cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Student reactions to college: A comparative study of samples of Black and White students at a multicampus community college
Creators: name: Harden, Jr., Harry
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Two general research questions were postulated for this study: (1) what are the differences, if any, between the reactions of a sample of 150 Black and a sample of 234 White students enrolled in a multicampus community college with regard to the individual items comprising the local option section and each of the nineteen content areas in the Student Reactions to College (SRC) questionnaire, and (2) as stated in item one, a similar comparative analysis of the data was made between samples of 67 Black male and 83 Black female students and for samples of 96 White male and 138 White female students. The total study population was 384 students, part-time and full-time. The instrument used to elicit study data, the SRC, was administered to students during the fall 1990 semester during a regular English class period. Study results indicated that, overall, there was little to no race by gender effect. When the samples of Black and White students were compared, the chi-square analysis showed significant differences on 153 of 165 items. Black students moreso than White students did not perceive their instructors as being effective in explaining material in a way that was comprehensible to them. Black students were not as academically prepared as White students and believed they entered college without the appropriate study skills. Black students spent less time studying than did White students, and a higher percentage of Black than White students believed that the college was not conducive to their scholarly growth. Black students had less interaction with faculty than did White students and believed the college was not supportive of minority students' needs. Black students expressed a greater financial concern than did White students and were more apt to receive a loan. Study findings seem to warrant the conclusion that Black students' needs were not being adequately met through the experiences they had at the college. A series of strategies are recommended to address the low graduation and transfer rates of Black students.
Phases of N=1 USp(2N_c) Gauge Theories with Flavors
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
name: Feng, Bo
name: Ookouchi, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the phase structures of N=1 supersymmetric USp(2N_c) gauge theory with N_f flavors in the fundamental representation as we deformed the N=2 supersymmetric QCD by adding the superpotential for adjoint chiral scalar field. We determined the most general factorization curves for various breaking patterns, for example, the two different breaking patterns of quartic superpotential. We observed all kinds of smooth transitions for quartic superpotential. Finally we discuss the intriguing role of USp(0) in the phase structure and the possible connection with observations made recently in hep-th/0304271 (Aganagic, Intriligator, Vafa and Warner) and in hep-th/0307063 (Cachazo).
description: 61pp; Improved the presentation, references are added and to appear in PRD
Trends and Patterns in U.S. Food Consumption
Creators: name: Burk, Marguerite C.
name: Burk, Marguerite C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: Two aspects of food consumption in the United States are treated in this bulletin. They are (1) the broad outlines of trends in U. S. food supplies and consumption through the last 50 years, and (2) some of the more significant patterns of cross-sectional variations within the country in selected periods during the half century studied. The study begins with a description of sources and uses of food supplies (chapter 2). Historical changes in average food consumption for the whole country are next considered (chapter 3). Description of variations in food consumption among population groups at several points in time follows in chapter 4. Variations in the use of marketing services over the last 30 years and among population groups are reviewed separately in chapter 5. The historical changes in food consumption in terms of the value of civilian food at several levels of distribution are summarized in chapter 6. Supplementary information is given in two appendixes.
Local Versus Global Thermal States: Correlations and the Existence of Local Temperatures
Creators: name: Hartmann, M.
name: Mahler, G.
