshtein, David
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1984

description: In this paper, we present a mechanism for answering simple second order queries of the form. "Retrieve connection between attributes A arid S." By connection between A and B" we mean any and all meaningful relationships that can be established between A and B in a given database. What gives our queries their second order nature is the fact that semantics of connections is independent of a particular set of predicates comprising the database scheme. The answers to them. However, depend on which relationships are considered meaningful; this, in turn, depends on the Particular structure of the database scheme and, also, on additional semantic information carried by roles. While we can treat our queries as intentionally second order queries directed at the database instance, we could also treat them as incompletely specified queries posed by a user whose knowledge of the database structure is partial. In this paper, we present a formal characterization of meaningful relationships in present algorithms for computing connections, and describe how our method can be extended to sets containing any number of attributes.
Effects of Carbon Tax on Electricity Price Volatility: Empirical Evidences from the Australian Market
Creators: name: Comincioli, Nicola
name: Vergalli, Sergio
name: Comincioli, Nicola
name: Vergalli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon Tax
subject: Seasonality and Volatility of Electricity Price

description: Among the wide variety of policy options adopted worldwide to control carbon emissions, one of the most environmentally effective and economically efficient is represented by carbon tax, that aims to recoup the damage arising from polluting production processes. In this paper, we focus on the Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM) and on the effects that its introduction had on the electricity market. The most relevant effect is the reduction of the level of electricity price’s volatility. This effect has been investigated after having removed, from electricity data time series, the periodic behavior, through a multiple linear regression. Then, to study volatility dynamics, we fit a two-states Markov-switching model to represent a high-volatility and a low-volatility states of the world. This model highlighted that in both states the level of volatility is lower and that the persistence of the second state is increased by the presence of the CPM. This result is particularly important in investment evaluation: knowing the different dynamics of price volatility in presence of a carbon tax or not, can provide crucial information in investment decision and its timing.
Molecular dynamics simulation of heat conduction in Si nano-films induced by ultrafast laser heating
Creators: name: Zou, Yu
name: Cai, Jun
name: Huai, Xiulan
name: Xin, Fang
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Molecular dynamics simulation
Heat conduction
Si nano-films
Ultrafast laser heating

description: Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to study the thermal and mechanical phenomena of heat conduction induced by ultrafast laser heating of nanoscale Si films. A distribution of internal heat source obeying Beer–Lambda law is applied to model the laser energy deposition in the film and to calculate the induced temperature and stress distributions. Thermal waves are observed from the local temperature temporal variations and spatial distributions. The developments of averaged static pressure and local displacement in the film show a consistent periodicity. The time evolutions of both the local pressure and net heat flux fluctuate strongly, but show similar trends between these two local physical quantities, demonstrating a close relationship between the stress and the net heat flow.
[Entropic Ranks] Supplementary Material 3 - Output
Creators: name: Hector-Xavier De Lastic
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Supplementary Material for the "Entropic Ranks: A Methodology for Enhanced, Threshold-Free, Information-Rich Data Partition and Interpretation" article. Scripts, graphs, probe lists and all other output for all data sets involved in the study.
On the existence of approximate solutions for singular integral equations of Cauchy type discretized by Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature formulae
Creators: name: Gerasoulis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1980

description: It is known that the direct Gauss-Chebyshev method used for numerical solutions of singular integral equations of Cauchy-type possesses a unique solution for any quadrature of equations.
Sharing cultural values across generations in Vietnamese Australian families
Creators: name: Tran, Giang Thi Thanh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis is about sharing cultural values in Vietnamese Australian families. It presents findings from a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with Vietnamese migrant parents from refugee and skilled migrant backgrounds, and Vietnamese Australian children. The study adds to the research aimed at increasing the understanding of cultural values of ethnic groups in Australia – in this case the process of whether and how Vietnamese cultural values persist in refugee and skilled migrant families. In particular, it highlights the roles of parents and children in the process of preserving and modifying cultural values in the migration context.
AKMEOLOGIK YONDASHUV  ASOSIDA BO'LAJAK TARJIMONNING KASBIY KOMPETENTLIGINI RIVOJLANTIRISH MAZMUNI
Creators: name: Mamarajabov, Botir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Akmeologik yondashuv asosida bo‘lajak tarjimonning kasbiy kompetentligini rivojlantirish mazmuni yoritilgan.  Akmeologik yondashuv  asosida bo‘lajak   tarjimonning kasbiy kompetentligini rivojlantirish   yondashuvlari  tahlili  amalga oshirilgan.
Interaction of absorption and scattering coefficients in room simulations based on geometrical acoustics
Creators: name: Aspöck, Lukas
name: Vorländer, Michael
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2019

