cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Alle origini della polizia moderna: apparati di controllo ecclesiastici e nuovi sistemi di polizia nella Roma del primo Ottocento
Creators: name: LUCREZIO MONTICELLI, CHIARA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: polizia; parroci; parrocchie; Stato pontificio; restaurazione; controllo sociale; ordine pubblico
subject: polizia
subject: parroci
subject: parrocchie
subject: Stato pontificio
subject: restaurazione
subject: controllo sociale
subject: ordine pubblico

description: 20. ciclo
GUARDA E IMPARA… UN NUOVO APPROCCIO ALL’USO DI SUPPORTI AUDIOVISIVI IN CLASSE. RIFLESSIONI ED ESEMPI
Creators: name: Guidi, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Come proporre un supporto video a lezione? Come le nuove tecnologie possono entrare a far parte di un percorso didattico? Qual è l’evoluzione del rapporto docente-discente alla luce dell’utilizzo di materiale video e delle nuove tecnologie in classe? L’articolo risponde a queste domande e illustra anche il risultato di un percorso di ricerca e di applicazione didattica dell’autrice nella sua esperienza di docente di italiano L2 presso l’Università della Bicocca di Milano.     Look and learn… A new approach to using audiovisual materials in the classroom. Reflections and examples    How can teachers use videos during lessons? How can new technologies become part of the didactic process? How has the teacher-student relationship evolved in light of video and new technologies being used in the classroom? This article answers these questions and illustrates the result of a research process in didactic application by the author based on her experience as a L2 Italian teacher at the Università Bicocca in Milan.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, N° 2 (2010)
- Tá na hora d'ir pr'á escola!"; "- Eu não sei fazer esta, senhor professor!” ou... Brincar às escolas na escola (JI) como um modo das crianças darem sentido e negociarem as relações entre a família e a escola.
Creators: name: Ferreira, Maria Manuela
Publisher: name: Interacções
Year: 2006

description: Subscrevendo os pressupostos da Sociologia da Infância pretende-se com este artigo evidenciar a infância contemporânea como sendo construída numa complexa rede de interdependências não lineares e heterogéneas entre a família e instituições educativas, entre adultos e crianças, e as crianças como actores sociais procurando construir o seu próprio espaço como crianças entre aqueles contextos, no quotidiano de um Jardim de Infância (JI).
Considerando o JI como uma instituição educativa que ocupa um posicionamento social “entre” a família e a escola, destinando-se às crianças “entre” as idades que já não são bebés mas ainda não são alunos, procura-se evidenciar e analisar os modos como as relações recíprocas família-escola aqui estão/se tornam presentes i) no enquadramento de tempos-espaços-actividades previamente organizado pelo adulto-educadora para as crianças; ii) nos processos de construção de sentido e negociação das fronteiras conceptuais entre aqueles dois contextos sociais, levado a cabo pelo grupo de crianças quando “brincam ao faz-de-conta". Estes argumentos suportam-se na análise de descrições etnográficas de episódios interactivos entre as crianças, observados no quotidiano do JI.
description: Interacções, vol. 2 n.º 2 (2006): Pluralidade de olhares sobre escolas e famílias e suas intra e inter-relações.
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in rat forebrain that bind ¹⁸F-nifene: relating PET imaging, autoradiography, and behavior
Creators: name: Bieszczad, Kasia M.
name: Kant, Ritu
name: Constantinescu, Cristian C.
name: Pandey, Suresh K.
name: Metherate, Raju
name: Weinberger, Norman M.
name: Kawai, Hideki D.
name: Mukherjee, Jogeshwar
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Learning
Memory
Auditory
Thalamocortical
Prefrontal
Nicotine

description: Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the brain are important for cognitive function; however, their specific role in relevant brain regions remains unclear. In this study, we used the novel compound ¹⁸F-nifene to examine the distribution of nAChRs in the rat forebrain, and for individual animals related the results to behavioral performance on an auditory-cognitive task. We first show negligible binding of ¹⁸F-nifene in mice lacking the β2 nAChR subunit, consistent with previous findings that ¹⁸F-nifene binds to α4β2* nAChRs. We then examined the distribution of ¹⁸F-nifene in rat using three methods: in vivo PET, ex vivo PET and autoradiography. Generally, ¹⁸F-nifene labeled forebrain regions known to contain nAChRs, and the three methods produced similar relative binding among regions. Importantly, ¹⁸F-nifene also labeled some white matter (myelinated axon) tracts, most prominently in the temporal subcortical region that contains the auditory thalamocortical pathway. Finally, we related ¹⁸F-nifene binding in several forebrain regions to each animal's performance on an auditory-cued, active avoidance task. The strongest correlations with performance after 14 days training were found for ¹⁸F-nifene binding in the temporal subcortical white matter, subiculum, and medial frontal cortex (correlation coefficients, r > 0.8); there was no correlation with binding in the auditory thalamus or auditory cortex. These findings suggest that individual performance is linked to nicotinic functions in specific brain regions, and further support a role for nAChRs in sensory-cognitive function.
Anchistus custos
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Bruce, Alexander J.
name: Manning *, Raymond B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Anchistus
Anchistus custos

