cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancement of Flame Retardancy and Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid with a Biodegradable Fire-Retardant Filler System Based on Bamboo Charcoal
Creators: name: Li, Wenzhu
name: Zhang, Liang
name: Chai, Weisheng
name: Yin, Ningning
name: Semple, K. E. (Kate E.)
name: Li, Lu
name: Zhang, Wenbiao
name: Dai, Chunping, 1963-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: A cooperative flame-retardant system based on natural intumescent-grafted bamboo charcoal (BC) and chitosan (CS) was developed for polylactic acid (PLA) with improved flame retardancy and minimal decline in strength properties. Chitosan (CS) as an adhesion promoter improved the interfacial compatibility between graft-modified bamboo charcoal (BC-m) and PLA leading to enhanced tensile properties by 11.11% and 8.42%, respectively for tensile strength and modulus. At 3 wt.% CS and 30 wt.% BC-m, the crystallinity of the composite increased to 38.92%, or 43 times that of pure PLA (0.9%). CS promotes the reorganization of the internal crystal structure. Thermogravimetric analysis showed significantly improved material retention of PLA composites in nitrogen and air atmosphere. Residue rate for 5 wt.% CS and 30 wt.% BC-m was 29.42% which is 55.1% higher than the theoretical value of 18.97%. Flammability tests (limiting oxygen index-LOI and UL-94) indicated significantly improved flame retardancy and evidence of cooperation between CS and BC-m, with calculated cooperative effectiveness index(Ce) >1. From CONE tests, the peak heat release rate (pHRR) and total heat release (THR) were reduced by 26.9% and 30.5%, respectively, for 3% CS + 20% BC-m in PLA compared with adding 20% BC-m alone. Analysis of carbon residue morphology, chemical elements and structure suggest CS and BC-m form a more stable char containing pyrophosphate. This char provides heat insulation to inhibit complete polymer pyrolysis, resulting in improved flame retardancy of PLA composites. Optimal mix may be recommended at 20% BC-m + 3% CS to balance compatibility, composite strength properties and flame retardance.
An interlaboratory comparison on whole water samples
Creators: name: Richter, J.
name: Elordui-Zapatarietxe, S.
name: Emteborg, H.
name: Sawal, G.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: The European Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC requires monitoring of organic priority pollutants in so-called whole water samples, i.e. in aqueous non-filtered samples that contain natural colloidal and suspended particulate matter. Colloids and suspended particles in the liquid phase constitute a challenge for sample homogeneity and stability. Within the joint research project ENV08 "Traceable measurements for monitoring critical pollutants under the European Water Framework Directive 2000/60/ECŁ, whole water test materials were developed by spiking defined amounts of aqueous slurries of ultra-finely milled contaminated soil or sediment and aqueous solutions of humic acid into a natural mineral water matrix. This paper presents the results of an European-wide interlaboratory comparison (ILC) using this type of test materials. Target analytes were tributyltin, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the ng/L concentration range. Results of the ILC indicate that the produced materials are sufficiently homogeneous and stable to serve as samples for, e.g. proficiency testing or method validation. To our knowledge, this is the first time that ready-to-use water materials with a defined amount of suspended particulate and colloidal matter have been applied as test samples in an interlaboratory exercise. These samples meet the requirements of the European Water Framework Directive. Previous proficiency testing schemes mainly employed filtered water samples fortified with a spike of the target analyte in a water-miscible organic solvent.
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Unifying climate change biology across realms and taxa
Creators: name: Comte, Lise
name: Sax, Dov F.
name: Pinsky, Malin L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2023
Subjects: extinction
microclimate
range shift
Global Change
Global Warming
Thermoregulation

description: A major challenge in modern biology is to understand extinction risk from climate change across all realms. Recent research has revealed that physiological tolerance, behavioral thermoregulation, and small elevation shifts are dominant coping strategies on land, whereas large-scale latitudinal shifts are more important in the ocean. Freshwater taxa may face the highest global extinction risks. Nevertheless, some species in each realm face similar risks because of shared adaptive, dispersal, or physiological tolerances and abilities. Taking a cross-realm perspective offers unique research opportunities because confounding physical factors in one realm are often disaggregated in another realm. Cross-realm, across taxa, and other forms of climate change biology synthesis are needed to advance our understanding of emergent patterns of risk across all life.
description: An integrated perspective crossing terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms is essential to understand where and why species are most vulnerable to climate change.The dominant ecoevolutionary processes for coping with climate change differ across realms.Cross-taxa and cross-realm research can provide unique insights and opportunities to advance our understanding of the processes and mechanisms threatening species survival.Academic culture and practice often impede cross-realm research, such that structural and cultural transitions are needed to advance a more unified field of climate change biology.
Incremental Algorithms for Software Systems
Creators: name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1985

description: This report is a 2-year NSF research proposal in the area of incremental algorithms for analyzing software systems. The systems of interest can be characterized as large and complex, in the sense that they are written and maintained by many people. The algorithms we are designing will enable people to alter the intermodular structure of such systems and a prt-Or see the side effects of such changes.
Longing for a House in Ghana: Ghanaians’ Responses to the Dignity Threats of Elder Care Work in the United States
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Elder care
Older people--Care
Dignity
Emotional labor
Displacement

description: Home health care is a growing occupation in the United States which calls for significant emotional labor. On the basis of interviews and participant-observation with home health workers from Ghana, this paper argues that home health work is different from other kinds of emotional labor in that living and working in the client’s house are central to the conditions of work and the dignity assaults workers experience. Among their strategies for responding to these dignity threats is to long for a house and to direct their energy towards an alternative social field through house construction “at home” in Ghana. Thus, the dignity threats experienced by immigrant home health workers raise concerns about the occupation’s ability to retain workers as well as immigrants’ sense of worth and belonging in the United States.
Forensic and non-forensic Australian psychologists: use of research and evidenced-based approaches for violence risk assessment
Creators: name: Khaw, Damien A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research has identified validated violence risk assessment instruments as more reliable and valid than psychologists' unaided judgments. This thesis investigated Australian psychologists' decision-making in assessments of client violence risk toward others. Data collection involved an online survey and face-to-face interviews. Complex differences were found between general and forensic psychologists, with distinct types of assessors identified based on their patterns of evidence-use. Interview data provided insight into reasons for variation in assessments, and identified barriers to using validated instruments. Findings identified how clinically useful assessment aides could be developed to structure and support assessments of violence risk undertaken in therapeutic settings.
Vagal Tone During Infant Contingency Learning and Its Disruption
Creators: name: Sullivan, Margaret Wolan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parasympathetic regulation
Parasympathetic nervous system
Vagus nerve
Vagal tone
Contingency
Temperament in infants
Frustration in children
Infants

description: This study used contingency learning to examine changes in infants’ vagal tone during learning and its disruption. The heart rate of 160 five-month-old infants was recorded continuously during the first of two training sessions as they experienced an audiovisual event contingent on their pulling. Maternal reports of infant temperament were also collected. Baseline vagal tone, a measure of parasympathetic regulation of the heart, was related to vagal levels during the infants’ contingency learning session, but not to their learner status. Vagal tone levels did not vary significantly over session minutes. Instead, vagal tone levels were a function of both individual differences in learner status and infant soothability. Vagal levels of infants who learned in the initial session were similar regardless of their soothability; however, vagal levels of infants who learned in a subsequent session differed as a function of soothability. Additionally, vagal levels during contingency disruption were significantly higher among infants in this group who were more soothable as opposed to those who were less soothable. The results suggest that contingency learning and disruption is associated with stable vagal tone in the majority of infants, but that individual differences in attention processes and state associated with vagal tone may be most readily observed during the disruption phase.
Chorion laeve accreta - another manifestation of morbid adherence
Creators: name: Khong, T. Yee
name: Cramer, Stewart F.
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Placenta accreta
Retained fetal membranes
Membrane hematoma
Chorion laeve accreta
Membrane myofibers
Basal plate myofibers
Morbid adherence

description: Introduction: Smooth muscle in the decidua of fetal membranes (membrane myofibers, MMF) is not mentioned in standard textbooks. Methods: The current report presents collected observations on 52 patients with MMF at 2 institutions between 2004 and 2017 - including placentas, postpartum curettages, and hysterectomies. Results: Clinical presentations include observation of adherent membranes during delivery, disrupted and incomplete membranes in placentas submitted for examination, postpartum bleeding associated with retained fetal membranes, association with membrane hematomas and membrane hemosiderin, morbidly adherent fetal membranes in hysterectomies; and association with grossly adherent pieces of tissue or nodules in fetal membranes. Discussion: Although MMF can be an incidental microscopic observation in a routine placenta, the suggested diagnostic terminology when there are clinical and/or gross presentations is Chorion Laeve Accreta (ChLA). Further study is needed but MMF appears to be the fetal membrane counterpart of BPMF (basal plate myofibers), possibly due to damage of subjacent myometrium by trophoblastic proteases, so that shear stress during delivery causes myofibers to come out attached to the decidua of fetal membranes. Neither the prevalence of MMF, nor its reliability as a marker for placenta accreta is addressed in this collection. Association of MMF with BPMF, and recurrence of MMF, are documented; but the true frequency of these phenomena remains to be established.
Energie Holomotrice (Graduation project)
Creators: name: ELMASKAOUY OTHMANE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90607 Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)

description: in this report, we present an overview of energy production from waves, We will let you know some general information on Waves, specifying these characteristics and the main propagation phenomena. and discovering the different technologies for recovering energy from Waves.
We thank all those who helped us to complete this research, especially our professor at faculty of science Ben M'sik and Mr. Chuck Keys CEO of Wave Water Works LLC.
Supplementary Material for Olivo et al. (2024), Greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient use efficiency assessment of six New York organic dairies
Creators: name: Olivo, Agustin
name: Godber, Olivia
name: Reed, Kristan
name: Nydam, Daryl
name: Wattiaux, Michel A.
name: Ketterings, Quirine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300204
subject: Agricultural management of nutrients
classificationCode: 300207
subject: Agricultural systems analysis and modelling
classificationCode: 300208
subject: Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
classificationCode: 300210
subject: Sustainable agricultural development
classificationCode: 300302
subject: Animal management
classificationCode: 300307
subject: Environmental studies in animal production
classificationCode: 300412
subject: Organic and low chemical input crop production
classificationCode: 410101
subject: Carbon sequestration science
classificationCode: 410103
subject: Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring

description: Supplementary material for the paper "Greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient use efficiency assessment of six New York organic dairies" published in the Journal of Dairy Science (DOI:https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2024-25004)
The Jazz Archives Fellowship: Professional Development and Diversity at the Institute of Jazz Studies
Creators: name: Surles, Elizabeth
name: Cuervo, Adriana P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Internship programs
Diversity
Cultural pluralism
Archivists--Education
Archival institutes and workshops
Early career archivists
Archives--Case studies
Case method

description: The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) started the Jazz Archives Fellows program in 2012 with two purposes in mind. First, the program focuses on improving diversity in the archives profession. Second, it provides a meaningful professional development opportunity for archivists in the early stages of their careers and for students in graduate programs who intend to become archivists. In addition, the IJS benefits directly from the fellows’ work to process a collection and create a digital project. This article presents a case study of the Fellowship with a focus on program design, values, and lessons learned, and includes recommendations for establishing similar programs.
Experiences of U.S. military couples during the post-deployment transition: Applying the relational turbulence model
Creators: name: Knobloch, Leanne K.
name: Theiss, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Interference from partners
Military deployment
Relational turbulence
Relational uncertainty

description: Although many military couples eagerly await reunion after deployment, the reentry of service members into family life can be challenging. This study employed the relational turbulence model to identify the issues facing military couples during the post-deployment transition. Individuals who had been reunited with their romantic partner during the past six months (N = 259; 137 service members, 122 partners) completed an online questionnaire. Content analytic results indicated that people encounter diverse changes to their relationship (RQ1), issues of relational uncertainty (RQ2), and interference in their daily routines (RQ3). Women, at-home partners, and reservist couples appear especially likely to encounter upheaval (RQ4). The relational turbulence model may have utility for illuminating the experiences of military couples upon reintegration.
Effects of Hair Shaving on the Bacterial Flora in Pubic Region
Creators: name: Wei, Kiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110801 Medical Bacteriology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: この研究では、生殖器領域の人間の皮膚のマイクロバイオームに対する毛剃りの影響を調べました。細菌サンプルは、24〜32歳の健康な女性7人から膣粘膜の上の皮膚表面（9 cm2）から収集され、16S rRNAのV2〜V4およびV3〜V9領域のIon PGM™次世代シーケンシングに供されました。
QURILISHDA INKLYUZIV UY-JOYLAR QURILISHNING IQTISODIY AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Maxsudov, Olimjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqolada inklyuziv uy-joy qurilishining iqtisodiy rivojlanishdagi o‘rni va ahamiyati tahlil qilingan. Aholining barcha qatlamlari uchun arzon va qulay yashash sharoitlarini yaratish orqali iqtisodiy faollik, bandlik va sarmoyaviy muhitning yaxshilanishi imkoniyatlari o‘rganilgan. Shuningdek, xalqaro tajribalar asosida inklyuziv uy-joy qurilishini rivojlantirishning makroiqtisodiy va mikroiqtisodiy natijalari yoritilgan.
The mismeasurement of STEM: evidence from college course classifications
Creators: name: Douglas, Daniel
name: Salzman, Hal
name: Khudododov, Khudodod
name: Rahmin, Daniyal
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2023
Subjects: STEM workforce
Economic Policy
Educational Administration and Policy
Higher Education
STEM Education
Sociology Education
Standard Reference Data

description: STEM acronymically refers to four areas of inquiry – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. But as its use has become ubiquitous, STEM has taken on social and political meaning far beyond the sum of its component parts. In this paper, we take a first step in clarifying the analytic categories of STEM in education. This, we propose, is a necessary first building block for STEM analysis – to understand what constitutes STEM coursework, the constituent element of a STEM education. We first review the STEM definitional problems we have identified in the process of examining two sets of NCES nationally-representative data, provide analysis of the extent of potential mismeasurement, and estimates of impact. We then outline an approach to resolving the mismeasurement problems in nationally-representative postsecondary student surveys.
QUASI FREE-SPACE (TEM) MATERIAL MEASUREMENTS
Creators: name: Kazemipour Alireza
name: Hoffmann, Johannes
name: Wollensack, Michael
name: Gaumann, Gregory
name: Zeier, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Material Measurement, microwave, TEM, free space

description: Electromagnetic characterization of materials is the key parameter for space applications, imaging, and, the high-speed electronics and telecommunications industries. In fact, "a priori" knowledge of different materials' permittivity and permeability can efficiently reduce the cost-of-production and prototyping/testing process based on full electromagnetic simulation and optimization. This requires the reliable characterization of materials over wide frequency ranges with knowledge of the associated uncertainties. In addition, the use of new millimeter-wave and terahertz technology needs to demonstrate conformity with exposure safety limits for both humans and the environment. VNAs can be used to measure materials properties (e.g. complex permittivity) using classic quasioptical systems in millimeter/submillimeter domain or recently commercialized Materials Characterization Kits. The research here will focus on the relatively new commercially available Material Characterization Kits (MCKs) provided by SWISSto12 in 75-100GHz range. These systems follow a "guided free-space" approach using corrugated mode converters to provide a quasi-TEM mode at the location of the sample-under-test. The mode-convertors are very compact and measurements are easy to perform but results are currently lacking traceability. Various calibration and data-extraction methods will be studied to provide reliable measurement results with the associated uncertainties.
A Framework for Incorporating Minority Stress Theory into Treatment with Sexual Minority Clients
Creators: name: Alessi, Edward J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB)
Minority stress
Clinical practice
LGB-affirmative psychotherapy
Prejudice and discrimination

description: Empirical research has consistently demonstrated the negative mental health consequences of minority stress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations; however, there is little understanding of how minority stress should be addressed in the actual clinical situation. This article discusses how to incorporate minority stress theory into clinical practice with LGB clients. A proposed framework begins with a two-part clinical assessment. The first part, based on Meyer’s (2003) minority stress model, examines the effects of prejudice events, stigma, internalized homophobia, and sexual orientation concealment. The second part, grounded in Hatzenbuelher’s (2009) work, examines the client’s coping/emotional regulation, social/interpersonal, and cognitive processes, which can be elevated by minority stress. Following the assessment process, the framework suggests using a LGB-affirmative treatment approach. The framework will be applied to the treatment of a black lesbian client in order to demonstrate its clinical utility.
title: Medien und Politik beeinflussen sich beim Thema Wohnungsmarkt kaum gegenseitig: Interview
Creators: name: Stiel, Caroline
name: Wittenberg, Erich
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025

description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 18, S. 261
What Does CLARITY-BPA Mean for Canadians?
Creators: name: Rogers, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Bisphenol A is an extremely high-volume chemical widely used in polycarbonate plastics, the linings of food and beverage tins, and shopping receipts. Canadians are ubiquitously exposed to bisphenol A and research shows that exposure at environmentally relevant doses causes endocrine disruption. Recent risk assessments and exposure estimates by the European Food Safety Authority have guided increased restrictions around the use of bisphenol A and established a lower tolerable daily intake, while the CLARITY-BPA program in the United States identified several adverse effects below this exposure level. Within the context of bisphenol toxicity and international regulation, this paper describes the need for revised bisphenol A risk assessments in Canada. Completed in 2008, the most recent bisphenol A risk assessment conducted by Health Canada does not include risks from alternative bisphenols or non-dietary exposure. It also does not account for the additive effects caused by simultaneous exposure to multiple endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Electrically enhanced slag-metal reactions
Creators: name: Islam, Md.Saiful
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Overcoming the energy crisis is one of our world's greatest obstacles by considering the scarcity of energy sources in use. Solar energy (Silicon as a component) through the use of solar panels is one of the most promising solutions. Boron is one of the most detrimental impurities in metallurgical grade silicon and need to be removed to produce solar grade silicon. Boron removal from molten silicon using slag has been studied in this thesis. It is comprised of a combination of thermodynamic and kinetic modelling to determine the distribution coefficient and rate of reaction of boron with and without applied potential for selected slag systems.
On the Efficiency of German Growth Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis Using Quantile Random Forests
Creators: name: Foltas, Alexander
name: Pierdzioch, Christian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Growth forecasts
subject: Forecast efficiency
subject: Quantile-random forests
subject: Density forecasts
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: We use quantile random forests (QRF) to study the efficiency of the growth forecasts published by three leading German economic research institutes for the sample period from 1970 to 2017. To this end, we use a large array of predictors, including topics extracted by means of computational-linguistics tools from the business-cycle reports of the institutes, to model the information set of the institutes. We use this array of predictors to estimate the quantiles of the conditional distribution of the forecast errors made by the institutes, and then fit a skewed t-distribution to the estimated quantiles. We use the resulting density forecasts to compute the log probability score of the predicted forecast errors. Based on an extensive insample and out-of-sample analysis, we find evidence, particularly in the case of longer-term forecasts, against the null hypothesis of strongly efficient forecasts. We cannot reject weak efficiency of forecasts.
A Generalized Spectral Theory for Tensors Technical Report
Creators: name: Gnang, Edinah K.
name: Elgammal, Ahmed
name: Retakh, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010

