cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Student Paintings, Tattoo Artists, and Scientists: the Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces
Creators: name: Lotts, Megan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions
Academic libraries
Art libraries
Outreach
Rutgers University

description: The Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces (RALES) were created so that an Art Librarian could more intentionally connect with the departments with whom she is a liaison, and to further engage the local campus communities by elevating the importance of scholarly research happening in the Arts. These spaces also provide an opportunity for student artists, graduate students in librarianship, and organizations putting up their first exhibit, to learn more about what goes into an exhibition, from creation of the work, to the public viewing, marketing, and reception. RALES also provides an opportunity for individuals to view artworks in person, as opposed to studying an image in a book. In three years, this teaching gallery has hosted 40 exhibits by students, faculty, and staff, from the Rutgers communities, as well as a few local and out of state artists. There has been little to no cost in running this gallery space, other than the time. The most impactful aspect of RALES is that it has created a deeper connection to the patrons that the Art Library serves, as well as built bridges across the campuses that have introduced the libraries to many new potential partnerships. This poster will include a brief review of exhibition spaces in academic libraries as well as a discussion on how gallery spaces can be low cost, easy to coordinate, and create a lasting impact. Audience members will learn more about the physical make up of RALES, and view examples of exhibits shown in the space.
Student assessment via graded response model
Creators: name: Matteucci, M.
name: Stracqualursi, L.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2008

description: Recently, the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna has started a
program of didactics reorganization for several courses, introducing more than one
evaluation test during the learning process. Student assessment before the final examination
has the double aim of measuring both the level of student’s ability and the effectiveness
of the teaching process, in order to correct it real-time. In such an evaluation system,
common to the Anglo-Saxon countries, Item Response Theory (IRT) expresses its effectiveness
fully. In this paper, an IRT model for ordered polytomous variables is considered
in order to investigate the item properties and to evaluate the student achievement. Particularly,
the Graded Response Model (GRM) is taken into account in the analysis of
three different written tests of a basic Statistics course. The results highlight the different
composition of the items and provide a simple description of the student ability distribution.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 4 (2006); 435-447
Phalaris rotgesii Baldini
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Phalaris
Phalaris rotgesii

description: P. rotgesii (Husnot) Baldini, 2 n =14: 1, France, Corsica, R.M. Baldini 12/8 (FI) JF951090, –; 2, France, Corsica, R.M. Baldini 15/1 (FI), JF951074, JF951110.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
Area Estimation & Accuracy Assessment Toolbox
Creators: name: Bullock, Eric
name: Arevalo, Paulo
name: Olofsson, Pontus
name: Singh, Diptanshu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Area Estimation
Google Earth Engine
Land Cover

description: AREA 2 (“area squared” or “area two”), short for Area Estimation & Accuracy Assessment, is a Google Earth Engine application that provides comprehensive support for sampling and estimation in a design-based inference framework. Several sampling designs and estimators are supported. The aim of AREA 2 is to provide users the tools necessary to comply with recommended practices and international guidance for estimation areas of land categories and land change, and to assess the accuracy of maps.
Static Infinite Wait Anomaly Detection in Polynomial Time
Creators: name: Masticola, Stephen P.
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: Innite wait anomalies associated with a barrier rendezvous model (e.g., Ada) can be divided into two classes: stal ls and dead locks. Although precise static deadlock detection is NP-hard, we present two polynomial time algorithms which operate on a statically derivable program representation, the sync graph, to certify a useful class of programs free of deadlocks. We identify three conditions local to any deadlocked tasks, and a fourth global condition on all tasks, which must occur in the sync graph of any program which can deadlock. Again, exact checking of the local conditions is NP-hard; the algorithms check them using conservative approximations. Certifying stall freedom is intractable for programs with conditional branching, including loops. We give program transforms which may help alleviate this diculty.
Phalaris truncata Bertol.
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Phalaris
Phalaris truncata