description: Anchistus custos (Forskål, 1775)
 Cancer custos Forskål, 1775: xxi, 94.
 Anchistus custos - Holthuis, 1952a: 105; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 46, 72; Müller, 1993: 8; Bruce, 1996: 205; 2003: 211; Li, 1997: 228; 2000: 7, Fig. 8; 2001: 76; Davie et al., 1998: 96, phto; Li & Liu, 2002: 371, Fig. 1.
 Material examined. – 9 males, 12 females (5 ovig)(IOCAS, 1 male, 1 female (ZRC), CN 55 - K332 A, Xinying, Hainan Is., intertidal, with Pinna sp., 23-25 May.1955.
 Distribution. – Red Sea and eastern Africa to Philippines, southward to South Australia, and eastward to the Caroline and Fijian Islands (Chace & Bruce, 1993), also reported from Ambon, Indonesia (Debelius, 1999). Associated with mollusks of the genera Pinna, Atrina and Vasum.
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, pp. 513-553 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 528, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244123
Low-Loss microstrip MEMS technology for RF passive components
Creators: name: Martoglio, L.
name: Richalot, E.
name: Picon, O.
name: Lissorgues-Bazin, G.
name: Vasseure, C.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A new low loss and low cost microstrip MEMS technology is presented. Two inverted microstrip lines, one on low loss silicon and the other on glass have been measured and simulated. A good concordance of the results has been obtained. Simulations have been used to study the influence of several parameters, and the results of simulations allow us to adjust the lines dimensions to prescribed characteristics.
Heat transfer enhancement - a brief review of 2018 literature
Creators: name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Enhancement
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Phase-change
Thermal properties
Energy
Nanoscale
Nanofluid
Porous media
Graphene
Diamond

description: This article is a review of literature on heat transfer enhancement research published in 2018 in the English language. A topic search using “heat transfer” in the Web of Science resulted in about 17,000 articles published in 2018, of which nearly 4600 were relevant to heat transfer augmentation. Thus, some selection is inevitable. The included studies are grouped into the fields identified in the Aims and Scope of the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, which considers a wide range of scholarly articles related to the subject of “enhanced heat and mass transfer” in natural and forced convection, phase-change heat transfer, conduction and radiative heat transfer, and the general topic of “high performance” heat transfer concepts, devices, or systems (e.g., heat exchangers and heat pipes).
Mental health interventions for the elderly
Creators: name: Mikesell, Lisa
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mental health interventions
elderly
depression
pharmacological treatment
psychotherapies
brain stimulation therapies
integrated care
Dementia

description: This is a chapter to be published in the volume Older Age Psychiatry, which is part of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health (Eds. J.N. Lester & M. O'Reilly). Drawing primarily on the evidence from randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, this entry overviews current interventions and their effectiveness for the two most common neuropsychiatric disorders to impact older adults: depression and dementia. The interventions reviewed for late life depression include pharmacological treatments (SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, MOAs), nonpharmacological psychotherapies (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Problem Solving Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy), exercise, and brain stimulation therapies focusing on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is the most commonly used brain stimulation therapy for older age adults suffering from depression. Interventions targeting symptoms of dementia include pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for both cognitive symptoms and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Pharmacological interventions for cognitive symptoms include acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and Nmethyl-D-aspartate antagonists, while nonpharmacological interventions include various forms of cognitive stimulation, reality orientation, and exercise. The two most common pharmacological interventions for BPSD – antidepressants and antipsychotics – and the sparse evidence that exists regarding their imapct on BPSD are also outlined. Considering that dementia and depression are strongly associated and often co-occur, this entry ends by reflecting on the promise of integrated care to better address the complex needs of elderly patients, calling attention to the need for research to include patient-centered outcomes and examine the effects of interventions on overall quality of life and well-being.
Are we happier among our own race?
Creators: name: Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Segregation
Race
Subjective wellbeing (SWB)
Happiness
Life satisfaction
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
General Social Survey (GSS)
Sociobiology

description: We study the effect of residential segregation by race on wellbeing. Wellbeing is measured as self reported happiness (subjective wellbeing). Segregation is measured at three levels of aggregation. We use the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System containing information about over 125 metropolitan areas and over 125,000 people living there, and measure segregation using exposure/isolation index based on census data at metropolitan level. Second dataset, 1978-2012 General Social Surveys surveyed respondents about race at block level. Third dataset, the Quality Of American Life surveyed respondents about race at neighborhood level. There are conflicting theories about the effect of segregation on wellbeing, but we know surprisingly little about the actual net effect. Sociologists tend to assume, without testing, that segregation has a negative effect because it is associated with concentrated poverty, exclusion, lack of opportunity, and crime. The negative effect is argued for minorities, and especially blacks. Our results, however, are consistent across all racial groups. We find that whites, blacks, and Hispanics are happier among their own race.
Data in Context Series 3: Analysing and Interpreting Data in Context
Creators: name: De Weerdt, Hilde
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: History
subject: Medieval history
subject: digital history
subject: chinese history
subject: text annotation
subject: image annotation

