cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spawning site selection and segregation at the landscape, habitat and microhabitat scales for five syntopic Asian amphibians
Creators: name: Ambu, Johanna
name: Andersen, Desiree
name: Borzée, Amaël
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Species diversity, abundance and distribution relate to habitat preferences at multiple geographic and ecological scales. In this study, we aimed to understand the breeding ecology of five sympatric amphibians in the Republic of Korea – four anurans (Bufo sachalinensis, Rana uenoi, Rana coreana, Rana huanrenensis) and one caudata (Hynobius sp.) – by characterising their spawning habitat and to determine whether spawning site preference was influenced by species co-occurrence. We surveyed 120 water bodies focusing on the egg clutches to define the environmental properties associated with each taxa (water quality, depth, vegetation cover, topography and landscape), and we measured the distance between egg clutches and the bank of the water bodies (microhabitat). Habitats were partitioned among anurans along a gradient based on water depth. While the habitat used for spawning did not depend on species communities, the oviposition sites of R. uenoi and R. coreana varied in respect to their co-occurrence and the presence of the putative predator Hynobius sp. This suggests a plastic response in anurans’ reproductive behaviour potentially triggered by competitive interactions, and therefore subtle differences in microhabitats are significant yet overlooked drivers of breeding site selection.
SoTL SHOWCASE: Comparing Online, Hybrid and Face-To-Face Formats of a Neuroscience Course (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)
Creators: name: Brielmaier, Jennifer
name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Online and hybrid courses are becoming increasingly common as students seek more flexible learning opportunities. Hybrid courses in particular may offer “the best of both worlds” as they combine the flexibility of online learning with face-to-face interaction with fellow students and the instructor. Results from studies seeking to compare the effectiveness of the different formats (Priluck, 2004; Nemetz, Eager and Limpaphayom, 2017; Soffer & Nachmias, 2017; Jokhan, Chand and Nusair, 2018) have been inconsistent. This suggests that the factors that contribute to students’ experiences must also be examined. The present study aims to compare student performance, satisfaction, and engagement in a 300-level undergraduate neuroscience course offered in the fully online, hybrid (50% online/50% face-to-face), and fully face-to-face formats offered by the same instructor between Fall 2018 and Spring 2020. The course is required for undergraduate neuroscience majors. In addition to the above comparisons, we are also evaluating students’ goals when taking the course and the elements of the course design that they perceive as most important to their learning. Preliminary data indicate that final grades and overall learning satisfaction are similar across the three formats. Student engagement is being assessed through a modified version of Dixson’s (2010) Online Student Engagement Scale where they rate their agreement with a series of statements where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 6 = Strongly Agree. Taken together, the preliminary data indicate that online, hybrid and face-to-face courses can achieve similar engagement, but that levels of engagement can differ across formats depending on which specific behaviors are examined. Analysis of the data on students’ goals and perceptions is ongoing. Final results will be obtained following the conclusion of the Spring 2020 semester. Participants will be able to use information from our study to inform decisions about the offering and design of online and hybrid courses. This information may be particularly useful for faculty considering creating an online or hybrid version of a course currently being taught face-to-face.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
SoTL SHOWCASE: Incorporating Active Discourse & Facilitating Diverse Student Interactions through Group Work (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)
Creators: name: Bayou, Aziza
