cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brain images give clues to activity in vegetative patients
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Levin
name: Grayden, David
name: Johnson, Leigh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A serious illness or brain injury can put a person into a coma: a sleep-like or a vegetative state where they are awake but unaware. These disorders of consciousness are sometimes not accurately diagnosed because doctors rely on behavioural cues to make decisions, but these cues only provide a limited perspective of a person’s capacities for consciousness. Included in these disorders is the "minimally conscious state", where a patient can exhibit signs of voluntary responsiveness, simple movements like lifting a finger. If patients do show signs of responsiveness, despite limited mobility, we can use other ways to try and communicate with them.
To comply or not to comply: understanding the discretion in reporting public float and SEC regulations
Creators: name: Gao, Feng
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: SEC regulations
Public float
Sarbanes -Oxley Act
Section 404
Security registration

description: This paper documents how firms exercise discretion in defining affiliates and reporting public float in response to SEC regulations. I find that firms with higher expected compliance costs under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 tend to classify more shares as affiliated and report lower public float. In contrast, firms issuing seasoned equity are less likely to underreport public float, possibly due to favorable regulatory treatment for large issuers. These incentives are weakened when future regulatory changes render float less important.
Modellizzazione di dati discreti con vincoli di uguaglianza e disuguaglianza
Creators: name: Colombi, R.
name: Forcina, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Currently used methods for the analysis of contingency tables with log-linear models and their extensions are essentially a way to subject the parameters of the saturated model to a set of linear constraints. However, in many contexts, expecially when a subset of the variables are ordinal, it would be very useful to be able to consider also linear inequality constraints. In this paper we show how to extend previous models for contingency tables by considering simultaneously both equality constraints. We also give a self contained discussion of the problem  of testing equality and inequality constraints in the context of  contingency tables analysis.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Aspetti dell determinismo e dell'indeterminismo
Creators: name: Butterfield, J.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Over the centuries, the doctrine of determinism has been understood, in different ways. In the paper it is discussed how to define "determinism" and how "determinism" bears upon the relation between two different theories.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 3 (1999)
Terrestrial palaeoclimate, mercury, atmospheric CO2 and land plants through the Late Devonian mass extinction
Creators: name: Marshall, John E. A.
name: Astin, Tim R.
name: Telâ€™nova, Olga P.
name: Gaca, Pawel
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Figures SM 1-4 and Tables SM 1-6
Perceptions of Independent Pharmacist Prescribing among Health Authority- and Community-Based Pharmacists in Northern British Columbia
Creators: name: Lewis, Jordan
name: Barry, Arden R.
name: Bellefeuille, Katie
name: Pammett, Robert T.
name: Barry, Arden
name: Bellefeuille, Katie
name: Pammett, Robert
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Pharmacists across Canada have varying degrees of ability to prescribe medications depending on their jurisdiction of licensure. The purpose of this study was to the evaluate attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of independent pharmacist prescribing among health authority- and community-based pharmacists. This prospective, cross-sectional online survey assessed the perceptions of independent pharmacist prescribing of health authority and community pharmacists practising in northern British Columbia (BC), which was defined as within the geographical boundaries of Northern Health. Responses were analysed using descriptive statistics and a regression analysis. There were 45 respondents to the survey: 22 community pharmacists and 23 health authority pharmacists. Both community and health authority pharmacists held positive perceptions of independent pharmacist prescribing and did not identify any barriers to incorporating independent pharmacist prescribing into their practice. Respondents were highly likely to apply for independent pharmacist prescribing authority, if available. Pharmacists in BC are currently not able to independently prescribe schedule I medications. The provincial regulatory body has proposed a framework for a Certified Pharmacist Prescriber designation, which if approved would allow pharmacists to prescribe in collaborative practice settings. This study provides some insight into the perception of pharmacists in northern BC in pursuing this designation, which may be valuable for planning purposes in case of adoption of the framework. These results are also likely applicable to other non-urban practice settings in Canada. Pharmacists in northern BC perceived independent pharmacist prescribing positively and a high proportion were likely to apply for this authority if it were permitted via legislation.
