cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Changing the Face of an Institution: Creative Partnerships for Women’s Professional Development
Creators: name: Franklin, Patricia D.
name: Haley, Heather-Lyn A.
name: Ingrassia, Barbara C.
name: More, Ellen S.
name: Piorun, Mary E.
name: Pollack, Phyllis
name: Russo Martin, Elaine
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2006

description: Purpose of program/study/research: To accelerate the advancement of women professionals at an academic medical center through creative collaboration.

Methodology (including study design, analysis, and evaluation): The UMass Medical School Women’s Faculty Committee (WFC) initiated a partnership with the medical library to compete successfully to host the traveling exhibition “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians.” Concurrent with the 6-week exhibition, fifteen events brought local and nationally prominent women together for mentoring activities, an original dramatic production, and an awards luncheon for women faculty. Women featured in the exhibit as well as its Visiting Curator spoke at UMMS about their research and career challenges, read from their published works, and were featured at graduation and a regional medical society event.

Results: Application-writing and event planning sessions forged robust working relationships among top-ranking administrators, senior and junior faculty, and staff. The exhibition increased opportunities for administration, faculty, and students to understand the impact of women in medicine, their leadership potential, and historical contributions. It also generated new mentor/mentee relationships and grant-writing collaborations. The exhibition’s national recognition helped draw a larger, more diverse and gender-balanced audience (575+ people) to the events enhancing the visibility of the WFC, as evidenced by institutional funding for women faculty to attend the AAMC WIM professional development workshops and ELAM for the first time.

Conclusion(s): Creative partnerships, motivated by the opportunity to host “Changing the Face of Medicine,” produced greater than expected gains for women faculty, generating new awareness and understanding of women’s accomplishments and leadership potential. This partnership allowed for a wide range of multi-disciplinary efforts, strengthening networking across silos, and advancing the goals of women in an academic medical center.

Presented October 29, 2006 at AAMC 2006 Annaul Meeting, Seattle, WA.
title: Anatomy of a Digitization Project: Dissecting the Process
Creators: name: Piorun, Mary E.
name: Palmer, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2007

description: Objective:This poster describes the Library’s first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations in-house for an institutional repository. The Library hopes to provide a showcase for the medical school’s research, teaching, and scholarship; promote open access to research; and make available an easy way for faculty and researchers to promote and distribute their work.

Method:The Library Director established a team to investigate institutional repository products. The team created a chart assigning weights to important criteria in order to evaluate various systems. In 2006 the Library purchased a license for ProQuest Digital Commons, a hosted system. As a manageable first project, the team focused on digitizing the 300 dissertations produced by one of the graduate schools. The intent was to populate the repository quickly, generate visibility, and gain support across the medical school. The team worked with the graduate school to develop a permissions form and a process to contact alumni. The Library Director decided to scan the dissertations in-house rather than outsource. The team made technical decisions about software and equipment for scanning and creating searchable text, using OCR technology, deciding what metadata to collect, and how to reuse data from the library’s OPAC.

Results:The project is currently well under budget. As of February 2007, more than 65% of the alumni contacted have given permission for their dissertations to be digitized. The 247 dissertations added to the repository have been downloaded more than 6300 times in just eight months. The project was profiled in the school’s internal newsletter, leading to increased visibility and interest. Another graduate school recently agreed to deposit their dissertations in the repository. Continued challenges include workflow, documenting policies and procedures, managing copyright issues, and creating a plan to market and promote the repository on campus.

