cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Association of cervical microglandular hyperplasia with exogenous progestin exposure
Creators: name: Heller, Debra
name: Nguyen, Lena
name: Goldsmith, Laura T.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cervix uteri
Hyperplasia
Women--Health and hygiene

description: Objectives: Although microglandular hyperplasia is a benign endocervical lesion, it may raise concern of malignancy in an inexperienced pathologist, because clinicians may not be familiar with it on a report. It has been reported to occur in association with progestational stimulation, but this has not been well studied. The aim of the study was to evaluate this potential association. Materials and Methods: This was an observational case control study of patients seen from January 01, 1991 to November 01, 2014 at the University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey. Cases of microglandular hyperplasia and controls were identified from the files of the Department of Pathology. Controls were cases of endocervical curettages for whom no microglandular hyperplasia was detected. Medical records were reviewed for evidence of exogenous progestin exposure within the previous 6 months. Results: Eighty-nine cases of microglandular hyperplasia and 97 controls were identified. Of the cases of microglandular hyperplasia, 26 (29.2%) of 89 cases had exposure to progestational medication, significantly greater than that of controls (10/97, 10.3%; p = .0014). Conclusions: Our data show that a significantly higher percentage of women with microglandular hyperplasia had progestin exposure than women who do not exhibit this benign lesion. Clinicians and pathologists should be aware of this association, as well as the benign nature of the lesion.
Electrokinetically-driven deterministic lateral displacement for particle separation in microfluidic device
Creators: name: Diez, Francisco J.
name: Hanasoge, Srinivas
name: Devendra, Raghavendra
name: Drazer, German
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Separation
DLD
Deterministic Lateral Displacement
Electrokinetics
Microfluidics

description: An electrokinetically driven deterministic lateral displacement device is proposed for the continuous, two-dimensional fractionation of suspensions in microfluidic platforms. The suspended species are driven through an array of regularly spaced cylindrical posts by applying an electric field across the device. We explore the entire range of orientations of the driving field with respect to the array of obstacles and show that, at specific forcing angles, particles of different size migrate in different directions, thus enabling continuous, two-dimensional separation. We discuss a number of features observed in the motion of the particles, including directional locking and sharp transitions between migration angles upon variations in the direction of the force, that are advantageous for high-resolution two-dimensional separation. A simple model based on individual particle–obstacle interactions accurately describes the migration angle of the particles depending on the orientation of the driving field and can be used to reconfigure the electric field depending on the composition of the samples.
Resumen, Prototipo detección automática de uso de tapabocas. Tesis de grado Diego Fernando Eraso Rodriguez
Creators: name: Eraso, Diego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 80199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified

description: "Este documento contiene una versión de 3 páginas que abarca el proyecto de principio a fin dejando constancia de la información relevante. Version completa en: https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Diego_Fernando_Eraso_Rodriguez_-_Proyecto_de_grado_2021-3/19701655 " Diego Fernando Eraso Rodriguez Ingeniero Electrónico, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogotá. Contenido La aparición del COVID 19, convirtió el uso de tapabocas en una medida obligatoria para la contención del virus, una medida que no siempre se respeta y es de vital cumplimiento. Usando medios convencionales verificar el uso de tapabocas continuamente en lugares públicos o dentro de las instalaciones de por ejemplo una universidad requiere personal humano observado rostros permanentemente. Siendo esta solución en muchos casos demasiado demandante de recursos y sujeta al error humano, una solución que involucre un sistema autónomo electrónico de detección de uso de tapabocas es más conveniente. Este proyecto presenta el diseño, implementación y pruebas de un prototipo de sistema de detección de tapabocas. La motivación principal para este trabajo fue y continúa siendo la situación actual, en otro escenario el uso de tapabocas no se habría generalizado y no existiría la misma necesidad de construir un detector de bajo presupuesto que permita un monitoreo continúo.
La rilevazione di cambiamenti in processi dinamici: un'applicazione ad un analizzatore di ozono
Creators: name: Bordignon, S.
name: Scagliarini, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The quality of data collected by air pollution monitoring networks is often affected by inaccuracies and missing data problems, mainly due to breakdowns and/or biases of the measurement instruments.In this paper we propose a statistical method to detect, as soon as possible, biases in the measurement devices, in order to improve the quality of collected data on line. The technique is based on the joint use of stochastic modeling and statistical process control algorithms. This methodology is applied to the mean hourly ozone concentrations recorded from one monitoring site of the Bologna urban area network. We set up the monitoring algorithm(through a simulation experiment) in such a way to detect anomalies in the data within 24 hours. The results show several out of control signals that may be caused by problems in the measurement device.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 2 (1999)
Diego Fernando Eraso Rodriguez - Proyecto de grado 2021-3
Creators: name: Eraso, Diego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 80104 Computer Vision

