cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Timely and Compelling Research for the Field of Learning Disabilities: Implications for the Future
Creators: name: Goodwin, Marilyn
name: King-Sears, Margaret
name: Raskind, Marshall
name: Boudah, Daniel
name: Swanson, H. Lee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Educators attempting to keep up with the most recent research readily acknowledge that there is too much to read and too little time for reading. Each fall, the Research Committee of the Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) sponsors a Research Symposium Panel in which panelists, after reviewing recent literature pertinent to the field of learning disabilities (LD), prioritize selections of “must reads” for educators (see Table 1). Symposium panelists apply individualized criteria in selecting their readings, and intentionally no attempt is made to influence perspectives or parameters to ensure autonomy for each panelist’s recommendations.
Supplementary Figure 6 from Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes
Creators: name: Heiss, Aaron A.
name: Kolisko, Martin
name: Fleming Ekelund
name: Brown, Matthew W.
name: Roger, Andrew J.
name: Simpson, Alastair G. B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Heat map showing ML bootstrap support (BP) for clade of Discoba and Metamonada with removal of fast-evolving sites and fast-evolving taxa
Remarks on the structure constants of the Verlinde algebra associated to sl3
Creators: name: Felder, G.
name: Varchenko, A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The Verlinde fusion algebra is an associative commutative algebra associated to a Wess-Zumino-Witten model of conformal field theory [V,F,GW,K,S]. Such a model is labelled by a simple Lie algebra g and a natural number k called level. The Verlinde algebra A(g, k) is a finitely generated algebra with generators Vλ enumerated by irreducible g-modules admissible for the model. The structure constants Nν λ,μ of the multiplication Vλ · Vμ = Pν Nν λ,μVν are non-negative integers important for applications. ( We use the formula in [K, Sec.13.35] as a definition of the structure constants.)
(103758) Muriel Helen Brighten
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Human Factors & Ethics Canvas (Responsible AI & Addressing The Triple Bottom Line)
Creators: name: Cahill, Joan
Publisher: name: Trinity College Dublin
Year: 2022

description: Assessing the ethical implications of things which may not yet exist, or things which may have impacts we cannot predict, is very difficult. However, this should not be barrier to posing important questions and ensuring that these questions are addressed as part of the design process. Thinking about both potential positive, negative consequences and unintended consequences enables designers to build in protections into the design concept. Overall, it is argued that the specification of an ethics canvas as part of a broader human factors design approach ensures that ethical issues are considered
Metadata is all you need! CeMM's Effective Data Management Strategy for Excellent Life Science Research Institutes
Creators: name: Reichl, Stephan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data management
metadata

description: CeMM's Data Managers developed a institute-wide data strategy, focusing on a user-friendly approach to metadata annotation, which can lead to increased findability and accessibility of valuable data.
Overview of research software funding landscape
Creators: name: Barker, Michelle
name: Katz, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: research software
research
software
funding
Research Software Alliance

description: This report aims to provide a brief overview of the funding landscape for research software throughout its life cycle. This report explains the methodology, considers available information, and suggests future work.
description: This work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, grant G-2021-17001.