Un metodo di intelligenza artificiale per l’estrazione di informazione  da dati statistici
Creators: name: Arigoni, A. O.
name: Governatori, L.
name: Rossi, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The practice of knowledge discovery from massive statistical data by data mining is not outright yet. That mainly because the techniques that data mining itself objectively utilises, often are artful indeed; in addition , in general such techniques do not encompass semiotic aspects of the analyzed data, which certainly constitutes a limitation. The paper presents a tentative to increase data mining effectiveness in elaborating such data  statistical dimensions on the basis of the data themselves semantic characteristics. That essentially consists in extracting conceptual information in function of the data semantic relevance also. The elaboration in topic is realized by analysing statistical data through the particular system HERMES. The gradient of typicality of such  data’s components, with respect to the extraction aimed purposes, assumes a determinant role in the development proposed by the paper. To exemplify the fundamental ideas which HERMES is based on, a practical quite simple application is illustrated in the paper itself, through a paradigmatic example. Such application regards how  to investigate on the causes of the different success degrees of television programs, on the basis  of  the programs composition  as well as on the shares the programs themselves obtained; shares derived from analysing view figures regarding a large statistical survey recorded by devices like AUDITEL.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
“If Jewish People Wrote All the Songs”: The Anti-Folklore of Allan Sherman
Creators: name: Shandler, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parody in music
Popular culture
Jews--United States
Sherman, Allan, 1924-1973

description: Though his fame proved to be short-lived, Allan Sherman's parodies have found a niche in American popular culture.
Naucles Champion 1891
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Naucles

description: Naucles Champion, 1891
[7 species; North America and West Indies]
 Naucles Champion 1891: 257. Type species: Naucles tibialis Champion, 1891, by subsequent designation (Liljeblad 1945: 202).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
The chloroplast genomes of Sanicula (Apiaceae): plastome structure, comparative analyses, and phylogenetic relationships
Creators: name: Yang, Chen
name: Yao, Xue-Ying
name: Chen, Zhi-Xiang
name: Downie, Stephen R.
name: Wang, Qi-Zhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Apiaceae
Sanicula
chloroplast genome
comparative analysis
Phylogeny

description: Sanicula (Apiaceae subfamily Saniculoideae) is a taxonomically difficult genus of medicinal value. Its distribution center is in China, where there are 18 species (11 of which are endemic). To provide plastid genome resources, whole chloroplast genomes of five Sanicula species (S. flavovirens, S. giraldii, S. lamelligera, S. odorata, and S. rubriflora) were sequenced and compared to the previously published S. orthacantha plastome. These genomes exhibit a typical quadripartite structure. All contain 129 different genes, including 84 protein-coding, 37 tRNA, and 8 rRNA genes. Loci rpl2, matK, psbA, and ycf1 are the most variable. Results of maximum likelihood analysis of 90 whole plastome sequences from Apioideae and Saniculoideae and the outgroup Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) reveal sectional relationships in Sanicula different from the traditional classification system, support the monophyly of Apioideae and its sister group relationship to Saniculoideae, and show concordant topologies to nrDNA ITS and other plastome-based phylogenies. Sanicula orthacantha and S. chinensis form a clade sister group to S. lamelligera and S. odorata, consecutively. These four species comprise a clade sister group to the clade of S. rubriflora and S. flavovirens, with this entire group sister to S. giraldii. The plastid genome resources provided herein will be important for future systematic, evolutionary, phylogenomic, and population-level studies of Sanicula.
