cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evolutionary biology in silico: explorations of adaptation in artificial populations
Creators: name: Woodberry, Owen Grant
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The complexity, detail and diversity of life has intrigued and excited both scientist and layperson alike. How such intricate design, as that commonly found in biological life, could have come about is the subject of millennia of thought. Charles Darwin’s (1859) theory of evolution (co-discovered by Alfred Wallace) proposes a simple mechanism of change across generations, and provides a testable explanation of such design. Although united on the validity of evolution, scientists remain divided on many open questions, including the adaptive nature of traits that benefit the group at the cost of individual fitness — that is, biological altruism. Interpreting the progress of evolutionary history from the fossil record is fraught with challenges. The large gaps between fossilization events hide the transitions between species, and much of the details of the organisms themselves are lost in the process. While we can conduct experiments on living organisms in the laboratory, the temporal and spatial scales involved in evolution in nature do not lend themselves to easily controllable and repeatable experiments. The recent field of artificial life (ALife) (Langton, 1989) provides new exciting potentials for experimental exploration of evolution. Within the software medium we can create simulations of populations of artificial organisms, which are subject to evolutionary forces, existing in an artificial environment, competing with each other for the opportunity to survive and reproduce. By incorporating such simulation techniques into the studies of evolutionary biology we greatly enhance our experimental repertoire. In this thesis I show that ALife provides new experimental techniques to explore open questions in evolutionary biology. In particular, I consider questions on the adaptive nature of groups and biological altruism. Firstly, I examine the relationship between the two popular explanations of altruism, group and kin selection, demonstrating a common dependence on inclusive fitness (Hamilton, 1964). Next, I investigate an extreme form of biological altruism, genetically programmed aging. Commonly thought to be non- adaptive (Medawar, 1952; Williams, 1957; Kirkwood and Holliday, 1979), I develop my own hypothesis of adaptive aging for the sake of group diversity, confirming it in simulated worlds of hosts and parasites. Lastly, I test, and find support for, Eldredge and Gould’s (1972) claim that punctuated equilibrium, a pervasive phenomena in the fossil record, provides the foundations for a species/group selection mechanism.
Teacher-Librarian Collaboration: The School Library Media Specialist as Portrayed by Teachers' Professional Organizations
Creators: name: Whitesell, Judy Jackson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: School libraries--Relations with teachers and curriculum
Libraries and librarians in literature
Librarian-Teacher cooperation
Content analysis
Periodicals--education

description: In the professional school librarian community, collaboration between teachers and librarians is emphasized as a key to a successful school library program that has a positive impact on student learning. A content analysis was performed on journal articles and convention sessions of two teachers' professional organizations, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), to determine if teachers are likewise encouraged to engage in this collaborative work. Little mention of the school library or teacher--librarian collaborative relationship was found; even less was found concerning its impact on student learning. Suggestions to better utilize the communication channels of professional teachers' organizations are offered for school librarians, both individually and collectively through the American Association for School Librarians (AASL) and affiliate organizations.
A Nonperturbative Proof of Dijkgraaf-Vafa Conjecture
Creators: name: Terashima, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we exactly compute the gaugino condensation of an arbitrary four dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory in confining phase, using the localization technique. This result gives a nonperturbative proof of the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture.
description: 12 pages, references added
An Analysis of Information Overload Components, Sources, Frequency, Effect on Performance and Coping Strategies Utilized by Full-Time Undergraduate University Students
Creators: name: Ellington, Virginia Beth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Information society, information overload
Information overload management
Personal information management, information overload