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: My students engage in 5 interactive group work sessions throughout the semester that promote critical thinking, making space for others' thoughts and opinions, and developing listening and speaking skills in the context of informed discourse. They are given a list of question prompts for discussion, and the entire class period is devoted to this assignment. Cultural anthropology is a largely qualitative discipline and these group work sessions enable students to elaborate on their thoughts and opinions in regards to class material, study before quizzes, and interact in a purpose-driven context with other students on a personal level with whom they may not normally interact. The small groups encourage students who do not often speak up to practice sharing their ideas. I actively encourage more extroverted students to make space for those who are more hesitant to talk by leaving pauses between speakers. Students have given positive feedback about these group work assignments every semester. They earn points for this and do not have to turn in any written work (unless absent that day), in order to shift the focus to truly listening and reflective sharing. They relate class material to their own experiences via the question prompts that I hand out, which encourages material retention. The groups are formed randomly each time by numbering off, with groups ranging from 4-6 individuals. Students are encouraged to face one another and make sure they introduce themselves at the beginning. I have changed the grading structure over time on this assignment and can share ideas with other instructors regarding evaluation of this type of group work.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Pterostilbene leads to DNMT3B-mediated DNA methylation and silencing of OCT1- targeted oncogenes in breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Beetch, Megan
name: Boycott, Cayla
name: Harandi-Zadeh, Sadaf
name: Yang, Tony
name: Martin, Benjamin J. E.
name: Dixon-McDougall, Thomas
name: Ren, Kevin
name: Gacad, Allison
name: Dupuis, John H.
name: Ullmer, Melissa
name: Lubecka, Katarzyna
name: Yada, Rickey Yoshio
name: Brown, Carolyn Janet
name: Howe, LeAnn
name: Stefanska, Barbara
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Transcription factor (TF)-mediated regulation of genes is often disrupted during carcinogenesis. The DNA methylation state of TF-binding sites may dictate transcriptional activity of corresponding genes. Stilbenoid polyphenols, such as pterostilbene (PTS), have been shown to exert anticancer action by remodeling DNA methylation and gene expression. However, the mechanisms behind these effects still remain unclear. Here, the dynamics between oncogenic TF OCT1 binding and de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3B binding in PTS-treated MCF10CA1a invasive breast cancer cells has been explored. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by next generation sequencing, we determined 47 gene regulatory regions with decreased OCT1 binding and enriched DNMT3B binding in response to PTS. Most of those genes were found to have oncogenic functions. We selected three candidates, PRKCA, TNNT2, and DANT2, for further mechanistic investigation taking into account PRKCA functional and regulatory connection with numerous cancer-driving processes and pathways, and some of the highest increase in DNMT3B occupancy within TNNT2 and DANT2 enhancers. PTS led to DNMT3B recruitment within PRKCA, TNNT2, and DANT2 at loci that also displayed reduced OCT1 binding. Substantial decrease in OCT1 with increased DNMT3B binding was accompanied by PRKCA promoter and TNNT2 and DANT2 enhancer hypermethylation, and gene silencing. Interestingly, DNA hypermethylation of the genes was not detected in response to PTS in DNMT3B-CRISPR knockout MCF10CA1a breast cancer cells. It indicates DNMT3B-dependent methylation of PRKCA, TNNT2, and DANT2 upon PTS. Our findings provide a better understanding of mechanistic players and their gene targets that possibly contribute to the anticancer action of stilbenoid polyphenols.
The impact of Greenland melt on local sea levels: a partially coupled analysis of dynamic and static equilibrium effects in idealized water-hosing experiments: a letter
Creators: name: Kopp, Robert E.
name: Mitrovica, Jerry X.
name: Griffies, Stephen M.
name: Yin, Jianjun
name: Hay, Carling C.
name: Stouffer, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Year: 2010
Subjects: Sea level
Global temperature changes
Global warming
Ice sheets--Greenland
Meltwater
Greenland