description: Version completa y final, tesis de grado Diego Fernando Eraso Rodriguez
RCSB Protein Data Bank: A Resource for Chemical, Biochemical, and Structural Explorations of Large and Small Biomolecules
Creators: name: Zardecki, Christine
name: Dutta, Shuchismita
name: Goodsell, David S.
name: Voigt, Maria
name: Burley, Stephen K.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry--Study and teaching (Secondary)
First-year college students
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
General public
Interdisciplinary approach in education
Multidisciplinary studies
Web-based instruction
Proteins
X-ray crystallography
Biochemistry
Nucleic Acids
DNA
RNA
Peptides

description: The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) supports scientific research and education worldwide by providing access to annotated information about three-dimensional (3D) structures of macromolecules (e.g., nucleic acids, proteins), and associated small molecules (e.g., drugs, cofactors, inhibitors) in the PDB archive. Researchers, educators, and students use RCSB PDB resources to study the shape and interactions of biological molecules and their implications in molecular biology, medicine, biotechnology, and beyond. RCSB PDB supports development of standards for data deposition, representation, annotation, and validation of atomic structural data obtained from various experimental methods. Uniform representation of PDB data is essential for providing consistent search and analysis capabilities for all PDB users, from beginning students to domain experts. The RCSB PDB Web site provides tools for searching, visualizing, and analyzing PDB data, including easy exploration of chemical interactions that stabilize macromolecules and play important roles in their interactions and functions. In addition, educational resources are available for free and unrestricted use in the classroom for exploring chemistry and biology at the molecular level.
Classification of ball bearing faults using a hybrid intelligent model
Creators: name: Seera, Manjeevan
name: Wong, M. L. Dennis
name: Nandi, Asoke K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, classification of ball bearing faults using vibration signals is presented. A review of condition monitoring using vibration signals with various intelligent systems is first presented. A hybrid intelligent model, FMM-RF, consisting of the Fuzzy Min-Max (FMM) neural network and the Random Forest (RF) model, is proposed. A benchmark problem is tested to evaluate the practicality of the FMM-RF model. The proposed model is then applied to a real-world dataset. In both cases, power spectrum and sample entropy features are used for classification. Results from both experiments show good accuracy achieved by the proposed FMM-RF model. In addition, a set of explanatory rules in the form of a decision tree is extracted to justify the predictions. The outcomes indicate the usefulness of FMM-RF in performing classification of ball bearing faults.
Rapid state estimate for a class of dynamic models
Creators: name: Bollani, L.
name: Giolitti, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Even though well proved statistical methodologies in time series analysis can provide an optimal solution to well defined estimation and forecast problems, in many cases the optimal solution is not efficient from the point of view of computation. In many practical problems a shortcut to obtain good sub optimal solution is considered, for which it is possible to get rapid sub optimal solutions. Some consideration is made on how one can get to a simplified problem containing in fact the very kernel of the real problem getting rid of some complexity.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 2 (1999)
Exploratory analysis of images engraved on ancient near-eastern seals based on a distance among strings
Creators: name: Camiz, S.
name: Rova, E.
name: Tuilli, V.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: For the structure analysis of images engraved on ancient Near-Eastern seals, a method was developed able of computing the distance among strings of symbols repre-senting each image structure. In strings, couples of parentheses enclose substrings corresponding to subpattern, that are outlined in this way. The procedure examines operations of deletion, insertion, and substitution, necessary to map a string into another. The method uses a set of weights to be attributed to each operation in order to derive a distance based on these weights. The distance matrix was submitted to principal coordinates analysis, followed by a hierarchical classification of seals according to the first three principal axes coordinates. The results of the pilot analysis performed on a sample of a hundred seals are highly promising for further developments.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 4 (1998)
In Vitro Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities of Egyptian Citrus Beebread
Creators: name: Elsayed, Nesren
name: El-Din, Hatem Sharaf
name: Altemimi, Ammar B.
name: Ahmed, Hanaa Y.
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
name: Abedelmaksoud, Tarek Gamal
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: In this study, Egyptian beebread (EBB) was investigated for its nutritive value, chemical composition, antioxidant properties, antimicrobial and antitumor activities. Results indicated that EBB was a good source of protein (23.58 ± 0.183 g/100 g BB), total free sugar (20.266 ± 0.930) and potassium (290.202 ± 2.645 mg/100 g). Additionally, 14 fatty acids were identified in EBB, wherein polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids represented 51.06% ± 0.09% and 9.86% ± 0.01%, respectively. The EBB extract exhibited almost 400% better antiradical activity than BHT, with IC50 of EBB extract being 10.7 µg/mL compared to 39.5 µg/mL for BHT. EBB exhibited higher inhibitory activity than the reference compound against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, followed by Bacillus subtilis. No inhibitory activity was observed against Aspergillus Niger. Additionally, the highest inhibitory activity was recorded against Caco-2 cells, followed by PC3 and HepG-2 cancer cell lines with IC50 values 262, 314 and 386 μg/mL, respectively. These findings establish the potential of EBB as an antioxidant, antimicrobial and antitumor agent, with possible applications as natural food supplements and natural preservatives.
title: Building confidence in projections of the responses of living marine resources to climate change
title: Building confidence in projections of living marine resources to climate change
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cheung, William W. L.
name: Frölicher, Thomas L.
name: Asch, Rebecca G.
name: Jones, Miranda C.
name: Pinsky, Malin L.
name: Reygondeau, Gabriel
name: Rodgers, Keith B.
name: Rykaczewski, Ryan R.
name: Watson, James R.
name: Stock, Charles
name: Sarmiento, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Fisheries
Marine resources
Multi-model ensembles
Projection
Uncertainty
Climate Change

