cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Design and Production of Subject Specific Insole Using Reverse Engineering and 3D Printing Technology.pdf
Creators: name: Surmen, Hasan Kemal
name: Ortes, Faruk
name: Arslan, Yunus Ziya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: In this study, a biomechanical application of three dimensional (3D) printing method was implemented to produce a subject-specific insole. It was aimed to design and manufacture a customized total-contact insole operating a free mobile application that enables to create 3D scans of an object and a 3D printer device in this application. First, two dimensional pictures of a subject's foot sole was taken from various angles and these photos were uploaded to the server of the software which use photogrammetry technology to create a 3D model out of multiple pictures taken by the user. Next, 3D scanning data was transferred to a CAD software and the model was modified to represent the geometrical properties of the subject's foot most appropriately. Then, the model as an STL format imported to a 3D printer device. Finally, the model of subject-specific insole was printed and examined by placing into the shoe of the subject. It was shown with sequential processes that a subject-foot geometry based insole could be designed and manufactured benefitting from new facilities of technological advances with a low level of cost. Furthermore, the use of custom made biomechanical instruments, which make easy to carry out daily tasks, could likely be increased by utilizing educational and practical applications regarding 3D scanning and printing technologies.
Additional file 3 of Exploring perspectives, preferences and needs of a telemonitoring program for women at high risk for preeclampsia in a tertiary health facility of Karachi: a qualitative study protocol
Creators: name: Feroz, Anam
name: Saleem, Sarah
name: Seto, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Semi-Structured Interview Guide for IDPIs.
Preparation and motivation of high school students who want to become science or mathematics teachers.
Creators: name: Fuchs, Travis T.
name: Sonnert, Gerhard
name: Scott, Sandra A.
name: Sadler, Philip M.
name: Chen, Chen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Shortages of science and mathematics teachers are a serious concern in the United States. Despite the implementation of intervention strategies to address this problem at the high school level, little empirical research had been conducted to inform and strengthen these initiatives. This retrospective cohort study used multinomial logistic regression models to predict students’ science and mathematics teaching career intentions at the end of high school. These intentions were most strongly associated with having had an interest in science and mathematics teaching already at the beginning of high school. Other significant predictors included middle school interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers, high mathematics preparation, and a desire to work with, and help, others. Whereas students interested in science and mathematics teaching shared many motivational features with students interested in other teaching careers, their mathematics knowledge was significantly higher. This research counters blanket stereotypes about teacher ineptitude, while supporting a more positive view of teachers’ motivation to teach. Future interventions targeting high school students should focus on mentorship opportunities and purposeful teaching experiences that mirror the roles science and mathematics teachers play in school life. Such interventions highlight both the potential positive impacts teaching has on students and provide further subject matter exploration. Examples of such programs can range from formalized teaching assistant positions in science and mathematics classrooms to full university partnerships in which colleges of education and science, as well as local school boards/districts, work together to spark interest in science and mathematics teaching among high school students.
Halley's Method as the First Member of an Infinite Family of Cubic Order Rootfinding Methods
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Rootfinding
Order of convergence
Halley's method

description: For each natural number m ≥ 3, we give a rootfinding method Hm, with cubic order of convergence for simple roots. However, for quadratic polynomials the order of convergence of Hm is m. Each Hm depends on the input, the corresponding function value, as well as the first two derivatives. We shall refer to this family as Halley Family, since H3 is the well-known method of Halley. For all m ≥ 4, the asymptotic error constant of Hm is the same constant. Each Hm is described in terms of determinants that are computable recursively. The Halley Family and their derivative-free variants offer alternatives to the traditional rootfinding methods, such as secant, Newton, and Muller methods, as well as Halley’s method itself.
Additional file 2 of Are sedentary behavior and physical activity independently associated with cardiometabolic benefits? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Hua, Simin
name: Qibin Qi
name: Strizich, Garrett
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Gellman, Marc D.
name: Stoutenberg, Mark
name: Castañeda, Sheila F.
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Perreira, Krista M.
name: Sanchez-Johnsen, Lisa A. P.
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multivariable-adjusted mean changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors (95% CI) over 6 years of follow-up among individuals with prediabetes at baseline, according to quartiles of sedentary time and meeting guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (N ~ 3301, 2 h glucose N ~ 2733).
Monitoreo de contaminantes sólidos sedimentables (CSS) en la ciudad de Celendín durante el periodo: abril-junio del 2008
Creators: name: Roncal-Rabanal, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Actividades antropogénicas y naturales deterioran la calidad del aire en la ciudad de Celendín, afectando en diferentes grados, la salud de la población, principalmente de niños menores de 5 años, madres gestantes, ancianos y pacientes de los centros de atención de salud. El monitoreo de Contaminantes sólidos sedimentables, entre los meses de abril a junio del 2008, indicó que en el 71% de los puntos monitoreados se supera el Límite Máximo Permisible de 5 Tn/Km2/mes (OMS).
TCP Servers: Offloading TCP Processing in Internet Servers. Design, Implementation, and Performance
Creators: name: Iftode, Liviu
name: Rangarajan, Murali
name: Bohra, Aniruddha
name: Banerjee, Kalpana
name: Carrera, Enrique V.
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002