description: This is part 3 of a series of three lectures entitled Data in Context given by Prof. De Weerdt at the Summer School for Quantitative History held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, from July 6 to 16, 2024. The Summer School is jointly organized by the Department of History at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Center of Quantitative History at HKU Business School, and the School of History at Renmin University of China, in collaboration with the International Society for Quantitative History and the HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

Individual slides should be credited to the authors indicated. As this is a report on a project in progress data on the slides should not be cited without prior consent of the authors.
Extinction reveals that primary sensory cortex predicts reinforcement outcome
Creators: name: Bieszczad, Kasia M.
name: Weinberger, Norman M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Auditory cortex
Instrumental conditioning
Learning-induced plasticity
Memory strength
Rat

description: Primary sensory cortices are traditionally regarded as stimulus analysers. However, studies of associative learning-induced plasticity in the primary auditory cortex (A1) indicate involvement in learning, memory and other cognitive processes. For example, the area of representation of a tone becomes larger for stronger auditory memories and the magnitude of area gain is proportional to the degree that a tone becomes behaviorally important. Here, we used extinction to investigate whether 'behavioral importance' specifically reflects a sound's ability to predict reinforcement (reward or punishment) vs. to predict any significant change in the meaning of a sound. If the former, then extinction should reverse area gains as the signal no longer predicts reinforcement. Rats (n = 11) were trained to bar-press to a signal tone (5.0 kHz) for water-rewards, to induce signal-specific area gains in A1. After subsequent withdrawal of reward, A1 was mapped to determine representational areas. Signal-specific area gains, estimated from a previously established brain-behavior quantitative function, were reversed, supporting the 'reinforcement prediction' hypothesis. Area loss was specific to the signal tone vs. test tones, further indicating that withdrawal of reinforcement, rather than unreinforced tone presentation per se, was responsible for area loss. Importantly, the amount of area loss was correlated with the amount of extinction (r = 0.82, P < 0.01). These findings show that primary sensory cortical representation can encode behavioral importance as a signal's value to predict reinforcement, and that the number of cells tuned to a stimulus can dictate its ability to command behavior.
Using X-ray CT Scanned Reconstructed Logs to Predict Knot Characteristics and Tree Value
Creators: name: Ji, Airu
name: Cool, Julie
name: Duchesne, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Research Highlights: Stand density was connected with wood quality and lumber production to develop a predictive model to better estimate tree value. Background and Objectives: The available standing wood volume in British Columbia (BC), Canada has consistently decreased since 1990. Better understanding the link between stand growth conditions, knot characteristics, the sawmilling process and product quality is essential in making informed forest management decisions and efficiently utilizing wood. The overall objective was to investigate and predict the impact of tree growth as affected by stand density on knot characteristics, lumber volume and value recoveries for two conifer species, two types of sawmills and three economic scenarios. Materials and Methods: Seventy-two amabilis fir and western hemlock trees were harvested from three stands located on Vancouver Island, BC. Sawlogs were scanned using an X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner and images were processed to extract knot characteristics and reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) log models. The effects of three diameter at breast height (DBH) classes (30, 40 and 50 cm) and three stand densities on knot characteristics, including knot volume, number of knots, average knot area and knot/tree volume ratio, as well as the simulated lumber volume and value recoveries from two types of sawmills (i.e., Coastal and Interior) under three economic scenarios (i.e., baseline, optimistic, and pessimistic) were investigated. Results: As expected, the knot characteristics of both species increased with the DBH. The difference of knot distribution between amabilis fir and western hemlock suggests that the latter is more sensitive to growth site conditions. The sawmilling simulations revealed that the Coastal mill produced a lower lumber volume due to the type of products manufactured and the primary breakdown patterns being used. Conclusions: The developed linear mixed effects models based on the knot characteristics and tree features could predict the value of a standing tree and can be used for estimating preharvest stand value of similar Coastal Hem-Fir forests.
Earth Rotation Changes Since -500 CE Driven by Ice Mass Variations
Creators: name: Alley, Richard B.
name: Hay, Carling C.
name: Mitrovica, Jerry X.
name: Morrow, Eric
name: Kopp, Robert E.
name: Huybers, Peter
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sea level
Eclipses
Common Era ice mass flux
Earth (Planet)--Rotation
Clock error

