cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Ethics of research on stem cells and regenerative medicine: ethical guidelines in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Creators: name: Afshar, Leila
name: Hamid-Reza Aghayan
name: Jila Sadighi
name: Arjmand, Babak
name: Seyed-Mahmoud Hashemi
name: Basiri, Mohsen
name: Samani, Reza Omani
name: Ashtiani, Mohammad Kazemi
name: Seyed-Ali Azin
name: Ensiyeh Hajizadeh-Saffar
name: Gooshki, Ehsan Shamsi
name: Amir-Ali Hamidieh
name: Mohammad-Reza Rezania Moallem
name: Seyed-Mohammad Azin
name: Sadegh Shariatinasab
name: Soleymani-Goloujeh, Mehdi
name: Baharvand, Hossein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementery Table 1. Ethical guideline for research on stem cells and regenerative medicine in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Localized physical vapor deposition via focused laser spike dewetting of gold thin films for nanoscale patterning
Creators: name: Ma, Tianxing
name: Nitzsche, Michael P.
name: Gamboa, Arielle R.
name: Saro-Cortes, Valeria
name: Singer, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Physical vapor deposition
Focused laser
Dewetting
Gold
Thin film
Nanoparticles

description: Focused laser spike (FLaSk) excitation has been demonstrated as a reliable technique for the patterning of micro-to-nanoscale features locally by thermocapillary shear of thin films. Recent work on polymer thin films has revealed that overlapping laser scans can leverage coupled thermal and fluid effects to create subwavelength patterns. Compared to polymeric films, metallic thin films possess both a lower melt viscosity and higher surface tension. Here we investigate overlapping effects in the dewetting of ~15 nm gold thin films on borosilicate and quartz glass substrates with a 532 nm continuous wave laser. During this process, FLaSk initiates capillary and thermocapillary dewetting simultaneously. Further, the low oxidation potential and high vapor pressure of gold lead to non-equilibrium vaporization during heating. Since the parameters of overlapping scans control the amount of material that is heated and to what temperature it is heated, selection of laser power, scanning distance, writing speed, and numerical aperture results in particles with different sizes and spacing deposited on the writing substrates or a positioned superstrate through a laser-induced localized physical vapor deposition (LILPVD) process. If the laser parameters are selected within a specific working range, uniform or periodic particle distributions can be repeatably deposited in this fashion, which can then be used as seeds for nanomaterial growth. In addition, if the substrate melts during FLaSk, the viscous forces of the liquid-on-liquid dewetting broadens the range of patterning conditions by resisting the motion of the gold leading to more uniform particles over a large range of parameters.
Additional file 6 of Impact of type and dose of oral polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on disease activity in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sigaux, Johanna
name: Mathieu, Sylvain
name: Nguyen, Yann
name: Sanchez, Pauline
name: Letarouilly, Jean-Guillaume
name: Soubrier, Martin
name: Czernichow, Sébastien
name: Flipo, René-Marc
name: Sellam, Jérémie
name: Daïen, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Forest plot of effect of oral PUFA supplementation on tender joint count in RA.
Agrotis spinifera
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Agrotis
Agrotis spinifera

description: Agrotis spinifera (Hübner, [1808])    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 330, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
Creators: name: Phillipson, Sivanes
name: Gervasoni, Ann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How can parents best help their children with their schooling without actually doing it for them? This article is part of our series on Parents’ Role in Education, focusing on how best to support learning from early childhood to Year 12.
Singular Integral Equations - The Convergence of the Nystrom Interpolant of the Gauss-Chebyshev Method
Creators: name: Gerasoulis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1981

description: Nystrom's interpolation formula is applied to the numerical solution of singular integral equations. For the Gauss-Chebyshev method, it is shown that this approximation converges uniformly, provided that the kernel and the input functions possess a continuous derivative. Moreover, the error of the Nystrom's interpolant is bounded from above by the Gaussian quadrature errors and thus converges fast, especially for smooth functions. For C*input functions, a sharp upper bound for the error is obtained. Finally numerical examples are considered. It is found that the actual computational error agrees well with the theoretical derived bounds.
Additional file 1 of Incidence and predictors of loss to follow-up among HIV-positive adults in northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Molla Yigzaw Birhanu
name: Cheru Tesema Leshargie
name: Animut Alebel
name: Fasil Wagnew
name: Melkamu Siferih
name: Tsige Gebre
name: Getiye Dejenu Kibret
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The goodness of fit test for Cox-proportional hazard regression model using cox-Snell residual.
Championing Institutional Goals: Academic Libraries Supporting Graduate Women in STEM
Creators: name: Palumbo, Laura Bolton
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Academic libraries
Science and technology libraries
Women in STEM
Women scientists
Women in technology
Women in engineering
Women in mathematics
Graduate students
Library programming
Institutional goals
Outreach

