cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rawls and Habermas on Religion in the Public Sphere
Creators: name: Yates, Melissa
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2007
Subjects: Pluralism
Liberalism
Political liberalism
Public sphere
Religious citizens
Habermas, Jürgen
Rawls, John, 1921-2002

description: In recent essays, Jürgen Habermas endorses an account of political liberalism much like John Rawls’. Like Rawls, he argues that laws and public policies should be justified only in neutral terms, i.e. in terms of reasons that people holding conflicting world-views could accept. Habermas also, much like Rawls, distinguishes reasonable religious citizens, whose views should be included in public discourse, from unreasonable citizens in his expectation that religious citizens self-modernize. But in sharing these Rawlsian features, Habermas is vulnerable to some of the same objections posed to Rawls. In this article I assess Habermas’ ability to overcome two objections frequently posed to Rawls: (1) that religious citizens are unfairly expected to split their identities in public discourse, and (2) that the burdens of citizenship are asymmetrically distributed. I conclude that while he may be able to overcome the second, the first remains a problem for him.
Micropatterned Charge Heterogeneities via Vapor Deposition of Aminosilanes
Creators: name: Pick, Christian
name: Argento, Christopher
name: Drazer, German
name: Frechette, Joelle
Publisher: name: ACS
Year: 2016

description: Aminosilanes are routinely employed for charge reversal or to create coupling layers on oxide surfaces. We present a chemical vapor deposition method to pattern mica surfaces with regions of high-quality aminosilane (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, APTES) monolayers. The approach relies on the vapor deposition of an aminosilane through a patterned array of through-holes in a PDMS (poly(dimethylsiloxane)) membrane that acts as a mask. In aqueous solutions the surfaces have regular patterns of charge heterogeneities with minimal topographical variations over large areas. This versatile dry lift-off deposition method alleviates issues with multilayer formation and can be used to create charge patterns on curved surfaces. We identify the necessary steps to achieve high quality monolayers and charge reversal of the underlying mica surface: 1) hexane extraction to remove unreacted PDMS oligomers from the membrane that would otherwise deposit on and contaminate the substrate, 2) oxygen plasma treatment of the top of the membrane surfaces to generate a barrier layer that blocks APTES transport through the PDMS, and 3) decrease of the vapor pressure of APTES during deposition to minimize APTES condensation at the mica–membrane-vapor contact lines and to prevent multilayer formation. Under these conditions, AFM imaging shows that the monolayers have a height of (0.9 ± 0.2) nm with an increase in height up to 3nm at the mica–membrane-vapor contact lines. Fluorescence imaging demonstrates pattern fidelity on both flat and curved surfaces, for feature sizes that vary between 6.5-40 μm. We verify charge reversal by measuring the double layer forces between a homogeneous (unpatterned) APTES monolayers and a mica surface in aqueous solution and we characterize the surface potential of APTES monolayers by measuring the double layer forces between identical APTES surfaces. We obtain a surface potential of +110mV +/- 6 mV at pH 4.0.
The targum (1922:June 13)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1922

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Organizational Factors and Office Workers’ Health After the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks: Long-Term Physical Symptoms, Psychological Distress, and Work Productivity
Creators: name: Osinubi, Omowunmi Y. O.
name: Gandhi, Sampada K.
name: Ohman-Strickland, Pamela A.
name: Boglarsky, Cheryl
name: Nancy, Fiedler
name: Robson, Mark
name: Kipen, Howard
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Long term physical symptoms
Psychological distress
Work productivity
Workers' health
Organizational factors
September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
White collar workers--Health and hygiene

description: Objective: To assess if organizational factors are predictors of workers' health and productivity after the World Trade Center attacks.Methods: We conducted a survey of 750 workers and compared those who had direct exposures to the World Trade Center attacks (south of Canal Street workers; primary victims) with those less directly exposed (north of Canal Street workers; other victims and non-victims).Results: South of Canal Street workers reported headache more frequently than north of Canal Street workers did (P = 0.0202). Primary victims reported headache and cough more frequently than did other victims and non-victims (P = 0.0086 and 0.0043, respectively). Defensive organizational culture was an independent predictor of cough and job stress, and job stress was an independent predictor of on-the-job productivity losses.Conclusion: Organizational variables may modify health and productivity outcomes after a large-scale traumatic event in the workplace.
description: Supported in part by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) sponsored UMDNJ Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease, Grant NIEHS P30ES005022
A national study of choanal atresia in tertiary care centers in Canada – part II: clinical management
Creators: name: Paradis, Josee
name: Dzioba, Agnieszka
name: El-Hakim, Hamdy
name: Hong, Paul
name: Kozak, Frederick K.
name: Nguyen, Lily H. P.
name: Perera, Demitri
name: Propst, Evan J.
name: Siu, Jennifer M.
name: Wojtera, Monika
name: Husein, Murad
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background To evaluate the clinical management of choanal atresia (CA) in tertiary centers across Canada. Methods Multi-centre case series involving six tertiary care pediatric hospitals across Canada. Retrospective chart review of patients born between 1980 and 2010 diagnosed with choanal atresia to a participating center. Results The health charts of 215 patients (59.6% female) with choanal atresia (CA) were reviewed. Mean age of initial surgical repair was 0.8 months for bilateral CA, and 48.6 months for unilateral CA. Approaches of surgical repair consisted of endoscopic transnasal (31.7%), non-endoscopic transnasal (42.6%), and transpalatal (25.2%). Stents were used on 70.7% of patients. Forty-nine percent of patients were brought back to the OR for a planned second look; stent removal being the most common reason (86.4%). Surgical success rate of initial surgeries was 54.1%. Surgical technique was not associated with rate of restenosis [χ2 (2) = 1.6, p = .46]. Conclusions The present study is the first national multi-institutional study exploring the surgical outcomes of CA over a 30-year period. The surgical repair of CA presents a challenge to otolaryngologists, as the rate of surgical failure is high. The optimal surgical approach, age at surgical repair, use of stents, surgical adjuncts, and need for planned second look warrant further investigation. Graphical abstract
Ovarian steroid cell tumor in pregnancy-a rare occurrence: Report of a case and review of the literature
Creators: name: Parikh, Bijal
name: Williams, Shauna
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ovarian neoplasms
Steroid cell tumor
Pregnancy

description: Background: Steroid-cell tumors of the ovary are very rare, especially during pregnancy, and they must be distinguished from luteoma of pregnancy. Case: An 18-year-old female, gravida 3, para 1-0-1-1, at 38 weeks' of gestation, had an adnexal mass that was discovered incidentally during a Caesarean section. The tumor was excised and her male infant was normal. Results: Histologic workup revealed the tumor to be a steroid-cell tumor, which is exceedingly rare in pregnancy. Conclusions: Ovarian steroid-cell tumors, which are malignant one-third of the time, are difficult to distinguish from luteoma of pregnancy.
D3.3 EO based processors and products
Creators: name: Giardino, Claudia
name: Bresciani, Mariano
name: De Carolis, Giacomo
name: De Santi, Francesca
name: Simis, Stephan
name: Warren, M
name: Alikas, K
name: Ansper, A.
name: Vaiciute, Diana
name: Bucas, M
name: Hommersom, A
name: Attila, J
name: Kallio, K
name: Anttila, S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In recent years satellite water quality information have been used for several purposes, such as: 1) regular and specific monitoring, 2) matters that require Near Real Time information (e.g. when cyanobacterial blooms are threatening the swimming water quality) and 3) for the spatial optimisation of monitoring networks. To the aim, image processing chains need to be set up to transform the radiance recorded by satellite sensors into information on water quality, such as the concentrations of water constituents, the physical values on water surface temperature or maps depicting e.g. the spatial extent of aquatic vegetation. Despite these techniques have been developed since about three decades, there are still ongoing developments to produce accurate and consistent products across all water bodies. This is particularly the case for EOMORES, whose target lakes include a wide range of water types. Moreover, as EOMORES makes use of the latest generation of satellite sensors, consolidated image processing techniques need to be adapted according to the resolutions and spectral bands of these newest sensors. This is especially relevant for Sentinel-2 MSI, since for Sentinel-3 OLCI most of the developments are based on its precursor MERIS on Envisat (2002-2012). This document hence illustrates the image processing chain that have been adapted to produce relevant water quality information for the EOMORES study sites. A first section is dedicated to the description of the methods while the last part describes how the processors have been applied to produce maps (both of the past and recent years, including 2018) of water quality. The selected processors are now being used to set up the operational EOMORES service according to WP6.
Creazione e validazione di un questionario per la valutazione delle abilità comunicative, relazionali e pedagogiche del tutor clinico dei Corsi di Laurea in Fisioterapia: cross sectional study
Creators: name: Frontani, Francesco
name: Servadio, Annamaria
name: Clementi, Patrizia
name: Galeoto, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUZIONE: Il tutor clinico è centrale nella formazione dei professionisti sanitari. Nonostante ciò, in Italia non esiste un questionario che permetta agli studenti del Corso di Studi in fisioterapia di valutare il proprio tutor clinico di tirocinio. L’obiettivo del lavoro è creare e validare un questionario per valutare le abilità comunicative, relazionale e pedagogiche del tutor clinico da parte dello studente. MATERIALI E METODI: In una fase pre-test è stato chiesto ai direttori didattici di valutare chiarezza e comprensibilità del questionario. Lo strumento è stato somministrato agli studenti del Corso di Studi di fisioterapia dell’Università di TorVergata. Quindi è stata svolta una analisi psicometrica del questionario esaminando affidabilità, consistenza interna e validità di costrutto. Quest’ultima è stata indagata confrontando il questionario con il CLEQEI, validato in Italia nel corso di studi in infermieristica. RISULTATI: La fase Pre-Test ha prodotto un questionario di 27 items suddivisi in 3 macro-aree, che valutano abilità comunicative, relazionali e pedagogiche del tutor. L’intervallo di confidenza interclasse ha un valore di 0,78 (p<0.01). La consistenza interna, valutata tramite l’alfa di Crombach ha come punteggio sul campione 0.961. La validità di costrutto, analizzata tramite la r di Pearson ha correlato le aree dei questionari, il punteggio maggiore è espresso dalla correlazione tra punteggi totali (r=0.753, p<0.01). DISCUSSIONE: Il questionario risulta riproducibile coerente e valido nel valutare la performance del tutor nel Corso di Studi in Fisioterapia. Il questionario vuole essere un supporto ai direttori didattici, per la valutazione e del tutor al fine di ottimizzare tale servizio.
description: Tutor, Vol 21 No 2
Dynamics and folding of single two-stranded coiled-coil peptides studied by fluorescent energy transfer confocal microscopy
Creators: name: Tang, Jianyong
name: Jia, Yiwei
name: DeGrado, William F.
name: Talaga, David S.
name: Lau, Wai Leung
name: Roder, Heinrich
name: Hochstrasser, Robin M.
Publisher: name: National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2000
Subjects: Peptides

description: We report single-molecule measurements on the folding and unfolding conformational equilibrium distributions and dynamics of a disulfide crosslinked version of the two-stranded coiled coil from GCN4. The peptide has a fluorescent donor and acceptor at the N termini of its two chains and a Cys disulfide near its C terminus. Thus, folding brings the two N termini of the two chains close together, resulting in an enhancement of fluorescent resonant energy transfer. End-to-end distance distributions have thus been characterized under conditions where the peptide is nearly fully folded (0 M urea), unfolded (7.4 M urea), and in dynamic exchange between folded and unfolded states (3.0 M urea). The distributions have been compared for the peptide freely diffusing in solution and deposited onto aminopropyl silanized glass. As the urea concentration is increased, the mean end-to-end distance shifts to longer distances both in free solution and on the modified surface. The widths of these distributions indicate that the molecules are undergoing millisecond conformational fluctuations. Under all three conditions, these fluctuations gave nonexponential correlations on 1- to 100-ms time scale. A component of the correlation decay that was sensitive to the concentration of urea corresponded to that measured by bulk relaxation kinetics. Thetrajectories provided effective intramolecular diffusion coefficients as a function of the end-to-end distances for the folded and unfolded states. Single-molecule folding studies provide information concerning the distributions of conformational states in the folded, unfolded, and dynamically interconverting states.
Il cambiamento della pratica pro­fessionale in seguito a formazio­ne in ambito ICF
Creators: name: Pianon, Ilaria
name: Pradal, Monica
name: Visentin, Luca
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2022

description: Obiettivo e finalità della ricerca: Lo studio di seguito presentato si è posto l’obiettivo di rilevare se e quanto l’operatività quotidiana dei professionisti della riabilitazione sia cam­biata dopo un decennio di formazione e implementazione dell’ICF nella pratica clinico-ria­bilitativa presso l’Associazione “La Nostra Famiglia” di Conegliano. Materiali e Metodi: A tal fine è stato predisposto un questiona­rio, distribuito ad un campione di professionisti in servizio presso l’Associazione, formati nel decennio 2006-2016. Risultati Dall’analisi dei 53 questionari raccolti, si evince che: il 51% dei professionisti di­chiara di utilizzare regolarmente gli strumenti predisposti in linguaggio ICF, la cui imple­mentazione è ritenuta un vantaggio dal 50% dei compilatori, che rileva una facilitazione nella condivisione reciproca dei progetti riabilitativi; permane una certa difficoltà nell’uti­lizzo quotidiano di tali strumenti da parte di un 32% di professionisti, che ancora non considera l’ICF parte integrante della pratica clinico-riabilitativa. Discussione. I dati raccolti indicano come l’atteggiamento dei professionisti sia sostan­zialmente positivo nei confronti dell’implementazione dell’ICF, nonostante alcune resi­stenze, da imputare soprattutto alle difficoltà di rendere proprio un nuovo modello di la­voro. Nei prossimi anni sarà necessario valutare come mantenere le conoscenze apprese dai professionisti (anche neo-assunti) e quali ulteriori strategie attuare per consolidare l’uso dell’ICF nella prassi riabilitativa.
description: Tutor, Vol 21 No 2
Optimized splitting of mixed-species RNA sequencing data
Creators: name: Song, Xuan
name: Gao, Hai Yun
name: Herrup, Karl
name: Hart, Ronald P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: RNA sequencing
subject: xenograft
subject: alignment
subject: Convolutional Neural Networks
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gene expression studies using xenograft transplants or co-culture systems, usually with mixed human and mouse cells, have proven to be valuable to uncover cellular dynamics during development or in disease models. However, the mRNA sequence similarities among species presents a challenge for accurate transcript quantification. To identify optimal strategies for analyzing mixed-species RNA sequencing data, we evaluate both alignment-dependent and alignment-independent methods. Alignment of reads to a pooled reference index is effective, particularly if optimal alignments are used to classify sequencing reads by species, which are re-aligned with individual genomes, generating >97% accuracy across a range of species ratios. Alignment-independent methods, such as Convolutional Neural Networks, which extract the conserved patterns of sequences from two species, classify RNA sequencing reads with over 85% accuracy. Importantly, both methods perform well with different ratios of human and mouse reads. While non-alignment strategies successfully partitioned reads by species, a more traditional approach of mixed-genome alignment followed by optimized separation of reads proved to be the more successful with lower error rates.
Exploring the motivation factors and engagement methods, towards candidate selection and sustainable data collection process for RiGHT programme
Creators: name: Lai, Caleb Chen Ee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Data collection with the target group from rural areas in Sarawak have been challenging and requires extensive resources. The thesis focuses on improving the data collection methods through innovative user engagement, online survey, social media and technological solutions. The aim is to develop a data collection solution that is more efficient, sustainable and can be easily replicated with minimal resources. It also aims to provide a motivation for the target group or participants to take part in the survey which will done at intervals of 3 months.
Emergenza Sars – CoV – 2 e la Formazione: Nuovo Modello, Metodi e Strumenti.
Creators: name: Barbo, Marina
name: Agosti, Laura
name: Bin, Andrea
name: Pagnutti, Catia
name: Canzutti, Elena
name: De Pol, Loretta
name: Dusch, Sandra
name: Filippetto, Carlo
name: Triches, Silvia
name: Zuliani, Stefania
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2022

description: L’emergenza pandemica da Sars –CoV -2 ha determinato una revisione dei Modelli, dei Metodi e degli Strumenti della Formazione in relazione ad un fabbisogno formativo specifico, urgente, trasversale ed esteso. Cresciuto in tempi brevissimi, con componenti multi professionali e multi disciplinari, nella emergenziale necessità di riorganizzare processi e procedure, di adeguare conoscenze e competenze, in una situazione grave ed inattesa. Il Modello della Formazione quindi è stato rivisto, ridefinendo priorità e obiettivi, vincoli e risorse organizzative, umane e tecnologiche necessarie per un investimento sostenibile ed efficace. L’articolo descrive l’investimento complessivo e le divere metodologie formative (formazione residenziale in video conferenza, formazione sul campo, formazione E-learning) adottate in coerenza con i contenuti, gli obiettivi, la diversità e numerosità dei target dei destinatari. Il contesto di learning è necessario per rinforzare la consapevolezza e la capacità di gestione dell’emergenza, ma contribuisce anche a sostenere la resilienza dei professionisti, dei team e in senso più ampio, del sistema nella sua complessità.
description: Tutor, Vol 21 No 2
Psychological dynamics of unit-linked insurance product decision-making: a cognitive model
Creators: name: Tsai, Chia-Chun
name: Chen, Li-Yu
name: Huang, Chen-Wei
name: Zeng, Peng-Yu
name: Yeh, Su-Ling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Investment and insurance constitute pivotal subjects in financial management, especially in an era characterized by inflation. Unit-Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs), with a unique combination of investment risks and insurance protection, potentially trigger distinct psychological processes that have been inadequately explored. To bridge this gap, the current research aims to develop a cognitive model for decision-making in purchasing ULIPs. Utilizing structural equation modeling, our research manipulated information related to ULIP products (performance and dividends) while measuring participants’ perceptions, cognitive assessments, emotional states, and investment willingness concerning the products (bottom-up pathway), along with their traits such as risk tolerance (top-down pathway). Our results indicated that perceived performance and dividends affect cognitive assessment and positive emotions within the bottom-up pathway, thereby enhancing the willingness to invest in ULIPs. Conversely, risk tolerance negatively affects perceptions, evaluations, and emotions associated with ULIPs in the top-down pathway. Understanding the perception of product characteristics and individuals’ risk tolerance plays a crucial role in shaping financial decisions. These findings have significant implications for the ULIP decision-making processes. In an era of financial complexity, this research develops a cognitive model that illuminates the psychological mechanisms underlying Unit-Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) investment decisions. Findings reveal that perceived performance and dividends positively influence cognitive assessments and emotions, enhancing investment willingness, while individual risk tolerance negatively modulates product perceptions, evaluations, and emotions. This nuanced framework provides insurance companies with empirically grounded strategies for understanding investor behavior, ultimately advancing the personalization of financial product development and marketing approaches.
Development of the Tiers of Service framework to support system and operational planning for children’s healthcare services
Creators: name: Waibel, Sina
name: Williams, Janet
name: Tuff, Yasmin
name: Shum, Joanne
name: Scarr, Jennifer
name: O’Donnell, Maureen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Providing access to pediatric healthcare services in British Columbia, Canada, presents unique challenges given low population densities spread across large geographic distances combined with a lack of availability of specialist providers in remote areas, leading to quality of care shortcomings and inequalities in care delivery. The study objective was to develop a framework that provides a common language and methodology for defining and planning child and youth healthcare services across the province. Methods The framework was developed in two phases. In Phase 1, a literature and jurisdictional review was completed using the following inclusion criteria: (i) description of a framework focusing on organizing service delivery systems (ii) that supports health service planning, (iii) includes specialty or subspecialty services and (iv) has been published since 2008. In Phase 2, a series of meetings with key provincial stakeholders were held to receive feedback on the developed Tiers of Service framework versions that were based on the literature and jurisdictional review and adjusted to the British Columbian health care context. The final version was endorsed by the Child Health BC Steering Committee. Results Ten medical articles and thirteen jurisdictional papers met the established selection criteria and were included in this study. Most frameworks were developed by the Australian national or state jurisdictions and published in jurisdictional papers (n = 8). Frameworks identified in the medical literature were mainly developed in Canada (n = 3) and the US (n = 3) and focused on maternity, neonatal, critical care and oncology services. Based on feedback received from the expert group, the framework was expanded to include community-based services, prevention and health determinants. The final version of the Tiers of Service framework describes the specific services to be delivered at each tier, which are categorized as Tier 1 (community services) through Tier 6 (sub-specialized services). Two consecutive steps were identified to effectively use the framework for operational and system planning: (i) development of a ‘module’ outlining the responsibilities and requirements to be delivered at each tier; and (ii) assessment of services provided at the health care facility against those described in the module, alignment to a specific tier, identification of gaps at the local, regional and provincial level, and implementation of quality improvement initiatives to effectively address the gaps. Conclusions The benefits of the Tiers of Service framework and accompanying modules for health service planning are being increasingly recognized. Planning and coordinating pediatric health services across the province will help to optimize flow and improve access to high-quality services for children living in British Columbia.
A framework for reducing the cost of instrumented code
Creators: name: Arnold, Matthew
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: Instrumenting code to collect profiling information can canse substantial execution overhead. This overhead makes instrumentation difficult to perform at runt/me, often preventing many known o]fiine feedback-directed optimizations from being used in online systems. This paper presents a general framework for performing instrumentation sampling to reduce the overhead of previously expensive instrumentation. The framework is simple and effective, using codeduplication and counter-based sampling to allow switching between instrumented and non-instrumented code. Our framework does not rely on any hardware or operating system support, yet provides a high frequency sample rate that is tunable, allowing the tradeoff between overhead and accuracy to be adjusted easily at runt/me. Experimental results are presented to validate that our technique can collect accurate profiles (93-98% overlap with a perfect profile) with low overhead (averaging ,-,6% total overhead with a naive implementation). A Jalapefio-specific optimization is also presented that reduces overhead further, resulting in an average total overhead of ~3%.
Dynamic modelling, analysis and design of smart hybrid energy storage system for off-grid photovoltaic power systems
Creators: name: Wenlong, Jing
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis made a comprehensive study about the battery-supercapacitor hybrid energy storage systems for stand-alone photovoltaic power systems that aims to mitigate primary chemical battery operating stress by minimizing life-limiting factors such as high charging/discharging rate, fluctuating current and frequent charge-discharge transition. The results of this study demonstrate the effectiveness of extending the lifetime of the battery in such systems. The outcomes of this thesis could significantly contribute to energy researchers and industry practitioners to address the issues in rural electrification and to reduce the lead-time required in designing and implementing new hybrid energy storage solution from photovoltaic-battery power systems.
Using Spatial Locality for Trace Compression
Creators: name: Gopinath, Bhaskarpillai
name: Phalke, Vidyadhar
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Trace compaction
Locality of reference
Cache memory

description: Performance of most cache memories, virtual paging systems, TLB’s, and disk caches are analyzed using tracedriven simulations. These require large amounts of storage for the traces. In this paper we present a paging based trace compression mechanism which is loss less and improves upon the mache method of Samples [5], up to a factor of two. The key idea is to split up a trace of main memory references into two levels. The top level is the page reference stream and the lower is the string of offset references for each of the pages. Then we compress the two levels separately and obtain the final compaction. In addition, unlike the monolithic compression of mache, this method provides random access to individual page traces.
title: Virtual Reality Systems for Serious Games on the subject of dive simulation
title: Virtual Reality Systeme für Serious Games am Beispiel Tauchsimulation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Keil, Leonard
Publisher: name: Leonard Keil
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Virtual Reality
subject: Virtual reality
subject: Cultural heritage
subject: Underwater archaeology
subject: Underwater cultural heritage
subject: Diving
subject: Video games
subject: Video Games
subject: Gamification
subject: Simulation software

description: With Virtual Reality (VR) technology maturing and spreading widely in recent years, it is becoming an increasingly useful tool for entertainment and education. Its potential to simulate hard to reach environments and emulate unique experiences believably is of great interest, in particular for recreational and professional diving. Many of the world’s most intriguing archaeological sites are located in the planet’s oceans and are only accessible to experienced divers and underwater archaeologists. VR could provide an immersive way for everyone to enjoy Underwater Cultural Heritage and the sport of diving from their own home or as a museum exhibit. This thesis provides a detailed look at VR Systems and their use for Serious Games, focusing on their application for immersive diving simulation. An overview of the field of VR, its current state of the art, and its usefulness in Serious Games is provided as a foundation for the design of our own simulation system. To assess the possibility and challenges of recreating diving in VR, the sport is examined in detail and a gameplay and technological design for an immersive VR diving simulator is proposed. A prototype of the simulator was developed following the suggested design, along with a questionnaire to evaluate its immersion and effectivity as a diver trainer and educational tool.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guideline on the Management of Patients With Positional Plagiocephaly: The Role of Repositioning
Creators: name: Lingo, Patrick Ryan
name: Beier, Alexandra
name: Durham, Susan
name: Baird, Lissa C.
name: Bauer, David F.
name: Klimo, Paul
name: Lin, Alexander Y.
name: McClung-Smith, Catherine
name: Mitchell, Laura
name: Mazzola, Catherine
name: Nikas, Dimitrios
name: Tamber, Mandeep S.
name: Tyagi, Rachana
name: Flannery, Ann Marie
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Plagiocephaly
Positional plagiocephaly
Practice guidelines
Infants

description: BACKGROUND: Plagiocephaly, involving positional deformity of the calvarium in infants, is one of the most common reasons for pediatric neurosurgical consultation. OBJECTIVE: To answer the question: “what is the evidence for the effectiveness of repositioning for positional plagiocephaly?” Treatment recommendations are provided based on the available evidence. METHODS: The National Library of Medicine MEDLINE database and the Cochrane Library were queried using MeSH headings and key words relevant to repositioning as a means to treat plagiocephaly and brachycephaly. Abstracts were reviewed to identify which studies met the inclusion criteria. An evidentiary table was assembled summarizing the studies and the quality of evidence (Classes I-III). Based on the quality of the literature, a recommendation was rendered (Level I, II, or III). RESULTS: There were 3 randomized trials (Class I), 1 prospective cohort study (Class II), and 6 retrospective cohort studies (Class III). Repositioning education was found to be equal to a repositioning device and inferior to a physical therapy program. Five of the 7 cohort studies comparing repositioning with a helmet reported helmets to be better and take less time. CONCLUSION: Within the limits of this systematic review, repositioning education is effective in affording some degree of correction in virtually all infants with positional plagiocephaly or brachycephaly. Most studies suggest that a molding helmet corrects asymmetry more rapidly and to a greater degree than repositioning education. In a Class I study, repositioning education was as effective as repositioning education in conjunction with a repositioning wrap/device. Another Class I study demonstrated that a bedding pillow was superior to physical therapy for some infants. However, in keeping with the American Academy of Pediatrics' warning against the use of soft positioning pillows in the sleeping environment, the Task Force recommends physical therapy over any positioning device. The full guidelines document can be located at https://www.cns.org/guidelines/guidelines-management-patients-positional-plagiocephaly/Chapter_3.
Stictoleptura (Cribroleptura) stragulata
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Stictoleptura
Stictoleptura stragulata

description: 23. Stictoleptura (Cribroleptura) stragulata (Germar, 1823) 24. Stictoleptura (Paracorymbia) fulva (DeGeer, 1775)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Metadata for DS_D1-Glia_FRETcAMP and DS_D1-Glia_FRETlactate
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Keita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This record includes metadata for two externally stored datasets related to fluorescence imaging in astrocytes: DS_D1-Glia_FRETcAMP and DS_D1-Glia_FRETlactate. A subset of the experimental data can be provided upon request with a valid justification (e.g., research purpose and expected analysis).

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A basic family of iteration functions for polynomial root finding and its characterizations
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
name: Kalantari, Iraj
name: Zaare-Nahandi, Rahim
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Let $p(x)$ be a polynomial of degree $n geq 2$ with coefficients in a subfield $K$ of the complex numbers. For each natural number $m geq 2$, let $L_m(x)$ be the $m imes m$ lower triangular matrix whose diagonal entries are $p(x)$ and for each $j=1, dots, m-1$, its $j$-th subdiagonal entries are $p^{(j)}(x)/ j!$. For $i=1,2$, let $L_m^{(i)}(x)$ be the matrix obtained from $L_m(x)$ by deleting its first $i$ rows and its last $i$ columns. $L^{(1)}_1(x) equiv 1$. Then, the function $B_m(x)=x-p(x)~{{det(L^{(1)}_{m-1}(x))}/ {det(L^{(1)}_{m}(x))}}$ is a member of $S(m,m+n-2)$, where for any $M geq m$, $S(m,M)$ is the set of all rational iteration functions such that for all roots $heta$ of $p(x)$ , $g(x)=heta+ sum_{i=m}^{M} gamma_i(x)(heta-x)^i$, with $gamma_i(x)$'s also rational and well-defined at $heta$. Given $g in S(m,M)$, and a simple root $heta$ of $p(x)$, $g^{(i)}(heta)=0$, $i=1, dots, m-1$, and $gamma_m(heta)=(-1)^mg^{(m)}(heta)/m!$. For $B_m(x)$ we obtain $gamma_m(heta)=(-1)^{m} det (L^{(2)}_{m+1}(heta)) /det (L^{(1)}_m(heta))$. For $m=2$ and $3$, $B_m(x)$ coincides with Newton's and Halley's, respectively. If all roots of $p(x)$ are simple, $B_m(x)$ is the unique member of $S(m,m+n-2)$. By making use of the identity $0 = sum_{i=0}^n {{p^{(i)}(x)} / {i!}} (heta- x)^i$, we arrive at two recursive formulas for constructing iteration functions within the $S(m,M)$ family. In particular the $B_m$'s can be generated using one of these formulas. Moreover, the other formula gives a simple scheme for constructing a family of iteration functions credited to Euler as well as Schr"oder, whose $m$-th order member belong to $S(m,mn)$, $m >2$. The iteration functions within $S(m,M)$ can be extended to arbitrary smooth functions $f$, with the automatic replacement of $p^{(j)}$ with $f^{(j)}$ in $g$ as well as $gamma_m(heta)$.
Re-Designing Community Mental Health Services for Urban Children: Supporting Schooling to Promote Mental Health
Creators: name: Atkins, Marc S.
name: Schoenwald, Sonja
name: Shernoff, Elisa S.
name: Marinez-Lora, Ane
name: Mehta, Tara G.
name: Lakind, Davielle
name: Frazier, Stacy L.
name: Cua, Grace
name: Bhaumik, Runa
name: Bhaumik, Dulal
name: Cappella, Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Community mental health services
City children
Child mental health
Education

description: Objective: This study examined a school- and home-based mental health service model, Links to Learning, focused on empirical predictors of learning as primary goals for services in high-poverty urban communities. Method: Teacher key opinion leaders were identified through sociometric surveys and trained, with mental health providers and parent advocates, on evidence-based practices to enhance children’s learning. Teacher key opinion leaders and mental health providers cofacilitated professional development sessions for classroom teachers to disseminate 2 universal (Good Behavior Game, peer-assisted learning) and 2 targeted (Good News Notes, Daily Report Card) interventions. Group-based and home-based family education and support were delivered by mental health providers and parent advocates for children in kindergarten through 4th grade diagnosed with 1 or more disruptive behavior disorders. Services were Medicaid-funded through 4 social service agencies (N = 17 providers) in 7 schools (N = 136 teachers, 171 children) in a 2 (Links to Learning vs. services as usual) × 6 (pre- and posttests for 3 years) longitudinal design with random assignment of schools to conditions. Services as usual consisted of supported referral to a nearby social service agency. Results: Mixed effects regression models indicated significant positive effects of Links to Learning on mental health service use, classroom observations of academic engagement, teacher report of academic competence and social skills, and parent report of social skills. Nonsignificant between-groups effects were found on teacher and parent report of problem behaviors, daily hassles, and curriculum-based measures. Effects were strongest for young children, girls, and children with fewer symptoms. Conclusion: Community mental health services targeting empirical predictors of learning can improve school and home behavior for children living in high-poverty urban communities
Implementazione della simulazione virtuale nelle attività formative professionalizzanti della Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia UNIVPM: progettazione di un laboratorio didattico sulla gestione del paziente critico in modalità blended
Creators: name: Sbaffi, Michele
name: Messi, Daniele
name: Cocci, Martina
name: Belluccini, Alessandra
name: Adrario, Erica
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2021

description: La simulazione virtuale è un tipo di simulazione che pone il partecipante in una posizione centrale, permettendo lo sviluppo del suo “decision-making” in ambienti clinici dinamici ed immersivi sia intra, sia extra ospedalieri. La comparsa della pandemia COVID-19 e la conseguente impossibilità di effettuare lezioni in presenza per motivi di sicurezza, ha reso necessaria la valutazione di metodiche alternative di insegnamento, come per l’appunto la simulazione virtuale. A tale scopo, nell’ambito del Corso di Laurea Magistrale a Ciclo Unico in Medicina e Chirurgia dell’Università Politecnica delle Marche, è risultato fondamentale e strategico progettare un’attività didattica in modalità blended a garanzia del raggiungimento degli obiettivi formativi previsti per le attività formative professionalizzanti.
description: Tutor, Vol 21 No 1 (2021)
The Face of Islam: the Perception of Muslims in America
Creators: name: Aziz, Sahar F.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011

description: This speech contextualizes the racialization of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians in the post-9/11 era. It is important to try to understand and theorize what is happening and compare it to what has happened in the past and try to predict how to deal with it based on our understanding. The[re are] three points I want to make. The first is that there has certainly been a racialization process which is not the first time it has happened in American history, but we have to acknowledge, describe, and deconstruct and strategize on how to eliminate it. The second point I want to make is that government action is legitimizing this racialization and it is essentially legitimizing private bias in various context. I will talk a little about employment bias, which my recent paper is about. And third, I think there has been a politicization of counterterrorism such that it is creating a coercive assimilation of these groups, and I want to go into more detail as to how that is happening and some of the troubling consequences that I think all of us should be concerned about because I think it is going to affect all Americans. First, what is this racialization process? First what is the stereotype? It is the terrorist Other; that's the stereotype. So Islam, in my opinion, not just Arabs, Muslims and South Asians anymore, is racialized as terrorist. I used to think it was just these three groups. I think it is Islam that has been raced as terrorism, so anything affiliated with [*91] Islam, whether you are perceived through your profession, faith, the way you look, that you are now raced as a terrorist, and the color of your skin doesn't matter. If you've read any critical race theory or this process of racialization that is happening in America where for example Catholics were raced as non-white and inferior; Japanese were raced as disloyal, suspicious, treasonous; African Americans are raced as criminals, violent, gangsters; Latinos are raced as undocumented, illegal, inassimilable, etc. There [are] a lot of various groups that are raced in a pejorative sense and unfortunately it seems to be a tradition that we have in this country, but I think with every generation we can try to stop that historical trend.
On Investigating the Potential Effects of Private Autonomous Vehicle Use on Home/Work Relocations and Commute Times
Creators: name: Moore, Michael A.
name: Dias, Felipe F.
name: Bhat, Chandra R.
Publisher: name: Transportation Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: Autonomous vehicles
Willingness to move
Travel behavior
Travel demand

description: You are viewing a publication from UT affiliates that was in the Good Systems Network Digest in May 2020.
Influence of chronic hepatitis C infection on the monocyte-to-platelet ratio: data analysis from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009–2016)
Creators: name: Nikiforuk, Aidan
name: Karim, Mohammad Ehsanul
name: Patrick, David, (Physician)
name: Jassem, Agatha
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes life-threatening chronic infections. Implementation of novel, economical or widely available screening tools can help detect unidentified cases and facilitate their linkage to care. We investigated the relationship between chronic HCV infection and a potential complete blood count biomarker (the monocyte-to-platelet ratio) in the United States. Methods The analytic dataset was selected from cycle years 2009–2016 of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Complete case data- with no missingness- was available for n = 5281 observations, one-hundred and twenty-two (n = 122) of which were exposed to chronic HCV. The primary analysis used survey-weighted logistic regression to model the effect of chronic HCV on the monocyte-to-platelet ratio adjusting for demographic and biological confounders in a causal inference framework. Missing data and propensity score methods were respectively performed as a secondary and sensitivity analysis. Results In the analytic dataset, outcome data was available for n = 5281 (n = 64,245,530 in the weighted sample) observations of which n = 122 (n = 1,067,882 in the weighted sample) tested nucleic acid positive for HCV. Those exposed to chronic HCV infection in the United States have 3.10 times the odds of a high monocyte-to-platelet ratio than those not exposed (OR = 3.10, [95% CI: 1.55–6.18]). Conclusion A relationship exists between chronic HCV infection and the monocyte-to-platelet ratio in the general population of the United States. Reversing the direction of this association to predict chronic HCV infection from complete blood counts, could provide an economically feasible and universal screening tool, which would help link patients with care.