description: P. truncata Guss. ex Bertol., 2 n =12: 1, Italy, Tuscany, R.M. Baldini 15/22 (FI), –, JF951120; 2, Tunisia, USDA 535561, JF951059, JF951111.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
Reconceptualizing STEM Education in China as Praxis: A Curriculum Turn
Creators: name: Ma, Ying
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: STEM education has drawn considerable international attention in recent decades. Current practices of STEM Education in China have shown that STEM is understood primarily as a policy-driven and economic problem. This paper challenges the reduced technical frameworks of STEM education and draws on the theoretical framework of the reconceptualization movement in the curriculum field. It aims to shift scientific or social science paradigms with languages of humanity to reapproach STEM education. STEM education is hence reconceptualized as praxis in its lived, ethical and historical dimensions. It would transform STEM education in China from being targeted for economic growth to attending to lived, nuanced and rich STEM experiences, structured by ethics and threaded by history. STEM teachers and teacher educators are advised to understand anew about STEM in their situatedness. STEM could serve as an opportunity to critically reflect on and research each discipline in greater depth with inter-disciplinary lenses. Instead of integrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics seamlessly to form omnipotent toolsets for the 21st-century workforce in China and on the international landscape, a reconceptualization of STEM as praxis could continue to generate more sustainable STEM education.
Seed source and region effects on growth rate and survival of blue spruce (Picea pungens) Christmas trees in New Jersey
Creators: name: Meixler, Marcia S.
name: Vodak, Mark C.
name: McLaughlin, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Blue spruce
Seed source
Colorado spruce--New Jersey--Seedlings
Provenance
Colorado spruce--Growth

description: Seedlings from five different seed sources of blue spruce Christmas trees were planted at five sites throughout New Jersey. Two sites in northern New Jersey and one in central New Jersey had significantly higher survival rates than the two in southern New Jersey. Additionally, the two sites in northern New Jersey had significantly faster growth rates than those in southern and central New Jersey. There were no significant differences in survival rates between seed sources. In terms of growth rates, however, seedlings from seeds obtained in Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico grew significantly faster than seedlings from the other seed sources tested. This forther growth rate is predicted to shorten the time needed to reach marketability size by one to five years.
The middle might be shrinking, but it usually trumps the splinters
Creators: name: Brent, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A numbers problem: graffitied Marine Le Pen poster at a polling station in Paris’s 5th arrondissement as voting took place in the second round of the presidential election. Lorie Shaull/Flickr Which Americans voted for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election? Who comprised that fabled tribe, the sixty-three million “Trump supporters”? Income-wise, according to the New York Times exit poll, they skewed upwards. Hillary Clinton easily won the lowest-income voters (below US$50,000) and Trump took the highest ones. White university graduates also voted for Trump over Clinton. Hang on, can that be right? Aren’t Trump supporters supposed to be white members of the working class with low levels of wealth and education, fed up with elites and political correctness? Wasn’t the result a revolt of the people left behind by globalisation? That much-favoured characterisation only applies to a small portion of people who delivered the White House to the Republican candidate. The bulk of his support simply came from Republican voters. According to the same exit poll, 90 per cent of voting Republicans chose Trump and 89 per cent of Democrats went for Clinton. Trump became president because he was the Republican candidate for president.
title: The impact of the Covid‑19 pandemic on worker careers: do different job opportunities matter?
Creators: name: Buhmann, Mara
name: Pohlan, Laura
name: Roth, Duncan
Publisher: name: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02qcqwf93
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Economic shocks
subject: Covid-19 pandemic
subject: unemployment
subject: worker careers
subject: occupations
subject: J23 Labor Demand
subject: J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility
subject: J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

description: This paper exploits that the Covid‑19 pandemic came as an unexpected shock that
temporarily reduced the ratio of vacancies to seekers. We use this unique setting to
understand the importance of job opportunities for the impact of unemployment on
workers’ careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign
conditions, we find greater and lasting adverse effects on earnings. We provide evidence
that lower job opportunities lead unemployed individuals to take up jobs that are further
down the occupation‑specific wage distribution. Finally, we substantiate the importance of
job prospects by using exogenous variation in the pandemic’s effect on occupations.
description: In diesem Papier wird die Tatsache ausgenutzt, dass die Covid‑19 Pandemie ein exogener
Schock war, der temporär das Verhältnis von offenen Stellen zu Jobsuchenden verringert
hat. In diesem einzigartigen Setting wird die Bedeutung von Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten
untersucht und inwiefern diese Erwerbskarrieren, die von kürzlicher Arbeitslosigkeit
betroffen sind, beeinflussen. Im Vergleich zu Arbeitslosen, die unter günstigeren
Bedingungen arbeitslos geworden sind, sind die Effekte auf das Einkommen größer und
anhaltend negativ. Es zeigt sich, dass geringere Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten dazu führen,
dass Arbeitslose Beschäftigung weiter unten in der berufsspezifischen Lohnverteilung
aufnehmen. Die Größe dieser Effekte hängen invers mit der unterschiedlichen Fähigkeit von
Berufen, während Lockdowns zu operieren, zusammen.
description: IAB-Discussion Paper, 2025-07
Briza minor L.
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Briza
Briza minor