description: Local sea level can deviate from mean global sea level because of both dynamic sea level (DSL) effects, resulting from oceanic and atmospheric circulation and temperature and salinity distributions, and changes in the static equilibrium (SE) sea level configuration, produced by the gravitational, elastic, and rotational effects of mass redistribution. Both effects will contribute to future sea level change. To compare their magnitude, we simulated the effects of Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) melt by conducting idealized North Atlantic “water-hosing” experiments in a climate model unidirectionally coupled to a SE sea level model. At current rates of GIS melt, we find that geographic SE patterns should be challenging but possible to detect above dynamic variability. At higher melt rates, we find that DSL trends are strongest in the western North Atlantic, while SE effects will dominate in most of the ocean when melt exceeds ~20 cm equivalent sea level.
Hydrovatus saundersi Bistrom 1996
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus saundersi

description: Hydrovatus saundersi Biström, 1996
 Hydrovatus saundersi Biström, 1996: 321; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 200.
 Material examined. – 107 specimens – Area? - 1 ex., Singapore, Bi 4.23 flew/ Singapore, C. J. Saunders BM 1929-369; 1 ex., Bi 9.22 flew/ Singapore, C. J. Saunders BM 1929-369 (BMNH). Central catchment area - 6 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 6 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich (CBH); 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 26 Aug.1992, y 840, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC); 89 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 21 Apr.1997, coll. Balke & Hendrich (CBH, ZRC); 9 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 26 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH, ZRC).
 Distribution. – West Malaysia, Singapore (Biström, 1996; Balke et al., 1999).
  Ecology. – Hydrovatus saundersi  is an inhabitant of shallow, open or semi-shaded water of primary freshwater swamps. The habitat is rich in submerged vegetation and sedges, the bottom chiefly of mud and rotten leaves.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
SoTL Showcase: Lightning Talks and Roundtable (90 mins)
Creators: name: Schrum, Kelly
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Showcase is a session designed for faculty interested in learning about evidence-based practices to learn more and for faculty engaged in scholarship of teaching to share their results and discuss SoTL methodologies. The session is organized as a series of lightning talks followed by a rountable discussion. This year's session is facilitated by Kelly Schrum, Ph.D. Featured lightning talks are listed as separate entries in the journal's table of contents.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Virilization and Enlarged Ovaries in a Postmenopausal Woman
Creators: name: Guerrero, Jessenia
name: Marcus, Jenna Z.
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ovary
Ovarian neoplasms
Virilization

description: A patient with postmenopausal bleeding and virilization was found to have bilaterally enlarged ovaries with a yellow cut surface. Histology revealed cortical stromal hyperplasia with stromal hyperthecosis. This hyperplastic condition should not be mistaken for an ovarian neoplasm.
Strong version of Andrica's conjecture
Creators: name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A41, 11N05

description: A strong version of Andrica's conjecture can be formulated as follows: Except for $p_n\in\{3,7,13,23,31,113\}$, that is $n\in\{2,4,6,9,11,30\}$, one has$\sqrt{p_{n+1}}-\sqrt{p_n} < \frac{1}{2}.$ While a proof is far out of reach I shall show that this strong version of Andrica's conjecture is unconditionally and explicitly verified for all primes below the location of the 81$^{st}$ maximal prime gap, certainly for all primes $p <2^{64}\approx 1.844\times 10^{19}$. Furthermore this strong Andrica conjecture is slightly stronger than Oppermann's conjecture --- which in turn is slightly stronger than both the strong and standard Legendre conjectures, and the strong and standard Brocard conjectures. Thus the Oppermann conjecture, and strong and standard Legendre conjectures, are all unconditionally and explicitly verified for all primes $p <2^{64}\approx1.844\times 10^{19}$. Similarly, the strong and standard Brocard conjectures are unconditionally and explicitly verified for all primes $p <2^{32} \approx 4.294 \times 10^9$.
description: V1: 8 pages. Sequences: A005250 A002386 A005669 A000101 A107578 A050216 A050216; V2: Now 11 pages; some discussion and references added. V3: Still 11 pages. Updated to reflect best currently known bound on the location of the 81st maximal prime gap (somewhere above 2^{64})
PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Libraries' Curriculum Center and Resources to Support Online Instructors (90 mins)
Creators: name: Kirker, Maoria
name: MacVaugh, Kimberly
name: Kierig, Andrew
name: Melville, Anne
name: Mann, Wendy
name: Lemmons, David
name: Falter, Brittney
name: McManus, Helen
name: Mattson, Janna
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: The University Libraries will host a facilitated round table discussion about virtual collections, resources, and instructional materials available to support your students' information literacy and research needs. The discussion will focus on two areas. First, we will talk about online collections, open education resources, and streaming media available through the Library. Second, we will talk about the instructional materials and support we offer, which includes online learning modules, a new Curriculum Center, the Digital Scholarship Center (DiSC), and other subject specific resources and programs.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Efficient Multi-Dimensional Query Processing in Personal Information Management Systems
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Wang, Wei
name: Peery, Christopher
name: Marian, Amelie
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008

description: The relentless growth in capacity and dropping price of storage are driving an explosion in the amount of information users are collecting and storing in personal information management systems. This explosion of information has led to a critical need for complex search tools to access often very heterogeneous data in asimple and efficient manner. Such tools should provide both high-quality flexible scoring mechanisms and efficient query processing capabilities. In this paper, we focus on indexes and algorithms to efficiently identify the most relevant files that match multi-dimensional queries comprised of relaxed content, metadata, and structure conditions. We also adapted existing top-k query strategies to our specific scenario. Our work is integrated in Wayfinder, an existing fully functioning file system. We perform a thorough experimental evaluation of our file search techniques and show that our query processing strategies exhibit good behavior across all dimensions, resulting in good overall query performance and good scalability.
Numerical smearing, ray effect, and angular false scattering in radiation transfer computation
Creators: name: Hunter, Brian
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Radiation computation
Heat transfer
Radiation transport
Numerical errors
Light transport

