cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Robustness of oscillatory $α^2$ dynamos in spherical wedges
Creators: name: Cole, E.
name: Brandenburg, A.
name: Käpylä, P. J.
name: Käpylä, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the connection between spherical wedge and full spherical shell geometries using simple mean-field $α^2$ dynamos. We solve the equations for a one-dimensional time-dependent mean-field dynamo to examine the effects of varying the polar angle $θ_0$ between the latitudinal boundaries and the poles in spherical coordinates. We investigate the effects of turbulent magnetic diffusivity and $α$ effect profiles as well as different latitudinal boundary conditions to isolate parameter regimes where oscillatory solutions are found. Finally, we add shear along with a damping term mimicking radial gradients to study the resulting dynamo regimes. We find that the commonly used perfect conductor boundary condition leads to oscillatory $α^2$ dynamo solutions only if the wedge boundary is at least one degree away from the poles. Other boundary conditions always produce stationary solutions. By varying the profile of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity alone, oscillatory solutions are achieved with models extending to the poles, but the magnetic field is strongly concentrated near the poles and the oscillation period is very long. By introducing radial shear and a damping term mimicking radial gradients, we again see oscillatory dynamos, and the direction of drift follows the Parker--Yoshimura rule. Oscillatory solutions in the weak shear regime are found only in the wedge case with $θ_0 = 1^\circ$ and perfect conductor boundaries. A reduced $α$ effect near the poles with a turbulent diffusivity concentrated toward the equator yields oscillatory dynamos with equatorward migration and reproduces best the solutions in spherical wedges.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&A
Multiple commutation relations in the models with gl(2|1) symmetry
Creators: name: Slavnov, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum integrable models with $\mathfrak{gl}(2|1)$ symmetry. We derive a set of multiple commutation relations between the monodromy matrix entries. These multiple commutation relations allow us to obtain different representations for Bethe vectors.
description: 24 pages, no figures
Designing Intelligent Instruments
Creators: name: Knuth, Kevin H.
name: Erner, Philip M.
name: Frasso, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remote science operations require automated systems that can both act and react with minimal human intervention. One such vision is that of an intelligent instrument that collects data in an automated fashion, and based on what it learns, decides which new measurements to take. This innovation implements experimental design and unites it with data analysis in such a way that it completes the cycle of learning. This cycle is the basis of the Scientific Method. The three basic steps of this cycle are hypothesis generation, inquiry, and inference. Hypothesis generation is implemented by artificially supplying the instrument with a parameterized set of possible hypotheses that might be used to describe the physical system. The act of inquiry is handled by an inquiry engine that relies on Bayesian adaptive exploration where the optimal experiment is chosen as the one which maximizes the expected information gain. The inference engine is implemented using the nested sampling algorithm, which provides the inquiry engine with a set of posterior samples from which the expected information gain can be estimated. With these computational structures in place, the instrument will refine its hypotheses, and repeat the learning cycle by taking measurements until the system under study is described within a pre-specified tolerance. We will demonstrate our first attempts toward achieving this goal with an intelligent instrument constructed using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics platform.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures. Published in the MaxEnt 2007 Proceedings
Educating in platform societies: from Digital Citizenship to public values in a connected world
Creators: name: Pireddu, Mario
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: Digital Citizenship Education has become an increasingly relevant topic in recent years for governments and institutions around the world. DCE is presented in most cases as a new dimension of citizenship education that focuses on teaching students to live critically and safely in digital environments. The topic is closely related to those of media literacy, information literacy and education through digital technologies. Traditional Media Education tools have been updated over time to respond to far-reaching changes in media ecosystems and networked environments. This this did not result in a drastic overcoming of Media Literacy but rather an incorporation of new concepts that arise from the added dimension of networked interactivity. Ultimately, what emerges as prevalent from the analysis of the main discourses on “digital” societies and the need for “digital” citizenship education is that the overuse of the term “digital” leads to various misunderstandings and holds back the development of more adequate and epistemologically founded conceptual frameworks. With regard to citizenship education, the most important aspects to focus on are not about digitization itself but about public values in a connective world: networked life, the non-separability of offline and online, and the platformization of our societies and lives.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
Adult renal and cardiovascular physiology following fetal uninephrectomy in male sheep : the role of a nephron deficit in the development of adult hypertension
Creators: name: Singh., Reetu Ragni
