cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interprocedural aliasing in the presence of pointers
Creators: name: Landi, William
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: An Alias occurs at some program point during execution when two or more names exist for the same location. We've investigated the theoretical difficulty of determining the aliases of a program, developed an approximation algorithm for solving for aliases in C like languages, and explored the precision (i.e., closeness of our approximate solution to the actual solution) and time behavior of this algorithm. Myers explored the theoretical difficulty of solving flow sensitive interprocedural data flow problems in the presence of aliasing. However, he did not make any claims about the difficulty of determining aliases. We isolate various programming language mechanisms that create aliases. The complexity of the alias problem (i.e., determining the aliases for a program) induced by each mechanism and their combinations is considered separately and categorized as NP-hard, complement NP-hard, or polynomial time (P). We proved that if there are two (or more) levels of indirection, regardless of the alias mechanisms used, aliasing is NP-hard. However, if only one level of indirection is possible, then the alias problem is in P. In addition, we show the alias problem in the presence of some mechanisms to be P-space complete. Therefore, in a language which allows general purpose pointers, the problem of determining which aliases can occur during program execution is NP-hard. We present an algorithm which safely approximates Interprocedural May Alias (i.e., we fail to report an alias only if it never occurs) in the presence of pointers. We are able to show, relative to our definition of precision, that our algorithm is as precise as possible in the worst case. We also pinpoint the sources of imprecision in our algorithm and can empirically bound its precision. Our algorithm has been implemented in a prototype analysis tool for C programs, and we present a preliminary empirical investigation of algorithm speed and precision.
URSA - User Review Structure Analysis: Understanding Online Reviewing Trends
Creators: name: Marian, Amelie
name: Ganu, Gayatree
name: Elhadad, Nomie
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010

description: Online reviews are an important asset for users deciding to buy a product, see a movie, or go to a restaurant, as well as for businesses tracking user feedback. However, most reviews are written in a free-text format, and are therefore difficult for computers to understand, analyze, and aggregate. One consequence of this lack of structure is that searching text reviews is often frustrating for users; keyword searches typically do not provide good results as the same keywords routinely appear in good and in bad reviews. The textual body of reviews contains very rich information and user experience in accessing reviews would be greatly improved if the structure and sentiment information conveyed in the content of the reviews were taken into account. Our work focuses on an analysis of free-text reviews by means of classification of reviews at the sentence level, with respect to both the topic and the sentiment expressed in the sentences. Additionally in this article, we report on the insight on user-reviewing behavior and trends that we gained during our analysis. Our work shows that there is large amount of significant data in the hitherto untapped textual part of user reviews. Our large open-source corpus, of peer-authored text with structure and sentiment information, is a valuable resource for researchers to explore several techniques that have so far relied on structured non-textual data.
A Study of Program Behavior to Establish Temporal Locality at the Function Level
Creators: name: Batchu, Ravi
name: Murdoca, Miles
name: Levy, Saul
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Program bhavior
Temporal locality
Working set
Thrashing
Function/procedure re-ordering

description: The trend in computer architecture is that processor speeds are increasing rapidly compared to memory access times and the relatively stagnant disk speed. Computer software, on the other hand is characterized by growing program sizes and sophisticated functionality. The combination of these factors has resulted in a processor memory bottleneck, which is worsening with time. While program behavior has been studied at page level and cache level and the locality at page, cache and block levels has been exploited, there has been comparatively much lesser amount of work to exploit locality at the level of functions, and no prior work to study program behavior at this level. In this paper we show that there is a considerable amount of temporal locality at the level of functions. In particular we show that a working set of functions containing 40% of all the programs functions results in a miss rate of less than 2%. Moreover, we observe that, in almost all cases, even working sets having half as many functions result in similar low miss rates. Our experiments indicate that program execution is characterized by a working set of functions which changes with time and a thrashing like phenomenon results when the function footprint is not resident in memory.
D3.1: Release (publishing in the sense of DOI provision) of Cycle 3 Simulations
Creators: name: Koldunov, Nikolay V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: About this document

A subset of the data from Cycle 3 simulations has been attributed a DOI and made available to the nextGEMS consortium and the wider scientific community. (Task 3.1)

Work package in charge

WP3

Executive summary

We provide a subset of the Cycle 3 storm-resolving Earth-system simulation output freely available to the nextGEMS consortium and the wider scientific community. The subset includes several frequently used 2D fields, such as atmospheric surface temperature and ocean mixed layer depth. The variables for the IFS-FESOM model are provided on the original 4.5 km resolution grid. For the ICON model, the data is available on a HEALPix grid at zoom level 10, which equates to approximately 6.4 km resolution. This is closely aligned with ICON’s original 5 km resolution grid. The dataset is published at WDCC (World Data Center for Climate)1, findable via the doi:10.26050/WDCC/nextGEMS_cyc3 (Koldunov et al., 2023) and accessible via WDCC.

