cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Boston University
Creators: name: Lieberman, Marya
name: Hall, Bonnie
name: McDonnell, Claire
name: Zea, Corbin
name: brown, Corina
name: Wilson, Erin
name: Muna, Grace
name: Taylor, Jason
name: Robinson, Jill
name: Esson, Joan
name: Easter, Joyce
name: Grochowski, Laura
name: Salazar, Laura
name: Mielke, Levi
name: Berta, Margaret
name: St. Clair, Martin
name: Turner, Mary
name: Howard, Maury
name: Behan, Patrice
name: Speidel, Rusty
name: Sinville, Rondedrick
name: Georgiadis, Rosina
name: Bliese, Sarah
name: Shaner, Sarah
name: Mang, Stephen
name: Barstis, Toni
name: Lockwood, Tracy-Lynn
name: Williams, Ursula
name: Doolittle, Pamela
name: Austin, Rodney
name: Loman, Jacob
name: Huschka, Ryan
name: Fletcher, Heidi
name: Khalafi, Lida
name: Knust, Kyle
name: Styers-Barnett, David
name: Smith, Madeline
name: Ashenef, Ayenew
name: Hollis, Gary
name: Sisk, Matthew
name: Oberhof, Nils
name: Puccio, Maria
name: Wilson, Robert
name: Wyllie, Graeme
name: O'Connor, Christine
name: Womick, Jordan
name: Yang, Jialing
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: PAD
subject: PADProject

description: DPAL data and information for Boston University
Un progetto Europeo per gli spazi verdi periurbani
Creators: name: Campus, Enrica
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: GreenLink: espaces verts periurbain is the title of the European project of the net Interreg IIIB Medocc, that has involved Italian partners and foreigners to compare and to discuss for two years about the planning of the suburban green spaces. The final results of the project have been introduced in the seminar Respecting Nature and Enviroment in Urban Development that has taken place in Florence on May 30th 2008, in which they have also participated the partners and other experts, that have showed their experiences on the topic.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1 (2008)
A Study of Diet Composition and Transition among Indigenous Communities in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon
Creators: name: Skeltis, Gioia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Many indigenous communities have undergone epidemiological and nutritional transitions as urbanization places them closer to non-local markets. This study assesses diet composition and variation among a cross-cultural sample of Cofán, Huaorani, Kichwa, Secoya, and Shuar communities to better understand how diet may serve as an early predictor of nutritional transition in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Food consumption was measured in 311 adults from eight communities using the repeated 24-hour recall method (n=4204). The sample shows that communities maintain access to forest fruits, vegetables, and animals. However, frequency and diversity of market foods suggest that communities are vulnerable to changes in diet composition. Dietary differences persist within and between indigenous groups. Diet composition and variation point to urbanization as a key driver of changing diet patterns. Future analyses of nutrient intakes and biomarker profiles will afford greater insights for alleviating dual burden of nutrition as stressors of market integration intensify.
TEETH DEHYDRATION/ REHYDRATION AND THE EFFECT OF TIME ON TOOTH SHADE SELECTION
Creators: name: Suliman, Sama
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: ABSTRACT      Sama A. Suliman: Teeth Dehydration/Rehydration and the effect of time on tooth shade selection      (Under the direction of Harald H. Heymann)      Objective: The purpose of this clinical study is to estimate the time required for teeth to dehydrate and rehydrate and its relation to the accuracy of tooth shade selection.      Materials and Methods: Thirty-two participants were recruited, and color measurements were conducted using a spectrophotometer placed with a custom jig. Measurements were made at baseline, and then after isolation using a lip retractor at 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 15 minute intervals to determine tooth dehydration time. After mouth rinsing for 5 minutes measurements were again made at the same interval time to determine tooth rehydration time. The values obtained were used to calculate CIEDE2000 values for color change between the baseline recordings and all intervals. The data were compared to the 50:50% perceptibility and acceptability thresholds and analyzed for the color change over time using ANOVA and Tukey test was used for multiple comparisons.      Result: There was a perceivable change in tooth color within the first minute of tooth dehydration (P>0.0001). After the first minute, 87% of the teeth were beyond the ∆E00 perceptibility threshold (0.8), and 72% of the teeth were beyond the ∆E00 acceptability threshold (1.8). After 15 minutes of rehydration, 90% of the teeth were beyond the perceptibility threshold, and 65% were beyond the acceptability threshold. The original shade was not restored for the tested teeth even after 15 minutes of rehydration time. Conclusions: Shade selection procedures should be carried out within the first minute and before the teeth are exposed to dehydration by means of isolation. Teeth do not rehydrate within 15 minutes after rehydration.