name: Hess, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a quantum system consisting of a regular chain of elementary subsystems with nearest neighbor interactions and assume that the total system is in a canonical state with temperature $T$. We analyze under what condition the state factors into a product of canonical density matrices with respect to groups of $n$ subsystems each, and when these groups have the same temperature $T$. While in classical mechanics the validity of this procedure only depends on the size of the groups $n$, in quantum mechanics the minimum group size $n_{min}$ also depends on the temperature $T $! As examples, we apply our analysis to a harmonic chain and different types of Ising spin chains. We discuss various features that show up due to the characteristics of the models considered. For the harmonic chain, which successfully describes thermal properties of insulating solids, our approach gives a first quantitative estimate of the minimal length scale on which temperature can exist: This length scale is found to be constant for temperatures above the Debye temperature and proportional to $T^{-3}$ below.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, discussion of results extended, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
IoTBox: Sandbox Mining to Prevent Interaction Threats in IoT Systems
Creators: name: Kang, Hong Jin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Internet of Things (IoT) apps provide great convenience but exposes us to new safety threats. Unlike traditional software systems, threats may emerge from the joint behavior of multiple apps. While prior studies use handcrafted safety and security policies to detect these threats, these policies may not anticipate all usages of the devices and apps in a smart home, causing false alarms. In this study, we propose to use the technique of mining sandboxes for securing an IoT environment. After a set of behaviors are analyzed from a bundle of apps and devices, a sandbox is deployed, which enforces that previously unseen behaviors are disallowed. Hence, the execution of malicious behavior, introduced from software updates or obscured through methods to hinder program analysis, is blocked. While sandbox mining techniques have been proposed for Android apps, we show and discuss why they are insufficient for detecting malicious behavior in a more complex IoT system. We prototype IoTBox to address these limitations. IoTBox explores behavior through a formal model of a smart home. In our empirical evaluation to detect malicious code changes, we find that IoTBox achieves substantially higher precision and recall compared to existing techniques for mining sandboxes.
Additional file 2 of Challenges in the cultural adaptation of the German Myeloma Patient Outcome Scale (MyPOS): an outcome measure to support routine symptom assessment in myeloma care
Creators: name: Gerlach, Christina
name: Taylor, Katherine
name: Ferner, Marion
name: Munder, Markus
name: Weber, Martin
name: Ramsenthaler, Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Topic guide for focus groups with patients, family, and healthcare professionals about conceptual equivalence, and feedback on MyPOS as a measure, aspects of layout, and feedback on MyPOS single items.
Work as art: Logging as an aesthetic moment in Clearwater County, Idaho
Creators: name: James-Duguid, Charlene Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The emphases of this dissertation are: an experimental writing technique to produce an ethnography of Orofino, Idaho, and an analysis of the region's major industry, logging, as a source for understanding the aesthetics of work. The genre is based on vignettes derived from interviews. Many are introduced with bridges that position the writer in the scene. They provide the reader with a picture of the writer's role in ethnography. Authorship is shared by the community members and the writer. Using a "slice of life," approach means that Orofinoans and the public can read the ethnography as if it were a literary piece. It provides Orofino with a voice as it creates a work with broad popular interest. As the study unfolds, it gives details of the lives of old-time loggers and contemporary logging contractors. It sets the stage for examining whether loggers apply an aesthetic to their work, both in their daily life in the woods and in festival performances. A definition of aesthetics, applied to those who look at their physical labor as art, is developed at the conclusion of this dissertation.
1909-05-24 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1909
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
Work as art: Logging as an aesthetic moment in Clearwater County, Idaho
Creators: name: James-Duguid, Charlene Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: The emphases of this dissertation are: an experimental writing technique to produce an ethnography of Orofino, Idaho, and an analysis of the region's major industry, logging, as a source for understanding the aesthetics of work. The genre is based on vignettes derived from interviews. Many are introduced with bridges that position the writer in the scene. They provide the reader with a picture of the writer's role in ethnography. Authorship is shared by the community members and the writer. Using a "slice of life," approach means that Orofinoans and the public can read the ethnography as if it were a literary piece. It provides Orofino with a voice as it creates a work with broad popular interest. As the study unfolds, it gives details of the lives of old-time loggers and contemporary logging contractors. It sets the stage for examining whether loggers apply an aesthetic to their work, both in their daily life in the woods and in festival performances. A definition of aesthetics, applied to those who look at their physical labor as art, is developed at the conclusion of this dissertation.
Dichotic listening and hemispheric asymmetry in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Ragland, John Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: To investigate the effect of schizophrenia on perceptual asymmetry for speech perception, dichotic listening tests were administered to a group of monozygotic (identical) twins discordant for schizophrenia (i.e., one proband has schizophrenia and one does not), and to two concordant control groups where either both members of the twin pair were normal or both had schizophrenia. On the basis of a left hemisphere impairment model of schizophrenia, it was predicted that twins with schizophrenia would show less of a right ear advantage (REA) than normal twins on the dichotic words. Data from both discordant and concordant twin pairs did not support this prediction. Results generally indicated that, like normal twins, most twins with schizophrenia had a REA, and the magnitude of their REA was not significantly different than control values. These results are most consistent with a bilateral hemispheric impairment model of schizophrenia. When the emotional characteristics of the dichotic words (i.e., neutral versus emotionally charged), were examined, it was found that emotional words caused both normal and schizophrenic twins to produce more errors. Finally, there was a tendency for REAs to be larger for men and for right handed subjects across diagnosis.
