cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The computational complexity of the candidate-elimination algorithm
Creators: name: Hirsh, Haym
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1993

description: Mitchell's original work on version spaces [Mitchell, 1982] presented an analysis of the computational complexity of version spaces. However, this analysis proved somewhat coarse, as it was parameterized by s and g, the maximum sizes that the S and G sets reach during learning. As has been pointed out by Haussler [1988], g can be exponential in the number of examples processed. This paper presents a more fine-grained analysis of the computational complexity of version spaces, demonstrates its equivalence to Mitchell's analysis, and instantiates it for two commonly used conjunctive concept description languages.
Integrating Client and Clinician Perspectives on Psychotropic Medication Decisions: Developing a Communication-Centered Epistemic Model of Shared Decision Making for Mental Health Contexts
Creators: name: Mikesell, Lisa
name: Bromley, Elizabeth
name: Young, Alexander S.
name: Vona, Pamela
name: Zima, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Shared decision making
Health services
Psychotropic medication
Psychotropic drugs
Mental Health

description: Shared decision making (SDM) interventions aim to improve client autonomy, information sharing and collaborative decision making, yet implementation of these interventions has been variably perceived. Using interviews and focus groups with clients and clinicians from mental health clinics, we explored experiences with and perceptions about decision support strategies aimed to promote SDM around psychotropic medication treatment. Using thematic analysis, we identified themes regarding beliefs about participant involvement, information management and participants’ broader understanding of their epistemic expertise. Clients and clinicians highly valued client-centered priorities such as autonomy and empowerment when making decisions. However, two frequently discussed themes revealed complex beliefs about what that involvement should look like in practice: 1) the role of communication and information exchange and 2) the value and stability of clinician and client epistemic expertise. Complex beliefs regarding these two themes suggested a dynamic and reflexive approach to information management. Situating these findings within the Theory of Motivated Information Management, we discuss implications for conceptualizing SDM in mental health services and adapt Siminoff and Step's Communication Model of Shared Decision Making (CMSDM) to propose a Communication-centered Epistemic Model of Shared Decision Making (CEM-SDM).
Additional file 8 of Diurnal and circadian rhythmicity of the human blood transcriptome overlaps with organ- and tissue-specific expression of a non-human primate
Creators: name: Möller-Levet, Carla S.
name: Laing, Emma E.
name: Archer, Simon N.
name: Dijk, Derk-Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Text S1. Functional annotation of the genes that predict the phase of the PVN and Antrum. Text S2. Effect of Baboon’s sampling scheme on the identification of rhythmic genes and their overlap with human blood rhythmic genes.
Long Noncoding RNAs: Central to Nervous System Development
Creators: name: Hart, Ronald P.
name: Goff, Loyal A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Non-coding RNA
Genetic transcription
Transcriptome
Micropeptides
Cell Differentiation
Developmental Neurobiology

description: The development of the central nervous system (CNS) is a complex orchestration of stem cells, transcription factors, growth/differentiation factors, and epigenetic control. Noncoding RNAs have been identified, classified, and studied for their functional roles in many systems including the CNS. In particular, the class of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) has generated both enthusiasm and skepticism due to the unexpected discovery, the diversity of mechanisms, and the lower level of expression than found in protein-coding RNAs. Here we describe evidence supporting the role of lncRNAs in driving CNS-specific differentiation. It is clear that lncRNAs exhibit a functional diversity that makes their study and compartmentalization more challenging than other classes of noncoding RNAs. We predict, however, that lncRNAs will be essential for the characterization of discrete neuronal cell types in the age of single-cell transcriptomics and that these regulatory RNAs contribute to the multitude of functional mechanisms during CNS differentiation that will rival the diversities of protein-based mechanisms.
Additional file 1 of “Many roads lead to Rome and the Artificial Intelligence only shows me one road”: an interview study on physician attitudes regarding the implementation of computerised clinical decision support systems
Creators: name: Van Cauwenberge, Daan
name: Van Biesen, Wim
name: Decruyenaere, Johan
name: Leune, Tamara
name: Sterckx, Sigrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Qsort vignettes.
Additional file 1 of A predictive ambulance dispatch algorithm to the scene of a motor vehicle crash: the search for optimal over and under triage rates
Creators: name: Ceklic, Ellen
name: Tohira, Hideo
name: Ball, Stephen
name: Brown, Elizabeth
name: Brink, Deon
name: Bailey, Paul
name: Brits, Rudolph
name: Finn, Judith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary material. List of interventions/observations/medications representing the need for alights & sirens ambulance response
Student banking behaviour in Australia: a mixed methods study of Muslims and Non-Muslims
Creators: name: Tucker, Mark Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this research was to provide new knowledge on the banking behaviour of Muslim and non-Muslim students in Australia. A snapshot of student banking, based on the literature, was developed that investigated four aspects of banking: (i) the main drivers or determinants considered when selecting a bank, (ii) the particular bank products and services utilised, (iii) the level of satisfaction they have with their financial institution, and finally (iv) their attitude towards and knowledge about Islamic banking and finance.