description: The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights that climate change and ocean acidification are challenging the sustainable management of living marine resources (LMRs). Formal and systematic treatment of uncertainty in existing LMR projections, however, is lacking. We synthesize knowledge of how to address different sources of uncertainty by drawing from climate model intercomparison efforts. We suggest an ensemble of available models and projections, informed by observations, as a starting point to quantify uncertainties. Such an ensemble must be paired with analysis of the dominant uncertainties over different spatial scales, time horizons, and metrics. We use two examples: (i) global and regional projections of Sea Surface Temperature and (ii) projection of changes in potential catch of sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in the 21st century, to illustrate this ensemble model approach to explore different types of uncertainties. Further effort should prioritize understanding dominant, undersampled Dimensions of uncertainty, as well as the strategic collection of observations to quantify, and ultimately reduce, uncertainties. Our proposed framework will improve our understanding of future changes in LMR and the resulting risk of impacts to ecosystems and the societies under changing ocean conditions.
"We always think you're here permanently": the paradox of "permanent" housing and other barriers to recovery-oriented practice in supportive housing services
Creators: name: Tiderington, Emmy
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mental health recovery
Supportive housing
Case management
Qualitative

description: This qualitative study examines the views and practices of frontline providers working in supportive housing for adults with serious mental illness and how frontline workers understand their work as it relates to consumer mental health recovery. Utilizing 84 interviews with providers (N=35) and 106 hours of observations of provider practice, a grounded theory of frontline practice in supportive housing is provided. Analyses revealed distinct differences between providers working within transitional versus permanent housing programs in their orientation to recovery. Implications for the design of the supportive housing continuum of care are discussed.
Anaspimorda Ermisch 1950
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Anaspimorda

description: Anaspimorda Ermisch, 1950
[1 species; DR Congo]
 Anaspimorda Ermisch 1950b: 89. Type species: Anaspimorda forticornis Ermisch, 1950, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Third nature: making space and time in the Great Limpopo Conservation Area
Creators: name: Hughes, David McDermott
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Natural resources conservation areas
Land use--Planning
conservation
tourism
politics of scale
structural racism
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Africa
South Afrida
Zimbabwe
Mozambique