description: Academic libraries are well-positioned within their scientific research communities to assist with the retention of women in STEM fields. Librarians have an opportunity to find new ways to match collections and services to student needs and institutional goals by providing resources and programming in support of women in STEM. This paper will focus on the ways in which academic librarians can help support female graduate students in STEM, beginning with a review of the literature to determine the causes for the under-representation of women graduate students in some STEM fields. Next, it will review interventions conducted by institutions to address the uneven distribution, including a scan for resources or services provided by the library. Finally, it will use the findings presented in the literature to propose services and resources that libraries and librarians can provide to help address the issues that contribute to the low number of women in STEM fields.
Additional file 2 of Prognostic factors of metastatic myxoid liposarcoma
Creators: name: Shinoda, Yusuke
name: Kobayashi, Eisuke
name: Kobayashi, Hiroshi
name: Mori, Tomoaki
name: Naofumi Asano
name: Nakayama, Robert
name: Morioka, Hideo
name: Iwata, Shintaro
name: Yonemoto, Tsukasa
name: Ishii, Takeshi
name: Hiruma, Tohru
name: Kawai, Akira
name: Kawano, Hirotaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary Table 2. Prognostic factors regarding primary tumor for disease-specific survival after diagnosis of metastasis. (Cox-proportional hazards regression analysis).
Additional file 7 of Impact of type and dose of oral polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on disease activity in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sigaux, Johanna
name: Mathieu, Sylvain
name: Nguyen, Yann
name: Sanchez, Pauline
name: Letarouilly, Jean-Guillaume
name: Soubrier, Martin
name: Czernichow, Sébastien
name: Flipo, René-Marc
name: Sellam, Jérémie
name: Daïen, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Forest plot of effect of oral PUFA supplementation on swollen joint count in RA.
Organizational supports for knowledge translation in paediatric health centres and research institutes: insights from a Canadian environmental scan
Creators: name: Glegg, Stephanie
name: Ryce, Andrea
name: Miller, Kimberly J.
name: Nimmon, Laura
name: Kothari, Anita
name: Holsti, Liisa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Organizational supports are thought to help address wide-ranging barriers to evidence-informed health care (EIHC) and knowledge translation (KT). However, little is known about the nature of the resources and services that exist within paediatric health care and research settings across Canada to facilitate evidence use in health care delivery. This survey examined existing supports for EIHC/KT within these organizations to inform the design of similar EIHC/KT support programmes. Methods: A national environmental scan was conducted using a bilingual online survey distributed to leaders at Canadian paediatric academic health science centres and their affiliated research institutes. Participants were invited through email, social media and webinar invitations and snowball sampling. Supports of interest included personnel, resources, services, organizational structures or processes, and partnerships or collaborations; barriers and successes were also probed. Data were compiled by site, reported using descriptive statistics, or grouped thematically. Supports were described using the AIMD (Aims, Ingredients, Mechanism, Delivery) framework. Results: Thirty-one respondents from 17 sites across seven provinces represented a 49% site response rate. Eleven (65%) sites reported an on-site library with variable staffing and services. Ten (59%) sites reported a dedicated KT support unit or staff person. Supports ranged from education, resource development and consultation to protocol development, funded initiatives and collaborations. Organizations leveraged internal and external supports, with the majority also employing supports for clinical research integration. Supports perceived as most effective included personnel, targeted initiatives, leadership, interdepartmental expertise, external drivers and logistical support. Barriers included operational constraints, individual-level factors and lack of infrastructure. Conclusions: This first survey of organizational supports for EIHC/KT identified the range of supports in place in paediatric research and health care organizations across Canada. The diversity of supports reported across sites may reflect differences in resource capacity and objectives. Similarities in EIHC/KT and research integration supports suggest common infrastructure may be feasible. Moreover, stakeholder engagement in research was common, but not pervasive. Tailored support programmes can target multi-faceted barriers. Findings can inform the development, refinement and evaluation of EIHC/KT support programmes and guide the study of the effectiveness and sustainability of these strategies.
Care and justice moral orientation among African American college students
Creators: name: Miller, Paul M.
name: Knox, Pamela L.
name: Fagley, N. S.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature B.V
Year: 2004
Subjects: Black college students
Moral orientation
Gender Differences