THE EFFECT OF THE FAT-BURNING ZONE IN AEROBIC EXERCISE ON THE FITNESS SCORES AND BLOODGLUCOSE LEVELS AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS DIAGNOSED WITH DIABETES
Creators: name: Nevein Nabil Alagamy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Background: The interplay between physical activity and metabolic health, particularly in diabetes management, is a pivotal area of investigation. This study examines the impact of a three-month moderate aerobic exercise regimen on glycemic control and estrogen levels in young female diabetic patients, aiming to shed light on potential synergies between exercise interventions and hormonal dynamics.

Methods: A one-group pretest-posttest design focused on young diabetic females aged 13 to 18. A structured moderate aerobic exercise program was implemented, comprising warm-up, exercise, and cool-down phases. Pre and post-intervention assessments included blood glucose, estrogen (E2) levels in the follicular phase, and fitness scores, with subsequent comparisons and correlations.

Results: Fifteen young females, with a mean age of 15.07 ± 1.49, participated in the study. The exercise program led to a reduction in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) from 8.19 ± 1.11% to 7.23 ± 0.94, a decrease in total daily insulin from 0.58 ± 0.04 to 0.53 ± 0.05, and an increase in estrogen levels from 54.53 ± 4.09 to 4.09. Furthermore, fitness scores improved from 66.53 ± 4.93 to 70.13 ± 4.55. Notably, a significant negative correlation between estrogen levels and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels (r = -0.813) was observed post-intervention.

Conclusion: This study demonstrates that a three-month moderate aerobic exercise regimen enhances glycemic control and estrogen levels in young diabetic females. Additionally, a robust inverse correlation between estrogen and HbA1c levels highlights a potential interplay between hormonal dynamics and metabolic outcomes in response to exercise interventions.
Aging and self-regulated Chinese-English vocabulary learning
Creators: name: Hertzog, Christopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Study of self-regulated learning of Chinese-English vocabulary items by older and younger adults. Individuals were presented with grids of Chinese characters, and clicked on the character to expose the English word meaning. Characters varied widely in complexity (number of line segments). Order of item selection and study was regulated by each learner. Preiminary ease-of-learning judgments were collected for all items. Item selection, selection order, and subsequent cued recall were assessed at two study-test trials and predicted by age, complexity, grid location (reading order), and -- at Trial 2 -- prior recall at Trial 1.
One helpful property of functions generating Pólya frequency sequences
Creators: name: Dyachenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C15, 30D15, 30D05

description: In this work we study the solutions of the equation $z^pR(z^k)=α$ with nonzero complex $α$, integer $p,k$ and $R(z)$ generating a (possibly doubly infinite) totally positive sequence. It is shown that the zeros of $z^pR(z^k)-α$ are simple (or at most double in the case of real $α^k$) and split evenly among the sectors $\{\frac jk π\le\operatorname{Arg} z\le\frac {j+1}k π\}$, $j=0,\dots, 2k-1$. Our approach rests on the fact that $z(\ln z^{p/k}R(z) )'$ is an $\mathcal R$-function (i.e. maps the upper half of the complex plane into itself). This result guarantees the same localization to zeros of entire functions $f(z^k)+z^p g(z^k)$ and $g(z^k)+z^{p}f(z^k)$ provided that $f(z)$ and $g(-z)$ have genus $0$ and only negative zeros. As an application, we deduce that functions of the form $\sum_{n=0}^\infty (\pm i)^{n(n-1)/2}a_n z^{n}$ have simple zeros distinct in absolute value under a certain condition on the coefficients $a_n\ge 0$. This includes the "disturbed exponential" function corresponding to $a_n= q^{n(n-1)/2}/n!$ when $0
description: 25 pages, 3 figures
Discovery of Shared Semantic Spaces for Multi-Scene Video Query and Summarization
Creators: name: Xu, Xun
name: Hospedales, Timothy
name: Gong, Shaogang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growing rate of public space CCTV installations has generated a need for automated methods for exploiting video surveillance data including scene understanding, query, behaviour annotation and summarization. For this reason, extensive research has been performed on surveillance scene understanding and analysis. However, most studies have considered single scenes, or groups of adjacent scenes. The semantic similarity between different but related scenes (e.g., many different traffic scenes of similar layout) is not generally exploited to improve any automated surveillance tasks and reduce manual effort. Exploiting commonality, and sharing any supervised annotations, between different scenes is however challenging due to: Some scenes are totally un-related -- and thus any information sharing between them would be detrimental; while others may only share a subset of common activities -- and thus information sharing is only useful if it is selective. Moreover, semantically similar activities which should be modelled together and shared across scenes may have quite different pixel-level appearance in each scene. To address these issues we develop a new framework for distributed multiple-scene global understanding that clusters surveillance scenes by their ability to explain each other's behaviours; and further discovers which subset of activities are shared versus scene-specific within each cluster. We show how to use this structured representation of multiple scenes to improve common surveillance tasks including scene activity understanding, cross-scene query-by-example, behaviour classification with reduced supervised labelling requirements, and video summarization. In each case we demonstrate how our multi-scene model improves on a collection of standard single scene models and a flat model of all scenes.