description: TCP Server is a system architecture aiming to offload network processing from the host(s) running an Internet server. The basic idea is to execute the TCP/IP processing on a dedicated processor, node, or device (the TCP server) using low-overhead, non-intrusive communication between it and the host(s) running the server application. In this paper, we propose, implement, and evaluate three TCP Server architectures: (1) a dedicated network processor on a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) server, (2) a dedicated node on a cluster-based server built around a memory-mapped communication interconnect such as VIA, and (3) an intelligent network interface in a cluster of intelligent devices with a switch-based I/O interconnect such as Infiniband. Based on our experience and results, we can draw a few important conclusions: (i) an SMP-based approach to TCP servers is more efficient than a cluster-based one, given the lower overheads and the slightly more even division of labor between application and network processors of the former approach, (ii) the benefits of SMP and cluster-based TCP servers reach 18% and 30% respectively, in the scenarios we studied, (iii) the simulation results show greater gains of up to 45% for a cluster of intelligent devices, and (iv) it is clear that greater gains are possible only if we perform dynamic load balancing between hosts and the TCP servers.
Additional file 3 of Are sedentary behavior and physical activity independently associated with cardiometabolic benefits? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Hua, Simin
name: Qibin Qi
name: Strizich, Garrett
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Gellman, Marc D.
name: Stoutenberg, Mark
name: Castañeda, Sheila F.
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Perreira, Krista M.
name: Sanchez-Johnsen, Lisa A. P.
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. LDL Cholesterol & Statin use.
Additional file 4 of Are sedentary behavior and physical activity independently associated with cardiometabolic benefits? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Hua, Simin
name: Qibin Qi
name: Strizich, Garrett
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Gellman, Marc D.
name: Stoutenberg, Mark
name: Castañeda, Sheila F.
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Perreira, Krista M.
name: Sanchez-Johnsen, Lisa A. P.
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Multivariable-adjusted mean changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors (95% CI) over 6 years of follow-up, according to cross-classification of quartiles of sedentary time and meeting guidelines for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Engineers, Firms and Nations: Ethical Dilemmas in the New Global Environment
Creators: name: Lynn, Leonard
name: Salzman, Hal
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2099
Subjects: Values
Technonationalism
Collaborative advantage
Stakeholders
Engineering ethics
Engineering
Globalization
Ethics
Nationalism
Technology

description: Global firms—which are the primary organizational entities through which commercial engineering is conducted—have largely lost attachment to their country of origins. Although they may retain some cultural heritage that stems from their country of origin, they are increasingly global organizations that have multiple “host countries” in which they have located some portion of their operations. As a result, they have a decreasing degree of investment in, or loyalty to, any one nation. At the macro, policy level, this new globalization raises questions about the context in which engineering work (as well as other work) is conducted. This structural change in firms and the process of technology development raises questions about engineering values and ethics. This paper will provide an overview of the structural changes in technology development based on fieldwork conducted by the authors, and discuss the value and policy implications of these changes.
Additional file 1 of Are sedentary behavior and physical activity independently associated with cardiometabolic benefits? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Hua, Simin
name: Qibin Qi
name: Strizich, Garrett
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Gellman, Marc D.
name: Stoutenberg, Mark
name: Castañeda, Sheila F.
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Perreira, Krista M.
name: Sanchez-Johnsen, Lisa A. P.
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of participants by Actical adherence (among all participants who attended V2).
"without the blame they cannot deal with them" - Die Wegnehmbarkeit von Kindern im Begegnungsverhältnis alleinerziehender geflüchteter Frauen und den Jugendämtern
Creators: name: Ulmer, Lea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Reproductive Justice
Jugendamt
refugee rights
German child welfare

