cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of neuroticism on pair programming: An empirical study in the higher education context
Creators: name: Salleh, Norsaremah
name: Mendes, Emilia
name: Grundy, John
name: Burch, Giles St. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on an empirical study that investigates the effects of the personality trait of neuroticism on the academic performance of students who practiced pair programming during one academic semester. The experiment was conducted at The University of Auckland involving 270 first year undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory programming course. In this study, we hypothesized that neuroticism or lack of 'emotional stability' potentially affects pair students' academic performance. However, from the analysis of our results we found lack of evidence to support this. A correlation analysis showed significant positive associations between the conscientiousness personality trait and almost all performance criteria, thus corroborating evidence reported in the educational psychology literature.
Bestrophin 1 – Phenotypes and Functional Aspects in Bestrophinopathies
Creators: name: Pasquay, Caroline
name: Wang, Lu Fei
name: Lorenz, Birgit
name: Preising, Markus N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: This is to review the current state of knowledge on the functional and clinical aspects of bestrophin 1, a prominent member of a family of proteins involved in the control and properties of the light peak of the EOG. Initially human bestrophin 1 gene (BEST1) mutations were identified to underlie Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (VMD), a dominantly inherited, juvenile-onset form of macular degeneration. In the recent past the phenotypical spectrum of retinal disorders associated with BEST1 mutations has been extended and the term bestrophinopathies was coined. The physiological role of bestrophin 1 is still not completely understood but has been linked to the generation of a transepithelial chloride current by controlling voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCC). Dysfunction of bestrophin 1 may result in abnormal ion and fluid transport by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) disturbing and even disrupting direct interactions between the RPE and the photoreceptors.
Local delivery of a selective androgen receptor modulator failed as an anabolic agent in a rat bone marrow ablation model
Creators: name: Aro, Hannu T
name: Kulkova, Julia
name: Moritz, Niko
name: Kähkönen, Esa
name: Mattila, Riina H
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Genetics
subject: Medicine
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Background and purpose — Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) have been developed to have systemic anabolic effects on bones and muscles without the adverse effects of steroidal androgens. One unexplored therapeutic option is the targeted application of SARMs for the enhancement of local new bone formation. We evaluated the osteogenic efficacy of a locally released SARM (ORM-11984).Methods — ORM-11984 was mixed with a copolymer of L-lactide and ϵ-caprolactone (PLCL). An in vitro dissolution test confirmed the sustainable release of ORM-11984 from the matrix. A bone marrow ablation model was used in female Sprague-Dawley rats. Implants containing 10%, 30%, or 50% ORM-11984 by weight or pure PLCL were inserted into the medullary canal of the ablated tibia. At 6 and 12 weeks, the volume of intramedullary new bone and the perimeter of bone-implant contact were measured by micro-computed tomography and histomorphometry.Results — Contrary to our hypothesis, there was a negative correlation between the amount of new bone around the implant and the dose of ORM-11984. There was only a mild (and not statistically significant) enhancement of bone formation in ablated bones subjected to the lowest dose of the SARM (10%).Interpretation — This study suggests that intramedullary/endosteal osteogenesis had a negative, dose-dependent response to locally released SARM. This result highlights the complexity of androgenic effects on bones and also suggests that there are biological limits to the targeted local application of SARMs.
Building digital ink recognizers using data mining: Distinguishing between text and shapes in hand drawn diagrams
Creators: name: Blagojevic, Rachel
name: Plimmer, Beryl
name: Grundy, John
name: Wang, Yong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The low accuracy rates of text-shape dividers for digital ink diagrams are hindering their use in real world applications. While recognition of handwriting is well advanced and there have been many recognition approaches proposed for hand drawn sketches, there has been less attention on the division of text and drawing. The choice of features and algorithms is critical to the success of the recognition, yet heuristics currently form the basis of selection. We propose the use of data mining techniques to automate the process of building text-shape recognizers. This systematic approach identifies the algorithms best suited to the specific problem and generates the trained recognizer. We have generated dividers using data mining and training with diagrams from three domains. The evaluation of our new recognizer on realistic diagrams from two different domains, against two other recognizers shows it to be more successful at dividing shapes and text with 95.2% of strokes correctly classified compared with 86.9% and 83.3% for the two others.