Long-range Rydberg molecule Rb$_2$: Two-electron \textit{R}-matrix calculations at intermediate internuclear distances
Creators: name: Tarana, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adiabatic potential energy curves of Rb$_2$ in the long-range Rydberg electronic states are calculated using the two-electron \textit{R}-matrix method [M. Tarana, R. Čurík, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{93}, 012515 (2016)] for the intermediate internuclear separations between 35 a.u. and 200 a.u. The results are compared with the zero-range models to find a region of the internuclear distances where the Fermi's pseudopotential approach provides accurate energies. A finite-range potential model of the atomic perturber is used to calculate the wave functions of the Rydberg electron and their features specific for the studied range of internuclear distances are identified.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
title: 02_0187
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Detailed design report : traffic modifications at the UBC Botanical Garden
Creators: name: Schroeder, Aaron
name: Yii, Elliot
name: Kim, Kyung-Suk
name: Gardiner, Scott
name: Blake, Sean
name: Prasad, Surabhi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This report provides engineering solutions devised towards the improvement of the UBC Botanical Garden. One issue of concern that is currently troubling the Garden is the environmental concern presented by an impervious parking lot floor; this contributes to soil erosion in the surrounding area and also the contamination of the environment via chemical runoff from vehicle effluent. High traffic speeds in front of the Garden also make it quite dangerous for pedestrians and cyclist, especially in times of inclement weather such as fog. To address these issues, the report includes detailed designs of the refitting of the parking lot floor using environmentally friendly design, modification of traffic systems around the Garden using a round-about, and signage to support said round-about. These will be discussed in relation to the three main engineering disciplines that will be focused on in this project: transportation in regard to the round-about, structural for the signage to support it, and environmental for the parking lot. Project management information will also be provided. For the roundabout section of the report, traffic flows will be studied and the roundabout will be designed to meet the minimum requirements set by the Ministry of Transportation. The design of the roundabout will also take the available area into account; design will be restricted to within the existing area of the intersection of Marine Drive and Stadium Road. Signage design for the roundabout will focus on wind loading which consists. The environmental and hydrological criteria will focus on the refitting of the current parking lot which fitted with an impermeable surface with a permeable flooring. It will discuss in detail how the new layout will reduce issues pertaining to chemical runoff and ground water recharge. Finally, the project management section of the report will include costing and scheduling for each component. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Uncertainty-aware Exploration in Model-based Testing
Creators: name: Camilli, Matteo
name: Gargantini, Angelo
name: Scandurra, Patrizia
name: Trubiani, Catia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Modern software systems operate in complex and changing environments and are exposed to multiple sources of uncertainty. Testing methods shall be tailored to uncertainty as a first-class concern in order to quantify it and deliver increased confidence in the level of assurance of the final product. In this paper, we introduce novel model-based exploration strategies that generate test cases targeting uncertain components of the system under test. Our testing framework leverages Markov Decision Processes as modeling formalism of choice. The tester explicitly specifies uncertainty by means of beliefs attached to transition probabilities. The structural properties of the model and the uncertainty specification are then exploited to drive the test case generation process. Bayesian inference is used to achieve this objective by updating the initial beliefs through the evidence collected by testing. The proposed uncertainty-aware test selection strategies have been systematically evaluated on three realistic benchmarks and nine synthetic systems exhibiting up to 10k model transitions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the novel strategies with well-established metrics. Results show they outperform existing testing methods with a gain up to 2.65× in terms of accuracy of the inference process.