The results revealed no significant differences between Muslim and non-Muslim students in selecting a bank and the products and services used. A significant difference was evident and expected in the level of awareness and attitude towards Islamic banking. The test of the theory of planned behaviour provided mixed results. Finally, whether a student was Muslim or non-Muslim was not significant in predicting the overall level of customer satisfaction, the probability of changing banks, or whether students would recommend their bank to others.

The study has implications for Australian banks and new entrants to the Australian financial system to appropriately target and better understand the banking behaviour of Muslim and non-Muslim student in Australia. No prior study offers such a widespread snapshot, using a mixed methods approach, to provide such a comprehensive insight into student banking behaviour in Australia.
MetaDocencia Organizational Chart
Creators: name: Míguez, María Paz
name: Palopoli, Nicolás
name: Ación, Laura
name: Ascenzi, Laura
name: Vazano, Irene
name: Buede, Julián
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This scheme allows us to identify levels of responsibility, while also aiming to be dynamic enough to promote collaborative work and foster commitment, trust, recognition, and growth opportunities for the people who make up MetaDocencia.
title: Remembering your collections
title: creating a memory game to teach about Special Collections and Archives
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Maharjan, Tara
Publisher: name: ACRL
Year: 2019
Subjects: Outreach
Gamification

description: This recipe will explain how to create a version of the game Memory (also known as Concentration) to teach people about your special collections or archival collections in a fun, interactive manner. This game has been used with middle school, high school, and college students to teach them about our unique collections, where the archives are located, and our institution’s history. It is a low or no-cost way to create a unique outreach activity and engage with a younger audience about the importance of special collections and archives. This project needs to be made only once and can then be used repeatedly.
ASSESSMENT OF THE BACTERIOLOGICAL AND MYCOLOGICAL QUALITY OF MILK PRODUCED FROM TIGER NUT
Creators: name: Buba, Fatima
name: Abdulkadir Buba Galadima
name: Oyekemi Olubamise Akimusire
name: Ali Abdullahi Damasak
name: Musa, Hadiza
Publisher: name: JSR UNIMAID
Year: 2024

description: ABSTRACT

Nigerians are now concerned with production of beverages from abundant indigenous crops which improve diet and micronutrients intake to humans. Since microbial contamination into foods is unavoidable, most foods with high-level of moisture and nutrients are prone to spoilage and thus the idea of using clove and ginger as preservatives in this study. This study was aimed at determining the bacteriological and mycological quality of milk produced from tiger nut. Processing of milk from tiger nut was done according to standard methods and stored at room temperature, while organoleptic properties (aroma, colour, taste, sweetness, and texture) of the milk were assessed using 9-hedonic scale of rating by (10) panelists every day for 3days. The samples were made into (3) treatments (B, C, D), each with different preservatives (clove, ginger and a combination of both) and each treatment had (3) replicates, each with different concentrations of the preservatives (3, 5 and 7g/L), while sample A as the control. The results showed a decrease in bacterial population every time the pH value decreased, making the product sour (more acidic). Treatment B with the concentration of 7g of clove had the highest mean pH (4.9), while treatment C with the concentration of 7g of ginger had the lowest mean pH (3.5). However, highest mean bacterial load was observed in treatment B with concentration of 3g of clove (52 x107 cfu/ml), while treatment D with concentration of 7g of clove and ginger had the lowest (28 x107 cfu/ml). The bacterial isolates include; Staphylococcus from clove powder, Staphylococcus and Bacillus spp. from ginger powder, while Proteus, Pseudomonas Micrococcus, Staphylococcus, Aspergillus, Alternaria, Penicillium and Yeasts spp. were identified from the produced milk product. This research achieved an improvement in sensory quality of the milk with stability of over 48h of storage at ambient temperature.

