cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Play, Learn, and Teach Outdoors—Network (PLaTO-Net): terminology, taxonomy, and ontology
Creators: name: Lee, Eun-Young
name: De Lannoy, Louise
name: Li, Lucy
name: De Barros, Maria I. A.
name: Bentsen, Peter
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Fiskum, Tove A.
name: Guerrero, Michelle
name: Hallås, Bjørg O.
name: Ho, Susanna
name: Jordan, Catherine
name: Leather, Mark
name: Mannion, Greg
name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Sandseter, Ellen B. H.
name: Spencer, Nancy L. I.
name: Waite, Susan
name: Wang, Po-Yu
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background A recent dialogue in the field of play, learn, and teach outdoors (referred to as “PLaTO” hereafter) demonstrated the need for developing harmonized and consensus-based terminology, taxonomy, and ontology for PLaTO. This is important as the field evolves and diversifies in its approaches, contents, and contexts over time and in different countries, cultures, and settings. Within this paper, we report the systematic and iterative processes undertaken to achieve this objective, which has built on the creation of the global PLaTO-Network (PLaTO-Net). Methods This project comprised of four major methodological phases. First, a systematic scoping review was conducted to identify common terms and definitions used pertaining to PLaTO. Second, based on the results of the scoping review, a draft set of key terms, taxonomy, and ontology were developed, and shared with PLaTO members, who provided feedback via four rounds of consultation. Third, PLaTO terminology, taxonomy, and ontology were then finalized based on the feedback received from 50 international PLaTO member participants who responded to ≥ 3 rounds of the consultation survey and dialogue. Finally, efforts to share and disseminate project outcomes were made through different online platforms. Results This paper presents the final definitions and taxonomy of 31 PLaTO terms along with the PLaTO-Net ontology model. The model incorporates other relevant concepts in recognition that all the aspects of the model are interrelated and interconnected. The final terminology, taxonomy, and ontology are intended to be applicable to, and relevant for, all people encompassing various identities (e.g., age, gender, culture, ethnicity, ability). Conclusions This project contributes to advancing PLaTO-based research and facilitating intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration, with the long-term goal of fostering and strengthening PLaTO’s synergistic linkages with healthy living, environmental stewardship, climate action, and planetary health agendas. Notably, PLaTO terminology, taxonomy and ontology will continue to evolve, and PLaTO-Net is committed to advancing and periodically updating harmonized knowledge and understanding in the vast and interrelated areas of PLaTO.
The Central Concept of Struggle: Sayyid Qutb, Leo Strauss, Modernity and the Past
Creators: name: Maltseva, Olga
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research -- Periodicals.
Humanities -- Research -- Periodicals.
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.

description: From the Faculty Nominator: Leo Strauss and Sayyid Qutb are two towering figures of the twentieth century whose ideas have inspired generations of leading thinkers and political players. Strauss’s following consisted initially of students in the classrooms of American universities, more recently, some neo-conservative thinkers have claimed that their inspirations came from Strauss. Strauss’s passion was the classics, roaming between the philosophies that sprang from Athens and Jerusalem. He argued against the path of modernity with its liberal progressive ideals, particularly dangerous he believed was making knowledge accessible to the masses. Instead, as the ancients practiced, knowledge was the prerogative of the elites. Sayyid Qutb’s influence began in an Egyptian prison, he managed to captivate generations of Muslims, who were persecuted by their regimes and disillusioned by the Western regimes which supported them. And before long, many Islamists began to embrace his writings as their textbooks. Like Strauss, Qutb was disenchanted with modernity, it looked to him like jahiliyya, what Muslims refer to as a state of primordial ignorance of God. He thus looked to the past as a model. He extolled Muslims to follow the model of the Prophet Muhammad and the community of believers around him whose faith not only enabled them to surmount great difficulties but also they were able to form a community, from which a great civilization was soon to arise. As Olga Maltseva’s paper shows, the relationship of the present to the past is a complex one, and both Strauss and Qutb’s ideas were not embraced by all. But even when their ideas were rejected, they were sure to seduce their audiences.
description: All of us--whether we are students or professors, young or old, political or apathetic--are children of the liberal philosophy that "progress" is the inevitable path towards the "good." Think about our speech: if "things are progressing" they are moving toward some desired goal. Yet, the positive connotation of the word "progress" belies one very crucial fact: we do not know what the future holds. Should we assume it will be positive? What if, in truth, progress was a downward spiral-and the best state our society can achieve has already happened, long ago, in a far-off virtuous past? The influential thinkers Leo Strauss (1899-1973) and Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) challenged the common assumption that progress is to be celebrated. Perplexed by the disturbing events of the twentieth century, they sought the 'ideal' not through modern progress but in the origins of their respective religious traditions, Judaism and Islam.