description: Multi-Scene Traffic Behaviour Analysis ---- Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Does Prescription Length of Buprenorphine Influence Treatment Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder? A Retrospective Cohort Study from North India
Creators: name: Ghosh, Abhishek
name: Mahintamani, Tathagata
name: Kathiravan, Sanjana
name: Swer, Sankie B.
name: Basu, Debasish
name: Mattoo, S.K
name: BN, Subodh
name: Singh, Ajaypal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Buprenorphine (BUP) effectively suppresses non-prescription opioid use and increases treatment retention in opioid use disorder (OUD). However, short prescription length may interfere with treatment retention and recovery. We wanted to examine whether the outcomes of BUP treatment differ in high (HPL up to 4 wk) and low-prescription (LPL 1–2 wk) length groups. We compared time to treatment discontinuation (TD), non-prescription opioid-positive urine screen, buprenorphine-negative urine screen, and self-reported non-prescription opioid use between two different cohorts of LPL (case record: June 2018 to August 2019; n = 105; observation endpoint: 31 October 2019) and HPL groups (case record: June 2020 to Aug 2021; n = 133; observation endpoint: 31 October 2021). We used Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and log-rank tests for between-group comparisons. We used Cox regression analysis to adjust for age, opioid potency, comorbidities, family income, and marital status. Subjects’ age and buprenorphine dose were significantly lower, and the percentage of high-potency opioid users was significantly higher in the LPL group. In the unadjusted survival analysis, the median time to BUP discontinuation in the HPL was longer than that of the LPL [LPL= 22.4 ± 4.3 wk; HPL = 33.1 ± 8.5 wk; χ2(1)= 5.7; p=.02]. The survival distributions of other outcomes did not differ between groups. When adjusted for covariates, neither the prescription length nor other covariates independently predicted any treatment outcome. Higher prescription length might be associated with longer treatment retention. We provide preliminary evidence to support greater flexibility in BUP treatment, enhancing its scalability and attractiveness.
Settimo incontro dei laboratori del Consiglio d’Europa per l’attuazione della Convenzione europea del paesaggio. Piestany, Slovaquie, 24 e 25 aprile 2008
Creators: name: Costa, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The Convention is a great chance for european landscapes and is an important input to promote democracy, to safeguard human rights and to research common solutions for European social issues. Each year for seven year Council of Europe organizes a technical meeting to monitor the effects and results of Convention. In 2008, meeting has been organized by Slovak Republic and the title or better, the main theme has been “Landscape in planning policies and governance: towards integrated spatial management”.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1 (2008)
Geriatric pharmacy education for undergraduate students: A scoping review (protocol)
Creators: name: Papillon-Ferland, Louise
name: Sadowski, Cheryl
name: Maurice, Noémie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geriatrics
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education
subject: Medical Specialties

description: The objective of this scoping review is to identify how geriatric concepts are included in pharmacy curricula, and to map current literature on preferred teaching methods and assessment related to geriatric pharmacy education.
Bachelor thesis
Creators: name: Heppel, Frédérique
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Broaden-and-build theory
subject: Citation accuracy
subject: Citation classification
subject: Positive psychology

description: Citation classification and citation accuracy study of the broaden-and-build theory.