Inference for Heavy-Tailed and Multiple-Threshold Double Autoregressive Models
Creators: name: Yaxing Yang
name: Shiqing Ling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This article develops a systematic inference procedure for heavy-tailed and multiple-threshold double autoregressive (MTDAR) models. We first study its quasi-maximum exponential likelihood estimator (QMELE). It is shown that the estimated thresholds are n-consistent, each of which converges weakly to the smallest minimizer of a two-sided compound Poisson process. The remaining parameters are n-consistent and asymptotically normal. Based on this theory, a score-based test is developed to identify the number of thresholds in the model. Furthermore, we construct a mixed sign-based portmanteau test for model checking. Simulation study is carried out to access the performance of our procedure and a real example is given.
Oxynoemacheilus zarzianus Freyhof & Geiger 2017
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Oxynoemacheilus
Oxynoemacheilus zarzianus

description: 46. Oxynoemacheilus zarzianus Freyhof & Geiger, 2017
Common name. Loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Oxynoemacheilus zarzianus Freyhof & Geiger, 2017: 261, figs. 3–7 [Stream Kunamasi in Sevanja, 35°47.35’N, 45°24.18’E, Iraq; holotype: ZFMK Ich–103667].
Revisions None.
Illustrations Freyhof & Geiger (2017: 261, figs. 3–7).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e Sirvan.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Watershed Program Evaluation: Honey Creek, Iowa
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the Foreword: Honey Creek is a tributary of the Chariton River in Lucas County, Iowa. The Honey Creek Conservation Association was organized in 1949 through sponsorship of the Chariton Valley Conservation Association, incorporated under the State laws of Iowa. The Honey Creek Conservation Association, working with the Lucas County Soil Conservation District and using technical assistance from the Soil Conservation Service, informed local people of the nature of watershed protection and aroused their interest in establishing watershed improvements. The U. S. Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act of 1954 provided funds for a pilot watershed protection program involving 65 projects throughout the United States. Honey Creek Watershed was one. Using the earlier findings and achievements of the local organizations, the Soil Conservation Service prepared a plan of improvements (Work Plan, 1954) to alleviate watershed problems arising from soil erosion and uncontrolled runoff. The Department of Agriculture surveyed the pilot project to evaluate effects of the installed works of improvement. The surveys determined benefits to farmers and other groups from reducing runoff, erosion, and sedimentation, and the general effect on the area economy. The evaluations also provided data and analyses relevant to improving planning procedures and techniques applicable to similar watersheds.
description: This report is the result of the joint efforts of the Iowa State Conservation's Office and the Engineering and Watershed Planning Unit, Lincoln, Nebr., of the Soil Conservation Service, and Resource Development Economics Division, Economic Research Service.
Managing Consistency between Textual Requirements, Abstract Interactions and Essential Use Cases
Creators: name: Kamalrudin, Massila
name: Grundy, John
name: Hosking, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Consistency checking needs to be done from the earliest phase of requirements capture as requirements captured by requirement engineers are often vague, error-prone and inconsistent with users’ needs. To improve such consistency checking we have applied a traceability approach with visualization capability. We have embedded this into a light-weight automated tracing tool in order to allow users to capture their requirements and generate Essential Use Case models of these requirements automatically. Our tool supports inconsistency checking between textual requirements, abstract interactions that derive from the text and Essential Use Case models. A preliminary evaluation has been conducted with target end users and the tool usefulness and ease of use are evaluated. We describe our motivation for this research, our prototype tool and results of our evaluation.