description: Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 31500162Funding provided by: Specimen Platform of China, Teaching Specimens Sub-platform*
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Award Number: 2005DKA21403-JKFunding provided by: Sub-topics on the construction of Chinese university campus plant websites*
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Award Number: K Longitudinal 20180947Funding provided by: National Special Fund for Chinese medicine resources Research in the public Interest of China*
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Award Number: 2018-43Funding provided by: General Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province*
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Award Number: 2020J01078
Construction of phase change n-Octadecane microencapsulated in carbon nanotubes-modified polymer for thermal management applications of finned heat sinks
Creators: name: Zhao, Kuan
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Wang, Jifen
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Thermal management

description: The low thermal conductivity of organic shell-based phase change microcapsules severely limits their practical applications in thermal management of high-power-density electronic components. A novel microencapsulated phase change material (MPCM) was synthesized via suspension polymerization with n-Octadecane core shelled by aminated multiwalled carbon nanotubes-doped styrene–divinylbenzene copolymer (SDB/MWCNT-NH2). The chemical structure and micromorphology of the new microcapsules (MPCM/CNT) with various amounts of doped aminated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT-NH2) were identified by the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The thermal properties of various MPCM/CNT samples were analyzed based on the measurements of thermogravimetric analyzer, differential scanning calorimeter and thermal conductivity meter. The results indicated that the microcapsules with MWCNT-NH2 had good thermal stability, heat storage capacity and heat transfer properties. The thermal performance of the microcapsule samples in the low and medium temperature finned heat sink (FHS) was investigated and their thermal performance with that of bare FHS at four constant thermal loads of 5 W, 7 W, 10 W and 15 W was compared. The thermal performance was evaluated based on the time to setpoint temperature, heat dissipated and heat dissipation factors. Compared with the bare FHS, the FHS with the MPCM/CNT-2.5 sample (i.e., 2.5 wt% MWCNT-NH2) exhibited 17.70% longer operation time, 33.01% more heat dissipated, and 16.53% higher heat dissipation factor during heating at 10 W. This study aims to apply the phase change microcapsules modified with high thermal conductivity MWCNT-NH2 in medium and low temperature heat sinks to optimize the thermal management of high power density electronic components and improve the heat dissipation performance of heat sinks. The microcapsules with MWCNT-NH2 showed great potential for applications in thermal management of electronic components.
Risposte agli interventi e un commento sul problema del realismo nella scienza moderna
Creators: name: Ghirardi, G. C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: After having commented the paper of Beltrametti, Bergia, Galavotti, Butterfield and Costantini, the problem of the realism in modern science is discussed.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 3 (1999)
Detecting skewness and kurtosis by letter values: a new proposal
Creators: name: Brizzi, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper some new indices of sample shape ( skewness and kurtosis) are defined by means of letter values  (Turkey, 1977). The letter index of skewness (l.c.s.) is built by fitting  the standardized sample midsummaries with a least squares straight line, while the letter index of kurtosis (l.c.k.) is obtained by fitting the pseudosigmas (after a simple transformation), in the same way. A robust modification of the above  defined indices is proposed. Finally, an application to a set of geographical data is given, with some comments about the effect of outliers.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Automatic data layout with read-only replication and memory constraints
Creators: name: Kremer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Besides the algorithm selection, the data layout choice is the key intellectual step in writing an efficient HPF program. Although finding an efficient data layout fully automatically may not be possible in all cases, HPF users will need support during the difficult data layout selection process. In particular, this support is necessary if the user is not familiar with the characteristics of the target HPF compiler and target architecture, or even with HPF itself. In addition to the target compiler and architecture, the quality of a data layout depends on the problem size, the number of processors, and the available memory on each processor. Therefore, tools and techniques for automatic data layout will be crucial if the HPF is to find general acceptance in the scientific community. The memory requirement characteristics of a data layout are particularly important for applications that are executed on a parallel machine mainly because of the amount of main memory that the machine provides, rather than its computation power. It may not be possible to execute such a memory intensive program on a conventional uniprocessor due to the lack of the necessary memory resources. This paper discusses a new framework for automatic data layout that considers read--only data replication and minimizes the overall execution time under given memory constraints. The framework can be used to generate data layout specifications with additional read--only array copies. Many applications use arrays that are assigned a value and keep this value over large portions of the program. In such read--only regions, multiple read--only copies of the array --- each copy with a different data layout --- may avoid otherwise necessary communication, resulting in a reduction of the overall execution time. Read--only replication does not come for free, since it increases the memory requirements of the program. The approach presented in this paper addresses the necessary tradeoff decisions between read--only replication and memory requirements in a new, unified framework that extends our previous framework for automatic data layout with remapping. As in our previous work, the data layout selection problem is formulated as an efficient 0--1 integer programming problem. Preliminary experiments show the performance tradeoffs between the new and old formulations.