description: This study analyzes, compares, and contrasts the components of the definition of information overload, its primary sources, its frequency, its effect on work, and the utilization of coping strategies of ninety-eight full-time undergraduate university students by evaluating their responses to five open-ended questions.  The results of the study indicate that the students' definitions of information overload contain primarily volume and time constraint components, the primary source is classes, it occurs often, has a negative effect on class work, results in loss of time and reduces efficiency for the students. The majority of the students utilize coping strategies of prioritizing work, organizing work and taking a break when they experience information overload.
Pauli-Lubanski, Supertwistors, and the Superspinning Particle
Creators: name: Arvanitakis, Alex S.
name: Mezincescu, Luca
name: Townsend, Paul K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel construction of the super-Pauli-Lubanski pseudo-vector for 4D supersymmetry and show how it arises naturally from the spin-shell constraints in the supertwistor formulation of superparticle dynamics. We illustrate this result in the context of a simple classical action for a "superspinning particle" of superspin 1/2. We then use an Sl(2;K)-spinor formalism for K=R,C,H to unify our 4D results with previous results for 3D and 6D (super)Pauli-Lubanski tensors.
description: 23 pp. v4 is a modification of the rewritten v3 to include clarifications and additional references of the published version
Nearest neighbour query processing in mobile P2P networks
Creators: name: Nghiem, Phuong Thao
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The mature growth of mobile technologies in both hardware and software has paved the way for applying Peer-to-Peer (P2P) to location-aware applications in general and to nearest neighbour query processing in particular. Indeed, mobile devices powered by energy-efficient and high-performance microprocessors now allow people to share messages, sounds and pictures. In addition, wireless communication technologies have been developing dramatically, which enables mobile devices from anywhere to communicate at any time without requiring a wireless access point. P2P query processing not only harnesses the power of collaboration between peers, but also overcomes the drawbacks of centralised systems, such as bottleneck issues and low fault-tolerant problems. Therefore, making use of P2P query processing is a natural and essential move in spatial database management. The study in this thesis revolves around the central question: "Can the P2P approach solve Spatial Nearest Neighbour Queries in Mobile Environments?". In order to address the question, a pure mobile P2P query processing system is proposed to answer spatial queries. Although the proposed system is able to provide services to a wide range of spatial query types, the focus of the thesis presents as a case study, one of the most common types of spatial queries: Nearest Neighbours in a two-dimension Euclidean space with mobile peers and static objects of interest. In particular, this thesis introduces the P2P query processing system to tackle k Nearest Neighbours (kNNs), Reverse Nearest Neighbours (RNNs) and Group Nearest Neighbours (GkNNs). This system eliminates the role of a base station and focuses on the power of peer collaboration. Rather than queries are sent to all peers, a time-out mechanism, result validation algorithms and peer pruning algorithms are proposed to filter unnecessary peer communication. As a result, the proposed system can decrease query processing time and energy consumption while maintaining a high rate of accuracy. The experimental study, which uses both real and synthetic data sets, shows the practical feasibility of the P2P approach in solving Nearest Neighbour queries for mobile networks with the high density of moving objects.
High-fidelity gate operations for quantum computing beyond dephasing time limits
Creators: name: Souza, Alexandre M.
name: Sarthour, Roberto S.
name: Oliveira, Ivan S.
name: Suter, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The implementation of quantum gates with fidelities that exceed the threshold for reliable quantum computing requires robust gates whose performance is not limited by the precision of the available control fields. The performance of these gates also should not be affected by the noisy environment of the quantum register. Here we use randomized benchmarking of quantum gate operations to compare the performance of different families of gates that compensate errors in the control field amplitudes and decouple the system from the environmental noise. We obtain average fidelities of up to 99.8\%, which exceeds the threshold value for some quantum error correction schemes as well as the expected limit from the dephasing induced by the environment.
User Instruction in Art & Design Libraries
Creators: name: Witchger, Stephanie S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Art libraries
Library instruction
Bibliographic instruction--College and university students

description: Like most of their peers, students in art and design programs are presented with an everincreasing  number of options for carrying out research. Information resources and the tools to find and access information are constantly evolving. Through user instruction services the librarian can help students and faculty develop the information literacy skills  needed to carry out their research. The current literature provides some helpful examples of how this is being done in various fields but still more is needed. The goal of this exploratory study is to develop a current picture of user instruction in art and design libraries by gathering together information and examples concerning characteristics of current practices in the field.
A brief note concerning hard Lefschetz for Chow groups
Creators: name: Laterveer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C15, 14C25, 14C30

description: We formulate a conjectural hard Lefschetz property for Chow groups, and prove this in some special cases: roughly speaking, for varieties with finite-dimensional motive, and for varieties whose self-product has vanishing middle-dimensional Griffiths group. An appendix includes related statements that follow from results of Vial.
description: 15 pages. Comments welcome ! To appear (in slightly different version) in Canadian Math. Bulletin
A Survey of Undergradutes' Use and Attitudes of Cell Phones for  Instruction, Learning, and Collaboration
Creators: name: Woodbury, David N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009
Subjects: Undergraduate students
Mobile phones
Teaching-aids and devices