Keywords: Tiger Nut; Milk; Microorganism; Contamination
Towards a GPU SDN Controller
Creators: name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
name: Nath, Badri
name: Renart, Eduard G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014

description: The SDN concept of separating and centralizing the control plane from the data plane has provided more flexibility and programmability to the deployment of the networks. On the other hand, the separation of the planes has raised some scalability and performance questions, being that the SDN controller is the bottleneck. In this paper we present an implementation of a GPU SDN controller. The goal of this paper is to mitigate the scalability problem of the SDN controller by offloading all the packet inspection and creation to the GPU. Experimental evaluation shows that the controller is able to process 17 Million flows/s in the worst case scenario using just off-the-shelf GPU’s.
I codici deontologici per il trattamento di dati personali a scopi statistici e di ricerca scientifica: qualche riflessione
Creators: name: Zuliani, Alberto
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Two codes of conduct are here treated pertaining to the use of personal data for statistical and research purposes with reference respectively to the users who operate within the National Statistical System and private users. Attention is given to the modality of access on the part of private users to public statistics, and especially those issued by the National Institute of Statistics. The two codes of conduct described provide flexible rules for the statistical and scientific utilization of personal data. However, considerable efforts are required, with attendant public investment, for the production and accessing of the data sets necessary for significant analyses.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 713-722
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Relatable and Timeless Journey for the Church of Christ
Creators: name: Flores, Nayeli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Christianity
Puritans
Bunyan
Doctrine
Salvation
Church

description: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1678 and 1684, sold over 100,000 copies in its first decade in print and has been translated into 200 languages since publication. With its critical reception, what relevance does the seventeenth-century book carry three centuries later? In addition to being an allegory of the Christian journey, readers identify with Christian and his struggles, sorrows, and joys. Its pertinence lies primarily in Bunyan's audience and his expositional writing style. Characteristics of Puritan theology are examined as the groundwork, particularly from ecclesiology and soteriology. Some prominent themes in Puritan teaching are the sufficiency of Scripture and Christ as the head of the church. Additionally, critical points from Bunyan's life are evaluated, for Bunyan was acquainted with the faith and preached to men's hearts and minds. Through textual analysis, Bunyan communicates the importance of Christian fellowship, the realities of spiritual weakness in Christian believers, and unity with Christ and the church. Drawing from Puritan declarations and Bunyan's pastoral heart, I argue his audience is the church of Christ. In writing to her, Bunyan's allegory constructs a doctrinal basis for the church of Christ and the stages of her Christian journey.
On a linear method in bootstrap confidence intervals
Creators: name: Pallini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: A linear method for the construction of asymptotic bootstrap confidence intervals is proposed. We approximate asymptotically pivotal and non-pivotal quantities, which are smooth functions of means of n independent and identically distributed random variables, by using a sum of n independent smooth functions of the same analytical form. Errors are of order Op(n-3/2) and Op(n-2), respectively. The linear method allows a straightforward approximation of bootstrap cumulants, by considering the set of n independent smooth functions as an original random sample to be resampled with replacement.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 5-25
Google Scholar and Academic Libraries: An Update
Creators: name: Hartman, Karen A.
name: Mullen, Laura Bowering
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Google Scholar
library websites
Collection development (Libraries)
library indexes and databases
Open Access

description: Purpose: This paper updates the authors’ original 2005 study of Google Scholar’s integration into ARL libraries web sites. Had more ARL libraries added Google Scholar?
description: Design/methodology/approach: The library homepages of the 113 ARL academic institutions were examined for paths or links to Google Scholar. The coding scheme focused on noting if Google Scholar appeared on the library homepage, in the OPAC, and on various database lists and subject guides.
description: Findings: The 2007 data indicate continued acceptance of Google Scholar and integration of this resource on the web pages of ARL libraries. The mean number of paths to Google Scholar more than doubled from 2005 to 2007. Partnering institutions were more likely to include paths to Google Scholar and the number of partnering institutions dramatically increased.
description: Practical implications: This study is useful for those making decisions about integration of Google Scholar into library collections and services, particularly the web site. Orginality/value: This paper illustrates future directions for integrating new categories of resources into the academic library web site.
The role of emotion regulation in compulsive hoarding
Creators: name: Taylor, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research investigated whether emotion regulation difficulties are implicated in compulsive hoarding. Across two non-clinical studies, various measures of emotion regulation difficulties were found to be related to hoarding symptoms and beliefs. A third qualitative study with a sample of individuals with hoarding disorder also revealed several themes of emotion regulation difficulties, such as difficulties with identifying and describing feelings, unhelpful attitudes towards emotions, the use of avoidance-based strategies, and emotional functions of acquiring. This project makes an important contribution to the understanding and treatment of hoarding disorder, emphasising the need to incorporate emotion regulation interventions within clinical treatments.
A note on the covergence of bivariate extreme order statistics
Creators: name: Barakat, Haroon Mohamed
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this note an interesting fact is proved that, for any vector of bivariate extreme order statistics there exists (at least) a sequence of vectors of real numbers for which the distrihution function (d.f.) of this vector converges to a nondegenerate limit if and only if its marginals converge to nondegenerate limits. Moreover, the limit splits into the product of the limit: marginals if the bivariate d.f., from which the order statistics are drawn, is of negative quadrant dependent random variables (r.v., s).
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 27-32
Converting quadratic entropy to diversity: both animals and alleles are diverse, but some are more diverse than others
Creators: name: Smouse, Peter E.
name: Banks, Sam C.
name: Peakall, Rod
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Rao’s quadratic entropy
Amova
Permanova
Gamova
Hill numbers
Phylogenetic diversity
Scaled diversity
Antechinus