description: We predict the perturbation to the Earth’s length-of-day (LOD) over the Common Era using a recently derived estimate of global sea-level change for this time period. We use this estimate to derive a time series of “clock error”, defined as the difference in timing of two clocks, one based on a theoretically invariant time scale (terrestrial time) and one fixed to Earth rotation (universal time), and compare this time series to millennial scale variability in clock error inferred from ancient eclipse records. Under the assumption that global sea-level change over the Common Era is driven by ice mass flux alone, we find that this flux can reconcile a significant fraction of the discrepancies between clock error computed assuming constant slowing of Earth's rotation and that inferred from eclipse records since 700 CE. In contrast, ice mass flux cannot reconcile the temporal variability prior to 700 CE.
title: Das Umweltbundesamt - ein familienfreundlicher Arbeitgeber
title: Das Umweltbundesamt - ein familienfreundlicher Arbeitgeber
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Umweltbundesamt
subject: Das UBA
subject: Audit Beruf und Familie
subject: Das UBA

description: Das Umweltbundesamt ist ein familienbewusster Arbeitgeber. Es ist uns wichtig, dass es unseren Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern gelingt, Beruf und Privatleben bestmöglich miteinander zu vereinbaren. Was das UBAdafür tut, erläutert dieses Faltblatt. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Umweltbundesamt ist ein familienbewusster Arbeitgeber. Es ist uns wichtig, dass es unseren Mitarbeiter*innen gelingt, Beruf und Privatleben bestmöglich miteinander zu vereinbaren. Was das ⁠UBA⁠ dafür tut, erläutert dieses Faltblatt.
Attribution of responsibility in food recall communications
Creators: name: Wu, Fanfan
name: Mingyue, Zhang
name: Hallman, William K.
name: Nucci, Mary L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Food recall
Communications

description: We analyzed newspaper coverage of the Nestle Cookie Dough recall in 2006 and the ConAgra Ground Beef recall in 2009 from the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. Using content analysis, the quotes/statements were coded by date, source, authorship, name of speaker, affiliation; and further coded by type of blame/denial, number of blame/denial target(s), and target(s) of blame. Using those stories that had some statement of blame, we coded stories as to who or what was responsible for the outbreak: Actor, Product, Bacteria, Practices/ processes, or Regulations. Each story was also coded by theme. A timeline of each event was created, listing stories by date of report, critical information of quotes, and theme. Most stories on the food recalls were published in the first three months after the recall. The New York Times was most active in reporting (see the timelines). Over time, the two recalls shared a common pattern in story theme: initially focusing on cause of the recall, then distribution of blame and responsibility, then issues with regulations (see the timelines). For Nestle, industry/corporation was most often blamed for the recall. For ConAgra, regulations/ government was most often blamed (see the pie charts). No apology was made in these two events. In this pilot study we successfully developed a coding system to identify blame and responsibility from media stories about food recalls and created a timeline to analyze food recall stories. These methods will be used to further study major food recall events in the United States. The current study indicates that the pattern of attributed responsibility reported in the media is likely connected to the different characteristics of the food involved in a recall. Future research will examine these patterns in additional case studies
description: Nutrition, Endocrinology & Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Conference (NEAB)
A compilation framework for power and energy management on mobile computers
Creators: name: Kremer, Ulrich
name: Hicks, Jamey
name: Rehg, James M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: This paper discusses the potential benefits of application specific power management through remote task execution. Power management is crucial for mobile devices that have to rely on battery power for extended periods of time. Image processing and understanding is a class of applications that is important in mobile environments. Image processing can be used in autonomous robot navigation, target acquisition/classification, keyboard-less input, and aerial surveillance (Micro Air Vehicles), just to mention a few. Experimental results on an image processing application, namely a human face detection and recognition system, indicate the power savings that can be achieved for this important class of applications. We discuss a compilation strategy that generates two versions of the initial application, one to be executed on the mobile device (client), and the other on a machine connected to the mobile device via a wireless network (server). The client and server codes have to be able to deal with disconnection events. Our proposed compilation strategy uses checkpointing techniques to allow the client to monitor program progress on the server, and to request checkpoint data in order to reduce the performance penalty in case of a possible server and/or network failure. The reported results have been obtained by actual power measurements on three client systems, (1) the StrongARM based low-power SKIFF system developed at Compaq’s Cambridge Research Laboratory, (2) Compaq’s commercially available StrongARM based iPAQ H3600, and (3) a Pentium II based laptop. Initial experiments show that energy consumption can be reduced significantly, in some cases up to one order of magnitude, depending on the selected characteristics of the mobile device, remote host, and wireless network. A prototype implementation of the discussed compilation framework is underway, and preliminary results are reported.
Kemponia grandis
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Bruce, Alexander J.
name: Manning *, Raymond B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Kemponia
Kemponia grandis