description: Solutions of the integro-differential equation of radiation transfer via numerical methods were well known to suffer from two ‘‘separate’’ shortcomings: (1) numerical smearing error due to spatial domain discretization, and (2) ray effect error due to angular discretization. In this study, proportionality expressions for various orders of numerical smearing errors are derived, and the inherent dependence of such errors on both spatial and angular discretization is found. Ray effect is categorized into two components: local and propagation errors; and they are not independent of spatial discretization. Using DOM solution, the individual and combined impacts of the above-mentioned numerical errors together with the recently discovered angular false scattering error are examined for various spatial and angular discretizations and medium optical properties. The dependence of numerical errors on scattering anisotropy is investigated. It is found that, for low scattering anisotropy, either numerical smearing or ray effect errors dominate, depending on optical thickness and scattering albedo. For high scattering anisotropy, however, the ray effect and angular false scattering dominate.
Efficient Algorithms and a Software Tool for Scheduling Parallel Computation
Creators: name: Gerasoulis, Apostolos
name: Yang, Tao
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: To parallelize an application program for a distributed memory architecture, we can use a precedence task graph to represent the parallelism of this program, schedule tasks onto the given physical processors and then distribute program and data accordingly. In this chapter, we discuss program partitioning techniques for constructing task graphs and present several static scheduling algorithms that consider the overhead of inter-processor communication. Finally we give an overview of a software system PYRROS that uses scheduling algorithms to generate parallel code for distributed memory parallel machines.
Event delivery abstractions for mobile computing
Creators: name: Badrinath, B. R.
name: Welling, Girish
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: An application intended for a mobile computing environment is different from more traditional ones in that it is more event driven. The reason is that mobile computing is associated with constraints, both in terms of mobile host hardware and the network environment. The effect of these constraints is complicated by the fact that the environment in which a mobile host operates changes as it moves. An application in such an environment will have to metamorphose as changes occur, in order to make the best possible use of the constrained environment and thus provide the best possible quality of service to a user. We choose to model these changes in the environment as events which are delivered to each application that is interested. This paper describes a language abstraction to deliver events along with the run-time support required. The idea itself is not restricted to the mobile computing environment: it could be used in all such environments where an application may be interested in altering its behavior in response to changes in the state of its environment.
"SUSTAINABLE GREEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITAL INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS BASED ON SMART TECHNOLOGIES"
Creators: name: Ergasheva, Durdonaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes the global value of the digital economy and its growth rates. The article also highlights the problems and barriers associated with the growth of the digital economy, including technological, financial, and social barriers. Additionally, it discusses the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors, as well as the necessary measures to promote digital transformation and ensure sustainable development. The article presents comprehensive insights into the future of the digital economy and its socio-economic impacts, which are crucial for creating a sustainable and eco-friendly environment for future generations.
WORKSHOP: Teaching Technology Tour and Q&A (90 mins)
Creators: name: Joseph, Katrina
name: Balducci, Joe
name: Clemons, Crystal
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Know what type of assignment or activity that you want to have your students do, but wonder if there is a simpler way to do it using teaching technologies and online learning management system tools? Want to know what technologies and online tools are available (in Mason classrooms or online)? Join us for a quick overview tour of technologies you can use (and why you would) to support these three basic teaching practices: sharing information, checking student understanding in real time or asynchronously, and getting students to work collaboratively. Following the overview, participants will go into breakout sessions to learn more “how to” basics for the technologies or tools of their choice.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Lunch Session: Watch Party (30 mins)
Creators: name: Center, Stearns
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Want to talk about one of the On Demand pre-recorded sessions with the authors and other colleagues? Join us for this informal session in which the authors will play the pre-recorded video for everyone to watch together and then open the rest of the time up for discussion.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Data set on energy efficiency potentials, describing the cost curves for building envelope refurbishment measures on single building level
Creators: name: Reiter, Ulrich
name: Palacios, Andrea
name: Lienhard, Larissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: According to the EU targets on decarbonizing the heating sector as well as improving energy efficiency in the built environment, the economics of energy efficiency improvements and the respective measures are of high importance to understand the scenario outcomes and analyses in this work package.
 The aim of this deliverable is to provide an overview of efficiency potentials for the built environment and at which costs these potentials can be achieved. To do so, we analyse on the single building level different building types (e.g., single-family houses or multi-family houses) with different building age and building status (e.g., refurbished or non-refurbished) and the potential measures to improve energy efficiency. In the build environment, insulating the building envelope or improving the energetic quality of windows are the most common measures to improve the energy efficiency and reduce heat losses. For each set of building typologies, the measures can vary in terms of refurbishment depth and quality.
 Based on the potential technical solutions of improving the building envelope, the related costs for such measures have an impact on investors decision if they are implemented or not. To improve on the quality of the results also gathered within the HRE4 project, we have conducted an extensive literature review on published cost data on building refurbishment measures. Based on these costs, one can calculate the overall cost curves for the respective measures.
 By integrating different sources for refurbishment costs in the analysis, one must keep in mind the often-diverging cost parameters for different countries which are considered in the referenced publications.
 With our dataset we are integrating these differences into one platform and are providing an extensive overview of assumed costs for different refurbishment measures in the built environment.
Improving disk throughput in data-intensive servers
Creators: name: Bianchini, Ricardo
name: Carrera, Enrique V.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002

description: Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk controller cache that can significantly increase disk throughput. The first technique, called File-Oriented Read-ahead (FOR), adjusts the number of read-ahead blocks brought into the disk controller cache according to file system information. The second technique, called Host-guided Device Caching (HDC), gives the host control over part of the disk controller cache. As an example use of this mechanism, we keep the blocks that cause the most misses in the host buffer cache permanently cached in the disk controller. Our detailed simulations of real server workloads show that FOR and HDC can increase disk throughput by up to 34% and 24%, respectively, in comparison to conventional disk controller cache management techniques. When combined, the techniques can increase throughput by up to 47%.
PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Creating Community: Strategies for Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom (90 mins)
Creators: name: Rivera, Millie
name: Creston Lynch
name: Cattaneo, Lauren
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: A large body of research on inclusive pedagogies shows that learning outcomes for students are improved when all students feel visible, valued, safe, and welcomed in the classroom. As a minority majority institution, Mason has a very diverse student body--race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, age, religion, ability status, veteran status, first generation, non-native speakers, immigration status, etc. However, Mason faculty is not as diverse. In this session we will discuss inclusive values and strategies that you can use to support your students' learning.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Hydrovatus sinister Sharp 1890
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus sinister

description: Hydrovatus sinister Sharp, 1890
 Hydrovatus sinister Sharp, 1890: 343; Biström, 1996: 521, and references therein; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 192.
 Material examined. – 160 specimens - Central catchment area - 21 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 20 Sep.1993, y 843, coll. C. M. Yang (ZRC); 1 ex., idem, 26 Aug.1993, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC); 2 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 26 Aug.1992, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC); 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 16 May.1992, coll. C. M. Yang (ZRC); 38 ex., idem, 6 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich (CBH, ZRC); 150 ex., idem, 21 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH, ZRC); 8 ex., idem, 26 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke, L. Hendrich & C. M. Yang (CBH). Sungai Buloh - 10 ex., Nature Park, pond, 5 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich & A. Wong (CBH, ZRC). Other areas – 4 ex., Lorong Banir, pond 1, 14 Jul.1995, NS 200, coll. H. K. Lua (ZRC); 7 ex., Lorong Banir, pond 1, 28 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH); 16 ex., Lorong Banir, pond 2, 16 Jun.1995, NS 191, coll. H. K. Lua (ZRC); 6 ex., Bukit Batok Nature Park, pond, 23 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich (CBH).
 Distribution. – Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Laos, West Malaysia, Indonesia [Sumatra, Kalimantan] (Biström, 1996) and Singapore (Balke et al., 1999).
 Ecology. – The most common species of the genus in Singapore. Hydrovatus sinister is an inhabitant of shallow, muddy water of open swamps, artificial ponds (garden and park ponds, quarry ponds), and slow flowing irrigation ditches. The habitat is rich in rotten leaves, sedges and submerged plants.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Writing-To-Learn: Using Writing To Support Learning (40 mins)
Creators: name: Polk, Tom
name: Meeks, Kathryn
name: Staudt, Emily R C
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Writing-to-learn (WTL) assignments are low-stakes approaches to teaching course content through writing. These short and informal writing tasks offer students an opportunity to explore and consolidate their understanding of concepts. Research has demonstrated that WTL assignments increase critical thinking, enhance student engagement, and improve student reading comprehension. They can also be quite a lot of fun as they can facilitate more creative and personal connections to content and between peers. In this interactive session, faculty will learn the fundamentals of writing-to-learn pedagogies, discuss some sample WTL assignments from across disciplines, and have the opportunity to develop and discuss their own assignments.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
InvertypeR: Bayesian inversion genotyping with Strand-seq data
Creators: name: Hanlon, Vincent
name: Mattsson, Carl-Adam
name: Spierings, Diana C. J.
name: Guryev, Victor
name: Lansdorp, Peter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Single cell Strand-seq is a unique tool for the discovery and phasing of genomic inversions. Conventional methods to discover inversions with Strand-seq data are blind to known inversion locations, limiting their statistical power for the detection of inversions smaller than 10 Kb. Moreover, the methods rely on manual inspection to separate false and true positives. Results Here we describe “InvertypeR”, a method based on a Bayesian binomial model that genotypes inversions using fixed genomic coordinates. We validated InvertypeR by re-genotyping inversions reported for three trios by the Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium. Although 6.3% of the family inversion genotypes in the original study showed Mendelian discordance, this was reduced to 0.5% using InvertypeR. By applying InvertypeR to published inversion coordinates and predicted inversion hotspots (n = 3701), as well as coordinates from conventional inversion discovery, we furthermore genotyped 66 inversions not previously reported for the three trios. Conclusions InvertypeR discovers, genotypes, and phases inversions without relying on manual inspection. For greater accessibility, results are presented as phased chromosome ideograms with inversions linked to Strand-seq data in the genome browser. InvertypeR increases the power of Strand-seq for studies on the role of inversions in phenotypic variation, genome instability, and human disease.
Errors propagation and the numerical solution of optimization problems
Creators: name: Vichnevetsky, Robert
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1972