description: DAGA 2019 - 45. Jahrestagung für Akustik, DAGA2019, Rostock, Germany, 18 Mar 2019 - 21 Mar 2019
Do Exit Options Increase the Value-For-Money of Public-Private Partnerships?
Creators: name: Buso, Marco
name: Dosi, Cesare
name: Moretto, Michele
name: Buso, Marco
name: Dosi, Cesare
name: Moretto, Michele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Public Infrastructure Services
subject: Public-Private Partnerships
subject: Adverse Selection
subject: Real Options
subject: Early Termination Fees

description: We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be financially loss-making. In a continuous-time setting with hidden information about operating profits, we show that an exit option, acting as a risk-sharing device, can soften agency problems and, in so doing, accelerate investment and increase the government's expected payoff, even while taking into account the costs that the public sector will have to meet in the future to take direct responsibility on service provision.
Waiting Time Approximation in Multi-Class Queueing Systems with Multiple Types of Interruptions: Modeling Congestion at Waterway Entrances
Creators: name: Ulusçu, Özgecan S.
name: Altiok, Tayfur
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Queuing theory
Waterways

description: We consider a single-server queue subject to multiple types of operation-independent interruptions motivated by operations and vessel queueing at entrances of waterways. A case in point is the Strait of Istanbul. We are using waiting-time arguments and service completion time analysis to obtain the expected waiting time of a customer (vessel) in the aforementioned queue with n classes of customers and k possibly simultaneous and class-independent service interruptions. In this paper, we generalize the single-class queueing model presented in the previous work and consider multiple classes of customers with non-preemptive priority service structure.
description: Supplementary appendices for Waiting Time Approximation in Single-Class Queueing Systems with Multiple Types of Interruptions: Modeling Congestion at Waterways Entrances
Regelungsvorschlag der Europäischen Kommission für die Wasserwiederverwendung
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Recht
Siedlungsabwasser
Europäische Kommission
Wasserwiederverwendung
Bewässerung
Landwirtschaft
Rechtsverordnung

description: Am 28. Mai 2018 hat die Europäische Kommission ihren Verordnungsvorschlag über Mindestanforderungen für die Wasserwiederverwendung veröffentlicht. Dieser bezieht sich auf die direkte und geplante Verwendung von aufbereitetem Kommunalabwasser für die landwirtschaftliche Bewässerung. Neben einheitlichen Mindestanforderungen für den Gesundheitsschutz sieht der Vorschlag ein umfassendes standortspezifisches Risikomanagement und Regelungen zur Datenoffenlegung über Wasserwiederverwendung vor. Bezüglich der Verpflichtungen der wesentlichen Akteure, der Genehmigungspraxis sowie des Niveaus der Anforderungen sieht das Umweltbundesamt noch wesentlichen Diskussions- und Konkretisierungsbedarf. Der aktuelle Fokus auf eine standortspezifische Herangehensweise wird einer Verordnung nicht gerecht. Zudem können die aktuell vorgeschlagenen Anforderungen kein EU-weit einheitliches und sicheres Anforderungsniveau gewährleisten. Vor allem der Umweltschutz wird durch den Vorschlag nicht angemessen adressiert. Verlagsinformation
Development of decision aids for female BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers in Germany to support preference-sensitive decision-making
Creators: name: Kautz-Freimuth, Sibylle
name: Redaèlli, Marcus
name: Rhiem, Kerstin
name: Vodermaier, Andrea
name: Krassuski, Lisa
name: Nicolai, Kathrin
name: Schnepper, Miriam
name: Kuboth, Violetta
name: Dick, Julia
name: Vennedey, Vera
name: Wiedemann, Regina
name: Schmutzler, Rita
name: Stock, Stephanie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Women with pathogenic BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations possess a high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. They face difficult choices when considering preventive options. This study presents the development process of the first decision aids to support this complex decision-making process in the German healthcare system. Methods A six-step development process based on the International Patient Decision Aid Standards was used, including a systematic literature review of existing decision aids, a topical medical literature review, preparation of the decision aids, focus group discussions with women with BRCA1/2 mutations, internal and external reviews by clinical and self-help experts, and user tests. All reviews were followed by iterative revisions. Results No existing decision aids were transferable to the German setting. The medical research revealed a need to develop separate decision aids for women with BRCA1/2 mutations (A) without a history of cancer (previvors) and (B) with a history of unilateral breast cancer (survivors). The focus group discussions confirmed a high level of approval for the decision aids from both target groups. Additionally, previvors requested more information on risk-reducing breast surgery, risk-reducing removal of both ovaries and Fallopian tubes, and psychological aspects; survivors especially wanted more information on breast cancer on the affected side (e.g. biological parameters, treatment, and risk of recurrence). Conclusions In a structured process, two target-group-specific DAs for previvors/survivors with BRCA1/2 mutations were developed to support decision-making on risk-adapted preventive options. These patient-oriented tools offer an important addition to existing specialist medical care in Germany.
Higher order information for inlier detection
Creators: name: Parag, Toufiq
name: Elgammal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010