title: ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi! a father-focused program to promote healthy dietary behaviors in Mexican-heritage families
title: analysis of immediate and long-term program impacts on fathers and adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Vahk, Annika
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19
dietary
fathers
Hispanic
Latino
nutrition
Public Health

description: As fathers spend more time co-parenting, they are potential leaders of healthy behavior change in their families. Culturally-tailored programs focused on Mexican-heritage fathers are needed to support individual- and family-level behavior change in this underserved population. In this dissertation, I evaluated the immediate and long-term program impacts of ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi! (Make Room for Daddy!; HEPP), which focused on Mexican-heritage fathers living in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Additionally, I explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fathers’ food habits (e.g., ability to cook at home) and if changes in habits were associated with fathers’ dietary intakes and healthy dietary behaviors. A stepped-wedge randomized study design included five groups of fathers, who received the six-week intervention and participated as control comparisons at different times throughout the study. Thirty-seven fathers participated in weekly father-child and family sessions, which were composed of interactive, skill-building activities to promote healthy dietary change. Anthropometric measurements, Veggie Meter® (VM) scans, and surveys were administered by promotoras (trained, Spanish-speaking community health workers). There were no significant findings in fathers’ VM scores, intake of fruits and vegetables (FV), and healthy dietary behavior scores (HDBS) across time or between treatment and control comparison groups. However, for fathers who with lower education and those with more than five children living in their home, HDBS significantly increased between baseline and post-intervention, (p = 0.05, 95% CI [0.01, 1.91] and p = 0.05, 95% CI [0.01, 2.49], respectively). The COVID-19 data exploration revealed fathers who reported their diet improved, had higher intake of FV. Also, fathers who reported their ability to cook at home increased during COVID-19, had higher HDBS. Additionally, most fathers reported the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted their employment (60.6%) and income status (66.7%). Overall, Mexican-heritage fathers are eager and willing to participate in father-focused programs aimed at health promotion for the entire family. The HEPP program may be used as a guidance for future nutrition research in the Hispanic/Latino (HL) communities while also taking into consideration family-level program outcomes and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on HL families.
(103752) Robert Thompson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Leverage campaigning in the UK and the Trade Union Act 2016
Creators: name: Macleod, Mairin
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Trade Union Act 2016, trade unions, protest, leverage campaigning, leverage, industrial action, lawful, comprehensive campaigns, US, UK, labour law.

description: This thesis analyses the legal changes to the pre-strike ballot and picketing provisions contained in the Trade Union Act 2016 (TUA). Firstly, it seeks to understand the provisions as responses to trade unions’ uses of so-called ‘leverage’ tactics, especially during the Grangemouth industrial dispute of 2013.1 Secondly, it seeks to understand them as the most recent episode in the history of the ‘golden formula’2 for determining the lawfulness of industrial action with reference to its purpose of furthering a trade dispute.3 The main research question the thesis asks is this: can the TUA, and the policy to which it was pursuant, rightly be understood as a response to leverage campaigns and what does this imply for industrial action, and labour’s capacity to exercise its right to protest? Having traced the development of the provisions of the TUA – from the Carr Review4 and the Conservative Party’s 2015 General Election manifesto, throughout the consultation and parliamentary processes, to the enacted legislation – the thesis then assesses the provisions in the context of the leverage campaign strategy and tactics, drawing here on a comparison with similar developments in the US. The conclusion is drawn that the TUA should be understood as a response to leverage campaigns because it brings unions’ protest activity within the scope of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. A comparison of UK and US case law supports the additional conclusion that it is increasingly difficult for unions in this country to protest lawfully in the context of a trade dispute.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of the Fill-it-up-design to use historical control data in randomized clinical trials with two arm parallel group design
Creators: name: Wied, Stephanie
name: Posch, Martin
name: Hilgers, Ralf-Dieter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Supplementary Information from Substrate protein dependence of GroEL–GroES interaction cycle revealed by high-speed atomic force microscopy imaging.
Creators: name: Noshiro, Daisuke
name: Ando, Toshio
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics

description: A double ring-shaped tetradecameric GroEL complex assists proper protein folding in cooperation with the cochaperonin GroES. The dynamic GroEL–GroES interaction reflects the allosteric intra- and inter-ring communications and the chaperonin reaction. Therefore, revealing this dynamic interaction is essential to understanding the allosteric communications and the operation mechanism of GroEL. Nevertheless, how this interaction proceeds in the chaperonin cycle has long been controversial. Here, we directly image the dynamic GroEL–GroES interaction under the conditions with and without foldable substrate protein using high-speed atomic force microscopy. Then, the imaging results obtained under these conditions and our previous results in the presence of unfoldable substrate are compared. The molecular movies reveal that the entire reaction pathway is highly complicated but basically identical irrespective of the substrate condition. A prominent (but moderate) difference is in the population distribution of intermediate species: symmetric GroEL : GroES2 and asymmetric GroEL : GroES1 complexes, and GroES–unbound GroEL. This difference is mainly attributed to the longer lifetime of GroEL : GroES1 complexes in the presence of foldable substrate. Moreover, the inter-ring communication, which is the basis for the alternating action of the two rings, occurs at two distinct (GroES association and dissociation) steps in the main reaction pathway, irrespective of the substrate condition.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Allostery and molecular machines’.
Conformal Dirac Structures
Creators: name: Wade, Aissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The Courant bracket defined originally on the sections of the vector bundle TM ⊕ T*M → M is extended to the direct sum of the 1-jet vector bundle and its dual. The extended bracket allows one to interpret many structures encountered in differential geometry in terms of Dirac structures. We give here a new approach to conformal Jacobi structures.
Table S1 from Modelling cointegration and Granger causality network to detect long-term equilibrium and diffusion paths in financial system
Creators: name: Xiangyun Gao
name: Shupei Huang
name: Xiaoqi Sun
name: Xiaoqing Hao
name: An, Feng
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80201 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The statistic of each stock
(103753) Clara Isabelle Martin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Advanced Intrusion Detection Using Deep Learning-LSTM Network On Cloud Environment
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Cloud Computing is a favored choice of any IT organization in the current context since that provides flexibility and pay-per-use service to the users. Moreover, due to its open and inclusive architecture which is accessible to attackers. Security and privacy are a big roadblock to its success. For any IT organization, intrusion detection systems are essential to the detection and endurance of effective detection system against attacker aggressive attacks. To recognize minor occurrences and become significant breaches, a fully managed intrusion detection system is required. The most prevalent approach for intrusion detection on the cloud is the Intrusion Detection System (IDS). This research introduces a cloud-based deep learning-LSTM IDS model and evaluates it to a hybrid Stacked Contractive Auto Encoder (SCAE) + Support Vector Machine (SVM) IDS model. Deep learning algorithms like basic machine learning can be built to conduct attack detection and classification simultaneously. Also examine the detection methodologies used by certain existing intrusion detection systems. On two well-known Intrusion Detection datasets (KDD Cup 99 and NSL-KDD), our strategy outperforms current methods in terms of accurate detection.
Translating Complex Topics: Software Containers
Creators: name: Martinez, Paula Andrea
name: Muirhead, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: RSE
video
science communication
animation

description: A short video has the power to enable accessibility. A complex topic can be translated for a learning audience using language and use cases that reflect them. The Australian Research Data Commons and Camera Libre worked together to develop an explainer video highlighting the benefits of using software containers in research. Technical explanations can get bogged down in jargon and implementation details. By focusing on clear language and the needs of researchers, we were able to introduce the basics of software containers quickly and effectively. We opted for an animation video because it captures the attention of viewers, and can fluidly link abstract concepts, human stories and tangible use cases. Using a consistent visual language allowed us to explore different aspects of software containers while continuously reinforcing the core concept. Following the Mozilla Open Leaders directive “openness as the norm in innovation and research”, we worked in the open, and made the process and output publicly available via a CC by 4.0 Attribution license. We’re happy to share the lessons learned in developing an engaging, insightful and creative video! Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HelrQnm3v4g and cite the DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091259.
description: Presented at New Zealand Research Software Engineering Conference 2021 September 16th 2021
description: {"references": ["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091260"]}
Identities for Hypergeometric Integrals of Different Dimensions
Creators: name: Varchenko, A.
name: Tarasov, V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Given complex numbers m1 , l1 and nonnegative integers m2, l2 , such that m1+m2 = l1+l2 , we define ˆ l2 -dimensional hypergeometric integrals Ia,b(z;m1,m2, l1, l2) , a, b = 0, . . . ,min(m2 , l2) , depending on a complex parameter z . We show that Ia,b(z;m1, m2, l1, l2) = Ia,b(z; l1, l2,m1,m2) , thus establishing an equality of l2 and ˆm2 -dimensional integrals. This identity allows us to study asymptotics of the integrals with respect to their dimension in some examples. The identity is based on the (glk , gln) duality for the KZ and dynamical differential equations.
Interview Guides - DFG Project "Analysing Moving Decisions of Former Slum Dwellers After Resettlement"
Creators: name: Beier, Raffael
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: state housing
subject: housing pathways
subject: spatial inequality
subject: housing policy
subject: informal settlements
subject: standardised housing
subject: 710

description: Since the turn of the Millennium, many countries of the Global South have implemented new large-scale, supply-oriented housing programmes. Calling for cities 'without slums', their common objective is the fight against inadequate housing. Most of these housing programmes move population from inner-city 'slums' towards new housing at the urban spatial peripheries. Many resettled dwellers appreciate new housing comfort and shelter quality. At the same time, they criticise one-size-fits-all approaches that disregard the heterogeneity of target communities, low affordability for vulnerable population groups, as well as peripheral locations, further away from inner-city job markets and urban centre functions. However, scholarly works dealing with housing-related urban resettlement have focused exclusively on people that actually live in the new houses. While they recognise that many resettled residents never reach the new sites or decide to move further, they have disregarded this significant population group due to methodological issues. As it is difficult to locate these dispersed people, there are mainly assumptions about why people drop out of housing programmes. The objective of this research project is to look explicitly at these people to counter structural biases in the analysis of supply-driven housing and resettlement programmes. For this purpose, the research project analyses housing programmes in Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa in a comparative way. It relies on innovative, flexible, and locally adapted forms of snowball sampling to locate people that left new housing units. It should be analysed why people move out again, where they move, and under which conditions they live after the second move. Through narrative-biographic forms of interviewing the project sheds light on residential trajectories and subjective decision making in order to understand people's lived experiences of and aspirations towards adequate and affordable housing. Thus, the research goes explicitly beyond programmatic resettlement, analysing moving decisions from people's perspectives and in relation to their housing biographies. Due to the analysis of housing preferences of long-term disregarded population groups, the research project allows for more comprehensive and demand-oriented understanding of large-scale, standardised housing programmes. In the long run, this knowledge will be useful to develop innovative housing programmes that take heterogeneous housing demands of marginalised population groups seriously.
Supplementary Information from Substrate protein dependence of GroEL–GroES interaction cycle revealed by high-speed atomic force microscopy imaging
Creators: name: Noshiro, Daisuke
name: Ando, Toshio
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics

description: A double ring-shaped tetradecameric GroEL complex assists proper protein folding in cooperation with the cochaperonin GroES. The dynamic GroEL–GroES interaction reflects the allosteric intra- and inter-ring communications and the chaperonin reaction. Therefore, revealing this dynamic interaction is essential to understanding the allosteric communications and the operation mechanism of GroEL. Nevertheless, how this interaction proceeds in the chaperonin cycle has long been controversial. Here, we directly image the dynamic GroEL–GroES interaction under the conditions with and without foldable substrate protein using high-speed atomic force microscopy. Then, the imaging results obtained under these conditions and our previous results in the presence of unfoldable substrate are compared. The molecular movies reveal that the entire reaction pathway is highly complicated but basically identical irrespective of the substrate condition. A prominent (but moderate) difference is in the population distribution of intermediate species: symmetric GroEL : GroES2 and asymmetric GroEL : GroES1 complexes, and GroES–unbound GroEL. This difference is mainly attributed to the longer lifetime of GroEL : GroES1 complexes in the presence of foldable substrate. Moreover, the inter-ring communication, which is the basis for the alternating action of the two rings, occurs at two distinct (GroES association and dissociation) steps in the main reaction pathway, irrespective of the substrate condition.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Allostery and molecular machines’.
Reality Property of Discrete Wronski Map with Imaginary Step
Creators: name: Tarasov, Vitaly
name: Mukhin, Evgeny
name: Varchenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: For a set of quasi-exponentials with real exponents, we consider the discrete Wronskian (also known as Casorati determinant) with pure imaginary step 2h. We prove that if the coefficients of the discrete Wronskian are real and for every its roots the imaginary part is at most |h|, then the complex span of this set of quasi-exponentials has a basis consisting of quasi-exponentials with real coefficients. This result is a generalization of the statement of the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture on spaces of polynomials. The proof is based on the Bethe ansatz for the XXX model.
(103750) Elaine Mayers
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary methods and results from Warming under seminatural outdoor conditions in the larval stage negatively affects insect flight performance.
Creators: name: Tüzün, Nedim
name: Beeck, Lin Op De
name: Ranalison Oliarinony
name: Dievel, Marie Van
name: Stoks, Robby
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This documents provides additional details for the applied methods, and full statistical results.
PIANO DI PROGRAMMAZIONE 2023 - 2025 Attività di Comunicazione istituzionale e Public engagement
Creators: name: ALOISIO, Francesca Maria
name: BOCCATO, Caterina
name: COERO BORGA, Davide
name: FERRONI, Eleonora
name: GALLIANI, MARCO
name: MIGNONE, CLAUDIA
name: MALASPINA, MARCO
Publisher: name: Direzione Generale
Year: 2023

description: Le attività di comunicazione che l'Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) intende realizzare nel corso del 2023 e nel prossimo futuro sono state progettate con la volontà di proseguire con decisione sulla strada intrapresa nell’ultimo decennio: riuscire a creare un forte coinvolgimento del pubblico con una materia spesso percepita come difficile e distante (da cui il termine di uso corrente a livello internazionale Public Engagement). La programmazione delle attività è stata ideata tenendo conto delle ricorrenze astronomiche, di anniversari rilevanti nella storia dell’Ente e dell’astronomia, degli appuntamenti nazionali e internazionali di settore e dei grandi progetti scientifici e missioni spaziali che saranno protagonisti dei prossimi anni. In ragione di queste considerazioni, si è deciso di procedere alla stesura di un piano di comunicazione che abbracci un arco temporale di tre anni, da quello in corso fino al 2025, includendo il primo giubileo dell’INAF, che precede di un anno quello cattolico, celebrato a Roma.
Usability of a metadata creation application for resource authors
Creators: name: Crystal, Abe
name: Greenberg, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: This article analyzes resource authors’ use of a metadata creation application at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Users’ behavior was observed as they created metadata, and feedback about the application was solicited. Data analysis focused on usability—specifically task structure, duration, user perceptions and researcher observations. Developing a conceptual understanding of metadata and its use in retrieval was challenging for users. The study identifies particular interface elements (e.g., input fields) as well as element semantics and syntax that impact application usability and metadata creation. implications for information architecture and interface design include the need to incorporate metadata into user-centered design processes and develop advanced applications that reduce the burden on authors.
Motivations and uses: Evaluating virtual reference service from the users' perspective
Creators: name: Luo, Lili
name: Pomerantz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The questions of whether chat reference service is beneficial enough to users to justify the costs of offering it, and how valuable it is to users in fulfilling their information needs, have been primary concerns for librarians providing the service, for library administrators managing the service, and for funding agencies paying for it. The present study combines a traditional evaluation of the user's satisfaction with the reference encounter, with details of the user's information use and the user's motivation for using the chat reference service. This evaluation study assesses the effectiveness of chat reference service in meeting users' information needs.
Price Regulation and Economic Growth in China
Creators: name: Hong, Haidi
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: What is the causal effect of price regulation on economic growth? It is an unsolved problem for empirical research in economics, as most price regulation policies are endogenous to the economic performance. This thesis provides the first (causally identified) empirical analysis of the effect of price regulation on economic growth. I successfully identify a perfectly exogenous variable-the regulatory price of fuel in China. There are several factors contributing to the exogeneity of regulatory price, such as, provincial and city's geography, the highly centralized pricing mechanism, belated response from central government, and complex activation conditions on regulatory price adjustment. I construct a unique panel dataset of 289 prefecture cities from 1998 through 2018. It is the first time that the existence and prevalence of overcharging behaviors-petrol stations setting sales price higher than regulatory price-are clearly documented in the dataset. This thesis answers the research question from both theoretical and empirical aspects. My macroeconometric analysis builds on solid microeconomic foundation-aggregate Marshallian surplus increases as binding regulatory price increases. As the underlying assumption of classical partial equilibrium model is that the sales price cannot exceed the regulatory price, I develop a simple model to feature the overcharging behaviors. The model predicts that the marginal total surplus of regulatory price is still positive if the risk of violating price regulation is not too large to deter the sellers from overcharging consumers. I estimate the causal effect via both time series and panel data techniques. First, by constructing a complete quarterly dataset on macroeconomic aggregates and using VAR model, I show that GDP responses significantly and positively to the regulatory price. Further analysis reveals that the changes of regulatory price have asymmetric effects on GDP; that is, GDP responses significantly to a smaller downward adjustment rather than a larger upward adjustment. Second, I use fixed effect model to find that 1% increase in regulatory price causes 2.69% increase in GRP (gross regional product). I also find that GRP responses more to the binding regulatory price than to the non-binding. Finally, by employing panel VAR model, I show the dynamic and permanent effects of regulatory price on regional economic growth.
(103751) William Thomas
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Results from Rio, Dachner, & Warren from Local interactions underlying collective motion in human crowds.
Creators: name: Rio, Kevin W.
name: Dachner, Gregory C.
name: Warren, William H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional experimental results and model simulations of individual behavior in human crowds
(103754) Gertrude Hankey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
SQUEEZE AND EXCITE RESIDUAL CAPSULE NETWORK FOR EMBEDDED EDGE DEVICES
Creators: name: Naqvi, Sami
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer vision

description: During recent years, the field of computer vision has evolved rapidly. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the chosen default for implementing computer vision tasks. The popularity is based on how the CNNs have successfully performed the wellknown computer vision tasks such as image annotation, instance segmentation, and others with promising outcomes. However, CNNs have their caveats and need further research to turn them into reliable machine learning algorithms. The disadvantages of CNNs become more evident as the approach to breaking down an input image becomes apparent. Convolutional neural networks group blobs of pixels to identify objects in a given image. Such a technique makes CNNs incapable of breaking down the input images into sub-parts, which could distinguish the orientation and transformation of objects and their parts. The functions in a CNN are competent at learning only the shift-invariant features of the object in an image. The discussed limitations provides researchers and developers a purpose for further enhancing an effective algorithm for computer vision. The opportunity to improve is explored by several distinct approaches, each tackling a unique set of issues in the convolutional neural network’s architecture. The Capsule Network (CapsNet) which brings an innovative approach to resolve issues pertaining to affine transformations by sharing transformation matrices between the different levels of capsules. While, the Residual Network (ResNet) introduced skip connections which allows deeper networks to be more powerful and solves vanishing gradient problem. The motivation of these fusion of these advantageous ideas of CapsNet and ResNet with Squeeze and Excite (SE) Block from Squeeze and Excite Network, this research work presents SE-Residual Capsule Network (SE-RCN), an efficient neural network model. The proposed model, replaces the traditional convolutional layer of CapsNet with skip connections and SE Block to lower the complexity of the CapsNet. The performance of the model is demonstrated on the well known datasets like MNIST and CIFAR-10 and a substantial reduction in the number of training parameters is observed in comparison to similar neural networks. The proposed SE-RCN produces 6.37 Million parameters with an accuracy of 99.71% on the MNIST dataset and on CIFAR-10 dataset it produces 10.55 Million parameters with 83.86% accuracy.