description: Briza minor L., 2 n = 10: 1, Hsiao & al. (1995), L36510.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
Understanding the Impacts of Research Synthesis
Creators: name: Wyborn, Carina
name: Louder, Elena
name: Harrison, Jerry
name: Neßhöver, Carsten
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Rechtmäßigkeit

description: Research synthesis is the integration of existing knowledge and research findings pertinent to an issue. The aim of synthesis is to increase the generality and applicability of those findings and to develop new knowledge through the process of integration. Synthesis is promoted as an approach that deals with the challenge of 'information overload', delivering products that further our understanding of problems and distil relevant evidence for decision-making. However, despite the increasing prominence of synthesis efforts in the science and policy landscape, we know very little about the impacts these initiatives have on research, policy and practice and the assumptions underpinning how they will lead to change. This paper presents a framework for considering the conceptual, strategic, instrumental and network-based impacts of research synthesis on policy. This framework provides insight into the range of underlying assumptions and impacts on policy and practice from 10 case studies of research synthesis related to contemporary sustainability challenges. Findings suggest that research synthesis is having diverse impacts on research, policy and practice including creating a new understanding of problems, establishing new networks, and contributing to changes in policy and practice. These impacts emerged across a range of contexts, synthesis methods, assumptions and operating models. This suggests that there is no single öcorrect wayââą Ì to design research synthesis for impact, but rather a need to tailor the approach for the context of intended use. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
A stable iterative algorithm for evaluation of upper and lower approximations to ultimate ruin probabilities
Creators: name: Barzanti, L.
name: Corradi, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this contribution we present an iterative algorithm for the calculation of two-sided numerical approximations to the probability of ultimate ruin for the classical risk model, which can be directly used in the case of compounding assets as well. Examples involving claim size distributions for which the existing recursive algorithms are inherently unable to provide numerical upper and lower bounds are illustrated, showing the merits of the proposed approach.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 1 (2003); 13-21
Blood lead levels increase, but remain in normal range with severe weight reduction.
Creators: name: Riedt, Claudia
name: Buckley, Brian
name: Shapses, Sue
name: Rhoads, George
name: Ambia-Sobhan, Hasina
name: Brolin, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Blood lead
Bone turnover
Bone remodeling
Calcium
Lead poisoning
Morbid obesity
Weight loss

description: High bone turnover states are known to raise blood lead levels (BPb). Caloric restriction will increase bone turnover, yet it remains unknown if weight reduction increases BPb due to mobilization of skeletal stores. We measured whole blood Pb levels (²⁰⁶Pb) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in 73 women (age 24–75 years; BMI 23– 61 kg/m²) before and after 6 months of severe weight loss (S-WL), moderate weight loss (M-WL), or weight maintenance (WM). Baseline BPb levels were relatively low at 0.2–6.0 μg/dl, and directly associated with age (r=0.49, P<0.0001). After severe WL (-37.4±9.3 kg, n=17), BPb increased by 2.1±3.9 μg/dl (P<0.05), resulting in BPb levels of 1.3–12.5 μg/dl. M-WL (-5.6±2.7 kg, n=39) and WM (0.3±1.3 kg, n=17) did not result in an increase in BPb levels (0.5±3.2 and 0.0±0.7 μg/dl, M-WL and WM, respectively). BPb levels increased more with greater WL (r=0.24, P<0.05). Bone turnover markers increased only with severe WL and were directly correlated with WL. At baseline, higher calcium intake was associated with lower BPb (r=-0.273, P<0.02), however, this association was no longer present after 6 months. Severe weight reduction in obese women increases skeletal bone mobilization and BPb, but values remain well below levels defined as Pb overexposure.
A family of almost unbiased estimators for negatively correlated variables using Jackknife technique
Creators: name: Upadhyaya, L. N.
name: Singh, H. P.
name: Singh, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Using Jackknife technique a family of almost unbiased estimators for Y, the population mean of the study variable Y, is suggested and its properties analysed under simple random sampling and without replacement (SRSWOR) scheme. An empirical investigation has been done to show the performance of the proposed unbiased strategies over the biased regression estimator.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 4 (2004)
Hierochloe australis Roem. & Schult.
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Hierochloe
Hierochloe australis