description: The current study assessed the moral orientation of African American college students. In addition, we examined whether or not they exhibit the gender difference in moral orientation hypothesized by Gilligan. One hundred sixty-six African American undergraduates at an historically Black university completed the Moral Orientation Scale, which measures care versus justice moral orientation. The students selected an average of 4.39 care-oriented responses (out of 12). In contrast to predictions that African American culture would lead to the development of a care focus, most participants had a justice focus. In fact, these students were significantly more justice oriented than male law students, who were the most justice oriented of the groups studied by N. Yacker and S. L. Weinberg (1990). There was no evidence of a gender difference in moral orientation. If future research replicates this finding, then Gilligan's theory may need to be modified with regard to African Americans.
Reductive dehalogenation activity of indigenous microorganism in sediments of the Hackensack River, New Jersey
Creators: name: Sohn, Seo Yean
name: Häggblom, Max M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Reductive dehalogenase
Halogenated aromatics
River sediments
Microbial reductive dehalogenation
Organohalogen compounds
Hackensack River (N.Y. and N.J.)

description: Organohalogen pollutants are of concern in many river and estuarine environments, such as the New York-New Jersey Harbor estuary and its tributaries. The Hackensack River is contaminated with various metals, hydrocarbons and halogenated organics, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins. In order to examine the potential for microbial reductive dechlorination by indigenous microorganisms, sediment samples were collected from five different estuarine locations along the Hackensack River. Hexachlorobenzene (HCB), hexabromobenzene (HBB), and pentachloroaniline (PCA) were selected as model organohalogen pollutants to assess anaerobic dehalogenating potential. Dechlorinating activity of HCB and PCA was observed in sediment microcosms for all sampling sites. HCB was dechlorinated via pentachlorobenzene (PeCB) and trichlorobenzene (TriCB) to dichlorobenzene (DCB). PCA was dechlorinated via tetrachloroaniline (TeCA), trichloroanilines (TriCA), and dichloroanilines (DCA) to monochloroaniline (MCA). No HBB debromination was observed over 12 months of incubation. However, with HCB as a co-substrate slow HBB debromination was observed with production of tetrabromobenzene (TeBB) and tribromobenzene (TriBB). Chloroflexi specific 16S rRNA gene PCR-DGGE followed by sequence analysis detected Dehalococcoides species in sediments of the freshwater location, but not in the estuarine site. Analysis targeting 12 putative reductive dehalogenase (rdh) genes showed that these were enriched concomitant with HCB or PCA dechlorination in freshwater sediment microcosms.
A Review of Lesions of the Posterior Fourchette, Posterior Vestibule (Fossa Navicularis), and Hymen
Creators: name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Vulvar diseases
Vulvar neoplasms
Hymen

description: Lesions specific to the posterior fourchette, posterior vestibule (fossa navicularis), and hymen are reviewed. A knowledge of these regional lesions will be helpful if such a patient is encountered.
Additional file 1 of Prognostic factors of metastatic myxoid liposarcoma
Creators: name: Shinoda, Yusuke
name: Kobayashi, Eisuke
name: Kobayashi, Hiroshi
name: Mori, Tomoaki
name: Naofumi Asano
name: Nakayama, Robert
name: Morioka, Hideo
name: Iwata, Shintaro
name: Yonemoto, Tsukasa
name: Ishii, Takeshi
name: Hiruma, Tohru
name: Kawai, Akira
name: Kawano, Hirotaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Table 1. Characteristics and treatment of primary tumor (N = 48).
The impact of New Jersey's county line primary ballots on election outcomes, politics, and policy
Creators: name: Rubin, Julia Sass
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2023