description: Reproductive justice perspective on German child welfare, version of my master thesis in sociology
A Target Fish Community to Guide River Restoration
Creators: name: Bain, Mark B.
name: Meixler, Marcia S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Fish communities
Target fish community (TFC)
Nature--Effect of human beings on
Human-dominated landscape
Rivers--Management
Restoration ecology

description: A method is proposed and demonstrated to specify a ﬁsh community to serve as a target for planning river restoration projects and as an endpoint for evaluating programme progress. Our target ﬁsh community is appropriate for small rivers in southern New England with basins characterized by dispersed human activities. Our study was part of a multi-agency improvement effort of the Quinebaug River in southern Massachusetts and northeast Connecticut, USA. We identify ﬁsh species expected to be found in streams, lakes, and river reaches of the Quinebaug River basin. An expected rank order of abundance was computed using ﬁsh surveys from rivers identified by restoration programme managers as being in a desirable condition for a human-dominated landscape. The rank order of species was converted to expected community proportions following a theoretical log–log relation between species abundances and occurrences in complex communities. Criteria from a committee of agency and water use representatives were inﬂuential in specifying a target community; so the overall method blends policy, objective zoogeography analyses, and theory-based parameters of community structure. We believe the use of a target community can be an important element in the design and evaluation of river restoration where the aim cannot be to copy pristine, natural ecosystem properties.
A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS★
Creators: name: Reinarz, Yared
name: Pinto, Marcelo Tala
name: Dransfield, Georgina
name: Hesse, Katharine
name: Uzundag, Murat
name: Moyano, Maximiliano
name: Dragomir, Diana
name: Boyle, Gavin
name: Baycroft, Thomas
name: Sebastian, Daniel
name: Ducrot, Elsa
name: Schlecker, Martin
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Torres-Miranda, Pascal
name: Trifonov, Trifon
name: Espinoza, Néstor
name: Martin, David V.
name: Rojas, Felipe
name: Lund, Michael B.
name: Gupta, Arvind F.
name: Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
name: Ziegler, Carl
name: Shporer, Avi
name: Mann, Andrew W.
name: Timmermans, Mathilde
name: Queloz, Didier
name: Ulmer-Moll, Solène
name: Suc, Vincent
name: Ricker, George R.
name: Jones, Matías I.
name: Brahm, Rafael
name: Seager, Sara
name: Lendl, Monika
name: Hobson, Melissa J.
name: Jordán, Andrés
name: Carson, Joe
name: Psaridi, Angelica
name: Burke, Christopher J.
name: Figueira, Pedro
name: Eberhardt, Jan
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Sarkis, Paula
name: Al Moulla, Khaled
name: Hooton, Matthew J.
name: Zuñiga-Fernández, Sebastián
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Gillon, Michael
name: Standing, Matthew R.
name: Lissauer, Jack J.
name: Mounzer, Dany
Publisher: name: EDP Sciences
Year: 2024

description:  We report on the confirmation and follow-up characterization of two long-period transiting substellar companions on low-eccentricity orbits around TIC 4672985 and TOI-2529, whose transit events were detected by the TESS space mission. Ground-based photometric and spectroscopic follow-up from different facilities, confirmed the substellar nature of TIC 4672985 b , a massive gas giant in the transition between the super-Jupiters and brown dwarfs mass regime. From the joint analysis we derived the following orbital parameters: P = 69.0480 −0.0005 +0.0004 d,  M p  = 12.74 −1.01 +1.01  M j  ,  R p  = 1.026 −0.067 +0.065  R j  and e = 0.018 −0.004 +0.004 . In addition, the RV time series revealed a significant trend at the ~350 m s −1 yr −1 level, which is indicative of the presence of a massive outer companion in the system. TIC 4672985 b is a unique example of a transiting substellar companion with a mass above the deuterium-burning limit, located beyond 0.1 AU and in a nearly circular orbit. These planetary properties are difficult to reproduce from canonical planet formation and evolution models. For TOI-2529 b , we obtained the following orbital parameters: P = 64.5949 −0.0003 +0.0003 d,  M p  = 2.340 −0.195 +0.197  M j  ,  R p  = 1.030 −0.050 +0.050  R j  and e = 0.021 −0.015 +0.024 , making this object a new example of a growing population of transiting warm giant planets.
Deterministic separation of suspended particles in a reconfigurable obstacle array
Creators: name: Du, Siqi
name: Drazer, German
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing Ltd
Year: 2016
Subjects: Separation
DLD
Microfluidics