description: Nelly Lahoud
description: http://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/verge3/
Improving Motor Skills Development of Autistic Students Through Physical Education
Creators: name: James, Denikwa
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: This study aimed to determine whether six autistic students better improve their gross motor skills and endurance by performing teacher and student led body spatial activities in gym class. A quasi- experimental design was used for the study utilizing a pre-test / post-test assessment strategy. After having gross motor skills assessed using a basic motor skills test, students participated in the study over the course of 30 days. At the beginning of each class period, students either participated in teacher-directed or student-directed activities consisting of locomotor movements. At the end of the 30 days, a gross motor skills test was used once again to determine whether these activities produced a greater increase in their motor skills. The results of the post-test indicate that there is no difference in improvement between the students.
Rotitma Chujo 1969
Creators: name: Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro
name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Rotitma

description: Rotitma Chûjô, 1969, full generic status
 Cyrtotriplax (Rotitma) Chûjô 1969: 226. Chûjô and Chûjô 1990: 46.
 Type Species. Cyrtotriplax pallidiventris Lewis, 1887; by subsequent designation (Chûjô and Chûjô 1990: 46).
 Diagnosis. Body generally ovoid in shape. Clypeus anterior margin with shallow V-shaped emargination; complete marginal bead present. Eyes finely facetted. Antenna with club of 3 antennomeres; antennomere XI transversely oval to nearly circular. Mouthparts with lacinia lacking teeth; maxillary terminal palpomere triangularly widened, not more than 3 times wider than long; mentum pentagonal. Prosternal lines widely spaced, not connecting anteriorly. Elytra lacking distinct basal marginal bead. Tibiae narrow, not triangularly dilated.
 Distribution. Japan, Sarawak, and eastern North America.
 Number of Species. 6 [5 (Chûjô and Chûjô 1990) + Rotitma sanguinipennis (Say, 1825), new combination].
 Remarks. Cyrtotriplax Crotch, 1873 as used by Chûjô (1969: 6) and Chûjô and Chûjô (1990: 30) (not Cyrtotriplax Gorham 1896: 286) has a complicated history. Cyrtotriplax Crotch is a synonym of Triplax Fabricius (Bouchard et al. 2011: 358; Kerzhner 1991: 126), while Cyrtotriplax Gorham remains a valid genus.
 Tritoma Fabricius is a diverse genus with 136 species (Alvarenga 1994; Boyle 1956; Chûjô and Chûjô 1990; Delkeskamp 1981; Goodrich and Skelley 1991) that are widely distributed (Holarctic, Central America, Africa). Tritoma (sensu lato) is readily distinguished from Rotitma by lacking the V-shaped concavity of the epistomal apex and in having a distinctly triangular mentum.
 Raising Rotitma to full generic status makes Tritoma a more homogeneous genus. However, the morphological diversity and wide geographical distributions of the remaining Tritoma species raises questions about the monophyly of this and other related genera. Similarly, the wide geographical distribution of Rotitma indicates additional species may still reside in Asian Tritoma (sensu lato). Robust revisionary and phylogenetic works on the world’s Tritomini are needed.
 With the raising of Rotitma to full generic status, the following new combinations are recognized: Rotitma circumcinctus (Lewis 1887: 66), Rotitma discalis (Lewis 1887: 65), Rotitma pallidiventris (Lewis 1887: 64), and Rotitma rufipennis (Lewis 1887: 65), all from Japan; and Rotitma sarawakensis Chûjô 1974: 13, from Sarawak. The following North American species is here transferred to the genus Rotitma, bringing the total of included species to six.
description: Published as part of Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro & Skelley, Paul E., 2021, Toward a Natural Classification of Tritomini: Are There Hidden Tribes within the Genus Tritoma Fabricius (Coleoptera: Erotylidae)?, pp. 629-641 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3) on page 634, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.629, http://zenodo.org/record/13251305
Intersecting dimensions of patient experience: evaluating the impact on satisfaction in Moroccan public healthcare
Creators: name: Ahmed ROUTABI
name: Bouchra BENNANI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In a continuous effort to improve the quality of services rendered by public sector health facilities, patient-user satisfaction must be viewed as a legitimate outcome of care. The primary objective of our study was to measure the level of satisfaction of users of maternal and child hospitalization services within public hospitals in Casablanca. This is a single-pass descriptive cross-sectional study that took place from January 4 to February 26, 2023. The study population corresponded to all patient-users who underwent or whose children underwent hospitalization in neonatology or maternity services. Data was collected through a questionnaire inspired by the SAPHORA-MCO version 2009, adapted for the evaluation of patient satisfaction in medicine. The measured dimensions were the variables of satisfaction extracted from the questionnaire directly related to the quality of care, hotel comfort, and organization of discharge protocol, and the determinants of overall satisfaction related to individual users' experiences. In terms of results, we inferred that the main determinants of overall satisfaction are the quality of care and hotel comfort. This study highlighted the priority expectations of users of hospitalization services. However, substantial improvements should be made primarily to the administrative discharge procedures and information given on the continuity of care to achieve better satisfaction.