Dieci anni del Dottorato di ricerca in Progettazione paesistica
Creators: name: Paolinelli, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Celebrating the tenth year of the Ph.D. was an opportunity to identify the profile of its activity as a whole. The publication of a book about the researches and a public seminar with participation of landscape scientists and planner provided subjects to update and to continue the critical reflection, with the goal of consolidating and developing new research techniques. The short period is nevertheless significant compared to the general youth of Ph.D. in Italy.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 9 No 1 (2008)
Title: Non-medical Use of Brain Stimulants in Educational Systems: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Riegelman, Amy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education

description: Review Question(s) Several reports in the popular press and in scientific publications affirm that healthy students routinely use unprescribed brain stimulants to improve their cognitive performance in educational settings. Yet, what is the real scope of this behavior? By means of a systematic review (Moher et al., 2009), this study relies on empirical studies to explore the prevalence of this behavior. Strategically, we assess this students’ behavior across educational levels, i.e., from middle school to university. In addition, this study considers the academic motivations or reasons for use, as well as the sources for obtaining these drugs. Rationale Several non-systematic literature reviews have been published on the non-medical use of brain stimulants in educational settings (Smith & Farah, 2011; Gomes et al., 2011; Schelle et al. 2014; Wilens et al., 2008; Lakhan & Kirchgessner, 2012; Bogle & Smith, 2009). With regards to the systematic literature reviews, Weyandt and colleagues (2013), Bavarian and colleagues (2015), and Benson and colleagues (2015) specifically targeted college students. Finger and colleagues (2013) focused on the use of methylphenidate among medical school students. Drazdowski (2016) investigated the motivations of young adults, who were not necessarily students, for consuming non prescribed drugs. Therefore, to date, a systematic review documenting the nonmedical use of brain stimulants across educational levels does not exist. Moreover, few of these literature reviews describe the students’ academic motivations for using unprescribed brain stimulants and/or the sources for obtaining these drugs. This systematic literature review fills all of these gaps.
MSc Thesis
Creators: name: Quist, Rutger
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: MSc
subject: Thesis
subject: UvA

description: During the COVID-19 pandemic an unprecedented phenomenon occurred. Imminent closure of businesses resulted in acute financial distress for many businesses such as restaurants, bars, concert halls and gyms. To alleviate this financial struggle some businesses offered their clientele the possibility to donate. As a consequence, people voluntarily spent money on private businesses without expecting goods or services in return in an attempt to save them from bankruptcy or from closing. We expect the subjective value of losing access to a business, referred to as opportunity cost, to be the main driver of these donations. In the study we manipulate (1) the level of attachment to a business, and (2) the risk of bankruptcy as two aspects of opportunity cost and test to what extent donations to private business driven by opportunity cost?
Frames for operators in Banach spaces via semi-inner products
Creators: name: Dastourian, Bahram
name: Janfada, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose to define the concept of family of local atoms and then we generalize this concept to the atomic system for operator in Banach spaces by using semi-inner product. We also give a characterization of atomic systems leading to obtain new frames. In addition, a reconstruction formula is obtain. Next, some new results are established. The characterization of atomic systems allows us to state some results for sampling theory in semi-inner product reproducing kernel Banach spaces. Finally, having used frame operator in Banach spaces, new perturbation results are established.
Landscape Education: New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe. Potentials of the LE:NOTRE ERASMUS Network for Landscape Architecture Education in Europe
Creators: name: Fetzer, Ellen
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: In 2002, Eclas (the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools) started the first Thematic Network Project in Landscape Architecture. Many databases on specialist literature, academic journals, European environmental policies, web links, landscape designs and so on, have been established. The LE:NOTRE thematic network meets the characteristics of a Community of Practice, a network of practitioners who share the same domain of interest. Learning in a CoP means a not traditional way of education, based on the contribution of all users and a lifelong learning. To develop this concept, some pilot courses have been organized in form of collaborative seminars whose participants, coming from different European universities, meet in a virtual room hosted by Le:Notre. A new concept of learning through communication and interaction in collaborative virtual environments is bore.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Relationship Mindfulness, Perceived Partner Responsiveness, and Change in Relationship Quality
Creators: name: HARP Lab
name: Stanton, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: longitudinal
subject: mindfulness
subject: perceived partner responsiveness
subject: relationship quality

description: This preregistration is for the hypotheses and analytic plan for secondary data analysis in the parent project Diverse Romantic Relationships and Well-Being I (DRRAW I).