description: We use a macromodel of a flow-driven deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) microfluidic system to investigate conditions leading to size-separation of suspended particles. This model system can be easily reconfigured to establish an arbitrary forcing angle, i.e. the orientation between the average flow field and the square array of cylindrical posts that constitute the stationary phase. We also consider posts of different diameters, while maintaining a constant gap between them, to investigate the effect of obstacle size on separation. In all cases, we observe the presence of a locked mode at small forcing angles, in which particles move along a principal direction in the lattice. A locked-to-zigzag mode transition takes place when the orientation of the driving force reaches a critical angle. We show that the transition occurs at increasing angles for larger particles, thus enabling particle separation. Moreover, we observe a linear regression between the critical angle and the size of the particles, which allows us to estimate size-resolution in these systems. The presence of such a linear relation would guide the selection of the forcing angle in microfluidic systems, in which the direction of the flow field with respect to the array of obstacles is fixed. Finally, we present a simple model, based on the presence of irreversible interactions between the suspended particles and the obstacles, which describes the observed dependence of the migration angle on the orientation of the average flow.
Additional file 1 of Introduction of medication review and medication report in Swedish hospital and primary care, using a theory-based implementation strategy
Creators: name: Carlfjord, Siw
name: Malmberg, Eva
name: Skoglund, Carina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
DATAMAN project: Towards a Mosaic-like Location-Dependant Information Service for Mobile Clients
Creators: name: Acharya, Arup
name: Imieliński, Tomasz
name: Badrinath, B. R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: The goal of the DATAMAN project is to develop primitives and build and environment for location-dependant applications. In such applications, information requested by the user depends on the location from which it is accessed, and which may be invalidated or continue to be valid when a user changes location. This paper conceptually describes the main primitives and a preliminary implementation of an intelligent building demonstrating the use of some of these primitives.
Predictive Anonymization: Utility-Preserving Publishing of Sparse Recommendation Data
Creators: name: Chang, Chih-Cheng
name: Thompson, Brian
name: Wang, Hui (Wendy)
name: Yao, Danfeng
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009

description: Recently, recommender systems have been introduced to predict user preferences for products or services. In order to seek better prediction techniques, data owners of recommender systems such as Netflix sometimes make their customers’ reviews available to the public, which raises serious privacy concerns. With only a small amount of knowledge about individuals and their ratings to some items in a recommender system, an adversary may easily identify the users and breach their privacy. Unfortunately, most of the existing privacy models (e.g., k-anonymity) cannot be directly applied to recommender systems. In this paper, we study the problem of privacy-preserving publishing of recommendation datasets. We represent recommendation data as a bipartite graph, and define several attacks on the graph that can re-identify users and determine their rated items and ratings. To deal with these attacks, we give formal privacy definitions in recommender systems. We develop a robust and efficient anonymization algorithm, Predictive Anonymization, to achieve the privacy goals. Our experimental results show that Predictive Anonymization can prevent the attacks with very little impact to prediction accuracy
Additional file 2 of Introduction of medication review and medication report in Swedish hospital and primary care, using a theory-based implementation strategy
Creators: name: Carlfjord, Siw
name: Malmberg, Eva
name: Skoglund, Carina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Countering the Rhetoric of Emerging Domestic Markets: Why More Information Alone Will Not Address the Capital Needs of Underserved Communities
Creators: name: Rubin, Julia Sass
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Access to capital
Emerging domestic markets
Underserved communities
Porter, Michael
Venture Capital

description: This article critiques the idea that the private sector can take the lead in addressing the capital needs of underserved communities, focusing specifically on the emerging domestic markets approach advocated by Milken Institute researchers. This approach has three limitations. First, it treats all underserved communities as interchangeable, ignoring that they differ in important ways in the nature and causes of their capital constraints. Second, it claims that underserved communities lack access to capital primarily as a result of information failure, overlooking numerous other obstacles that discourage investment in such communities. Third, its overarching assumption that the private sector can take the lead in meeting the capital needs of underserved communities is unrealistic because it fails to address these additional barriers to investment. The article recommends a more individualized approach to understanding the capital needs of underserved communities and recognition of the need for public sector leadership in solving this problem.
Zinc has insulin-mimetic properties which enhance spinal fusion in a rat model
Creators: name: Breitbart, Eric A.
name: Koerner, John D.
name: Chaudhary, Saad B.
name: Uko, Linda
name: Chirichella, Paul
name: Vives, Michael J.
name: O'Connor, J. Patrick
name: Subramanian, Sangeeta
name: Fritton, J. Christopher
name: Benevenia, Joseph
name: Lin, Sheldon S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Insulin-mimetic
Mimetic
Fusion
Insulin
Zinc