description: This paper presents the findings of a survey of fifteen undergraduates from three public  institutions in North Carolina on their use of cell phones as a tool for instruction,  learning, and collaboration. The survey was conducted to better understand the state of  students' attitudes toward using cell phones within the context of the educational realm.  Participants in the survey were selected as part of the Bot 2.0 project which seeks to  promote the field of Botany to traditionally underrepresented populations using mobile  phones, social networks, and collaborative web services. The results indicate a lack of  use of cell phones by undergraduates within an educational setting while showing a heavy  use within the social realm. A majority of the students studied did not regard cell phones  as a good tool for completing homework or for accessing instructional materials. All but  two of the students (87%) were in agreement about cell phones as a tool for collaboration  with classmates.
GRADE and Risk of Bias data.docx
Creators: name: Wyon, Matthew
name: Dang, Yanan
name: Koutedakis, Yiannis
name: Chen, Rouling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: 110317 Physiotherapy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110321 Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy)

description: Breakdown of GRADE and Risk of Bias (Kmet et al) questions for included studies
Songs of the Brokenhearted: On the Possibility of Cultivating a National Music Collection in the Iraq National Library and Archive
Creators: name: Wilson, Heather L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cultural property--Protection--Iraq
Iraq--National Library and Archives
Iraq War, 2003--Songs and music
Music libraries and collections
Libraries--Iraq
WAR and the Library

description: Iraq's musical history is as old as civilization. Libraries have also been part of Iraq for centuries, yet these institutions have rarely collected music materials. After the 2003 destruction of most Iraqi libraries, librarians have been seeking support for reviving these libraries, developing a national music collection in the Iraq National Library and Archive (INLA) is necessary.  This paper proposes that this collection be created, and it seeks to answer two concerns. The first, "How can this music collection be developed?," is answered by reviewing literature from scholars of like collections; by looking at the music collecting policies of similar libraries; and by identifying materials to include in this collection. The second, "Is this music collection needed?," is answered by looking at how this collection will help fulfill other INLA goals. This paper will show that a national music collection is an essential addition to the INLA.
Culture in the continuum: YouTube, small stories and memory-making
Creators: name: Gibbons, Leisa Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The objective of the thesis is to explore how continuum theory and models can be used to address the complexity of online cultural heritage as evidence, and as a result develop new theoretical dimensions about archives, culture and technologies. Using a complex, iterative multiple method research design, this study explores YouTube from a continuum perspective as an emergent archival space. The specific continuum model used to develop and analyse the YouTube case study is the Cultural Heritage Continuum Model (CHCM). Research outcomes include: •Multiple interpretations of the CHCM and extension of continuum understandings of online cultural spaces. •Presentation of a new cultural heritage continuum model titled: Mediated Recordkeeping: Culture-as-evidence. •Interpretation of the Information Continuum Model (ICM) to support research design and knowledge generation. •Presentation of a continuum-influenced Research Design Model This research is significant to the archival discipline as it addresses a gap in the research and theory concerning the applicability of continuum theory and continuum models in an emergent, complex social phenomenon as it exists in online cultural heritage. This research also demonstrates that continuum theory can be applied to research design, opening up possibilities for a more critical, inclusive and participatory model for community-based and tools-oriented research in archival science.
Awards: Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence in 2015.
Users' Perceptions on Searching, Locating, and Accessing Dispersed Materials in Archival Institutions
Creators: name: Dollar, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Archives--United States--Catalogs.
Archives users
Archives--Use studies