description: The use of diversity metrics has a long history in population ecology, while population genetic work has been dominated by variance-derived metrics instead, a technical gap that has slowed cross-communication between the fields. Interestingly, Rao’s Quadratic Entropy (RQE), comparing elements for ‘degrees of divergence’, was originally developed for population ecology, but has recently been deployed for evolutionary studies. We here translate RQE into a continuous diversity analogue, and then construct a multiply nested diversity partition for alleles, individuals, populations, and species, each component of which exhibits the behavior of proper diversity metrics, and then translate these components into [0,1] - scaled form. We also deploy non-parametric statistical tests of the among-stratum components and novel tests of the homogeneity of within-stratum diversity components at any hierarchical level. We then illustrate this new analysis with eight nSSR loci and a pair of close Australian marsupial (Antechinus) congeners, using both ‘different is different’ and ‘degree of difference’ distance metrics. The total diversity in the collection is larger than that within either species, but most of the within-species diversity is resident within single populations. The combined A. agilis collection exhibits more diversity than does the combined A. stuartii collection, possibly attributable to localized differences in either local ecological disturbance regimes or differential levels of population isolation. Beyond exhibiting different allelic compositions, the two congeners are becoming more divergent for the arrays of allele sizes they possess.
Sulla distribuzione di una base di norma unitaria del complemento ortogonale di un vettore gaussiano: il caso bidimensionale
Creators: name: Paruolo, Paolo
name: Luati, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The distribution of a unit norm basis of the orthogonal complement of a bidimensional Gaussian vector. The present note shows the distribution of a unit norm basis of the orthogonal complement of a two-dimensional Gaussian random vector. It also shows that the same distribution can be obtained in the more general case of an elliptic distribution.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 33-38
A test for comparing distribution functions with strongly unbalanced samples
Creators: name: Kulcziycki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The paper presents a non-parametric test of significance regarding the equality of the distribution functions of two independent n-dimensional random variables, on the basis of samples, one of which is one-element. Kernel estimators and order statistics have been used to solve this problem. A fully elaborated procedure is provided for numerical computations.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 39-49
BVAR models and forecasting: a quarterly model for the EMU-11
Creators: name: Amisano, Gianni
name: Serati, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper deals with the costruction and evaluation of a quarterly forecasting BVAR model for the EMU-11 countries treated as a single country. In the current stage of EMU completion, most variables are affected by turbulences, and many macroeconomic relationships are characterised by structural instability. For this reason , the forecasting models used in this paper are time varying BVAR models. There are still signs that the models we have estimated are affected by some limitations, in spite of their good forecasting  properties. In the light of this, in the second part of this paper we present an innovative approach in wich we extend the BVAR time varying parameter methodology: the intensity of parameter variation is governed by a time varying variance covariance matrix of the state equation error terms. This is achieved by slightly increasing the dimensionality of the hyperparameter space. We show some preliminary, encouraging evidence on how this proposal works, based on simulated data and on a restricted version of the EMU-11 model.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 51-70
A note on goodness of fit test using moments
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, A.
name: Li, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this article is to introduce a general moment-based approach to derive formal goodness of fit tests of a parametric family. We show that, in general, an approximate normal test or a chi-squared test can be derived by exploring the moment structure of a parametric family, when moments up to certain order exist. The idea is simple and the resulting tests are easy to implement. To illustrate the use of this approach, we derive moment-based goodness of fit tests for some common discrete and continuous parametric families. We also compare the proposed tests with the well known Pearson-Fisher chi-square test and some distance tests in a simulation study.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 71-86
Un approccio robusto alla verifica d'ipotesi basato sulla funzione di verosomiglianza pesata
Creators: name: Agostinelli, Claudio
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Weighted version of the Likelihood Ratio, Wald and score tests are proposed for parametric inference. If the parametric model is correct, the Weighted Likelihood tests are asymptotically equivalent to the corresponding Likelihood tests. Breakdown properties of the Weighted Likelihood tests and Likelihood tests are compared. Some comparison with the Hellinger tests (Simpson, 1989) and other robust tests (Heritier e Ronchetti, 1994) are presented too. Examples and Simulations examine the relative performance of the tests in finite samples and real data contest.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 87-110
title: Impact du cisaillement liquide-vapeur sur un écoulement diphasique à film tombant dans un échangeur de chaleur à plaques d'une machine à absorption NH3/H2O
Creators: name: Sleiman, Jana
name: Collignon, Romain
name: Stutz, Benoit
name: Phan, Hai Trieu
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2024
Subjects: Machine à absorption
Ecoulement diphasique
Echangeurs de chaleur à plaques
Interaction hydrodynamique