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Educating to Digital Citizenship: conceptual development and a framework proposal
Creators: name: Rivoltella, Pier Cesare
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: This article discusses the meaning of digital citizenship and aims to outline a framework for an education that wants to develop it. The hypothesis is that two ages can be identified in the historical definition of the concept and that today there is a conceptual gap in this regard. With tools borrowed from media archeology and theories of technical innovation, the article moves on a theoretical level by discussing this hypothesis and coming to outline a first draft of the framework.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
“Are we in this together?”: embedding social identity detection in drones improves emergency coordination
Creators: name: Kordoni, Anastasia
name: Gavidia Calderon, Carlos
name: Levine, Mark
name: Bennaceur, Amel
name: NUSEIBEH, BASHAR
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Autonomous systems, such as drones, are critical for emergency mitigation, management, and recovery. They provide situational awareness and deliver communication services which effectively guide emergency responders’ decision making. This combination of technology and people comprises a socio-technical system. Yet, focusing on the use of drone technology as a solely operational tool, underplays its potential to enhance coordination between the different agents involved in mass emergencies, both human and non-human. This paper proposes a new methodological approach that capitalizes on social identity principles to enable this coordination in an evacuation operation. In the proposed approach, an adaptive drone uses sensor data to infer the group membership of the survivors it encounters during the operation. A corpus of 200 interactions of survivors’ talk during real-life emergencies was computationally classified as being indicative of a shared identity or personal/no identity. This classification model, then, informed a game-theoretic model of human-robot interactions. Bayesian Nash Equilibrium analysis determined the predicted behavior for the human agent and the strategy that the drone needs to adopt to help with survivor evacuation. Using linguistic and synthetic data, we show that the identity-adaptive architecture outperformed two non-adaptive architectures in the number of successful evacuations. The identity-adaptive drone can infer which victims are likely to be helped by survivors and where help from emergency teams is needed. This facilitates effective coordination and adaptive performance. This study shows decision-making can be an emergent capacity that arises from the interactions of both human and non-human agents in a socio-technical system
Asset Participation and Aggregation in Incentive-Based Demand Response Programs
Creators: name: Agwan, Utkarsha
name: Spanos, Costas J.
name: Poolla, Kameshwar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In order to manage peak-grid events, utilities run incentive-based demand response (DR) programs in which they offer an incentive to assets who promise to curtail power consumption, and impose penalties if they fail to do so. We develop a probabilistic model for the curtailment capability of these assets, and use it to derive analytic expressions for the optimal participation (i.e., promised curtailment) and profitability from the DR asset perspective. We also investigate the effects of risk-aversion and curtailment uncertainty on both promised curtailment and profit. We use the probabilistic model to evaluate the benefits of forming asset aggregations for participation in DR programs, and develop a numerical test to estimate asset complementarity. We illustrate our results using load data from commercial office buildings.
description: IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (IEEE SmartGridComm 2021)
Reconnecting Civitas and Urbs: making tourists and remote workers as temporary urban citizens
Creators: name: Belleri, Daniele
name: Baick, Michael
name: Ratti, Carlo
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: Ancient Romans posited a strict correspondence between the city as a physical concept - what they called urbs - and the society that inhabited it - the civitas. This conceptualization rested on an assumption that went largely unchallenged for centuries: most people live where they belong. What happens, then, when the social and technological conditions of the contemporary world severs these ties? Tourists criss-cross the planet seeking leisure, high-powered workers extend their careers across continents, and migrants flee their homes in search of new opportunities. To rebuild a coherent notion of urban citizenship, one that allows communities to flourish, this perspective article sketches a model of “variable citizenship,” that could account for different categories of people who have been cut off from conventional modes of belonging. With this new, flexible model of citizenship, supported both by digital tools and design projects that reclaim the importance of physical, shared public spaces, we can reconnect the urbs to the fast-moving civitas of our time.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
How social media could teach us to be better citizens
Creators: name: Zuckerman, Ethan
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: In 1995, social scientist Robert Putnam proposed a broad and wide-ranging critique of American civic life. (Putnam, 1995) Further developed in his influential book Bowling Alone (Putnam, 2000), Putnam argued that America was experiencing a sustained decline in civic life, one that might spread to advanced democracies around the world. His argument was multifaceted: not only were Americans voting less, they were also participating less in voluntary organizations, in churches and religious organizations, in labor unions and work organizations...
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
Superoutburst of CR Bootis: Estimation of Mass Ratio of a typical AM CVn star by Stage A Superhumps
Creators: name: Isogai, Keisuke
name: Kato, Taichi
name: Ohshima, Tomohito
name: Kasai, Kiyoshi
name: Oksanen, Arto
name: Masumoto, Kazunari
name: Fukushima, Daiki
name: Maeda, Kazuki
name: Kawabata, Miho
name: Matsuda, Risa
name: Kojiguchi, Naoto
name: Sugiura, Yuki
name: Takeda, Nao
name: Matsumoto, Katsura
name: Itoh, Hiroshi
name: Pavlenko, Elena P.
name: Antonyuk, Kirill
name: Antonyuk, Oksana
name: Pit, Nikolai
name: Sosnovskij, Aleksei
name: Baklanov, Alex
name: Babina, Julia
name: Sklyanov, Aleksandr
name: Kiyota, Seiichiro
name: Hambsch, Franz-josef
name: Littlefield, Colin
name: Maeda, Yutaka
name: Cook, Lewis M.
name: Masi, Gianluca
name: Dubovsky, Pavol A.
name: Novak, Rudolf
name: Dvorak, Shawn
name: Imada, Akira
name: Nogami, Daisaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on two superoutbursts of the AM CVn-type object CR Boo in 2014 April--March and 2015 May--June. A precursor outburst acompanied both of these superoutbursts. During the rising branch of the main superoutburst in 2014, we detected growing superhumps (stage A superhumps) whose period was $0.017669(24)$ d. Assuming that this period reflects the dynamical precession rate at the radius of the 3:1 resonance, we could estimate the mass ratio ($q=M_2/M_1$) of 0.101(4) by using the stage A superhump period and the orbital one of 0.0170290(6) d. This mass ratio is consistent with that expected by the theoretical evolutionary model of AM CVn-type objects. The detection of precursor outbursts and stage A superhumps is the second case in AM CVn-type objects. There are two interpretations of the outbursts of AM CVn-type objects. One is a dwarf nova (DN) outbursts analogy, which is caused by thermal and tidal instabilities. Another is the VY Scl-type variation, which is caused by the variation of the mass-transfer rate of the secondary. This detection of the superhump variations strongly suggests the former interpretation.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Webfare: humanity’s greatest asset
Creators: name: Ferraris, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: “Man’s needs have become human needs, and the other person, as a person, has become one of man’s needs” Marx rightly said. However, he mistakenly thought that these values were mystified by the bourgeois society bent on production and acquisition. Indeed, the communist revolution, with the sole exception of China today, does not seem to have taken any significant step towards reintegrating human values. Instead, the great technological and social transformation that has been unfolding for the past few years...
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
Fourier transforms on Cantor sets: A study in non-Diophantine arithmetic and calculus
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
name: Czachor, Marek
name: Kuna, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractals equipped with intrinsic arithmetic lead to a natural definition of differentiation, integration and complex numbers. Applying the formalism to the problem of a Fourier transform on fractals we show that the resulting transform has all the expected basic properties. As an example we discuss a sawtooth signal on the ternary middle-third Cantor set. The formalism works also for fractals that are not self-similar.
Digital citizenship and the end of an idea of world
Creators: name: Di Felice, Massimo
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: The western idea of society, founded on a contrast between citizens and limited to the cohabitation of human subjects, just as the idea of citizenship is based on the fundamental rights of people, faced with the challenges of the pandemic, of the climate change and those posed by the latest generation of intelligence network, turns out to be inadequate. The digital citizenship of today is the research area in which to search for the overcoming of the Western political project and to begin a new culture of governance within complex networks characterized by interactions within an architecture that is no longer composed either of subjects nor objects. The present article, starting from the analysis of the digital protagonism of the non-human, present the possible meanings of the crisis of the western idea of the world.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
Genetic and physical analysis of TOL transposon insertions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO and Pseudomonas Putida MW
Creators: name: Sinclair., Martha Irvine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Contrarian Voter Model under the influence of an Oscillating Propaganda: Consensus, Bimodal behavior and Stochastic Resonance
Creators: name: Gimenez, M. Cecilia
name: Reinaudi, Luis
name: Vazquez, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the contrarian voter model for opinion formation in a society under the influence of an external oscillating propaganda and stochastic noise. Each agent of the population can hold one of two possible opinions on a given issue --against or in favor, and interacts with its neighbors following either an imitation dynamics (voter behavior) or an anti-alignment dynamics (contrarian behavior): each agent adopts the opinion of a random neighbor with a time-dependent probability $p(t)$, or takes the opposite opinion with probability $1-p(t)$. The imitation probability $p(t)$ is controlled by the social temperature $T$, and varies in time according to a periodic field that mimics the influence of an external propaganda, so that a voter is more prone to adopt an opinion aligned with the field. We simulate the model in complete graph and in lattices, and find that the system exhibits a rich variety of behaviors as $T$ is varied: opinion consensus for $T=0$, a bimodal behavior for $TT_c$, and full disorder for $T \gg 1$. The transition temperature $T_c$ vanishes with the population size $N$ as $T_c \simeq 2/\ln N$ in complete graph. Besides, the distribution of residence times $t_r$ in the bimodal phase decays approximately as $t_r^{-3/2}$. Within the oscillatory regime, we find a stochastic resonance-like phenomenon at a given temperature $T^*$. Also, mean-field analytical results show that the opinion oscillations reach a maximum amplitude at an intermediate temperature, and that exhibit a lag respect to the field that decreases with $T$.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Digital constitutionalism to the test of the smart identity
Creators: name: Pollicino, Oreste
name: Paolucci, Federica
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: The law has become increasingly interested in issues related to algorithmic biases and decisions, particularly from the perspectives of the collection, use, and processing of personal data. The complex constellation of fundamental rights challenged by the new technologies is opening the door to an inedited concept of identity, citizenship, and city, shortening the distances between the world of the bits and the world of the atoms. Nonetheless, the legal issues at stake are profound and involve enforcing such rights and designing proper procedural mechanisms. In this sense, a crucial role is that of the courts since they have been and are called to find new stages of protection and guarantees. Therefore, with the aim to prove the necessity of a solid and by-design procedural mechanism, this paper is going to analyze those issues through the lenses of the krasis between algorithms and freedom of expression, and algorithms and data protection, while taking as a meaningful example the difficult enforceability of the right to erasure in the context of the algorithmic society.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
The VLA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity Survey of Perseus Protostars (VANDAM). II. Multiplicity of Protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Creators: name: Tobin, John J.
name: Looney, Leslie W.
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
name: Chandler, Claire J.
name: Dunham, Michael M.
name: Segura-Cox, Dominique
name: Sadavoy, Sarah I.
name: Melis, Carl
name: Harris, Robert J.
name: Kratter, Kaitlin
name: Perez, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multiplicity study of all known protostars (94) in the Perseus molecular cloud from a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) survey at Ka-band (8 mm and 1 cm) and C-band (4 cm and 6.6 cm). The observed sample has a bolometric luminosity range between 0.1 L$_{\odot}$ and $\sim$33 L$_{\odot}$, with a median of 0.7 L$_{\odot}$. This multiplicity study is based on the Ka-band data, having a best resolution of $\sim$0.065" (15 AU) and separations out to $\sim$43" (10000 AU) can be probed. The overall multiplicity fraction (MF) is found to be of 0.40$\pm$0.06 and the companion star fraction (CSF) is 0.71$\pm$0.06. The MF and CSF of the Class 0 protostars are 0.57$\pm$0.09 and 1.2$\pm$0.2, and the MF and CSF of Class I protostars are both 0.23$\pm$0.08. The distribution of companion separations appears bi-modal, with a peak at $\sim$75 AU and another peak at $\sim$3000 AU. Turbulent fragmentation is likely the dominant mechanism on $>$1000 AU scales and disk fragmentation is likely to be the dominant mechanism on $
description: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal; 79 pages, 23 Figures, 7 Tables
Less Decoherence and More Coherence in Quantum Gravity, Inflationary Cosmology and Elsewhere
Creators: name: Okon, E.
name: Sudarsky, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Crull (2015) it is argued that, in order to confront outstanding problems in cosmology and quantum gravity, interpretational aspects of quantum theory can by bypassed because decoherence is able to resolve them. As a result, Crull (2015) concludes that our focus on conceptual and interpretational issues, while dealing with such matters in Okon and Sudarsky (2014), is avoidable and even pernicious. Here we will defend our position by showing in detail why decoherence does not help in the resolution of foundational questions in quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem or the emergence of classicality.
description: 37 pages
The transformations of “public sphere” category, and the contemporary debate about digital citizenship
Creators: name: Panarari, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: The digital turn has shaken at its foundations the «mass society», the label that entered the lexicon of social sciences in the Twentieth century, accompanying advanced industrial societies for a long time (Gili, 1990), before their transformation into post-industrial ones (Touraine, 1969). The new context in which the increasingly important role assumed by telematic technologies and Information and communication technologies has opened...
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 3 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Digital Citizenship"
Psychoanalysis and spirit
Creators: name: Simmonds., Janette Graetz
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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FirmCore Decomposition of Multilayer Networks
Creators: name: Hashemi, Farnoosh
name: Behrouz, Ali
name: Lakshmanan, Laks V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key graph mining primitive is extracting dense structures from graphs, and this has led to interesting notions such as $k$-cores which subsequently have been employed as building blocks for capturing the structure of complex networks and for designing efficient approximation algorithms for challenging problems such as finding the densest subgraph. In applications such as biological, social, and transportation networks, interactions between objects span multiple aspects. Multilayer (ML) networks have been proposed for accurately modeling such applications. In this paper, we present FirmCore, a new family of dense subgraphs in ML networks, and show that it satisfies many of the nice properties of $k$-cores in single-layer graphs. Unlike the state of the art core decomposition of ML graphs, FirmCores have a polynomial time algorithm, making them a powerful tool for understanding the structure of massive ML networks. We also extend FirmCore for directed ML graphs. We show that FirmCores and directed FirmCores can be used to obtain efficient approximation algorithms for finding the densest subgraphs of ML graphs and their directed counterparts. Our extensive experiments over several real ML graphs show that our FirmCore decomposition algorithm is significantly more efficient than known algorithms for core decompositions of ML graphs. Furthermore, it returns solutions of matching or better quality for the densest subgraph problem over (possibly directed) ML graphs.
description: This is the author's version of the paper. Published in The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022
The future of soft skills development: a systematic review of the literature of the digital training practices for soft skills
Creators: name: Coelho, Maria João
name: Martins, Helena
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2022

description: Soft skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. Due to their interpersonal nature and experiential face-to-face reality, they are often touted as nearly impossible to develop online; our study finds that an increasing body of literature is offering evidence and solutions to overcome impediments and promote digital technologies use in soft skills training. This review aims to perform a state of the art on the research on digital solutions for soft skills training using a systematic review of literature. A systematic literature review following the PRISMA statement was conducted on the ISI Web of Science, where from 109 originally collected papers, 37 papers were held into consideration for the in-depth analysis. This paper aims at bringing clarity for both research and practice to facilitate and promote more effective online training initiatives as well as innovative solutions for training in different areas. In recent years, the global economy has been facing structural changes, rapidly evolving into the world of digital transformation. The unpredictability of the nature and pace of the changes will make it crucial that individuals in groups, organizations and societies alike develop skills for dealing with all kinds of situations, especially soft skills and in particular emotional and social competencies. In this work we look into the literature in a systematic way in order to understand the types of competences most addressed, most commonly used techniques and positive and negative results of the training...
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 18 No 2 (2022): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Regular Issue N. 2/2022
Breast milk monitoring of cyclodiene insecticide and PCB exposure in Victoria
Creators: name: Sim., Malcolm Ross
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A new technique for solving singular IVPs of Emden-Fowler type
Creators: name: Bildik, Necdet
name: Deniz, Sinan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34E20, 34A12, 85A04

description: A new analytic approximate technique for addressing nonlinear problems, namely the optimal perturbation iteration method, is introduced and implemented to singular initial value Lane-Emden type problems to test the effectiveness and performance of the method. This technique provides us to adjust the convergence regions when necessary.Comparing different methods reveals that the proposed method is highly accurate and has great potential to be a new kind of powerful analytical tool for nonlinear differential equations.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: A path to inclusion: online teacher training
Creators: name: Lyon, Melissa Noelle
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: Successful inclusion of students with disabilities requires both teachers and students to have knowledge of specific skills and practices. The author designed an online course for K-12 educators that includes teaching strategies, skills to teach students, and considerations for creating inclusive environments. This applied project explored the literature regarding teachers’ concerns about integrating students with disabilities in the regular classroom. The goal of this applied project is to create a greater understanding and awareness of inclusive practices in BC K-12 classrooms, while providing several practical ideas and resources for educators to apply.
title: Exploring augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the special education classroom
Creators: name: White, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: People with disabilities--Means of communication

description: The primary question that emerged from a thorough review of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) literature related to school settings was how teachers can be provided with suggestions and resources for implementing AAC into the classroom in one easy-to-use location. The purpose of this project was to create a website with strategies, resources, tutorials, and video models for teachers who are working with children who have complex communication needs and want to add more augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) into their classrooms. It provides suggestions and resources for literacy, mathematics, science, core words, assessment and additional topics. The goal is to enhance the ability of teachers to create an environment in which students with complex communication needs can initiate and participate in communication activities when they want to, in the way they want, and with the partners they choose.
Identifying Excessively Rounded or Truncated Data
Creators: name: Knuth, Kevin H.
name: Castle, J. Patrick
name: Wheeler, Kevin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All data are digitized, and hence are essentially integers rather than true real numbers. Ordinarily this causes no difficulties since the truncation or rounding usually occurs below the noise level. However, in some instances, when the instruments or data delivery and storage systems are designed with less than optimal regard for the data or the subsequent data analysis, the effects of digitization may be comparable to important features contained within the data. In these cases, information has been irrevocably lost in the truncation process. While there exist techniques for dealing with truncated data, we propose a straightforward method that will allow us to detect this problem before the data analysis stage. It is based on an optimal histogram binning algorithm that can identify when the statistical structure of the digitization is on the order of the statistical structure of the data set itself.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
A thermal model with AC Josephson effect for a shunted superconducting weak-link
Creators: name: Biswas, Sourav
name: Gupta, Anjan Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconducting weak-link (WL), behaving like a Josephson junction (JJ), is fundamental to many superconducting devices such as nanoSQUIDs, single-photon detectors, and bolometers. The interplay between unique nonlinear dynamics and inevitable Joule heating in a JJ leads to new characteristics. Here, we report a time-dependent model incorporating thermal effect in the AC Josephson regime for a Josephson WL shunted by a resistor together with an inductor to investigate the dynamics as well as the resulting current-voltage characteristics. We find that the dynamic regime where phase and temperature oscillate simply widens due to a pure resistive shunt. However, a significant inductive time-scale in the shunt loop, competing with the thermal time-scale, introduces high-frequency relaxation oscillations in the dynamic regime. Based on numerical analysis, we present state diagrams for different parameter regimes. Our model is a guide for better controlling the parameters in the experiments of WL-based devices.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
title: The experiences of students with disabilities during transitions
Creators: name: Uppal, Kiren
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Special education

description: The field of Special Education has evolved over the years. There has been and continues to be a steady increase in the number of students with disabilities transitioning out of high school and into post-secondary institutions. This has become the natural step of growth for students. As the number students with disabilities enrolling into post-secondary increases there is a need for post-secondary institutions to identify how students can access supports to be successful. This study focused on the skills and knowledge students utilize as they transition to post-secondary and access required supports. A descriptive, mixed methods online and hard copy survey was implemented for this study. The purpose of the study was to discover the knowledge and skills identified by participants as they transition into post-secondary education after the completion of high school. In particular, self-determination skills and knowledge such as self-advocacy, goal setting, problem solving and self-efficacy were found to be important. The results of the study indicated that education systems need to continue their efforts in supporting the development of student’s self-determination skills and knowledge to improve transition programs and inter-institutional relationships for students with disabilities.