(103747) William Fewtrell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary methods and results from Warming under seminatural outdoor conditions in the larval stage negatively affects insect flight performance
Creators: name: Tüzün, Nedim
name: Beeck, Lin Op De
name: Ranalison Oliarinony
name: Dievel, Marie Van
name: Stoks, Robby
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This documents provides additional details for the applied methods, and full statistical results.
Peer review of chat reference transcripts: Approaches and strategies
Creators: name: Luo, Lili
name: McClure, Charles
name: Pomerantz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: NCknows is a collaborative state-wide chat-based reference service, launched in North Carolina in February 2004. The authors were contracted by the State Library of North Carolina as program evaluators for the NCknows project. This article reports on one component of the overarching evaluation effort: an analysis of the transcripts of NCknows chat sessions. This analysis was performed as a peer review, where NCknows librarians critiqued transcripts from the service. This study has three main findings: (1) The quality of reference service being provided by NCknows is high overall. (2) NCknows librarians are more engaged with users than are 24/7 staff members, but are no more skilled in research or use of information sources. (3) Public librarians provide superior service, but academic librarians provide superior referrals. The implications of these findings for staffing chat reference services are discussed, with respect to librarians’ credentials and the participating libraries’ service philosophies.
Continuity properties of vectors realizing points in the classical field of values
Creators: name: Johnson, Charles
name: Spitkovsky, Ilya
name: Corey, Dan
name: Lins, Brian
name: Kirk, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: For an n-by-n matrix A, let fA be its "field of values generating function" de fined as fA : x ↦ x*Ax. We consider two natural versions of the continuity, which we call strong and weak, of f-1A (which is of course multivalued) on the field of values F(A). The strong continuity holds, in particular, on the interior of F(A), and at such points z ∈ ∂F(A) which are either corner points, belong to the relative interior of at portions of ∂F(A), or whose preimage under fA is contained in a one-dimensional set. Consequently, f-1A is continuous in this sense on the whole F(A) for all normal, 2-by-2, and unitarily irreducible 3-by-3 matrices. Nevertheless, we show by example that the strong continuity of f-1A fails at certain points of ∂F(A) for some (unitarily reducible) 3-by-3 and (unitarily irreducible) 4-by-4 matrices. The weak continuity, in its turn, fails for some unitarily reducible 4-by-4 and untiarily irreducible 6-by-6 matrices.
Peripheral inflammation is associated with brain atrophy and cognitive decline linked to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Liang, Nuanyi
name: Nho, Kwangsik
name: Newman, John W
name: Arnold, Matthias
name: Huynh, Kevin
name: Meikle, Peter
name: Borkowski, Kamil
name: Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima
name: Consortium, the Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5202
subject: Biological psychology

description: Inflammation is an important factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD). An NMR measurement in plasma, glycoprotein acetyls (GlycA), captures the overall level of protein production and glycosylation implicated in systemic inflammation. With its additional advantage of reducing biological variability, GlycA might be useful in monitoring the relationship between peripheral inflammation and brain changes relevant to AD. However, the associations between GlycA and these brain changes have not been fully evaluated. Here, we performed Spearman's correlation analyses to evaluate these associations cross-sectionally and determined whether GlycA can inform AD-relevant longitudinal measurements among participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (n = 1506), with additional linear models and stratification analyses to evaluate the influences of sex or diagnosis status and confirm findings from Spearman's correlation analyses. We found that GlycA was elevated in AD patients compared to cognitively normal participants. GlycA correlated negatively with multiple concurrent regional brain volumes in females diagnosed with late mild cognitive impairment (LMCI) or AD. Baseline GlycA level was associated with executive function decline at 3-9 year follow-up in participants diagnosed with LMCI at baseline, with similar but not identical trends observed in the future decline of memory and entorhinal cortex volume. Results here indicated that GlycA is an inflammatory biomarker relevant to AD pathogenesis and that the stage of LMCI might be relevant to inflammation-related intervention.
Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions with unaccompanied minors: A scoping review
Creators: name: Moutsou, Irene
name: Varaklis, Theofilos
name: Georgaca, Eugenie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: migrants
subject: unaccompanied minors
subject: psychosocial support
subject: refugees
subject: psychotherapy
subject: mental health

description: This is a scoping review of studies on psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions with unaccompanied minors. Their findings, methodological limitations and implications for future research are discussed.
(103749) Dora Evans
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Evidência de protocolos e rotinas de cuidado, controle e/ou prevenção de COVID-19 em unidade de internação neonatal
Creators: name: Islla Pimentel De Souza
name: De Lima Dantas, Hallana Laisa
name: Lúcio, Ingrid Martins Leite
name: Oliveira, Letícia
name: Jhenyff De Barros Remigio Limeira
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology and Infectious Disease
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: OBJETIVO: Mapear o que a literatura diz sobre a assistência em saúde aos casos suspeitos e/ou confirmados de infecção por Coronavírus 2019 em unidades neonatais e propor protocolo. MÉTODOS: Trata-se da construção de um protocolo de atendimento a partir de revisão de escopo realizada entre dezembro/2021 e fevereiro/2022. Baseou-se no PRISMA-ScR e no protocolo JBI para scoping review. Partiu-se da questão: “Quais as evidências disponíveis sobre a assistência aos casos suspeitos/confirmados de COVID-19 em unidades neonatais?”. A busca ocorreu nas bases: CINAHL, LILACS, MEDLINE; SCOPUS; Web of Science; ScienceDirect, Cochrane e Embase e incluídos 19 artigos. RESULTADOS: A maioria destes dos Estados Unidos; publicadas em 2020; e com evidência VII. As publicações abordam uso de Equipamento de Proteção Individual pelos profissionais de saúde, triagem e separação de pacientes suspeitos/confirmados e pacientes não infectados, testagem do RN, manutenção do alojamento conjunto em casos de condições clínicas favoráveis, incentivo ao aleitamento materno, restrição do trânsito de pessoas, orientações a mãe sobre precauções e a alta do RN. CONCLUSÃO: Espera-se que o protocolo possa subsidiar a conduta dos profissionais nos serviços de cuidado neonatal.
New Approaches to Desulfurization of Recycled Base Oils.
Creators: name: Dexter, Richard
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: My research developed two new, innovative methods for processing spent lubricant to the pre-commercial stage. The methods have demonstrated processing benefits and represent economic and environmental gains. Developing the processing methods required undertaking a detailed sulfur speciation study of spent lubricants to determine the most effective approaches to desulfurisation. This combined prescribed (quantitative) and common (qualitative) instrumental methods along with newly developed analytical methods. Recycling spent lubricant has significant environmental and economic benefits but usually results in low-grade products. Higher grade products are becoming the norm and require removal of sulfur species coming from lubricant additives. Sulfide mostly comes from the anti-wear additive Zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZdDP) and this is predominantly oxidised during lubricant use. The remaining sulfur mostly comes from high molecular weight alkylbenzene sulfonates salts (LAS). Petrochemical sulfur removal is either molecular through solid or liquid phase extraction, or elemental by hydrodesulfurisation or oxidation/phase separation for low molecular mass fuels. While hydrodesulfurisation is common in the re-refining industry it requires catalysts passivated by lubricant additives and requires extensive post treatment. Liquid phase extraction is also popular for re-refining, but my research shows sulfonates react during re-refining hampering phase extraction. A membrane-assisted supercritical CO2 extraction process was developed to remove sulfurous compounds. This process ultimately didn't achieve sufficient sulfur reduction. However, calculated operating and capital expenses showed a factor improvement over traditional 'front end' processing. Volatile hydrocarbon plasma desulfurisation removed sulfur more efficiently and economically than traditional hydrodesulfurisation within a retrofittable process. The major operating and cost advantages are no requirement for catalyst, high purity hydrogen, or post treatment. During my plasma research a novel means of plasma hydrocarbon synthesis was discovered with some initial investigation and development.