description: Ces dernières années, la demande croissante de refroidissement, principalement due à l'augmentation des températures estivales, a été un défi majeur, comme le souligne l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE). Les climatiseurs traditionnels à compression mécanique ont été la solution privilégiée pour répondre à cette demande, au prix d'une consommation d'électricité élevée. En réponse, les machines à absorption se sont positionnées comme une solution alternative, utilisant des sources de chaleur durables telles que l'énergie solaire ou la chaleur fatale industrielle. Cette étude s'inscrit dans le cadre du développement de machines à absorption compactes qui intègrent des échangeurs de chaleur à plaques. Un premier modèle a été développé permettant de décrire les transferts de masse et de chaleur en présence d'échangeurs à plaques et films ruisselant implantés dans les machines à absorption NH3/H2O, lorsque les interactions hydrodynamiques entre les films et l'écoulement vapeur peuvent être considérées comme négligeables. Nous proposons, dans le cadre de cette étude, d'intégrer les interactions hydrodynamiques dans le modèle pour le dimensionnement d'échangeurs compacts. Un nouveau modèle analytique a été développé à cette fin. Ce modèle permet de prendre en compte l'impact du cisaillement et des perturbations interfaciales dans le calcul de l'épaisseur de film moyen. Il permet également d'estimer les conditions d'apparition de l'engorgement. Ce modèle analytique a été intégré au modèle de transfert de chaleur et de masse précédemment développé et appliqué à deux composants de la machine : le désorbeur et l'absorbeur. Les résultats de l'étude démontrent que l'augmentation de la compacité a peu d'effet sur les coefficients de transfert. Les conditions d'apparition de l'engorgement prédites par le modèle sont comparées à différentes corrélations de la littérature.
Trajectories of recovery among formerly homeless adults with serious mental illness
Creators: name: Padgett, Deborah
name: Smith, Bikki Tran
name: Choy-Brown, Mimi
name: Tiderington, Emmy
name: Mercado, Micaela
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016

description: Objective -- Mental health recovery is possible for many individuals, but those with cooccurring disorders and homelessness face additional challenges. Though a non-linear course is assumed, few studies have analyzed recovery over time. This mixed methods study examined recovery trajectories of 38 participants with DSM Axis I diagnoses over 18 months after enrolling in supportive housing programs. Methods -- Qualitative interview data were quantified through consensual ratings to generate a recovery score for four waves of data collection based upon eight recovery domains culled from the literature. Case study analyses were conducted of participants whose scores varied by one standard deviation or more between baseline and 18 months to identify which domains were important. Results -- The majority (n=23) had no significant change in recovery, with eight having a positive and seven a negative trajectory. Case studies of these 15 participants showed domains that contributed to change (and numbers affected) were: significant other relationships (n=9), meaningful activities (n=9), mental health (n=7), family relationships (n=6), physical health (n=5), housing satisfaction (n=5), employment (n=2) and substance use (n=1). Except for mental health and substance use (only negative), domains were positive and negative in influence. Domains were intertwined in individuals' lives, e.g., variation in social relationships was linked to changes in meaningful activities. Conclusions -- This report showed little change in recovery over time for most and a decline in mental health for a small minority. Importantly, it underscores the importance of social relationships and meaningful activities among individuals with serious mental illness who experience complex challenges.
Enhancement of hot spot cooling by capped diamond layer deposition for multifinger AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Creators: name: Zhang, Hang
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Lu, Yongfeng
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2022
Subjects: High-electron mobility transistors
HEMT
Heat spreader
Capped diamond
Electronics cooling