Autonomous Driving Vehicles Using Adaptive Learning Method for Data Fusion
Creators: name: Aghili, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents an adaptive learning method for data fusion in autonomous driving vehicles. The localization is based on the integration of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) with two Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Global Positioning System (GPS) units in an adaptive Kalman filter (KF). The observability analysis reveals that $i$) integration of a single GPS with IMU does not constitute an observable system; $ii$) integration of two GPS units with IMU results in a locally observable system provided that the line connecting two GPS antennas is not parallel with the vector of the measured acceleration, i.e., the sum of inertial and gravitational accelerations. The latter case makes it possible to compensate for the error in the estimated orientation due to gyro drift and its bias without needing additional instruments for absolute orientation measurements, e.g., a magnetic compass. Moreover, in order to cope with the fact that GPS systems sometimes lose their signal and receive inaccurate position data, the self-tuning filter estimates the covariance matrix associated with the GPS measurement noise. This allows the KF to incorporate GPS measurements in the data fusion process heavily only when the information received by GPS becomes reliably available.
Comonotonicity and Choquet integrals of Hermitian operators and their applications
Creators: name: Vourdas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a quantum system with d-dimensional Hilbert space, the Q-function of a Hermitian positive semidefinite operator ?, is defined in terms of the d2 coherent states in this system. The Choquet integral CQ of the Q-function, is introduced using a ranking of the values of the Q-function, and Mobius transforms which remove the overlaps between coherent states. It is a figure of merit of the quantum properties of Hermitian operators, and it provides upper and lower bounds to various physical quantities in terms of the Q-function. Comonotonicity is an important concept in the formalism, which is used to formalize the vague concept of physically similar operators. Comonotonic operators are shown to be bounded, with respect to an order based on Choquet integrals. Applications of the formalism to the study of the ground state of a physical system, are discussed. Bounds for partition functions, are also derived.
title: A picture book to reinforce emotional regulation in early childhood
Creators: name: Flores, Lisseth Adriana Elias
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bibliotherapy

description: The paper reviews the process of designing a picture book as a learning aid to reinforce early learners’ emotional knowledge, and its benefits in the cognitive and social abilities. Schools facilitate the learning of the emotional exploration by offering a secure environment for exploring feelings and practicing emotional skills within inclusive settings. This applied project is a great bibliotherapy strategy tool that unfolds a story that depicts three steps to enhance such knowledge: acceptance of feelings, by having the characters to make a pause to self-reflect, and then connect with emotions; awareness of bodily sensations, by comparing temperatures in nature with physical reactions; and emotion’s purpose, by stating that feelings are humans’ attributes that hold valuable messages. A “Guidelines for Readers” is also included to help educators use this tool, but the addition of practical resources it is highly recommended. Likewise, it is highly recommended by this project that educators train on emotional regulation skills to ensure their own wellbeing and consequently their students’ wellbeing.
title: Animal-assisted intervention impacts emotional behaviour disorders: a website to further professional development of using animals in schools
Creators: name: Canby, Anna
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Animals--Therapeutic use

description: Although animal-assisted intervention (AAI) is not a new intervention type for the rehabilitation of individuals (both physically and emotionally), it is a research topic that deserves more focus, especially in school settings. This project contains information about what Emotional Behavioural Disorders (EBD) are, the need and importance of self-regulation, terminology within animal-assisted intervention, current research, and ways to implement this type of intervention effectively. The main goals of the professional development day in the form of a website is to provide a resource for educators who have been interested in such an intervention but were unsure as to how to approach it and are seeking more in-depth information. This website also provides local supports that can assist a teacher on their journey of animal-assisted intervention.
PHIRI: Agregação de dados europeus da COVID-19 para melhorar a investigação e as políticas baseadas em evidências
Creators: name: Peyroteo, Mariana
name: Paulo, Marília Silva
name: maia, Mélanie R
name: Lapão, Luís Velez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
Infraestrutura de Investigação Federada
Portal Europeu de Informação sobre a Saúde
Interoperabilidade
Politicas baseadas em evidência

description: A Pandemia da COVID-19 demonstrou que existe uma necessidade urgente de criar um mecanismo europeu estruturado para a troca de informações sobre a saúde da população. O Projeto “Population Health Information Research Infrastructure” (PHIRI) visa facilitar e apoiar a investigação aberta, interligada e orientada por dados sobre a saúde da população em toda a Europa a partir de uma perspetiva da COVID-19. Desde 2015, através de outros projetos, o PHIRI está a lançar as bases para a construção de uma Infraestrutura de Investigação em Saúde da População a ser utilizada para superar futuras crises e apoiar as decisões de política de saúde pública. Este projeto envolve 41 parceiros em 30 países e 6 iniciativas europeias. Através de um conjunto de metodologias foi possível abordar desde: 1) a recolha e mapeamento dos dados existentes da COVID-19; 2) a análise dos dados recolhidos e comparação com os dados existentes; 3) a aplicação da informação obtida nos contextos pretendidos; e 4) a tradução de todo o conhecimento gerado em políticas e a análise de impacto no futuro. A criação de uma Infraestrutura de Investigação Federada (IIF) e o desenvolvimento de um Portal Europeu de Informação sobre a Saúde (EHIP) são resultados fundamentais. Está a ser criada uma FIR para ultrapassar barreiras à reutilização e partilha de dados para uma resposta rápida da investigação relevante em termos de política a desenvolvimentos pandémicos. Esta IIF está a ser demonstrado através de um piloto de quatro casos de utilização diferentes de relevância imediata sobre os impactos da COVID-19 em subgrupos específicos. O EHIP, entretanto, visa melhorar a colaboração e a troca das melhores práticas entre países europeus em matéria de recolha, avaliação, acessibilidade e reutilização de dados de saúde, e promover a partilha de conhecimentos especializados. Com a Pandemia da COVID-19, foi possível reconhecer várias fraquezas nos cuidados de saúde: não existiam dados e a sua recolha não era normalizada, o que se traduziu em falta de interoperabilidade de dados e de comunicação. Para tal, o EHIP foi lançado e o PHIRI visa fornecer o apoio necessário ao diálogo político e ao Espaço Europeu de Dados de Saúde. Desta forma, a agregação de dados e a implementação de uma IIF sustentável sobre saúde da população aumenta a preparação nacional e europeia e também permite melhores políticas baseadas em evidências com repercussões de grande escala na saúde, bem-estar, mobilidade e emprego dos cidadãos.
title: Resources to help build efficacy in elementary math teachers
Creators: name: Mehta, Nikieta M.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematics teachers

description: The purpose of this research is to bring together past and ongoing research as well as my personal experience being a student and working as a teacher who experiences math anxiety. Math abilities are distributed across the global population and during in-depth research, it was noticed how math anxiety can affect the teacher, their teaching and student learning. Elementary teachers who have anxiety in mathematics may experience distress in finding and using appropriate teaching methodologies and appropriate methods of student progress monitoring that do not resulting in creating math anxiety in their students. This project contains an overview of math anxiety, how teacher’s math anxiety may affect learning of a child, and the potential impact of math anxiety on children. From available research it is evident that teacher’s own fear and anxiety about math passes on to their students and students who suffer from the effects of math anxiety tend to give up studying math at an early age. Strategies for the prevention of math anxiety were found to be more effective than attempts at curing the problem, since anxiety, once established, tends to be self-reinforcing. Therefore, after a thorough review of the available literature and my personal experience together I, created a guide book to serve as a quick reference for teachers to utilize that provides simple and unique ways to deliver math content to build self-efficacy in elementary math teachers as well as information and strategies to reduce friction between teachers teaching and students learning.
title: Executive functioning as a classroom management tool
Creators: name: McMitchell, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Executive functions (Neuropsychology)

description: The following write up will explore the question of how children with behaviour and self-regulation issues also struggle with Executive Functioning (EF) skills. I will try to explain through literature and research as to children with disorders such as, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) struggle with EF skills. This project will analyse different pieces of academic literature that link EF, brain development, and brain developmental delays to these disorders. Lastly a webpage has been developed to share the information and resources, that facilitates discussion around EF skills and how-to better help students with behaviour and self-regulation struggles.