Conclusion & Results

A dataset resulting out of the nextGEMS cycle 3 model development phase is published with a DOI attributed to it.
Thermal characterization and analysis of n-octadecane microcapsules modified with MnO2 particles
Creators: name: Zhang, Kai
name: Wang, Jifen
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Gao, Rui
name: Cai, Le
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Article
subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemistry and Materials Science
subject: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
subject: Polymer Sciences
subject: Analytical Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Physical Chemistry

description: MnO2 particles were prepared by a hydrothermal method and characterized via the SEM imaging, XRD and FTIR analyses, showing that the individual particles were spherical and less than 1.0 μm in diameter but were clustered in α type crystal. The particles were then added into the n-octadecane to form a new class of phase-change energy storage composites. After that, the composite powder was wrapped into polyethylene by the suspension polymerization, forming microcapsules with an average size 4.9–5.6 μm in diameter. Eventually the morphology and thermal properties of the microcapsules were analyzed. No forming of chemical bond between the core material and the shell material was found during the microcapsule synthesis process. The latent heat and encapsulation efficiency of the microcapsules with addition of 0.5 mass% MnO2 particles in the n-octadecane were measured at 107.5 ± 1.3 J g−1 and 95.3 ± 1.2%, respectively, which are higher than the microcapsules with pure n-octadecane, measured at 84.9 ± 1.2 J g−1 and 75.3 ± 1.4%, respectively. The thermal conductivity of the n-octadecane microcapsules modified with 0.5 mass% MnO2 was enhanced by about 103.3% at 15.0 °C compared with the microcapsules without MnO2. Thermogravimetric and thermal cycling studies showed that the modified new microcapsules had good thermal stability. Such a modification provided an effective way to prepare phase-change energy storage microcapsules with better thermal properties and higher encapsulation efficiency.
Tramadol : Where do we go from here?
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 131 considers the harms and potential benefits of tramadol. Conclusions: Compared with acetaminophen, NSAIDs or other opioids, tramadol has no therapeutic advantage but some disadvantages. Tramadol’s unpredictable metabolism and complex pharmacology are associated with unique and serious adverse effects. As with other opioids, even short prescriptions for tramadol can engender tolerance, dependence, withdrawal, and abuse. Tramadol (+/- acetaminophen) significantly increases costs to patients and insurers.
Effective Willis constitutive equations for periodically stratified anisotropic elastic media
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Shuvalov, A. L.
name: Kutsenko, A. A.
name: Poncelet, O.
Publisher: name: Royal Society
Year: 2011
Subjects: Wave motion

description: A method to derive homogeneous effective constitutive equations for periodically layered elastic media is proposed. The crucial and novel idea underlying the procedure is that the coefficients of the dynamic effective medium can be associated with the matrix logarithm of the propagator over a unit period. The effective homogeneous equations are shown to have the structure of a Willis material, characterized by anisotropic inertia and coupling between momentum and strain, in addition to effective elastic constants. Expressions are presented for the Willis material parameters which are formally valid at any frequency and horizontal wavenumber as long as the matrix logarithm is well defined. The general theory is exemplified for scalar SH motion. Low frequency, long wavelength expansions of the effective material parameters are also developed using a Magnus series and explicit estimates for the rate of convergence are derived.
description: "This work has been supported ... by the project SAMM (Self-Assembled MetaMaterials) from the cluster AMA (Advanced Materials in Aquitaine)."
Supplementary document for Parameter-free super-resolution structured illumination microscopy via physics-enhanced neural network - 7125890.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Siying
name: Bai, Chen
name: Li, Xing
name: Qian, Jia
name: Li, Runze
name: Peng, Tong
name: tian, xuan
name: Ma, Wang
name: Ma, Rui
name: An, Sha
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Lycaena bleusei Oberth
Creators: name: Monasterio, Yeray
name: Vicente, Juan Carlos
name: Escobés, Ruth
name: Serradilla, Jes ̇ s
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Lycaena
Lycaena bleusei

