cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Twentieth-Century Lotus Society : the ideology and practice of the Jingzong Xuehui, the Pure Land Learning Centre, led by Buddhist Master Jingkong
Creators: name: Ngai, Mary May Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: It is because of the popularity of Lianshe, the Lotus Society, that Pure Land Buddhism became the most prevalent and influential Buddhist school among ordinary Chinese people. However, since the downfall of the Qing Empire in 1911, the Chinese society has experienced drastic social and cultural changes. To carry on this tradition into the age of globalization and computerization, a modernized international Lotus Society, the Jingzong xuehui (ching-tsung-hsueh-hui), the Pure Land Learning Center, emerged to teach people integrated Pure Land teachings and the nianfo practice with the help of updated information technology. In order to better understand the underlying reasons behind the success of these transformations, this pilot study intends to focus on the historical link, Dharma lineage, teaching, scriptural base, and ways of practice of the Learning Center and its leader, Jingkong (1927- ; Ching-k'ung), a Buddhist master who has been teaching Buddhism for more than forty years. In other words, this thesis interprets the Learning Center's ideas in terms of the Master's teachings, complemented by the comparison of his teachings with 1) beliefs and ritual traditions of selected Pure Land predecessors and 2) doctrines and principles mentioned in some Māhāyāna Sūtras. Discussions include histories of the Lotus Society, the Pure Land Learning Center, and the Buddhist education of Master Jingkong, the connection between the Master's and his predecessors' teachings, and the purpose and significance of three types of recitation methods. Methodologically speaking, apart from analyzing literature and contextual materials, this thesis also involves the study of audio and video materials distributed by the Pure Land Learning Center. In conclusion, this research provides substantial evidence showing how a traditional heritage reforms to cope with the needs of contemporary people, and argue that, by focusing on Master Jingkong as the pivotal figure in this contemporary development, the Master's efforts are similar to those predecessors who enlivened and sustained the traditions of their own times, and that the present teachings and practices are essentially inherited from those of the past, revealing the Learning Center's historical position as a modernized 20th century Lotus Society.
Entropy of Generating Series for Nonlinear Input-Output Systems and Their Interconnections
Creators: name: Gray, W. Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 68R15, 94A17, 93C10, 16T30

description: This paper has two main objectives. The first is to introduce a notion of entropy that is well suited for the analysis of nonlinear input-output systems that have a Chen-Fliess series representation. The latter is defined in terms of its generating series over a noncommutative alphabet. The idea is to assign an entropy to a generating series as an element of a graded vector space. The second objective is to describe the entropy of generating series originating from interconnected systems of Chen-Fliess series that arise in the context of control theory. It is shown that one set of interconnections can never increase entropy as defined here, while a second set has the potential to do so. The paper concludes with a brief introduction to an entropy ultrametric space and some open questions.
A Risk Analysis of Converting CRP Acres to a Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotation
Creators: name: Williams, Jeffery R.
name: Llewelyn, Richard V.
name: Pendell, Dustin L.
name: Schlegel, Alan J.
name: Troy, Dumler
name: Williams, Jeffery R.
name: Llewelyn, Richard V.
name: Pendell, Dustin L.
name: Schlegel, Alan J.
name: Troy, Dumler
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Conservation Reserve Program
subject: conservation tillage
subject: simulation
subject: sorghum
subject: wheat
subject: risk

description: This study examines the economic potential of producing a wheat (Triticum aesitivum) and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) rotation with three different tillage strategies compared to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in a semi-arid region. This research uses stochastic efficiency with respect to a function (SERF) to determine the preferred management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates, and field operations from an experimental field in western Kansas are used to calculate net returns for each tillage strategy. Although current net returns to crop production using reduced tillage and no-tillage strategies are higher than CRP, risk analysis indicates CRP would be the preferred strategy for some risk-averse managers.
Deep learning provides new insights into the molecular mechanisms of insect metamorphosis
Creators: name: Liu, Fangrong
name: cao, Yong
name: Qian, Songping
name: Tong, Xingyu
name: Liu, Junhui
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Zhu, Jiaying
name: Mao, Jiawei
name: Yang, Xingke
name: Hao, Jiasheng
name: Zhao, Youjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310206
subject: Sequence analysis
classificationCode: 310201
subject: Bioinformatic methods development
classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics

description: The library contains genomic protein sequence data for 138 insects, 2190 samples used to construct GNCM.