description: Hierochloe australis (Schrad.) Roem. & Schult., 2 n =14: 1, Quintinar & al. (2007), DQ631447.1.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
MEASURING COMPETENCE IN COMPUTER SKILLS
Creators: name: Filippucci, Carlo; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche, Università Di Bologna
name: Pacei, Silvia; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The increasing importance of ICT in a knowledge-based economy highlights the needfor statistical information on its diffusion. In Italy, a few information is collected fromsample surveys on firms, while no information on labor force capabilities is available. Wecarried out a sample survey on individual skills, focusing on the use of core computer applications.The aim is to suggest an instrument that could be integrated into current labourforce surveys for improving statistics on human capital. The experiment was successfuland results highlight practical knowledge of different computer applications is limitedto some subsets of the population.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 3-25
Score functions and statistical criteria to manage intensive follow up in business surveys
Creators: name: GISMONDI, ROBERTO; ISTAT, Italian National Statistical Institute
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In the frame of a statistical survey, the identification of non respondent units thatshould be object with priority of a reminder action (Intensive Follow Up - IFU), with the aimto produce enough good estimates, represents a relevant, but quite not deeply analysed methodological aspect. In this context, we propose and compare some score functions -that can be all reconnected to a generalised function – evaluating how much is dangerousthe exclusion from calculations of each unit. Moreover, we evaluate and compare somecriteria aimed at identifying IFU units by means of suitable statistical tests or thresholdsderived by parametric or non parametric methods. A comparative empirical applicationon a panel of Italian retail trade businesses has been carried out and commented.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 27-54
title: Path planning for graded concrete element fabrication
Creators: name: Blagojevic, Boris
name: Sawodny, Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Stuttgart
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620
subject: 670

description: The technology of functionally graded concrete (FGC) is a new methodology in the field of concrete construction, striving for mass savings by adjusting the elements interior design. A promising approach herein is meso-gradation, where concrete hollow spheres are placed inside the formwork before casting the element; this allows up to 50% mass savings without a loss in load-bearing capacity, whilst also ensuring recyclability compared to e.g. bubble decks. In order to prevent damage/displacement of the spheres during automated fabrication, the extruded concrete flow must avoid the spheres, whilst neatly covering the elements area in order to prevent cavities. Both requirements formulate a complex path planning problem that must be solved in order to achieve automated fabrication. In this paper, we propose a method for solving this problem, which is based on theoretical findings on Hamiltonian triangulations. Our approach is based on the idea that the elements area is triangulated, such that all sphere centers are corners of triangles. For each triangle, a smooth path can be planned straightforwardly on a consideration of the geometry, such that the global path is made of a sequence of local ones. This necessitates finding a triangulation that is hamiltonian, i.e. a sequence where all triangles are visited exactly once. To this end, we first present a new class of triangulations and proof their hamiltonicity, followed by an algorithm that generates such triangulations on certain FGC element geometries. This is followed by the local path planning problem, whose special structure with start/end tangential and curvature constraints facilitates the use of a polar coordinate approach.
A latent curve analysis of unobserved heterogeneity in university achievements
Creators: name: Bianconcini, Silvia; Università Di Bologna-Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche
name: Cagnone, Silvia; Università Di Bologna-Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche
name: Mignani, Stefania; Università Di Bologna-Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche
name: Monari, Paola; Università Di Bologna-Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze the academic achievement of a cohort of students enrolled in 2001 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna by using a latent growth model for longitudinal data. The basic idea of this approach is that individuals differ in their growth over time according to a continuous underlying or latent trajectory.Random coefficients in the model allow each individual to have a different trajectory. Latent growth models can be incorporated in the Structural Equation Models (SEMs) framework by viewing the random coefficients as latent variables. Hence model identification and estimation are performed according to the conventions of the SEM analysis. The effects of different covariates in the student temporal behavior is also evaluated.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 55-67
The Green Hour: Low-emission vehicles, PA-NJ radio broadcast, June 29, 2015
Creators: name: Mazurek, Monica
name: Thwaite, Michael
Publisher: name: The Green Hour Radio
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sustainability
Alternative fuels
Alternative fuel vehicles
Low-emission vehicles
Air quality
Transportation infrastructure
Energy
Mobile source emissions
Diesel emissions
Diesel motor exhaust gas
Health impacts