The Effects of a Reader’s Theater Program on Fourth Graders’ Fluency
Creators: name: Jamison, Megan E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine if augmenting the Houghton Mifflin reading program with a Reader’s Theater program would improve the fluency of fourth grade students . The measurement tool was the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark System. This study involved use of a pretest/posttest intervention design. A pre-test was administered in May 2011. Subsequently, the intervention took place over a period of four weeks. At the conclusion of the intervention, a posttest was administered. Analysis of the data suggested some support for the effectiveness of the intervention program.
Clitic-Doubled Left Dislocation in Heritage Spanish: Judgment versus Production Data
Creators: name: Sequeros-Valle, Jose
name: Hoot, Bradley
name: Cabrelli, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This project examines whether heritage speakers of Spanish distinguish when Spanish clitic-doubled left dislocation (CLLD) is discursively appropriate via an acceptability judgment task (AJT) and a speeded production task (SPT). This two-task experimental design is intended to determine whether heritage speakers diverge from an L1 Spanish/L2 English baseline and, if so, whether such divergence is due to their grammatical knowledge, processing constraints, or other task effects. The baseline group accepted and produced CLLD significantly more than other constructions in anaphoric contexts, with the opposite pattern in non-anaphoric contexts, as expected for Spanish. The heritage speakers showed the same significant differences in production in both conditions and in the AJT’s anaphoric condition; in the non-anaphoric condition, however, they did not show any differences between CLLD and the other relevant constructions. We argue that this group of heritage speakers knows the discursive distribution of CLLD just as the baseline speakers do, as attested by the similar performance pattern in production. Furthermore, we posit that their AJT performance, which shows evidence of overextension of CLLD beyond its anaphoric context and into non-anaphoric contexts, may be due to the metalinguistic nature of AJTs.
The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching on Fourth Grade Students’ Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skills
Creators: name: Johnson, Joevona
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of reciprocal teaching, a strategies-based teaching model, on fourth grade students’ acquisition of reading comprehension skills. A pre test and post test, quasi–experimental design was selected for use in this study. The TerraNova C.T.B.S Standardized test was the measurement used for this study. Reciprocal Teaching was implemented for a total of five weeks for students in an intact fourth grade class reading below grade level. The results of this study indicated that reciprocal teaching did have an impact on fourth grade students’ acquisition of reading comprehension skills. Research supports the use of reciprocal teaching as an intervention to help below grade level readers improve comprehension.
Hydaticus bipunctatus Wehncke, Ent. Zeitung 1876
Creators: name: Dash, Swetapadma
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydaticus
Hydaticus bipunctatus

description: 5. Hydaticus bipunctatus Wehncke, 1876
 1876. Hydaticus bipunctatus Wehncke, Ent. Zeitung, 37: 196.
 Material examined: Dist. Salem, Vaniyar Reserve Forest, 11°49’06.3”N, 78°16’19.4”E, alt. 791m, 21.i.2019, coll. S. Dash and Party, 01 ♂ (Reg. No. 25992/H4A).
 Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Australian region.
description: Published as part of Dash, Swetapadma & Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, 2022, On a collection of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Southern Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India, pp. 91-95 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/151058, http://zenodo.org/record/13367256
Aporotritoma Arrow 1925
Creators: name: Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro
name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Aporotritoma

description: Aporotritoma Arrow, 1925
 Aporotritoma Arrow 1925: 92, 103–104. Deelder 1942: 53; Delkeskamp 1962: 68; Chûjô and Chûjô 1990: 2; Chûjô et al. 1993: 101; Park et al. 2013: 206.
 Pseudotritoma Gorham of Chûjô 1969: 151–170 [lapsus calami].
 Type Species. Aporotritoma jucunda Arrow, 1925, by original designation.
 Diagnosis. Body ovoid in shape. Clypeus with anterior margin weakly concave, having a complete marginal bead. Eyes finely facetted. Antenna with club of 3 antennomeres; antennomere XI transversely oval, wider than long. Mouthparts having lacinia armed with pair of hook-like teeth at apex; maxillary terminal palpomere triangularly widened, not more than 2 times wider than long; mentum elongately pentagonal. Prosternal lines long, connecting anteriorly, forming a more or less raised triangular plate. Elytra lacking basal marginal bead. Tibiae not triangularly dilated.
 Distribution. India, Mongolia, Siberia, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eastern North America.
 Number of Species. 11 [10 (Chûjô and Chûjô 1990) + Aporotritoma pulchra (Say, 1826), new combination].
 Remarks. Most known species of Aporotritoma appear more boreal in distribution. However, along with the single Indian species (A. jucunda), five unidentified Tritomini from other Asian countries (Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand) have been studied which appear to belong to Aporotritoma. Revisionary studies are needed to resolve their identities and the status of other Asian genera of the Tritomini. The following North American species is here added to the genus.
description: Published as part of Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro & Skelley, Paul E., 2021, Toward a Natural Classification of Tritomini: Are There Hidden Tribes within the Genus Tritoma Fabricius (Coleoptera: Erotylidae)?, pp. 629-641 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3) on page 631, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.629, http://zenodo.org/record/13251305
Hydaticus discindens Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist 1858
Creators: name: Dash, Swetapadma
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydaticus
Hydaticus discindens

description: 6. Hydaticus discindens Walker, 1858
 1858. Hydaticus discindens Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 2 (3): 204.
 2016. Hydaticus discindens: Wewalka, Koleopt. Rdsch, 86: 22.
 Material examined: Dist. Salem, Vaniyar Reserve Forest, 11°48’23.3”N, 78°16’25.5”E, alt. 628m, 21.i.2019, coll. S. Dash and Party, 01 ♂ (Reg. No. 25993/H4A).
 Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal (Wewalka, 2016). Elsewhere: Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Dash, Swetapadma & Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, 2022, On a collection of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Southern Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India, pp. 91-95 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/151058, http://zenodo.org/record/13367256
Writing Course Syllabus (Both Versions)
Creators: name: St. Pierre, Celine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Course syllabi for the YSP Summer Focus Writing Course. Both course versions are included: with a research component (in person) and without a research component (virtual/remote).
Diverse-Region Hyperspectral Image Classification via Superpixelwise Graph Convolution Technique
Creators: name: Huang, Yan
name: Zhou, Xiao
name: Xi, Bobo
name: Li, Jiaojiao
name: Kang, Jian
name: Tang, Shiyang
name: Chen, Zhanye
name: Hong, Wei
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, a diverse-region hyperspectral image classification (DRHy) method is proposed by considering both irregularly local pixels and globally contextual connections between pixels. Specifically, the proposed method is operated on non-Euclidean graphs, which are constructed by superpixel segmentation methods for diverse regions to cluster irregularly local-region pixels. In addition, the dimensionality reduction method is employed to alleviate the curse of dimensionality problem with a lower computational burden, generating more representative data with the input graph features. In this context, it then constructs a superpixelwise Chebyshev polynomial graph convolution network (ChebyNet) to aggregate global-region superpixels. Benefiting from different superpixel numbers of segmentations, we construct different graph structures, and multiple classification results are obtained, which brings more opportunities to represent the hyperspectral data correctly. Then, all the diverse-region results are further fused by a majority voting technique to improve the final performance. Finally, numerical experiments on two benchmark datasets are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed DRHy-ChebyNet method to the other state-of-the-art methods.
Helochares pallens
Creators: name: Dash, Swetapadma
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares pallens

description: 9. Helochares pallens (Macleay, 1825)
 1825. Enhydrus pallens Macleay, Annual. Javan. p. 35.
description: Published as part of Dash, Swetapadma & Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, 2022, On a collection of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Southern Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India, pp. 91-95 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/151058, http://zenodo.org/record/13367256
Supplementary document for Generalized polarization transformations with metasurfaces - 5503468.pdf
Creators: name: Zaidi, Aun
name: Rubin, Noah
name: Dorrah, Ahmed
name: Park, Joon-Suh
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1 for supporting content.
Antivirulence Agent as an Adjuvant of β-Lactam Antibiotics in Treating Staphylococcal Infections
Creators: name: Gao, Peng
name: Wei, Yuanxin
name: Tai, Sherlock Shing Chiu
name: Halebeedu Prakash, Pradeep
name: Iu, Ho Ting Venice
name: Li, Yongli
name: Yam, Hin Cheung Bill
name: Chen, Jonathan Hon Kwan
name: Ho, Pak Leung
name: Davies, Julian E.
name: Kao, Richard Yi Tsun
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Staphylococcus aureus can cause a plethora of life-threatening infections. Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat S. aureus infections. However, when antibiotics are used at sub-inhibitory concentrations, especially for β-lactam antibiotics, they may enhance staphylococcal pathogenicity and exacerbate the infection. The combination of antivirulence agents and antibiotics may be a novel approach to controlling antibiotic-induced S. aureus pathogenicity. We have illustrated that under in vitro conditions, antivirulence agent M21, when administered concurrently with ampicillin, suppressed the expression and production of virulence factors induced by ampicillin. In a mouse peritonitis model, M21 reduced bacterial load irrespective of administration of ampicillin. In a bacteremia model, combinatorial treatment consisting of ampicillin or ceftazidime and M21 increased the survival rate of mice and reduced cytokine abundance, suggesting the suppression of antibiotic-induced virulence by M21. Different from traditional antibiotic adjuvants, an antivirulence agent may not synergistically inhibit bacterial growth in vitro, but effectively benefit the host in vivo. Collectively, our findings from this study demonstrated the benefits of antivirulence–antibiotic combinatorial treatment against S. aureus infections and provide a new perspective on the development of antibiotic adjuvants.
Supplementary document for Generalized polarization transformations with metasurfaces - 5503468.pdf
Creators: name: Zaidi, Aun
name: Rubin, Noah
name: Dorrah, Ahmed
name: Park, Joon-Suh
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1 for supporting content.
Apport du profil de dirigeant dans l'amélioration de la performance des PME : Revue de littérature et proposition d'un modèle de recherche
Creators: name: EL ABBADI BOUCHRA
name: OUAHI MOHAMED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cet article se concentre sur une exploration approfondie des concepts clés qui façonnent le paysage organisationnel, à savoir le capital humain, les compétences, la culture organisationnelle et la performance au sein des entreprises. Une définition précise de ces éléments est méticuleusement élaborée, fournissant ainsi une base solide pour la discussion qui suit. L'article procède ensuite à une revue approfondie de la littérature scientifique, mettant en lumière les travaux théoriques et empiriques qui analysent de manière approfondie l'impact des caractéristiques et compétences du dirigeant, ainsi que de la culture organisationnelle, sur la performance globale des organisations. Cette revue de la littérature vise à éclairer les différentes perspectives et approches adoptées par les chercheurs dans ce domaine crucial. La contribution significative de l'article réside dans la proposition d'un modèle conceptuel de recherche. Ce modèle offre une vue détaillée des relations anticipées entre les caractéristiques et les compétences du dirigeant, la culture organisationnelle et la performance des PME.
Shared or Separate Representations? The Spanish Palatal Nasal in Early Spanish/English Bilinguals
Creators: name: Stefanich, Sara
name: Cabrelli, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this study is to examine phonetic interactions in early Spanish/English bilinguals to see if they have established a representation for the Spanish palatal nasal /ñ/ (e.g., /kañon/ cañón ‘canyon’) that is separate from the similar, yet acoustically distinct English /n+j/ sequence (e.g., /kænjn/ ‘canyon’). Twenty heritage speakers of Spanish completed a delayed repetition task in each language, in which a set of disyllabic nonce words were produced in a carrier phrase. English critical stimuli contained an intervocalic /n+j/ sequence (e.g., /dEnjα/ ‘denya’) and Spanish critical stimuli contained intervocalic /ñ/ (e.g., /deñja/ ‘deña’). We measured the duration and formant contours of the following vocalic portion as acoustic indices of the /ñ/~/n+j/ distinction. The duration data and formant contour data alike show that early bilinguals distinguish between the Spanish /ñ/ and English /n+j/ in production, indicative of the maintenance of separate representations for these similar sounds and thus a lack of interaction between systems for bilinguals in this scenario. We discuss these discrete representations in comparison to previous evidence of shared and separate representations in this population, examining a set of variables that are potentially responsible for the attested distinction.
The Effects of L1 English Constraints on the Acquisition of the L2 Spanish Alveopalatal Nasal
Creators: name: Stefanich, Sara
name: Cabrelli, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines whether L1 English/L2 Spanish learners at different proficiency levels acquire a novel L2 phoneme, the Spanish palatal nasal /ɲ/. While alveolar /n/ is part of the Spanish and English inventories, /ɲ/, which consists of a tautosyllabic palatal nasal+glide element, is not. This crosslinguistic disparity presents potential difficulty for L1 English speakers due to L1 segmental and phonotactic constraints; the closest English approximation is the heterosyllabic sequence /nj/ (e.g., "canyon" /kænjn/ ['khæn.jn], cf. Spanish cañón "canyon" /kaɲon/ [ka.'ɲon]). With these crosslinguistic differences in mind, we ask: (1a) Do L1 English learners of L2 Spanish produce acoustically distinct Spanish /n/ and /ɲ/ and (1b) Does the distinction of /n/ and /ɲ/ vary by proficiency? In the case that learners distinguish /n/ and /ɲ/, the second question investigates the acoustic quality of /ɲ/ to determine (2a) if learners' L2 representation patterns with that of an L1 Spanish representation or if learners rely on an L1 representation (here, English /nj/) and (2b) if the acoustic quality of L2 Spanish /ɲ/ varies as a function of proficiency. Beginner (n = 9) and advanced (n = 8) L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers and a comparison group of 10 L1 Spanish/L2 English speakers completed delayed repetition tasks in which disyllabic nonce words were produced in a carrier phrase. English critical items contained an intervocalic heterosyllabic /nj/ sequence (e.g., ['phan.jə]); Spanish critical items consisted of items with either intervocalic onset /ɲ/ (e.g., ['xa.ɲa]) or /n/ ['xa.na]. We measured duration and formant contours of the following vocalic portion as acoustic indices of the /n/~/ɲ/ and /ɲ/ ~/nj/ distinctions. Results show that, while L2 Spanish learners produce an acoustically distinct /n/ ~ /ɲ/ contrast even at a low level of proficiency, the beginners produce an intermediate /ɲ/ that falls acoustically between their English /nj/ and the L1 Spanish /ɲ/ while the advanced learners' Spanish /ɲ/ and English /nj/ appear to be in the process of equivalence classification. We discuss these outcomes as they relate to the robustness of L1 phonological constraints in late L2 acquisition coupled with the role of perceptual cues, functional load, and questions of intelligibility.
Training Load Capacity, Cumulative Risk, and Bone Stress Injuries: A Narrative Review of a Holistic Approach
Creators: name: Hamstra-Wright, Karrie
name: Bliven, Kellie C Huxel
name: Napier, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bone stress injuries (BSIs) are a common orthopedic injury with short-term, and potentially long-term, effects. Training load capacity, influenced by risk factors, plays a critical role in the occurrence of BSIs. Many factors determine how one's body responds to repetitive loads that have the potential to increase the risk of a BSI. As a scientific community, we have identified numerous isolated BSI risk factors. However, we have not adequately analyzed the integrative, holistic, and cumulative nature of the risk factors, which is essential to determine an individual's specific capacity. In this narrative review, we advocate for a personalized approach to monitor training load so that individuals can optimize their health and performance. We define "cumulative risk profile" as a subjective clinical determination of the number of risk factors with thoughtful consideration of their interaction and propose that athletes have their own cumulative risk profile that influences their capacity to withstand specific training loads. In our narrative review, we outline BSI risk factors, discuss the relationship between BSIs and training load, highlight the importance of individualizing training load, and emphasize the use of a holistic assessment as a training load guide.
PQRI Elemental Impurities Study - Participation Interest Form
Creators: name: Harrington, James
name: Seibert, Donna
name: Weber, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: elemental impurities
Method development
Interlaboratory Study
USP 232/233

description: As part of the PQRI Interlaboratory Study on Elemental Impurity Analysis in Pharmaceutical Products, laboratories were recruited to participate from across industry and government agencies. The following Interest Form was used to gather information on basic instrumentation and safety protocols in place at participant labs. Responses were used to categorize each laboratory's reported results for statistical analysis of differences between reference values, microwave types, analytical instruments, and sample preparation methods.
EPA
Creators: name: Verhagen, Darrin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360304
subject: Music performance
classificationCode: 360599
subject: Screen and digital media not elsewhere classified

description: This performance was an opportunity to research the ways Vietnamese audiences respond to audiovisual works - particularly strongly proscriptive pieces. It provided me with an opportunity to test responses to experimental music and vision, balancing up some of my more extreme material with more reflective, seductive improvisations and compositions. Apart from performing, it was also a chance to explore the approaches to Vietnamese audiovision in a number of large scale ceremonial events, given that I will be the musical director of a large forthcoming festival in Nha Trang , 14th-18th February. The biggest revelation in that regard was observing the mismatch between the astonishing visual scope and spectacle in their productions with a cavalier approach to how sound was integrated - squandering the potential to maximise large theatrical moments by mismanaging audiovisual relationships. This is something I will be addressing when I return in 2011 (aided by 1000 buddhist monks and a Vietnamese orchestra).

Details: International invitation from the Duong le Quy company; commissioned work.

Significance: Chosen by Vietnam's largest cultural organisation to be one of the performers representing Australia at the Hue Festival, June 2010
Fellow travelers: an ethnographic study of the dynamics of inter-organizational collaboration
Creators: name: Napolitano, Simone <1978>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: SECS-P/08 Economia e gestione delle imprese

description: The research is a 13-months ethnographic field work on the early operations of a Multi-party alliance active in the global field of indoor positioning. The study aims to understand and investigate empirically the challenges that at the individual and group level influence the organizing principle guiding the alliance operations and evolution. Its contribution rests on the dynamics affecting ecosystems of innovation and collaborative spaces of value co-creation  in inter-organizational projects.
Advection-dominated-transport-past-isolated-disordered-sinks-stepping-beyond-homogenization-main.zip
Creators: name: Price, George
name: Chernyavsky, Igor
name: Jensen, Oliver E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supporting content for the following paper, which allows figures to be reporduced.
 Title: Advection-dominated transport past isolated disordered sinks: stepping beyond homogenization Authors: George F. Price, Igor L. Chernyavsky & Oliver E. Jensen Abstract: We investigate the transport of a solute past isolated sinks in a bounded domain when advection is dominant over diffusion, evaluating the effectiveness of homogenization approximations when sinks are distributed uniformly randomly in space. Corrections to such approximations can be non-local, non-smooth and non-Gaussian, depending on the physical parameters (a Péclet number Pe, assumed large, and a Damköhler number Da) and the compactness of the sinks. In one spatial dimension, solute distributions develop a staircase structure for large Pe, with corrections being better described with credible intervals than with traditional moments. In two and three dimensions, solute distributions are near-singular at each sink (and regularized by sink size), but their moments can be smooth as a result of ensemble averaging over variable sink locations. We approximate corrections to a homogenization approximation using a moment-expansion method, replacing the Green's function by its free-space form, and test predictions against simulation. We show how, in two or three dimensions, the leading-order impact of disorder can be captured in a homogenization approximation for the ensemble mean concentration through a modification to Da that grows with diminishing sink size. Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04574
Blood gene expression risk profiles and interstitial lung abnormalities: COPDGene and ECLIPSE cohort studies
Creators: name: Moll, Matthew
name: Hobbs, Brian D.
name: Menon, Aravind
name: Ghosh, Auyon J.
name: Putman, Rachel K.
name: Hino, Takuya
name: Hata, Akinori
name: Silverman, Edwin K.
name: Quackenbush, John
name: Castaldi, Peter J.
name: Hersh, Craig P.
name: McGeachie, Michael J.
name: Sin, Don
name: Tal-Singer, Ruth
name: Nishino, Mizuki
name: Hatabu, Hiroto
name: Hunninghake, Gary M
name: Cho, Michael H.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) are radiologic findings that may progress to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Blood gene expression profiles can predict IPF mortality, but whether these same genes associate with ILA and ILA outcomes is unknown. This study evaluated if a previously described blood gene expression profile associated with IPF mortality is associated with ILA and all-cause mortality. Methods In COPDGene and ECLIPSE study participants with visual scoring of ILA and gene expression data, we evaluated the association of a previously described IPF mortality score with ILA and mortality. We also trained a new ILA score, derived using genes from the IPF score, in a subset of COPDGene. We tested the association with ILA and mortality on the remainder of COPDGene and ECLIPSE. Results In 1469 COPDGene (training n = 734; testing n = 735) and 571 ECLIPSE participants, the IPF score was not associated with ILA or mortality. However, an ILA score derived from IPF score genes was associated with ILA (meta-analysis of test datasets OR 1.4 [95% CI: 1.2–1.6]) and mortality (HR 1.25 [95% CI: 1.12–1.41]). Six of the 11 genes in the ILA score had discordant directions of effects compared to the IPF score. The ILA score partially mediated the effects of age on mortality (11.8% proportion mediated). Conclusions An ILA gene expression score, derived from IPF mortality-associated genes, identified genes with concordant and discordant effects on IPF mortality and ILA. These results suggest shared, and unique biologic processes, amongst those with ILA, IPF, aging, and death.
Endemic-Epidemic Framework Used in Covid-19 Modelling
Creators: name: Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, M.
name: Held, L.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: Nunes et al. ([54]) provide an overview of mathematical models used to analyse epidemics and techniques for conducting studies to obtain parameter estimates for such models. They discuss the SEIR model which has been used in much coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) analysis. Our discussion presents a modelling framework based in time series analysis developed for the analysis of infectious disease surveillance data, as well as our use of the framework in analysing COVID-19. We believe many of the purposes of modelling infectious disease outlined by Nunes et al. ([54]) as well as the benefits of mathematical modelling highlighted can also be found in the statistical modelling techniques we use in our work.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 5 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Statistics in Times of Pandemics
Creators: name: Nunes, Baltazar
name: Caetano, Constantino
name: Antunes, Liliana
name: Dias, Carlos
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: Statistical and epidemiological methods play an essential role in producing information for the public health decision process. They allow the collection, analysis, reporting and interpretation of data necessary to inform public health officials in the decision-making process, enabling the diagnosis of the situation, the selection of the most adequate measures and to monitor and evaluate their impact.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 5 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Bayesian Analysis of Seemingly Unrelated Regression Model with Skew Distribution Error
Creators: name: Akhgari, Omid
name: Golalizadeh, Mousa
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: The simultaneous equation models (SEMs) are one of the standard statistical tools for analyzing multivariate regression when the errors are correlated with some covariates. A particular version of the SEMs is the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) models which consist of several regression equations with errors being correlated across the equations. There are many occasions in which the normality assumption for the error term might not hold in these models. Although transforming the error to comply with the normal density is a solution, the interpretation of the estimators for the parameters and the associated model might not be straightforward. However, taking into account the skew-normal distribution for the error might, sometimes, be a good alternative. In this paper such scenario is considered as well as a Bayesian framework to estimate the parameters, with a brief review of frequentist methodology. The full conditional posterior densities are derived and relevant statistical inferences are provided. A simulation study is conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Also, the utilized model is applied to fit relevant equations on Iran gross and income data collected in the year 2009.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
New Exact Confidence Interval for the Difference of Two Binomial Proportions
Creators: name: Zieliński, Wojciech
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: We consider interval estimation of the difference between two binomial proportions. Several methds of constructing such an interval are known. Unfortunately those confidence intervals have poor coverage probability: it is significantly smaller than the nominal confidence level. In this paper a new confidence interval is proposed. The construction needs only information on sample sizes and sample difference between proportions. The coverage probability of the proposed confidence interval is at least the nominal confidence level. The new confidence interval is illustrated by a medical example.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Dissecting the Multivariate Extremal Index and Tail Dependence
Creators: name: Ferreira, Helena
name: Ferreira, Marta
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: A central issue in the theory of extreme values focuses on suitable conditions such that the well[1]known results for the limiting distributions of the maximum of i.i.d. sequences can be applied to stationary ones. In this context, the extremal index appears as a key parameter to capture the effect of temporal dependence on the limiting distribution of the maxima. The multivariate extremal index corresponds to a generalization of this concept to a multivariate context and affects the tail dependence structure within the marginal sequences and between them. As it is a function, the inference becomes more difficult, and it is therefore important to obtain characterizations, namely bounds based on the marginal dependence that are easier to estimate. In this work we present two decompositions that emphasize different types of information contained in the multivariate extremal index, an upper limit better than those found in the literature and we analyse its role in dependence on the limiting model of the componentwise maxima of a stationary sequence. We will illustrate the results with examples of recognized interest in applications.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Text Mining and Ruin Theory
Creators: name: G. Alcoforado, Renata
name: D. Egídio Dos Reis, Alfredo
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: This paper aims to analyze unstructured data using a text mining approach. The work was motivated in order to organize and structure research in Risk Theory. In our study, the subject to be analyzed is composed by 27 published papers of the risk and ruin theory topic, area of actuarial science. They were coded into 32 categories. For the purpose, all data was analyzed and figures were produced using the software NVivo 11 plus. Software NVivo is a specialized tool in analyzing unstructured data, although it is commonly used just for qualitative research. We used it for Quali-Quant analysis.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Supplementary document for Single-photon peak event detection (SPEED): a computational method for fast photon counting in fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy - 5503537.pdf
Creators: name: Sorrells, Janet
name: Iyer, Rishyashring
name: Yang, Lingxiao
name: Chaney, Eric
name: Marjanovic, Marina
name: Tu, Haohua
name: Boppart, Stephen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Supplemental Document
Nonparametric Cusum Charts for Circular Data with Applications in Health Science and Astrophysics
Creators: name: Lombard, F.
name: M. Hawkins, Douglas
name: J. Potgieter, Cornelis
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2020

description: This paper develops non-parametric rotation invariant CUSUMs suited to the detection of changes in the mean direction as well as changes in the concentration parameter of circular data. The properties of the CUSUMs are illustrated by theoretical calculations, Monte Carlo simulation and application to sequentially observed angular data from health science and astrophysics.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Measurement of Higgs boson decay into b-quarks in associated production with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2023

description: Abstract The associated production of a Higgs boson and a top-quark pair is measured in events characterised by the presence of one or two electrons or muons. The Higgs boson decay into a b-quark pair is used. The analysed data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1, were collected in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider between 2015 and 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV. The measured signal strength, defined as the ratio of the measured signal yield to that predicted by the Standard Model, is 0.35 − 0.34 + 0.36 $$ {0.35}_{-0.34}^{+0.36} $$ . This result is compatible with the Standard Model prediction and corresponds to an observed (expected) significance of 1.0 (2.7) standard deviations. The signal strength is also measured differentially in bins of the Higgs boson transverse momentum in the simplified template cross-section framework, including a bin for specially selected boosted Higgs bosons with transverse momentum above 300 GeV.