Effect of visual priming on conspiracy belief: a randomised trial
Creators: name: Buljan, Ivan
name: Javorčić, Bartul
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social Statistics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: conspiracy beliefs
subject: priming
subject: randomized trial

description: The research aim of this study is to investigate the influence of visual priming on conspiracy belief in individuals. The research seeks to explore how exposure to visual stimuli, manipulated to repeat conspiracy-related themes, affects individuals' susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs.
The purpose of this research is to contribute to the understanding of cognitive processes underlying conspiracy belief formation and how they are affected by visual priming. Using an experiment, this study aims to identify if certain visual cues can significantly shape peoples’ belief towards conspiracy theories. Findings from this research could be applied to developing strategies to mitigate the impact of visual information on the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs and contribute to an expanded comprehension of the factors influencing conspiracy belief susceptibility.
U.S. Ethanol Policy: Is It the Best Energy Alternative?
Creators: name: Doering, Otto C.
name: Doering, Otto C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: U.S. ethanol policy has several drivers. Among these are increasing the incomes of U.S. corn farmers, enhancing the environment, providing a source of sustainable energy, and reducing dependence on foreign oil. Each of these has its own advocates and critics. While it is true that ethanol production can enhance the incomes of corn farmers, some ask who benefits more from the public subsidy of ethanol production – farmers or processors. Some question whether ethanol always delivers a clean air benefit and whether it provides a source of sustainable energy while reducing dependence on foreign oil. The large public subsidy provided for ethanol production is yet another issue. While all of the above considerations relate to ethanol policy, this article focuses primarily on energy-related issues. The context for ethanol policy is U.S. energy policy, which is almost exclusively supply driven. Consistent with this thrust, the current target is to increase annual ethanol production from 3 billion to 5 billion gallons over the next several years. At the direct subsidy level of $US0.52 per gallon of ethanol produced, this level of production will result in a public expenditure of US$2.6 billion. The question is, what other options might provide better energy alternatives on the basis of cost and other considerations?
Imaging of SDSS z>6 quasar fields: gravitational lensing, companion galaxies and the host dark matter halos
Creators: name: Willott, Chris J.
name: Percival, Will J.
name: McLure, Ross J.
name: Crampton, David
name: Hutchings, John B.
name: Jarvis, Matt J.
name: Sawicki, Marcin
name: Simard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have undertaken deep optical imaging observations of three 6.2
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, ApJ, in press
Breaking the Screen: Interaction Across Touchscreen Boundaries in Virtual Reality for Mobile Knowledge Workers
Creators: name: Biener, Verena
name: Schneider, Daniel
name: Gesslein, Travis
name: Otte, Alexander
name: Kuth, Bastian
name: Kristensson, Per Ola
name: Ofek, Eyal
name: Pahud, Michel
name: Grubert, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.7

description: Virtual Reality (VR) has the potential to transform knowledge work. One advantage of VR knowledge work is that it allows extending 2D displays into the third dimension, enabling new operations, such as selecting overlapping objects or displaying additional layers of information. On the other hand, mobile knowledge workers often work on established mobile devices, such as tablets, limiting interaction with those devices to a small input space. This challenge of a constrained input space is intensified in situations when VR knowledge work is situated in cramped environments, such as airplanes and touchdown spaces. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of interacting jointly between an immersive VR head-mounted display and a tablet within the context of knowledge work. Specifically, we 1) design, implement and study how to interact with information that reaches beyond a single physical touchscreen in VR; 2) design and evaluate a set of interaction concepts; and 3) build example applications and gather user feedback on those applications.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, ISMAR 2020
Pentaquark Search at HERMES
Creators: name: Lorenzon, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence for a narrow baryon state at 1528 +- 2.6(stat) +- 2.1(syst) MeV is presented in quasi-real photoproduction on a deuterium target through the decay channel p,K0 to p,pi+,pi-. The statistical significance of the peak in the p,K0 invariant mass spectrum is 4 standard deviations and its extracted intrinsic width Gamma = 17 +- 9(stat) +- 3(syst) MeV. This state may be interpreted as the predicted S=+1 exotic Theta+ (uudd\bar{s}) pentaquark baryon.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, International Workshop PENTAQUARK04, SPring-8, Japan, July 2004
Additional file 10 of The barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainability of hospital-based interventions: a systematic review
Creators: name: Cowie, Julie
name: Nicoll, Avril
name: Dimova, Elena D.
name: Campbell, Pauline
name: Duncan, Edward A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 10. Key examples of barriers and facilitators identified within the Negotiating initiative processes theme.