description: In Southern Africa’s “Great Limpopo Transboundary Conservation Area,” potential nature, envisioned as ideal habitats for wildlife, may outweigh actual nature. I refer to this notion of conditional biodiversity as “third nature,” distinguishing it from the equally anthropogenic, but tangible, second nature (“nature” as including human habitation). Conservationists and investors are inventing nature on a new scale that crosses national boundaries in elaborate ventures to develop ecotourism in the Great Limpopo zone. They now imagine a continentwide field for (white) tourists to be created by fencing out local populations of (black) peasants. Few observers appreciate the structural racism involved in the profound material consequences of these dreams of third nature.
A reconsideration of the Pólya-Aeppli model
Creators: name: Ferreri, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A reconsideration of the Pólya-Aeppli distribution, usually denoted by PAD, is made with the intent of focusing its role as  a model for count data analysis. To this aim, an infinite matrix of numbers based on simple recurrence formulas is given for computing the probabilities without difficulty. Hence , it is pointed out how the parameterisation used facilitates also the ML- estimation. Then, an extension of usual parametric space allowing the PAD to be regarded as both an under- and over – dispersion model is considered. Examples are given for elucidating the utility of PAD also in comparison with models used to analyse overdispersion in  a broader sense.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Alcune osservazioni critiche riguardanti l’analisi bayesiana condizionata
Creators: name: Pesarin, F.
name: Celant, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper deals with a critical view on Bayesian conditional analysis, usually known as “posterior analysis”, and its relationship with the “global analysis”. It is shown that “posterior analysis” is nothing else than a global analysis carried out point by point.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Regression type estimators for random non-response in survey sampling
Creators: name: Singh, S.
name: Joarder, A. H.
name: Tracy, D. S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, three regression type  estimators are suggested for the estimation of finite population mean in two situations of random non-response considered by Tracy and Osahan (1994). The results are obtained under the assumption that the number of sampling units on wich information could not be obtained due to random non-response follows some distribution. Some suggestions are given for estimation of the mean square error of the estimators proposed.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Parity dependent population growth model
Creators: name: Batra, S. D.
name: Gupta, S. C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A stochastic model in continuos-time is proposed where the birth, death and emigration rates may be different for individuals of zero and  non-zero parities. The expressions for the expected number of individuals in respect of both parities are obtained. The conditions for stability of population are also derived.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Teammitglied oder Werkzeug – Der Einfluss anthropomorpher Gestaltung in der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion
Creators: name: Roesler, Eileen
name: Onnasch, Linda
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie
subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: Roboter
subject: Mensch
subject: anthropomorphe Gestaltung
subject: Anthropomorphismus
subject: human
subject: robot
subject: human-robot interaction
subject: anthropomorphic framing
subject: anthropomorphism

description: Die direkte Zusammenarbeit von Robotern und Menschen gewinnt in privaten, kommerziellen und industriellen Lebensbereichen stetig an Bedeutung. Dabei findet diese Form der Interaktion kooperativ oder kollaborativ unter gemeinsamer Zielsetzung in unmittelbarer räumlicher und zeitlicher Nähe statt. Eine Möglichkeit, die Zusammenarbeit intuitiver und effektiver zu gestalten, bietet die Anwendung anthropomorpher Merkmale auf das Design des Roboters. Doch auch wenn eine anthropomorphe Gestaltung, im Sinne von Form, Kommunikation, Bewegung und Kontext, die Akzeptanz und Koordination fördern kann, bilden sich im Zuge von vermenschlichten Interaktionen neue Herausforderungen. Neben dem Phänomen des „Uncanny Valleys“ und der Problematik des erwartungskonformen Designs, erzeugt vor allem das Spannungsfeld zwischen Funktionalität und Anthropomorphismus eine zentrale Problematik. Dabei zeigt sich in der differenzierten Analyse, dass letztendlich der Kontext der Interaktion entscheidet, inwieweit Anthropomorphismus eingesetzt werden kann, ohne dabei die Zweckgebundenheit des Roboters zu konterkarieren.
Melbourne’s love-hate relationship with being Australia's 'street art capital'
Creators: name: Jopp, Ryan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tourists are drawn to cities by a myriad of attractions and activities. Some cities are blessed with iconic attractions that are on every visitor's "must see" list - the Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, for example. Other cities rely on a more eclectic mix of "sights and sounds" to lure increasingly well-informed and diverse visitors. For instance, Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, has at various times promoted itself as the nation’s "sports and events capital", the "arts and culture capital" and, more recently, as the "street art capital". Street art, also known as graffiti, has not always had strong community support. The proliferation of the "art form" has many strident critics. For example, Graffiti Hurts spokesman Scott Hilditch complained that funding a mobile phone app to guide users around Melbourne street art sites would glorify graffiti vandalism. Yet there is no denying the growth of street art and the popularity of sites around inner-city Melbourne. On a sunny afternoon in the city's laneways, you are likely to see a range of local and international visitors, some posing for photos in front of freshly painted walls, others passing by on their way to a nearby cafe for a flat white.
Compiler-Directed Dynamic Voltage Scaling Based on Program Regions
Creators: name: Kremer, Ulrich
name: Hsu, Chung-Hsing
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: This paper discusses the design and implementation of the first compiler that optimizes programs for power and energy using dynamic voltage scaling. The compiler identifies program regions where the CPU can be slowed down without resulting in a significant overall performance loss. For such regions the lowest CPU voltage is selected that operates correctly under the reduced clock frequency. Our trace-based compiler prototype uses the SUIF2 compiler infrastructure. For the SPECfp95 benchmark, simulation results show energy savings of up to 24% with performance penalties of less than 2.7%.
Numerical Method for the Computation of Tangent Vectors to 2 x 2 Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
Creators: name: Herty, Michael
name: Piccoli, Benedetto
Publisher: name: International Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: Conservation laws (Mathematics)
Mathematical optimization
Tangent vectors

description: We are interested in the development of a numerical method for solving optimal control problems governed by hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The main difficulty of computing the derivative in the case of shock waves is resolved in the presented scheme. Our approach is based on a combination of a relaxation approach in combination with a numerical scheme to resolve the evolution of the tangent vectors. Numerical results for optimal control problems are presented.
FLIPPING OUT: Students and teacher learn together via self-learning, self-assessments, rubrics, & peer review in a novel course on agriculture information & technology, Cuttington University, Liberia
Creators: name: Kesselman, Martin
name: Forbes, Christine
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Flipped classroom
Information literacy
Assessment
Evaluation
Rubrics
Peer review
Information Technology

description: This paper reviews development of a required course focusing on information literacy and research skills, teamwork, evidence-based practical information for problem solving (including interdisciplinary approaches), information technologies, and life-long learning. This course is taught through the use of self learning, readings, collaborative team work, and involves an active learning hands-on approach to develop critical thinking skills in accessing information in today’s world.
Dynamics of engineering labor markets: petroleum engineering demand and responsive supply
Creators: name: Kuehn, Daniel
name: Salzman, Hal
name: Lynn, Leonard
Publisher: name: University of Chicago/NBER
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor markets
STEM
Petroleum engineers
Engineering

description: This chapter examines a natural experiment in science and engineering labor market elasticity, providing an empirical study of the responsiveness of supply to demonstrated demand of employers. U.S. petroleum engineering expanded in the 1970s and then stabilized for three decades. By the early 2000s, this cohort was retiring at the same time there were sharp increases in oil prices and new exploration. Together, these factors led to dramatic increases in hiring and in starting salaries. In response, U.S. universities increased petroleum graduates fourfold over the decade 2003 to 2013, almost entirely of U.S. students. In this study of petroleum engineering demand and supply, the authors provide empirical analysis that addresses broader questions about the capacity of the education system to meet industry demand for highly skilled labor. It suggests that highly skilled labor markets are responsive to demand that results in wage increases, and universities are able to expand capacity, even in highly specialized and skilled areas such as petroleum engineering.
Uncertainties around COVID-19 from the perspectives of oral health care workers during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Brondani, Mario
name: Almeida, Fernanda
name: Cua, Denise
name: Maragha, Tala
name: Mathu-Muju, Kavita
name: Shayanfar, Melody
name: Von Bergmann, HsingChi
name: Donnelly, Leeann
Publisher: name: PLoS
Year: 2021

description: Background The first wave of COVID-19 infections caused disturbances in all aspects of personal and professional lives. The aim of this study was to explore the ways in which that first wave of novel coronavirus infections resulted in uncertainties, as experienced by members of the oral health care workforce in British Columbia, Canada. Methods This qualitative inquiry purposefully recruited frontline oral health care workers, including dentists, dental hygienists, certified dental assistants, and administrative staff, via remote semi-structured interviews between April 20 and May 4, 2020. Coding, categories, and themes were inductively assigned. Results A total of 45 interviews, lasting between 39 and 74 minutes each, were conducted involving 18 dentists (6 females), 12 dental hygienists (11 females), 6 certified dental assistants (all females), and 9 administrators/front-desk staff (7 females). Fifty-one hours of audio recordings and more than 650 single-spaced pages of transcripts were produced. Five main themes emerged pertaining to uncertainties surrounding COVID-19, patient care, personal lives and infectiousness, concern for the future, and variations among different pandemics. Certitudes were less evident, but surfaced mostly when considering a potential new normal resulting from the pandemic. Conclusion Participants indicated that the uncertainties they felt were dependent upon what is known, and unknown, about the pandemic and the provision of oral health care during the first wave of infections. Future studies are needed to include the viewpoints of oral health care workers from other provinces, as well the perceptions of patients who received oral health care during the height of the first wave of the pandemic
ЛЕЧЕНИЕ ОСТРОГО ТОНЗИЛЛИТА АПИТОКСИНОМ
Creators: name: Усмонова, Н.У.
name: Очилова, Г.С.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Изучение фармакологических особенностей продуктов пчел в связи с широкими направлениями развития пчеловодства в Узбекистане и в Мире является требованием периода. Способы применения этих продуктов в медицине довольно распространены. Пчелиный яд вошел в медицину под названием "апитоксин". Апитоксин считается самым дорогим, в том числе и самым фармакологически эффективным среди продукт пчеловодства.
Maximun entropy  in the discrete generalized moment problem
Creators: name: Tagliani, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The recovering of  a discrete probability distribution taking on a countable values, when only partial information is available, is considered. The partial information is provided by a finite number of available  generalized moments, so that the problem of recovering resorts to an underdetermined generalized moment problem. Maximun  entropy method is invoked in choosing  the analytical form of the approximant distribution having the same moments. It is proved that except the cases in wich M = 2 or M = 3 generalized moments are assigned, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a maximun entropy distribution are identical to the ones of the reduced moment problem.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
A model theoretic approach to classify influential projects
Creators: name: Gursoy, Kemal
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: model theory
categories
ensemble
influence
projects 1

description: In this work, we consider a model theoretic approach to classify ensembles of influential projects. Whereas in our previous work we constructed optimal ensembles of influential projects, supported by a combinatorial algebraic topological model. Hence, this approach to the problem may be beneficial to learn new methods for decision making.
How May and Corbyn are following the script
Creators: name: Brent, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: That rumbling you heard in recent weeks was a gathering stampede of election watchers declaring British prime minister Theresa May a woeful campaigner, uninspiring and incapable of projecting leadership. The Conservative manifesto was lacklustre, and May’s handling of Brexit left much to be desired. And – credit where it’s due – Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s performance has pleasantly surprised. Who would have thought it possible that this divided opposition party, this accidental leader, a far-left backbench nobody, would be snapping at the heels of the incumbent? These judgements are purely, totally, driven by the opinion polls, which over the campaign have narrowed markedly. The polls come first, followed by the reasons, always.
On the choice of the direction for residual minimization in the ultrastructural model
Creators: name: Srivastava, A. K.
name: Shalabh, K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In a simple linear regression model with measurement errors, the estimation of the slope parameter is considered by three popular approaches, viz.,minimization of vertical, horizontal and perpendicular distances between the data points and the line. Asymptotic properties of the three estimators are analyzed when errors are not necessarily normally distributed.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Nonparametric statistical methods for confidence sets.Part2: The empirical likelihood and empirical saddlepoint approximation
Creators: name: Monti, A. C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The paper deals with some nonparametric methods for  the construction of confidence sets; the empirical likelihood, the empirical saddlepoint and the nonparametric tilting. After introducing the basic principles of each method, some refined or alternative versions are considered. The paper gives an account of  different aspects, advantages and drawbacks of these methods. Furthermore, examples show their applications and provide computational details. Finally, comparisons are carried out and analogous approaches and analytical links are remarked.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Inferenza statistica per il modello CIR multifattoriale: un’ analisi del mercato delle Eurolire
Creators: name: Pastorello, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985) is one of the best known models of the term structure of interest rates. In this article I show how to exploit its exponential affine structure to restate the model in state space  form, and how to estimate the parameters using  the Kalman filter. The statistical properties of this approach  are not known, since the model is not gaussian in the transition equation. However, it is known that in this framework the Kalman filter provides the best estimates of the state variables among those wich are linear functions of observations. For this reason it is reasonable to expect that the results be at least approximatively valid. This conjecture is confirmed by  the result of a Monte Carlo  experiment detailed in appendix. This approach has many advantages. First , it is possible to use the prices of a large number of financial assets, and at the same time to have parameters constant through time. Moreover, it is not necessary to assume that the state variables be observed: on the contrary , tha Kalman  filter allows to extract from the observations (the spot rates)  the in sample  trajectory of the state variables , and to predict the future values. This article estimates the CIR model with 1 or 2 factors using weekly observations (ranging from 1986 to 1994) about 6 rates observed on the Eurolire market.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 1 (2000)
Equivalence scales and consumption inequality: a study of household consumption patterns in Italy
Creators: name: Maltagliati, M.
name: Michelini, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper utilises unit record survey data on expenditures and incomes of Italian households of different demographic profiles to estimate consumption equivalence scales which measure the relative levels of spending required by households of different composition to attain given levels of utility. The equivalence scales have been obtained from the parameters of few alternative version of a rank 3 complete demand system with demand shifters.Among the demographic variables included in the models, the type of housing tenure and the age of children have special relevance. We have also computed the expenditure elasticities for the most common types of households and analysed how deflating expenditure with the equivalence scales affects consumption inequality among households. The analysis is developed within the framework of hypothesised utility maximising behaviour of households.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Becoming Citizens in an Era of Globalization and Transnational Migration: Re-imagining Citizenship as Critical Practice
Creators: name: Abu El-Haj, Thea R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Arab American youth
subject: Education
subject: Citizenship
subject: Transnational migration
subject: Immigration
subject: Islamic culture
subject: Ethnicity
subject: Globalization
subject: Nationalism
subject: September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001

description: This article examines how the perspectives and experiences of Arab American youth from immigrant communities can help educators think about what it means to teach young people to become active participants in the social, civic, and political spheres within and across the boundaries of nation-states. Arab American youths' perspectives are reflective of the transnational nature of their life experiences, as well as the unfortunate ways they have been positioned as enemy-outsiders to the United States in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Listening closely to the experiences and perspectives of these young people yields concrete implications for designing citizenship education that reflects the changing nature of belonging and citizenship. This article proposes that we stop thinking about citizenship primarily in relation to national identifications and begin to see it as a set of critical practices—practices that give young people the tools to work for social change within and across the boundaries of nation-states.
title: Constitutionalism and the Mechanics of Global Law Transfers
Creators: name: Paulus, Andreas L.
name: Leiss, Johann Ruben
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: This article explores rule of law transfers from an international perspective. Based on the observation that the proposal of an emerging international constitutional order seems to have lost momentum this article emphasizes a global legal reality that is characterized by a complex and rather non-hierarchical interplay between various (fragmented) international legal orders and suborders as well as national legal orders. This article discusses four legal mechanisms that are of pivotal relevance with respect to global rule of law transfers. These mechanisms include, first, so-called “hinge provisions” as doorways between different legal orders, second, harmonious interpretation as a legal tool of integration, third the sources of international law enabling transmission of norms and providing a framework for judicial interaction and, fourth, judicial dialogue as an informal means of rule of law transfer.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 35-69
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
Anaspella Schilsky 1895
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Anaspella

description: Anaspella Schilsky, 1895
[7 species; Middle East and North Africa]
 Anaspella Schilsky 1895: 59. Type species: Anaspella clavicornis Schilsky, 1895, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
A critical narrative of Ecuador’s preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Alava, Juan José
name: Guevara, Angel
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description: Ecuador’s National Health System has been severely overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic despite public health efforts. This was primarily due to limited health emergency planning responses. Ecuador’s COVID-19 mortality rate was 8.5% in early June 2020. The capital city (Quito) and Pichincha province, Guayaquil city and Guayas province, as well as Manabi, Azuay, the El Oro and Tungurahua provinces were the most severely impacted locations by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in thousands of positive cases. Using the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for COVID-19 as a reference point, we highlight the urgent need to implement a proactive preparedness and response plan to address the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of improving Ecuador’s public health system. The mitigation of COVID-19 transmission and hazard reduction is crucial in protecting the most vulnerable at-risk populations in this nation.
More Unequal in Income, More Unequal in Wellbeing
Creators: name: Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam
name: Mazelis, Joan Maya
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Happiness
Life satisfaction
Satisfaction
Subjective wellbeing
Well-being
Income inequality
Income distribution
Fairness
General Social Survey (U.S.)
Social Justice

description: This study focuses on the long-term trend in happiness by income level in the United States. General Social Survey data suggest that in the past, rich and poor Americans were not only more equal in terms of income, but also in terms of their subjective wellbeing: the happiness gap between the poor and the rich has been increasing. Today’s poor suffer greater relative unhappiness than the poor of past decades. The gap between the poor and the rich is substantial, approximately .4 on a 1 to 3 happiness scale. The increase in the happiness gap is striking: comparing the 1970s to the 2000s, the gap has widened by about 40% between the poor and the rich, and by about 50% between the middle class and the rich.
The role of tag questions in classroom discourse in promoting student engagement
Creators: name: Parkinson, Jean
name: Whitty, L
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: In classroom teaching, where teachers front a large class of students, opportunities for students to talk are limited, with much classroom talk by students involving answering teacher questions. This raises the question of how teachers promote student engagement in their lessons. Using a 394,671-word corpus of recorded teaching in vocational education, this study investigates a discourse feature of classroom discourse, the use of tag questions. Our study compares the use of tag questions in two teaching contexts: teacher-fronted whole-class teaching in the classroom and teaching through interacting with individuals or pairs during skills-teaching in the workshop or construction site. Every tag question (755) in this corpus was analysed for polarity, position in turn, intonation and speech function. The study shows the importance of tag questions in both contexts in involving students in the instructors’ on-going explanations both in silent thought and through brief verbal responses or actions. Instructors also use tag questions to focus students’ attention, to ensure that students are following their explanations, to involve students in problem-solving, to seek information about students’ practical work, to remind them of known information, and to construct them as co-experts who already have some knowledge and judgement related to their vocational field.
Complex recovery: understanding the lives of formerly homeless adults with complex needs
Creators: name: Tiderington, Emmy
name: Smith, Bikki Tran
name: Henwood, Benjamin F.
name: Derejko, Katie-Sue
name: Padgett, Deborah
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Serious mental illness
Homelessness
Substance abuse
Mental health recovery
Structural factors

description: Objective -- This report examines mental health recovery in a population neglected in the literature -- formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse. The term ‘complex recovery’ is used to examine the onset and impact of various types of adversity over the life course. Method -- Burawoy's extended case method was conducted on in-depth interviews with 74 formerly homeless adults living in housing programs in New York City. Data included verbatim transcripts, interviewer feedback forms, and case summaries. Results -- Seven themes emerged: the longstanding influence of poverty, childhood hardship, social support and network depletion, substance abuse and recovery, unequal impact of gender differences, experiences of incarceration and fragmented service system. Structural as well as individual factors were found to comprise complex recovery. Conclusions -- Complex recovery, which situates mental health recovery amidst homelessness and other forms of adversity, has implications for policies and practices designed to assist this vulnerable population.
Abbiamo qualche speranza di imparare a leggere la bizzarra realtà del mondo quantistico?
Creators: name: Bergia, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Starting from considerations developed by Gian Carlo Ghirardi in his book Un'occhiata alle carte di Dio, it is argued that it still makes sense to try to describe the world of quantum phenomena as if it existed independently from observations.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 3 (1999)
title: The Legal Dimensions of Rule of Law Promotion in EU Foreign Policy: EU Treaty Imperatives and Rule of Law Conditionality in the Foreign Trade and Development Nexus
Creators: name: Holterhus, Till Patrik
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: This article demonstrates that Arts. 21 and 3 (5) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) as well as Arts. 205, 207 (1), 208 (1), 209 (2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), legally oblige the European Union (EU) to promote the rule of law in its foreign trade and development policy. Furthermore, it is shown that, in the context of such promotion, the EU applies not a rudimentary but a sophisticated concept of the rule of law – quite similar to the concept of the rule of law that has developed within the Union. To fulfill the legal obligation to promote the rule of law abroad, the EU employs, as a key instrument, the legal mechanism of conditionality, not only through autonomous instruments but also in its contractual international relationships (carrot-and-stick policy). The EU’s foreign policy in the trade and development nexus, in particular when it comes to the promotion of the rule of law, can, therefore, be considered a process, to a large extent, determined and organized the of law.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 71-108
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
Alcune osservazioni sulla probabilità in fisica
Creators: name: Galavotti, M. C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The paper addresses the topic of the nature of probabilities in quantum mechanics. Their peculiarly "intrinsic" character is confronted with the problem of their interpretation.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 3 (1999)