description: This study describes a semi-structured interviews of professional researchers located in the North Carolina area. This study evaluates the personal experiences and information seeking behaviors of researchers working with materials dispersed across multiple physical and digital locations. The survey was conducted to determine the strategies researchers use to identify and access all material relevant to their research questions, even if the materials are dispersed across different archival institutions.
Models and algorithms for static data segment location in information networks
Creators: name: Sen, Goutam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In a distributed database framework, data are distributed to geographically separated servers or data centers. This helps in distributing the load in the network and in serving the neighborhood locally. However, this solution leads to high operational costs. The location of data in multiple servers can be modeled as an optimization problem. We consider database segments as units of allocation since it is a promising and computationally tractable approach than considering files. It also eliminates the cost associated with mirroring the entire database and reduces the overhead of database updates. We build a novel data partitioning method using concepts from well-studied facility location models. Our model for the static data segment location in information networks (SDSLIN) builds on the uncapacitated single allocation p-hub median model from physical logistics. The servers that host database segments are treated as data hubs. They are connected to each other by high- bandwidth links (backbone). Routing large volumes of queries through these links helps in gaining cost benefits due to the economy of scale. We study two variants of SDSLIN on the basis of the backbone topology. The backbone could be a fully connected mesh (referred to as SDSLIN-mesh) or a tree (referred to as SDSLIN-tree). The problem SDSLIN-mesh jointly considers four subproblems, namely, segment allocation, server location, query routing and user assignment. In addition to these subproblems, the variant SDSLIN-tree considers the construction of the tree, which is itself an NP-hard problem. Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulations are provided for both the variants. However, even a moderate sized problem (for example, 100 nodes and 5 segments) is out of the reach of traditional solvers such as CPLEX. This necessitates the development of other optimization methods that can be employed to solve real-world problems. We identify some easy subproblems and develop a Benders decomposition (BD) algorithm. We employ several accelerations in the classical version of the algorithm for better performance. The approach is shown to be superior to CPLEX (under default settings) in terms of solving large instances. We also develop two metaheuristic approaches, namely, a simulated annealing (SA) approach and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach for our problem to provide approximate solutions for large instances in a reasonably small amount of computational time. We benchmark the performance of these approaches with the optimal solutions from CPLEX and the upper bounds from the BD. Our work assumes a static access pattern; hence, the models and formulations are useful only in the network design phase. Future research may consider online cases with changing access pattern. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia.
Asarum rosei B. T. Sinn 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Sinn, Brandon T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Piperales
Aristolochiaceae
Asarum
Asarum rosei

description: Asarum rosei B.T.Sinn, sp. nov.
 Type:— UNITED STATES. North Carolina: Caldwell County, on the west (east-facing) sloped road bank of Brown Mountain Beach Road (CR 1328), 0.5 km south of the junction with Harper’s Creek, 35° 58.07 ʹ N, 81° 45.49 ʹ W, elevation 445 m, 13 June 2016, R. Mark Rose 2016-06-13 CA-A (Holotype: NY (including spirit-preserved flowers and leaves); isotypes: NCU, MO, US).
description: Published as part of Sinn, Brandon T., 2017, Validation of Asarum rosei B. T. Sinn, pp. 298 in Phytotaxa 319 (3) on page 298, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13699251
Enterprise Success: Does Entrepreneurship Education Matter in Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises?
Creators: name: Lawal, Abdulazeez Abioye
name: Ojodu, Hameed O.
Publisher: name: International Journal of Economic Behavior  (IJEB)
Year: 2022

description: Developed and developing countries have demonstrated commitment toward nationwide enterprise culture. Success in entrepreneurship depends on many factors, including entrepreneurship education (EE). In Nigeria, research studies on factors affecting the success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are devoid of a comprehensive theoretical framework. Many SMEs owners are interested in discovering these critical success factors. The bulk of research on EE concentrates on its effect on entrepreneurial intentions (EI). The efficacy of EE in enterprise success (ES) is still uncertain. This study surveyed randomly selected 325 SMEs operating in Lagos using adapted research instruments adapted from previous studies. Correlations and multiple regression analysis were applied to analyze the data. The analysis revealed the non-significant relationship between most personal business demographics and the ES. However, the contribution of EE to ES was statistically significant. The study’s findings revealed that EE is the prime driver of ES. EE positively affects ES significantly. The implication is that a well-designed and implemented EE program will enhance business success. Therefore, entrepreneurs need to acquire knowledge relating to business management and the identification and exploitation of investment opportunities.
description: International Journal of Economic Behavior (IJEB), Vol. 12 No. 1 (2022): International Journal of Economic Behavior
Privacy online: a study of policy effectiveness in electronic commerce web sites
Creators: name: Allgood, Tammy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Internet--Security measures
Right of privacy
Electronic commerce
Surveys--Right of privacy
Internet--Legal aspects