description: Our society is structured in such a way that most of us are so dependent on cars that it is not easy to simply give them up. But you can make a choice as to what sort of car you have and what level of impact you have on our environment. Do you choose one which gives you 50 mpg or one that gives you 10 mpg? Or is electric? What sort of car do you really need? Listen to the experts as they offer insights on what the best choices available and why. Guests: Michael Thwaite, President of Plug-in America and the NJ Electric Auto Association, and Professor Monica Mazurek of the School of Engineering at Rutgers University.
Hierochloe equiseta Zotov
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Hierochloe
Hierochloe equiseta

description: Hierochloe equiseta Zotov, 2 n = 14: 1, Gardner & al. (unpub.), AY705901.1.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
Statistics, Probability, and a Failed Conservation Policy
Creators: name: Collins, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) have been reported during the past several decades, but nobody has managed to obtain the clear photo that is regarded as the standard form of evidence for documenting birds. Despite reports of sightings by teams of ornithologists working independently in Arkansas and Florida, doubts cast on the persistence of this iconic species have impeded the establishment of a meaningful conservation program. An analysis of the expected waiting time for obtaining a photo provides insights into why the policy of insisting upon ideal evidence has failed for this species. Concepts in statistics and probability are used to analyze video footage that was obtained during encounters with birds that were identified in the field as Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. One of the videos shows a series of events that are consistent with that species and are believed to be inconsistent with every other species of the region. Another video shows a large bird in flight with the distinctive wing motion of a large woodpecker. Only two large woodpeckers occur in the region, and the flap rate is about ten standard deviations greater than the mean flap rate of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). Supplemental materials for this article are available online.
Some considerations and developments about recently proposed families of distributions with hinge points
Creators: name: Brizzi, Maurizio; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche “Paolo Fortunati”-Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper deals with probability density functions with hinge points, useful when representing phenomena which have different statistical features, depending on the fact that a threshold point has been overtaken or not. The STSP distribution, proposed by Van Dorp and Kotz (2002 a) is recalled and developed, and a modified model (MTSP), a mixture of STSP and Uniform, is defined and studied. Moreover, the Two Faced distribution, already proposed in Brizzi (2006), is recalled and thoroughly analysed, and some estimation problems, related to both models considered, are faced by a semi-empirical approach.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 79-98
Dictionnaire historique des ordonnances, et des tribunaux de la Lorraine et du Barrois. Dédié a monseigneur le marquis de Miromenil... Par M. Pierre-Dominique Guillaume de Rogéville... Tome premier
Creators: name: Rogéville, Pierre Dominique Guillaume De (1734-1804)
Publisher: name: A Nancy, chez la veuve Leclerc, imprimeur de l'intendance. Nicolas Gervois, marchand libraire, rue St. Georges.
Year: 1777
Subjects: subject: France
subject: Droit coutumier
subject: Lorraine
subject: Barrois
subject: France
subject: Customary law
subject: Lorraine
subject: Barrois

description: Approbation du 27 mars 1776. Privilège du 4 décembre 1776
description: Tome 1 : A-K
title: Access to Fisheries in the United Kingdom’s Territorial Sea after its Withdrawal from the European Union: A European and International Law Perspective
Creators: name: Schatz, Valentin
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2019