A DFT based assay for tailor-made terpyridine ligand–metal complexation properties
Creators: name: Krati Joshi
name: Sailaja Krishnamurty
name: Iksha Singh
name: Kaliaperumal Selvaraj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Electron-rich terpyridine ligand and its metal complexes have a potential to grow as responsive surfaces by adapting their physicochemical properties as a function of environment. The responsiveness is brought about by judicious molecular level designing that is currently hindered due to lack of information and control on terpyridine (TPy)–metal (M) interactions at single molecule level. So far there is no organised understanding on the binding of different metals with TPy ligand and ways to modulate it. Being a large conjugated system, TPy has a large scope to be functionalised with electron exchanging groups to alter its electronic structure and consequently its binding with metal atoms. In first report of such a kind, using density functional theory (DFT), we demonstrate that convenient modulation of TPy-M binding is possible through functionalisation of TPy for , Ru, Fe, Mo and Au. Electron donating groups viz., CH, OCH, CH, NH and electron withdrawing groups viz., CF, COOH, CN and NO are considered for functionalisation of TPy ligand. Significantly, the present work focuses on the functionalisation at 4 and 4 positions of TPy molecule. The role of such a functionalisation in influencing the ligands structure–property correlation is missing in the literature to the best of our knowledge. The present investigation quantifies that by pertinent functionalisation of TPy, TPy-M binding energies can be modified up to 60 kcal/mol. Our results reveal that functionalisation leads to a considerable charge redistribution within the TPy-M complex with carbon atoms in pyridine rings functioning as major electron sink/source with a corresponding red/blue shift of stretching frequency. This modifies the red-ox, optical and other chemical properties of TPy-M complexes. In brief, the present report illustrates a way to design ligands such as TPy for diverse applications through tailor-made functionalisation using electronic structure methodology.
A DFT based assay for tailor-made terpyridine ligand–metal complexation properties
Creators: name: Krati Joshi
name: Sailaja Krishnamurty
name: Iksha Singh
name: Kaliaperumal Selvaraj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Electron-rich terpyridine ligand and its metal complexes have a potential to grow as responsive surfaces by adapting their physicochemical properties as a function of environment. The responsiveness is brought about by judicious molecular level designing that is currently hindered due to lack of information and control on terpyridine (TPy)–metal (M) interactions at single molecule level. So far there is no organised understanding on the binding of different metals with TPy ligand and ways to modulate it. Being a large conjugated system, TPy has a large scope to be functionalised with electron exchanging groups to alter its electronic structure and consequently its binding with metal atoms. In first report of such a kind, using density functional theory (DFT), we demonstrate that convenient modulation of TPy-M binding is possible through functionalisation of TPy for , Ru, Fe, Mo and Au. Electron donating groups viz., CH, OCH, CH, NH and electron withdrawing groups viz., CF, COOH, CN and NO are considered for functionalisation of TPy ligand. Significantly, the present work focuses on the functionalisation at 4 and 4 positions of TPy molecule. The role of such a functionalisation in influencing the ligands structure–property correlation is missing in the literature to the best of our knowledge. The present investigation quantifies that by pertinent functionalisation of TPy, TPy-M binding energies can be modified up to 60 kcal/mol. Our results reveal that functionalisation leads to a considerable charge redistribution within the TPy-M complex with carbon atoms in pyridine rings functioning as major electron sink/source with a corresponding red/blue shift of stretching frequency. This modifies the red-ox, optical and other chemical properties of TPy-M complexes. In brief, the present report illustrates a way to design ligands such as TPy for diverse applications through tailor-made functionalisation using electronic structure methodology.
MaramaAI: Automated and Visual Approach for Inconsistency Checking of Requirements
Creators: name: Kamalrudin, Massila
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Requirements are commonly vague and ambiguous. In this paper, we describe an automated Inconsistency Checker called MaramaAI for checking for high- level inconsistency between textual requirements, abstract interactions and Essential Use Cases. We use concepts of phrase extraction and essential interaction patterns to carry out these checks. We provide further support for checking of requirements quality attributes such as completeness and correctness using visual differencing.
Using Expert Knowledge to Develop a Vulnerability and Adaptation Framework and Methodology for Application in Tropical Island Communities
Creators: name: McLeod, Elizabeth
name: Marshall, Nadine
name: Rubinoff, Pamela
name: Szuster, Brian
name: Tompkins, Emma L.
name: Downing, Thomas
name: Supin Wongbusarakum
name: Patwardhan, Anand
name: Hamza, Mo
name: Anderson, Cheryl
name: Sukaina Bharwani
name: Hansen, Lara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Climate change threatens tropical coastal communities and ecosystems. Governments, resource managers, and communities recognize the value of assessing the social and ecological impacts of climate change, but there is little consensus on the most effective framework to support vulnerability and adaptation assessments. The framework presented in this research is based on a gap analysis developed from the recommendations of climate and adaptation experts. The article highlights social and ecological factors that affect vulnerability to climate change; adaptive capacity and adaptation options informing policy and conservation management decisions; and a methodology including criteria to assess current and future vulnerability to climate change. The framework is intended for conservation practitioners working in developing countries, small island nations, and traditional communities. It identifies core components that assess climate change impacts on coastal communities and environments at the local scale, and supports the identification of locally relevant adaptation strategies. Although the literature supporting vulnerability adaptation assessments is extensive, little emphasis has been placed on the systematic validation of these tools. To address this, we validate the framework using the Delphi technique, a group facilitation technique used to achieve convergence of expert opinion, and address gaps in previous vulnerability assessments.
Modeling User Retention through Generative Flow Networks
Creators: name: Liu, Ziru
name: Liu, Shuchang
name: Yang, Bin
name: Xue, Zhenghai
name: Cai, Qingpeng
name: Zhao, Xiangyu
name: Zhang, Zijian
name: Hu, Lantao
name: Li, Han
name: Jiang, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recommender systems aim to fulfill the user's daily demands. While most existing research focuses on maximizing the user's engagement with the system, it has recently been pointed out that how frequently the users come back for the service also reflects the quality and stability of recommendations. However, optimizing this user retention behavior is non-trivial and poses several challenges including the intractable leave-and-return user activities, the sparse and delayed signal, and the uncertain relations between users' retention and their immediate feedback towards each item in the recommendation list. In this work, we regard the retention signal as an overall estimation of the user's end-of-session satisfaction and propose to estimate this signal through a probabilistic flow. This flow-based modeling technique can back-propagate the retention reward towards each recommended item in the user session, and we show that the flow combined with traditional learning-to-rank objectives eventually optimizes a non-discounted cumulative reward for both immediate user feedback and user retention. We verify the effectiveness of our method through both offline empirical studies on two public datasets and online A/B tests in an industrial platform.
description: KDD-ADS 2024
Improving requirements quality using essential use case interaction patterns
Creators: name: Kamalrudin, Massila
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Requirements specifications need to be checked against the 3C's---Consistency, Completeness and Correctness---in order to achieve high quality. This is especially difficult when working with both natural language requirements and associated semi-formal modelling representations. We describe a technique and support tool that allows us to perform semi-automated checking of natural language and semi-formal requirements models, supporting both consistency management between representations but also correctness and completeness analysis. We use a concept of essential use case interaction patterns to perform the correctness and completeness analysis on the semi-formal representation. We highlight potential inconsistencies, incompleteness and incorrectness using visual differencing in our support tool. We have evaluated our approach via an end user study which focused on the tool’s usefulness, ease of use, ease of learning and user satisfaction and provided data for cognitive dimensions of notations analysis of the tool.
Systematic Literature Review on Cloud Computing Security: Threats and Mitigation Strategies
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Sina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy
classificationCode: 460403
subject: Data security and protection
classificationCode: 460499
subject: Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security

description: Cloud computing plays a significant role in modern information technology, providing organizations with numerous benefits, including flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. However, it has become essential for organizations to ensure the security of their applications, data, and cloud-based networks to use cloud services effectively. This systematic literature review aims to determine the latest information regarding cloud computing security, with a specific emphasis on threats and mitigation strategies. Additionally, it highlights some common threats related to cloud computing security, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, account hijacking, malware attacks, and data breaches. This research also explores some mitigation strategies, including security awareness training, vulnerability management, security information and event management (SIEM), identity and access management (IAM), and encryption techniques. It discusses emerging trends in cloud security, such as integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), serverless computing, and containerization, as well as the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model and its related challenges. The importance of user awareness and the impact of emerging technologies on cloud security have also been discussed in detail to mitigate security risks. A literature review of previous research and scholarly articles has also been conducted to provide insights regarding cloud computing security. It shows the need for continuous research and innovation to address emerging threats and maintain a security-conscious culture in the company.