Dynamical Zero in Antineutrino_e -- Electron Scattering and the Neutrino Magnetic Moment
Creators: name: Bernabeu, J.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
name: Passera, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Standard Model differential cross section for $\barν_e-e^-$ elastic scattering vanishes exactly, at lowest order, for forward electrons and incident $\barν_e$ energy close to the rest energy of the electron. This dynamical zero is not induced by a fundamental symmetry of the Lagrangian but by a destructive interference between the left- and right-handed chiral couplings of the electron in the charged and neutral current amplitudes. We show that lowest order analyses based on this favorable kinematic configuration are only mildly affected by the inclusion of the $O(α)$ radiative corrections in the $\barν_e-e^-$ differential cross section, thus providing an excellent opportunity for the search of ``new physics''. In the light of these results, we discuss possible methods to improve the upper limits on the neutrino magnetic moment by selecting recoil electrons contained in a forward narrow cone. We conclude that, in spite of the obvious loss in statistics, one may have a better signal for small angular cones.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures. V2: one figure and comments added. Published version
Interstitial changes and their resolution after ultrasound guided radiofrequency induced ablation in porcine liver
Creators: name: Buczkowski, Andrzej K.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Background: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a new minimally invasive technique for the treatment of primary and secondary liver tumours. No complications have been reported to date in cases of experimental application involving animal (guinea pig, rat, porcine) models, however previous studies have not specifically addressed its safety in relation to changes induced in the normal hepatic parenchyma surrounding the lesion treated by RFA. Methods: Radiofrequency ablation was performed in both the right and left liver lobes of 28 female domestic swine. The animals were divided into four groups based on the attempted thermal injury to: hepatic veins; portal veins and bile ducts; diaphragm; and injury resulting from excessive radiofrequency (RF) energy delivery. RF lesions were followed with ultrasound examination, and gross and histologic examination was performed on the left lobe lesions on day 3 and the right lobe lesions on day 30. Results: There was no evidence of injury to main hepatic or portal vessels or bile ducts. Superficial and deep diaphragmatic burns were observed on day 3, but these were all completely healed by day 30. Full-thickness burns of the stomach and jejunum (one case of each) were encountered in separate experiments. There were no treatment-related deaths. No bile leak, bilomas, bleeding or abscesses were observed. The histologic pattern of RFA induced necrosis and tissue healing was consistent through all the cases and was related to the amount of energy delivered to the experiment area. Ultrasound proved to be an efficient method in RF probe placement and initial treatment, however its follow-up accuracy declines with the time after the RFA. Conclusions: Hepatic RFA is a safe procedure. No serious complications were observed with intrahepatic ablations. Thermal injuries were however produced in contiguous extrahepatic structures, when RFA was applied to superficial, subcapsular liver. These observations suggest the need for extreme attention during the treatment sessions and evaluation of laparoscopy as the preferred mode of the RF ablation delivery.
Primary care prescribing prior to lung cancer diagnosis (PPP-Lung): protocol for a systematic review
Creators: name: Jacob, Sarah W
name: Jacob, Benjamin M
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: #cancer #primarycare #lungcancer

description: Background: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. A significant reason for its high mortality is delayed diagnosis, with lung cancer typically diagnosed at an advanced stage. Previous research has shown that prescribing rates of certain medications increase in the 24 months preceding a cancer diagnosis. This suggests a potential opportunity for early diagnosis of lung cancer by the identification of high-risk patients based on the prescribing of medications associated with a subsequent lung cancer diagnosis. Our aim is to identify all prescribing events associated within an increased incidence of primary lung cancer in the subsequent 24 months.

Methods: We will conduct a systematic review, and, where possible, a meta-analysis, reporting the findings in accordance with the PRISMA reporting guideline. All peer-reviewed studies in the English language that quantitatively describe an association between prescribing data and lung cancer diagnosis using a control group will be eligible. Details regarding prescribing rate in the lung cancer group versus the control group will be extracted with study characteristics. Quality appraisal of studies, using ROBINS-E will be used for assessing risk of bias. For each drug studied, we will report prescribing rate ratios (PRRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). A meta-analysis using a pooled estimate of PRRs, either by fixed or random-effect models, will be performed if possible.