Alignment of municipal climate change and urban forestry policies : A Canadian perspective
Creators: name: Cheng, Zhaohua
name: Nitoslawski, Sophie
name: Konijnendijk, C. C. (Cecil C.)
name: Sheppard, S. R. J. (Stephen Richard John), 1952-
name: Nesbitt, Lorien
name: Girling, Cynthia L., 1952-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: While being major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, cities also suffer some of the most severe climate change impacts. Urban forests have gained increasing recognition as nature-based solutions to climate change via the various benefits they provide, such as carbon sequestration and temperature regulation. Many cities have developed climate change and/or urban forest policies to enhance climate resilience and support urban livability. However, it is still unclear whether these policies consider and address potential alignment between climate action and urban forest planning and management. This study explored whether and to what extent urban forest and climate change policies are mutually supportive and reinforcing, by conducting a review of climate change and urban forest policies in the largest 20 Canadian cities. Results suggest significant gaps and discrepancies between these policies, across and within study cities, indicating potential weaknesses related to stakeholder/actor engagement, policy integration, departmental collaboration and communication, and cohesive management priorities and practices. Only three (15%) of the cities have developed climate change and urban forest policies that align to some extent. Furthermore, despite some commonalities, most cities defined their urban forests differently, highlighting locally-specific understanding and needs in addition to a lack of cohesion across Canadian municipalities concerning urban forest planning and management. Across most cities, both types of policies included general and locally-relevant information related to impacts of climate change. However, gaps and inconsistencies found between and within many municipalities’ policies may present a major barrier to effective policy implementation and mutually-reinforcing management actions. Areas for improvement are suggested for policy planning and implementation to ensure alignment between urban forest and climate change policies, which should also prove useful for municipalities outside of the study scope
Pseudopentaria Franciscolo 1956
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Pseudopentaria

description: Pseudopentaria Franciscolo, 1956
[5 species; Mediterranean region and Kenya]
 Pseudopentaria Franciscolo 1956c: 460. Type species: Anaspis defarguesi Abeille de Perrin, 1885, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
title: The Dawn of Article 18 ECHR: A Safeguard Against European Rule of Law Backsliding?
Creators: name: Tan, Floris
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: This article examines an underexplored avenue for the protection of the rule of law in Europe: Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights. This provision prohibits States from restricting the rights enshrined in the European Convention for any other purpose than provided for in the Convention. In this contribution, the author argues, based on a combination of textual, systematic and purposive interpretations of Article 18, that the provision is meant to safeguard against rule of law backsliding, in particular because governmental restrictions of human rights under false pretenses present a clear danger to the principles of legality and the supremacy of law. Such limitations of rights under the guise of legitimate purposes go against the assumption of good faith underlying the Convention, which presupposes that all States share a common goal of reinforcing human rights and the rule of law. Article 18 could therefore function as an early warning that European States are at risk of becoming an illiberal democracy or even of reverting to totalitarianism and the destruction of the rule of law. The article then goes on to assess the extent to which the European Court’s case-law reflects and realizes this aim of rule of law protection, and finds that whereas the Court’s earlier case-law left very little room for an effective application of Article 18, the November 2017 Grand Chamber judgment in Merabishvili v. Georgia has made large strides in effectuating the provision’s raison d’être. As the article shows, however, even under this new interpretation, challenges remain.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 109-141
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
Simultaneous inference for proportions in arbitrary sampling designs
Creators: name: Stich, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In these paper simultaneous confidence intervals for proportions in arbitrary sampling schemes are constructed. To accomplish this the asymptotic joint distribution of proportions is derived in arbitrary sampling designs. An application to household proportions in Germany in 1993 and Monte Carlo simulations are given. It turns out that  conventional estimators fail in some sampling designs while the confidence intervals taking into account the sampling design behave well in all instances.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 4 (1999)
title: Promoting the Rule of Law Through the Law of Occupation? An Uneasy Relationship
Creators: name: Müller, Andreas Th.
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: Rule of law (RoL) promotion has become a go-to-tool in the complex process of stabilizing and rebuilding (post-)conflict States. The process is driven by a heterogeneous group of national, foreign, and international actors who define and prescribe RoL norms and standards, who programme, finance, implement, and eventually monitor RoL reforms. While the legitimacy and effectiveness of RoL promotion has undergone scrutiny, particularly within the overall context of international development assistance, an aspect that has so far received little attention is the legality of RoL promotion. This concerns both the mandate of the various actors and the execution of RoL activities on the ground. Since 2001, the international community has intensely supported the RoL in Afghanistan rendering it a veritable testing ground for RoL promotion. The article explores the legal framework for actors in RoL promotion in Afghanistan from 2001 up to the present day, with a focus on the German Government, its development cooperation agencies, and private non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The article shows that while detailed rules bind the monitoring and evaluation of RoL activities in line with the existing international frameworks for development assistance, few laws and principles guide the programming and implementation of RoL promotion. The existing standards are generally too abstract to guide specific RoL promotion activities. Further concretization and harmonization is necessary in the interest of the sustainability of RoL promotion in Afghanistan – and elsewhere.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 143-170
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
Pectotoma Hatch 1965
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Pectotoma

description: Pectotoma Hatch, 1965
  Pectotoma hoppingi Hatch, 1965
 Pectotoma hoppingi Hatch 1965: 65.
Distribution: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia), USA (Arizona, Montana, New Mexico *, Utah *).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 191, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care
Creators: name: Zhang, Yingting
name: Lin, Yu-Hung
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cultural competence
Cultural competence in health care
Cultural competency
Librarians
Wikipedia
Wikipedia collaborations
Information literacy

description: This article describes how librarians created a Wikipedia article on cultural competence in health care to support the medical school’s curriculum. Wikipedia, often considered not as reliable as scholarly articles, continues to be popular. Rutgers librarians conducted a Wikipedia project to improve its content to benefit students. The importance of cultural competency in health care is widely recognized due to increasingly diverse patient populations. Medical schools integrate cultural competency in curricula to train students to be culturally competent. Therefore, this topic was chosen for the Wikipedia Project. It is hoped that health sciences librarians and educators will benefit from their experience.
A one dimension latent trait model to infer attitude from nonresponse for nominal data
Creators: name: Moustaki, I.
name: Muircheartaigh, C. O'
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper discusses the problem of missing values in attitude scales with categorical items. A simple method is proposed for obtaining information about attitude from nonresponse that is based on a latent variable model for nominal responses, The analysis treats nonresponse as a separate response category and then fits a latent variable model to the set of attitudinal items. The model coefficients provide information about  the relationships  between attitude and the probability of not responding to an item in the scale. Graphical methods based on response probabilities and posterior probabilities are used to reveal any relationship between attitude and missing values.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Distribution of the canonical correlation coefficients for the elliptical error model
Creators: name: Gupta, A. K.
name: Kabe, D. G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper it is proved that the nonnull density of the canonical correlation coefficients under the normality assumption is identical with that for the elliptical error model (EEM), thus proving the nonnull robustness of the canonical correlation coefficient density. An application of testing that the multiple correlation coefficient is zero to a result of James (1977) is also given. Further, it is shown that the results hold for any Taylor series expandable EEM density.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Performance evaluation of nonpreemptive response-ratio schedulers
Creators: name: Ruschitzka, Manfred
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1977
Subjects: Scheduling algorithms
Operating systems
Batch-processing
Performance evaluation
M/G/1 queuing systems
Mathematical modeling

description: In the nonpreemptive highest-response-ratio-next discipline, the priority of a job is defined as the ratio of the time it has spent in the system to its service requirement. We evaluate the performance of this discipline by deriving an expression for the average waiting time of a job conditioned on its service requirement for arbitrary service time distributions. This expression is then evaluated analytically for constant service times and by a combination of analytical and numerical methods for hypoexponential, exponential, and hyperexponential distributions. For the latter, our exact result is compared with Br inch Hansen's approximation. We plot our results together with the waiting times of the first-come first-serve and shortest-job-first disciplines on which most batch-processing schedulers are based. In comparison to these two schemes, the highest-response-ratio-next discipline appears as an attractive alternative since it assures fast service to short jobs without excessively delaying longer ones
Lo studio della mortalità in coorti di lavoratori attraverso modelli per dati raggruppati
Creators: name: Trivisano, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper several methods for the analysis of occupational mortality data are reviewed. The analysis of the occupational mortality by calculating mortality ratios is subject to a number of limitations: alternative approaches to such technique are presented. Particularly, model specification and the use of external controls as the general population are discussed. Moreover some properties of additive risk models are analyzed and a generalized family of risk models is proposed. As an example such models are applied to a cohort of industrial workers.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Anaspis (Anaspis) flavipennis Haldeman 1848
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Anaspis
Anaspis flavipennis

description: Anaspis (Anaspis) flavipennis Haldeman, 1848
 Anaspis flavipennis Haldeman 1848: 100.
Distribution: Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec), USA (Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia *, Wisconsin *).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
title: The Law Behind Rule of Law Promotion in Fragile States: The Case of Afghanistan
Creators: name: Wiik, Astrid
name: Lachenmann, Frauke
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: Rule of law (RoL) promotion has become a go-to-tool in the complex process of stabilizing and rebuilding (post-)conflict States. The process is driven by a heterogeneous group of national, foreign, and international actors who define and prescribe RoL norms and standards, who programme, finance, implement, and eventually monitor RoL reforms. While the legitimacy and effectiveness of RoL promotion has undergone scrutiny, particularly within the overall context of international development assistance, an aspect that has so far received little attention is the legality of RoL promotion. This concerns both the mandate of the various actors and the execution of RoL activities on the ground. Since 2001, the international community has intensely supported the RoL in Afghanistan rendering it a veritable testing ground for RoL promotion. The article explores the legal framework for actors in RoL promotion in Afghanistan from 2001 up to the present day, with a focus on the German Government, its development cooperation agencies, and private non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The article shows that while detailed rules bind the monitoring and evaluation of RoL activities in line with the existing international frameworks for development assistance, few laws and principles guide the programming and implementation of RoL promotion. The existing standards are generally too abstract to guide specific RoL promotion activities. Further concretization and harmonization is necessary in the interest of the sustainability of RoL promotion in Afghanistan – and elsewhere.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 171-220
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
A Twitter Case Study for Assessing Digital Sound
Creators: name: Giannetti, Francesca
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Impact assessment
Social media
Digital libraries
Digital archives
Digital humanities
Sound recordings

description: Academic and cultural heritage institutions around the world have made measurable strides in the development of digital sound archives oriented towards research and access, but their impact on scholarship and society has been little studied. Traditionally, impact has been measured by citations; yet these are problematic metrics for non-traditional outputs like sound recordings. Social media data provide a promising avenue of investigation for measuring scholarly as well as societal impact. Twitter in particular has been shown to provide a high number of references for cultural and research outputs in all disciplines. This study analyzes Twitter references pertaining to the collections of five digital sound archives: British Library Sounds, Europeana Sounds, the Internet Archive Audio Archive, PennSound and UbuWeb. Using text analysis methods to identify high frequency events and trends, and labeling them with a rubric designed for measuring the impact of digital heritage resources, this study provides preliminary insights on user values as they relate to digital sound collections. Despite the limitations of using social media data, the evidence gathered in this case study characterizes aspects of the use of digital sound collections, and may point to future priorities for the digital preservation of sound.
A flexible parametric approach to the binary outcome model
Creators: name: Siddiqui, S. R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: One of the major difficulties associated with econometric models for binary dependent variables is the fact that erroneous distributional assumptions regarding the error term are bound to result in inconsistent parameter estimates. This paper introduces a family of fully parametric, univariate density functions designed for use in connection with binary outcome models,which is capable of providing an arbitraly close approximation to the standard logistic and Burr II densities  but can also represent a wealth of skewed and multi-modal distributions. The applicability of  the approach under discussion is demonstrated by means of an application to an econometric model of self-employment. A simple, residual –based specification test applied in this context clearly rejects  the standard logit, probit and Burr II specifications used as reference models. Moreover, most of the flexible parametric specifications under consideration clearly outperform the reference models if measured by the number of correct predictions.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Techno-Economic Analysis of Waste Heat Utilization in Data Centers: Application of Absorption Chiller Systems
Creators: name: Amiri, Leyla
name: Madadian, Edris
name: Bahrani, Navid
name: Ghoreishi-Madiseh, Seyed Ali
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Modern data centers are playing a pivotal role in the global economic situation. Unlike high-quality source of waste heat, it is challenging to recover the decentralized and low-quality waste heat sourced from data centers due to numerous technological and economic hurdles. As such, it is of the utmost importance to explore possible pathways to maximize the energy efficiency of the data centers and to utilize their heat recovery. Absorption chiller systems are a promising technology for the recovery of waste heat at ultra-low temperatures. In fact, the low temperature heat discharged from data centers cannot be retrieved with conventional heat recovery systems. Therefore, the present study investigated feasibility of waste heat recovery from data centers using an absorption chiller system, with the ultimate goal of electrical energy production. To fulfill this objective, a techno-economic assessment of heat recovery using absorption chiller (AC) technique for the data centers with power consumption range of 4.5 to 13.5 MW is performed. The proposed AC system enables saving electricity for the value of 4,340,000 kWh/year and 13,025,000 kWh/year leading to an annual reduction of 3068 and 9208 tons CO₂ equivalent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, respectively. The results of this study suggest an optimum change in the design of the data center while reducing the payback period for the investors.
On the efficiency of Sen-Midzuno technique with transformed variables under a model
Creators: name: Sahoo, J.
name: Jena, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, two transformed ratio estimators have been considered with Sen-Midzuno scheme of sampling and their efficiencies have been compared under a super population model.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 2 (2000)
Object agreement marking and information structure along the Quechua-Spanish contact continuum
Creators: name: Mayer, Elisabeth
name: Sanchez, Liliana
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Information structure
Direct object clitics
Monolingual and bilingual contact varieties
Syntax

description: Direct object clitics in Spanish are morphological markers at the interfaces of syntax, phonology, morphology, and information structure (Zwicky 1985; Ordóñez & Repetti 2006; Belloro 2007; Spencer & Luís 2012). In bilingual acquisition they are subject to variability (McCarthy 2008). In this paper we explore the morphology-syntax-information structure mapping of direct object clitics in clitic structures in a range of speakers that includes Quechua-dominant bilinguals and Spanish monolingual individuals along a continuum of language contact situations. Our findings indicate clear dissociation between syntactic properties and marking of morphological features. They also indicate a Progression from default gender marking in clitics to a scalar system of clitic forms based on animacy and informational value along the continuum of speakers. The findings of this exploratory study support the view that while clitics exhibit common syntactic properties across a continuum of speakers, they vary in morphological marking and informational value.
Analisi statistica delle Encicliche Papali
Creators: name: Bisceglia, B.
name: Rizzi, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this work is to demonstrate some possibilities offered by a statistical investigation of theological matters. The object of the article is a textual analysis of the corpus obtained from the encyclical letters of the last 4 popes.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 3 (2000)
Rational treatments for ketosis in fresh cows
Creators: name: Oetzel, Garrett R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2020

description: Hyperketonemia affects over 40% of dairy cows in early lactation. The prevalence of hyperketonemia (determined by spot checks within herds) is about 20%. Negative impacts of hyperketonemia most notably include decreased milk yield, increased risk for displaced abomasum, and increased risk for early lactation herd removal. Cowside blood betahydroxybutyrate tests are now available for rapid and accurate diagnosis of hyperketonemia. Urine and milk tests can also be used, but have substantial disadvantages. Accurate and early diagnosis of hyperketonemia after calving allows early and effective treatment. This mitigates about half of the negative impacts of hyperketonemia such as decreased milk yield, increased risk for displaced abomasum, and increased risk for herd removal. Mild to moderate cases of hyperketonemia in individual cows are best treated with an oral glucose precursor such as propylene glycol. Intravenous glucose should be reserved for severe cases and followed with oral glucose precursors.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2020 Recent Graduate Proceedings
Mit Suffizienz mehr Klimaschutz modellieren
Creators: name: Zell-Ziegler, Carina
name: Förster, Hannah
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Suffizienzprinzip
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Einsparpotenziale
subject: Effizienzprogramme
subject: Erneuerbare Energien
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Es gibt mehrere Wege zum Energiesparen und ⁠Klimaschutz⁠. Mit einigen davon, etwa Effizienzprogrammen und dem Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien sind wir relativ vertraut. Diese Studie betrachtet mit Suffizienzstrategien einen dritten Weg. Der Fokus dieses Zwischenberichts liegt auf der Modellierung von ⁠Suffizienz⁠ in längerfristigen Szenarien. Neben einer Literaturauswertung zum Thema Modellierung von Suffizienz sowie einer Übersicht über die derzeit gängige Modellierungspraxis anhand von 16 deutschen und weiteren nationalen Klimaschutzszenarien europäischer Länder wurden Thesen zum Thema Suffizienz in der Modellierung aufgestellt. Diese diskutierten bei einem Fachgespräch am ⁠UBA⁠ Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus 12 deutschen Organisationen. Aus der Kombination der Erkenntnisse der Literaturanalyse und des Fachgespräches konnten erste Empfehlungen für die Modellierung von Suffizienz formuliert werden.
Nonparametric statistical methods for confidence sets. Part 1: the Bootstrap
Creators: name: Monti, A. C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The paper deals with bootstrap methods for the construction of confidence sets, various bootstrap procedures are illustrated. For each method, a critical analysis is carried out and advantages and drawbacks are highlighted. Furthermore, numerical examples show applications of these methods and provide computational details.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 4 (1999)
A toolbox for troubleshooting dairy nutrition problems
Creators: name: Oetzel, Garrett R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2020

description: Nutrition is a crucial determinant of dairy cow health and productivity. Veterinarians can leverage their regular access to cows and feed bunks to provide herd owners with regular evaluation and monitoring of nutritional management. The 5 areas in which dairy veterinarians can have the most impact on nutritional management are particle length of total mixed rations, sorting of total mixed rations, adequacy of eating space, adequacy of feed refusals, and appropriate timing of feed deliveries. The pre- and post-fresh groups are the highest priority pens for evaluation and monitoring. The most common problems that may be encountered are inappropriate proportion of long particles in the total mixed rations, excessive sorting of the total mixed rations, insufficient bunk space for all of the cows to eat at the same time, insufficient targeted feed refusals such that cows do not have full access to feed throughout the day, and lack of fresh feed in the bunk when cows return from the parlor after the first milking of the day.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2020 Recent Graduate Proceedings
Transizioni tra stati nel ciclo di vita lavorativo e mobilità territoriale: un’applicazione di dati censuari
Creators: name: Golini, A.
name: Lo Conte, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper analyses the transition among professional states, entering and leaving the labour market: from school to job searching, to working activity and to retirement. Geographical mobility is also examined for those who lived the transition in working life. 1991 census data, collecting retrospective information on professional conditionand place of residence referred to 1986, allowed the construction of transition probabilities. The study concentrates on three Italian regions belonging to different geographical areas and with a different economic situation: Veneto, Abruzzo and Calabria. The results show the utility of census data in this kind of analysis and points to several interesting geographical peculiarities, especially in the working life course of young people.
description: Statistica; Vol 60, No 3 (2000)
title: The Rule of Law à la ICTY: What the ICTY Deemed Just Good Enough and How it Supported the Countries in the Former Yugoslavia to Become Better
Creators: name: Brodersen, Kei Hannah
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: Rule of law (RoL) promotion has become a go-to-tool in the complex process of stabilizing and rebuilding (post-)conflict States. The process is driven by a heterogeneous group of national, foreign, and international actors who define and prescribe RoL norms and standards, who programme, finance, implement, and eventually monitor RoL reforms. While the legitimacy and effectiveness of RoL promotion has undergone scrutiny, particularly within the overall context of international development assistance, an aspect that has so far received little attention is the legality of RoL promotion. This concerns both the mandate of the various actors and the execution of RoL activities on the ground. Since 2001, the international community has intensely supported the RoL in Afghanistan rendering it a veritable testing ground for RoL promotion. The article explores the legal framework for actors in RoL promotion in Afghanistan from 2001 up to the present day, with a focus on the German Government, its development cooperation agencies, and private non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The article shows that while detailed rules bind the monitoring and evaluation of RoL activities in line with the existing international frameworks for development assistance, few laws and principles guide the programming and implementation of RoL promotion. The existing standards are generally too abstract to guide specific RoL promotion activities. Further concretization and harmonization is necessary in the interest of the sustainability of RoL promotion in Afghanistan – and elsewhere.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 221-265
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers