cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Communicative designs for input solicitation during organizational change
Creators: name: Sahay, Surabhi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Organizational change is a prevalent phenomenon in our society. During change, input is solicited from stakeholders and lower level employees often as a way to lower resistance and uncertainty due to change. However, little is known about the specific manner in which input is solicited and used. This study uses a case study approach to investigate the beneficial and problematic features of the architecture of input solicitation and explores ways in which designs for soliciting input are managed and negotiated by multiple stakeholders. These designs have various implications and consequences for stakeholders and the organization.    The study is conducted with nurses in a medical center regarding their provision of input in the Magnet initiative-- a credential that recognizes organizations with excellence in nursing work. The study answered research questions regarding a) beneficial and problematic design features of input solicitation, b) differences in perceptions of those charged with soliciting input, c) management of input solicitation by design teams, and d) differences in how individuals from various levels of the organization influence solicitation designs.  The study conducted 39 semi-structured interviews and one questionnaire with 125 respondents. Additionally, the researcher was able to observe three change related meetings. This investigation led to a number of important findings. First several designable features were found to be beneficial and problematic for participation from multi-stakeholder perspective. In addition to these features, the findings also suggest the role of change specific features and other long-standing features in influencing participation. Second, it was found that not all individuals charged with collecting input viewed solicitation designs in the same way. Third, implementers designed several features collectively to manage input solicitation through proactive and emergent designs. Last, a grounded practical theory analysis revealed that individuals from each level of the organization focused on different problem aspects during input solicitation and modified the techniques to fit their needs, which had several implications for the organization and the stakeholders.
Selenanthias analis Tanaka 1918
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Selenanthias
Selenanthias analis

description: Selenanthias analis Tanaka 1918 —Pearl-spotted fairy basslet
Status at New Ireland. New record from New Guinea, based on NTUM 12361 (1 male, 21.7 mm SL, St. CP 4496- 1, northwest of New Hanover).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Philippines north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. 129–269 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. This specimen mostly agrees with Selenanthias analis, except that the black blotch on the anal fin is missing, and the sides of the body are spotted with yellow in life. Additional research may demonstrate that this is a distinct, undescribed species.
Additional specimens were collected off southwestern New Britain (NTUM 12358, 1 specimen, St. CP4335-8; NTUM 12359, 1 specimen, St. CP4336-16; NTUM 12360, 1 specimen, St. CP4337-24).
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Aschnaoonops malkini Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo 2013, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aschnaoonops
Aschnaoonops malkini

description: Aschnaoonops malkini, new species
Figures 540–546
TYPE: Female holotype from Igarape´ Bele´m, near its confluence with the Rio Solimo˜ es, Amazonas, Brazil (Apr. 5–30, 1966; B. Malkin), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 38061).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector of the holotype, Borys Malkin.
DIAGNOSIS: The single known female resembles those of the Colombian species A. pira but has a wider anterior expansion on the anterior genitalic process (fig. 545). It is conceivable that it represents the unknown female of the Colombian species A. leticia (according to Lynch, 1980, the Brazilian type locality is about 70 km east of Leticia, Colombia, although according to Heyer, 1994, there is some doubt about whether all the Malkin material with this locality data is actually from the same place). However, the sternum of the Brazilian female (fig. 541) is more tuberculate than that of the Colombian male (fig. 274), and we therefore predict that the male of the Brazilian species, when collected, will be different from that of A. leticia.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 38061, figs. 540– 546): Total length 1.85. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process with short, wide, semicircular anterior expansion; basal sclerite shorter at middle than at sides.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil (far western Amazonas).
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-102 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373) on page 82, DOI: 10.1206/822.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5400226
Lagrangian Floer theory in symplectic fibrations
Creators: name: Schultz, Douglas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Consider a fibration of compact symplectic manifolds F → E → B with a compatible symplectic form on E, and an induced fibration of Lagrangian submanifolds LF → L → LB. We develop a Leray-Serre type spectral sequence to compute the Floer cohomology of L in terms of the Floer complex of LF and LB when F is symplectically small. Moreover, we write down a formula for the leading order superpotential when F is a Kahler homogeneous space. To solve the transversality and compactness problem, we use the classical approach in addition to the perturbation scheme recently developed by Cieliebak-Mohnke [CM07] and Charest-Woodward [CWb; CWa]. As applications, we find Floer-non-trivial tori in complex flag manifolds and ruled surfaces.
Guia de Profissões: Empregos para Jovens na Economia Azul
Creators: name: Contextos - Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento e Coesão Social, CRL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: O objetivo do projeto Blue Generation é inspirar e motivar jovens entre os 15 e os 29 anos a seguirem uma carreira sustentável nas áreas em crescimento da Economia Azul, como o turismo costeiro, aquacultura, energia marinha, biotecnologia marinha, construção e manutenção naval, pescas e transporte marítimo.