Conclusions: This systematic review will summarise the evidence on drugs that, when prescribed, suggest the possibility of an as-yet-undiagnosed lung cancer. This research has the potential to impact clinical practice by informing targeted screening strategies and refining early detection protocols for this harmful disease. If achieved, this could increase the numbers of lung cancers diagnosed at an earlier stage, with consequent improvements to patients in terms of survival, treatment tolerability and quality of life.
Computing Local Sensitivities of Counting Queries with Joins
Creators: name: Tao, Yuchao
name: He, Xi
name: Machanavajjhala, Ashwin
name: Roy, Sudeepa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Local sensitivity of a query Q given a database instance D, i.e. how much the output Q(D) changes when a tuple is added to D or deleted from D, has many applications including query analysis, outlier detection, and in differential privacy. However, it is NP-hard to find local sensitivity of a conjunctive query in terms of the size of the query, even for the class of acyclic queries. Although the complexity is polynomial when the query size is fixed, the naive algorithms are not efficient for large databases and queries involving multiple joins. In this paper, we present a novel approach to compute local sensitivity of counting queries involving join operations by tracking and summarizing tuple sensitivities -- the maximum change a tuple can cause in the query result when it is added or removed. We give algorithms for the sensitivity problem for full acyclic join queries using join trees, that run in polynomial time in both the size of the database and query for an interesting sub-class of queries, which we call 'doubly acyclic queries' that include path queries, and in polynomial time in combined complexity when the maximum degree in the join tree is bounded. Our algorithms can be extended to certain non-acyclic queries using generalized hypertree decompositions. We evaluate our approach experimentally, and show applications of our algorithms to obtain better results for differential privacy by orders of magnitude.
description: To be published in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Effectiveness of Best Management Cropping Systems to Abate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Creators: name: Meyer-Aurich, Andreas
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Jayasundara, Susantha
name: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia
name: Meyer-Aurich, Andreas
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Jayasundara, Susantha
name: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: Best management practices (BMPs) for cropping systems that involve conservation tillage and nutrient management are proposed as potential win-win solutions for both farmers and the environment. While originally targeted as a means for improving soil and water quality, these BMPs may also contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Mitigation efforts have focused primarily on the ability of BMPs to sequester carbon and the subsequent potential revenue source carbon sequestration may represent to farmers. Increasingly, evidence from experimental stations calls into question the potential for C-sequestration with reduced tillage in soils in Eastern Canada. However, there are other ways in which BMPs can reduce GHG emissions: lowering fuel and nitrogen fertilizer consumption and, potentially, lowering emissions of nitrous oxide from the soil. This article examines the profitability and emission reduction potential of best management cropping practices for Ontario.
Deep learning provides new insights into the molecular mechanisms of insect metamorphosis
Creators: name: Liu, Fangrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310206
subject: Sequence analysis
classificationCode: 310201
subject: Bioinformatic methods development
classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics

description: The library contains genomic protein sequence data for 138 insects, 2190 samples used to construct GNCM.
Additional file 11 of The barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainability of hospital-based interventions: a systematic review
Creators: name: Cowie, Julie
name: Nicoll, Avril
name: Dimova, Elena D.
name: Campbell, Pauline
name: Duncan, Edward A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 11. Key examples of barriers and facilitators identified within the people involved theme.
The See-Saw Mechanism, Neutrino Yukawa Couplings, LFV Decays l_i to l_j + gamma and Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Petcov, S. T.
name: Rodejohann, W.
name: Shindou, T.
name: Takanishi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LFV charged lepton decays mu to e + gamma, tau to e + gamma and tau to mu + gamma and thermal leptogenesis are analysed in the MSSM with see-saw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and soft SUSY breaking with universal boundary conditions. The case of hierarchical heavy Majorana neutrino mass spectrum, M_1 << M_2 << M_3, is investigated. Leptogenesis requires M_1 > 10^9 GeV. Considering the natural range of values of the heaviest right-handed Majorana neutrino mass, M_3 > 5*10^{13} GeV, and assuming that the soft SUSY breaking universal gaugino and/or scalar masses have values in the range of few 100 GeV, we derive the combined constraints, which the existing stringent upper limit on the mu to e + gamma decay rate and the requirement of successful thermal leptogenesis impose on the neutrino Yukawa couplings, heavy Majorana neutrino masses and SUSY parameters. Results for the three possible types of light neutrino mass spectrum -- normal and inverted hierarchical and quasi-degenerate -- are obtained.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures; typos corrected, few clarifying comments and one figure added; version submitted for publication
Additional file 1 of The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models
Creators: name: Squires, Hazel
name: Kelly, Michael P.
name: Gilbert, Nigel
name: Sniehotta, Falko
name: Purshouse, Robin C.
name: Garcia, Leandro
name: Breeze, Penny
name: Brennan, Alan
name: Gardner, Benjamin
name: Bright, Sophie
name: Fischer, Alastair
name: Heppenstall, Alison
name: Wetton, Joanna Davan
name: Hernandez-Alava, Monica
name: Boyd, Jennifer
name: Buckley, Charlotte
name: Vlaev, Ivo
name: Smith, Robert
name: Abbas, Ali
name: Gibb, Roger
name: Henney, Madeleine
name: Moore, Esther
name: Chater, Angel M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Evidence for dense gas heated by the explosion in Orion KL
Creators: name: Li, Dalei
name: Tang, Xindi
name: Henkel, Christian
name: Menten, Karl M.
name: Wyrowski, Friedrich
name: Gong, Yan
name: Wu, Gang
name: He, Yuxin
name: Esimbek, Jarken
name: Zhou, Jianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of Orion KL in a $\sim$20$''$ ($\sim$8000 AU) sized region with para-H$_{2}$CS $7_{07}-6_{06}$, $7_{26}-6_{25}$, and $7_{25}-6_{24}$ making use of ALMA Band 6 Science Verification data. The kinetic temperatures obtained with a resolution of $1\hbox{$\,.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}65$$\times$$1\hbox{$\,.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}14$ ($\sim$550 AU) are deduced by modeling the measured averaged velocity-integrated intensity ratios of para-H$_2$CS $7_{26}-6_{25}/7_{07}-6_{06}$ and $7_{25}-6_{24}/7_{07}-6_{06}$ with a RADEX non-LTE model. The kinetic temperatures of the dense gas, derived from the para-H$_2$CS line ratios at a spatial density of 10$^7$ cm$^{-3}$, are high, ranging from 43 to $>$500 K with an unweighted average of $\sim$170 K. There is no evidence for internal sources playing an important role in the heating of the various structures identified in previous work, namely the elongated ridge, the northwestern clump, and the eastern region of the compact ridge, while the high temperatures in the western region of the compact ridge may be dominated by internal massive star formation. Significant gradients of kinetic temperature along molecular filaments traced by H$_2$CS indicate that the dense gas is heated by the shocks induced by the enigmatic explosive event, which occurred several hundred years ago greatly affecting the energetics of the Orion KL region. Thus, with the notable exception of the western region of the compact ridge, the high temperatures of the dense gas in Orion KL are probably caused by shocks from the explosive event, leading to a dominant component of externally heated dense gas.
description: Accepted for publication to ApJ
Additional file 12 of The barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainability of hospital-based interventions: a systematic review
Creators: name: Cowie, Julie
name: Nicoll, Avril
name: Dimova, Elena D.
name: Campbell, Pauline
name: Duncan, Edward A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 12. Key examples of barriers and facilitators identified within the Resources theme.
Protocol: Approaches for dialogic formative feedback and their outcomes in higher education; a scoping review
Creators: name: Nedrehagen, Eirik
name: Orm, Stian
name: Stokstad, Janette Moland
name: Vee, Tove
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Formative feedback
subject: Higher education
subject: dialogic feedback
subject: formative assessment
subject: shared assessment

description: Background: Students in higher education often express dissatisfaction with the feedback they receive on their academic work. Additionally, teachers are dissatisfied with the existing feedback practices for students' work. Up to 70% of students in higher education procrastinate, especially younger students who tend to delay tasks due to difficulties in taking sufficient responsibility for their own learning process, requiring support and guidance in self-regulation. To bridge the gap between students' and teachers' perceptions of feedback, suggestions have been made to involve students more in providing feedback on their own work and transitioning to a more learning-focused form of feedback. Winstone & Carless argue for a shift toward a more learning-focused model of feedback and contrasts the traditional unidirectional feedback model with a model that encourages students to actively engage and implement feedback into their work. curriculum designs need to be constructed and evaluated. Mapped and summarized knowledge about different models and approaches of dialogic formative feedback and the empirical outcomes used to evaluate them, would provide a valuable overview for teachers and researchers going forward.
The purpose of this scoping review is to explore, map, and summarize the literature for models for dialogic formative feedback between teachers and students in higher education, and the empirical outcomes used to evaluate them.
Method: This protocol is constructed in accordance with the framework for scoping reviews described by Arksey and O´Malley. We will search Eric, Scopus, Cinahl and Teacher reference center and sources of grey literature. A search strategy was developed in collaboration with a research librarian. Two blinded review authors will screen abstracts and titles, include full-text publications, register data in a matrix with predefined codes, and thereafter compile the findings using a descriptive strategy. Any conflict throug
hout screening and data extraction process will be discussed, recorded, and resolved with a 2:1 reviewer agreement.
Discussion: To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first scoping review to map and summarize models of dialogic formative feedback, and the variables used to evaluate model-specific outcomes with a reproducible, pre-published protocol. The study will not be limited to empirical evidence and will produce applicable knowledge to teachers and researchers going forward through the mapped and summarized knowledge.
Scoping review registration: Open Science Framework
Keywords: Formative feedback, formative assessment, shared assessment, Higher education
Longitudinal examination as a possible method of observing agriculture
Creators: name: Fizcerene Nagymihaly, Kornelia
name: Nabradi, Andras
name: Pummer, Laszlo
name: Fizcerene Nagymihaly, Kornelia
name: Nabradi, Andras
name: Pummer, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: longitudinal (development successive) examination
subject: method
subject: applicability

description: On the basis of our examinations we have come to the conclusion that longitudinal examinations are the simplest and most up-to-date methods as well as the most cost-efficient ones for following the decision-making, preparatory data collection, processing and analysis opportunities, which better and better serve the sustainability of agriculture, together with subsequently tracking feedback about the decisions to see if the given measure has really resulted in reaching the objectives. The method was proved capable of supplying both micro- and macro-level information in the desired breakdown, groupings and systems of connections. The development successive (panel) examination that we applied can serve as the basis of decision-making affecting huge areas by means of total listings and breakdowns. Moreover, it can also control their effects and aftermaths. We suggest implementing the introduction this data-collecting and information- supplying method, declared desirable by the European Union. Implementation would be eased to a great extent by the fact that the relevant organisations stand available.
Additional file 1 of Patient perceptions of an electronic-health-record-based rheumatoid arthritis outcomes dashboard: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Nasrallah, Catherine
name: Wilson, Cherish
name: Hamblin, Alicia
name: Hariz, Christine
name: Young, Cammie
name: Li, Jing
name: Yazdany, Jinoos
name: Schmajuk, Gabriela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: 2014 Faculty Conference: student life update
Creators: name: Fox, Daniel
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007
Subjects: academic advising
crisis response
faculty conference
CARE
diversity
Colorado Scholars Fund
SAT
ACT
CASA
advance placement credit

description: This presentation gives a summary of student information and emphasizes its link with the Mines strategic plan. The following topics are included: 3-year undergraduate enrollment numbers; 2014 demographics; addressing affordability; a 3-year summary of enrolling students' SAT/ACT scores and high school class ranking; advanced placement credit distribution; 3-year undergraduate retention statistics; and highlights from CASA and faculty.
PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae
Creators: name: McBrien, Owen R.
name: Smartt, Stephen J.
name: Huber, Mark E.
name: Rest, Armin
name: Chambers, Ken C.
name: Barbieri, Claudio
name: Bulla, Mattia
name: Jha, Saurabh
name: Gromadzki, Mariusz
name: Srivastav, Shubham
name: Smith, Ken W.
name: Young, David R.
name: McLaughlin, Shaun
name: Inserra, Cosimo
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Fraser, Morgan
name: Maguire, Kate
name: Chen, Ting-Wan
name: Wevers, Thomas
name: Anderson, Joseph P.
name: Müller-Bravo, Tomás E.
name: E., Felipe Olivares
name: Kankare, Erkki
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Waters, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time domain astronomy was revolutionised with the discovery of the first kilonova, AT2017gfo, in August 2017 which was associated with the gravitational wave signal GW170817. Since this event, numerous wide-field surveys have been optimising search strategies to maximise their efficiency of detecting these fast and faint transients. With the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), we have been conducting a volume limited survey for intrinsically faint and fast fading events to a distance of $D\simeq200$ Mpc. Two promising candidates have been identified from this archival search, with sparse data - PS15cey and PS17cke. Here we present more detailed analysis and discussion of their nature. We observe that PS15cey was a luminous, fast declining transient at 320 Mpc. Models of BH-NS mergers with a very stiff equation of state could possibly reproduce the luminosity and decline but the physical parameters are extreme. A more likely scenario is that this was a SN2018kzr-like merger event. PS17cke was a faint and fast declining event at 15 Mpc. We explore several explosion scenarios of this transient including models of it as a NS-NS and BH-NS merger, the outburst of a massive luminous star, and compare it against other known fast fading transients. Although there is uncertainty in the explosion scenario due to difficulty in measuring the explosion epoch, we find PS17cke to be a plausible kilonova candidate from the model comparisons.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Accepted by MNRAS (2020-10-21)
Bayesian methods of astronomical source extraction
Creators: name: Savage, Richard S.
name: Oliver, Seb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two new source extraction methods, based on Bayesian model selection and using the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). The first is a source detection filter, able to simultaneously detect point sources and estimate the image background. The second is an advanced photometry technique, which measures the flux, position (to sub-pixel accuracy), local background and point spread function. We apply the source detection filter to simulated Herschel-SPIRE data and show the filter's ability to both detect point sources and also simultaneously estimate the image background. We use the photometry method to analyse a simple simulated image containing a source of unknown flux, position and point spread function; we not only accurately measure these parameters, but also determine their uncertainties (using Markov-Chain Monte Carlo sampling). The method also characterises the nature of the source (distinguishing between a point source and extended source). We demonstrate the effect of including additional prior knowledge. Prior knowledge of the point spread function increase the precision of the flux measurement, while prior knowledge of the background has onlya small impact. In the presence of higher noise levels, we show that prior positional knowledge (such as might arise from a strong detection in another waveband) allows us to accurately measure the source flux even when the source is too faint to be detected directly. These methods are incorporated in SUSSEXtractor, the source extraction pipeline for the forthcoming Akari FIS far-infrared all-sky survey. They are also implemented in a stand-alone, beta-version public tool that can be obtained at http://astronomy.sussex.ac.uk/$\sim$rss23/sourceMiner\_v0.1.2.0.tar.gz
description: Accepted for publication by ApJ (this version compiled used emulateapj.cls)
Mathematical model of the bonding strength between the components
Creators: name: Zink, Béla
name: Hajagos, Szabolcs
name: Széplaki, Péter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We investigated the overmolding of 3D-printed substrates and overprinting of injection-molded baseplates made of amorphous and semi-crystalline materials. We investigated the effect of printing parameters (e.g., printing speed, layer height, etc.), surface roughness, infill density, local infill density change, fiber reinforcement, and mechanical interlocking on the bonding strength. We used Fused Filament Fabrication and Selective Laser Sintering technologies for printing. Based on the measurement results, we proposed several processing methods to achieve higher bonding strength using the combination of injection molding and additive manufacturing. 

Furthermore, our goal in this task was to create a novel healing and bonding strength calculation method. This was achieved by combining finite element method calculation of injection overmolding, analytical modelling of reptation calculation, and element deletion method. First, we summarized the assumptions, neglections, and inadequacies of the already existing calculation methods. After this we created the first version of our calculation method, which we verified for amorphous polymers. Amorphous polymers were used because the healing process of amorphous materials is simpler to model. The novelty of this methodology is that it considers the space-time dependency of the interface temperature. In the next step of development, we combined the analytical modeling of reptation, the numerical modeling of overmolding, and the modeling of tensile tests. We used multiple amorphous polymers to verify calculated results with measurement data. In the last step we proved that our calculation model can be used for semi-crystalline materials by introducing the limit temperatures when healing starts and stops. We verified these calculation results with data obtained from tensile testing.
A field-theoretical approach to the spin glass transition: models with long but finite interaction range
Creators: name: Franz, Silvio
name: Toninelli, Fabio Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin glasses with Kac type interaction potential for small but finite inverse interaction range $γ$. Using the theoretical setup of coupled replicas, through the replica method we argue that the probability of overlap profiles can be expressed for small $γ$ through a large-deviation functional. This result is supported by rigorous arguments, showing that the large-deviation functional provides at least upper bounds for the probability. Finally we analyze the rate function, in the vicinity of the critical point $T_c=1$ of mean field theory, and we study the free energy cost of overlap interfaces, assuming the validity of a gradient expansion for the rate functional.
description: 23 pages
Ultracold quantum dynamics: spin-polarized K + K_2 collisions with three identical bosons or fermions
Creators: name: Quemener, G.
name: Honvault, P.
name: Launay, J. -M.
name: Soldan, P.
name: Potter, D. E.