description: Kemponia grandis (Stimpson, 1860)
 Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860: 39.
 Periclimenes grandis – Borradaile, 1898: 382; Bruce, 1975: 23, Fig. 1; 2003: 233; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 112; Müller, 1993: 84; Li, 1997: 238; 2000: 186, Fig. 235; 2001: 82; 2004: 69.
 Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) grandis - Kemp, 1922: 210, Figs. 58, 59, pl. 7: fig. 10.
 Periclimenes (Harpilius) grandis – Holthuis, 1952a: 79.
 Kemponia grandis – Bruce, 2004: 16.
 Material examined. – 14 males, 32 females, CN 54-255, Beigang, Luzhou Island, Guangxi Province, coll. Yongliang Wang and J. Y. Liu, 1 Dec.1954.
 Diagnosis. – Rostrum up-turned, with 1-2 + 6-8/2-5 teeth. Carapace with supraorbital spine. Scaphocerite with distolateral tooth distinctly over-reaching distal margin of lamella. Fourth thoracic sternite with slender median process. Second pereiopods with distoventral tooth on merus; carpus stout, shorter than palm, armed distally with 1 distal tooth; chela with fingers 0.5 to 0.8 as long as palm. Ambulatory pereiopods with dactyl stout and simple; propodus with few spinules on flexor margin; fifth pereiopods not reaching as far as end of scaphocerite.
 Distribution. – Red Sea to Mozambique, eastward to Japan, Indonesia, Great Barrier Reef, and Marshall Islands.
 Remarks. – Bruce (2004) designated a new genus, Kemponia, to include the 24 species of an expanded “ Periclimenes grandis species group”, which are primarily coral reef species and predominantly free-living, some as micro-predators, or associated with scleractinian corals. Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860 was designated as the type species of Kemponia by Bruce (2004).
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, pp. 513-553 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 530, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244123
Digitalising the Erasmus+ grants payment system: the MEGA project
Creators: name: European University Foundation
Publisher: name: MEGA Project Consortium
Year: 2024
Subjects: Erasmus+
Student Mobility
Grants Management
Digital

description: The MEGA project poster has been recognised as one of the three winners of the Best Poster Award at the 2024 EAIE Conference in Toulouse in September 2024.  Learn more about the MEGA project here.
A Note on a Boundedness Property of Normal Barriers of Convex Cones
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Convex cones
Self-concordance
Normal barriers
Diagonal matrix scaling
Self-dual cones

description: Let K be a closed convex pointed cone in a finite imensional Hilbert space E. Assume K has a nonempty interior K◦. Let r = inf{(x, y) : x, y ∈ K, ||x|| = ||y|| = 1}, where (·, ·) denotes the inner product and || · || the corresponding induced norm. The quantity r gives a measure of obtuseness of K and it necessarily lies in (−1, 1]. Let F be any θ-normal barrier for K◦. We prove that for each d ∈ K◦, the operator D ≡ ∇2F(d)−1/2 satisfies the inequality ||D|| ≤ ρ||d||, where ρ ≤ 1 + √2/1+r . In particular, if K is acute, i.e., (x, y) ≥ 0, ∀x, y ∈ K, then ρ ≤ 1 + √2. We prove the above using a property from the theory of self-concordance of Nesterov and Nemirovskii [3], and a result in Kalantari [2]. The existence of this bound implies that the polynomial-time potential-reduction and path-following algorithms which were described in [2], for self-concordant homogeneous programming and for a generalizations of the diagonal matrix scaling problem, are applicable over any arbitrary cone K. The effect of ρ in the total complexity of these algorithms is the addition of a number of iterations, only O(ln ln ρ). Since any symmetric cone, and more generally any self-dual cone, is necessarily acute, the bound proved here implies that the corresponding iteration complexity of the above mentioned algorithms is independent of ρ.
Focused Laser-Induced Marangoni Dewetting for Patterning Polymer Thin Films
Creators: name: Kooi, Steven E.
name: Thomas, Edwin L.
name: Singer, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2016
Subjects: Thermocapillary forces
Dewetting
Laser direct write
Block copolymers
Polymer thin films

description: Highly-localized focused laser spike (FLaSk) heating of polymer thin films is a resist- and developer-free alternative to 2D laser direct write for creating patterns on the single micron or, by exploiting overlap effects, submicron scale. The massive temporal and spatial thermal gradients and resulting thermal Marangoni stresses generated by FLaSk are an effective means for the directed dewetting and patterning of such films. Here, the general applicability of this technique to glassy amorphous polymer thin film systems is investigated through systematic investigation of film thickness, glass transition temperature, and polymer mobility. The results reveal that the important parameters are the film thickness (coupled to the optical heating effects through anti-reflection coating effects) and the high-temperature polymer melt mobility, allowing for generation of single features with linewidths of down to ~1 μm. Further, the introduction of spatial mobility variations by using polymer brushes, bilayers, and microphase separated block copolymers leads to additional profile manipulation effects (i.e. spontaneous 2D pattern generation and flattened top profiles).
Residential indoor air quality interventions through a social‐ecological systems lens: A systematic review
Creators: name: Tsoulou, Ioanna
name: Senick, Jennifer
name: Mainelis, Gediminas
name: Kim, Sunyoung
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021