MPEC 2024-E73 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 March 6)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Inference for heavy-tailed and Multiple-Threshold Double Autoregressive Models
Creators: name: Shiqing Ling
name: Yaxing Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: This paper develops a systematic inference procedure for heavy-tailed and multiple-threshold double autoregressive (MTDAR) models. We first study its quasi-maximum exponential likelihood estimator (QMELE). It is shown that the estimated thresholds are n-consistent, each of which converges weakly to the smallest minimizer of a two-sided compound Poisson process. The remaining parameters are √n-consistent and asymptotically normal. Based on this theory, a score-based test is developed to identify the number of thresholds in the model. Furthermore, we construct a mixed sign-based portmanteau test for model checking. Simulation study is carried out to access the performance of our procedure and a real example is given.
Using simple algebraic concepts to understand chemical composition problems
Creators: name: Ravera, Enrico
name: Luchinat, Claudio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Problems involving the composition of mixtures are common in chemical practice and are thus part of introductory Chemistry courses at the early undergraduate level. However, they are often perceived by students as a rather obscure matter, which may be due to poor familiarity with algebraic manipulations. Furthermore, to increase the distaste of students, these problems are susceptible to large errors arising from minor rounding errors, which is an intrinsic feature of the underlying operations. In this manuscript, we show how these problems can be easily solved with matrix algebra and, from this formulation, explain where the standard approaches for solving these problems come from, and how to reduce the numerical errors.
Responding to Value Pluralism in Hybrid Organizations
Creators: name: Castellas, Erin
name: Stubbs, Wendy
name: Ambrosini, Veronique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we derive a four-stage process model of how hybrid organizations respond to specific challenges that arise under conditions of value pluralism and institutional complexity. Engaging in exploratory qualitative research of six Australian hybrid organizations, we identify institutional and organizational responses to pluralism, particularly as organizations strive to uphold multiple value commitments, such as social, environmental and/or financial outcomes. We find that by employing a process of separating, negotiating, aggregating, and subjectively assessing the value that is created, our cases demonstrate how they move between logics in a dynamic fashion and address specific challenges of cognitive dissonance, incommensurability, interdependence and aggregation. Our model contributes to the literature by reframing the notion of ‘tensions’ that arise in conditions of hybridity and characterize specific challenges and sequential responses that may go some way to addressing why some hybrids employ particular responses to pluralism and why some succeed.
A combination approach for enhancing automated traceability (NIER track)
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaofan
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tracking a variety of traceability links between artifacts assists software developers in comprehension, efficient development, and effective management of a system. Traceability systems to date based on various Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been faced with a major open research challenge: how to extract these links with both high precision and high recall. In this paper we describe an experimental approach that combines Regular Expression, Key Phrases, and Clustering with IR techniques to enhance the performance of IR for traceability link recovery between documents and source code. Our preliminary experimental results show that our combination technique improves the performance of IR, increases the precision of retrieved links, and recovers more true links than IR alone.
Characterization of Single Particles in Urban Atmospheric Aerosols Over Nagoya Based on Mass Spectral Analysis
Creators: name: Mihara, Toshiyuki
name: Mochida, Michihiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Mass spectral analysis of single aerosol particles was performed using a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) in the urban area of Nagoya, Japan, for five days in the autumn of 2010. An ion-series analysis was applied to the single-particle mass spectra; the sum of the masses at Δ of 1, 3, 4, and 5 divided by the total mass of organics (fΔ1,3-5) was used as an indicator of the degree of oxygenation of the organics. The organic mass fraction (Forg) and fΔ1,3-5 of single particles varied substantially, and the results for the entire period indicate that two groups of particles with high and low fΔ1,3-5 were present. The organics in particles with high Forg were less oxygenated, whereas those with low Forg were more oxygenated; these different particles were associated with hydrocarbon-like organic aerosols (HOA) and low-volatility oxygenated organic aerosols (LV-OOA), respectively, based on the PMF analysis of the MS mode data. The size distributions of the two types of particles overlapped substantially. The degree of the overlap depends on the equivalent particle diameter used, indicating the importance of single-particle analysis in understanding the size-composition relationship in detail. Alteration of the aerosol mixing state was clearly indicated by the changes in fΔ1,3-5 and Forg; the homogeneous conditions changed to externally mixed conditions from the evening until noon of the next day. Possible causes of this alteration include the condensation of oxygenated organics and ammonium nitrate onto pre-existing particles. This study demonstrated the usefulness of single-particle analysis based on electron-ionization aerosol mass spectrometry.Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research
Rapid biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Crotalaria verrucosa leaves against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti: what happens around? An analysis of dragonfly predatory behaviour after exposure at ultra-low doses
Creators: name: Kadarkarai Murugan
name: C. P. Sanoopa
name: Madhiyazhagan, Pari
name: Devakumar Dinesh
name: Jayapal Subramaniam
name: Chellasamy Panneerselvam
name: Mathath Roni
name: Udaiyan Suresh
name: Nicoletti, Marcello
name: Alarfaj, Abdullah A.