description: In this paper we proposes a generalized spectral theory for tensors. Our proposed factorization decomposes a symmetric tensor into a product of an orthogonal and a diagonal tensor. In the same time, our factorization offers an expansion of a tensor as a summation of lower rank tensors that are obtained through an outer product defined on matrices. Our proposed factorization shows the relationship between the eigen-objects (eigen matrices and eigen vectors for order 3 tensor) and the generalized determinant and trace operators. Our framework is based on a consistent multilinear algebra that explains how we can generalize the notion of Hermitian matrices, the notion of transpose, and most importantly the notion of orthogonality for tensors.
title: Wohnungsmarkt: Politische Debatte im Laufe der Zeit stark verändert – Einfluss durch Medien gering
Creators: name: Stiel, Caroline
name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Baake, Pio
name: Aubele, Felix
name: Pfeiffer, Linus
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: R38 Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy; Regulatory Policies
subject: O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
subject: R31 Housing Supply and Markets
subject: housing market
subject: plenary debate
subject: media coverage

description: Der Wohnungsmarkt hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten sowohl in der politischen Debatte als auch in der medialen Berichterstattung immer wieder eine zentrale Rolle gespielt. Dieser Wochenbericht analysiert die Plenarprotokolle und Drucksachen des Deutschen Bundestags von 1950 bis 2024 und untersucht, wie sich die politische Debatte zum Wohnungsmarkt über die Jahre verändert hat. Am konkreten Beispiel der Mietpreisbremse wird zudem der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich die öffentliche Debatte, gemessen an der Berichterstattung in den Medien, und die politische Debatte gegenseitig beeinflussen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die politische Debatte die ökonomischen Entwicklungen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt aufgreift, Fokus und Lösungsansätze sich im Laufe der Legislaturperioden jedoch verschoben haben: von bundesweiten Maßnahmen wie großen Wohnungsbauprogrammen hin zu einer zuletzt stärker regional orientierten Betrachtung. Der Vergleich zeigt auch, dass sich die politische Debatte im Bundestag und die mediale Berichterstattung zum Thema Mietpreisbremse kurzfristig gegenseitig beeinflussen. Ein klares Schema, welche der beiden Seiten führt und welche folgt, ist aber nicht erkennbar.
description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 18, S. 253-260
A tale of two parts of Switzerland: regional differences in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents
Creators: name: Seiler, Michelle
name: Staubli, Georg
name: Hoeffe, Julia
name: Gualco, Gianluca
name: Manzano, Sergio
name: Goldman, Ran D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background We aimed to document the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on regions within a European country. Methods Parents arriving at two pediatric emergency departments (EDs) in North of Switzerland and two in South of Switzerland completed an online survey during the first peak of the pandemic (April–June 2020). They were asked to rate their concern about their children or themselves having COVID-19. Results A total of 662 respondents completed the survey. Parents in the South were significantly more exposed to someone tested positive for COVID-19 than in the North (13.9 and 4.7%, respectively; P <  0.001). Parents in the South were much more concerned than in the North that they (mean 4.61 and 3.32, respectively; P <  0.001) or their child (mean 4.79 and 3.17, respectively; P <  0.001) had COVID-19. Parents reported their children wore facemasks significantly more often in the South than in the North (71.5 and 23.5%, respectively; P <  0.001). Conclusion The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant regional differences among families arriving at EDs in Switzerland. Public health agencies should consider regional strategies, rather than country-wide guidelines, in future pandemics and for vaccination against COVID-19 for children.
Admission control algorithms and reservation protocol for supporting mobile hosts in an Integrated Services Packet Network
Creators: name: Badrinath, B. R.
name: Acharya, Arup
name: Talukdar, Anup
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Integrated Services Packet Network
Mobile multimedia
Quality of Service
Admission control
Reservation protocol

description: This paper considers the support of real-time applications to mobile hosts in an Integrated Services Packet Network. We have proposed a service model for mobile hosts that can support adaptive applications which can withstand wide range of available bandwidth, as well as applications which require mobility independent service guarantees. We describe an admission control scheme and a reservation protocol for implementing this service model. Our admission control scheme achieves high utilization of network resources.
Crassostrea ariakensis Fujita 1913
Creators: name: Lam, Katherine
name: Morton, Brian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Ostreida
Ostreidae
Crassostrea
Crassostrea ariakensis