description: Lycaena bleusei Oberth ̡r, 1884 (Lycaenidae)
  LA RIOJA: Canales de La Sierra; [VM9365]; 1230 m; 14/IX/2017 (Juan Carlos Vicente vidit). Canales de La Sierra; [VM9265]; 1190 m; 14/IX/2017 (Juan Carlos Vicente vidit).
  Comentario: Se hallaron varios ejemplares de ambos sexos (Fig. 1) en un hábitat de pradera, surcado por varios regatos (Fig. 2), perteneciente al municipio de Canales de la Sierra. Su presencia en Burgos se dio a conocer en Vicente Arranz et al. (2016) y este nuevo registro amplía su distribución conocida ȧn más en dirección noreste. Se confirma así su presencia en el sistema Ibérico, de donde ̇nicamente existían citas en el Moncayo (García-Barros et al., 2013). Al igual que en otros lugares, como Zamora (Vicente Arranz et al., 2015), se encuentra en simpatría con Lycaena tityrus Poda, 1761. En la localidad de Canales de la Sierra incluso pudo observarse un cortejo entre ambos taxones (J.C. Vicente vidit), sin que llegara a producirse la cópula. Se encuentra dentro del espacio de la Red Natu  rA 2000 “SierrAs de DeMAndA, Urbión, CebollerA y CAMeros” (código ES0000067).
description: Published as part of Monasterio, Yeray, Vicente, Juan Carlos, Escobés, Ruth & Serradilla, Jes ̇ s, 2022, Registros novedosos de lepidópteros en La Rioja (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae y Brahmaeidae), pp. 245-252 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25 on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245140
Traffic Fatalities and Injuries: The Effect of Changes in Infrastructure and Other Trends
Creators: name: Noland, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Transport safety
subject: Seat-belt usage
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Medical Technology

description: An analysis of how various road infrastructure improvements affect traffic-related fatalities and injuries is conducted while controlling for other factors known to affect overall safety. The road infrastructure elements analysed include total lane miles, the fraction of lane miles in different road categories (interstates, arterial, and collector roads), the average number of lanes for each road category, and lane widths for arterials and collector roads. Other variables that are controlled for in the study include total population, population age cohorts, per capita income, per capita alcohol consumption, seat-belt legislation (and seat-belt usage), and a proxy variable that represents underlying changes in medical technology. The data used is a cross-sectional time series database of U.S. states and is analysed using a fixed effects negative binomial regression that accounts for heterogeneity in the data. Data from all 50 states over 14 years is used. Results strongly refute the hypothesis that infrastructure improvements have been effective at reducing total fatalities and injuries. While controlling for other effects it is found that demographic changes in age cohorts, increased seat-belt use, reduced alcohol consumption and increases in medical technology have accounted for a large share of overall reductions in fatalities.
Supplementary document for A thin and lightweight camera based on Pancake lens and deep learning - 7138786.pdf
Creators: name: Wei, Jinwen
name: Liu, Youhai
name: Wu, Jiachen
name: Cao, Liangcai
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Visualization and quantitative metrics of FPNet's performance, in-the-wild scenarios test, and noise analysis
Danaus plexippus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Monasterio, Yeray
name: Vicente, Juan Carlos
name: Escobés, Ruth
name: Serradilla, Jes ̇ s
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Danaus
Danaus plexippus

description: Danaus plexippus Linnaeus, 1758 (Nymphalidae)
  LA RIOJA: Villamediana de Iregua; [WM4898]; 464 m; 23/V/2022 (Miguel Ángel Marín vidit).
 Comentario: Resulta improbable su presencia en La Rioja de forma natural, tanto por cuestiones climáticas, como por la falta de disponibilidad de su planta nutricia. La fecha tampoco es propicia para una llegada natural y probablemente el ejemplar observado corresponda a una liberación de mariposas en el marco de alġn tipo de celebración privada en los días previos a la observación.
description: Published as part of Monasterio, Yeray, Vicente, Juan Carlos, Escobés, Ruth & Serradilla, Jes ̇ s, 2022, Registros novedosos de lepidópteros en La Rioja (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae y Brahmaeidae), pp. 245-252 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25 on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245140
Stygia australis Latreille 1804
Creators: name: Monasterio, Yeray
name: Vicente, Juan Carlos
name: Escobés, Ruth
name: Serradilla, Jes ̇ s
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Stygia
Stygia australis

description: Stygia australis Latreille, 1804 (Cossidae)
 LA RIOJA: Tobía; [WM1482]; 740 m; 18/07/1998 (1 ♀, Yeray Monasterio leg. & coll.). Aldeanueva de Cameros; [WM26]; 950 m; 28/VII/2007 (1 ♀, Oriol March Bernal leg. & coll.) .
  Comentario: Debido a los hábitos exclusivamente diurnos de los adultos, y la imposibilidad de atraerla con atrayentes lumínicos, se trata de una especie muy difícil de detectar. Cuenta con observaciones esporádicas repartidas por buena parte de la península ibérica, sur de Francia y noroeste de Italia. El ejemplar de la localidad de Tobía (Fig. 3) se localizó libando sobre la inflorescencia de una Scabiosa sp. en un hábitat de pradera (Fig. 4). Por su parte, el individuo de Aldeanueva de Cameros se halló en la cuneta de una carretera tras ser arrollado por un vehículo. La resolución de cuadrícula ofrecida para esta ̇ltima es de tan solo 10x 10 km ante la imposibilidad de precisar más una captura tan  AntiguA. AMbAs citAs se encuentrAn dentro del esPAcio de lA Red NAturA 2000 “SierrAs de DeMAndA, Urbión, Cebollera y Cameros ” (código ES0000067).
description: Published as part of Monasterio, Yeray, Vicente, Juan Carlos, Escobés, Ruth & Serradilla, Jes ̇ s, 2022, Registros novedosos de lepidópteros en La Rioja (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae y Brahmaeidae), pp. 245-252 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25 on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245140
Plasma lncRNA profiling identified BC200 and NEAT1 lncRNAs as potential blood-based biomarkers for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Khodayi, Majid
name: Khalaj-Kondori, Mohammad
name: Hoseinpour Feizi, Mohammad Ali
name: Jabarpour Bonyadi, Mortaza
name: Talebi, Mahnaz
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: Alzheimer’s disease
memory disorders
gene expression profile
long non-coding RNA
biomarker
early diagnosis

description: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) play critical roles in pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Human plasma carries lncRNAs that are stable in the blood, and their disease-specific profile have made them valuable biomarkers for some diseases. This study reports screening of the plasma levels of 90 lncRNAs in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) to find out plasma-based AD biomarkers. Total RNA was isolated from plasma samples of 50 AD and 50 matched healthy controls. The plasma samples of 10 advanced AD patients and 10 matched healthy controls were screened for expression levels of 90 lncRNAs using Human LncRNA Profiler qPCR Array Kit (SBI). Based on the profiling results, lncRNAs BC200, NDM29, NEAT1, FAS-AS1 and GAS5-AS1 were selected for further analysis in all samples and their biomarker potency was evaluated by ROC curve analysis. We further surveyed RNAseq data by in silico analysis. We found that the NEAT1 and BC200 levels in the plasma of the AD patients were significantly higher compared with the control group (P=0.0021, p= 0.02, respectively). ROC curve analysis showed that the plasma level of NEAT1 and BC200 discriminated AD patients from healthy controls with sensitivity of 72 % and 60 %, and specificity of 84 % and 91 % respectively. Moreover, NEAT1 discriminated MCI (60 % sensitivity and 91 % specificity) and advanced-AD patients from healthy controls (73 % sensitivity and 71 % specificity). Besides, plasma level of BC200 discriminated the pre-clinical subjects from healthy controls with 83 % sensitivity and 66 % specificity. A positive correlation was also observed between plasma levels of BC200 with the age patients (r = 0.34, p=0.02). In silico RNAseq data analysis showed that a total of 33 lncRNAs were up-regulated but 13 lncRNAs were down-regulated significantly in AD patients compared with the healthy controls. In conclusion, this study elucidated that the plasma levels of lncRNAs NEAT1 and BC200 might be considered as potential blood-based biomarkers for AD development and progression.
description: EXCLI Journal; 21:Doc772; ISSN 1611-2156
Heterogenea asella
Creators: name: Monasterio, Yeray
name: Vicente, Juan Carlos
name: Escobés, Ruth
name: Serradilla, Jes ̇ s
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Limacodidae
Heterogenea
Heterogenea asella

description: Heterogenea asella ([Denis & Schifferm̡ller], 1775) (Limacodidae)
 LA RIOJA: El Cortijo, Logroño; [WN3803]; 400 m; 24/VII/2015 (1 imago, Yeray Monasterio & Ruth Escobés, fotografiado).
  Comentario: Se trata del tercer registro en España y la cita más suroccidental del continente hasta el momento. Con anterioridad había sido registrada en Osor (Girona) (Gómez-Bustillo & Vives Moreno, 1983) y Lambreabe, Zeanuri (Bizkaia) (Redondo et al., 2015). La cita riojana se localiza muy próxima al río Ebro, en un entorno de matorral mediterráneo dominado por la coscoja, en relativa proximidad a vegetación de ribera (Fig. 7). El ejemplar (Figs. 5 y 6) acudió atraído por dos lámparas de luz mezcla
 de 250W cada una. El lugar de observación se encuentra muy próximo al espacio de la Red Natura 2000 “ Río Ebro ” (código ES2110008).
description: Published as part of Monasterio, Yeray, Vicente, Juan Carlos, Escobés, Ruth & Serradilla, Jes ̇ s, 2022, Registros novedosos de lepidópteros en La Rioja (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae y Brahmaeidae), pp. 245-252 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25 on pages 246-247, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245140
Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?
Creators: name: Toby, Jackson
Publisher: name: Duke University Press
Year: 2002
Subjects: School violence
Public schools--Security measures

description: A situational crime prevention strategy is essentially the basis for hopes to prevent a recurrence of terrorist attacks on airliners. Can "entry-based weapons-screening" cope with the problem of school violence effectively? I have doubts that it can.
Advance requests for MAiD in dementia : Policy implications from survey of Canadian public and MAiD practitioners
Creators: name: Byram, Adrian C.
name: Wiebe, Ellen R.
name: Tremblay-Huet, Sabrina
name: Reiner, Peter B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Background: The Canadian public has repeatedly expressed its desire for advance requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) after dementia diagnosis, yet MAiD practitioners’ willingness to accede to such advance requests is unknown. This study explores the extent and nature of any gap between the public’s desire for, and practitioners’ willingness to provide MAiD, and identifies policies to ameliorate such a gap. Methods: Two complementary mixed-method surveys gathered data from convenience samples of 83 Canadian adults and 103 MAiD practitioners. The public survey asked participants which of five specific circumstances commonly encountered in dementia they would include in their advance requests. The practitioner survey queried the validation level participants would require before providing MAiD in each specific circumstance. Participants’ reasons were probed using thematic analysis of open-ended questions. Results: On average, 77% of public participants indicated they definitely or probably would include each of the five specific circumstances in their advance requests for MAiD. As validation level decreased from patient consent to patient assent, family assent, or advance request alone, the magnitude of the gap between the public’s desire and practitioners’ willingness increased. The practitioners’ qualitative data contained many practical insights from which emerged seven policy recommendations to ameliorate this gap and increase the likelihood of honouring patient requests. Interpretation: The study provides evidence of a gap between public desire for, and practitioner willingness to provide MAiD in dementia. The policy recommendations are relevant to consideration of legislation for advance requests for MAiD.
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
Creators: name: Grothues, Thomas M.
name: Rackovan, Jenna L.
name: Able, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Shoreline
Structure
Habitat
Shading
Fish
DIDSON

description: Large urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.
Spatial-angular spectral element method with discontinuous Galerkin schemes for radiative transfer in 2D irregular enclosures with obstacles based on unstructured spatial elements
Creators: name: Sun, Yasong
name: Li, Sida
name: Zhou, Ruirui
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Ma, Jing
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2024
Subjects: Complex geometry
Discontinuous Galerkin scheme
Obstacle
Radiative transfer
Spectral element method

description: •Spectral element method with discontinuous Galerkin (SEDG) for radiative transfer in complex geometries with obstacles.
description: •SEDG discretizes both spatial and angular domains of RTE.
description: •SEDG has good accuracy and flexibly provides hp convergence characteristics.
description: •SEDG can minimize the non-physical oscillation in the spatial and angular domains.
description: •The high angular resolution of radiative intensity is accurately and efficiently calculated.
description: In the article, we propose a spectral element method with discontinuous Galerkin schemes (SEDG) for solving radiative transfer problems in irregular enclosures with obstacles. The SEDG is used to discretize both angular and spatial domains. In the spatial domain, unstructured triangular elements with spectral collocation points are adopted to discretize the irregular enclosure with obstacles. In the angular direction, the structured quadrilateral elements with spectral collocation points are used, and a parallel computing strategy is employed to improve the computational efficiency. To smoothen the oscillations induced by the discontinuity in the spatial distribution of radiative intensity due to obstacle, an upwind approximate Reimann solver is developed to separate the incoming and outgoing information of radiative intensities on spatial element boundaries. Three examples are chosen to test the capability of the SEDG. Results demonstrate that the SEDG can flexibly provide hp convergence characteristics. Meanwhile, it can effectively minimize the non-physical oscillation in the spatial domain and angular direction, and can obtain the high angular resolution of radiative intensity.
description: The contours of dimensionless temperature obtained by (a) GSEM, (b) LSSEM and (c) SEDG. (d) Schematic diagram and (e) quarter grid system of a square enclosure with a finned internal cylinder.
Self-Routing in Networks of Embedded Systems using Smart Messages
Creators: name: Borcea, Cristian
name: Kang, Porlin
name: Saxena, Akhilesh
name: Sarker, Rabita
name: Iyer, Deepa
name: Iftode, Liviu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2003

description: Smart Messages provide a simple, yet flexible model for programming distributed applications in massive networks of embedded systems. A Smart Message (SM) is a dynamic collection of code and data that migrates through the network, routes itself at each node in the path, and executes on nodes of interest. The nodes of interest are named by properties or content. A key challenge in this model is the ability to discover target nodes, and to route SMs to them. In this paper we describe the SM self-routing mechanism, which provides high flexibility, scalability, and resilience to adverse network conditions. Using this mechanism, applications can choose among multiple content-based routing schemes, or even define the best suited routing algorithm for their needs. We present proof-of-concept implementation, simulation results, and analysis for three classes of content-based routing algorithms. We also show preliminary results for an SM prototype implementation on Compaq iPAQs using Wavelan 802.11 and Bluetooth for communication
Transforming Linear-threshold Learning Algorithms into Multi-class Linear Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Mesterharm, Chris
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: In this paper, we present a new type of multi-class learning algorithm called a linear-max algorithm. Linear-max algorithms learn with a special type of attribute called a sub-expert. A sub-expert is a vector attribute that has a value for each output class. The goal of the multi-class algorithm is to learn a linear function combining the sub-experts and to use this linear function to make correct class predictions. We will prove that, in the on-line mistake bounded model of learning, these multi-class learning algorithms have the same mistake bounds as a related two class linear-threshold algorithm. We will also show how sub-experts can be used to solve more traditional problems composed of real valued attributes. This leads to a natural extension of the algorithm to multi-class problems that contain both traditional attributes and sub-experts.
Lemonia dumi Linnaeus 1761
Creators: name: Monasterio, Yeray
name: Vicente, Juan Carlos
name: Escobés, Ruth
name: Serradilla, Jes ̇ s
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Brahmaeidae
Lemonia
Lemonia dumi

description: Lemonia dumi Linnaeus, 1761 (Brahmaeidae)
 LA RIOJA: Brieva de Cameros; [WM1863, WM1963, WM2067]; 1540-1650 m; 01/XI/2019, 18/X/2020, 23/X/2021 (1 ♀,  Jes ̇s Serradilla, vidit; varios  ♂♂,  Yeray Monasterio, Ruth Escobés, ̎scar Aedo & Jes ̇s Serradilla vidit)  .
 SORIA: Montenegro de Cameros; [WM1762, WM1862]; 1630-1650 m; 18/X/2020, 23/X/2021 (varios ♂♂,  Yeray Monasterio, Ruth Escobés, ̎scar Aedo & Jes ̇s Serradilla vidit)  .
  Comentario: Los imagos de este lepidóptero son difíciles de detectar debido a su vuelo exclusivamente diurno y a la fecha tardía de actividad, en torno al mes de octubre. A partir del hallazgo de una hembra muerta sobre la vegetación en 2019 (Fig. 9), los muestreos realizados han permitido observar más individuos (Fig. 8) y confirmar la existencia de una población que parece ocupar una amplia superficie. Se trata de la primera cita, tanto para la comunidad autónoma de La Rioja como para la provincia de Soria (Castilla y León). El hábitat está compuesto por matorral de montaña, dominado por Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull y con presencia de Juniperus communis subsp. alpina (Suter) Celak a una altitud media de 1600 m (Figs. 10 y 11). Esta cota es la más elevada en la que ha sido registrada en la península ibérica, donde las poblaciones descritas se siṫan en torno a los 1000 m (ver Vicente Arranz & Parra Arjona, 2014). Esto amplía el rango altitudinal donde la especie puede aparecer en otras regiones. También podría ser la población documentada a mayor altitud en el conjunto de Europa, ya que fuera de nuestra Península parece situarse por debajo de los 1000 m (ver Paolucci, 2016; Lepiforum, 2022). En este entorno comparte hábitat con otros lepidópteros asociados a zonas de cumbres, como Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus, 1758). La población se encuentra dentro de los  esPAcios de lA Red NAturA 2000 “SierrAs de DeMAndA, Urbión, CebollerA y Cameros ” (código ES0000067) y “SierrA de Urbión ” (ES4170013).
description: Published as part of Monasterio, Yeray, Vicente, Juan Carlos, Escobés, Ruth & Serradilla, Jes ̇ s, 2022, Registros novedosos de lepidópteros en La Rioja (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae y Brahmaeidae), pp. 245-252 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25 on page 247, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245140
RDA DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN
Creators: name: Jones, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RDA, Research Data Alliance, Data Management Plan

description: Given that the Research Data Alliance is a global membership organisation, its core work focuses on network building rather than producing or curating research data. Nonetheless, some of the data it holds, specifically membership data, can be incredibly valuable in tracking the international uptake of and engagement in research data management and sharing This document outlines what data will be collected and generated and how it will be handled during the project lifetime and after, detailing the policy, methodology and standards adopted for data collection and generation, curation, use, sharing and preservation.
The effects of direct certification in the U.S. National School Lunch Program on program participation
Creators: name: Kim, Jeounghee
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: National School Lunch Program
Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act
Direct certification
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Current Population Survey

description: The purpose of direct certification in the U.S. National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was to increase program participation among categorically eligible students by removing access barriers to the program. This study applied a difference-in-difference method to examine the effect of direct certification in the NSLP using 17 years of data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements to the Current Population Survey and found that the direct certification had positive effects on program participation among categorically eligible students. The increase in school lunch participation was particularly large among SNAP recipients (approximately 10 percentage-point increase in participation).
Origins, potency, and heterogeneity of skeletal muscle fibro-adipogenic progenitors—time for new definitions
Creators: name: Contreras, Osvaldo
name: Rossi, Fabio M. V.
name: Theret, Marine
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Striated muscle is a highly plastic and regenerative organ that regulates body movement, temperature, and metabolism—all the functions needed for an individual’s health and well-being. The muscle connective tissue’s main components are the extracellular matrix and its resident stromal cells, which continuously reshape it in embryonic development, homeostasis, and regeneration. Fibro-adipogenic progenitors are enigmatic and transformative muscle-resident interstitial cells with mesenchymal stem/stromal cell properties. They act as cellular sentinels and physiological hubs for adult muscle homeostasis and regeneration by shaping the microenvironment by secreting a complex cocktail of extracellular matrix components, diffusible cytokines, ligands, and immune-modulatory factors. Fibro-adipogenic progenitors are the lineage precursors of specialized cells, including activated fibroblasts, adipocytes, and osteogenic cells after injury. Here, we discuss current research gaps, potential druggable developments, and outstanding questions about fibro-adipogenic progenitor origins, potency, and heterogeneity. Finally, we took advantage of recent advances in single-cell technologies combined with lineage tracing to unify the diversity of stromal fibro-adipogenic progenitors. Thus, this compelling review provides new cellular and molecular insights in comprehending the origins, definitions, markers, fate, and plasticity of murine and human fibro-adipogenic progenitors in muscle development, homeostasis, regeneration, and repair.
A BROAD PERSPECTIVE ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND  COVERING VARIOUS STRATEGIES
Creators: name: Xomidova, Qunduzxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the multifaceted approaches to professional development (PD) for language teachers, grounded in the work of Richards and Farrell (2005). The evolving demands of language education require educators to continuously adapt and refine their teaching practices. This research synthesizes theoretical frameworks, including constructivism and reflective practice, with practical PD strategies such as workshops, peer collaboration, mentoring, and action research. A mixed-methods approach was employed, incorporating surveys and interviews with practicing language teachers, complemented by institutional case studies. Results reveal that while formal education remains foundational, ongoing support through mentorship, collaboration, and reflective practice significantly enhances teaching efficacy. The study underscores the importance of accessible, context-sensitive, and teacher-led PD initiatives, advocating for policy and institutional support to embed lifelong learning into teaching careers.
Multi-scale visualization and characterization of lignocellulosic plant cell wall deconstruction during thermochemical pretreatment
Creators: name: Chundawat, Shishir P. S.
name: Donohoe, Bryon S.
name: Elder, Thomas
name: Agarwal, Umesh P.
name: Sousa, Leonardo
name: Lu, Fachuang
name: Ralph, John
name: Himmel, Michael E.
name: Balan, Venkatesh
name: Dale, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: AFEX
Pretreatment
Corn stover

description: Deconstruction of lignocellulosic plant cell walls to fermentable sugars by thermochemical and/or biological means is impeded by several poorly understood ultrastructural and chemical barriers. A promising thermochemical pretreatment called ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) overcomes the native recalcitrance of cell walls through subtle morphological and physicochemical changes that enhance cellulase accessibility without extracting lignin and hemicelluloses into separate liquid streams. Multi-scale visualization and characterization of Zea mays (i.e., corn stover) cell walls were carried out by laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy (LSCM), Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) to elucidate the mechanism of AFEX pretreatment. AFEX first dissolves, then extracts and, as the ammonia evaporates, redeposits cell wall decomposition products (e.g., amides, arabinoxylan oligomers, lignin-based phenolics) on outer cell wall surfaces. As a result, nanoporous tunnel-like networks, as visualized by 3D-electron tomography, are formed within the cell walls. We propose that this highly porous structure greatly enhances enzyme accessibility to embedded cellulosic microfibrils. The shape, size (10 to 1000 nm), and spatial distribution of the pores depended on their location within the cell wall and the pretreatment conditions used. Exposed pore surface area per unit AFEX pretreated cell wall volume, estimated via TEM-tomogram image analysis, ranged between 0.005 and 0.05 nm2 per nm3. AFEX results in ultrastructural and physicochemical modifications within the cell wall that enhance enzymatic hydrolysis yield by 4-5 fold over that of untreated cell walls.
How Debt Became Care: Child Pawning and Its Transformations in Akuapem, the Gold Coast, 1874-1929
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pawning
Debt
Children
Slavery
Ghana
Akwapim (Ghana)

description: Studies of slavery in Africa have noted the persistence of those relations in different forms, such as through pawning, allowing social changes in power, status, and wealth to be weathered more gradually. As pawning itself became less frequent, did other kinds of relationships take its place? Some scholars have argued that pawning was folded into marriage and fatherhood, others that there are continuities with fosterage and domestic servant arrangements today. This paper examines the question of pawning’s transformations in Akuapem, a region in southeastern Ghana involved in forms of commercial agriculture that were heavily dependent on slave labour and the capital raised by pawning. Ultimately, it argues that debt became key to fatherhood and fosterage relations between children and adults, changing from a short-term exchange to more lifelong reciprocal relations of care.
Ginseng Prong Added to Broiler Diets Reduces Lipid Peroxidation in Refrigerated and Frozen Stored Poultry Meats
Creators: name: Lai, Melody M. C.
name: Zhang, Huiying Amelie
name: Kitts, David D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Fatty acid content and lipid oxidation products were compared in chicken breast and leg meats derived from birds fed on animal-fat- and vegetable-oil-based diets, supplemented with ginseng prong powder. The first experiment examined polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content and the formation of primary and secondary lipid oxidation products in meats stored at refrigeration temperatures (4 °C) for up to 10 days, while the second experiment examined similar changes in the poultry meats when frozen stored at −18 °C, for up to six months. Results showed that initial lipid hydroperoxide concentrations increased in both breast and leg meat within the first week of refrigerated storage and also was ongoing during the first three to four months of frozen storage. A higher (p < 0.05) PUFA content in leg meat, especially in broilers fed a vegetable-oil-blended diet, corresponded to greater tendency for generation of primary lipid oxidation products after refrigerated and frozen storage (p < 0.05). The inclusion of powdered ginseng prong in broiler diets significantly inhibited (p < 0.05) secondary lipid oxidation products (e.g., malonaldehyde [MDA]) formation in both stored leg and breast meat, compared to controls. Significant interactions (p < 0.05) were obtained for storage time and inclusion of ginseng against production of primary and secondary lipid oxidation in broiler breast and leg meats from broilers fed PUFA-containing diets. We conclude that including ginseng prong in broiler growing diets represents a viable strategy to control lipid oxidation in refrigerated/cold-stored meat products.
title: The globalization of technology development
title: implications for U.S. skills policy
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lynn, Leonard
name: Salzman, Harold
Publisher: name: LERA
Year: 2010
Subjects: Industrial Sociology
Labor Economics
Technology Assessment

description: To assess what a skills policy should be for this new era of globalization, we first consider the nature of third-generation globalization, to understand its drivers, structure, and dynamics. Then we assess the commonly proposed responses. We offer a critical focus on five interrelated assumptions and tactics that underlie many current skill development and education proposals. We find that skill development policy should focus on a workforce portfolio of skills across the spectrum rather than narrowly defined skill and education areas or segments of the workforce.
D2.1 Guidance paper on key concepts, issues and developments
Creators: name: Prof. Warhurst, Chris
name: Dr Barnes, Sally-Anne
name: Wright, Sally
name: Prof. Dr. Dhondt, Steven
name: Erhel, Christine
name: Greenan, Nathalie
name: Guergoat-Larivière, Mathilde
name: Hamon-Cholet, Sylvie
name: Kalugina, Ekaterina
name: Kangas, Olli E.
name: Dr. Kirov, Vassil
name: Kohlgrüber, Michael
name: Dr. Mathieu, Christopher
name: Murray Leach, Tasmin
name: Oeij, Peter
name: Perez, Carlota
name: Pomares, Egoitz
name: Ryan-Collins, Joshua
name: Schröder, Antonius
name: Dr. Van der Zee, Frans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: beyond4.0, industrie 4.0, technologies impact, jobs

description: This guidance paper provides a common intellectual understanding for the BEYOND4.0 research project. It explains what is to be analysed, why and how. As part of this task, it explains the key developments, issues and concepts that drive the project. It provides a common starting point for the aim of BEYOND4.0 to support the delivery of an inclusive European future by examining the impact of new technologies on the future of jobs, business models and welfare in the European Union (EU).
Quantum correction-based molecular dynamics investigation of thermal transport in 2D single-layer C3B and C3N
Creators: name: Xiong, Liangtao
name: Wang, Jifen
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Begell House Inc
Year: 2022
Subjects: Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Thermodynamics

description: To calculate accurately the thermal conductivity, quantum correction is necessary when the system temperature is below its Debye temperature. The calculated Debye temperature is 371.6 K or 383.1 K, much above room temperature, for 2D single-layer graphene doped with N atoms (SLC3N) or with B atoms (SLC3B), respectively. Here we used the quantum-corrected nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to investigate the in-plane thermal conductivity of SLC3N and SLC3B in a wide temperature range between 150 K and 500 K. The predictions between the quantum-corrected MD and the classical MD without quantum correction are quite different when the temperature is below the Debye temperature. The prediction by the classical MD decreases monotonically with increasing temperature and is always larger than that by the quantum correction. With quantum correction, the thermal conductivity increases with increasing temperature at low temperatures up to a turning point below or near the room temperature and then decreases with further increase of temperature. The in-plane thermal conductivity of perfect SLC3B is predicted as 418 Wmiddotm(-1middot)K(-1 )at 300 K with quantum correction, smaller than the counterpart of perfect SLC3N (694 Wmiddotm(-1)middotK(-1)). Two defective types, i.e., single vacancy (SV) or double vacancy (DV), exist in practical 2D graphene. It is found that the quantum-corrected in-plane thermal conductivity decreases with increasing defective ratio; and under the same defective ratio, the effect of the SV defect is severer than that of the DV defect. The thermal conductivity of SLC3N and SLC3B with 0.1%, 0.3%, and 0.5% DV defect ratios basically remains unchanged with the increase of temperature in the high temperature range from 400 K to 500 K.