description: Nineteen of New Jersey 's 21 counties use a unique primary ballot design known as the "county line," which places candidates endorsed by the county party leadership in vertical or horizontal alignment on the ballot. Between 2002 and 2022, 45 congressional and senatorial candidates appeared on the county line in at least one county and had at least one opponent on the county line in a different county. Every one of those 45 candidates performed substantially better when they were on the county line than when their opponent was on the county line. The average margin in performance for those 45 candidates between being on the county line and having their opponent on the county line was 38 percentage points. By providing such an overwhelming advantage to candidates, the county line primary ballot impacts the choices available to voters, the outcomes of primary elections, and the politics and policy of the state.
Additional file 8 of Impact of type and dose of oral polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on disease activity in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sigaux, Johanna
name: Mathieu, Sylvain
name: Nguyen, Yann
name: Sanchez, Pauline
name: Letarouilly, Jean-Guillaume
name: Soubrier, Martin
name: Czernichow, Sébastien
name: Flipo, René-Marc
name: Sellam, Jérémie
name: Daïen, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Forest plot of effect of oral PUFA supplementation on morning stiffness duration in RA.
Quantifying and improving the availability of cooperative cluster-based internet services
Creators: name: Nagaraja, Kiran
name: Martin, Richard P.
name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Krishnan, Neeraj
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2003

description: Much research has shown that cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to share and globally manage their resources. In this paper, we apply a quantification methodology to show that this performance increase has a corresponding substantial cost in availability. Specifically, we show that a sophisticated cluster-based web server gains a factor of 3 in performance when nodes cooperate to balance load and jointly manage their memories, but also suffers an increase in unavailability of a factor of 10. We then show how this web server can be augmented with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components embodying a small set of high-availability techniques to regain the lost availability. Among other interesting observations, we show that the application of multiple high-availability techniques, each implemented independently in its own subsystem, can lead to inconsistent recovery actions. We also show that a novel technique called Fault Model Enforcement can be used to resolve such inconsistencies. Augmenting the server with these techniques led to a final predicted availability of close to 99.99.
Additional file 1 of Effect of football activity and physical fitness on information processing, inhibitory control and working memory in adolescents
Creators: name: Williams, Ryan A.
name: Cooper, Simon B.
name: Karah J. Dring
name: Hatch, Lorna
name: Morris, John G.
name: Sunderland, Caroline
name: Nevill, Mary E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. A visual representation of the testing procedures for the Stroop Test and Sternberg Paradigm. Description of Data: These figures show exactly what participants saw on their laptop screens and outlines the instructions that were provided to them; i.e. what to do, how to do it. Copyright: these images were developed by the research team and have no copyright associated with them.
On shouting “fire!”: regulating decoupled communication in distributed systems
Creators: name: Minsky, Naftaly H.
name: Murata, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Decoupled communication
Middleware
Publish/subscribe
Scalability
Law- governed interaction
Regulation

description: Decoupled communication, which requires no direct association between the producers of information and its consumers—as under the publish/subscribe (P/S) middleware —is often useful for the integration of distributed and heterogeneous applications. But the indefinite, and potentially global, reach of decoupled communication—the very reason for its power—has a dark side, which may complicate the system using it, making it less predictable, more brittle, and less safe. Just think about the effect of shouting “fire” in a packed theatre, particularly, but not only, if it is a false alarm. It is our thesis that the inherent drawbacks of decoupled communication can be alleviated by decentralized regulation of its use. We show how such regulation can be carried out scalably by means of a distributed control mechanism called Law-Governed Interaction (LGI), and a middleware called Moses that implements this mechanism. And we illustrate the importance of such regulation, and its effectiveness, by considering the treatment of alarms in a large hospital.
Congiuntura economica, struttura demografica e decisioni di spesa: il caso dell'Italia nella recessione del'93
Creators: name: Bernini, C.
name: Freo, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of the paper is to estimate the effects of the recession of 1993 on the consumptions allocation among goods and services by Italian families. As regard the expenditure allocation, the analysis shows that the recession played a fundamental role on durable and luxury goods strongly reducted in the family budget. Factors influencing expenditure heterogeneity are connected to different households' characteristics and to position in labour market: young cohorts and families with householderes occupied were the most hit, while smaller effects are found for retired people. Finally, uncertainty explains the total expenditure downfall of the older cohorts, while economic policy effected the young generations.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 2 (2003); 285-307
Additional file 9 of Impact of type and dose of oral polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on disease activity in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sigaux, Johanna
name: Mathieu, Sylvain
name: Nguyen, Yann
name: Sanchez, Pauline
name: Letarouilly, Jean-Guillaume
name: Soubrier, Martin
name: Czernichow, Sébastien
name: Flipo, René-Marc
name: Sellam, Jérémie
name: Daïen, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Forest plot of effect of oral PUFA supplementation on patient-reported pain (VAS) in RA.
Effect of photobiomodulation in secondary intention gingival wound healing—a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Pooya
name: Hadilou, Mahdi
name: Naserneysari, Ferdos
name: Dolatabadi, Amirmohammad
name: Tarzemany, Rana
name: Vahed, Nafiseh
name: Nikniaz, Leila
name: Fekrazad, Reza
name: Gholami, Leila
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Photobiomodulation is widely being used to improve the wound healing process in dentistry and a vast majority of studies have proven its benefits. But there are plenty of knowledge gaps according to the optimal laser characteristics which should be used to maximize the healing effects of lasers. The goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the effect of photobiomodulation (PBM) as an adjunctive treatment to periodontal therapies to evaluate secondary intention gingival wound healing and post-operative pain. Methods: Five databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, ProQuest, and Web of Sciences) were searched up to November 30, 2020, for clinical trials that reported the result of the application of PBM on secondary gingival healing wounds and post-operative pain and discomfort after periodontal surgeries. Two independent reviewers selected the eligible studies and the outcomes of interest were extracted. The quality of eligible studies was assessed using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Results: Ultimately, twelve studies were included in this review. The application of PBM as an adjunct to periodontal surgeries resulted in a significant improvement in wound healing indices. The Landry wound healing index at the 7th post-operative day was significantly improved (SMD = 1.044 [95% CI 0.62–1.46]; p < 0.01) in PBM + surgery groups compared to the control groups. There was also a statistically significant increase in the complete wound epithelialization (RR = 3.23 [95% CI 1.66–6.31]; p < 0.01) at the 14th post-operative day compared to the control groups. The methods used to assess the post-operative pain were heterogeneous, and therefore the results were limited which made the meta-analysis for post-operative pain assessment not possible. Conclusion: Based on the results of this review, PBM can be effectively used as a method to improve secondary intention wound healing. High-quality randomized clinical trials, however, are needed in the future to identify the optimal PBM irradiation parameters and the effect of PBM on post-operative pain.
Estimation of finite population mean with known coefficient of variation of an auxiliary character
Creators: name: Singh, H. P.
name: Tailor, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper deals with the problem of estimating population mean Y of the study variate y using information on population mean X and coefficient of variation Cx of an auxiliary character x. We have suggested an estimator for Y and its properties are studied in the context of single sampling. It is shown that the proposed estimator is more efficient than Sisodia and Dwivedi (1981) estimator and Pandey and Dubey (1988) estimator under some realistic conditions. An empirical study is carried out to examine the merits of the constructed estimator over others.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 3 (2005); 301-313
title: Building-stock model based scenarios under different price signals
Creators: name: Özer, Fatma Ece
name: Kranzl, Lukas
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Zakeri, Behnam
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy Modeling
building stock modeling

description: Energy models have been used as a base for mapping energy flows or analyzing energy systems, and are typically used for policy-making, investment planning, legislation, and regulation. Energy scenarios are used to assess the impacts of different developments under specific assumptions. Scenarios can be used to aid in mapping different energy or price futures. Therefore, this work aims to observe how scenarios in different types of building stock models respond to different price signals under different decarbonization targets. Various price scenarios created within the scope of the European Climate and Energy Modeling Forum1 (ECEMF) project were used. ECEMF is a Horizon 2020 project which aims to establish a European forum to bring together energy and climate researchers and policymakers and deal with how to achieve climate neutrality.
Additional file 2 of Effect of football activity and physical fitness on information processing, inhibitory control and working memory in adolescents
Creators: name: Williams, Ryan A.
name: Cooper, Simon B.
name: Karah J. Dring
name: Hatch, Lorna
name: Morris, John G.
name: Sunderland, Caroline
name: Nevill, Mary E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Main effects (Trial, time and fitness), two-way interactions (trial by time) and three-way interactions (trial by time by fitness) for response times and accuracy across all test levels of the Stroop and Sternberg tests. Description of data: This table summarises the statistical outputs (p values) for the cognitive function tests to facilitate interpretation.
Estimation of finite population mean using known correlation coefficient between auxiliary characters
Creators: name: Singh, H. P.
name: Tailor, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper proposes a modified ratio-cum-product estimator of finite population mean of the study variate Y using known correlation coefficient between two auxiliary characters X1 and X2. An almost unbiased ratio-cum-product estimator has also been obtained by using Jackknife technique envisaged by Quenouille (1956). The merits of the proposed estimator are examined through a numerical illustration.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 407-418
Average linear approximations for smooth functions
Creators: name: Pallini, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Average linear approximations for smooth functions using empirical and Gaussian probabilities are introduced. The convergence of these approximations is shown to be uniform, in the sense of the Weierstrass approximation theorem. Average linear approximations with prearranged error functions are finally studied.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 3 (2005); 271-292
Transform methods for testing the negative binomial hypothesis
Creators: name: Meintanis, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: We employ the empirical probability generating function in constructing a goodness-of-fit test for negative binomial distributions. The proposed tests, which are formed as weighted integrals, are shown to be consistent and their asymptotic null distribution is investigated. As the decay of the weight function tends to infinity, limit statistics are obtained. A small simulation study is presented.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 3 (2005); 293-300
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of hepatitis E virus in pigs in Vietnam
Creators: name: Lee, Hu Suk
name: Dao, Duy Tung
name: Bui, Vuong Nghia
name: Bui, Ngoc Anh
name: Le, Thanh Duy
name: Nguyen-Viet, Hung
name: Grace, Delia
name: Thakur, Krishna K.
name: Katsuro Hagiwara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
The range of derivative's arbitrage prices in a general incomplete market
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Silvia
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper we work in a general incomplete market driven by a mixed diffusion of finite dimension and we characterize the range of derivative's arbitrage prices by the super-replication approach in the deterministic interest rate hypothesis (DIRH) and in the stochastic interest rate hypothesis (SIRH). We give some examples of applications of this models in particular incomplete situations.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 3 (2005); 315-340
The construction of combined Bayesian-frequentist confidence intervals for a positive parameter
Creators: name: Akahira, M.
name: Shimizu, A.
name: Takeuchi, K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In current physics experiments, there are many cases when the value of a parameter is theoretically assumed to be nonnegative or positive. In such cases, a combined Bayesian-frequentist approach to confidence intervals for a positive parameter is adopted in this paper, and the confidence intervals are constructed. Comparisons of the confidence intervals with ordinary and Bayesian ones are done in the normal cases.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 351-365
A fuzzy disaggregation technique
Creators: name: Polli, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze a problem of time series disaggregation in presence of broad information lack. In this framework it is not possible to follow standard methodologies, like those stemming from the Chow and Lin algorithm and based on probabilistic assumptions. In general terms, when information sets are limited, instead of referring to probabilistic measures it could be more appropriate to adopt an uncertainty measure satisfying only some general properties, like the fuzzy one. After a synthetic survey about fuzzy aggregation operators, we introduce a fuzzy disaggregation technique, based on Choquet capacity theory and characterized by De Finetti coherence.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 387-394
A species-specific fish passage model based on hydraulic conditions and water temperature
Creators: name: Meixler, Marcia S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: culverts
waterfalls
barrier
plunge pool
Dams

description: Stream corridors contain many features that act as barriers to fish during migration. We built a model to determine the likelihood that each of 776 dams, culverts and waterfalls in New Jersey act as barriers to each of thirteen fish species during migration. We assessed each fish species at each potential barrier to determine if the fish could jump high enough to clear the barrier, swim fast enough to overcome the velocity of water to reach the barrier, dive deep enough in the plunge pool to reach maximum jump height, and persist with migration given predicted water temperatures. If all four were possible, the potential barrier was deemed passable. Blockages were mostly the result of predicted weak jumping abilities and water temperatures outside the acceptable range during migration. The model successfully predicted presence and absence above potential barriers for all species except the ubiquitous white sucker (C. commersonii). All locations with possible barriers were predicted to block at least two migratory fish species; 89% were predicted to block all species. Alewife (A. pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (A. aestivalis) were predicted to be blocked the most. Results allow prediction of which potential barriers block passage for each species, the length of waterways blocked by each barrier, and the reasons each barrier is predicted to block each species. We present our fish passage model as a tool for identifying possible barriers which if restored or removed, given appropriate field assessment, might reconnect migratory fish species with additional spawning habitat.
Privacy problems in the small sample selection
Creators: name: Cerbara, L.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The side of social research that uses small samples for the production of micro data, today finds some operating difficulties due to the privacy law. The privacy code is a really important and necessary law because it guarantees the Italian citizen’s rights, as already happens in other Countries of the world. However it does not seem appropriate to limit once more the possibilities of the data production of the national centres of research. That possibilities are already moreover compromised due to insufficient founds is a common problem becoming more and more frequent in the research field. It would be necessary, therefore, to include in the law the possibility to use telephonic lists to select samples useful for activities directly of interest and importance to the citizen, such as the collection of the data carried out on the basis of opinion polls by the centres of research of the Italian CNR and some universities.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 395-405
The Effects of Iron-Bearing Intermetallics on the Fitness-for-Service Performance of a Rare-Earth-Modified A356 Alloy for Next Generation Automotive Powertrains
Creators: name: Stroh, Joshua
name: Sediako, Dimitry
name: Weiss, David
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Aimed at improving the tensile strength and creep resistance of a rare earth-modified A356 alloy, this study adjusted the Mg and Mn concentration in the alloy, specifically aiming to transform the harmful Al₅FeSi and Al₉FeSi₃Mg₅ phase into Al₁₅(Fe,Mn)₃Si₂. It was found that lowering the Mg concentration from 0.49 to 0.25 wt.% and raising the Mn concentration from 0.10 to 0.41 wt.% resulted in a near complete transformation of the Fe-bearing phases. This transformation led to a greater total volume fraction of Fe-intermetallics (2.9 to 4.1%), without affecting the volume fraction of the desirable, temperature-resistant, AlSiRE phase. Moreover, the chemistry modification led to a shift in the morphology of the AlSiRE phase while reducing its size. Combined with the decreased volume fraction of the harmful Fe precipitates, the chemistry modification improved the yield strength (YS), ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and modulus of elasticity by ~14%, 9%, and 10%, respectively. In addition, the steady-state creep rates of the high Mn alloy were lower at all stresses as compared to the low Mn alloy and the fracture stress was ~15 MPa higher, reaching 100% of the alloy’s original 250 °C YS.
A quantile regression approach to the analysis of the quality of life determinants in the elderly
Creators: name: Broccoli, S.
name: Cavrini, G.
name: Zoli, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Objective. The aim of this study is to explain the effect of important covariates on the health-related quality of life (HRQol) in elderly subjects. Methods. Data were collected within a longitudinal study that involves 5256 subject, aged +or= 65. The Visual Analogue Scale inclused in the EQ-5D Questionnaire, tha EQ-VAS, was used to obtain a synthetic measure of quality of life. To model EQ-VAS Score a quantile regression analysis was employed. This methodological approach was preferred to an OLS regression becouse of the EQ-VAS Score typical distribution. The main covariates are: amount of weekly physical activity, reported problems in Activity of Daily Living, presence of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypercolesterolemia, hypertension, joints pains, as well as socio-demographic information. Main Results. 1) Even a low level of physical activity significantly influences quality of life in a positive way; 2) ADL problems, at least one cardiovascular disease and joint pain strongly decrease the quality of life.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 419-436
The tariff for fire and theft car insurance: analysis with a Cox model
Creators: name: Scarpa, B.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we analyze the problem of identification of a tariff for a Fire & Theft Car policy for Insurance Companies. Usually companies obtain this tariff by empirical estimate of the pure rate by evaluating the impact of some personalization variables. In this paper we propose the usage of a semi-parametric Cox model, where the response variable is not the waiting time until an event, but the degree of damage because of theft or fire of a car. The proposed model allows to easily tackle typical problems in data available to the companies, like the presence of franchises, which are treated as censored data.
description: Statistica; Vol 65, No 4 (2005); 437-446
Math counts: major and gender differences in college mathematics coursework
Creators: name: Douglas, Daniel
name: Salzman, Hal
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: College
Gender
Postsecondary
STEM
Mathematics Education