description: This study is designed to answer the following questions: Which type of privacy policy increases the willingness of users to share personal data to a commercial web site the most - a third-party-validated privacy seal, or an internal company privacy policy? Does the existence of a privacy policy significantly increase a user's willingness to share personal types of information? What types of personal information are users more willing to share? Three web sites were created for this study; all three were based on a fictitious company. Users' willingness to provide information was measured with online survey questions displayed in a frame adjacent the web site.
Supplemental data from "Contribution of Machine Learning for Subspecies Identification from Mycobacterium abscessus Complex with MALDI-TOF MS in Solid and Liquid Media"
Creators: name: Godmer, Alexandre
name: Bigey, Lise
name: Giai-Gianetto, Quentin
name: Pierrat, Gautier
name: Noshine Mohammad
name: Mougari, Faiza
name: Piarroux, Renaud
name: Veziris, Nicolas
name: Aubrya, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplemental data from "Contribution of Machine Learning for Subspecies Identification from Mycobacterium abscessus Complex with MALDI-TOF MS in Solid and Liquid Media"  This includes : Table S1. Strains of M. abscessus complex isolates included in the study. Table S2. Results of the MALDI BioTyper® (Bruker®) with spectra of this study. Table S3. Statistical comparison of the Kappa coefficient metric according to the Machine Learning methods used in this study using unilateral Wilcoxon signed rank test, with Benjamini-Hochberg correction. Table S4. Performances of the ML-based pipelines for MABSc subspecies identification using the “test dataset” versus the molecular reference method. Table S5. Performances of the identification of MABSc strains cultivated at calibrate delay with the Metaclassifiers performed. Table S6. Performances of the identification of MABSc strains cultivated at calibrate delay with the Metaclassifiers performed.
Antiferromagentic resonance detected by DC voltages in MnF$_2$/Pt bilayers
Creators: name: Ross, Philipp
name: Schreier, Michael
name: Lotze, Johannes
name: Huebl, Hans
name: Gross, Rudolf
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed coplanar waveguide-based broadband ferromagnetic resonance experiments on the antiferromagnetic insulator MnF$_2$, while simultaneously recording the DC voltage arising in a thin platinum film deposited onto the MnF$_2$. The antiferromagnetic resonance is clearly reflected in both the transmission through the waveguide as well as the DC voltage in the Pt strip. The DC voltage remains largely unaffected by field reversal and thus presumably stems from microwave rectification and/or heating effects. However, we identify a small magnetic field orientation dependent contribution, compatible with antiferromagnetic spin pumping theory.
Neofriedmannia Kocyan & Wiland 2017, nom. nov.
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Wiland-Szymańska, Justyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Hypoxidaceae
Neofriedmannia

description: Neofriedmannia Kocyan & Wiland nom. nov.
 Basionym: Friedmannia Kocyan & Wiland-Szymańska (2016: 60) nom. illeg.
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Wiland-Szymańska, Justyna, 2017, A new name and a new combination for Friedmannia nom. illeg. (Hypoxidaceae), pp. 239 in Phytotaxa 291 (3) on page 239, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13699332
Indiens Frauen eine Stimme gibt
Creators: name: Hansen, Sven
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2022

description: „Verlage veröffentlichen normalerweise Bücher von aus der Mittelschicht stammenden Autoren und Autorinnen und wissen gar nicht, dass es fern davon noch eine ganz andere Welt gibt,“ sagt Urvashi Butalia. Die Ko-Gründerin von Indiens erstem feministischen Verlag Kali for Women, aus dem 2003 der von Butalia geleitete Zubaan-Verlag hervorging, landete mit der Autobiographie des Hausmädchens Baby Halder einen Bestseller.
description: Südasien, Bd. 29 Nr. 3 (2009): Gesichter der Gewalt - Sri Lanka 2009
A Study of Librarian Employment Trends from 1997-2009
Creators: name: Lerner, Rachel C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Education for librarianship
Librarians--Supply and demand
Librarians--Careers

description: This study looks at Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 1997-2009 for the occupational classification "Librarian" and attempts to identify trends among librarian employment, total national employment and national population data. The librarian employment statistics are categorized into special, academic, government, and school librarians and compared to each other as well as national employment and population figures. While national employment began to dip sharply in 2008, total librarian employment did not reflect as sharp a fall. Librarian employment had seen steady growth since 2005, although in 2008 their numbers did began to fall. Regardless of said growth, librarian job growth has not kept pace with the national population growth over the 13 years studied. The study closes with a discussion speculating as to why trends are so difficult to identify, and how librarian educators can respond to the seeming lack of job growth in the industry.
A content analysis of the PUBYAC discussion list
Creators: name: Edwards, Melissa Maxwell
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999
Subjects: Bulletin board systems--Evaluation
Children's librarians
Young adult librarians
Content analysis
Internet--Public libraries