description: BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Previous studies have found that insulin or insulin-like growth factor treatment can stimulate fracture healing in diabetic and normal animal models, and increase fusion rates in a rat spinal fusion model. Insulin-mimetic agents, such as zinc, have demonstrated antidiabetic effects in animal and human studies, and these agents that mimic the effects of insulin could produce the same beneficial effects on bone regeneration and spinal fusion. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of locally applied zinc on spinal fusion in a rat model. STUDY DESIGN/SETTING: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee-approved animal study using Sprague-Dawley rats was used as the study design. METHODS: Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats (450-500 g) underwent L4-L5 posterolateral lumbar fusion (PLF). After decortication and application of approximately 0.3 g of autograft per side, one of three pellets were added to each site: high-dose zinc calcium sulfate (ZnCaSO4), low-dose ZnCaSO4 (half of the high dose), or a control palmitic acid pellet (no Zn dose). Systemic blood glucose levels were measured 24 hours postoperatively. Rats were sacrificed after 8 weeks and the PLFs analyzed qualitatively by manual palpation and radiograph review, and quantitatively by micro-computed tomography (CT) analysis of bone volume and trabecular thickness. Statistical analyses with p-values set at .05 were accomplished with analysis of variance, followed by posthoc tests for quantitative data, or Mann-Whitney rank tests for qualitative assessments. RESULTS: Compared with controls, the low-dose zinc group demonstrated a significantly higher manual palpation grade (p=.011), radiographic score (p=.045), and bone formation on micro-CT (172.9 mm3 vs. 126.7 mm3 for controls) (p<.01). The high-dose zinc also demonstrated a significantly higher radiographic score (p=.017) and bone formation on micro-CT (172.7 mm3 vs. 126.7 mm3) (p<.01) versus controls, and was trending toward higher manual palpation scores (p=.058). CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the potential benefit of a locally applied insulin-mimetic agent, such as zinc, in a rat lumbar fusion model. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of local insulin application in the same model, and it appears that zinc has similar effects.
In service to Rutgers University Libraries' Instruction Program: LIS students gain instruction experience through a mutually beneficial collaboration.
Creators: name: Charles, Leslin H.
Publisher: name: ACRL
Year: 2018
Subjects: Information literacy instruction
Service learning
LIS students