Pricing Policies for Selling Indivisible Storable Goods to Strategic Consumers
Creators: name: Berbeglia, Gerardo
name: Rayaprolu, Gautam
name: Vetta, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the dynamic pricing problem faced by a monopolistic retailer who sells a storable product to forward-looking consumers. In this framework, the two major pricing policies (or mechanisms) studied in the literature are the preannounced (commitment) pricing policy and the contingent (threat or history dependent) pricing policy. We analyse and compare these pricing policies in the setting where the good can be purchased along a finite time horizon in indivisible atomic quantities. First, we show that, given linear storage costs, the retailer can compute an optimal preannounced pricing policy in polynomial time by solving a dynamic program. Moreover, under such a policy, we show that consumers do not need to store units in order to anticipate price rises. Second, under the contingent pricing policy rather than the preannounced pricing mechanism, (i) prices could be lower, (ii) retailer revenues could be higher, and (iii) consumer surplus could be higher. This result is surprising, in that these three facts are in complete contrast to the case of a retailer selling divisible storable goods Dudine et al. (2006). Third, we quantify exactly how much more profitable a contingent policy could be with respect to a preannounced policy. Specifically, for a market with $N$ consumers, a contingent policy can produce a multiplicative factor of $Ω(\log N)$ more revenues than a preannounced policy, and this bound is tight.
description: A 1-page abstract of an earlier version of this paper was published in the proceedings of the 11th conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2015
L’insegnamento dell’Architettura del Paesaggio: nuove opportunità per la didattica e la ricerca in Europa. Le potenzialità della rete Le:Notre Erasmus
Creators: name: Fetzer, Ellen
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Nel 2002 l’Eclas (Consiglio Europeo delle Scuole di Architettura del Paesaggio) ha dato l’avvio al primo progetto di Rete Tematica di Architettura del Paesaggio attraverso il quale sono state costruite una serie di banche dati in tema di paesaggio. La rete tematica di Le:Notre assume le caratteristiche di una “Community of Practice”, rete di utenti che condividono lo stesso dominio di interesse. Imparare all’interno di una CoP presuppone un modo di apprendimento diverso da quello tradizionale, basato sul contributo di tutti gli utenti e in modo continuo. Per sviluppare questo tipo di educazione sono stati organizzati corsi pilota nella forma di seminari interattivi i cui partecipanti, provenienti da differenti università europee, si incontrano nella piattaforma virtuale di Le:Notre. Un nuovo concetto di apprendimento attraverso la comunicazione e l’interazione in ambienti virtuali si consolida.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL CAST IRON HARDNESS FOR CASTINGS OF AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY ON THE BASIS OF CONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF REGRESSION EQUATION IN THE FACTOR SPACE «CARBON (C) - CARBON EQUIVALENT (CEQ)»
Creators: name: Demin, Dmitriy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Metallurgy
subject: Materials Science and Engineering
subject: Engineering
subject: canonical transformation
subject: cast iron hardness
subject: chemical composition of cast iron
subject: combined analysis
subject: regression equation
subject: structural cast iron

description: The object of research is structural iron with lamellar graphite, in which the carbon equivalent (Ceq) is in the range (4.2–4.4) %, and the carbon content (C) in the range (3.42–3.57) %. The aim of research is description of the distribution of the hardness value of structural cast iron of serial meltings in the C–Ceq factor space at fixed values of the Cr–Ni–Cu–Ti alloy content in narrow intervals. It is shown that a polynomial regression equation of the form HB=HB(C, Ceq) can be used to obtain a workable analytical description. It is shown that such structure of the equation and those obtained by the method of least squares corresponding coefficient estimates provide 92 % accuracy of the forecast even with a small sample of data. On the basis of the canonical transformation of the response surface and its ridge analysis, it is established that it is possible in principle to satisfy different requirements for hardness. So, if the range of the planning area C=(3.42–3.57) % and Ceq=(4.2–4.4) % is chosen as the imposed constraint, then several suboptimal solutions are possible. This is the case if the task of minimizing hardness is not set and the range HB=180–250 satisfies the quality requirements specified by the production conditions. If the priority is hardness minimization, then the suboptimal solution is one and it is like the point of intersection of the constraint line (r=1.414) and the lower ridge line y=y(r). On the basis of this, it is concluded that the suboptimal solutions are multivariant, depending on the requirements of production. A nomogram has been constructed, which makes it possible to select in a rational way the technological regimes of out-of-furnace treatment in the part concerning the adjustment of the chemical composition of the alloy.
Exploring the boundaries of the problem gambling/gambling responsibility beliefs relationship
Creators: name: Abarbanel, Brett
name: Louderback, Eric
name: Bernhard, Bo
name: Gray, Heather
name: LaPlante, Debi
name: Kraus, Shane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: casino
subject: corporate social responsibility
subject: gambling
subject: gambling studies
subject: problem gambling
subject: responsible gambling

description: Overall project description: This project will evaluate the GameSense program as implemented throughout MGM Resorts International properties in North America. GameSense is a branded responsible gambling program that includes both customer and employee facing components. Using MGM’s multi-property portfolio, this project will assess the safety, reach, and effectiveness of the MGM-GameSense program. The project will comprise three waves of surveys of MGM employees and loyalty card holders, as well as analysis of GameSense service records. This project is funded by MGM Resorts International.
Green Belts as a Means of Managing the Landscape at the Edge of the City
Creators: name: Hague, Cliff
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: This paper will review the theory and practice of green belts as instruments of urban containment in a European context. It will point to the emphasis given to the compact city in the European Spatial Development Perspective. It will then review and compare some of the practices in different parts of Europe. Particular emphasis will be given to a comparison of policy and implementation in Scotland and the Netherlands. The analysis will show that green belts are used to pursue a number of policy aims:they are not exclusively a tool to manage landscape resources. Furthermore they have social and economic impacts as well as landscape impacts. There are also important questions about the relation between policy and implementation. Finally recommendations are made for a more active design and management approach to planning land at the edge of the city as part of strategic spatial planning practice.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Localization of weakly interacting Bose gas in quasiperiodic potential
Creators: name: Ray, Sayak
name: Pandey, Mohit
name: Ghosh, Anandamohan
name: Sinha, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the localization properties of weakly interacting Bose gas in a quasiperiodic potential commonly known as Aubry-André model. Effect of interaction on localization is investigated by computing the `superfluid fraction' and `inverse participation ratio'. For interacting Bosons the inverse participation ratio increases very slowly after the localization transition due to `multisite localization' of the wave function. We also study the localization in Aubry-André model using an alternative approach of classical dynamical map, where the localization is manifested by chaotic classical dynamics. For weakly interacting Bose gas, Bogoliubov quasiparticle spectrum and condensate fraction are calculated in order to study the loss of coherence with increasing disorder strength. Finally we discuss the effect of trapping potential on localization of matter wave.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures
Le cinture verdi come strumenti per la gestione del paesaggio ai margini delle città
Creators: name: Hague, Cliff
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: intervento esamina la teoria e la pratica delle cinture verdi come strumento di contenimento urbano all’interno del contesto europeo. Si evidenzia l’importanza attribuita alle città compatte nell’ European Spatial Development Perspective e pertanto si riflette mettendo a confronto alcune pratiche in differenti parti di Europa. Una particolare enfasi è posta alla comparazione delle politiche e dell’implementazione in Scozia e in Olanda. L’analisi mostra che le cinture verdi sono finalizzate a perseguire numerosi obiettivi di politiche di piano: esse non sono esclusivamente uno strumento per gestire le risorse del paesaggio; infatti hanno impatti economici e sociali allo stessa stregua degli impatti paesaggistici. Ci sono inoltre importanti questioni circa la relazione tra le politiche e l’implementazione. Raccomandazioni conclusive sono volte ad un più attivo disegno e approccio gestionale alla pianificazione del territorio ai confini della città come parte integrante della pratica di pianificazione spaziale strategica.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Basic Moral Parity
Creators: name: Johnson, Nevin Edward
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Egalitarians hold that, despite the great variation in human beings and their properties, human beings are in some fundamental sense morally equal, an idea often referred to as basic moral equality. But there is a problem reconciling the fact of continuous human variation with a commitment to human moral equality. Previous attempts to solve this problem focus on similarities between persons in grounding their equal moral worth. This thesis adopts an alternative approach in that it holds that we need to attend, not just to the similarities between individuals, but also to the differences between persons. As a result of this, the position defended here ultimately rejects basic moral equality in favor or basic moral parity, because of how the parity relation incorporates and manages the relative roles of similarity and difference in establishing the basic moral value of human persons.
Progettare il paesaggio al futuro: nuovi scenari per la pianificazione urbanistica comunale ad Ascea
Creators: name: Ferrara, Guido
name: Campioni, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Ascea, a small Municipality in the south of Italy, is a remarkable example of biocultural landscape recently affected by pressure and fragmentation phenomena, owing to increasing tourism and expanding built up areas. Notwithstanding, new urban master plan has undertaken landscape as key element of a strategic development approach, conceived in accordance with Italian town and country planning new methods and legislation. Some master plan targets have been pushed to design solutions, while analysis, evaluation and interpretation processes have provided with a development model capable to recover and increase landscape resources and values and to make local community responsible on landscape management.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Paesaggio ed economia. Prime riflessioni sull’“auto-sostentamento” del paesaggio: colloquio con Paolo Leon
Creators: name: Cazzola, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The landscape is intended like a structural and cross element of the territory, but it is protect like a single object and it doesn’t consider in any economic programming. There are “landscape’s situations” that have a “market value” inside and from this “value” they take a kind of economic rent and an upkeep; but there is also another “landscape’s situation” for which are very difficult to apply the same economical conditions. In this dialogue with Paolo Leon we want reflect - primarily - about the relationship between economy and landscape and how we “translate” an economic reasoning upon landscape’s elements that aren’t economic elements.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Unification of Fusion Theories, Rules, Filters, Image Fusion and Target Tracking Methods (UFT)
Creators: name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6

description: The author has pledged in various papers, conference or seminar presentations, and scientific grant applications (between 2004-2015) for the unification of fusion theories, combinations of fusion rules, image fusion procedures, filter algorithms, and target tracking methods for more accurate applications to our real world problems - since neither fusion theory nor fusion rule fully satisfy all needed applications. For each particular application, one selects the most appropriate fusion space and fusion model, then the fusion rules, and the algorithms of implementation. He has worked in the Unification of the Fusion Theories (UFT), which looks like a cooking recipe, better one could say like a logical chart for a computer programmer, but one does not see another method to comprise/unify all things. The unification scenario presented herein, which is now in an incipient form, should periodically be updated incorporating new discoveries from the fusion and engineering research.
description: 79 pages, a diagram. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:cs/0409040, arXiv:0901.1289, arXiv:cs/0410033
Una conversazione sull’erba con Lodewïjk Baljon
Creators: name: Lambertini, Anna
name: Bucelli, Claudia
name: Caleo, Simona
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Afterwards a seminar promoted by the Master in Landscape Architecture (University of Florence) during the 2006 educational program, we met in Florence the dutch landscape architect Lodewijk Baljon. He accepted, together with his wife Ineke, to spend a little time with us at the Boboli Garden to talk about his work and his project’s philosophy.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Three Days with Lonnie Holley: Exploring His Use of Trash, Garbage, and Debris
Creators: name: Petty, Reagan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines artist Lonnie Holley’s use of materials that he calls “trash, garbage, and debris” in his expressive work. Drawn from experiences and interviews with the artist during a three-day period, this paper starts with his assemblage sculptures and the spoken-word commentaries that accompany them. It, then, focuses on Holley’s process of creating assemblage pieces from trash, garbage, and debris. The artist’s process can be divided into three aspects: finding materials, making sculpture, and engaging with his made objects. This thesis situates his process of making and spoken-word around critical categories, including collection, curation, narrative, and performance. Ultimately, this thesis explores the way that Holley’s engagement with materials can lead to new understandings of his work, as well as the work of other artists who are categorized as “self-taught,” “folk,” or “outsider.”
Le acque di Tivoli, ovvero considerazioni geografico-storiche sulla valle dell’Aniene
Creators: name: Agostini, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The Aniene river runs through strongly distinct regions: the mountainous upper valley distinguishes itself into karstic calcareous landforms and arenaceous-marly landforms; the cascades of Tivoli underline the clear-cut morphological detachment: beyond the huge travertine tabular formation, the river enters into the Campagna Romana Plio-Pleistocene sediments. Landscapes are historically interpretated by means of eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
$χ_{cJ}\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ decays revisited
Creators: name: Kivel, N.
name: Vanderhaeghen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the width for $χ_{cJ}\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ decay. The amplitude of the process is computed within the NRQCD framework. The leading-order contribution is described by two terms associated with the two different integration domains in the electromagnetic loop describing two-photon annihilation of the heavy quark-antiquark pair. The corresponding operators are defined in the framework of NRQCD. The matrix element of one of these operators describes a configuration with an ultrasoft photon and can be associated with the higher Fock state of the heavy meson. In order to compute this contribution we use the heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory. We obtain that this contribution is numerically dominant. The obtained estimates for the decay widths of the $χ_{c1}$ and $χ_{c2}$ states are $0.09$ eV and $0.06$ eV, respectively.
description: revised version, couple mistakes in analytical expressions are fixed, numerical results for chi_{c2} are slightly modified
Interprofessional Collaboration Among Dental Hygiene and Nursing Students on The Oral Health of Cancer Patients
Creators: name: Warren, Debin Lea
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Objective: Educate nursing and dental hygiene (DH) students regarding oral considerations during cancer treatment; evaluate changes in knowledge, confidence, and willingness to provide oral screening, counseling, and referrals.  Methods: Mixed-methods using baseline and post-intervention surveys and debriefing session including all first-year DH and accelerated nursing (ABSN) students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).  Results: 93 matched surveys returned (61 ABSN, 31 DH).  Baseline surveys revealed 82% (n=76) indicated no knowledge to complete screenings, 68% (n=63) counseling, or 65% (n=60) referral; post-survey data indicated knowledge in screening (72%, n=67), counseling (81%, n=75) and referral (89%, n=83).  Post-survey results showed confidence increases to screen (75%, n=70), counsel (83%, n=77), and refer (91%, n=82).  Ninety- nine percent (n=92) agreed shared learning would foster development of a more effective team. Conclusion: Interprofessional education can increase knowledge, confidence, and willingness for screenings, counseling, and referrals for patients undergoing cancer therapies.
Probing Hybridization of a Single Energy Level Coupled to Superconducting Leads
Creators: name: van Zanten, D. M. T.
name: Courtois, H.
name: Winkelmann, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads shows a sharp conductance onset when a quantum dot orbital level crosses the superconducting coherence peak of one lead. We study superconducting single electron transistors in the weak coupling limit by connecting individual gold nanoparticles with aluminum junctions formed by electromigration. We show that the transport features close to the conductance onset threshold can be accurately described by the quantum dot levels' hybridization with the leads, which is strongly enhanced by the divergent density of states at the superconducting gap edge. This highlights the importance of electron cotunneling effects in spectroscopies with superconducting probes.
“Andrea Palladio e la villa veneta. Da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa”, un viaggio alla scoperta della civiltà della villa. (II)
Creators: name: Tettamanzi, Giulia
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The exposition “Andrea Palladio e la Villa Veneta. Da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa” (Andrea Palladio and the villa veneta. From Petrarca to Carlo Scarpa) offers a trip through the history of the villa, in places of time, space and culture. This second part suggests an itinerary meeting the most important points of formal and ideological villa maturation during the Renaissance. From Petrarca to Alberti, the villa typology growths and develops in Tuscany, with the Medici family power, then in Rome, beginning popes, Medici family had a primary role in the villa culture, working with the most important artist and architects: Raffaello, the Sangallo family, Giulio Romano. Palladio is the concrete and conceptual centre of the exposition, and in his work, we’ll find the same ideological elements of the villa, grow up in latin culture and in the Renaissance. The villa is showed in its totality as architectonical, economic system, till the completely formation of a model, that successfully affirms in the history, and finally we’ll meet a contemporary architect, Carlo Scarpa. The last part of this text is a real trip trough the villas in the Veneto and its landscape.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 8 No 2 (2007)
Healthy Work Environments: Improving Staff Satisfaction and Employee Productivity in a Non-Traditional Nursing Work Environment Through Employee Recognition
Creators: name: Combs II, Charles Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: Meaningful recognition (MR), one of the six standards outlined by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment, is essential for improving individual and organizational outcomes. Employee recognition programs (ERPs), a subset of MR, are linked to improved employee performance, job satisfaction, and employee engagement and motivation. However, little evidence is available that specifically examines implementation of MR-based ERPs in non-traditional nursing settings and the resultant impacts.      Purpose: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of implementing a non-monetary, MR-based ERP in a non-traditional nursing setting.      Methods: A pre-post design was used to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a three-month pilot ERP at improving job satisfaction, productivity, and the overall health of the work environment in the BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina’s Medical Review department. Recognition was given via three formats: (1) department-wide email blast, (2) computer-generated recognition certificate, and (3) a star-shaped pin. Job Satisfaction Survey, Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool, and departmental productivity data were collected and analyzed pre- and post-implementation. Employee perceptions data on the effectiveness and meaningfulness of the ERP were analyzed post-implementation using content analysis.        Results: Significant increases in job satisfaction (t = 2.39, p = 0.02), the health of the Medical Review work environment (t = 2.16, p = 0.04), and staff productivity (t = 7.96, p = 0.02) were noted. Participants agreed that the ERP was (1) meaningful (89.7%), (2) easy to use (92.3%), (3) fair (89.7%), (4) beneficial to the department (87.2%), and (5) should become permanent (76.9%). Further, 89.7% of participants reported satisfaction with the ERP and the types of recognition given.      Conclusion: Implementation of an ERP was effective at improving job satisfaction, productivity, and the overall health of the Medical Review work environment. Employee recognition represents a powerful tool for leaders to utilize to motivate staff and improve their working lives. Simple actions, such as sending an email or generating a recognition certificate, positively impacted staff and increased departmental work performance while still improving job satisfaction and the health of the working environment.