description: This study describes the latent content analysis of messages posted to the PUBYAC (PUBlic libraries, Young Adults, and Children) discussion list from August 7 to September 7, 1999.  The analysis was conducted to determine the topics discussed by librarians serving children and young adults.  In the 530 messages posted during the month, there were six major and five minor categories of topics found.  The majority of messages were about (in rank order): programs, finding books, collection, library administration and policy, professional issues, and announcements. Significant work was also done to compare this study with two previous works about PUBYAC: a preliminary content analysis of PUBYAC conducted by Judit Bar-Han and Betty Assouline in the spring of 1997 and an analysis of 14 discussion lists (including PUBYAC) completed in the fall of 1994 and described by Barbara Wildemuth, Lisa Crenshaw, William Jenniches, and Christine Harmes.
Increased transport efficiency using shared depots and transfers for collaborative freight
Creators: name: Kelly, Richard Adam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis focuses on transport efficiency in supply chains. Transport is a major cost especially in Australia and has a significant impact on the environment. Transport efficiency can be improved by optimisation of routing and scheduling in a supply chain or by integrating components of different supply chains. This thesis addresses both forms of transport efficiency. A core driver of the research is the introduction of shared depots that allow multiple logistics companies to combine resources. By designing improved vehicle routes to effectively use these shared depots a sharp reduction in the number of truck kilometres can be achieved. The two optimisation problems have never been addressed in an integrated way. Typically depot placement is performed before vehicle routing for a single supply chain. Finding solutions to both optimisation problems in an integrated way is a novel challenge because the techniques for depot placement and vehicle routing techniques are very different.
Le famiglie migranti di bambini disabili. Progettualità e interventi educativi
Creators: name: Pennazio, Valentina
name: Armani, Samantha
name: Traverso, Andrea
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Educazione Familiare
Year: 2015

description: The paper presents a reflection on the difficulties that a migrant family with a child with disabilities lives when it arrives in the host country. In the paper we try to highlight: how the concept of disability is influenced by the culture of belonging; how this conception of disability can affect the acceptance or not acceptance of rehabilitative and educative actions offered to families. In addition, we want to highlight the difficulties that we may be in the promotion of a positive relationship with migrant families of disabled children, and to suggest some strategies that can be adopted in an educative context, in order to interact positively with their. Finally we analyze the difficulties that teachers face in school to achieve inclusive educational actions and we present some practical proposals like: ‘the net work’ and ‘the awareness of class group’ (necessary to accept ‘the diversity’).
description: Rivista Italiana di Educazione Familiare, n° 1 gennaio-giugno 2015
Differenze nella valutazione del paesaggio da parte di esperti e di non-esperti
Creators: name: Tempesta, Tiziano
name: Vecchiato, Daniel
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: The European Landscape Convention, ratified by 40 nations, has placed emphasis on the necessity that the value of the landscape is assessed by the population. However it is standard practice that a few experts decide which areas are of landscape interest and the transformations that are compatible with their conservation. To compare the landscape preferences of experts and lay people a study was done on the Po Delta Natural Park (Italy) using a psychophysical approach. In our case study the average scores of experts and lay people are not very different. However it was also ascertained that the experts evaluate the presence of some elements in a way that differs from lay people. As the responsibility for landscape policies is normally devolved to a few experts it would appear necessary that the preferences and opinions of lay people should always be carefully analysed.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 66 (2015)
Gender's Role in the Expression of Friendship in Young Adult Literature
Creators: name: Waters, Martha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Young adult literature
Content analysis
Teenagers

description: This content analysis of fourteen young adult novels examines the manner in which friendship behaviors and trends vary depending on the gender of the characters. Similarities and differences between male and female same-sex friendships in these novels were compared to determine the extent to which friendship patterns are determined by gender, and then the findings of the content analysis were compared to the trends observed in the psychology literature regarding gender and adolescent friendships. Results indicated that while psychology literature suggests many gender-based differences in friendship patterns, these differences are not actually reflected in the young adult novels being published today, which depict same-sex friendships as being largely similar in terms of the most significant trends.
Wildlife damage to agriculture
Creators: name: Lucifero, Nicola
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: The article aims to focus the attention, under a legal point of view, on the damage to agriculture caused by wildlife which gives application problems in view of the special legislation, pointing out questions and hermeneutical nodes to which the doctrine and jurisprudence tried in different times to give a solutions. This paper, moving from the legal concept of damages and compensation, aim to examine the current legal system and in particular the evolving of the case law. The analysis requires a complex investigation that needs to be contextualized within the system of environmental protection as indicated by the TFEU (Art. 191), to which it brings the legislation on protection of wildlife (Law n. 157/1992), reporting that protection with the institutes of the property and the agricultural enterprise (art. 2135 of the Italian Civil Code). The conflict between the interests worthy of protection, and the resultant priorities of those public and private are reflected on the occurrence of the damaging event, denying the fact prejudicial illegality as harmful case assumed and accepted in the predetermination of the legal situation by law as an event can be traced within the constraints and limitations of subjective legal situation of the owner of the crops.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 66 (2015)
Nurses' Use of Nursing Consult: A Point of Care Resource
Creators: name: Philpotts, Lisa L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Use studies--Information systems
Surveys

description: With the rise of the evidence based nursing movement, it is more important than ever for nurses to have access to information to inform practice. Electronic point of care resources offer one possible solution to the barriers surrounding nurses' information seeking. This research surveys nurses working at a large academic hospital to determine their awareness and use of Nursing Consult, an electronic point of care resource. The results of this study indicate that few nurses are aware of the resource, but those who use it find it valuable. The researcher recommends the library publicize and provide training on Nursing Consult to select groups of nurses to increase awareness of the resource.
Design and Implementation of a Database-Driven Web-based Student Evaluation and Tracking System for the Emergency Medicine Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Creators: name: Li, Meichun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003
Subjects: Information system--Design
Interface design
Database management systems
Web databases

description: The course, Emergency Medicine (EM401), is for Interns or the fourth year medical students at the Emergency Medicine Department, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The requirements of the course include Emergency Department shifts, workshops, attendance in Emergency Medicine conferences and all resident conferences, and a case paper and presentation of the paper. The current evaluation procedure is time-consuming and awkward. This paper describes the design and development of a new, database-driven, web-based evaluation and tracking system that allows Emergency Department attendings (physicians) to submit evaluations on-line and allows administrative users to manage and keep track of student information and evaluations.
Slow Reflection
Creators: name: Freund, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03F25, 03F30, 03C62, 03D20

description: We describe a "slow" version of the hierarchy of uniform reflection principles over Peano Arithmetic ($\mathbf{PA}$). These principles are unprovable in Peano Arithmetic (even when extended by usual reflection principles of lower complexity) and introduce a new provably total function. At the same time the consistency of $\mathbf{PA}$ plus slow reflection is provable in $\mathbf{PA}+\operatorname{Con}(\mathbf{PA})$. We deduce a conjecture of S.-D. Friedman, Rathjen and Weiermann: Transfinite iterations of slow consistency generate a hierarchy of precisely $\varepsilon_0$ stages between $\mathbf{PA}$ and $\mathbf{PA}+\operatorname{Con}(\mathbf{PA})$ (where $\operatorname{Con}(\mathbf{PA})$ refers to the usual consistency statement).
description: This version has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
Electronic Supplementary Material for “Optimization of institutional incentives for cooperation in structured populations”
Creators: name: Wang, Shengxian
name: Chen, Xiaojie
name: Xiao, Zhilong
name: Szolnoki, Attila
name: Vasconcelos, Vítor V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In electronic supplementary material, we provide a detailed theoretical analysis to explore optimal incentive protocols for the promotion of cooperation in structured populations. Specifically, we consider four different strategy update rules, describing DB updating in section 1, BD updating in section 2, IM updating in section 3, and finally PC updating in section 4. In each section, we first use the pair approximation method to explore the dynamical equation with positive or negative incentive and theoretically obtain the conditions of the minimal amounts of incentives needed for the evolution of cooperation. After that, we formulate optimal control problems for both positive and negative incentive protocols and obtain the optimal positive and negative incentive protocols by means of the approach of HJB equation.
A geometric approach to support vector classification
Creators: name: Goodrich, Ben David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a supervised classification technique which has been applied to a broad range of tasks. There has also been a significant amount of research focused on making SVMs more accurate or efficient. Past work has been approached from many different perspectives. For example, while some authors interpret an SVM as a method for statistical regularization, others interpret it as a large margin classifier. Others still simply consider it as a type of black box which results from a Quadratic Programming (QP) task. More recently, SVMs have been interpreted as the result of a nearest point algorithm operating over the Reduced Convex Hulls (RCHs) of two classes. This has come to be known as the geometric interpretation of SVMs. Previous work has described the relationship between SVMs and computational geometry. However, it has focused largely on using this information in order to present novel SVM training algorithms. We use the geometric interpretation of SVMs in order to unify a broad range of existing research, and also to inform several new techniques. The main contributions of this work can be divided into two parts. First, we examine existing work from a geometric perspective. This proves invaluable for understanding how and why SVMs work, the impact their parameters have, their relationship to other classifiers, and the circumstances under which they can exhibit poor performance. Second, we use the geometric framework to inform new methods for solving SVM-related tasks such as training, point weighting, and parameter selection. One of the ways in which we achieve this is by generalizing some of the geometric concepts underlying SVMs. For example, one of the concepts we introduce is that of Weighted Reduced Convex Hulls (WRCHs), a generalized form of RCH. By closely examining the properties of RCHs and WRCHs, we are able to propose several algorithms for their construction. In turn, this allows us to incorporate new types of SVMs and their training algorithms under the geometric framework.
Valutazione dei benefici per un sistema di trasporto locale nell’ambito del turismo culturale
Creators: name: Bravi, Marina
name: Gasca, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: The need for an efficient Transport System (TS) is widely recognized as an important factor of a successful program of tourism development, but little work has been made to investigate the impact of TS on Cultural Heritage Tourism (CHT). This is one of the most recognized and investigated forms of tourism but, unfortunately, there is a fragmentation in the research field that does not allow a full comprehension of existing relationships between TS, CHT, and tourist experience. In this light, the work tries to evaluate the economic impact of the on-site vs. long-distance transports, in a scenario where tourism public policies are not adequately developed. The analysis is based on CHT access data and economic information on travel costs managed with the help of a large data set coming from the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont Region (Italy).
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 66 (2015)
On the Graph Fourier Transform for Directed Graphs
Creators: name: Sardellitti, Stefania
name: Barbarossa, Sergio
name: Di Lorenzo, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The analysis of signals defined over a graph is relevant in many applications, such as social and economic networks, big data or biological networks, and so on. A key tool for analyzing these signals is the so called Graph Fourier Transform (GFT). Alternative definitions of GFT have been suggested in the literature, based on the eigen-decomposition of either the graph Laplacian or adjacency matrix. In this paper, we address the general case of directed graphs and we propose an alternative approach that builds the graph Fourier basis as the set of orthonormal vectors that minimize a continuous extension of the graph cut size, known as the Lovász extension. To cope with the non-convexity of the problem, we propose two alternative iterative optimization methods, properly devised for handling orthogonality constraints. Finally, we extend the method to minimize a continuous relaxation of the balanced cut size. The formulated problem is again non-convex and we propose an efficient solution method based on an explicit-implicit gradient algorithm.
description: To appear in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2017
HIV/AIDS Information on Government Health Websites in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Cash, Audrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Developing Countries HIV (Viruses)--Developing countries
Web sites--Evaluation
Information technology--Developing countries
AIDS (Disease)--Developing countries

description: This study is designed to answer the questions: Do government health websites in developing countries contain information about HIV/AIDS? Who is the HIV/AIDS information on government health websites aimed toward? Six government websites were chosen and evaluated for the purposes of this study. A set of criteria was created to aid in the evaluation of the websites. It appears that developing countries do have information on HIV/AIDS on their government health sites. The extent of the content varies from country to country.
Analisi del rapporto tra valori fondiari e aiuto pubblico: possibili effetti sui cambiamenti di uso del suolo
Creators: name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Marone, Enrico
name: Scozzafava, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: Agricultural policies can affect farm economic performances in a such deep manner that sometimes, in the case of absence of public support, this could lead to the termination of production in many rural realities. The objective of this work is to propose a method of assessing the risk of abandonment of agricultural activity that is based on the comparison between the estimated rent and the public aid received by each farms. The methodological approach stems from the inability to detect directly the value of rent and it is based on the elaboration of the database provided by the Agenzia del Territorio on Valori Agricoli Medi (VAM).
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 66 (2015)
Supplementary Materials 09 2023 AOTJ.docx
Creators: name: Sheerin, Margo
name: O'Riordan, Cliona
name: Conneely, Mairead
name: RYAN, DAMIEN
name: Carey, Leonora
name: Galvin, Rose
name: Morrissey, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420104
subject: Occupational therapy

description: Supplementary material: Effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions on function and occupational performance among adults with conditions of the hand, wrist, and forearm: a systematic review and meta-analysis1: PRISMA Checklist2: Search strategy Ovid Medline3: Study detail4: Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 summary5: GRADE assessment for certainty of evidence6. Trials grouped according to ICF Brief Core Set for Hand Conditions categorises by intervention type