description: This article approaches the question of post-Brexit access of European Union (EU) Member States to the United Kingdom’s (UK) territorial sea fisheries by first discussing the pre-Brexit legal status quo under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) of the EU. Second, this article discusses the international legal framework for access to territorial sea fisheries that would apply if the UK withdraws from the EU in the absence of a future agreement. As Part II of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) does notcontain provisions on fisheries access, this analysis focuses on the role of the 1964 London Fisheries Convention (LFC), bilateral voisinage agreements between the UK and EU Member States, potential acquired historic fishing rights of EU Member States in the UK’s territorial sea, and potential access rights derived from royal privileges. Next, this article addresses the relevance of the transitional arrangements contained in the latest draft withdrawal agreement of 2018, which was not, however, adopted by the UK. Finally, this article offers some conclusions as to the applicable legal framework for access of EU Member States to the UK’s territorial sea fisheries absent a new fisheries agreement between the EU and the UK, and potential ways to proceed in the future regulation of this issue.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 3, page 457-500
Classifying Hate Speech Using a Two-Layer Model
Creators: name: Yiwen Tang
name: Dalzell, Nicole
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Social media and other online sites are being increasingly scrutinized as platforms for cyberbullying and hate speech. Many machine learning algorithms, such as support vector machines, have been adopted to create classification tools to identify and potentially filter patterns of negative speech. While effective for prediction, these methodologies yield models that are difficult to interpret. In addition, many studies focus on classifying comments as either negative or neutral, rather than further separating negative comments into subcategories. To address both of these concerns, we introduce a two-stage model for classifying text. With this model, we illustrate the use of internal lexicons, collections of words generated from a pre-classified training dataset of comments that are specific to several subcategories of negative comments. In the first stage, a machine learning algorithm classifies each comment as negative or neutral, or more generally target or nontarget. The second stage of model building leverages the internal lexicons (called L2CLs) to create features specific to each subcategory. These features, along with others, are then used in a random forest model to classify the comments into the subcategories of interest. We demonstrate our approach using two sets of data. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Anthoxanthum monticola Veldkamp 1985
Creators: name: Voshell, Stephanie M.
name: Baldini, Riccardo M.
name: Kumar, Rohit
name: Tatalovich, Nicholas
name: Hilu, Khidir W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Anthoxanthum
Anthoxanthum monticola

description: Anthoxanthum monticola (Bigelow) Veldkamp, 2 n =10: 1, Gillespie & al. (2008), DQ353953.1; 2, Kim & al. (2009), EF577511.1.
description: Published as part of Voshell, Stephanie M., Baldini, Riccardo M., Kumar, Rohit, Tatalovich, Nicholas & Hilu, Khidir W., 2011, Canary grasses (Phalaris, Poaceae): Molecular phylogenetics, polyploidy and floret evolution, pp. 1306-1316 in Taxon 60 (5) on page 1316, DOI: 10.1002/tax.605007, http://zenodo.org/record/5678778
Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Instagram’s instant appeal
Creators: name: Anderson, Katie Elson
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social networks
Instagram (Electronic resource)
Social media
Libraries
Mobile apps
Visual web

description: The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the mobile application Instagram. As the second most popular social media platform Instagram has been and continues to be a recommended mobile application for libraries to consider including in their outreach and social media plan. This introduction to the popular mobile application is valuable to librarians and libraries seeking to engage with audiences using the Instagram app.
Role of the mismatch repair gene, Msh6, in suppressing genome instability
Creators: name: Barrera-Oro, Julio
name: Liu, Tzu-Yang
name: Gorden, Erin
name: Kucherlapati, Raju
name: Shao, Changshun
name: Tischfield, Jay A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: DNA repair
Genome dynamics and stability
Genetic recombination
Loss of heterozygosity
Mismatch repair
MSH6
Mitotic recombination
Aprt
MutSα

description: Mismatch repair (MMR) is critical for preserving genomic integrity. Failure of this system can accelerate somatic mutation and increase the risk of developing cancer. MSH6, in complex with MSH2, is the MMR protein that mediates DNA repair through the recognition of 1- and 2-bp mismatches. To evaluate the effects of MSH6 deficiency on genomic stability we compared the frequency of in vivo loss of heterozygosity (LOH) between MSH6-proficient and deficient, 129S2 x C57BL/6 F1 hybrid mice that were heterozygous for our reporter gene Aprt. We recovered mutant cells that had functionally lost APRT protein activity and categorized the spectrum of mutations responsible for the LOH events. We also measured the mutant frequency at the X-linked gene, Hprt, as a second reporter for point mutation. In Msh6-/-Aprt+/- mice, mutation frequency at Aprt was elevated in both T cells and fibroblasts by 2.5-fold and 5.7-fold, respectively, over Msh6+/+Aprt+/- littermate controls. While a modest increase in mitotic recombination (MR) was observed in MSH6-deficient fibroblasts compared to wild type controls, point mutation was the predominant mechanism leading to APRT deficiency in both cell types. Base substitution, consisting of multiple types of transitions, accounted for all of the point mutations identified within the Aprt coding region. We also assessed the role of MSH6 in preventing mutations caused by a common environmental mutagen, ionizing radiation (IR). In Msh6-/-Aprt+/- mice, 4 Gy of X-irradiation induced a significant increase in point mutations at both Aprt and Hprt in T cells, but not in fibroblasts. These findings indicate that MutSα reduces spontaneous and IR-induced mutation in a cell-type dependant manner.
Non-profit investigative reporting in American journalism, 2007-2015
Creators: name: Birnbauer, Bill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research explores the factors that led to a rapid rise in the number of non-profit investigative and public interest news organisations created in the United States between 2007 and 2015. It examines the reasons foundations and philanthropists funded this form of journalism, its sustainability and ethical issues. It finds that aspects of traditional journalistic practice have been transformed by non-profit reporting centres due to their collaborations with legacy media.
As serious journalism in mainstream media diminished due to thousands of journalists losing their jobs, non-profit journalism centres enhanced democratic processes – it is important to understand how this occurred and whether it is sustainable.
IATUL 32nd Conference 2011, “Libraries for an Open Environment: Strategies, Technologies and Partnerships,” Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 29 May-2 June 2011
Creators: name: Mullen, Laura Bowering
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Open Libraries
Technical college libraries
International Association of Technological University Libraries
IATUL Conference
Academic Libraries