name: Munusamy, Murugan A.
name: Akon Higuchi
name: Kumar, Suresh
name: Haribalan Perumalsamy
name: Ahn, Young-Joon
name: Benelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Aedes aegypti is a primary vector of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease infecting 50–100 million people every year. Here, we biosynthesised mosquitocidal silver nanoparticles (AgNP) using the aqueous leaf extract of Crotalaria verrucosa. The green synthesis of AgNP was studied by UV–vis spectroscopy, SEM, EDX and FTIR. C. verrucosa-synthesised AgNPs were toxic against A. aegypti larvae and pupae. LC50 of AgNP ranged from 3.496 ppm (I instar larvae) to 17.700 ppm (pupae). Furthermore, we evaluated the predatory efficiency of dragonfly nymphs, Brachydiplax sobrina, against II and III instar larvae of A. aegypti in an aquatic environment contaminated with ultra-low doses of AgNP. Under standard laboratory conditions, predation after 24 h was 87.5% (II) and 54.7% (III). In an AgNP-contaminated environment, predation was 91 and 75.5%, respectively. Overall, C. verrucosa-synthesised AgNP could be employed at ultra-low doses to reduce larval population of dengue vectors enhancing predation rates of dragonfly nymphs.
Anion and solvent effects on the coordination behavior of N-(2-pyridinylmethylene)benzoylhydrazone with copper(II): synthesis and structural characterization
Creators: name: Rasoul Vafazadeh
name: Willis, Anthony C.
name: Moghadas, Zahra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The Cu(II) complexes [Cu(HL)Cl2], 1; [Cu(HL)(NO3)(H2O)]NO3, 2a; [Cu(L)(NO3)]2.C3H8O, 2b; [Cu(L)(μ1,1-N3)]2, 3; [Cu(L)(Br)]2, 4; [(H2O)CuL(μ-SO4)CuL], 5a; [CuL(μ-SO4)CuL].H2O, 5b and [Cu(L)(CH3COO)]2, 6; where HL is a benzoylhydrazone tridentate Schiff base, have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR and UV–Vis. The structures of 2a, 2b, 3, 4, 5a and 5b have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. In 2a the benzoylhydrazone ligand is neutral and coordinates in its keto form and copper(II) has a distorted octahedral geometry. In dinuclear 2b, 3, 4, 5a and 5b there are bridging counter anions and the benzoylhydrazone ligand is monoanionic, coordinating in its enol form. In 5a and 5b the enolic ligand also supplies a bridging alkoxo to the adjacent copper ion. In 5a, one of the two copper ions is five-coordinate in a distorted square pyramidal geometry, while the other copper ion has an additional water bonded to it in a distorted octahedral geometry. In 5b, both copper ions are five-coordinate with distorted square pyramidal geometries.
The effects of openness to experience on pair programming in a higher education context
Creators: name: Salleh, Norsaremah
name: Mendes, Emilia
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes a formal experiment carried out to investigate the effect of the personality factor Openness to experience on the academic performance of students who practiced pair programming (PP) in higher education. The experiment was carried out at the University of Auckland, using as subjects undergraduate students attending an introductory software programming course. Our results showed that differences in Openness level could significantly affect academic performance of students who pair programmed. In addition, our results also showed that most students gained higher satisfaction from the PP experience and their confidence level in solving programming exercises was also high.
Rapid biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using Crotalaria verrucosa leaves against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti: what happens around? An analysis of dragonfly predatory behaviour after exposure at ultra-low doses
Creators: name: Kadarkarai Murugan
name: C. P. Sanoopa
name: Madhiyazhagan, Pari
name: Devakumar Dinesh
name: Jayapal Subramaniam
name: Chellasamy Panneerselvam
name: Mathath Roni
name: Udaiyan Suresh
name: Nicoletti, Marcello
name: Alarfaj, Abdullah A.
name: Munusamy, Murugan A.
name: Akon Higuchi
name: Kumar, Suresh
name: Haribalan Perumalsamy
name: Ahn, Young-Joon
name: Benelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Aedes aegypti is a primary vector of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease infecting 50–100 million people every year. Here, we biosynthesised mosquitocidal silver nanoparticles (AgNP) using the aqueous leaf extract of Crotalaria verrucosa. The green synthesis of AgNP was studied by UV–vis spectroscopy, SEM, EDX and FTIR. C. verrucosa-synthesised AgNPs were toxic against A. aegypti larvae and pupae. LC50 of AgNP ranged from 3.496 ppm (I instar larvae) to 17.700 ppm (pupae). Furthermore, we evaluated the predatory efficiency of dragonfly nymphs, Brachydiplax sobrina, against II and III instar larvae of A. aegypti in an aquatic environment contaminated with ultra-low doses of AgNP. Under standard laboratory conditions, predation after 24 h was 87.5% (II) and 54.7% (III). In an AgNP-contaminated environment, predation was 91 and 75.5%, respectively. Overall, C. verrucosa-synthesised AgNP could be employed at ultra-low doses to reduce larval population of dengue vectors enhancing predation rates of dragonfly nymphs.
Vertebrate Scavenging Behavior and the Decay Rate of Buried Carcasses
Creators: name: Mastrogiuseppe Luigi
name: Bugelli Valentina
name: Pietro, Campobasso Carlo
name: Francesco, Porcelli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: A 46 years old female was last seen alive on May 2011. Eight months after disappearance, the remains were found partially buried, in a forest area, in the inner middle part of Italy. The right femura, still attached to the body, was found out of the ground surface. The extremity of the lower right limb was disarticulated and missing. The rest of the body was buried in a shallow grave, few centimetres deep. No other relevant disarticulation was observed. At the autopsy the cause of death was determined as asphyxia due to strangulation. The head and the limbs were skeletonized while the rest of the body was well preserved and mummified. Insects on the body were identified as larvae of Syrphidae and Stratiomyidae. No Diptera of the first wave of colonisation were recovered. According to these findings the time of death was undetermined but consistent with a post-mortem interval (PMI) of several months of burial. The victim’s boyfriend was indicted for the crime. He raised an alibi for the time of death and claimed to be innocent. He recruited an expert who determined the PMI in a couple of months supporting this estimate with the assumption that a body buried in a forest area for so long is always scavenged by carnivores such as boars, wolfs, vultures, etc. Therefore, the good state of preservation of the body was found not consistent with a long PMI (8 months).
Empirical Studies of Pair Programming for CS/SE Teaching in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Salleh, Norsaremah
name: Mendes, Emilia
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objective: The objective of this paper is to present the current evidence relative to the effectiveness of pair programming (PP) as a pedagogical tool in higher education CS/SE courses. METHOD – We performed a systematic review of empirical studies that investigated factors affecting PP’s effectiveness for CS/SE students and studies that measured the effectiveness of PP for CS/SE students. Results: Seventy four papers were used in our analysis, and 14 compatibility factors that can potentially affect PP’s effectiveness were identified. Results showed that students’ skill level was the factor that affected PP’s effectiveness the most. The most common measure used to gauge PP’s effectiveness was time spent on programming. Students’ satisfaction when using PP was overall higher than when working solo. Our meta-analyses showed that PP was effective in improving students’ grades on assignments. In the studies that used quality as a measure of effectiveness, the number of test cases succeeded, academic performance, and expert opinion were the quality measures mostly applied. Conclusions: The results show two clear gaps: i) lack of studies focusing on pair compatibility factors aimed at making PP an effective pedagogical tool; ii) lack of studies investigating PP for software design/modeling tasks in conjunction with programming tasks.
