cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Enhanced Protocol for Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy II (Johnson et al., 2014)
Creators: name: Johnson, Margaret L.
name: Taub, Edward
name: Harper, Leslie H.
name: Wade, Jamie T.
name: Bowman, Mary H.
name: Bishop-McKay, Staci
name: Haddad, Michelle M.
name: Mark, Victor W.
name: Uswatte, Gitendra
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose The initial version of Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (CIAT I) consisted of a single exercise. This study sought to evaluate the feasibility for future trials of an expanded and restructured protocol designed to increase the efficacy of CIAT I.
Method The subjects were 4 native English speakers with chronic stroke who exhibited characteristics of moderate Broca's aphasia. Treatment was carried out for 3.5 hr/day for 15 consecutive weekdays. It consisted of 3 components: (a) intensive training by a behavioral method termed shaping using a number of expressive language exercises in addition to the single original language card game, (b) strong discouragement of attempts to use gesture or other nonverbal means of communication, and (c) a transfer package of behavioral techniques to promote transfer of treatment gains from the laboratory to real-life situations. Results Participation in speech in the life situation improved significantly after treatment. The effect sizes (i.e., d?) in this domain were ? 2.2; d? values ? 0.8 are considered large. Improvement in language ability on a laboratory test, the Western Aphasia Battery—Revised (Kertesz, 2006), did not achieve statistical significance, although the effect size was large—that is, 1.3 (13.1 points).
Conclusion These pilot results suggest in preliminary fashion that CIAT II may produce significant improvements in everyday speech.
Development, authentication and application of 3D-printed IoT-based water quality monitoring system- 4.0 Industrial revolution Approach
Creators: name: Raj, Lubin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: IoT
Lubin
Saveetha
3D printing
industry 4.0
water quality
monitoring system
patent
sensors
arduino

description: The present invention generally relates to the water monitoring system, more particularly, this system relates to an arrangement for real-time water quality monitoring system of water bodies in IoT-based water quality monitoring system-4.0 Industrial revolution approach.
Emergenza pandemica, precauzione e sussidiarietà orizzontale
Creators: name: Barone, Antonio
Publisher: name: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione
Year: 2020

description: L’emergenza pandemica da Covid-19 ha presentato e presenta numerosi spunti di riflessione per gli studiosi del diritto amministrativo. Nell’ambito di una molteplicità di possibili percorsi di indagine, il saggio analizza l’impatto dei principi di precauzione e sussidiarietà orizzontale sulle scelte di gestione dei rischi da Covid-19. Sotto un primo aspetto, l’emergenza COVID-19 si è caratterizzata, fin dall’inizio, per l’assenza di certezze scientifiche sulla prevenzione e gestione dei rischi per la salute umana. Del resto, nel solco della teorizzazione sociologica della “società del rischio”, la tradizionale deferenza del diritto ai portati tecnico-scientifici è entrata in crisi di fronte ai casi di incapacità della scienza di fornire risposte certe sulla dannosità o meno di numerose attività. L’emergenza coronavirus rilancia quindi l’esigenza di configurare correttamente i rapporti tra scienza, politica e amministrazione. Parallelamente, le tendenze neopubblicistiche in atto, talora sfocianti in forme di pubblicizzazione delle relazioni sociali di rilievo generale, rischiano di determinare la pretermissione della sussidiarietà orizzontale dal dibattito sulla gestione dei rischi pandemici. Ciò stride con la centralità del coinvolgimento dei privati nei percorsi di certificazione della sicurezza, come nel caso del ruolo della laboratoristica privata nei processi di screening di intere categorie della popolazione attraverso test molecolari (c.d. tamponi) e di tipo sierologico. The Covid-19 pandemic emergency offered and offers several opportunities for scholars of administrative law. Among various possible investigation, the essay analyses the impact of the precautionary and horizontal subsidiarity principles on the Covid-19 risk management. On the one hand, the COVID-19 emergency was characterized, from the beginning, by the absence of scientific certainty on the prevention and management of risks for human health. On the other hand, in the wake of the sociological theorization of the “risk society”, the traditional deference of the right to technical-scientific contributions has entered into crisis when science is not able to provide certain answers on the harmfulness or otherwise of numerous activities. The coronavirus emergency therefore re-launches the need to correctly configure the relations between science, politics and administration. At the same time, current neo-publicist tendencies, sometimes resulting in forms of publicity of social relations of general importance, are likely to lead to the pretermission of horizontal subsidiarity from the debate on pandemic risk management. This clashes with the centrality of the involvement of private individuals in security certification processes, as in the case of the role of private laboratories in the screening processes of entire categories of the population through molecular (so-called swabs) and serological tests.
description: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione, N. 1 (2020)
The effect of acute alcohol intoxication on social inhibition and theory of mind : a social lubricant or social depressant?
Creators: name: Johnson, Emma
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Alcohol intoxication is associated with socially disinhibited behaviours that may reflect impaired social cognitive abilities that guide social behaviour. The effects of alcohol on social cognition, and how this may contribute to disinhibited behaviour is relatively poorly studied. The aims of this study were to examine whether intoxicated individuals could inhibit negative responses to negative social information, whether these difficulties were reliant on theory of mind ability, and whether intoxicated individuals were able to adjust verbal responses when provided with guidelines about how to respond. Sixty-four males and females aged between 18 and 34 were recruited from the University of Tasmania and wider community to participate in the study. Participants consumed a beverage containing either alcohol or placebo before completing a Flanker task, a Go/No-Go task, and a newly developed measure of social disinhibition, the Social Disinhibition Task. Results indicate that alcohol intoxicated individuals can inhibit negative responses to negative social information, but display difficulty inhibiting negative responses to social information requiring ToM ability. Intoxicated individuals were able to adjust responses when required. These findings extend current understandings of the mechanisms involved in negative social behaviours following acute alcohol administration and may have important implications for development of public policy.
Polar behavior of double perovskite (Bi,Pb)ZnNbO6 and (Bi,Sr)ZnNbO6: Density functional calculations
Creators: name: Takagi, S.
name: Subedi, A.
name: Singh, D. J.
name: Cooper, V. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polar behavior of double perovskite (Bi,Pb)ZnNbO$_6$ and (Bi,Sr)ZnNbO$_6$ was investigated using first principles density functional calculations within the local density approximation. These materials have both $A$-site size disorder and ions with sterochemical activity. We found a strong ferroelectric distortion in both materials. The polarization of the Pb material is $>$80 $μ$C/cm$^2$ along the rhombohedral direction and the Sr based material is only slightly inferior. The high polarization results mainly from a large off-centering of Bi and the large Born effective charge of Nb, which yields a large contribution polarization although the Nb off-centers by a smaller amount. Neither of these materials favors a tetragonal state, and therefore solid solutions with PbTiO$_3$ may show morphotoropic phase boundaries.
Employee Incentive Plans in Farmer Cooperatives, 1957
Creators: name: Griffin, Nelda
name: Griffin, Nelda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: Agribusiness
Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: Excerpts from the report: As the first step in its study of employee incentive plans, Farmer Cooperative Service made a comprehensive review of literature covering the use of such plans in various kinds of businesses outside the cooperative field. An effort was made to determine the factors contributing to the success or failure of these plans. Information covered such points as methods, results, management and employee attitudes, special requirements, conditions for success, and pitfalls. A summary of this information was published in 1955 as a general guide to farmer cooperatives interested in adopting some form of employee incentive payment plan. This report is the second phase of the study. It gives basic information on the use, general extent, and types of employee incentive compensation plans reported by farmer cooperatives in 1957. It also provides more complete identification of the various employee incentive compensation plans in use, the specific types of cooperatives using them, and associations which have tried and discontinued incentive plans.
An investigation of the induction of precocious sexual maturity in juvenile pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Creators: name: Funk, James D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study was undertaken to determine whether the gonads of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), could be stimulated with exogenous hormones to reproductive maturity one year earlier than normal. This procedure, if successful, could be used as a method for repopulating ‘off’ year cycles of pink salmon in numerous rivers in British Columbia and Washington. In the juvenile males, complete sexual maturity was attained by September in the year of hatching with thrice-weekly treatments of 10.0 micrograms and of 1.0 micrograms salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) gonadotropin per gram body weight. Histological examination of the precociously mature testes, and comparison with testes from uninjected controls repealed that the time of onset of the mitotic division of spermatogonia to form the primary spermatocyte, and the process of active spermatogenesis were accelerated. At sexual maturity, a scattering of localizations of ∆5-3ß hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity was observed which corresponded to the distribution of the interstitial cells. A larger stock of pink salmon, in which injections were initiated 83 days later, developed mature testes in the same time interval as the normal-sized individuals. These gonads were four times larger, however. A small species difference in the action of the gonadotropin preparation was found when comparing its effect on the G.S.I., rate of induction of sexual maturity, and 3ß-ol dehydrogenase activity of immature Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. In the females, the yolk stage was induced first in fish treated three times a week with 1.0 µg/gram body weight salmon gonadotropin and 1.5 µg/gram body weight estradiol 17ß for 126 days. Oocytes containing yolk globules did not appear in pink salmon treated with 1.0 µg/gram body weight salmon gonadotropin alone for a further 42 days. Estradiol l7ß alone, or in combination with salmon gonadotropin at a dosage of 15 µg/gram body weight inhibited vitellogenesis. Formation of oocytes 2 mm in diameter required seven and one half months of treatment with 1.0 µg/gram body weight salmon gonadotropin and 1.5 µg/gram body weight estradiol 17ß, and nine months of injections with l.0µg/gram body weight salmon gonadotropin alone. Few large yolky oocytes were developed by any of the treatments. Large numbers of pre-ovulatory corpora atretica were observed in all of the treated fish. Little histochemically demonstrable ∆5-3ß hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity was present in ovaries from pink or spring salmon juveniles treated for 3 months with various dosages of salmon gonadotropin. The significance of the results in relation to the original problem are discussed.
Examples of Specific Prompts and Adult Responses During a Grammatical and Telegraphic Session (Bredin-Oja & Fey, 2014)
Creators: name: Bredin-Oja, Shelley L.
name: Fey, Marc E.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether children in the early stage of combining words are more likely to respond to imitation prompts that are telegraphic than to prompts that are grammatically complete and whether they produce obligatory grammatical morphemes more reliably in response to grammatically complete imitation prompts than to telegraphic prompts.Method Five children between 30 and 51 months of age with language delay participated in a single-case alternating treatment design with 14 sessions split between a grammatical and a telegraphic condition. Alternating orders of the 14 sessions were randomly assigned to each child. Children were given 15 prompts to imitate a semantic relation that was either grammatically complete or telegraphic.
Results No differences between conditions were found for the number of responses that contained a semantic relation. In contrast, 3 of the 5 children produced significantly more grammatical morphemes when presented with grammatically complete imitation prompts. Two children did not include a function word in either condition.
Conclusion Providing a telegraphic prompt to imitate does not offer any advantage as an intervention technique. Children are just as likely to respond to a grammatically complete imitation prompt. Further, including function words encourages children who are developmentally ready to imitate them.
Stato, mercato, nomos. Sulla funzione dell’ammi-nistrazione nel sistema produttivo globale
Creators: name: Vese, Donato
Publisher: name: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione
Year: 2020

description: L’articolo mira ad analizzare le relazioni tra stato e mercato nel diritto amministrativo. In particolare, si intende sostenere come interessi legali di uguale o maggiore valore rispetto ad interessi economici nel sistema di produzione globale sono fondati sulla legislazione nazionale, europea e internazionale. In questa prospettiva, l’ecologia rappresenta un caso paradigmatico. Da questo punto di vista, si guarderà al rapporto tra economia ed ecologia a partire dalla derivazione comune (l’oikos) che lega i due termini ed attraverso l’opera di intermediazione del diritto (il nomos). The article aims to analyse the relationship between state and market in the administrative law. I emphasise that the legal interests of equal or greater value than economic interests in the system of the global production are grounded on International, European and Italian legislation. Ecology matters as a paradigmatic case. From this point of view, I intend to stress the relationship between economics and ecology by discussing the common derivation (i.e. oikos) that links the two terms through the intermediation of law (i.e. nomos).
description: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione, N. 1 (2020)
Regolazione indipendente e anomalie sostenibili al cospetto delle matrici della legalità
Creators: name: Pantalone, Pasquale
Publisher: name: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione
Year: 2020

description: L’attività delle Autorità indipendenti presenta significative criticità per il pieno svolgimento delle libertà economiche sui mercati nei quali esse intervengono e per la democraticità dei processi decisionali che le medesime elaborano e attuano: si tratta di problemi che nascono proprio alla luce del principio di legalità, posto dall’ordinamento fondamentalmente a protezione delle libertà. Col presente lavoro s’intende in particolare verificare come tale principio “reagisca” all’uso della regolazione indipendente – intesa primariamente quale funzione di law making del settore o mercato di riferimento – e delle potestà implicite che su di essa si innestano, per poi stabilire sino a che livello l’ordinamento generale tolleri questo significativo cedimento della legalità. The activity of the independent Authorities presents significant criticalities for the full development of economic freedoms on the markets in which they intervene and for the democratic nature of the decision-making processes that they elaborate and implement: these are problems that arise precisely in light of the principle of legality, placed by the order basically to protect freedoms. The purpose of this paper is to verify how this principle "reacts" to the use of independent regulation - primarily intended as the law making function of the sector or reference market - and of the implicit powers that are grafted onto it, to then establish to what extent the general system tolerates this significant yielding of legality.
description: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione, N. 1 (2020)
Domain specificity of disgust on political ideology in Australia
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, AK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Disgust can influence the way we make judgments about political issues. Most research has measured a general perspective of disgust, rather than examining its domain specificity. The aim of this study was to undertake a domain specific investigation of this relationship. This was done by analysing changes to specific socio-political views that occurred as a result of experimental manipulation of the three disgust factors; core, contamination and animal-reminder. Participants were 136 male (n = 26) and female (n = 109) University of Tasmania undergraduate students aged between 17 and 61 years. Participants first completed the Australian Political Ideology Scale (APIS) online. A week later, the same participants were shown 10 pictures depicting either core disgust, contamination disgust, animal reminder disgust or a neutral mood, then completed the APIS again. The elicitation of contamination disgust caused a significant increase in conservative views across APIS scores (p = .018) while core and animal-reminder disgusts did not show effects. These findings suggest the effect of disgust on political ideology may be domain specific. This research is the first of its kind in an Australian population and contributes meaningful results to a growing field. Substantiation of these results in larger and international samples is justified.
The acute effects of modafinil on behavioural and ERP measures of attention
Creators: name: Harris, CJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Modafinil is a wakefulness-promoting drug increasingly used off-label for cognitive neuroenhancement in healthy persons, despite conflicting empirical support. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of 200mg of modafinil on behavioural (reaction time and accuracy) and neural (N1 ERP component) measures of attentional alerting and orienting in healthy humans using a Revised Attentional Network Task paradigm. Healthy non-sleep deprived males (N=18) completed the task at baseline and 3 hours post-ingestion (single dose 200mg modafinil or placebo) in this randomised, double-blind, counterbalanced, within-subjects study. They self-reported mood (Profile of Mood States ‚Äö- Short Form), fatigue (Karolinska Sleepiness Scale) and Subjective Performance and Drug Effects (Visual Analogue Scales). The results indicated that modafinil prevented feelings of fatigue experienced in the placebo condition, enhancing both tonic and phasic alerting attention, as indicated by increased N1 amplitude and reduced RT for no cue and central cue trials. Some enhancement of the orienting network (RT and N1 to spatial cues) was observed, but it was of no greater in magnitude than the alerting effects. Therefore, the orienting effect was likely a consequence of the interdependent nature of the networks. These results are a preliminary indication of the positive effect of modafinil on alerting components of attention in healthy persons. Future research should aim to further substantiate these findings, as the current study was slightly underpowered. Studies should also investigate tentative evidence discovered for enhancement of the executive attentional network, indicated by improved inhibition of incongruent flankers.
C. P. B. Jefferys House, "Sommariva", Front View
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings

description: This image shows a front exterior view of the C. P. B. Jefferys House known as "Sommariva" located on Jefferys Lane in East Hampton. This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
Strong Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Spin 0 Resonances
Creators: name: Evans, Jared A.
name: Luty, Markus A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that theories of strong electroweak symmetry breaking sector necessarily contain new spin 0 states at the TeV scale in the tbar-t and tbar-b/bbar-t channels, even if the third generation quarks are not composite at the TeV scale. These states couple sufficiently strongly to third generation quarks to have significant production at LHC via gg \to X or gb \to X. The existence of narrow resonances in QCD suggests that the strong electroweak breaking sector contains narrow resonances that decay to tbar-t or tbar-b/bbar-t, with significant branching fractions to 3 or more longitudinal W and Z bosons. These may give new "smoking gun" signals of strong electroweak symmetry breaking.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Mae Kay House, Cottage Avenue
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings

description: This image shows an exterior view of the Mae Kay House located on Cottage Avenue in East Hampton. This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
"New Century Cottage" on LIly Pond Lane
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings

description: This image titled, "New Century Cottage", shows a exterior view of a home on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton. This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
Raymond Smith House, Drew Lane
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings

description: This image shows front exterior view of the Raymond Smith House located on Drew Lane in East Hampton. This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
Thomas Moran House, Details Over Door
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings
Doors & doorways
Metalwork

description: This image shows a close up of the details above the door at Thomas Moran's House located in East Hampton. This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
Open Science Roadmap
Creators: name: Hampson, Glenn
name: DeSart, Mel
name: Steinhauer, Jason
name: Gadd, Elizabeth
name: Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke
name: Vandegrift, Michael
name: Erdmann, Chris
name: Johnson, Rob
Publisher: name: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: UNESCO intends to design an “open science” plan to beconsidered by the UN General Assembly in late 2021. As part of that plan formation, UNESCO has solicited the input of the Open Scholarship Initiative. OSI has worked in partnership with UNESCO since early 2015 to forge a workable, equitable, and sustainable path to improvedopenness of all research, not solely science. OSI recommends that UNESCO forthwith adopt the enclosed OSI “roadmap” to develop its UN open science plan.
description: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 2020
Signal processing in local neuronal circuits based on activity-dependent noise and competition
Creators: name: Volman, Vladislav
name: Levine, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the characteristics of weak signal detection by a recurrent neuronal network with plastic synaptic coupling. It is shown that in the presence of an asynchronous component in synaptic transmission, the network acquires selectivity with respect to the frequency of weak periodic stimuli. For non-periodic frequency-modulated stimuli, the response is quantified by the mutual information between input (signal) and output (network's activity), and is optimized by synaptic depression. Introducing correlations in signal structure resulted in the decrease of input-output mutual information. Our results suggest that in neural systems with plastic connectivity, information is not merely carried passively by the signal; rather, the information content of the signal itself might determine the mode of its processing by a local neuronal circuit.
description: 15 pages, 4 pages, in press for "Chaos"
Recensione a S. Zuboff, Il capitalismo della sorveglianza. Il futuro dell’umanità nell’era dei nuovi poteri, Roma, Luiss University Press, 2019 (con una postilla su Privacy e Covid-19)
Creators: name: Tropea, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione
Year: 2020

description: [Abstract non previsto]
description: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione, N. 1 (2020)
Spectral properties of spherically confined dusty plasma crystals
Creators: name: Henning, C.
name: Kählert, H.
name: Ludwig, P.
name: Melzer, A.
name: Bonitz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A combined theoretical and experimental analysis of the normal modes of three-dimensional spherially confined Yukawa clusters is presented. Particular attention is paid to the breathing mode and the existence of multiple monopole oscillations in Yukawa systems. Finally, the influence of dissipation on the mode spectrum is investigated.
Two Novel Models for Traffic Sign Detection Based on YOLOv5s
Creators: name: Bai, Wei
name: Zhao, Jingyi
name: Zhang, Haiyang
name: Zhao, Li
name: Ji, Zhanlin
name: GANCHEV, IVAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Object detection and image recognition are some of the most significant and challenging  branches in the field of computer vision. The prosperous development of unmanned driving technology has made the detection and recognition of traffic signs crucial. Affected by diverse factors  such as light, the presence of small objects, and complicated backgrounds, the results of traditional  traffic sign detection technology are not satisfactory. To solve this problem, this paper proposes two  novel traffic sign detection models, called YOLOv5-DH and YOLOv5-TDHSA, based on the  YOLOv5s model with the following improvements (YOLOv5-DH uses only the second improvement): (1) replacing the last layer of the ‘Conv + Batch Normalization + SiLU’ (CBS) structure in the  YOLOv5s backbone with a transformer self-attention module (T in the YOLOv5-TDHSA’s name),  and also adding a similar module to the last layer of its neck, so that the image information can be  used more comprehensively, (2) replacing the YOLOv5s coupled head with a decoupled head (DH in both models’ names) so as to increase the detection accuracy and speed up the convergence, and  (3) adding a small-object detection layer (S in the YOLOv5-TDHSA’s name) and an adaptive anchor  (A in the YOLOv5-TDHSA’s name) to the YOLOv5s neck to improve the detection of small objects.  Based on experiments conducted on two public datasets, it is demonstrated that both proposed  models perform better than the original YOLOv5s model and three other state-of-the-art models  (Faster R-CNN, YOLOv4-Tiny, and YOLOv5n) in terms of the mean accuracy (mAP) and F1 score,  achieving mAP values of 77.9% and 83.4% and F1 score values of 0.767 and 0.811 on the TT100K  dataset, and mAP values of 68.1% and 69.8% and F1 score values of 0.71 and 0.72 on the CCTSDB2021  dataset, respectively, for YOLOv5-DH and YOLOv5-TDHSA. This was achieved, however, at the  expense of both proposed models having a bigger size, greater number of parameters, and slower  processing speed than YOLOv5s, YOLOv4-Tiny and YOLOv5n, surpassing only Faster R-CNN in this  regard. The results also confirmed that the incorporation of the T and SA improvements into YOLOv5s  leads to further enhancement, represented by the YOLOv5-TDHSA model, which is superior to the  other proposed model, YOLOv5-DH, which avails of only one YOLOv5s improvement (i.e., DH).
Trust in politics : the effects of stealing thunder
Creators: name: Jones, KH
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In this study, we investigated the effects of stealing thunder (a type of selfdisclosure) and type of transgression (competence vs. integrity) on trust in a politician and their representative party and policy, after the politician commits a transgression. 99 participants (68 females, 31 males) with an average age of 30.89 (SD=14.12) completed this study, with just over half (62.2%) being students University of Tasmania. Participants complete an online survey where they read several vignettes about a hypothetical politician committing a wrongdoing, and completed Likert scales and dichotomous measures of support in the politician, their party and policy. A trend in results was identified across some measures, where ratings of support were higher post-transgression when the wrongdoing was related to the politician's competence. Furthermore, regression analysis established trust as a full mediator of support in a politician. It was concluded that people are more forgiving of a politician when the transgression they commit is related to their competence, as opposed to their integrity. Stealing thunder could be effective in a political setting, however contextual factors may distort this effectiveness.
Brevi considerazioni a margine del volume di S. Vaccari, Il giudicato nel nuovo diritto processuale amministrativo (con prefazione di G. Pastori, Torino, Giappichelli, 2017)
Creators: name: Panzarola, Andrea
Publisher: name: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione
Year: 2020

description: [Abstract non previsto]
description: P.A. Persona e Amministrazione, N. 1 (2020)
Maximum likelihood estimates under $\mathbf{k}$-allele models with selection can be numerically unstable
Creators: name: Buzbas, Erkan Ozge
name: Joyce, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The stationary distribution of allele frequencies under a variety of Wright--Fisher $k$-allele models with selection and parent independent mutation is well studied. However, the statistical properties of maximum likelihood estimates of parameters under these models are not well understood. Under each of these models there is a point in data space which carries the strongest possible signal for selection, yet, at this point, the likelihood is unbounded. This result remains valid even if all of the mutation parameters are assumed to be known. Therefore, standard simulation approaches used to approximate the sampling distribution of the maximum likelihood estimate produce numerically unstable results in the presence of substantial selection. We describe the Bayesian alternative where the posterior distribution tends to produce more accurate and reliable interval estimates for the selection intensity at a locus.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS237 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Mobile Feed Milling by Cooperatives in Michigan and Wisconsin
Creators: name: Hangas, Arno J.
name: Hangas, Arno J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpt from the report: This is a case study of mobile feed milling operations of 11 cooperatives operating 15 mills in Michigan and Wisconsin in their 1957-58 operating year. The purpose of this study was to make an initial analysis of mobile feed mills for these reasons: (1) To find the policies and practices used and problems involved in their operation, (2) to find out how these policies and practices fit in with existing feed outlets and stationary custom mills, and (3) to obtain income, expense, and other operating information that may be of help to other present and potential operators of these units.
A study of dark adaptation in ocular hypertensives using a two-filter method
Creators: name: Patton, Danalee Goldthwaite
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Dark adaptation thresholds have been determined for a group of ocular hypertensives and a group of equivantly aged normal controls under two separate conditions of colored pre-adaptation and test. The method relies on the Purkinje shift to obtain two dark adaptation curves for each subject that cross when the initially favored long wavelength (yellow) curve is superceded by the shorter one (blue-green): under photopic conditions, the yellow and blue-green stimuli are equally efficient in stimulating the retina, as they are equated for brightness during pre-adaptation; as dark adaptation proceeds the blue-green and yellow thresholds display an early relation wherein yellow light has the lower thresholds; then the curves cross and blue-green light displays lower thresholds. Each curve is obtained separately with a pre-adaptation of 80 ft. lamberts for 5 minutes and a centrally fixated 11° test patch that matches the spectral composition of the pre-adaptation. A variety of variables are derived from threshold intensity measurements and they are analyzed for age effects, disease effects, and their interactions. Age and disease both depress blue-green and yellow cone sensitivity, delay cross-over time, and increase the total change in sensitivity over 13 minutes of dark adaptation. Interactions magnify differences. Color discrimination is found to be associated with dark adaptation thresholds, sometimes specifically as to the type of color defect and the colored dark adaptation curve showing losses. Intraocular pressure, macular sensitivity, and diastolic blood pressure are also significantly correlated with dark adaptation thresholds. Disease and age effects are elaborated in terms of changes in the ocular media, macular pigmentation changes, as well as deterioration of rod and cone processes. In addition, aging is seen to be complicated by peculiarities in the selection of the normal population. The associations demonstrated for clinical and color vision variables with dark adaptation thresholds suggest (1) that open angle glaucoma may be caused by deficient nutrition to the optic nerve head or to the retina itself, (2) that central rod and cone vision undergo changes very early in the course of the disease. A preliminary study using the two-filter method with well-established glaucoma confirms that similar, more pronounced losses in dark adaptation take place later in the disease's development.
Richtlinien der Musikedition der Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe
Creators: name: Bohl, Benjamin W.
name: Faßhauer, Tobias
name: Hemma, Jäger
name: Kuhl, Adrian
name: Marzillier, Felix
name: Pasdzierny, Matthias
name: Schlosser, Katharina
name: Schmidt, Dörte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cite as:

Benjamin W. Bohl, Tobias Faßhauer, Hemma Jäger, Adrian Kuhl, Felix Marzillier, Matthias Pasdzierny, Katharina Schlosser, Dörte Schmidt: Richtlinien der Musikedition der Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe, Berlin, Mainz 2024 (Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe XIV, 1), Version 1.0.0, 10.5281/zenodo.13842818
title: The assessment of chemical composition and biological activity of faba bean pods as a potential feed additive utilized in piglets nutrition
Creators: name: Vlasova, Inna
name: Krüsselmann, Philip
name: Kostenko, Yuliia
name: Obrębski, Maciej
name: Granica, Sebastian
name: Vahjen, Wilfried
name: Zentek, Jürgen
name: Rownicki, Marcin
name: Piwowarski, Jakub P.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Faba bean pods
subject: Food by-product
subject: Polyphenols
subject: Digestive enzymes
subject: Antimicrobials
classificationCode: 630
subject: Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: The study addresses the utilization of food waste by-products from faba bean (Vicia faba L.) pods (FBP) as an alternative feed supplement to promote sustainable piglet growth by reducing antimicrobial use. Objectives include evaluation of FBP in terms of nutritional components (proximate composition, fibres, minerals), phytochemical composition (total phenols, HPLC-MS profiling), and in vitro biological activities. Air-dried FBP from the cultivar ‘Bizon’ contained high levels of crude protein (144 g/kg), dietary fibre (413 g/kg), potassium (27.8 g/kg), and iron (126 mg/kg). Phytochemical analysis of methanolic extract from FBP revealed significant levels of polyphenols, including vestitol, piscidic acid, hydroxyeucomic acid, quercetin, and kaempferol glycosides with no detectable tannins. The extract showed negligible activity against porcine digestive enzymes (α-amylase, lipase, and trypsin) (IC50 > 4 mg/mL) and demonstrated a dose-dependent antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica in concentrations of 1–8 mg/mL. The extract had low cytotoxicity (IC50 = 432.6 µg/mL) against IPEC-J2 – cells derived from porcine jejunal epithelium. The results indicate that FBP ‘Bizon’ is a valuable source of bioactive compounds with antibacterial properties, without adverse effects on porcine enzymes or IPEC-J2 cells, supporting its potential as a sustainable feed in piglet nutrition, in line with circular economy concepts.
Red and threat : influences of colour on motor performance during bimanual tasks
Creators: name: Nichols, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The present study was designed to investigate the influence of the colours red and green on participant's performance of both unimanual and bimanual motor tasks. Three hypotheses were proposed; these predicted that reaction time would be decreased and maximal force output would be increased when tasks were completed in the presence of the colour red ‚Äö- as compared to green, and when tasks were completed unimanually ‚Äö- as compared to bimanually; lastly it was proposed that the two colours would differentially affect the strength of the bimanual deficit. Participants (12 female, 8 male) were aged between 18 and 45 years; free of any colour vision deficiencies, or motor issues; and self-reported to be right hand dominant. Participants completed the Purdue pegboard, used as a measure of manual dexterity, and a pinchgrip task, used as a measure of reaction time and maximal force output. Results indicated that movement type (uni- vs bi-manual) significantly influenced participant performance for the pegboard, but not for the pinchgrip task. In contrast, colour (red vs green) significantly influenced reaction time for the pinchgrip task, but did not affect any further variables. Overall, the present study did not provide conclusive evidence to support the proffered hypotheses.
The consumption of alcohol and neurocognitive function in youth
Creators: name: Dwyer, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Binge drinking appears to be associated with frontal lobe damage and executive function impairments in adults (Wilcox et al., 2014). It is suggested that as adolescent's brains have not yet reached full development (Petit et al., 2013), they may be particularly vulnerable to these effects. The current study aimed to investigate if binge drinking is associated with deficits in behavioral and psychophysiological measures of executive function, interference control. Twenty two adolescent males (11 binge drinkers and 11 low level drinkers) were recruited. All participants completed a flanker/go-nogo task which required them to respond to target stimuli whilst withholding their responses to irrelevant stimuli. Binge drinkers did not show a significantly higher number of errors or longer reaction times on the flanker/go-nogo task in comparison to low level drinkers. Additionally, binge drinkers did not show significantly reduced N2 and P3 amplitude at frontal and parietal electrode sites in comparison to low level drinkers. However, low level drinkers showed significantly greater N2 amplitude at frontal in comparison to central electrode sites, whereas binge drinkers did not show this difference. The results from the current study suggest that binge drinkers may employ more widespread recruitment of electrophysiological resources to inhibit their responses and attend to stimuli with no increase in task performance, in comparison to low level drinkers. This study has identified that early intervention may be especially important for adolescent males in order to attempt to reduce binge drinking and protect adolescents from cognitive difficulties associated with binge drinking.
Minimal data at a given point of space for solutions to certain geometric systems
Creators: name: Aceña, Andrés E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a geometrical system of equations for a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. This system of equations has been constructed as to include several physically interesting systems of equations, such as the stationary Einstein vacuum field equations or harmonic maps coupled to gravity in three dimensions. We give a characterization of its solutions in a neighbourhood of a given point through sequences of symmetric trace free tensors (referred to as `null data'). We show that the null data determine a formal expansion of the solution and we obtain necessary and sufficient growth estimates on the null data for the formal expansion to be absolutely convergent in a neighbourhood of the given point. This provides a complete characterization of all the solutions to the given system of equations around that point.
description: 26 pages, no figures
Able versus willing to manipulate partners in romantic relationships
Creators: name: Bobera, T
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study extended investigation of the nature of emotional manipulation by examining for the first time the predictors of ability to emotionally manipulate and predictors of willingness to emotionally manipulate romantic partners. Participants (N = 324; 200 females, 124 males) completed an online survey assessing emotional manipulation ability and willingness; Dark Triad traits; Machiavellianism, primary and secondary psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism; sadism; and relationship satisfaction. Hypotheses received partial support. For females, higher levels of only grandiose narcissism significantly predicted self-reported emotional manipulation ability, while higher levels of primary psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, and lower relationship satisfaction significantly predicted willingness to emotionally manipulate romantic partner. For males, higher levels of only grandiose narcissism significantly predicted emotional manipulation ability, while higher levels of primary and secondary psychopathy, grandiose narcissism, and sadism positively predicted willingness to emotionally manipulate romantic partner. These findings confirm the distinction between ability to emotionally manipulate and willingness to emotionally manipulate, and inform understanding of the malicious and manipulative use of emotional manipulation within intimate relationships. Future research could utilise behavioural rather than self-report measure of emotional manipulation frequency and different types of romantic relationships (e.g., married) to further clarify the nature of emotional manipulation. It is hoped that findings from this study may help to inform practice in couples therapy.
National Election Pool Poll: 2014 National Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: National Election Pool (NEP)
name: NBC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Attitudes on abortion (2); religious service attendance (2); news about Ebola (1); federal govt. response to Ebola (1); Chris Christie for president (1); climate change (1); approve/disapprove of Congress handling its job (1); US economy and economic conditions (5); opinion of political parties (1); personal financial situation (1); closely following political campaigns (1); reason for US House vote (1); gubernatorial vote (1); attitude about government involvement (1); Hillary Clinton for president (1); 2010 federal health care law (1); projected 2016 vote (2); US House vote (1); attitudes towards illegal immigrants (1); US military action against ISIS (1); most important issues facing country (1); Jeb Bush for president (1); quality of life of next generation of Americans (1); legalization of marijuana (1); approve/disapprove of Barack Obama handling job as president (1); feelings about Obama administration (1); party identification (1); Rand Paul for president (1); Rick Perry for president (1); political ideology (1); race relations in country (1); feelings about leaders in Congress (2); same-sex marriage (1); demographics: sex, race, latino ethnicity, age, cell phone, land phone, religion, education, income, marital status, sexual orientation, military service, labor union household.