description: The classical optimization problem in function space, expressed in simple form leads to the formulation of the auxiliary conditions derived from the maximum principle. Among the methods which use a computer to solve this problem, most consist in obtaining numerical solutions of the differential equations (2) and (5) by treating them as initial value problems -However, boundary conditions for the system (2) are generally specified at the initial time t=t, whilst those of the ad joint system (5) are generally specified at the final time t=t, The numerical solution of those differential equations by initial value techniques would therefore suggest that (2) be integrated in the forward direction (from t=t toward t=t 1) whilst the ad joint system (5) be integrated in the backward direction, (i.e. from t=t 1 towards t=t,). In that case, the boundary conditions are easily satisfied, but the satisfaction of the coupling between the 2 systems of equations (2) and (5) must be obtained by iteration, as for instance in Bryson's "gradient method" (ref. [6], [7]). Alternatively, the "neighboring extremal" or "indirect" methods consist in numerically integrating in the forward direction simultaneously both systems of equations. In this case, the coupling between the 2 systems is always satisfied, but the terminal conditions (in t=t must be satisfied by iteration. As in any problem which involves the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, one must be ensured of stability in the propagation of computational errors (not to be confused with numerical stability per se) -Because of this requirement, the choice between the two alternatives of numerical implementation described above is not free, since, as we will show, stability in the propagation of errors for a system of differential equations is directly related to the direction in which the integration is being performed. A further analysis will reveal that computing errors propagation stability properties for the system (2) and its ad joint (5) are somehow complementary. Analyzing this problem in some detail and drawing appropriate conclusions are the objectives of this text.
PANEL & ROUNDTABLE: Preparing Students To Land The Jobs of Today and Tomorrow (90 mins)
Creators: name: Campbell, Saskia
name: Sklarew, Dann
name: Caswell, Amanda
name: Parham, Candance
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Panel Topics: • Preparing students to land the jobs of today and tomorrow (Saskia Campbell) • Session attendees will learn about Chaos Theory of Careers, latest hiring practices used by college recruiters and examples of competency-based grading techniques to elevate students’ confidence in the job search. Three employers from different industries will show how they assess job candidates on the most in-demand transferable, career readiness skills applicable to any discipline or job role: critical thinking, communication and collaboration/teamwork. Two faculty will share activities they use in the classroom to support these learning objectives. The facilitated discussion between faculty and employers will seek to bridge the divide between learning outcomes and skills. • Advancing Undergraduates' Job Seeking Skills (Dann Sklarew) • Mason's 2014-2024 strategic plan aims for "100,000 career-ready graduates" able to pursue "successful careers." Still, one in five graduates report NOT having a "positive career outcome" within six months of graduation. What can we do in our classrooms to improve their timely career success? This session will demonstrate how partnerships with University Career Services, local employers and industry mentors can prepare upper level undergraduates to develop critical job-seeking skills. We illustrate how to integrate career readiness activities - such as networking, cover letter writing, informational and mock job interviews - into an upper level "Business and Sustainability" course (EVPP 322) for majors and interested peers. Course alumni have applied this learning to secure real-world job interviews and even to "get the job!" Session participants will benefit from examining how these career readiness activities may be adapted to their own curricula. • High Hopes: Establishing Expectations for Internship Experiences (Amanda Caswell and Candance Parham) • As we prepare students to embark on internship experiences, we must provide a clear plan for success. Students often question what they should expect from their site and supervisor, but are we spending enough time informing them about what the supervisor and site expect? Utilizing a checklist of items, academic programs can assist with initial meetings and discussions between student and site supervisor. This method can provide quality assurance measures that student and supervisor are aware of programmatic as well as site specific regulations and expectations. This session will present a method of establishing programmatic expectations as well as how to incorporate internship site and supervisor expectations before students begin their experience. Participants will engage in developing their own expectations tool that can be implemented within their program.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous sentences in a discourse context
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
name: Simon, Georgia
name: Nisula, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Quantification (Linguistics)
Language processing
Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers
Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

description: Researchers have long sought to determine the strength of the relation between prosody and the interpretation of scopally ambiguous sentences in English involving quantification and negation (e.g. All the men didn’t go). While Jackendoff (1972) proposed a one-to-one mapping between sentence-final contour and the scope of negation (falling contour: narrow scope, fall-rise contour: wide scope), in subsequent work, researchers (e.g. Ladd 1980; Ward & Hirschberg 1985; Kadmon & Roberts 1986) disentangled the link between prosody and scope. Even though these pragmatic accounts predict variability in production, they still allow for some correlation between scope and prosody. To date, we lack systematic evidence to bear on this discussion. Here, we present findings from two perception experiments aimed at investigating whether prosodic information – including, but not limited to, sentence final contour – can successfully disambiguate such sentences. We show that when speakers provide consistent auditory cues to sentential interpretation, hearers can successfully recruit these cues to arrive at the correct interpretation as intended by the speaker. In light of these results, we argue that psycholinguistic studies (including language acquisition studies) investigating participants’ ability to access multiple interpretations of scopally ambiguous sentences – quantificational and otherwise – should carefully control for prosody.
title: Scaling Methods for Matching Tasks in Turbocharged Engines
Creators: name: Njoya, Thibaut
name: Nakhjiri, Mehdi
name: Pelz, Peter F.
name: Frase, Robert
Publisher: name: ASME
Year: 2022

description: Specific turbocharger parameters are necessary to develop and match model based control strategies in the air path of a turbocharged engine. These parameters describe the turbocharger performance and are obtained from measurements on manufacturers’ standard test benches under steady state conditions and without taking into account the heat transfer between the components of the turbocharger or between the turbocharger and the surroundings. The latter falsifies the measured turbocharger efficiency which can be referred as “apparent efficiency”. The efficiency is a key parameter of the model based controls. Thus, the apparent efficiency increases the uncertainties (mismatching) and slows down the matching process considerably. Due to the mismatching, manufacturers’ parameters themselves need to be calibrated. The calibration occurs on the basis of on-board measurements and offline analyses. However, this calibration procedure is not axiomatic and the results remain typical for a certain turbocharger and engine combination. Hence, it is usually not possible to apply the results when the same turbocharger should be matched with another engine. A physically based scaling method has already been introduced in previous publications in order to obtain the “real” from the “apparent” efficiency, [1]. This work aims to show on the basis of a concrete example how the implementation of this method counteracts the mismatching without any further measurements. As a result, the matching process can be accelerated and enhanced. The reusability of the results leads to faster processes and lower costs.
Contrasting activity profile of two distributed cortical networks as a function of attentional demands
Creators: name: Popescu, Andrei T.
name: Paré, Denis
name: Popa, Daniela
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Attention
Amygdaloid body
Prefrontal cortex
Electroencephalography

description: F01 MH-073610
title: Introduction of an Universal Scale-Up Method for the Efficiency of Axial and Centrifugal Fans
Creators: name: Pelz, Peter F.
name: Stonjek, Stefan S.
Publisher: name: ASME
Year: 2022