O projeto reúne peritos da Economia Azul e organizações que atuam no campo da juventude para partilharem conhecimentos sobre as competências necessárias, escolhas de carreira, oportunidades de emprego e opções de formação disponíveis.

O projeto irá desenvolver um programa que ajudará os técnicos de juventude a adquirir as competências necessárias para se tornarem promotores e mentores conscientes. Além disso, irá promover as oportunidades de Profissões Azuis entre os jovens, através de atividades de divulgação em escolas, centros de formação, organizações não governamentais, centros de emprego e associações locais. O programa também prestará acompanhamento aos jovens interessados, validando competências, oferecendo orientação pessoal por meio de mentorias e organizando pequenos debates sobre o percurso profissional adequado e as opções de formação nos diferentes setores da Economia Azul. Será criado um curso online, um Guia de Profissões Azuis e uma Plataforma de Emprego para estas profissões.

O projeto decorrerá ao longo de 4 anos (de junho de 2018 a agosto de 2022) e o programa será repetido em quatro ciclos anuais, com o objetivo de se consolidar nos países parceiros e melhorar constantemente. Para facilitar a utilização do programa por outras organizações, países e contextos, será desenvolvido um Guia de Profissões Azuis e organizadas duas Conferências Internacionais para informar todos os interessados.

Perto do fim do projeto, as organizações parceiras formarão uma Federação responsável por assegurar a continuidade, expansão e sustentabilidade dos resultados alcançados.

O Projeto Geração Azul é financiado pelo EEA and Norway Grants, coordenado pela Militos Consulting SA na Grécia e pela Sea Teach em Espanha, e será implementado na Bulgária, Grécia, Polónia, Portugal e Espanha, por um consórcio internacional, com o apoio de peritos da Bélgica, Alemanha, Islândia e Noruega.

Espera-se que as atividades promocionais atinjam cerca de 39 mil jovens e que, pelo menos, 2 mil deles se integrem em empregos ou formações na Economia Azul.
Aschnaoonops belem Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo 2013, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aschnaoonops
Aschnaoonops belem

description: Aschnaoonops belem, new species
Figures 557–567
Type: Male holotype from Benevides, near Bele´m, 1 ° 21'32.41"S, 48 ° 14'49.14"W, Pará, Brazil (Apr. 1–8, 2001; S. Souza), deposited in MPEG (19118, PBI_OON 1001).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the deeply bifid appearance of the embolus in prolateral view (figs. 560, 563), females by the short anterior genitalic process, which is uniformly wide throughout its length (fig. 567).
MALE (PBI_OON 1004, figs. 557, 560– 565): Total length 2.12. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process narrow, sharply pointed. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femora: I p0-1-2, r1-1-2; II p0-0-2, r1-1-2; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2- 1p; II v3-0-2. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Embolus with distal prong bearing translucent dorsal flange.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 49408, figs. 558, 559, 566, 567): Total length 2.37. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum covering about 2/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora: I p0-1-2, r1-1-2; II p0-0-2, r1-1-2; tibiae I, II v4-4-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-0- 2. Anterior genitalic process short, without anterior expansion, uniform in width.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Brazil: Para´: Benevides, near Bele´m, Jan. 27, 2001 (J. Barreiros, D. Santos-Souza, MPEG 4686, PBI _OON 49410), 1♀; Parque Ambiental do Utinga, Bele´m, 1 ° 25'21.8"S, 48 ° 25'14.2"W, Oct. 23–30, 2010 (E. Costa et al., MPEG 19124, 19126–19128, PBI _ OON 1004, 1006, 1007, 49408), 2♂, 2♀, 1 ° 25'23.1"S, 48 ° 25'45.5"W, Oct. 23–30, 2010 (E. Costa et al., MPEG 19123, PBI _ OON 1002), 1♂, 1 ° 25'57.7"S, 48 ° 24'40.6"W, Oct. 23–30, 2010 (E. Costa et al., MPEG 19125, PBI _ OON 1005), 1♂; Reserva Mocambo, Bele´m, 1 ° 26'23.84"S, 48 ° 24'42.37"W, Dec. 6–12, 2007 (B. Rodrigues, J. Pereira-Filho, MPEG 19119, PBI _ OON 1003), 1♂; Reserva Particular do Patrimoˆ nio Natural Samau´ ma, Barcarena, 1 ° 29'47"S, 48 ° 42'38"W, 2001 (A. Bonaldo et al., MPEG 19120–19122, PBI _ OON 1008, 49407, 49409), 3♀.
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil (Para´).
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-102 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373) on pages 84-86, DOI: 10.1206/822.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5400226
Eumerus punctifrons Loew 1857
Creators: name: Dawah, Hassan A.
name: Abdullah, Mohammed A.
name: Ahmad, Syed Kamran
name: Al-Dhafer, Hathal
name: Turner, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Eumerus
Eumerus punctifrons

description: Eumerus punctifrons Loew, 1857
(Fig. 36)
Eumerus punctifrons Loew, 1857: 85
Examined specimens. 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village 11.xii.2011 – 13.i.2012, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, Najran, Al-Shurfa, 1–29.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC).
Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from Syria and further recorded from Afghanistan, Algeria, Cape Verde Islands, Morocco, Tunisia (Peck 1988; Ghorpadé 2014), Yemen and UAE (Dirickx 1994; Smit et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4855 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4411181
Variola albimarginata Baissac 1953
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Variola
Variola albimarginata

description: Variola albimarginata Baissac 1953 —Lyretail grouper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Kailola (1987b: 233); subsequently reported from Lihir Group, Namatamai District, New Ireland by Fry et al. (2006: 130). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell during 14–28 June 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 5.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Solitary in seaward coral and rocky reefs, 4–200 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Landing of a quadrotor UAV swarm in a nonstationary confined compartment
Creators: name: Schieni, Rick
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as an extraordinarily useful technology in both civilian and military applications. Recent efforts have focused on expanding the capabilities of individual UAVs to the application of multiple vehicle swarms to efficiently accomplish otherwise laborious and dangerous tasks. In this work, a trajectory generation method is presented to safely land the individuals of a UAV team on a moving vessel following the performance of a team mission. It is assumed that the landing vessel has a compartment dedicated to vehicle storage which restricts the final landing maneuver to a confined space. Trajectories are generated by solving a constrained optimization problem in a computationally efficient manner by exploiting the properties of Pythagorean Hodograph Bèzier curves. A case study is presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed trajectory generator. The study examines the effectiveness of the method to create successful landing trajectories for the individuals of the UAV swarm. It is shown that the method creates collision-free trajectories for multiple vehicles as they attempt to land in a confined compartment on a moving target.
Salsola tragus L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Salsola
Salsola tragus

description: Salsola tragus L.
Kali-Salzkraut
Art ISFS: 367130 Checklist: 1041145 Amaranthaceae Salsola Salsola tragus L. Enthält: Salsola tragus L. subsp. tragus
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 15-60 cm hoch, +/- aufrecht, meist vom Grund an mit weit abstehenden Ästen, graugrün, behaart. Blätter lineal, steif abstehend, mit gelber Stachelspitze, 0,5- 3 cm lang und 1-2 mm breit. Blüten unscheinbar, zu 1-3 in den Blattwinkeln, mit 5 zur Fruchtzeit geflügelten Perigonblättern und 5 freien, kaum vorstehenden Staubblättern. Vorblätter 2.
Blütezeit (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 7-10
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Sandige Orte, Schuttplätze, Salzstellen / kollin / VS (Rhonetal), JN, vereinzelt M, GR
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Eurasiatisch
Ökologische Zeigerwerte (nach Landolt & al. 2010) 2 + w + 44+54 + 5.t.2n=36
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Salsola tragusL.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Kali-Salzkraut Nom français: Soude Nome italiano: Salsola erba cali
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Salsola tragus L.Checklist 2017367130=Salsola tragus L.Flora Helvetica 20181103
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neuer Name: Das ungültige oder nicht prioritäre Artepithet (Artbezeichnung) wurde korrigiert. Entspricht S. ruthenica Iljin gemäss SISF-2. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Eumerus vestitus Bezzi 1912
Creators: name: Dawah, Hassan A.
name: Abdullah, Mohammed A.
name: Ahmad, Syed Kamran
name: Al-Dhafer, Hathal
name: Turner, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Eumerus
Eumerus vestitus