description: Crassostrea ariakensis Fujita, 1913, ex Wakiya MS
Common name: Suminoe oyster (Figs. 4 A-C)
 Ostrea rivularis Lischke, 1869: 176, Pl. 14, Figs. 2, 3.
 Ostrea ariakensis Fujita, 1913: 519, ex Wakiya MS; Wakiya, 1929: 363-364, Pl. 9, Figs. 1, 2.
 Crassostrea ariakensis - Torigoe, 1981: 377, Pl. 15; Lam, 2003: 109-110, Pls. 9, 10.
 Material examined. – Type not examined, its location being unknown (K. Torigoe, pers. comm.).
 Description. – Shell outline is orbicular to spatulate; outline tongue-shaped. External surface is whitish with broken rays of purplish brown. The scales of the outer shell layer radiating from the dorsal side are brown to light brown. This species is sympatric with Crassostrea hongkongensis and is, thus, bored and heavily encrusted by other marine invertebrates in a similar way. Left valve deeply cupped. Right valve usually either flat or slightly convex dorsally and slightly concave near the ventral margin. Internally whitish with hollow chambers of irregular size and position. Hinge line short; the ligament occupying its full length. Attachment area of the left valve is variably small, usually not more than half the shell height. Adductor muscle scar is D-shaped with the outline on the dorsal side being concave and with light to dark purplish growth lines which vary in colour among individuals. Colour may be different on right and left valves in the same individual.
 Distribution. – This species is cultivated in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, China, i.e. under estuarine conditions. In Hong Kong, it occurs only in oyster farms in Deep Bay and is thus cultured with Crassostrea hongkongensis but in lower numbers. The species is reported to occur naturally in Japan and along the southern coast of China to Vietnam. It is also cultivated in Oregon and Washington, the United States of America (Robinson & Langdon, 1992).
  Remarks. – Crassostrea ariakensis  has been called C. rivularis, which has been determined to be invalid (Torigoe, 1981). This is because the holotype of Ostrea rivularis Gould, 1861, from the East China Sea was in fact a species of Lopha and is different from O. rivularis as described by Lischke, 1869 (Habe & Kosuge, 1967). It is difficult to separate C. ariakensis and C. hongkongensis using external shell characters. In general, however, the former is more rounded and scales on both valves are generally more erect. The definitive morphological distinction between the two is the shape of the adductor muscle. In C. ariakensis, the adductor muscle scar is crescent-shaped, whereas in C. hongkongensis the outline of the muscle on the dorsal side is straight to slightly convex.
description: Published as part of Lam, Katherine & Morton, Brian, 2004, The Oysters Of Hong Kong (Bivalvia: Ostreidae And Gryphaeidae), pp. 11-28 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244740
Moving from collecting to connecting: capturing, assessing, and communicating the work of liaison librarians
Creators: name: Kranich, Nancy
name: Lotts, Megan
name: Nielsen, Jordan
name: Hajnal Ward, Judit
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Liaison librarians

description: In the 21st century academic libraries and librarians are re-casting the narrative by turning outward, engaging more deeply across the university. No longer solely focused on collecting, academic libraries now embrace connecting with their campus communities to foster consumption, production, curation, preservation, collaboration, and inquiry around cultural resources. This paper will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Rutgers University Libraries New Brunswick to investigate the changing roles and responsibilities of library liaisons—roles that are transforming from transactional to relational in many academic libraries. It will provide a historic overview of the work of library liaisons that has led to a recent undertaking by a newly appointed Liaison Assessment Committee, charged to describe the work currently undertaken, map liaison responsibilities to our mission and service priorities, share that work with stakeholders, and assess the relevance and impact of our efforts.
Natural and tourist attractions of Sikonda and its surroundings
Creators: name: Fazekas, Imre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

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Abstract: The geographical area is in southern Hungary, in Baranya County, on the northern side of the Mecsek Mountains. It has been inhabited since Roman times and is rich in medieval monuments. The centre of the region is the town of Komló, the second-largest settlement in the county. Sikonda Spa, with its 42 °C thermal baths, is the tourist centre of the region. The area was one of Hungary's prominent coal mining centres for decades. The mines were closed. This booklet presents the region's tourist, botanical, zoological, ethnographic, and architectural values with maps. The museum in the town of Komló provides tourists with a wealth of information.
ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ ИННОВАЦИОННЫХ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ
Creators: name: Умарова, Насиба
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: в статье рассматриваются в научно-методическом плане вопросы разработки инновационных педагогических средств обучения и   применение компьютерных обучающих программ, в частности, использование мультимедийных средств и элементов дистанционного обучения.
Response surface methodology optimization of back end of line finite element analysis stress simulation
Creators: name: Sethu, Raj Sekar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research focused on improving structural mechanics robustness of semiconductor devices through the use of simulation. Simulation prior to physical prototyping reduces wastage of manpower and material resources. This approach however, results in the need for a computational resource. The novel methodology used in this work involved the combined use of a numerical method i.e. finite element analysis and an advanced statistical method i.e. response surface methodology to overcome the shortage of computational resources. The outcome allowed computational resources to be optimized as well reducing the number of physical prototypes built.
CT dose optimization for biopsy and drainage interventional procedures on a Philips brilliance ICT scanner
Creators: name: Malinowski, Rachel
name: Bailey, Isaac
name: DeWeese, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Tomography, X-Ray Computed
subject: Phantoms, Imaging
subject: dose optimization
subject: Philips Brilliance iCT
subject: DoseRight
subject: iDose4
subject: Mercury 4.0 Phantom

description: Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging modality commonly used as a diagnostic tool. CT is also utilized as a form of image guidance during clinical procedures that require 3D localization to be performed. The purpose of this study is to optimize the CT protocol used for the two most common CT procedures performed at OHSU: bone biopsy and interventional drainage procedures. Specifically, the optimization will examine the impact of dose reduction on image quality.
Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg 1920
Creators: name: Lam, Katherine
name: Morton, Brian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Ostreida
Ostreidae
Saccostrea

description: Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920
 Saccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920: 471; Stenzel, 1971: N1134-N1135; Torigoe, 1981: 306, 327-328; Harry, 1985: 150.
 Type species. – Ostrea saccellus Dujardin, 1835, by monotypy.
 Description. – Small to medium-sized. Shell shape varies from spatulate and oval ostreiform to abnormal rudistiform. There may be a small, operculiform right valve and a large, conical, cornucopia-like left valve carrying a large ligamental area. Left valve attaches to hard substrata such as bare rock surfaces or mangrove roots and stems and carries layers of growth squamae and rough irregular rounded dichotomous radial ribs. Size of umbonal cavity depends on attachment area of left valve and thus varies among individuals. Right valve is flat with scaly growth squamae of conchiolin. Chomata present, usually stronger along the posterior and anterior margins but faded ventrally or encircling the entire valve. Chomata may be very weak in some individuals. Nonincubatory. Geographic distribution includes the Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
description: Published as part of Lam, Katherine & Morton, Brian, 2004, The Oysters Of Hong Kong (Bivalvia: Ostreidae And Gryphaeidae), pp. 11-28 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244740
Intraregional trade shares for goods-producing industries: RPC estimates using EU data
Creators: name: Ferreira, João Pedro
name: Többen, Johannes
name: Lahr, Michael L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: RPC. Intraregional trade
Regionalization
Input-output

description: The lack of subnational trade data has dampened the development of reliable regional and multiregional models for regional policy development. So, most researchers and vendors of regional and interregional economic models continue to rely on location quotients, supply-demand pool techniques, or minor modifications of them, despite knowing that they under-estimate interregional trade. In this piece, we analyze the relative viability of estimates of intraregional trade—so called “regional purchase coefficients” (RPCs). We do so for manufacturing sectors in 28 EU countries using the World Input-Output Database. We introduce an RPC-estimating technique using a quasi-binomial regression approach for goods-producing industries; we apply standard supply/demand ratios as RPCs for service-based industries. We then apply the estimates to an aggregate EU input-output (I-O) table and measure how closely the results approximate the I-O tables (direct requirements matrices) for each of the 28 EU nations. We compare these findings to those obtained by other conventional approaches. We also evaluate their ability to replicate the country Leontief inverses and output multipliers. We find quasi-binomial regression approaches superior across the board.
The Colombian National Police and the politics of crime control evaluations
Creators: name: León, Kenneth Sebastian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Colombian National Police
Comparative criminal justice
Global south policing
Politics of crime control
Abstract empiricism

description: The Colombian National Police inaugurated a comprehensive operational model in 2010. Informed by evidence-based law enforcement models from the Global North, the MNVCC, or the National Quadrant Policing Model, integrates core features of procedural justice, hotspots, problem-oriented and community policing strategies. Just under a decade old, empirical assessments of the model’s impact vary in quality and availability. While the Colombian National Police presents the model as a successful intervention, there is little consensus on the degree to which the MNVCC has affected crime rates or perceptions of insecurity. The core purpose of this paper is to offer insight into the political dimensions that enable this contradictory narrative. Relying on privileged access to high-level administrators inside the Colombian National Police and other institutions, this study explains how structural features of official crime data—with political incentives specific to the Colombian context—provide the basis for contradicting claims surrounding the MNVCC’s impact.
Evolution or Entropy? Changing Reference/User Culture and the Future of Reference Librarians
Creators: name: Wilson, Myoung C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Virtual reference services
Library emerging services
Reference services (Libraries)
Electronic reference services (Libraries)
Library Reference Services

description: This paper addresses issues that relate to the changing functional relationship between the reference librarian (the services s/he offers) and the user.
description: Reference in the New Millennium: The Evolving Role of the Information Professional (VRD 1999 Annual Digital Reference Conference), The Gutman Conference Center, The Harvard Graduate School of Education
Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls
Creators: name: Gray-Miceli, Deanna
name: de Cordova, Pamela B.
name: Crane, Giles L.
name: Quigley, Patricia
name: Ratcliffe, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2016
Subjects: Falls (Accidents)--Prevention
Staff nurses' knowledge
Nursing workforce
Nursing--Supply and demand

description: Reducing falls in nursing homes (NHs) requires a knowledgeable nursing workforce. To test knowledge, 8 validated vignettes, representing multifactorial fall causes were administered to 47 nurses from 3 NHs. Although Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) scored higher than Registered Nurses in individual categories of falls, when we computed the average score of all 8 categories between groups of RNs’ versus LPNs’ we found RNs scored higher (F value =4.106; p<0.05) in identifying 8 causal reasons for older adults to fall.
Analyses of Child and Youth Self-Poisoning Hospitalizations by Substance and Socioeconomic Status
Creators: name: Pawer, Samantha
name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Zheng, Alex
name: Smith, Jennifer
name: Purssell, Roy
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Child and youth self-poisoning is a growing public health issue in many regions of the world, including British Columbia (BC), Canada, where 15–19-year-olds have the highest rates of self-poisoning hospitalizations compared with those of all other ages. The purpose of this study was to identify what substances children and youth commonly used to poison themselves in BC and how socioeconomic status may impact self-poisoning risk. Self-poisoning hospitalization rates among 10–14 and 15–19-year-olds from 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2020 were calculated by substance using ICD-10-CA codes X60-X69 and T36-T65, as well as by socioeconomic status using the Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec’s Deprivation Index. Nonopioid analgesics, antipyretics, and antirheumatics were the most common substances involved, with rates of 27.6 and 74.3 per 100,000 population among 10–14 and 15–19-year-olds, respectively, followed by antiepileptic, sedative–hypnotic, antiparkinsonism, and psychotropic drugs, with rates of 20.2 and 68.1 per 100,000 population among 10–14 and 15–19-year-olds, respectively. In terms of socioeconomic status, rates were highest among 10–19-year-olds living in neighbourhoods with the fewest social connections (243.7 per 100,000 population). These findings can inform poisoning prevention strategies and relevant policies, thereby reducing the number of self-poisoning events among children and youth.
title:  Democrazia ed educazione: una prospettiva per i nostri tempi
Creators: name: Baldacci, Massimo
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il saggio prende in esame il rapporto tra educazione e democrazia nel pensiero di Dewey. A questo scopo viene usato un criterio cronologico, esaminando alcune opere fondamentali del filosofo americano, rappresentative delle grandi fasi del suo pensiero. Si inizia con Etica della democrazia, lavoro del giovane Dewey, per passare poi a una delle principali opere della maturità: Democrazia e educazione; e terminare con un saggio della tarda produzione dell’autore: Liberalismo e azione sociale. Attraverso questa ricognizione si mettono in evidenza i tratti caratterizzanti della visione pedagogico-politica di Dewey, e si giunge a formulare un’ipotesi sul suo valore odierno. Tale ipotesi riguarda il carattere alternativo del liberalismo democratico deweyano, fondato sulla centralità del pieno sviluppo umano dell’individuo, rispetto alla attuale concezione del neoliberismo, che invece della democrazia e della persona, privilegia il mercato e il capitale umano.
description: John Dewey e la pedagogia democratica del ‘900
COVID-19 and employment losses for workers with disabilities: an intersectional approach
Creators: name: Schur, Lisa
name: Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen
name: Kruse, Douglas L
Publisher: name: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2024
Subjects: COVID-19
Disability
Race
Gender
Unemployment
Jobs
Intersectional JEL Codes: J1
J2
J6
J7
H8

description: This chapter studies the disparate effects of COVID-19 on workers with physical and mental disabilities, paying particular attention to an intersectional analysis by disability, race/ethnicity, and gender. Results indicate that White and Black women with disabilities experienced relatively greater employment losses during the pandemic compared to White men without disabilities. Our decomposition procedures reveal that the disability employment gap increased during the pandemic, and a substantial portion of the increased gap is explained by differential effects of the pandemic across occupations. The unexplained component of the disability gap also rose, which could partly reflect growing discrimination against people with disabilities.
Elimination Algorithms for Data Flow Analysis
Creators: name: Paull, Marvin C.
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1986

description: A data flow algorithm is one that gathers information about the definition and use of data in a program or a set of programs. A unified model of a family of data flow algorithms, called elimination methods, is presented. The algorithms are characterized by the manner in which they solve the systems of equations that describe data flow problems of interest These implementation-independent descriptions of the algorithms facilitate comparisons among them and illustrate the sources of improvement in worst case complexity bounds. This tutorial is valuable as a study in algorithm design; it presents a new view of these algorithms and their interrelations.