Dichotic listening and hemispheric asymmetry in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Ragland, John Daniel
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: To investigate the effect of schizophrenia on perceptual asymmetry for speech perception, dichotic listening tests were administered to a group of monozygotic (identical) twins discordant for schizophrenia (i.e., one proband has schizophrenia and one does not), and to two concordant control groups where either both members of the twin pair were normal or both had schizophrenia. On the basis of a left hemisphere impairment model of schizophrenia, it was predicted that twins with schizophrenia would show less of a right ear advantage (REA) than normal twins on the dichotic words. Data from both discordant and concordant twin pairs did not support this prediction. Results generally indicated that, like normal twins, most twins with schizophrenia had a REA, and the magnitude of their REA was not significantly different than control values. These results are most consistent with a bilateral hemispheric impairment model of schizophrenia. When the emotional characteristics of the dichotic words (i.e., neutral versus emotionally charged), were examined, it was found that emotional words caused both normal and schizophrenic twins to produce more errors. Finally, there was a tendency for REAs to be larger for men and for right handed subjects across diagnosis.
Quantum corrections to the mass of the supersymmetric vortex
Creators: name: Vassilevich, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate quantum corrections to the mass of the vortex in N=2 supersymmetric abelian Higgs model in (2+1) dimensions. We put the system in a box and apply the zeta function regularization. The boundary conditions inevitably violate a part of the supersymmetries. Remaining supersymmetry is however enough to ensure isospectrality of relevant operators in bosonic and fermionic sectors. A non-zero correction to the mass of the vortex comes from finite renormalization of couplings.
description: Latex, 18 pp; v2 reference added; v3 minor changes
Evaluación de la dinámica fitoplanctónica de los grupos: Cianofitas, Clorofitas, Diatomeas, y Dinoflagelados y su relación con los parámetros fisicoquímicos, en las aguas del Estero Salinas Grandes, periodo junio – noviembre 2017.
Evaluation of the phytoplankton dynamics of the groups: Cyanophytes, Chlorophytes, Diatoms, and Dinoflagellates and their relationship with the physicochemical parameters, in the waters of Estero Salinas Grandes, period June - November 2017
Creators: name: Argeñal Fabilena, Miguel Alejandro
name: López Montalván, Diana De Los Ángeles
name: Argeñal Fabilena, Miguel Alejandro
name: López Montalván, Diana De Los Ángeles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Clorofitas; Cianofitas; Diatomeas; Dinoflagelados; Turbidez

description: The present study was made in the Salinas Grandes estuary, located in the community of Salinas Grandes, department of León, in the period of June-November 2017. The aim was to evaluate the dynamics of the concentrations of the microalgae groups, Chlorophytes, Cyanophytes, Diatoms and Dinoflagellates and relate them to the fluctuation of the physicochemical parameters. The water samples were taken once a month, using 500 ml bottles and the physicochemical parameters were measured (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH). The results show, in a general way, the presence of only three of the four main groups (Chlorophytes, Diatoms and Dinoflagellates). Diatoms showed higher concentrations and diversity of genera, showing significant difference (P≤0.05) with the other two groups, which is logical considering the proximity of the sampling area with the sea. Also, a decreasing tendency in the concentrations of these is shown as it advances towards the continent. Diatoms and dinoflagellates showed positive correlation in the three study areas. Likewise, a positive correlation was observed between the levels of dissolved oxygen and turbidity, which suggests that the phytoplankton fluctuation is the one that modulates the concentration of dissolved oxygen.
description: Tutores Ariel José Aguilar, Ph. D. Mariela Prado, Lic.
Evaluación de la dinámica fitoplanctónica de los grupos (clorofitas, cianofitas, diatomeas, dinoflagelados) y su relación con los parámetros físicos-químicos presentes en las aguas, estero de Salinas Grandes, en el periodo comprendido junio-noviembre de 2017
Evaluation of the phytoplankton dynamics of the groups (chlorophytes, cyanophytes, diatoms, dinoflagellates) and its relationship with the physical-chemical parameters present in the waters, estuary Salinas Grandes, in the period June-November 2017
Creators: name: Cristhian José Cuadra Sánchez, Br.
name: Johanna Patricia Reyes Mendoza, Br.
name: Fulvio Morlan Sánchez Amaya, Br
name: Cristhian José Cuadra Sánchez, Br.