description: Mathematics is an important and hotly contested aspect of U.S. postsecondary education. Its importance for academics and careers and the extent and impact of math achievement disparities are all subject of longstanding debate. Yet there is surprisingly little research into how much and what types of mathematics courses are taken by U.S. undergraduates and the extent of math achievement differentials among students. This article advances the understanding of math course taking by developing course-taking metrics for a nationally representative cohort of bachelor’s graduates. Using NCES transcript data to construct consistent measures of mathematics and quantitative course taking, our analysis finds large variability both within and between STEM/non-STEM majors and a large population of non-STEM graduates earning mathematics credits comparable to their peers in STEM fields. Mathematics course taking differs substantially from course taking in other subjects.We also find that often observed gender differentials are a function of major, not gender, with females in the most mathematics-intensive programs earning as many or more mathematics credits than their male peers.
Additional file 1 of Making remote measurement technology work in multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and depression: survey of healthcare professionals
Creators: name: Andrews, J. A.
name: Craven, M. P.
name: Lang, A. R.
name: Guo, B.
name: Morriss, R.
name: Hollis, C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Survey instrument, presented to respondents using the JISC online surveys platform ( www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk ).
A new textual study of the Han Bamboo Manuscript Book of Zhao Zheng , Part One (汉简《赵正书》文本新探之一)
Creators: name: Yang, Tao
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Chinese bamboo manuscripts
Book history
Early China

description: The recently discovered Han bamboo manuscript Book of Zhao Zheng appears to be a text on the history of the end of Qin Dynasty, but the scholarly community has not formed an agreement about its exact nature. Through an analysis of the text and context of Book of Zhao Zheng, this paper reveals its hidden subtext. Under the disguise of a narrative of Qin history, Book of Zhao Zheng alludes to the attempt of the Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang) to replace the Crown Prince Ying with the King of Zhao Ruyi as his successor. The manuscript further predicts the disastrous consequences of Gaozu’s plan: if the Empress-born Crown Prince was indeed replaced by the consort-born King of Zhao, Han Dynasty would repeat the fate of Qin Dynasty which ended in the second generation shortly after the youngest son of the First Emperor of Qin succeeded the throne instead of the oldest son. From the manuscript’s content, we conclude that the main body of Book of Zhao Zheng was compiled in the last year of the Emperor Gaozu’s reign (195 B.C.), and the comment at the end was written in response to the murder of King of Zhao by Empress Lü in the following year.
User-Level Communication in Cluster-Based Servers
Creators: name: Carrera, Enrique V.
name: Rao, Srinath
name: Iftode, Liviu
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Clusters of commodity computers are currently being used to provide the scalability required by several popular Internet services. In this paper we evaluate an efficient cluster-based WWW server, as a function of the characteristics of the intra-cluster communication architecture. More specifically, we evaluate the impact of processor overhead,network bandwidth, remote memory writes, and zero-copy data transfers on the performance of our server. Our experimental results with an 8-node cluster and four real WWW traces show that network bandwidth affects the performance of our server by only 6%. In contrast, user-level communication can improve performance by as much as 29%. Low processor overhead, remote memory writes, and zero-copy all make small contributions towards this overall gain. To be able to extrapolate from our experimental results, we use an analytical model to assess the performance of our server under different workload characteristics, different numbers of cluster nodes, and higher performance systems. Our modeling results show that higher gains (of up to 55%) can be accrued for workloads with large working sets and next-generation servers running on large clusters.
Phase-Function Normalization in the 3-D Discrete-Ordinates Solution of Radiative Transfer – PART II: Benchmark Comparisons
Creators: name: Hunter, Brian
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Radiation
Computation
Monte Carlo
Discrete Ordinates Method
Ultrafast Laser
Heat Transfer

description: Radiative transfer in a cubic enclosure, subject to varying conditions, is determined using the discrete-ordinates method (DOM) with the two normalization techniques introduced in Part I of this study. Their predictions are compared with Monte Carlo simulations. For all cases, false scattering due to directional discretization cannot be corrected when the old technique, which solely conserves scattered energy, is implemented; and thus, signifi- cant discrepancies exist when compared to Monte Carlo results. The new technique, which conserves both scattered energy and the asymmetry factor, is able to retain original scatter- ing properties after directional discretization, leading to improved accuracy when compared to Monte Carlo. In addition, a parametric study is presented to gauge the impact of asym- metry-factor conservation on media with various optical properties. Finally, the impact of normalization is investigated for both ultrafast radiative transfer and ballistic incidence with varying incident angle.