Conclusion:The Library’s first digitization project has been successful due to library funding, support, and management; the skills of team members; the purchase of a hosted product; and the partnership with the graduate school. Future success will be indicated by continued funding, increased faculty and department participation, and greater campus awareness.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, on May 20, 2007.
Critical constraint on inflationary magnetogenesis
Creators: name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Yokoyama, Shuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there are several reports that the cosmic magnetic fields on Mpc scale in void region is larger than $\sim 10^{-15}$G with an uncertainty of a few orders from the current blazar observations. On the other hand, in inflationary magnetogenesis models, additional primordial curvature perturbations are inevitably produced from iso-curvature perturbations due to generated electromagnetic fields. We explore such induced curvature perturbations in a model independent way and obtained a severe upper bound for the energy scale of inflation from the observed cosmic magnetic fields and the observed amplitude of the curvature perturbation, as $ρ_{\rm inf}^{1/4} < 30{\rm GeV} \times (B_{\rm obs}/10^{-15}{\rm G})^{-1}$ where $B_{\rm obs}$ is the strength of the magnetic field at present. Therefore, without a dedicated low energy inflation model or an additional amplification of magnetic fields after inflation, inflationary magnetogenesis on Mpc scale is generally incompatible with CMB observations.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, references added, a numerical error fixed. Accepted for publication in JCAP
Uniqueness for inverse problems of determining orders of multi-term time-fractional derivatives of diffusion equation
Creators: name: Li, Zhiyuan
name: Yamamoto, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article proves the uniqueness for two kinds of inverse problems of identifying fractional orders in diffusion equations with multiple time-fractional derivatives by pointwise observation. By means of eigenfunction expansion and Laplace transform, we reduce the uniqueness for our inverse problems to the uniqueness of expansions of some special function and complete the proof.
Weighted power counting and chiral dimensional regularization
Creators: name: Anselmi, Damiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define a modified dimensional-regularization technique that overcomes several difficulties of the ordinary technique, and is specially designed to work efficiently in chiral and parity violating quantum field theories, in arbitrary dimensions greater than 2. When the dimension of spacetime is continued to complex values, spinors, vectors and tensors keep the components they have in the physical dimension, therefore the $γ$ matrices are the standard ones. Propagators are regularized with the help of evanescent higher-derivative kinetic terms, which are of the Majorana type in the case of chiral fermions. If the new terms are organized in a clever way, weighted power counting provides an efficient control on the renormalization of the theory, and allows us to show that the resulting chiral dimensional regularization is consistent to all orders. The new technique considerably simplifies the proofs of properties that hold to all orders, and makes them suitable to be generalized to wider classes of models. Typical examples are the renormalizability of chiral gauge theories and the Adler-Bardeen theorem. The difficulty of explicit computations, on the other hand, may increase.
description: 41 pages; v2: minor changes, PRD version
Weiterentwicklung der Beleuchtungseinheit LED-basierter Projektionssysteme
Creators: name: Schulz, Benjamin
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: LED
Hochleistungs-LED
Projektion
Projektor
Leuchtdichte
light-emitting diode
projection
luminance
micro-display
light recycling

description: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem maximal erreichbaren Ausgangslichtstrom von LED-Projektoren, welcher durch die physikalischen Gegebenheiten im System begrenzt wird. Mit dem Ziel, den Ausgangslichtstrom weiter zu steigern, wird die Beleuchtungseinheit LED-basierter Projektoren durch die Verbesserung bestehender Technologien und die Ausarbeitung neuer Konzepte systematisch weiterentwickelt.
title: Coming Out of the Back Room: Technical Services Breaks Loose
Creators: name: Palmer, Lisa A.
name: Ingrassia, Barbara C.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2005

description: Objective: Describe how technical services librarians at an academic medical center have embraced opportunities for campus outreach. The Library has long been committed to teamwork. As members of cross-departmental Library teams and campus-wide task forces, technical services librarians have utilized skills in information organization, integrated library systems, and problem solving to benefit colleagues, faculty, clinicians, students, and the public.

Methods: Case study: Since the arrival of a new Director in 1998, much of the work of the Library is accomplished through cross-functional teams. Technical services librarians have contributed significantly to these teams and to campus-wide task forces. For a project to create a database of medical images, library catalogers performed crucial roles in developing a database and record structure, maintaining quality control, writing documentation, and training faculty members. This team is now collaborating with Academic Computing staff to develop an institutional repository. Within the Library, a cataloger joined an access services team charged with examining the problem of unreturned books, enhancing the team with skills in integrated library systems, problem solving, and report writing. Recognizing the importance of open access, a technical services librarian organized a well-attended forum and display for the campus and the public.

Results: The positive impact of technical services outreach included new and enhanced services and products, professional satisfaction, improved communication among staff, and better access to library materials. Technical services librarians are better known to the larger campus community. Staff development, collaboration, and outreach were enhanced by a Library renovation that kept the Technical Services department in close proximity to public services areas and the Library training room. In the Library there is now a true partnership with public services staff, and an increased appreciation for the skill set of technical services librarians.

Conclusions: Technical Services librarians should not hesitate to break out of the back room and participate in outreach activities. Their skills can be of tremendous value to cross-departmental library teams and broader efforts. This outreach benefits the librarians, the Library, and the user community.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, on May 15, 2005.
title: Feeling Around in the Dark: Defining the Library’s Role in a Campus-Wide Digitization Project
Creators: name: Piorun, Mary E.
name: Comes, James F.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2004

description: Objective: Describe the library's leadership on a team with representatives from academic computing and the faculty to develop a database of medical images. The library will (1) add value to the project by offering expertise in methods of organization, indexing, cataloging and project management; (2) develop policies and procedures for participation; and (3) maintain visibility by promoting both the library and its staff.

Method:Case study: The library has marketed the idea of an image database for the past four years. In early 2003, the project was funded and a campuswide task force was formed. The library took the lead in project management by holding weekly and monthly meetings, establishing milestones, setting deadlines, and drafting usage policies. The library played an important role by interviewing potential contributors and developing a database and record structure that meets the needs of users. The library also participates in the cataloging of images by designing workflow procedures that allow library staff to check all images for quality control and to assign MeSH terms. Task force members developed a training session on how to search the database and how to contribute images.

Results: A campuswide database of over 150 digital assets (and growing) has been created. The weekly and monthly meetings helped to keep project assignments clear and document changes to roles and responsibilities. Setting deadlines and establishing milestones helped to keep the project on schedule and progressing forward. The database structure and record format first developed by the team is meeting the needs of participants, but the library anticipates making adjustments as the database becomes more popular. Having MeSH terms assigned to each digital asset has improved searching for database users. To date, seven faculty members have been trained and are contributing to the database.

Conclusions: The library has a valuable role to play in campuswide digital initiatives. Collaborating with information services has allowed both departments to gain a greater appreciation of the skills and resources that each department has to offer and provided the library with greater visibility and new opportunities for outreach and education.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 23, 2004.
Reaction Mechanisms at MINER$ν$A
Creators: name: Mosel, U.
name: Lalakulich, O.
name: Gallmeister, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MINER$ν$A experiment investigates neutrino interactions with nucleons needed for an understanding of electroweak interactions of hadrons. Since nuclear targets are being used many-body effects may affect the extracted cross sections and the energy reconstruction. The latter is essential for the extraction of neutrino oscillation properties. We investigate the influence of nuclear effects on neutrino interaction cross sections and make predictions for charged current quasielastic (QE) scattering, nucleon-knock-out and pion- and kaon-production on a CH target. The Giessen Boltzmann--Uehling--Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) model is used for the description of neutrino-nucleus reactions. Integrated and differential cross sections for inclusive neutrino scattering, QE processes and particle production for the MINER$ν$A neutrino flux are calculated. The influence of final state interactions on the identification of these processes is discussed. In particular, energy and $Q^2$ reconstruction for the MINER$ν$A flux are critically examined. The $Q^2$ dependence of the inclusive cross sections is found to be sensitive to the energy reconstruction. Cut-offs in flux distributions have a large effect. Final state interactions affect the pion kinetic energy spectra significantly and increase the kaon cross sections by cross feeding from other channels.
description: Discussion of results on QE enhanced. Added data in Fig. 5. Version close to one being published in Phys. Rev. D
Ethical (Dis)Continuities: Lessons for Teaching Data Ethics from Engineering & Computing Ethics
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: Teaching Ethics in STEM
Social Justice, Equity and Inclusion
Pedagogical Approaches
Goals of Ethics Education
Teaching Ethics

description: In this "Bringing Ethics into the Conversation" series webinar, Dr Anna Lauren Hoffmann (Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington) discusses major themes in research and writing on engineering and computer ethics education and connects them to emerging discussions of how we ought to teach ethics in the context of data science education.
Quandle Colorings of Knots and Applications
Creators: name: Clark, W. Edwin
name: Elhamdadi, Mohamed
name: Saito, Masahico
name: Yeatman, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: We present a set of 26 finite quandles that distinguish (up to reversal and mirror image) by number of colorings, all of the 2977 prime oriented knots with up to 12 crossings. We also show that 1058 of these knots can be distinguished from their mirror images by the number of colorings by quandles from a certain set of 23 finite quandles. We study the colorings of these 2977 knots by all of the 431 connected quandles of order at most 35 found by L. Vendramin. Among other things, we collect information about quandles that have the same number of colorings for all of the 2977 knots. For example, we prove that if $Q$ is a simple quandle of prime power order then $Q$ and the dual quandle $Q^*$ of $Q$ have the same number of colorings for all knots and conjecture that this holds for all Alexander quandles $Q$. We study a knot invariant based on a quandle homomorphism $f:Q_1\to Q_0$. We also apply the quandle colorings we have computed to obtain some new results for the bridge index, the Nakanishi index, the tunnel number, and the unknotting number. In an appendix we discuss various properties of the quandles in Vendramin's list. Links to the data computed and various programs in C, GAP and Maple are provided.
description: A newer version of arXiv:1312.3307, Typos fixed
String theory and primordial cosmology
Creators: name: Gasperini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: String cosmology aims at providing a reliable description of the very early Universe in the regime where standard-model physics is no longer appropriate, and where we can safely apply the basic ingredients of superstring models such as dilatonic and axionic forces, duality symmetries, winding modes, limiting sizes and curvatures, higher-dimensional interactions among elementary extended object. The sought target is that of resolving (or at least alleviating) the big problems of standard and inflationary cosmology like the spacetime singularity, the physics of the trans-Planckian regime, the initial condition for inflation, and so on.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, published in "Springer Handbook of Spacetime", ed. by A. Ashtekar and V. Petkov (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, Chapter 35
Taylor-Couette Flow of Unmagnetized Plasma
Creators: name: Collins, C.
name: Clark, M.
name: Cooper, C. M.
name: Flanagan, K.
name: Khalzov, I. V.
name: Nornberg, M. D.
name: Seidlitz, B.
name: Wallace, J.
name: Forest, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differentially rotating flows of unmagnetized, highly conducting plasmas have been created in the Plasma Couette Experiment. Previously, hot-cathodes have been used to control plasma rotation by a stirring technique [C. Collins et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 115001(2012)] on the outer cylindrical boundary---these plasmas were nearly rigid rotors, modified only by the presence of a neutral particle drag. Experiments have now been extended to include stirring from an inner boundary, allowing for generalized circular Couette flow and opening a path for both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic experiments, as well as fundamental studies of plasma viscosity. Plasma is confined in a cylindrical, axisymmetric, multicusp magnetic field, with $T_e< 10$ eV, $T_i<1$ eV, and $n_e<10^{11}$ cm$^{-3}$. Azimuthal flows (up to 12 km/s, $M=V/c_s\sim 0.7$) are driven by edge ${\bf J \times B}$ torques in helium, neon, argon, and xenon plasmas, and the experiment has already achieved $Rm\sim 65$ and $Pm\sim 0.2 - 12$. We present measurements of a self-consistent, rotation-induced, species-dependent radial electric field, which acts together with pressure gradient to provide the centripetal acceleration for the ions. The maximum flow speeds scale with the Alfvén critical ionization velocity, which occurs in partially ionized plasma. A hydrodynamic stability analysis in the context of the experimental geometry and achievable parameters is also explored.
title: Dr. Samuel B. Woodward: A 19th Century Pioneer in American Psychiatric Care
Creators: name: Dadoly, Janet L.
name: Levin, Len
name: Palmer, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2005

description: Objective: Showcase the life and work of Dr. Samuel B. Woodward, the medical superintendent of one of the first public hospitals for the mentally ill in the U.S., the Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Dr. Woodward overcame then-popular views of mental illness to champion compassionate, optimistic, and individualized treatment for patients.

Methods: Dr. Samuel B. Woodward brought a significant paradigm shift to the dark world of mentally ill indigent citizens of Massachusetts in the early 19th century. When Dr. Woodward became the first superintendent of Worcester State Hospital in 1833, mentally ill patients were viewed with suspicion and fear and were usually relegated to prisons and poorhouses. Woodward rejected a supernatural explanation of mental illness that was very popular at that time. He believed mental illness was a somatic disease, not unlike other diseases. His approach, called “moral therapy,” consisted of kind, compassionate, individualized care that respected the patient as a human being. Dr. Woodward was also instrumental in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. He was a prolific writer and became the first president of the organization that would later become the American Psychiatric Association.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, on May 17, 2005.
Hierarchy of Hofstadter states and replica quantum Hall ferromagnetism in graphene superlattices
Creators: name: Yu, G. L.
name: Gorbachev, R. V.
name: Tu, J. S.
name: Kretinin, A. V.
name: Cao, Y.
name: Jalil, R.
name: Withers, F.
name: Ponomarenko, L. A.
name: Piot, B. A.
name: Potemski, M.
name: Elias, D. C.
name: Chen, X.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Grigorieva, I. V.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Fal'ko, V. I.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Mishchenko, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-similarity and fractals have fascinated researchers across various disciplines. In graphene placed on boron nitride and subjected to a magnetic field, self-similarity appears in the form of numerous replicas of the original Dirac spectrum, and their quantization gives rise to a fractal pattern of Landau levels, referred to as the Hofstadter butterfly. Here we employ capacitance spectroscopy to probe directly the density of states (DoS) and energy gaps in this spectrum. Without a magnetic field, replica spectra are seen as pronounced DoS minima surrounded by van Hove singularities. The Hofstadter butterfly shows up as recurring Landau fan diagrams in high fields. Electron-electron interactions add another twist to the self-similar behaviour. We observe suppression of quantum Hall ferromagnetism, a reverse Stoner transition at commensurable fluxes and additional ferromagnetism within replica spectra. The strength and variety of the interaction effects indicate a large playground to study many-body physics in fractal Dirac systems.
description: Nature Phys. (2014)
Observable physical modes of modified gravity
Creators: name: Hojjati, Alireza
name: Pogosian, Levon
name: Silvestri, Alessandra
name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At linear order in cosmological perturbations, departures from the growth in the cosmological standard model can be quantified in terms of two functions of redshift $z$ and Fourier number $k$. Previous studies have performed principal component forecasts for several choices of these two functions, based on expected capabilities of upcoming large structure surveys. It is typically found that there will be many well-constrained degrees of freedom. However, not all and, probably most, of these degrees of freedom were physical if the parametrization had allowed for an arbitrary $k$-dependence. In this paper, we restrict the $k$-dependence to that allowed in local theories of gravity under the quasi-static approximation, i.e. ratios of polynomials in $k$, and identify the best constrained features in the ($z$,$k$)-dependence of the commonly considered functions $μ$ and $γ$ as measured by an LSST-like weak lensing survey. We estimate the uncertainty in the measurements of the eigenmodes of modified growth. We find that imposing the theoretical prior on $k$-dependence reduces the number of degrees of freedom and the covariance between parameters. On the other hand, imaging surveys like LSST are not as sensitive to the $z$-dependence as they are to the $k$-dependence of the modified growth functions. This trade off provides us with, more or less, the same number of well-constrained eigenmodes (with respect to our prior) as found before, but now these modes are physical.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. New citations and minor changes in V2
The Promise and Ethical Challenges of Using AI for Gun Violence Prevention
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public Health
Information Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Life and Environmental Sciences
Public Health and Safety
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Emerging Technologies
Catastrophes, Hazards, Disasters

description: In this "Bringing Ethics into the Conversation" series webinar, Dr Desmond Upton Patton discussed how, despite recent research indicating that firearm violence is exacerbated by social media usage and the formation of the “digital street," violence prevention and intervention strategies typically exclude social media as a risk factor. Dr Patton (Senior Associate Dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs, founding director of the SAFE lab) was joined by Dr Sherica Jones-lewis, Director of Community Research at the University of Virginia's Equity Center.
Electric current in flares ribbons: observations and 3D standard model
Creators: name: Janvier, Miho
name: Aulanier, G.
name: Bommier, V.
name: Schmieder, B.
name: Démoulin, P.
name: Pariat, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present for the first time the evolution of the photospheric electric currents during an eruptive X-class flare, accurately predicted by the standard 3D flare model. We analyze this evolution for the February 15, 2011 flare using HMI/SDO magnetic observations and find that localized currents in \J-shaped ribbons increase to double their pre-flare intensity. Our 3D flare model, developed with the OHM code, suggests that these current ribbons, which develop at the location of EUV brightenings seen with AIA imagery, are driven by the collapse of the flare's coronal current layer. These findings of increased currents restricted in localized ribbons are consistent with the overall free energy decrease during a flare, and the shape of these ribbons also give an indication on how much twisted the erupting flux rope is. Finally, this study further enhances the close correspondence obtained between the theoretical predictions of the standard 3D model and flare observations indicating that the main key physical elements are incorporated in the model.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
title: Journals, Journals Everywhere and Not a Shelf to Spare
Creators: name: Piorun, Mary E.
name: Ingrassia, Barbara C.
name: Fama, Jane
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2005

description: Objective: Identify storage and shelving options for the growing print journal collection. Options could include additional shelving in the library, offsite storage, and improvements to the current library remote storage location. Cost, space, and potential impact on patrons and library staff should all be identified. One option will be chosen, and an implementation plan developed and executed.

Methods: A project team worked to identify the extent of the shelving crisis. Inventorying, estimating, and extrapolating were the primary tools used to determine that the library would run out of space in the main journal collection in early 2004. An offsite storage facility was identified for library use and all costs associated with transforming the space into a viable storage solution were identified. The team also evaluated the current shelving layout in the library and developed a plan to add additional shelving in stages. Finally, the costs associated with improving and maximizing the library’s current remote storage location were calculated. This included improved safety, cleaning, painting, and compact shelving. The costs and service ramifications of each solution were compared, along with logistics of moving and merging a portion of the collection.

Results: After careful evaluation, library management determined that improving the current remote storage was cost effective and provided the best option for access and service. Working from our data, we calculated the number of volumes that the storage facility would hold. The project was divided into three phases. The first phase included physically preparing the storage space, installing a third of the compact shelving, writing, and testing move/merge procedures, as well as hiring temporary employees to complete the actual merge. Phases two and three called for additional compact shelving to be installed.

Conclusion: Moving and merging of a collection requires careful plan¬ning, detailed data analysis, and hard physical work. Ideally, you will only do this once. In our case, we knew this option would only be a temporary solution to our space crisis that will take us through the year 2012, at which time we hope to have a new library building with com¬pact shelving throughout.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, May 17, 2005.
title: Применение 3d-принтера для гальванопластики
Creators: name: Розова, Татьяна
name: Тихонов, Александр
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Разработана гальванопластическая форма «Софийский собор» в программе 3D мах для печати на 3D-принтере с учётом требований, предъявляемым к таким формам. Гальванопластическая форма напечатана по технологии послойного термического укладывании АБС полимерной нити. Установлены причины возникновения некоторых видов брака при печати на 3D-принтере и способы их устранения. Для напечатанной на 3D-принтере формы предложена и опробована на образцах технологическая схема позитивной гальванопластики без операций травления и активации.
title: Utilizing the Power of Continuous Process Improvement in Technical Services
Creators: name: Palmer, Lisa A.
name: Glassman, Penny
name: Varney, Jennifer
name: Ingrassia, Barbara C.
name: Russo Martin, Elaine
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2004

description: Objective: Examine the efficiency of work processes in the Technical Services Department, with the goal of reducing the turnaround time by 50% or more for three specific processes: (1) acquiring books for requestors; (2) implementing serials title changes; and (3) handling of journal issues from receipt to binding.

Method: In summer 2003 the Library initiated a Continuous Process Improvement project. The project’s goal is to reduce time and/or save money by examining and improving work processes. The charge for the Technical Services team is to (1) reduce the turnaround time by 50% or more for firm orders from when the book is ordered to when it reaches the requestor; (2) reduce the time it takes by 50% or more to implement a serials title change, which involves staff throughout the library; and (3) reduce the time it takes by 50% or more for a newly-received journal issue to reach the shelf and eventually be bound. The team is utilizing value-added flow analysis to examine the processes and will make recommendations to management for changes to be implemented in a pilot project.

Results: The Team met weekly over four months to identify the specific steps involved in each process, review the time involved in completing each task, analyze whether or not the step added value, and suggest improvements to the process. Team members documented and timed current workflow in spreadsheets and flowcharts. The Team proposed a number of procedural changes and initiatives that were accepted by library management for a five-month pilot project which is now ongoing. Important components of the implementation are establishing procedures for better communication and additional staff training.

Conclusion: Value-added flow analysis is a useful tool for continuous process improvement. The Library’s goal of reducing turnaround time by 50% or more for these three specific processes will be achieved, as demonstrated in the pilot project. Technical Services will be better able to serve its internal and external customers.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, on May 25, 2004.
Corporate Selves: Personhood, Agency, and Ethics in Controversial Technoscientific Work
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: Engineering
Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Ethics and Society

description: When we experience the harms engendered by technoscientific corporations, it is common practice to attribute blame to both the corporation as a whole as well as to the particular individuals in its employ. The same can be said for our praise of acts of responsibility. For example, we may commend “Facebook” for using renewable energy to power its data centers or criticize “Facebook” for destabilizing democratic processes, but we also celebrate Frances Haugen blowing the whistle on the company’s blatant disregard for the wellbeing of its most vulnerable users. In this webinar, Professor Jessica Smith explains how these practices cast both complex corporate entities and employees in the mold of Western individualism, obscuring the fundamentally relational nature of the personhood experienced by corporate actors: they are not always authors of their own actions and frequently have to act through others. A key, but overlooked, dimension of engineers’ practices of accountability is their everyday efforts to create collectivities that they can live with – and through. Dr. Smith is joined by Dr. Gwen Ottinger, Associate Professor at Drexel University, in the Department of Politics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society. The webinar is hosted by Dr. Caitlin Wylie, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
title: Managing a Library Renovation Project: A Team Approach
Creators: name: Piorun, Mary E.
name: Lucia, Deanna
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2003

description: Purpose: This poster will present the benefits of using a team approach to managing a library renovation project, from the initial planning phase to completion and follow-up.

Setting/Participants/Resources: The library is a mid-size academic health sciences library. The library occupies 41,000 square feet within the medical school and employs forty-one full time employees. The library has been using a team-based approach to operational problem solving since 1989.

Brief Description: By the mid-’90s, the library was in desperate need of a face-lift and updating to accommodate the current advances in technology. In 1998, the first team was formed to look at the condition of the library and recommend both short term and long-term improvements. Four years and six teams later, the library has undergone a complete renovation with new furniture, paint, and carpet and an improved layout that accommodates the electronic access needs of our patrons.

Results/Outcome: Having staff members from every department involved in all of the various teams allowed each department’s specific needs to be considered during each step of the project. Involving library staff in the decision-making process resulted in staff buy-in to the project and has given staff a sense of ownership for the “new” library.

Evaluation: The library renovation was successful on two levels; it improved the physical space by providing patrons with more seating options, better lighting, and increased accessibility to the library’s collection and resources. The renovation also provided staff with work areas that are centralized by department and a more open work environment that is conducive to collaboration. The renovation was also successful because the team-based approach to its management made faculty, staff, and students feel like they were included in the decision-making process throughout the project. This feeling is reflected in the new sense of pride in the library and interest in its upkeep shown by all faculty, staff, and students.

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 4, 2003.
Teaching Sustainability and Environmental Justice in Engineering Ethics
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: Teaching Ethics in STEM
Engineering
Environmental Justice
Sustainability

description: Especially over the last 20 years, engineers have become far more attuned to the environmental impacts of their work. While engineers have a first order responsibility to follow environmental regulations, and to try to minimize raw material and energy consumption and limit pollution in their work as individuals, environmental issues have also become an important second order concern for engineers, i.e., a concern of how engineers and engineering as a whole change the world. In this webinar, Dr. Glen Miller explores two such second order concepts, sustainability and environmental justice, and how they relate to engineering. Sustainability has been a buzz word for about 30 years, codified as “sustainable development” in the National Society for Professional Engineers Code of Ethics, yet its meaning remains disputed and its implications vague. Environmental justice also has the potential to transform engineering work by broadening participation in technological processes and evaluating the fairness of the distribution of environmental harms and benefits, but it is often considered outside of the scope of engineering. Dr. Miller also touches on some of the opportunities and challenges that engineering ethics instructors, practicing engineers, and professional engineering societies will encounter as they start to integrate these concepts into their practices. Dr. Miller is joined by Dr. Jennifer Richter, Assistant Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. The webinar is hosted by Dr. Caitlin Wylie, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
SER ADULTO AUTISTA Y SUS DILEMAS VITALES — Enrique PALACIOS TRIGO
Creators: name: Palacios Trigo, Mg. Enrique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Personality and individual differences
Clinical psychology
Social psychology
Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified
Community psychology
Educational psychology
Child and adolescent development
Evolutionary psychological studies
Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified
Clinical and health psychology not elsewhere classified
Health psychology
Counselling psychology
Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Solemos referirnos al autismo como trastorno del espectro autista, síndrome de asperger, condición autista, trastorno del neurodesarrollo (TEA), neurotipo autista o neurodivergencia. Sin embargo, más allá de dichas terminologías, los propios autistas tienen mucho que decir sobre ellos mismos; ya que en la actualidad no existe un amplio acervo bibliográfico sobre el autismo en la población adulta y menos aún, escritos donde uno pueda acceder a descripciones en primera persona de adultos autistas dialogando sobre sí mismos. Motivado por ello, les presento mi investigación sobre este fascinante tema, donde procuro que el protagonismo se centre en el crisol de voces autistas que comparten sus historias únicas.
Supplementary Information from Accelerometer-based detection of African swine fever infection in wild boar
Creators: name: Morelle, Kevin
name: Barasona, Jose Angel
name: Bosch, Jaime
name: Heine, Georg
name: Daim, Andreas
name: Arnold, Janosch
name: Bauch, Toralf
name: Kosowska, Aleksandra
name: Cadenas-Fernández, Estefanía
name: Aviles, Marta Martinez
name: Zuñiga, Daniel
name: Wikelski, Martin
name: Vizcaino-Sanchez, Jose Manuel
name: Safi, Kamran
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health Care
Diseases
Epidemiology
Animal Behaviour

description: Infectious wildlife diseases that circulate at the interface with domestic animals pose significant threats worldwide and require early detection and warning. Although animal tracking technologies are used to discern behavioural changes, they are rarely used to monitor wildlife diseases. Common disease-induced behavioural changes include reduced activity and lethargy (‘sickness behaviour’). Here, we investigated whether accelerometer sensors could detect the onset of African swine fever (ASF), a viral infection that induces high mortality in suids for which no vaccine is currently available. Taking advantage of an experiment designed to test an oral ASF vaccine, we equipped 12 wild boars with an accelerometer tag and quantified how African swine fever affects their activity pattern and behavioural fingerprint, using overall dynamic body acceleration. Wild boars showed a daily reduction in activity of 10–20% from the healthy to the viremia phase. Using change point statistics and comparing healthy individuals living in semi-free and free-ranging conditions, we show how the onset of disease-induced sickness can be detected and how such early detection could work in natural settings. Timely detection of infection in animals is crucial for disease surveillance and control, and accelerometer technology on sentinel animals provides a viable complementary tool to existing disease management approaches.
One-loop corrections to gaugino (co-)annihilation into quarks in the MSSM
Creators: name: Herrmann, B.
name: Klasen, M.
name: Kovarik, K.
name: Meinecke, M.
name: Steppeler, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the full $\mathcal{O}(α_s)$ supersymmetric QCD corrections for gaugino annihilation and co-annihilation into light and heavy quarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We demonstrate that these channels are phenomenologically relevant within the so-called phenomenological MSSM. We discuss selected technical details such as the dipole subtraction method in the case of light quarks and the treatment of the bottom quark mass and Yukawa coupling. Numerical results for the (co-)annihilation cross sections and the predicted neutralino relic density are presented. We show that the impact of including the radiative corrections on the cosmologically preferred region of the parameter space is larger than the current experimental uncertainty from Planck data.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures. Matches version published in Phys.Rev.D
Using Australian genomics to predict dairy cattle performance in New Zealand
Creators: name: Mckimmie, Craig
name: Khansefid, Majid
name: Amirpour-Najafabadi, Hamed
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 3003
subject: Animal production
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics

description: Context: The national breeding objective in New Zealand (NZ) was designed with the intention to breed dairy cows that efficiently convert feed into profit. The breeding worth index (BW) is used to rank bulls and cows according to their ability to meet this objective. The Australian equivalent to BW is the balanced performance index (BPI). These selection indexes represent national economic weights for important traits in dairy industry in each country. The introduction of Australian genomics has allowed the selection and ranking of young sires from around the world on BPI. Aims: This study aims to demonstrate the relationship between different traits and selection indexes in Australia (AU) and NZ by comparing sires with daughter proofs in both countries and the validity of predicting BW for NZ sires using Australian genomic predictions and regression equations. Methods: Data files for sires with daughters in both AU and NZ were merged to identify common bulls used in both countries. An analysis was conducted to determine whether Australian breeding values (ABVs) for sires could be used to predict the performance of the sires that have no progeny in NZ. ABVs for nine traits in BW were converted to their equivalent NZ breeding values (NBVs) and used to calculate an index equivalent to BW. Key results: On the basis of a regression equation, a new index called genomic New Zealand index (gNZI) for selecting sires for NZ dairy herds was developed. The correlation coefficients between gNZI and BW in Holstein Friesian (HF), Jersey, and Red breeds were 0.90, 0.91, and 0.88 respectively. Conclusions: The regression equation from genomic ABVs to produce gNZI was a reliable genomic predictor of future BW for sires with insufficient ancestry information in NZ and to enhance the ancestry proofs and increase the reliability of selecting young NZ-born bulls. Implications: The high correlations between traits in AU and NZ and the simple proposed conversion method can build industry confidence when selecting young bulls using gNZI, as genomic prediction of BW through New Zealand Animal Evaluation (NZAEL) is not currently available.