description: The impact of a capped diamond layer for enhanced cooling of multi-finger AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility-transistors (HEMTs) has been investigated under steady-state operating condition. By depositing a capped diamond thin film onto the HEMTs, the temperature distribution around the hot spots tends to be more uniform and the junction temperature can be suppressed significantly. The capped diamond serves as a highly effective heat spreader and its thermal spreading ability depends on the structural design patterns and working conditions. Some key parameters affecting the thermal performance of the capped diamond have been examined, including the heat dissipation power density, gate pitch distance, embedding depth of the heat source, thermal boundary resistance, substrate material as well as the cap thickness. For the twelve-finger model with 20 µm gate pitch distance and gate power density 6 W/mm, a 20 µm layer of capped diamond could reduce the junction temperature by 12.1% for GaN-on-Diamond HEMTs and by 25.3% for GaN-on- SiC HEMTs, respectively. Even with a 1 µm capped diamond layer, the reduction would be 7.6% and 9.9%, respectively. The temperature reduction for GaN-on-Si is more significant.
A Kinship of the Fields: Farming in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas and Wendell Berry
Creators: name: Triggs, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Farming
Nature
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000
Berry, Wendell, 1934-
Poetry

description: Nature has been an important subject of poets since the time of the ancients, and since the romantics a central one. Poetry about farming, however, is much more rare; only odd acres of the many set aside in the poetic landscape for Arcadian contemplation have actually been tilled. There are few compatriots of Hardy’s “man harrowing clods / In a slow silent walk” (“In Time of ‘The Break- ing of Nations’ ”). In recent years, however, this imbalance of poetic ambition has been redressed to some extent by the work of two very different poets, R. S. Thomas in Wales and Wendell Berry in Kentucky. Thomas, who spent his career as a country priest, has written many poems about the peasants among whom he conducted his ministry. Berry has gone even further, leaving a promising academic career to devote himself to farming and making farming the central theme of his mature work. While they share many assumptions, however, about the centrality of the experience of working as opposed to contemplating the land, Thomas and Berry approach farming from different perspectives and treat it in differing ways that reflect their very different cultural matrices.
Minority-owned cannabis businesses as a social justice imperative
Creators: name: León, Kenneth Sebastian
Publisher: name: Carolina Academic Press
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cannabis
Racial equity
Marijuana legalization
Race
Drugs

description: When the growth, distribution, and point of sales for cannabis were explicitly illegal enterprises, black and brown bodies bore the brunt of the state’s coercive force via the enforcement of laws that had little to do with the objective properties of cannabis, and more to do with instrumentally moving targeted groups into formal spheres of oversight and control. Today, where the supply chain and consumption of cannabis is both an attractive and highly profitable enterprise, race, class, and power remain salient. The roster of those who profit from the legal cannabis industry is overwhelmingly unrepresentative of the rosters of those who were victimized by the earlier regulatory regimes. This irony has not gone unnoticed, with journalists, bloggers, business owners, and scholars pointing out how a plant that served as a pretext for disproportionate carceral control of communities of color is—quite literally overnight via the result of a ballot initiative or legislative reform—now responsible for advancing the capital interests of majority-white agents and enterprises. To provide additional social context to this empirical trend, this chapter highlights some of the proposed and actual steps currently underway to advance economic equity among communities of color in the cannabis industry, framing the expansion and success of minority-owned cannabis businesses as a social justice imperative.
Substance abuse recovery after experiencing homelessness and mental illness: case studies of change over time
Creators: name: Henwood, Benjamin F.
name: Padgett, Deborah
name: Smith, Bikki Tran
name: Tiderington, Emmy
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Recovery
Harm reduction
Abstinence
Homeless
Supportive housing

description: Objective -- This paper addresses how consumers with dual diagnosis, who were formerly homeless but are now living in supportive housing, understand their recovery from substance abuse (i.e., substance abuse or dependence). Specifically, this study examined: What can be learned about substance abuse recovery from consumers considered to be doing well; how past substance abuse fits into their present-day narratives; and how (if at all) policies of harm reduction versus abstinence are regarded as affecting recovery efforts. Methods -- As part of a federally-funded qualitative study, 38 individuals who met criteria for having achieved a measure of success in mental health recovery were purposively sampled from two supportive housing agencies – one using a harm reduction and the other an abstinence model. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews and used case study analysis, the latter including the development of case summaries and data matrices, to focus on substance abuse recovery in the larger context of participants’ lives. Results -- Recovery from substance abuse was depicted as occurring either through discrete decisions or gradual processes; achieving recovery was distinct from maintaining recovery. Emergent themes related to achievement included: (a) pivotal events and people (b) maturation, and (c) institutionalization. Central themes to maintaining recovery were: (a) housing, (b) selfhelp, and (c) the influence of significant others. Conclusions -- These findings capture a complex picture of overcoming substance abuse that largely took place outside of formal treatment and was heavily dependent on broader contexts. Equally important is that consumers themselves did not necessarily view substance abuse recovery as a defining feature of their life story. Indeed, recovery from substance abuse was seen as overcoming one adversity among many others during their troubled life courses.
Trust and responsibility attributions: variations across hazard managers in accidental and intentional food contamination incidents
Creators: name: Johnson, Branden B.
name: Cuite, Cara L.
name: Hallman, William K.
Publisher: name: Society for Risk Analysis
Year: 2011
Subjects: Trust
Food contamination
Salmonella
Values
Intuitive detection theory

description: Sources of trust in hazard managers have been studied in detail over many years, but reasons for attributing responsibility for hazard system performance have not. This study examines the role of factors in the salient value similarity (SVS) and intuitive detection theorists (IDT) models of trust, as well as awareness of problems and freedom to act to deal with those problems (AWFR), in predicting both trust and attributions of responsibility. The context used is a hypothetical contamination of food by Salmonella bacteria, either accidental or intentional, and these judgments are assessed for food producers, processors, "watchdogs" (government), sellers, preparers, and consumers. Results show that trust is primarily positively predicted by an index combining SVS and IDT items, with AWFR playing a trivial role of varying sign. However, initial attributions of responsibility are positively predicted by AWFR, with SVS/IDT as a secondary and largely negative predictor. These relative roles persist in logistic regressions of final attributions of responsibility, which control for the initial attributions. Modest differences occur across hazard managers and contamination cause in both trust and responsibility attributions, but these do not affect the relative influence of SVS, IDT and AWFR variables.
description: 31st annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis
title: Modèle zonal d'un échangeur avec changement de phase : formulation big M pour l'optimisation
Creators: name: Untrau, Alix
name: Sochard, Sabine
name: Serra, Sylvain
name: Reneaume, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2024
Subjects: Echangeur avec changement de phase
Modèle zonal
Optimisation

description: Les échangeurs de chaleur co-axiaux à contre-courant sont fréquemment utilisés dans les systèmes thermiques. L'échange de chaleur est amélioré lorsqu'un changement de phase se produit, les évaporateurs et condenseurs font donc l'objet d'un intérêt accru. Cependant, la modélisation précise et rapide de tels échangeurs, permettant de déterminer les températures de sortie de chaque courant ainsi que l'énergie échangée, reste un défi. En particulier, les modèles traditionnellement utilisés tels que les volumes finis ou le Moving Boundary Model (MBM) requièrent des structures conditionnelles pour évaluer l'existence des différentes zones d'échange, entre les deux courants présents sous différentes phases, ce qui limite leur intégration à des problèmes d'optimisation plus larges. Dans ce travail, un modèle zonal est utilisé pour simuler le comportement d'un échangeur de chaleur en régime permanent avec potentiel changement de phase des deux fluides selon l'énergie échangée, sur le logiciel d'optimisation GAMS. Le modèle est formulé comme un problème d'optimisation non linéaire en variable mixtes (MINLP), dont les variables binaires qualifient l'existence d'une zone d'échange entre fluides à différents états (liquide, liquide/vapeur ou vapeur). Des corrélations empiriques sont utilisées pour le calcul des coefficients de transfert pour chaque phase. Le modèle est testé sur plusieurs cas d'étude considérant uniquement des corps purs. Les résultats sont comparés avec ceux obtenus avec l'approche MBM par Bell et al., 2015, et un bon accord est constaté. Le nouveau modèle développé pourrait ainsi être intégré à des études d'optimisation plus larges, telles que l'optimisation structurelle d'un réseau d'échangeurs. Cette approche pourrait ensuite être étendue aux mélanges dans l'évaporateur et le condenseur. Référence : Ian H. Bell et al. “A generalized moving-boundary algorithm to predict the heat transfer rate of counterflow heat exchangers for any phase configuration”. In: Applied thermal Engineering 2.1 (2015), pp. 192–201.
NPARC Simulation and Redesign of the NASA P2 Hypersonic Inlet
Creators: name: Gelsey, Andrew
name: Knight, Doyle
name: Gao, Song
name: Schwabacher, Mark
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: The NPARC Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes code was used in a systematic redesign of the NASA P2 hypersonic inlet. The first phase of the work involved computational experiments to determine appropriate grid densities, etc. for using NPARC to achieve grid-converged simulations of the P2 inlet which adequately matched published experimental data. The second phase of the work involved formulating the redesign of the P2 inlet as a numerical optimization problem which was attacked using state-of-the-art numerical optimization software. The resulting P2 inlet design is significantly superior to the original design. In particular, the static pressure distortion at the throat was reduced by more than a factor of five,
Assessing dose-response effects of national essential medicine policy in China: Comparison of two methods for handling data with a stepped wedge-like design and hierarchical structure
Creators: name: Ren, Yan
name: Yang, Min
name: Li, Qian
name: Pan, Jay
name: Chen, Fei Fei
name: Li, Xiaosong
name: Meng, Qun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: To introduce multilevel repeated measures (RM) models and compare them with multilevel difference-in-differences (DID) models in assessing the linear relationship between the length of the policy intervention period and healthcare outcomes (dose-response effect) for data from a stepped-wedge design with a hierarchical structure. Design: The implementation of national essential medicine policy (NEMP) in China was a stepped-wedge-like design of five time points with a hierarchical structure. Using one key healthcare outcome from the national NEMP surveillance data as an example, we illustrate how a series of multilevel DID models and one multilevel RM model can be fitted to answer some research questions on policy effects. Setting: Routinely and annually collected national data on China from 2008 to 2012. Participants: 34 506 primary healthcare facilities in 2675 counties of 31 provinces. Outcome measures: Agreement and differences in estimates of dose-response effect and variation in such effect between the two methods on the logarithm-transformed total number of outpatient visits per facility per year (LG-OPV). Results: The estimated dose-response effect was approximately 0.015 according to four multilevel DID models and precisely 0.012 from one multilevel RM model. Both types of model estimated an increase in LG-OPV by 2.55 times from 2009 to 2012, but 2-4.3 times larger SEs of those estimates were found by the multilevel DID models. Similar estimates of mean effects of covariates and random effects of the average LG-OPV among all levels in the example dataset were obtained by both types of model. Significant variances in the dose-response among provinces, counties and facilities were estimated, and the lowest' or highest' units by their dose-response effects were pinpointed only by the multilevel RM model. Conclusions: For examining dose-response effect based on data from multiple time points with hierarchical structure and the stepped wedge-like designs, multilevel RM models are more efficient, convenient and informative than the multilevel DID models.
Econometric profiles of testing of statistical hypotheses: model specification tests
Creators: name: Faliva, M.
name: Zoia, M. G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The paper, within the frame of econometric specification testing – after an excursus on criteria based on likelihood theory –, focuses on a pair of emblematic and virtually specular facets of the model specification and validation process. Indeed, within a mean-dispersion linear specification framework, the paper faces the issues of testing on the one hand, the overall significance of the regression and on the other, the sphericalness of disturbances and, making use of an elegant algebraic toolkit, derives the ad hoc Lagrange multiplier test statistics.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 2 (2004); 257-269
Mixed loss and delay retrial queueing system with two classes of customers
Creators: name: Krishna Kumar, B.
name: Pavai Madheswari, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper is concerned with the analysis of a single-server batch arrival retrial queue with two classes of customers. In the case of blocking, the class-1 customers leave the system forever whereas the class-2 customers leave the service area and enter the orbit and wait to be served later. The necessary and sufficient condition for the system to be stable is derived and analytic results for the queue length distribution as well as some per-formance measures of the system under steady state condition are obtained. A general decomposition law for the retrial queueing system is established.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 57-73
Shifting Standards: Children’s Understanding of Gradable Adjectives
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
name: Bradley, Evan
name: Kennedy, Christopher
name: Lidz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: UConn Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4
Year: 2004
Subjects: Gradable adjectives
Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective
Pragmatics
Language Acquisition
Semantics

description: Two studies demonstrate that children have knowledge of scalar distinctions between three sub-classes of gradable adjectives: relative (big, long), absolute with a maximal standard (full), and absolute with a minimal standard (spotted). Performance on these adjectives is compared with controls (shape, color, mood). Children appropriately shift the standard of comparison with context-dependent, relative gradable adjectives, and do not do so for the others. Reasons for non- adult-like performance with full are discussed. Evidence is presented that children know about the presuppositions of singular definite descriptions, suggesting that children as young as three have an accurate semantic representation of the.
Scomposizione della dispersione per variabili statistiche ordinali
Creators: name: Grilli, L.
name: Rampichini, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In the paper we show how the well-known principle of variance decomposition within and between groups can be extended to the case of a specific dispersion index for ordinal variables.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 111-116