description: Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important consideration for health and well- being as people spend most of their time indoors. Multi- disciplinary interest in IAQ is growing, resulting in more empirical research, especially in affordable housing settings, given disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations. Conceptually, there is little coherency among these case studies; they traverse diverse spatial scales, indoor and outdoor environments, and populations, making it difficult to implement research findings in any given setting. We employ a social- ecological systems (SES) framework to review and categorize existing interventions and other literature findings to elucidate relationships among spatially and otherwise diverse IAQ factors. This perspective is highly attentive to the role of agency, highlighting individual, household, and organizational behaviors and constraints in managing IAQ. When combined with scientific knowledge about the effectiveness of IAQ interventions, this approach favors actionable strategies for reducing the presence of indoor pollutants and personal exposures.
Mentoring A-Z. Julie Todaro
Creators: name: Croft, Janet Brennan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mentoring
Library administration

description: Review of Mentoring A-Z by Julie Todaro: Staff training and development programs are aimed at all library employees. These processes communicate job expectations, orient the worker to the organization and its resources, and provide information about the library’s mission and goals. Mentorship programs, on the other hand, are more often developed for employees at the professional or faculty level, and, ideally, they deal with issues such as long-term professional career development, promotion and succession planning, and retention (or tenure in tenure-track faculty situations).
Study of the Influence of Non-Deposit Locations in Data-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping: A Case Study on the Iskut Project in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Lachaud, Alix
name: Marcus, Adam
name: Vučetić, Slobodan
name: Miskovic, Ilija
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The accuracy of data-driven predictive mineral prospectivity models relies heavily on the training datasets used. These models are usually trained using data for “known” deposit locations as well as “non-deposit” locations that are based on randomly generated point patterns. In this study, data related to the Seabridge Gold Inc Iskut project, an epithermal Au deposit in northwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada, are used to test the utility of data-driven mineral prospectivity modeling. The input spatial dataset is comprised mostly of publicly available data. Data for 18 vein and epithermal Au known mineral occurrences (KMO) are obtained from the BC Geological Survey’s MINFILE repository and selected as training deposit locations. A total of eleven sets of non-deposit locations (NDL) were also created, including one set of selected non-prospective KMO for Au deposits from the MINFILE and ten sets of random point patterns. Given the scale of this study, most of the KMO recorded on the property are of the epithermal deposit type. Hence, they could not be used as a selection criterion. Data-driven mineral potential models are generated using the random forest (RF) algorithm and trained on multiple data sets. The comparison of RF models demonstrated that using non-prospective KMO generates more accurate predictions than the random point pattern. The produced mineral prospectivity maps delineated multiple areas with higher discovery potential, which matched viable targets for the Au-Cu epithermal-porphyry system identified through previous Seabridge Gold Inc. (Toronto, ON, Canada) field reconnaissance and drilling programs.
Palaemonella rotumana
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Bruce, Alexander J.
name: Manning *, Raymond B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Palaemonella
Palaemonella rotumana

description: Palaemonella rotumana (Borradaile, 1898)
 Periclimenes rotumana Borradaile, 1898: 383.
 Palaemonella vestigialis Kemp, 1922: 123, Figs. 1, 2, pl. 3: 2; Holthuis, 1952a: 24, Figs. 2a, b, 3.
 Palaemonella rotumana - Bruce, 1970b: 276, Fig. 2; 2002a: 288, 291; 2003: 221; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 89; Müller, 1993: 45; Li, 1996: 226, Fig. 5; 1997: 234; 2000: 105, Fig. 115; 2001: 80; De Grave, 2000: 129, Fig. 5; Li & Liu, 2003: 160, Figs. 5 c-q.
 Material examined. – 1 male, 1 female, CN 92 C-187C, Xincun, coll. X. Li, 27 Mar.1992; 1 ovig female, CN 92 C-1405C, Lanmai, Lingao, Hainan Is., intertidal, coll. X. Li, 9 Apr.1992; 1 ovig female, CN 92 C-1419B, Linchang Reef, Hainan Is., intertidal, coll. X. Li, 10 Apr.1992; 1 male, CN R175 B-27, [20º10’N, 110º15’E], 43.5m, corals, AT, coll. F. Sun, 11 Apr.1960; 1 male, CN Q55 B-38, [17 30’N, 108 E], sandy mud, 85m, BT, coll. Fengshan Xu, 16 Apr.1959.
 Distribution. – Red Sea and eastern Africa to Hawaii, Eastern Mediterranean.
 Remarks. – Commonest species of the genus, distributed from littoral to a depth of 128 meters. It is very close to Palaemonella pottsi (Borradaile, 1915). As pointed out and illustrated by Bruce (1970b, 2002a) and De Grave (2000), these two species can be distinguished by the configuration of the dactyl and propodus of the ambulatory pereiopods. In P. rotumana the ventral margin of the dactyl of ambulatory pereiopods is smoothly concave, not biconcave, and the apical ventral propodal spines are long, reaching 0.4-0.5 of the dactyl length, sometimes, this species has an obscure and sometimes a distinct postorbital ridge. In P. pottsi the unguis of dactyl of ambulatory pereiopods is clearly demarcated, the ventral margin of corpus of the dactyl is sinuous or biconcave, and the apical ventral propodal spines are small; the carapace always without supraorbital tubercle. Additionally, P. rotumana is a free-living species, but P. pottsi is associated with crinoids.
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, pp. 513-553 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 534, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244123
Retrieval of records in key sequence from direct access hash files
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Matthew
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1979
Subjects: Hash tables
Scatter storage
Data base access
Sequential retrieval
Random access
Searching
Index structure
File organization
Distribution dependent hashing
Bucket size

description: The desirable random access characteristics of hash tables until now have been considered incompatible with the ability to retrieve the record next in key sequence. In this paper, algorithms are developed for such Get Next retrieval from a specific category of hash tables. It is shown that the random access performance is unchanged, and that the overhead for the Get Next operations can be quite satisfactory. These characteristics can be particularly advantageous for file and data base system access. Implications for choice of blocking factors on secondary storage devices are assessed. Extensions of the basic technique serve to expand the scope of applications, allow for distribution dependent hashing schemes, and describe a spectrum of schemes in which tradeoffs can be made between the efficiencies of random access and Get Next retrievals.
Scaling effects on the damping of wave energy converters
Creators: name: Puticiu, Liviu
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The efficient operation of wave-energy converters requires a resonance between the natural frequency of the devices and the frequency of incoming waves. However, the power delivered at resonance is controlled by the damping. Thus, experiments were undertaken on the effects of size change on the internal damping of small-scale converter models. Two of the most popular concepts for wave energy conversion were examined: the heaving buoy and the oscillating water column. It was found that the damping contributions traditionally not considered by linear wave theory exert a significant, nonlinear impact on the damping as model-size is varied.
Parallelizing Unstructured Sparse Matrix Computations on Large-Scale Multiprocessors
Creators: name: Venugopal, Seshadri
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1993

description: Problems in the class of unstructured sparse matrix computations are characterized by highly irregular dependencies and communication patterns that are not known at compile-time, but can be completely determined at run-time before the computations are actually performed. For this class of problems, current parallelizing compilers are unable to produce efficient code on large-scale distributed memory MIMD multiprocessors, and manual techniques are inflexible and too ad hoc to be generally effective. In this thesis, we propose a run-time automatic partitioning and scheduling methodology for unstructured sparse matrix computations on large-scale multiprocessors. Our methodology is based on extracting information from the problem instance by preprocessing its symbolic structure, and using this information to achieve high performance in repeated iterations of the computations during which the symbolic structure is unchanged. We present efficient software tools to help users build their parallelization system by following this methodology. We demonstrate the efficacy of our methodology on sparse Cholesky factorization, which has historically proven to be hard to parallelize. The highlight of our approach is a new two-dimensional block partitioning scheme. We build a run-time parallel system for block sparse Cholesky factorization called Sparse Hybrid Automatic Parallelization Environment (SHAPE), consisting of a parallel partitioner, a parallel scheduler and a parallel communication optimization algorithm. These are modular tools tied together by an explicit representation for block-based unstructured computations. We employ SHAPE to carry out an extensive experimental study of sparse Cholesky factorization on the iPSC/860. The experimental results show that with a judicious choice of partitioning parameters, our block-based partitioning and scheduling method outperforms a well-known column-based method in delivering high performance on a variety of structured and unstructured matrices. The preprocessing itself is shown to be very efficient, its cost being recovered in a small number of iterations of the factorization. Our methodology and tools may be used to parallelize other unstructured sparse matrix computations for which the same symbolic structure is used in several iterations of the computations. Such computations include sparse triangular solution and sparse matrix-vector multiplication.
Unshareable dynamic objects and how to resolve a conflict between encapsulation and pointers
Creators: name: Minsky, Naftaly H.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: This paper introduces the concept of an unshareable dynamic object, i.e., an object that is created dynamically on the heap, and is guaranteed to have a unique and movable pointer leading to it. The use of such unshareable objects, whenever sharing is not required, is expected to fortify the concept of encapsulation, to make systems simpler and easier to reason about, and to make storage management safer and more efficient. We argue that unshareable objects can be implemented by means of few minor and virtually costless modifications in conventional OO languages, and we demonstrate this in detail
On the Order of Convergence of a Determinantal Family of Root-finding Methods
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Iterative methods (Mathematics)
Roots, Numerical
Taylor's theorem
Newton-Raphson method
Halley's Method
Interpolation
Fibonacci numbers

description: For each natural number m greater than one, and each natural number k less than or equal to m, there exists a root-finding iteration function, dened as the ratio of two determinants that depend on the rst m k derivatives of the given function, and for k = 1 are Toeplitz determinants. In this paper we analyze the order of convergence of this fundamental family. For xed m, as k increases, the order decreases from m to the positive root of the characteristic polynomial of generalized Fibonacci numbers of order m. For xed k, the order increases in m. The asymptotic error constant is defined in terms of Toeplitz determinants. Newton's method, Halley's method, and their multipoint versions are members of the family.
Polynomial least squares approximations with ill-conditioned bases
Creators: name: Steiger, William L.
name: Richter, Gerard
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1976

description: In this note we point out that polynomial least squares approximations may be unstable in coefficient space and stable in L2. That is, an ill-conditioned basis may produce large errors in particular coefficients yet the L2 error is small. An explanation of this phenomenon is offered.
Monitoring summertime indoor overheating and pollutant risks and natural ventilation patterns of seniors in public housing
Creators: name: Tsoulou, Ioanna
name: He, Ruikang
name: Senick, Jennifer
name: Mainelis, Gediminas
name: Andrews, Clinton J.
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2023
Subjects: Construction & Building Technology
Engineering, Environmental
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Science & Technology
Engineering
Technology

description: Indoor heat and air pollution pose concurrent threats to human health and wellbeing, and their effects are more pronounced for vulnerable individuals. This study investigates exposures to summertime indoor overheating and airborne particulate matter (PM2.5) experienced by low-income seniors and explores the potential of natural ventilation on maintaining good indoor thermal conditions and air quality (IAQ). Environmental and behavioural monitoring and a series of interviews were conducted during summer 2017 in 24 senior apartments on three public housing sites in NJ, USA (1930s' low-rise, 1960s' high-rise and LEED-certified 2010s' mid-rise). All sites had high exposures to overheating and PM2.5 concentrations during heat waves and on regular summer days, but with substantial between-site and between-apartment variability. Overheating was higher in the 30s' low-rise site, while pollutant levels were higher in the 60s' high-rise. Mixed linear models indicated a thermal and air quality trade-off with window opening (WO), especially in some 'smoking' units from the older sites, but also improved both thermal and PM2.5 concentration conditions in 20% of the apartments. Findings suggest that with warmer future summers, greater focus is needed on the interdependencies among (1) thermal and IAQ outcomes and (2) technological and behavioural dimensions of efforts to improve comfort for vulnerable occupants.
"Third Generation"-Type Functional Tris(2-pyridyl)borate Ligands and their Transition-Metal Complexes
Creators: name: Lupinska, Patrycja
name: Jeong, So Yi
name: Lin, Huina
name: Shipman, Patrick O.
name: John, Alexandra
name: Sheridan, John B.
name: Jäkle, Frieder
name: Lalancette, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Boron
Ligands (Biochemistry)
Borates
Scorpionates
Metal complexes

description: Phenyltris(2-pyridyl)borates (Tpyb) are a promising class of tripodal “scorpionate”-type ligands with potential utility in the development of transition metal complexes with interesting optical, electronic or magnetic properties, and as building blocks to metallosupramolecular polymers. We report here a new class of “third generation”-type Tpyb ligands that contain different functional groups attached to the boron-bound aryl moiety. The synthesis, characterization and metal ion complexation behavior of ligands with iodo and trimethylsilyl groups is discussed. The electrochemical and absorption characteristics of the corresponding low-spin Fe(II) and Ru(II) complexes are compared. We demonstrate the further elaboration of the iodo derivatives with alkynes via Sonogashira-Hagihara coupling, a process that proceeds with high yield for the Fe(II) and Ru(II) complexes, but not for the free ligand. The borylation of the silyl-substituted Ru(II) complex with BBr3 was also investigated. In addition to the expected borylation product, Ru(Tpyb-Bpin)2, the replacement of one (major product) or two phenyl groups is observed, suggesting that electrophilic borylation occurs at both the C(Ph)-Si and the C(Ph)-B aromatic carbons. The successful attachment of a range of different functional groups at the periphery of the Tpyb metal complexes is expected to provide opportunities to access new polymeric materials via C-C coupling or click-type reactions.
GOBLET Standards Committee: best practices and standards in bioinformatics and biocuration
Creators: name: Schneider, Maria Victoria
name: Attwood, Teresa K.
name: Corpas, Manuel
name: Charleston, Mike
name: Saravanan Dayalan
name: Gaudet, Pascale
name: Kumuthini, Judit
name: Morgan, Sarah
name: Palagi, Patricia M.
name: Rustici, Gabriella
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2017

description: Data-driven science is generating biological data at unprecedented rates. To make the information sequestered in the accumulating data accessible to the community, and to represent it such that it can be translated to knowledge, requires the development of rigorous data-stewardship practices and deployment of training. Data science is an emerging field, and training programmes are just being created. Best practices in data curation and in data-science training need to be established. This poster introduces the GOBLET Standards committee members, the institutional members involved and the activities the committee is currently working on.