description: The problem we address in this paper is to label datapoints when the information about them is provided primarily in terms of their subsets or groups. The knowledge we have for a group is a likelihood value for each group member to belong to same class. These likelihood values are computed using a model, either explicit or implicit, of the pattern we wish to learn. By defining a Markov Random Field (MRF) over the labels of data, we formulate the problem as an MRF inference problem. A submodular function is defined as clique potential function for this MRF. We identified a special form of this clique potential function that results in a simple and efficient inference method with linear running time with respect to the number of datapoints and subsets. The formulation allows augmentation of energy functions for data with several different size subsets. We present experimental results in applications where the proposed method produces improved performances over other methods.
Medical Complications of Pregnancy
Creators: name: Ali, Sajjad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Complications
Obstetrics
Pregnancy
Health

description: Pregnancy in women with pre-existing medical diseases is becoming increasingly common as the treatment of many chronic conditions improves. Women with underlying medical conditions are at increased risk of developing complications in pregnancy and pre-existing medical conditions may, in some circumstances, be associated with significant maternal and fetal morbidity and, more rarely, mortality. In this presentation, the risks and management of the more common preexisting medical disorders that are seen in pregnancy are discussed.
Disseminating Equine Research and Teaching Videos Through the Institutional Repository: A Collaboration
Creators: name: Otto, Jane
name: Ralston, Sarah L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: data sets, embedded librarianship, equine behavior,institutional repositories, metadata, mustangs, PMU draft-crosses, video

description: Institutional repositories manage and disseminate a University’s scholarly output and provide a multitude of benefits to the organization and society. Rutgers University Libraries is actively expanding its repository to include materials with scholarly merit that are currently siloed in academic departments or otherwise unpreserved and unavailable to the public. This article describes a collaboration between Rutgers Libraries faculty and Rutgers teaching faculty which is enabling discovery of a significant collection of video data relating to equine behavioral responses. The article describes the research, the repository tools, and the process of developing and customizing metadata to bring this collection to light.
Theoretical Foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Siegelmann, Hava T.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1993