description: Acceptance tests on large fans to prove the performance (efficiency and total pressure rise) to the customer are expensive and sometimes even impossible to perform. Hence there is a need for the manufacturer to reliably predict the performance of fans from measurements on down-scaled test fans. The commonly used scale-up formulas give satisfactorily results only near the design point, where inertia losses are small in comparison to frictional losses. At part- and overload the inertia losses are dominant and the scale-up formulas used so far fail. In 2013 Pelz and Stonjek introduced a new scaling method which fullfills the demands ([1], [2]). This method considers the influence of surface roughness and geometric variations on the performance. It consists basically of two steps: Initially, the efficiency is scaled. Efficiency scaling is derived analytically from the definition of the total efficiency. With the total derivative it can be shown that the change of friction coefficient is inversely proportional to the change of efficiency of a fan. The second step is shifting the performance characteristic to a higher value of flow coefficient. It is the task of this work to improve the scaling method which was previously introduced by Pelz and Stonjek by treating the rotor/impeller and volute/stator separately. The validation of the improved scale-up method is performed with test data from two axial fans with a diameter of 1000 mm / 250mm and three centrifugal fans with 2240mm / 896mm / 224mm diameter. The predicted performance characteristics show a good agreement to test data.
DEP Bulletin - 2022 - Volume 46 Issue 24
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
title: Immigrant women and the COVID-19 pandemic
title: an intersectional analysis of frontline occupational crowding
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Small, Sarah F.
name: Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen
name: Perry, Teresa
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Covid-19
Pandemic
Frontline workers
Women
Gender
Race
Feminist economics
Occupational segregation
Health Economics
Immigration

description: This paper examines changes in occupational crowding of immigrant women in frontline industries in the United States during the onset of COVID-19, and we contextualize their experiences against the backdrop of broader race-based and gender-based occupational crowding. Building on the occupational crowding hypothesis, which suggests that marginalized workers are crowded in a small number of occupations to prop up wages of socially-privileged workers, we hypothesize that immigrant, Black, and Hispanic workers were shunted into frontline work to prop up the health of others during the pandemic. Our analysis of American Community Survey microdata indicates that immigrant workers, particularly immigrant women, were increasingly crowded in frontline work during the onset of the pandemic. We also find that US-born Black and Hispanic workers disproportionately faced COVID-19 exposure in their work, but were not increasingly crowded into frontline occupations following the onset of the pandemic. The paper also provides a rationale for considering the occupational crowding hypothesis along the dimensions of both wages and occupational health.
Verifying the Firoozbakht, Nicholson, and Farhadian conjectures up to the 81st maximal prime gap
Creators: name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A41 (Primes), 11N05 (Distribution of primes)

description: The Firoozbakht, Nicholoson, and Farhadian conjectures can be phrased in terms of increasingly powerful conjectured bounds on the prime gaps $g_n := p_{n+1}-p_n$. \[ g_n \leq p_n \left(p_n^{1/n} -1 \right)\qquad\qquad\qquad (n \geq 1; \; Firoozbakht). \] \[ g_n \leq p_n \left((n\ln n)^{1/n} -1 \right)\qquad\qquad (n>4; \; Nicholson). \] \[ g_n \leq p_n \left( \left(p_n {\ln n\over\ln p_n}\right)^{1/n} -1 \right)\qquad (n>4; \; Farhadian). \] While a general proof of any of these conjectures is far out of reach I shall show that all three of these conjectures are unconditionally and explicitly verified for all primes below the location of the 81$^{st}$ maximal prime gap, certainly for all primes $p <2^{64}$. For the Firoozbakht conjecture this is a very minor improvement on currently known results, for the Nicholson and Farhadian conjectures this may be more interesting.
description: V1: 9 pages; V2: now 10 pages. Updated to reflect the fact that an exhaustive search of prime gaps has (as of September 2018) verified that the 81st maximal prime gap occurs at some p > 2^{64}. Minor changes of presentation, typos fixed. Two references added
Insights into digital assessments: analyzing user engagement trends to optimize feedback in surgical education
Creators: name: Jenkins, Phil
name: Patel, Ranish K.
name: Jesneck, Johnathan
name: Thanawala, Ruchi
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Feedback
subject: Data Management
subject: surgical education
subject: human-computer interaction
subject: competency
subject: surgical data management
subject: educational platform

description: Providing timely and comprehensive feedback is fundamental in preparing surgical trainees for independent practice. A transition to digital platforms has helped increase the accessibility of assessment tools for both educators and learners, though user behaviors remain undefined. We aim to study the user behaviors of these two groups utilizing a novel digital surgical education assessment tool.