description: Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) have developed a strong partnership with the Rutgers Writing Program in the School of Arts and Sciences on its New Brunswick (NB) campus. Each semester, there are more than 50 sections of an undergraduate writing course, Research in the Disciplines, with over 90 percent of them requiring information literacy (IL) instruction. A large pool of skilled IL instructors is needed. To address that need, trained LIS students have traditionally been paid to teach in the program. One mutually beneficial option was to give LIS students enrolled in the School of Communication and Information’s graduate course, LIS 519: Information Literacy: Learning and Teaching, 10 percent credit to teach a one-shot (IL) session in the NB Rutgers Writing Program. Thus, these students were provided with a service learning experience within their graduate course.
“I don’t feel safe sitting in my own yard”: Chicago resident experiences with urban rats during a COVID-19 stay-at-home order
Creators: name: Murray, Maureen H.
name: Byers, Kaylee
name: Buckley, Jacqueline
name: Magle, Seth B.
name: Waite, Preeya
name: German, Danielle
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Encounters with rats in urban areas increase risk of human exposure to rat-associated zoonotic pathogens and act as a stressor associated with psychological distress. The frequency and nature of human-rat encounters may be altered by social distancing policies to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, restaurant closures may reduce food availability for rats and promote rat activity in nearby residential areas, thus increasing public health risks during a period of public health crisis. In this study, we aimed to identify factors associated with increased perceived exposure to rats during a stay-at-home order, describe residents’ encounters with rats relevant to their health and well-being, and identify factors associated with increased use of rodent control. Methods Urban residents in Chicago, a large city with growing concerns about rats and health disparities, completed an online questionnaire including fixed response and open-ended questions during the spring 2020 stay-at-home order. Analyses included ordinal multivariate regression, spatial analysis, and thematic analysis for open-ended responses. Results Overall, 21% of respondents (n = 835) reported an increase in rat sightings around their homes during the stay-at-home order and increased rat sightings was positively associated with proximity to restaurants, low-rise apartment buildings, and rat feces in the home (p ≤ 0.01). Many respondents described feeling unsafe using their patio or yard, and afraid of rats entering their home or spreading disease. Greater engagement with rodent control was associated with property ownership, information about rat control, and areas with lower incomes (p ≤ 0.01). Conclusions More frequent rat encounters may be an unanticipated public health concern during periods of social distancing, especially in restaurant-dense areas or in low-rise apartment buildings. Rat presence may also limit residents’ ability to enjoy nearby outdoor spaces, which otherwise might buffer stress experienced during a stay-at-home order. Proactive rat control may be needed to mitigate rat-associated health risks during future stay-at-home orders.
Anti-KIF20B autoantibodies are associated with cranial neuropathy in systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Dooley, Mary Anne
name: Clarke, Ann E
name: Bernatsky, Sasha
name: Urowitz, Murray B
name: Ginzler, Ellen M
name: Romero-Diaz, Juanita
name: van Vollenhoven, Ronald F
name: Ruiz-Irastorza, Guillermo
name: Chin, Ricky
name: Fritzler, Marvin J
name: Krustev, Eugene
name: Alarcón, Graciela S
name: Petri, Michelle A
name: Wallace, Daniel J
name: Bruce, Ian N
name: Jacobsen, Søren
name: Isenberg, David
name: Jönsen, Andreas
name: Fortin, Paul R
name: Askenase, Anca
name: Choi, May Y
name: Inanc, Murat
name: Kalunian, Kenneth C
name: Gladman, Dafna D
name: Hanly, John G
name: Sánchez-Guerrero, Jorge
name: Kamen, Diane L
name: Lim, Sam
name: Gordon, Caroline
name: Bae, Sang-Cheol
name: Manzi, Susan
name: Buyon, Jill
name: Rahman, Anisur
name: Mackay, Meggan
name: Peschken, Christine A
name: Merrill, Joan T
name: Buhler, Katherine A
name: Aranow, Cynthia
name: Ramsey-Goldman, Rosalind
Publisher: name: BMJ
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Cranial neuropathies (CN) are a rare neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE) manifestation. Previous studies reported that antibodies to the kinesin family member 20B (KIF20B) (anti-KIF20B) protein were associated with idiopathic ataxia and CN. We assessed anti-KIF20B as a potential biomarker for NPSLE in an international SLE inception cohort.
METHODS: Individuals fulfilling the revised 1997 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) SLE classification criteria were enrolled from 31 centres from 1999 to 2011 and followed annually in the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics inception cohort. Anti-KIF20B testing was performed on baseline (within 15 months of diagnosis or first annual visit) samples using an addressable laser bead immunoassay. Logistic regression (penalised maximum likelihood and adjusting for confounding variables) examined the association between anti-KIF20B and NPSLE manifestations (1999 ACR case definitions), including CN, occurring over the first 5 years of follow-up.
RESULTS: Of the 1827 enrolled cohort members, baseline serum and 5 years of follow-up data were available on 795 patients who were included in this study: 29.8% were anti-KIF20B-positive, 88.7% female, and 52.1% White. The frequency of anti-KIF20B positivity differed only for those with CN (n=10) versus without CN (n=785) (70.0% vs 29.3%; OR 5.2, 95% CI 1.4, 18.5). Compared with patients without CN, patients with CN were more likely to fulfil the ACR haematological (90.0% vs 66.1%; difference 23.9%, 95% CI 5.0%, 42.8%) and ANA (100% vs 95.7%; difference 4.3%, 95% CI 2.9%, 5.8%) criteria. In the multivariate analysis adjusting for age at baseline, female, White race and ethnicity, and ACR haematological and ANA criteria, anti-KIF20B positivity remained associated with CN (OR 5.2, 95% CI 1.4, 19.1).
CONCLUSION: Anti-KIF20B is a potential biomarker for SLE-related CN. Further studies are needed to examine how autoantibodies against KIF20B, which is variably expressed in a variety of neurological cells, contribute to disease pathogenesis.
Managing workforce diversity: framing justice and fairness in Australian organizations
Creators: name: Dahanayake, Pradeepa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: ‘Diversity Management’ emerged as an organizational response to address institutionalized systemic barriers and discrimination faced by marginalized groups in the workplace. The progression of Diversity Management however saw a shift in focus, where emphasis on economic advantages from a diverse workforce gained increased momentum. This raised concerns as to whether organizations valued diversity only for profits whilst undermining justice and fairness in the workplace. Pradeepa’s’ thesis, through qualitative case study inquiry, explores contemporary diversity management practices of 23 Australian workplaces and argues that justice and fairness is central to managing workforce diversity.
Design and implementation of indirect protocols for mobile wireless
Creators: name: Bakre, Ajay
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Host mobility within the largely stationary internetwork has been treated thus far as a routing problem, to be solved entirely within the network layer of the ISO/OSI protocol model. However, mobility of host machines from one attachment point to another affects transport and higher layer protocols as well. In addition, the use of wireless links by mobile computers for attachment to the fixed network infrastructure, gives rise to performance problems due to low bandwidth and high error rates that are typical of wireless environments. The existing network protocols do not provide any mechanism to deal with the problems arising out of host mobility and wireless access. Widespread use of mobile and wireless capable computers is also likely to create a demand for new applications that utilize the mobile user's location for accessing information sources. Applications used in mobile wireless environments may also need to adapt to the changes in the characteristics of the wireless medium. In this dissertation, we consider the problem of supporting distributed applications on mobile wireless computers that need to communicate with peer applications and servers on the wired internetwork. We present the design and implementation of Indirect Protocols, which allow the use of specialized network protocols for the wireless medium and mobile hosts in a way that is backward compatible with the existing protocols used over the wired internetwork. Indirect protocols are based on two key ideas: i) Special treatment of wireless links and mobile computers in an internetwork and ii) Use of mobility support routers (MSRs) as multi-protocol intermediaries. Mobility support routers provide the necessary support to ensure inter-operability with the existing wired network protocols. We show that the use of indirection results in improved performance at the transport layer and provides enhanced functionality at the remote procedure call (RPC) layer.";"
Advances in heterologous biosynthesis of plant and fungal natural products by modular co-culture engineering
Creators: name: Chen, Tingting
name: Zhou, Yiyao
name: Lu, Yinghua
name: Zhang, Haoran
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bioproduction improvement
Heterologous biosynthesis
Modular co-culture engineering
Natural product
Plants and fungus

description: Heterologous biosynthesis has been long pursued as a viable approach for high efficiency production of natural products with various industrial values. Conventional methods for heterologous biosynthesis use the mono-culture of an engineered microbe for accommodating the whole target biosynthetic pathway to produce the desired product. The emergence of modular co-culture engineering, which divides the pathway between multiple co-culture strains, presents a new perspective to conduct heterologous biosynthesis and improve the bioproduction performance of natural products. This review highlights recent advances in utilizing the modular co-culture engineering approaches to address the challenges of plant and fungal natural productbiosynthesis. Potential directions for future research in this promising field are also discussed.
Information Theory Broadens the Spectrum of Molecular Ecology and Evolution
Creators: name: Sherwin, William B.
name: Chao, Anne
name: Jost, Lou
name: Smouse, Peter E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Shannon
Diversity-profile
Entropy
Selection
Linkage-disequilibrium
Gene-expression

description: Information or entropy analysis of diversity is used extensively in community ecology, and has recently been exploited for prediction and analysis in molecular ecology and evolution. Information measures belong to a spectrum (or ‘q-profile’) of measures whose contrasting properties provide a rich summary of diversity, including allelic richness (q=0), Shannon information (q=1), and heterozygosity (q=2). We present the merits of information measures for describing and forecasting molecular variation within and among groups, comparing forecasts with data, and evaluating underlying processes such as dispersal. Importantly, information measures directly link causal processes and divergence outcomes, have straightforward relationship to allele frequency differences (including monotonicity that q=2 lacks), and show additivity across hierarchical layers such as ecology, behaviour, cellular processes, and non-genetic inheritance.
Choosing an appropriate alliance governance mode: The role of institutional, cultural and geographical distance in international research & development (R&D) collaborations
Creators: name: Choi, Jeongho
name: Contractor, Farok J.
Publisher: name: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Subjects: Knowledge-based views
Transaction cost economics
Transaction costs
International R & D alliance
Alliance governance mode
Institutional distance
Geographic distance

description: We identify a variety of R&D alliance modes in a knowledge-intensive industry (e.g., Pharmaceuticals), and classify them into four ordered categories which go beyond the traditional binary equity vs non-equity alliance classification. This enriches our understanding of alliance governance structures and broadens the application of alliance modes in what is today a more complicated international R&D collaboration setting. We then explore national, industry and firm factors that determine the selection of an appropriate R&D alliance governance mode, using a sample of 237 international alliance deals. The likelihood of using a more-integrated alliance governance mode decreases as the difference or “distance” between nations of the partner firms increases in terms of human capital and cultural distance. On the other hand, a greater geographic and institutional difference is positively associated with the selection of more integrated alliance governance modes. Furthermore, firms in the research stage are more likely to use a more-integrated governance mode, as opposed to firms in the development stage. These findings advance research on alliance governance structure. They reveal the factors affecting the R&D alliance governance mode choice.
Ákos Róna-Tas and Alya Guseva, 2014, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries, Stanford University Press.
Creators: name: Böröcz, József
name: Dodd, Nigel
name: Ossandón, José
name: Whitford, Josh
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Capitalist systems
Markets
Capitalism
Credit
Finance
Europe, Eastern