description: Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912
(Fig. 37)
Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 442
Examined specimens. 1♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub, 1–25.v.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, same locality but 20.iv.2013 (CERS); 1♀, same locality but 6–27.vii.2013 (CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu-Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village, 11.xii. 2011, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♂, same locality but 13.i.2012; 1♂, same locality but 10–25.ii.2012; 1♂, same lcality but 24.ii.2013 (Martin Ebejer collection); 1♂, same locality but 6–27.vii.2013 (CERS); 2♂, same locality but 9–30.xii.2013; 1♂, same locality but 5–26.i.2014; Najran, Al-Shurfa, 1–29.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1♀, same locality but 7–28.v.2014; 1♂, Jazan, Wadi Lejab, 17.v–8.vi.2015, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 2♀, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm, 3–24.xii.2013, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♀, Asir, Karatha, Al-Ethrebany fruit farm, 19.vi–10.vii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS); 2♂, same locality but 1–20.i.2014 (NMWC); 2♂, same locality but 23.i–13.iii.2014 (NMWC); 2♂, same locality but 6–27.v.2014 (NMWC).
Distribution. This species is recently recorded from Saudi Arabia by El-Hawagry et al. (2019). It was described from Guinea-Bissau and is further recorded from Sudan (Smith & Vockeroth 1980; Whittington 2003). Smit et al. (2017) record E. vestitus for the first time from the UAE and Yemen.
Genus Eupeodes Osten Sacken
Species of the genus Eupeodes are widely distributed in all zoogeographical regions except Australasian has approximately 95 species mostly in the Palaearctic and Neotropical regions (Jilong et al. 1997; Jilong et al. 1998; Mazánek et al. 1999). The hoverflies of the genus Eupeodes have yellowish transverse banding or interrupted banding on the abdomen, which gives them a wasp-like appearance (de Meutter van 2009). Their eyes are bare and the sides of the abdomen have a well-defined ridge. The distribution of areas of microtrichia on wings is of diagnostic importance when separating species. The species of this genus play a very important role in the ecosystem as adults help in cross-pollination and larvae are biological control agents for reducing pest insects since the larvae feed on aphids injurious to different crops (Stubbs & Falk 2002; Turk et al. 2015a). The majority of Eupeodes feed on aphids on trees, shrubs and herbs. Eupeodes is also previously known by its junior synonym Metasyrphus Matsumura.
description: Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4855 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4411181
Penilaian Pengguna terhadap Kualitas Layanan (Libqual) di Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Surabaya
Creators: name: Harisanty, Dessy
name: Khodijah, Siti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461002
subject: Human information behaviour
classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies
classificationCode: 461010
subject: Social and community informatics

description: Abstrak. Pelayanan yang dilakukan oleh perpustakaan secara langsung ataupun tidak akan menimbulkan citra perpustakaan baik citra positif maupun negatif. Citra tersebut menimbulkan persepsi pengguna dan akhirnya membuat penilaian pengguna terhadap perpustakaan. Dalam penelitian ini penulis ingin mengetahui mengenai tingkat persepsi pengguna atas kualitas layanan perpustakaan perguruan tinggi negeri yang meliputi dimensi affect of service, information control, library as place. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif yang sifatnya deskriptif dan teknik pengumpulan data kuisioner dengan teknik sampling nonrandom sampling dengan kriteria purposive sampling di Perpustakaan Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November (ITS), Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) dan Perpustakaan Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA). Teknik pengolahan data yakni dengan membuat nilai rata-rata di setiap indikator kualitas layanan. Konsep kualitas layanan yang digunakan adalah LibQual+™ yang terdiri dari affect of service, information control, dan library as place. Hasilnya bahwa nilai rata-rata penilaian pengguna pada kinerja ketiga perpustakaan di atas adalah baik. Untuk perpustakaan UNESA dan ITS, urutan penilaian dari yang terbaik oleh pengguna adalah library as place, information control dan affect of service. Urutan penilaian pengguna atas dimensi yang terbaik pada perpustakaan Unair secara berturut-turut adalah library as place, affect of service, dan information control.
Variola louti
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Variola
Variola louti

description: Variola louti (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) —Coronation grouper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland as Serranus punctulatus by Quoy & Gaimard (1834: 654– 655, pl. 3, fig. 2); reported from Ningin Island (New Ireland) and Drei Inseln Harbour (New Hanover) by Munro (1958: 167). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell on 21 June 2014. MNHN material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa east to Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Solitary in seaward coral reefs, 3–240 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Aschnaoonops caninde Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo 2013, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aschnaoonops
Aschnaoonops caninde

description: Aschnaoonops caninde, new species
Figures 552–556
TYPE: Female holotype and female paratype from Rio Gurupi, Caninde´, Paragominas, Para´, Brazil (Apr. 7–15, 1983; B. Malkin), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 38070).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females have an unusually long postepigastric scutum, extending almost to the spinneret scutum (fig. 553) and have a short anterior genitalic process that is only slightly widened anteriorly (fig. 556).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 38067, figs. 552– 556): Total length 2.34. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum covering about 2/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora: I p0- 0-3, r1-1-2; II p0-0-2, r1-1-2; tibiae I, II v4-4- 2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process only slightly widened anteriorly, only about 1/3 of its length extending anterior of basal sclerite.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Brazil: Para´: Aldeia Corscei, Rio Gurupi, 12 km W Caninde´, Apr. 16–26, 1983 (B. Malkin, AMNH PBI_OON 38067), 3♀.
DISTRIBUTION: Brazil (Para´, near the Maranha˜ o border).
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-102 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373) on pages 82-84, DOI: 10.1206/822.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5400226
Salsola tragus subsp. tragus
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Salsola
Salsola tragus
Salsola tragus l. subsp. tragus

description: Salsola tragus L. subsp. tragus
Unterart ISFS: 367160 Checklist: 1041150 Amaranthaceae Salsola Salsola tragus L. Salsola tragus L. subsp. tragus
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensform Therophyt
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
7.1.4 - Einjährige Ruderalflur (Sisymbrion)
fett Dominante Art, welche das Aussehen des Lebensraumes mitprägt Charakterart Weniger strikt an den Lebensraum gebundene Art
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Salsola tragusL. subsp.tragus
Volksname
Deutscher Name: -- Nom français: -- Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Salsola tragus L. subsp. tragusChecklist 2017367160=Salsola ruthenica IljinFlora Helvetica 2001312=Salsola ruthenica IljinFlora Helvetica 20121103=Salsola ruthenica IljinIndex synonymique 1996367100=Salsola ruthenica IljinSISF/ISFS 2367100
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neue Unterart: Die Art wurde bisher (SISF-2) nicht in Unterarten aufgeteilt oder die Unterteilung wurde bisher nicht akzeptiert. Entspricht S. ruthenica Iljin gemäss SISF-2. Im Gebiet der Checklist 2017 kommt nur diese Unterart vor. Die Zuordnung zur Unterart sollte nur erfolgen, wenn ihre Bestimmung als solche sichergestellt ist. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Sticky liposomes
Creators: name: Sempkowski, Michelle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: HER2-targeted nanoparticles encapsulating chemotherapeutics have shown promise for reducing the severity of side effects associated with traditional chemotherapeutics. However, the ability for conventionally functionalized HER2-targeted nanoparticles to effectively target stops to hold on cancer cells expressing less than 200,000 HER2 receptors per cell (<1+ HER2 by immunohistochemistry). For cases of cancer with HER2 expression below this threshold, there is a lack of targeted treatment options because tumors are still considered untargetable.  In this dissertation, we describe pH-responsive lipid nanocarriers (liposomes) that present HER2-targeting lipopeptides on lipid domains with high local multivalency (‘sticky patches’). Sticky patches are formed by inducing preferential partitioning of lipopeptides into lipid raft-like domains that are triggered to form on the liposome membrane at acidic pH values (6.5 < pH < 7.0) matching the tumor interstitial pH. We investigate the preclinical feasibility of HER2-targeting sticky liposomal doxorubicin by first characterizing and understanding their binding geometries with cell receptor(s), then testing the reactivity and efficacy against a variety of breast cancer cells with variable expression of targeting receptors, and multicellular spheroids expressing a wide range of HER2. Overall, our results demonstrate the potential of sticky liposomes as an effective targeted therapy for breast cancers expressing low HER2 copies and, in particular, for Triple Negative Breast Cancers.
Aschnaoonops simla Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo 2013, new combination
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aschnaoonops
Aschnaoonops simla

description: Aschnaoonops simla (Chickering), new combination
Figures 568–578
Dysderina simla Chickering, 1968: 29, figs. 65–68 (male holotype from Simla, Arima, Trinidad, in MCZ; examined).
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the tiny projection paralleling the tip of the embolus (figs. 574–576); females by the short, T-shaped anterior genitalic process (fig. 578).
MALE (PBI_OON 10679, figs. 568, 571– 576): Total length 1.81. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process broad, sinuous, wide at tip. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-2, r1-1-0; tibiae I, II v4- 4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v2-0-2. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Embolus retrolaterally excavated, triangular in prolateral view.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 919, figs. 569, 570, 577, 578): Total length 2.20. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae I, II v4-4- 2; metatarsi: I v2-1p-2; II v2-0-2. Anterior genitalic process short, T-shaped, basal sclerite with two lateral lobes.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Trinidad: Navy Base, SW Trinidad, Apr. 1945 (R. Ingle, AMNH PBI _OON 38043), 1♀. Arima: Arima Forest Reserve, 11 km SE Arima, June 13–22, 1993, flight intercept trap (S., J. Peck, FMNH 43142, PBI _OON 10685), 1♂; Arima Valley, Feb. 10–22, 1964, elev. 800–1200 ft (P. Wygodzinsky, J. Rozen, AMNH PBI _OON 38044, 38045), 2♂, 1♀; road to Blanchesseuse, 4–13 mi N Simla, Apr. 22, 1964 (A. Chickering, MCZ 66673, PBI _ OON 921), 1♂; Simla, Arima Valley, Mar. 31, 1964 (A. Chickering, MCZ 66675, PBI _ OON 920), 1♂, Apr. 5, 1964 (A. Chickering, MCZ PBI _ OON 918), 1♂, 1♀ (holotype, paratype), Apr. 5–25, 1964 (A. Chickering, MCZ 66674, PBI _ OON 919), 1♂, 8♀. Saint George: Maracas Valley, above Loango village, June 9–22, 1993, flight intercept trap (S., J. Peck, FMNH43136, PBI _OON 10679), 3♂, 2♀.
DISTRIBUTION: Trinidad.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-102 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373) on page 86, DOI: 10.1206/822.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5400226
Poetry in post-tonality
Creators: name: Sedek, Martin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The 20th century’s movement away from tonality launched new genres of post-tonal compositional styles and aesthetics including free atonality, atonal expressionism, and serialism, first pioneered by Schoenberg and his pupils and later adopted by Stravinsky. By removing the psycho-emotional associations with traditional harmonic schema, atonal texted music challenged the centuries-long model of texted music, whose fundamental idiomatic basis has been the perceptible agreement or likeness between the qualities of the music and the qualities of the text.    To that end, this dissertation examines Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden, Four Songs for Chorus and Ensemble, and Dreimal Tausend Jahre, Webern’s Entflieht auf Leichten Kähnen, and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Threni with an original methodology for examining text-painting mechanisms, referred to as the Layered Communicative Analog Methodology (LCAM), in an effort to identify and codify the communicative mechanisms of expressivity present in these works. Building on concepts of such expressivity by theorists like Stecker, Ridley, Levinson, Lewin, and others, in addition to examinations of cultural associations with consonance and dissonance by Guernsey and Cazden, this study demonstrates a spectrum of expressivity present in texted music between the theoretical and the experiential, and the unique ways that atonal texted music occupies this spectrum.
Spinacia oleracea L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Spinacia
Spinacia oleracea

description: Spinacia oleracea L.
Gemüse-Spinat
Art ISFS: 404900 Checklist: 1045030 Amaranthaceae Spinacia Spinacia oleracea L.
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 30-50 cm hoch, kahl, Stängel kantig gefurcht. Zweihäusig. Blätter 3eckig, pfeil- oder spiessförmig, lang gestielt, im Blütenstand allmählich kleiner werdend. Blüten ca. 1 mm lang, grün, in sitzenden Knäueln. Perigonblätter meist 4, Staubblätter 4-5, Narben 4-5, fadenförmig. Gesamtblütenstand verzweigt, ährig, reich beblättert. Frucht beim Winterspinat stachelig, beim Sommerspinat wehrlos.
Blütezeit (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 5-9
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Kultiviert / kollin-subalpin /
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Stammt aus dem Orient
Ökologische Zeigerwerte (nach Landolt & al. 2010) 334-53 + 2.t.2n=12
Ökologie
Lebensform Therophyt
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl Fmässig feuchtLichtzahl Lsehr hellSalzzeichen--Reaktionszahl Rschwach sauer bis neutral (pH 4.5-7.5)Temperaturzahl Tunter-montan und ober-kollinNährstoffzahl NnährstoffreichKontinentalitätszahl Ksubozeanisch (hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit, geringe Temperaturschwankungen, eher milde Winter)
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Spinacia oleraceaL.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Gemüse-Spinat Nom français: Epinard Nome italiano: Spinacio comune
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Spinacia oleracea L.Checklist 2017404900=Spinacia oleracea L.Flora Helvetica 2001289=Spinacia oleracea L.Flora Helvetica 20121120=Spinacia oleracea L.Flora Helvetica 20181120=Spinacia oleracea L.Index synonymique 1996404900=Spinacia oleracea L.Landolt 1977930=Spinacia oleracea L.SISF/ISFS 2404900
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: Kultivierter Neophyt: nach dem Jahr 1500 in der Schweiz aufgetreten
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Ostracoberyx dorygenys Fowler 1934
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Ostracoberycidae
Ostracoberyx
Ostracoberyx dorygenys

description: Ostracoberyx dorygenys Fowler 1934 —Philippine ostracoberycid
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM11092 (2 specimens, St. CP 4421-14-15, northeast of New Hanover); NTUM11126 (3 specimens, St. CP 4438-5-7, northeast of New Hanover); NTUM 11352 (1 specimen, St. CP 4498-5, northwest of New Hanover).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: East Africa and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Ireland, north to southern Japan. Demersal, 256–711 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. An additional specimen was collected off eastern New Britain, East New Britain Province, NTUM 12267 (1 specimen, 92.9 mm SL, St. CP4265-13, 04°37’S 152°25’E, 487–550 m depth, R/V Alis, 26 Apr. 2014).
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on pages 126-127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Search for low-mass and high-mass narrow dijet resonances with the CMS detector at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
Creators: name: Sheffield, David Gruft
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: A search for narrow resonances decaying to the dijet final state at the CMS experiment. The data consists of 12.9 fb^(-1) of proton–proton collisions. Data scouting is used to extend the search to lower masses. The dijet mass spectra at low and high masses are well parametrized by smoothly falling functions. No significant evidence of a resonance is observed. Upper limits on the product of cross section, branching fraction, and experimental acceptance at the 95% confidence level are set on resonances with masses between 0.6 and 7.5 TeV. The limits exclude benchmark models for string resonances below 7.4 TeV, scalar diquarks below 6.9 TeV, axigluons and colorons below 5.5 TeV, excited quarks below 5.4 TeV, color-octet scalars below 3.0 TeV, W' bosons below 2.7 TeV, Z' bosons below 2.1 TeV and from 2.3 to 2.6 TeV, vector and axial-vector DM mediators below 2.0 TeV, and RS gravitons below 1.9 TeV. These limits expand the excluded region beyond past searches and are the first limits set on DM mediators by the dijet channel.
Pemanfaatan Bekupon Buku Dalam Meningkatkan Tingkat Literasi Di Masyarakat Genteng Candirejo Surabaya
Creators: name: Harisanty, Dessy
name: Anugrah, Esti Putri
name: Nur Rahmah, Muzdalifah
name: Layyinah, Khoirotun
name: Aisyah Nur Rohmawati, Siti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461002
subject: Human information behaviour
classificationCode: 461010
subject: Social and community informatics

description: Literasi pada dasarnya merupakan kemampuan seseorang dalam membaca, menulis, ataupun memecahkan suatu persoalan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari yang seharusnya sudah melekat pada setiap individu yang hidup dalam era keterbukaan informasi ini. Pada realitanya yang terjadi di kalangan masyarakat Indonesia khususnya, masih banyak masyarakat yang memiliki tingkat literasi rendah. Hal tersebut juga didukung oleh penelitian-penelitian Internasional yang membandingkan tingkat literasi beberapa negara dan menyatakan bahwa Indonesia termasuk dalam negara yang memiliki tingkat literasi yang rendah. Dengan adanya fenomena tersebut pemerintah berusaha untuk mengejar ketertinggalannya dalam bidang literasi dengan berbagai program seperti Taman Bacaan Masyarakat. Salah satu Taman Bacaan Masyarakat yang memiliki keunikan adalah Taman Bacaan Masyarakat Genteng Candirejo. Taman Bacaan Masyarakat Genteng Candirejo merupakan satu-satunya TBM yang memiliki program Bekupon buku. Bagaimana pemanfaatan dari bekupon buku merupakan hal yang ingin kami temukan dalam penelitian ini. Penelitian ini disajikan dalam bentuk deskriptif kuantitatif dengan Teknik pengumpulan data melalui kuesioner yang dibagikan kepada masyarakat pengguna bekupon buku di Genteng Candirejo. Hasil temuan dari penelitian ini adalah dengan adanya bekupon buku, masyarakat sekitar Genteng Candirejo tergolong dalam tipe masyarakat yang mampu menggunakan informasi dan dapat menerapkan informasi yang telah diperolehnya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa adanya bekupon buku membawa pengaruh positif terhadap kemampuan literasi masyarakat Genteng Candirejo walaupun tidak terlalu signifikan terlihat dalam upaya peningkatan literasi bangsa Indonesia.
Aschnaoonops gorda Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo 2013, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aschnaoonops
Aschnaoonops gorda

description: Aschnaoonops gorda, new species
Figures 547–551
TYPE: Female holotype from Virgin Gorda Mountain, Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands (June 26, 1966), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 38069).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the narrow, triangular basal sclerite at the base of the tiny, T-shaped anterior genitalic process (fig. 551).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 38069, figs. 547– 551): Total length 2.07. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-1p-2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process apparently tiny, T-shaped, hidden behind narrow triangular basal sclerite.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Virgin Islands.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-102 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373) on page 89, DOI: 10.1206/822.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5400226
Advances in confidence distribution
Creators: name: Shen, Jieli
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: In this dissertation, we develop new methods for problems for the two fundamental topics of statistical learning - inference and prediction, using the tool of confidence distribution (CD). Specifically, we are interested in i) making efficient and valid statistical inference about an individual subject, by borrowing information from other individual subjects with similar traits, in a heterogeneous database that contains many individual subjects, and ii) effectively and accurately quantifying uncertainties associated with the prediction of future observations from a model estimated based on past observations.    For the first problem, we propose an individualized fusion learning (iFusion) approach, for drawing efficient individualized inference by fusing information from relevant data sources. iFusion is robust for handling heterogeneity arising from diverse sources, and is ideally suited for goal-directed applications such as precision medicine. Specifically, iFusion summarizes individual inferences as CDs, then adaptively forms a clique of individuals that bears relevance to the target individual, and finally combines the CDs from those relevant individuals and draws inference for the target individual based on it. In essence, iFusion “borrows strength” from relevant individuals to improve inference efficiency while retaining inference validity. Computationally, it is parallel in nature and scales up well in comparison with its competitors such as many of the Bayesian methods. Examples in simulations and a real application in financial forecasting are further presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of iFusion.    For the second problem, a general prediction framework is proposed in which prediction is presented in the form of a predictive distribution function. This predictive distribution function is well suited for the notion of confidence subscribed in the frequentist interpretation, and can provide meaningful answers for questions related to prediction. A general approach under this framework is formulated and illustrated by using the concept of CD. This CD-based prediction approach inherits many desirable properties of CD, including its capacity for serving as a common platform for connecting and unifying the existing procedures of predictive inference in Bayesian, fiducial and frequentist paradigms. The theory underlying the CD-based predictive distribution is developed and some related efficiency and optimality issues are addressed. Moreover, a simple yet broadly applicable Monte-Carlo algorithm is proposed for the implementation of the proposed approach. This concrete algorithm together with the proposed definition and associate theoretical development produces a comprehensive statistical inference framework for prediction. Finally, the approach is applied to simulation studies, and a real project on predicting the incoming volume of application submissions to a government agency. The latter shows the applicability of the proposed approach to dependent data settings.