name: Johanna Patricia Reyes Mendoza, Br.
name: Fulvio Morlan Sánchez Amaya, Br
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Salinity; Oxygen; Temperature; pH ;Turbidity

description: The present investigation was carried out in Salinas Grandes stuary, department of León, in the period June-November 2017. The aim was to evaluate the fluctuations of the concentrations of the groups, Chlorophytes, Cyanophytes, Diatoms and Dinoflagellates and relate them to the variation of physical-chemical parameters. The water samples were taken once a month, the physical chemical parameters were measured (salinity, oxygen, temperature, pH and turbidity). In general, our results show the presence of the four groups of microalgae, being Diatoms and Chlorophytes the groups that presented higher concentrations. With regard to salinity, the month of July shows the highest concentration (34.66 ppm), decreasing over time in the whole area. Dissolved oxygen ranged between 4.53-0.72 mg / L throughout the study period. The maximum temperature values were presented in the month of August (30.23 ºC), without significant changes in time and between sampling points. With regard to turbidity, readings ranged between 31.66-120 cm, with June being the month with the lowest readings. Throughout the study period, the pH value of the water presented a range of (7-8.83). There is no correlation between the fluctuations of the main physicochemical parameters; therefore, this area of study does not present conditions that guarantee animal welfare for the development of fish culture in floating cages.
description: Tutores Ariel José Aguilar, Ph. D. Mariela Prado, Lic.
Estimation of the mean of positively skewed distributions with applications to estimation of exposure to contaminated soils
Creators: name: Chen, Ling
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider estimating the mean of a positively skewed distribution from both random and purposive samples. It has been noted that in random samples the sample mean has a large probability of falling below the mean of the distribution, because of such skewness. Various ad hoc procedures have been proposed to correct this low coverage of the mean in order to conservatively estimate the long-term exposure to contaminated soils at toxic waste sites. We propose a direct estimate of the mean based on a penalized loss function. This loss function is made up of a squared error loss plus a penalty for each observation that falls above the estimate. The resulting minimum risk estimate, called the penalized mean, is derived iteratively and shown to be biased in favor of greater coverage. We show that, asymptotically, a one-step iterate of the penalized mean is unbiased, converges almost surely to the true mean, and with mild assumptions on the form of the penalty, is normally distributed. Based on a penalized loss, we show that the sample mean is inadmissible in the normal distribution and a class of positively skewed distributions. Choices of a penalty parameter result in a penalized estimate of the mean with greater coverage than that of the sample mean. Approaches to choosing this parameter optimally are also investigated. Extensions of this procedure to nonrandom purposive samples that arise from selective sampling in highly contaminated regions are also developed.
An economic analysis of the differential effects of neighborhood amenities on housing prices in Minneapolis and suburbs, 1970-1980
Creators: name: Halvorson, Paul Phillip
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates differences in intra-urban housing prices in Minneapolis and suburbs between 1970 and 1980. The relevant literature on filtering and arbitrage models of neighborhood change is reviewed along with housing research based on a hedonic price index. Housing prices and related attributes are gathered from Multiple Listing Service data on 684 randomly selected houses and U.S. Census data on 231 neighborhoods in Hennepin County as defined by 1970 census tract boundaries. A Neighborhood Succession Index is constructed to compare geographic differences in housing appreciation. A five-part method is developed to distinguish between significant housing structure and neighborhood attributes. Three regression models are developed to test five hypotheses. Initially, the Neighborhood Median Price Model and the Neighborhood Median Price Change Model use census data to examine the influence of neighborhood attributes on median housing prices. Finally, a Housing Attributes Price Model is tested to distinguish between the influence of ten housing structure and twelve neighborhood attributes using individual housing sales as the dependent variable. A Box-Cox transformation is used to correct for problems of heteroskedasticity. Six restricted models are tested to determine the significance of various neighborhood attributes. These models seek to identify the extent to which intra-urban differences in housing prices can be explained by a neighborhood premium and penalty price index. The analysis reveals seven housing-structure attributes explain eighty percent of the variation. Nine neighborhood variables explain one-third of the remaining variation. All neighborhood attributes when dropped from various restricted models were significant at the.05 level. Neighborhood price premia display a strong geographic pattern and challenge prior research on the determinants of housing value based either on one-dimensional distance gradients or the use of housing sub-markets. A discussion of research methodology reveals the limitations of aggregated data suggesting future research efforts incorporate neighborhood and proximity characteristics unique to each house in the sampled area. Policy implications for local municipalities and development organizations are discussed in the context of using imputed housing prices to construct indicators to estimate differences in neighborhood quality.
ParKCa: Causal Inference with Partially Known Causes
Creators: name: Aoki, Raquel
name: Ester, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.1
subject: 62P10

description: Methods for causal inference from observational data are an alternative for scenarios where collecting counterfactual data or realizing a randomized experiment is not possible. Adopting a stacking approach, our proposed method ParKCA combines the results of several causal inference methods to learn new causes in applications with some known causes and many potential causes. We validate ParKCA in two Genome-wide association studies, one real-world and one simulated dataset. Our results show that ParKCA can infer more causes than existing methods.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing - 2021 World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, http://psb.stanford.edu/
An economic analysis of the differential effects of neighborhood amenities on housing prices in Minneapolis and suburbs, 1970-1980
Creators: name: Halvorson, Paul Phillip
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 33
subject: Built environment and design
classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning
classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation investigates differences in intra-urban housing prices in Minneapolis and suburbs between 1970 and 1980. The relevant literature on filtering and arbitrage models of neighborhood change is reviewed along with housing research based on a hedonic price index. Housing prices and related attributes are gathered from Multiple Listing Service data on 684 randomly selected houses and U.S. Census data on 231 neighborhoods in Hennepin County as defined by 1970 census tract boundaries. A Neighborhood Succession Index is constructed to compare geographic differences in housing appreciation. A five-part method is developed to distinguish between significant housing structure and neighborhood attributes. Three regression models are developed to test five hypotheses. Initially, the Neighborhood Median Price Model and the Neighborhood Median Price Change Model use census data to examine the influence of neighborhood attributes on median housing prices. Finally, a Housing Attributes Price Model is tested to distinguish between the influence of ten housing structure and twelve neighborhood attributes using individual housing sales as the dependent variable. A Box-Cox transformation is used to correct for problems of heteroskedasticity. Six restricted models are tested to determine the significance of various neighborhood attributes. These models seek to identify the extent to which intra-urban differences in housing prices can be explained by a neighborhood premium and penalty price index. The analysis reveals seven housing-structure attributes explain eighty percent of the variation. Nine neighborhood variables explain one-third of the remaining variation. All neighborhood attributes when dropped from various restricted models were significant at the.05 level. Neighborhood price premia display a strong geographic pattern and challenge prior research on the determinants of housing value based either on one-dimensional distance gradients or the use of housing sub-markets. A discussion of research methodology reveals the limitations of aggregated data suggesting future research efforts incorporate neighborhood and proximity characteristics unique to each house in the sampled area. Policy implications for local municipalities and development organizations are discussed in the context of using imputed housing prices to construct indicators to estimate differences in neighborhood quality.
Effects of turbulent environment on the surface roughening: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model coupled to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation
Creators: name: Antonov, N. V.
name: Gulitskiy, N. M.
name: Kakin, P. I.
name: Kostenko, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model of non-equilibrium critical behaviour (kinetic surface roughening) with turbulent motion of the environment taken into account is studied by the field theoretic renormalization group approach. The turbulent motion is described by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation with the random stirring force whose correlation function includes two terms that allow one to account both for a turbulent fluid and for a fluid in thermal equilibrium. The renormalization group analysis performed in the leading order of perturbation theory (one-loop approximation) reveals six possible types of scaling behaviour (universality classes). The most interesting values of the spatial dimension $d=2$ and~$3$ correspond to the universality class of a pure turbulent advection where the nonlinearity of the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang model is irrelevant.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Epermenia (Calotripis) brasiliana GAEDIKE & BECKER
Creators: name: Gaedike, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Epermeniidae
Epermenia
Epermenia brasiliana

description: Epermenia (Calotripis) brasiliana GAEDIKE & BECKER,, 1989
 Material:
 Argentina: 1 , 3 , Tucuman, 11 km S Tacanas, 28 km WSW Trancas, 800 m, 15.xi.1995, Neth. Ent. Exp. N-Arg. Sta. 13; 1 , Tucuman, Alto de San Agustin ar Javier, 920 m, 15.i.1996, Neth. Ent. Exp. N-Arg. Sta. 43; 1 , Tucuman, Alto de San Agustin, 1025 m, 2.ii.1996, Neth. Ent. Exp. N-Arg. Sta. 60; 1 , Salta, Camino de Cornissa, 1200 m, 12.xi.1995, Neth. Ent. Exp. N-Arg. Sta. 9; 1 , Jujuy, Yala, 15 km NW S.S. de Juluy, 1500 m, 13.xi.1995, Neth. Ent. Exp. N-Arg. Sta. 11; RMNH: New country record.
 Peru: 1 , Dept. Huánaco 15: 25 km NE Huánaco, Cordillera Carpish, Pattytrail, 2600 m, 8.- 10.ii.1987, leg. O. KARSHOLT; 1 , Dept. Puno 56: 5 km E Limbani, 3000 m, 28.iii.1987, leg. O. KARSHOLT; ZMUC: New country record.
description: Published as part of Gaedike, Reinhard, 2010, New and poorly known Epermeniidae from the Neotropical, Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions (Lepidoptera), pp. 57-70 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.1.57-70, http://zenodo.org/record/4779421
IFOP Study of Public Opinion
Creators: name: Institut Francais D'Opinion Publique
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Purchase power (1); how much needed to support family (1); opinion of government's handling of problems (1); French economic situation (3); American Presidential elections (1); Tokyo Olympic Games (1); maintaining French army (2); national service exemptions (3); family support (1); exemptions for professional categories (1); military service (2); boys under 30 (1).
GAINS AND LOSSES FROM FARM COMMODITY PROGRAMS UNDER THE 1985 FOOD SECURITY ACT
Creators: name: Lin, William
name: Starbird, Irving
name: Lin, William
name: Starbird, Irving
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Food Security and Poverty
Political Economy

description: This paper estimates annual gains and losses from 1986 corn, wheat, rice and cotton programs and compares with those estimated for 1984 and 1985. Cost:Sto U.S. consumers and taxpayers outweight net gains to producers by $2.6 billion in 1986 -- Sl.1 billion smaller than the average for 1984 and 1985.
Activities of the Operating Room, September 1944
Creators: name: Bradburn, George Burmell, 1908-1968
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Surgery
subject: Surgical Procedures, Operative
subject: Surgical Equipment
subject: Equipment and Supplies, Hospital
subject: Hospitals, Military
subject: Anesthesia
subject: Wounds and Injuries
subject: Rome (Italy)
subject: Wounds and Injuries/therapy

description: These monthly reports consist of statistical tables that note the number of specific types of surgeries the 12th General Hospital Unit performed as well as information about surgical supplies.
Model-based Automated Testing of Mobile Applications: An Industrial Case Study
Creators: name: Karlsson, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Automatic testing of mobile applications has been a well-researched area in recent years. However, testing in industry is still a very manual practice, as research results have not been fully transferred and adopted. Considering mobile applications, manual testing has the additional burden of adequate testing posed by a large number of available devices and different configurations, as well as the maintenance and setup of such devices. In this paper, we propose and evaluate the use of a model-based test generation approach, where generated tests are executed on a set of cloud-hosted real mobile devices. By using a model-based approach we generate dynamic, less brittle, and implementation simple test cases. The test execution on multiple real devices with different configurations increase the confidence in the implementation of the system under test. Our evaluation shows that the used approach produces a high coverage of the parts of the application related to user interactions. Nevertheless, the inclusion of external services in test generation is required in order to additionally increase the coverage of the complete application. Furthermore, we present the lessons learned while transferring and implementing this approach in an industrial context and applying it to the real product.
Additional file 8 of Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive
Creators: name: Fernández-González, Antonio J.
name: Cardoni, Martina
name: Cabanás, Carmen Gómez-Lama
name: Valverde-Corredor, Antonio
name: Villadas, Pablo J.
name: Fernández-López, Manuel
name: Mercado-Blanco, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S5. Genera with significantly different changes in rhizosphere of Frantoio and Picual bacterial structural (panels a and c respectively) and functional (panels b and d respectively) communities after inoculation with Verticillium dahliae. No/green: non-inoculated; Yes/red: Verticillium dahliae-inoculated.
Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia
Creators: name: Udara Peiris, M
name: Polemarchakis, Herakles
name: Udara Peiris, M
name: Polemarchakis, Herakles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: quantitative easing
subject: exchange rates

description: Explicit targets for the composition of assets traded by governments are necessary for fiscal-monetary policy to determine the stochastic paths of inflation or exchange rates; this is the case even if fiscal policy is non-Ricardian. Targets obtain with the traditional conduct of monetary policy and Credit Easing, but not with unconventional policy and Quantitative Easing. The composition of the portfolios traded by monetary-fiscal authorities determines premia in asset and currency markets.
Effects of different reinforcer probabilities and delays on choice as a function of income level
Creators: name: Hastjarjo, Thomas Dicky
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In Experiment 1, 3 rats earned their daily food ration by choosing on a trials basis between a lever that delivered one food pellet immediately and another that delivered 3 pellets after a delay that was adjusted to ensure responding to both alternatives. Choice of the delayed reinforcer increased when the number of trials/session was reduced. This change in preference defended food intake. In Experiment 2, 3 rats earned their daily ration by choosing on a trials basis between a "risky" and a "risk-free" lever. The risky lever produced either 15 pellets with p = 0.33 or no pellets with p = 0.67, while the risk-free lever always produced 3 pellets. Risky-lever choices decreased when trials/session were reduced. This preference change was incompatible with defending food intake: The demonstration in these experiments that reducing trials/session resulted in increased preference for the alternative that had the greater delay (Experiment 1) and the higher probability of reinforcement (Experiment 2) is incompatible with models that posit that reinforcer probability and immediacy (1/delay) function equivalently in choice (e.g., Rachlin, Logue, Gibbon, & Frankel, 1986).
Effects of different reinforcer probabilities and delays on choice as a function of income level
Creators: name: Hastjarjo, Thomas Dicky
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In Experiment 1, 3 rats earned their daily food ration by choosing on a trials basis between a lever that delivered one food pellet immediately and another that delivered 3 pellets after a delay that was adjusted to ensure responding to both alternatives. Choice of the delayed reinforcer increased when the number of trials/session was reduced. This change in preference defended food intake. In Experiment 2, 3 rats earned their daily ration by choosing on a trials basis between a "risky" and a "risk-free" lever. The risky lever produced either 15 pellets with p = 0.33 or no pellets with p = 0.67, while the risk-free lever always produced 3 pellets. Risky-lever choices decreased when trials/session were reduced. This preference change was incompatible with defending food intake: The demonstration in these experiments that reducing trials/session resulted in increased preference for the alternative that had the greater delay (Experiment 1) and the higher probability of reinforcement (Experiment 2) is incompatible with models that posit that reinforcer probability and immediacy (1/delay) function equivalently in choice (e.g., Rachlin, Logue, Gibbon, & Frankel, 1986).
Redshifted 21 cm Emission From the Pre-Reionization Era I. Mean Signal and Linear Fluctuations
Creators: name: Gnedin, Nickolay Y.
name: Shaver, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use cosmological simulations of reionization to predict the possible signal from the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen in the pre-reionization era and to investigate the observability of this signal. We show that the separation of the mean (global) signal over the whole sky from the known foreground contamination may be feasible, but very challenging. In agreement with previous studies, we demonstrate that measuring angular fluctuations in the HI signal is likely to be extremely difficult if not impossible because of the overwhelming contamination from the galactic and extragalactic foregrounds. However,we show that the sharp HI fluctuations in the frequency domain should be easily separable from the relatively smooth spectra of the foregrounds, and that these fluctuations should be detectable even at moderate angular resolution (10-20 arcmin).
description: submitted to ApJ