Paracobitis abrishamchiani Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Geiger & Freyhof 2019
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis abrishamchiani

description: 47. Paracobitis abrishamchiani Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Geiger & Freyhof, 2019
Common name. Abrishamchi crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paracobitis abrishamchiani Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Geiger & Freyhof, 2019: 377, figs. 3-8 [Tributary of Babol River, upstream of Lafour reservoir, near Galeshkola, Mazandaran province, Iran, 36°12'33"N, 52°46'16"E; holotype: VMFC PCAB-H].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Mousavi-Sabet et al. (2019: 377, fig. 3).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e Abrishamchi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: VMFC, ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Traitement des dépôts de REL dans la communauté REL Bib-CP Zenodo
Creators: name: Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval
Publisher: name: Université Laval
Year: 2024
Subjects: Publications en libre accès
Ressources éducatives libres

description: Présentation de la politique de dépôt générale dans la communauté REL Bib-CP des universités québécoises de Zenodo et de la procédure de dépôt pour les employé.e.s des bibliothèques et de centres de pédagogie qui créent des ressources éducatives libres. Pour les institutions intéressées à participer au projet, vous devez contacter la bibliothécaire spécialisée en éducation ouverte de l'Université Laval et compléter avec elle la politique de dépôt spécifique pour votre institution/service. Un gabarit de politique de dépôt est disponible ci-dessous. De plus, pour les institutions qui permettront le dépôt par courriel à rel@bibl.ulaval.ca, un formulaire de métadonnées est disponible ci-dessous. 
description: Ressources éducatives libres

REL

Open educational resources

OER
description: Discipline : Éducation

Format : Texte/HTML

Type de la ressource : Objet d'apprentissage

Type de matériel pédagogique : Guide
EKOLOGIK MADANIYATNI RIVOJLANTIRISHNING ILMIY-PEDAGOGIK AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Nuriddinova, Saodatxon
name: Ashurova, Oygul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada ekologik madaniyatni rivojlantirishning ilmiy-pedagogik ahamiyati, uning ta'lim tizimidagi o‘rni va zamonaviy yondashuvlari ko‘rib chiqiladi. Tadqiqotda ekologik tarbiya jarayonida interfaol metodlar va innovatsion texnologiyalardan foydalanish samaradorligi tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, o‘quvchilarda ekologik ong va mas'uliyatni shakllantirish bo‘yicha ilmiy va pedagogik takliflar keltiriladi. Natijalar ekologik madaniyatni rivojlantirish ta'limning ajralmas qismi ekanligini isbotlaydi.
CaRCC Research Computing and Data (RCD) Workforce 2021 Census Questions
Creators: name: Maimone, Christina
name: Yockel, Scott
name: Middelkoop, Timothy
name: Alameda, Jay
name: Stauffer, Ashley
name: Neeser, Amy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Survey
Research Computing and Data
Workforce

description: This document contains the survey questions used by the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC) Professionalization Working Group and Northwestern University invite members of the Research Computing and Data (RCD) community to participate in a research study of the Research Computing and Data (RCD) workforce in the United States. The aim of the study was to provide the first large data set on the composition of the RCD workforce in terms of demographics, job responsibilities, job types, compensation, and perceptions of the RCD field. The study is limited to the United States due to varying data privacy laws and research requirements internationally. The survey was eligible for adults residing in the United States who were currently or previously employed in RCD roles or a position with RCD responsibilities.
Capturing Architecture Documentation Navigation Trails for Content Chunking and Sharing
Creators: name: Su, Moon Ting
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Navigating and understanding complex software architecture documentation is often challenging. To support finding relevant information in architecture documents (ADs), we propose a semi-automated approach based on the actual usage of ADs by previous users, i.e. by capturing users' exploration paths through ADs and making these paths available for future retracing and analysis. To do this, we have built a prototype tool (KaitoroCap) that captures users' AD exploration paths and saves them with contextual metadata. KaitoroCap displays the exploration paths in hierarchical tree views and these exploration paths can be searched. This is helpful for recalling previous navigations and to follow others' useful paths in finding relevant information in AD. Our approach also enables dynamic restructuring of ADs and incorporates user rating, tagging and commenting of the content of ADs. Initial user evaluation shows promising results.