description: This report provides details recorded from the author's attendance at the IATUL 2011 conference in Warsaw, Poland, May 29-June 2, 2011.
A study on a two unit parallel system with erlangian repair time
Creators: name: Singh, S. N.; Department Of Mathematics-University Of Transket
name: Singh, S. K.; School Of Studies In Statistics -Ravishankar University
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A two unit parallel system where in the failure rate of a unit is a constant and the repair time distribution is a two stage erlangian distribution is considered. Measures of system performance such as reliability, MTBF, system availability and steady state availability are derived. Also, a consistent asymptotically normal (CAN) estimator, a 100(1-α) % asymptotic confidence interval for the steady state availability of the system and the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the system reliability are obtained.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 69-77
Statistics, Probability, and a Failed Conservation Policy
Creators: name: Collins, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) have been reported during the past several decades, but nobody has managed to obtain the clear photo that is regarded as the standard form of evidence for documenting birds. Despite reports of sightings by teams of ornithologists working independently in Arkansas and Florida, doubts cast on the persistence of this iconic species have impeded the establishment of a meaningful conservation program. An analysis of the expected waiting time for obtaining a photo provides insights into why the policy of insisting upon ideal evidence has failed for this species. Concepts in statistics and probability are used to analyze video footage that was obtained during encounters with birds that were identified in the field as Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. One of the videos shows a series of events that are consistent with that species and are believed to be inconsistent with every other species of the region. Another video shows a large bird in flight with the distinctive wing motion of a large woodpecker. Only two large woodpeckers occur in the region, and the flap rate is about ten standard deviations greater than the mean flap rate of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). Supplemental materials for this article are available online.
Music Scholarship Online (MuSO): a research environment for a more democratic digital musicology
Creators: name: Duguid, Timothy
name: Feustle, Maristella
name: Giannetti, Francesca
name: Grumbach, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digital humanities
Music
Musicology
Technology
Research methods

description: This paper describes the work to date on Music Scholarship Online (MuSO), an online research environment for digitized and born digital music resources that inscribes itself within the federated model of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC). With the project now in its third year, MuSO has reached an inflection point where it has developed a musiccentered RDF schema and demonstrated the potential for federated searching across ARC nodes by crosswalking eighteenth-century music content from Europeana into ARC. The case study presented here outlines the dissemination role that MuSO proposes to play within the music research community, the history of MuSO in relation to ARC, the Europeana test case, and future steps for the continued development of MuSO. By facilitating the discovery of digital music content, and providing a virtual environment for music researchers, MuSO will promote data reuse, strengthen community standards in music representation, and create possibilities for cross-disciplinary exchange. We propose that by leveraging the connections between digital music resources and digital humanities research technologies, MuSO will facilitate new research that expands the musicological discipline.
A note on the use of an origin shift in survey sampling: a conceptual perspective
Creators: name: SAHOO, JAGATANANDA; Department Of Statistics -  S.K.C.G. College, Parlakhemundi 761200
name: SAHOO, LOKANATH; Department Of Statistics-Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004
name: DAS, BISHNUCHARAN; Department Of Statistics-Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, a simple origin shifted auxiliary variable z has been considered when the values of the main auxiliary variable x are completely known. The usability of z has been demonstrated both analytically and geometrically. The variable z has been used in (Midzuno’s, 1952) scheme with unequal probability sampling and it is further retransformed to another variable u so that the Midzuno scheme is operative under revised probability of selection. The efficiencies of Midzuno scheme and SRSWOR scheme with ratio method of estimation have also been compared both under the design and an assumed model.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 1 (2007); 99-108
Hyperelastic cloaking theory: Transformation elasticity with pre-stressed solids
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Parnell, William J.
Publisher: name: Royal Society
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cloaking
Elastic waves
Hyperelastic
Pre-stress

description: Transformation elasticity, by analogy with transformation acoustics and optics, converts material domains without altering wave properties, thereby enabling cloaking and related effects. By noting the similarity between transformation elasticity and the theory of ncremental motion superimposed on finite pre-strain it is shown that the constitutive parameters of transformation elasticity correspond to the density and moduli of small-on-large theory. The formal equivalence indicates that transformation elasticity can be achieved by selecting a particular finite (hyperelastic) strain energy function, which for isotropic elasticity is semilinear strain energy. The associated elastic transformation is restricted by the requirement of statically quilibrated pre-stress. This constraint can be cast as trF = constant, where F is the deformation gradient, subject to symmetry constraints, and its consequences are explored both analytically and through numerical examples of cloaking of anti-plane and in-plane wave motion.
Specifying event reference in verb learning
Creators: name: Arunachalam, Sudha
name: Syrett, Kristen
Publisher: name: Cascadilla Press";"Cascadilla Press
Year: 2013
Subjects: Language acquisition
Verb learning
Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverb

description: Our findings support the hypothesis that the intransitive frame is semantically underinformative in the context in which it has been presented in these verb learning experiments, and that chance-level performance results from lack of access to information that could disambiguate the sentence, rather than a lack of linguistic knowledge of structural relations or a syntax-semantics mapping. As our target adverb together fills this disambiguating role, our findings add to the mounting evidence that the lexical semantics of adverbial modifiers can be recruited by young children when learning the meaning of words.
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Recent evolution of italian households’ equity portfolio choices: an empirical investigation
Creators: name: GARDINI, ATTILIO; Department Of Statistical Sciences- University Of Bologna
name: MAGI, ALESSANDRO; Department Of Statistical Sciences- University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We study Italian households’ portfolio choices, with a special focus on equity investments, by analysing jointly time series and cross-sectional portfolio data. We investigate the temporal evolution of the actual composition of Italian households’ investments in order to explain their portfolio choices and to detect possible determinants of the observed disequilibria phenomena. Moreover, we model the stock market participation choice by using probit regression techniques and we test for parameter stability over time. Instability of participation parameters and a peculiar evolution of Italian households’ portfolios pointed out by our concurrent analysis of cross-sectional and time series data seem to confirm the distance of Italian households’ financial decisions from the rational choice predicted by the Markowitz model. In particular, we find that the housing market bubbles interact strongly with the stock market and financial institutions seem to be unable to advise investors suggesting optimal portfolio choices. The deep reason behind these facts may be the bounded education of investors, in particular the low financial literacy of Italian households.
description: Statistica; Vol 67, No 2 (2007); 119-141
CORONA-Net: Diagnosing COVID-19 from X-ray Images Using Re-Initialization and Classification Networks
Creators: name: Elbishlawi, Sherif
name: Abdelpakey, Mohamed H.
name: Shehata, Mohamed S.
name: Mohamed, Mostafa M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has been deemed a global health pandemic. The early detection of COVID-19 is key to combating its outbreak and could help bring this pandemic to an end. One of the biggest challenges in combating COVID-19 is accurate testing for the disease. Utilizing the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images can help radiologists compare and validate their results with an automated system. In this paper, we propose a carefully designed network, dubbed CORONA-Net, that can accurately detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray images. CORONA-Net is divided into two phases: (1) The reinitialization phase and (2) the classification phase. In the reinitialization phase, the network consists of encoder and decoder networks. The objective of this phase is to train and initialize the encoder and decoder networks by a distribution that comes out of medical images. In the classification phase, the decoder network is removed from CORONA-Net, and the encoder network acts as a backbone network to fine-tune the classification phase based on the learned weights from the reinitialization phase. Extensive experiments were performed on a publicly available dataset, COVIDx, and the results show that CORONA-Net significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art networks with an overall accuracy of 95.84%.