description: "Artificial neural networks" provide an appealing model of computation. Such networks consist of an interconnection of a number of parallel agents, or "neurons". Each of these receives certain signals as inputs, computes some simple function, and produces a signal as output, which is in turn broadcast to the successive neurons involved in a given computation. Some of the signals originate from outside the network, and act as inputs to the whole system, while some of the output signals are communicated back to the environment and are used to encode the end result of computation. In this dissertation we focus on the "recurrent network" model, in which the underlying graph is not subject to any constraints. We investigate the computational power of neural nets, taking a classical computer science point of view. We characterize the language recognition power of networks in terms of the types of numbers (constants) utilized as weights. From a mathematical viewpoint, it is natural to consider integer, rational, and real numbers. From the standpoint of computer science, natural classes of formal languages are regular, recursive, and "all languages". We establish a precise correspondence between the mathematical and computing choices. Furthermore, when the computation time of the network is constrained to be polynomial in the input size, the classes recognized by the respective networks are: regular, P, and Analog-P, i.e. P/poly. Among other results described in this thesis are a proper hierarchy of networks using Kolmogorov-complexity characterizations, the imposition of space constraints, and a proposed "Church's thesis of analog computing".
Shang and Shan: Charitable networks of the 'Four Great Department Stores' and their associated Chinese-Australian families 1900-1949
Creators: name: Liao, Hongyue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis examines the philanthropic work supported by the “Four Great Department Stores” - Sincere, Wing On, The Sun and Sun Sun - and their associated Chinese-Australian families in Zhongshan, Sydney, Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai from 1900 to 1949, with a view to exploring how shang (commerce) interacted with shan (charity) and negotiating the role of transnational huaqiao (Overseas Chinese) networks in the development of Chinese indigenous philanthropy.
A Novel Use of Higher Order Information to Detect Inliers of an Implicit Model
Creators: name: Parag, Toufiq
name: Elgammal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010

description: The problem we address in this paper is to label datapoints when the information about them is provided primarily in terms of their subsets or groups. The knowledge we have for a group is a likelihood value for each group member to belong to same class. These likelihood values are computed using a model, either explicit or implicit, of the pattern we wish to learn. By defining a Markov Random Field (MRF) over the labels of data, we formulate the problem as an MRF inference problem. A submodular function is defined as clique potential function for this MRF. We identified a special form of this clique potential function that results in a simple and efficient inference method with linear running time with respect to the number of datapoints and subsets. The formulation allows augmentation of energy functions for data with several different size subsets. We present experimental results in applications where the proposed method produces improved performances over other methods.
Popularizing best practices through the Polaris benchmarking platform
Creators: name: Wognum, Cas
Publisher: name: Conscience
Year: 2025

description: Machine learning (ML) is driving innovations in drug discovery, but we need to be mindful of the circumstances that set this application apart. The absence of standardized, domain-appropriate datasets, guidelines and tools for the evaluation and comparison of methods has led to a growing gap between perceived progress and real-world impact, delaying the adoption of ML in drug discovery. To bridge this gap, we formed Polaris: An open-science, cross-industry and interdisciplinary collaboration to develop benchmarking protocols tailored to drug discovery. With Polaris, we go beyond publishing papers and develop a multimodal benchmarking platform for machine learning in drug discovery to simplify the adoption of these protocols. This talk will share some of the guiding design principles we followed when building Polaris and discuss the role of open-source software in popularizing appropriate benchmarking protocols.
Scopes of religious exemption: a normative map
Creators: name: Dane, Perry
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: Religious exemptions
Religious liberty
Free Exercise
Analogy of dignity
Legal pluralism
RFRA
Religious institutional autonomy
Establishment Clause
Sovereignty
Double coding

description: Religious exemptions take a variety of forms, with distinct logical shapes and normative underpinnings. This paper identifies eight ideal types of religious exemptions, grouped into three larger rubrics, representing a series of different analytic and justificatory structures, to help make sense of what might otherwise seem to be mysterious discontinuities and inconsistencies. The paper suggests how the various types can illuminate each other and how surveying the sequence as a whole might say something about the encounter of religion and state and the power of the legal imagination. The payoff or punch line is that the first, most obvious and straightforward, category of religion-based exemptions is also the most radical; that some of the other categories are tamer precisely to the extent that they introduce a wider and more complex range of values; but that the excursion in the end will necessarily come full circle to where it began.
Inter-program optimizations for conserving disk energy
Creators: name: Hom, Jerry
name: Kremer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2005

description: Previous work has shown that intra-program optimizations, i.e., optimizations performed on individual programs in isolation, can be very effective in reducing disk energy in streaming applications. This paper investigates the potential additional benefits of inter-program optimizations where sets of programs are optimized together. Experimental results on different subsets of three streaming applications show that 7-49% additional energy savings (27.3% on average) can be obtained with negligible performance penalties using two novel inter-program optimizations, namely execution context sensitive buffer size selection and inverse barrier synchronization. These figures were obtained via physical measurements on two laptop disks.