description: A Review Symposium of Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries (Stanford University Press)
Tissue engineering of aortic valve leaflets
Creators: name: Patel, Shital
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Owing to the complexity of the aortic heart valve, there has not been any ideal replacement valve available. A pioneering in vitro method using human mesenchymal stem cells on electrospun polyurethane scaffolds has been developed which resulted in production of complete extracellular matrix (ECM) at the proportions equivalent to the native aortic valve leaflets. The significance of this work is its ability to generate the ECM along with cell differentiation in a very short duration using autologous stem cells from the patients. Thus these valves can be used for valve repair and can be further studied for remodelling in vivo.
The shape of unstable numerical solutions of initial value problems
Creators: name: Vichnevetsky, Robert
name: Sandusky, Harold
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1976

description: We will analyze in this paper some properties of unstable solutions in the numerical approximation of partial differential equations of the initial value kind, with spatial variable X and time t. It is often, although incorrectly believed that numerical instability always manifests itself by the appearance of components which are oscillatory in time as well as space with a period and a wavelength i.e. of the kind illustrated in Fig. 1. That this belief is widespread is probably due to the facts that: a) This type of instability is the most common, and b) Simple examples in the classical literature tend to emphasize this type only. But other types of numerical instability may and do occur. For instance, we demonstrate in §5 that instabilities of parabolic equations, which grow exponentially in time rather than in an oscillatory manner, exist with even-order accurate time-marching schemes. And in §6 we show that unstable solutions of hyperbolic equations have a wavelength of 4-AX, i.e. twice that of the parabolic case. We develop and illustrate these questions in detail by conducting an analysis in the frequency domain. In §8, we comment upon the difference between the notions of stepwise and point-wise stability, and illustrate certain types of unstable solutions, which occur despite the point wise stability of the scheme.
Morfología y especificidad patogénica de Oidium spp., en plantas cultivadas y espontaneas de Cajamarca.
Creators: name: Roncal Ordóñez, Manuel Salomón
name: Roncal-Rabanal, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: Se describe la morfología y especificidad patogénica de Oidium spp., en plantas cultivadas y espontaneas de Cajamarca
title: Strengthening the Education Management Information System (EMIS) in Tanzania: Government Actors’ Perceptions about Enhancing Local Capacity for Information-based Policy Reforms
Creators: name: Luena, Assela M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Tanzania
subject: Education Management Information System
subject: EMIS
subject: Education
subject: Government
subject: Accountability
subject: Resources
subject: User-friendly
subject: Partnerships
subject: Policy
subject: Procedures
subject: Initiatives
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Educational Administration and Supervision
subject: Education Economics
subject: International and Comparative Education
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Strengthening the Education Management Information System (EMIS) in Tanzania is an important task, as the government needs quality data and information to support the creation of sound policies, making plans and managing educational resources. Well-functioning EMIS can ensure achievement of national goals to provide quality education, which is the basis for facilitating economic growth and sustainable development. The government also needs quality data and information in order to enhance monitoring and evaluation of the education sectors’ performance and ensure the right direction for achieving the intended goals and objectives. Creating a sustainable and efficient EMIS is a challenge that requires great attention from both the government and development partners. This study finds that government decision-makers’ perception of EMIS relevance is an important aspect of supporting its development initiatives and enhancing collaboration with external development partners. The study reveals that the government appreciates donors’ support for EMIS development programs. However, this external technical and financial support should not replace the government’s roles and responsibilities of enhancing EMIS capacity. Moreover, the study proposes that EMIS development initiatives that primarily focus on serving local demands are important motivations that can create the government’s commitment and accountability to allocate adequate resources which are necessary for effective EMIS performance. Likewise, this study recommends that the effective and efficient EMIS should be user-friendly and accessible to all stakeholders. A well performing EMIS should be able to produce authentic data and information that meets stakeholders’ demands. It is the role of EMIS to influence stakeholders’ utilization of its outputs and promote an institutional culture which values information sharing and use of scientific evidence for educational planning, management and decision-making processes. It is expected that policy makers and other stakeholders will use these findings and suggestions to improve EMIS development strategies and enhance stakeholders’ partnership in matters pertaining to strengthening EMIS functions, particularly in low-resource contexts.