name: Hutson, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a new potential energy surface for spin-polarized K($^2$S) + K$_{2}(^3Σ^+_u)$ collisions and carried out quantum dynamical calculations of vibrational quenching at low and ultralow collision energies for both bosons $^{39}$K and $^{41}$K and fermions $^{40}$K. At collision energies above about 0.1 mK the quenching rates are well described by a classical Langevin model, but at lower energies a fully quantal treatment is essential. We find that for the low initial vibrational state considered here ($v=1$), the ultracold quenching rates are {\it not} substantially suppressed for fermionic atoms. For both bosons and fermions, vibrational quenching is much faster than elastic scattering in the ultralow-temperature regime. This contrasts with the situation found experimentally for molecules formed via Feshbach resonances in very high vibrational states.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
A pilot study to assess the feasibility of venous leg ulcer healing prognostic biomarker research.
Creators: name: Harvey, Joe
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Translational Medical Research
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: A protocol created for the pilot study: "A pilot study to assess the feasibility of venous leg ulcer healing prognostic biomarker research."
Environmentalism in tourism: the connection of lifestyle, tourism and sustainable development
Creators: name: David, Lorant
name: Szucs, Csaba
name: David, Lorant
name: Szucs, Csaba
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmentalism
subject: tourism
subject: lifestyle
subject: sustainable development

description: In Adler’s theory the “style of life” refers to how we live, sort out difficulties, and manage our own personal relationships. He strongly believed that each one of us is a distinctive, unique individual with our own characteristic way of life. Since the term was coined in the early 20th century it is no wonder that the meaning of “lifestyle” has gone through enormous changes. These days it is more often used to express “a way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group”. Since globalisation is increasingly turning the world into a “global village” no wonder that lifestyle is changing faster than ever before. As a result “for tourism, this influences the tourist’s perception of his/her personal needs and behaviour ”1. In this short essay attention will be focussed on the mutual effects of lifestyle and tourism. After taking a brief look at the different life-stages, which, according to Knowles (2001), have a fundamental influence on holiday choice, we will examine other factors that determine tourists’ decisions. The most important of these factors (perhaps not surprisingly) are time and money. It will be interesting to see that for many in western societies the greatest hindrance is not the financial burdens of a holiday but rather the lack of time to spare. This, inevitably, leads to demands that have not been trends in the tourism industry in past decades. Shorter, multiple holidays in exotic places are more sought after than they have ever been and due to changes in society somewhat shocking niche markets are also emerging. It is obvious that travelling overseas is less of a luxury these days than it used to be. As a consequence, more and more people will be able to make their choice to be on the move, be it on business or holiday, thus contributing to one of the hottest issues currently. Climate change, which has already made its influence felt, will no doubt have significant influence on all of us. What can travellers do to leave less of an environmental footprint and meet not only the needs of the present but also of the indefinite future? The objective of this work is to make the reader think about the effects of current and future trends in tourism on the natural environment.
Hyperbolic models for the spread of epidemics on networks: kinetic description and numerical methods
Creators: name: Bertaglia, Giulia
name: Pareschi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider the development of hyperbolic transport models for the propagation in space of an epidemic phenomenon described by a classical compartmental dynamics. The model is based on a kinetic description at discrete velocities of the spatial movement and interactions of a population of susceptible, infected and recovered individuals. Thanks to this, the unphysical feature of instantaneous diffusive effects, which is typical of parabolic models, is removed. In particular, we formally show how such reaction-diffusion models are recovered in an appropriate diffusive limit. The kinetic transport model is therefore considered within a spatial network, characterizing different places such as villages, cities, countries, etc. The transmission conditions in the nodes are analyzed and defined. Finally, the model is solved numerically on the network through a finite-volume IMEX method able to maintain the consistency with the diffusive limit without restrictions due to the scaling parameters. Several numerical tests for simple epidemic network structures are reported and confirm the ability of the model to correctly describe the spread of an epidemic.
Quantum phase interference and spin parity in Mn12 single-molecule magnets
Creators: name: Wernsdorfer, W.
name: Chakov, N. E.
name: Christou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization measurements of Mn12 molecular nanomagnets with spin ground states of S = 10 and S = 19/2 showresonance tunneling at avoided energy level crossings. The observed oscillations of the tunnel probability as a function of the magnetic field applied along the hard anisotropy axis are due to topological quantum phase interference of two tunnel paths of opposite windings. Spin-parity dependent tunneling is established by comparing the quantum phase interference of integer and half-integer spin systems.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures