cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heat transfer and fluid flow in a water-filled glass louver subject to solar irradiation
Creators: name: Nan, Yi
name: Cai, Yaomin
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Solar energy
Energy harvest
Conjugate heat transfer
Fluid flow
Illumination
Glass louver

description: Numerical studies of fluid flow and heat transfer in a water-filled prismatic glass louver have been carried out to investigate the efficiency of solar thermal energy harvest via the proposed louver that could be deployed in buildings to improve natural lighting to save electrical bills as well as to harvest and store solar energy into thermal energy. One surface of the prismatic louver is adjusted to face the direct solar irradiation. Both direct and diffuse irradiations are incorporated for different air mass models. The distribution of absorbed solar radiation in the louver is pre-calculated via the Monte Carlo method and input as the heating source. The finite element method based on COMSOL is adopted to simulate the three-dimensional steady-state fluid flow and conjugate heat transfer in the triangular water channel. Temperature-dependence of water property is considered. The prismatic louver is surrounded by ambient air. Emphasis is placed on investigating the effects of flow rate and solar irradiation conditions on water temperature rise and energy harvest. It is found that the outlet water temperature is a strong function of the water flow rate. Most of the absorbed solar energy in the glass can be converted into stored thermal energy in the water through convective heat transfer. The water pumping power consumed is negligible as compared to the energy harvested. When the louver is adjusted to face the direct solar irradiation and the water flow velocity is 0.1 m/s, the overall utilization efficiency of the louver reaches 89.2, 90.3, 89.1, and 87.9% for AM1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 3.0, respectively.
The permutation testing approach: a review
Creators: name: PESARIN, FORTUNATO; Department Of Statistics-University Of Padova
name: SALMASO, LUIGI; Department Of Management And Engineering-University Of Padova
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In recent years permutation testing methods have increased both in number of applications and in solving complex multivariate problems. A large number of testing problems may also be usefully and effectively solved by traditional parametric or rank-based nonparametric methods, although in relatively mild conditions their permutation counterparts are generally asymptotically as good as the best ones. Permutation tests are essentially of an exact nonparametric nature in a conditional context, where conditioning is on the pooled observed data as a set of sufficient statistics in the null hypothesis. Instead, the reference null distribution of most parametric tests is only known asymptotically. Thus, for most sample sizes of practical interest, the possible lack of efficiency of permutation solutions may be compensated by the lack of approximation of parametric counterparts. There are many complex multivariate problems (quite common in biostatistics, clinical trials, engineering, the environment, epidemiology, experimental data, industrial statistics, pharmacology, psychology, social sciences, etc.) which are difficult to solve outside the conditional framework and outside the nonparametric combination (NPC) method for dependent permutation tests. In this paper we review this method along with a number of applications in different experimental and observational situations (e.g. multi-sided alternatives, zero-inflated data and testing for a stochastic ordering) and we present properties specific to this methodology, such as: for a given number of subjects, when the number of variables diverges and the noncentrality of the combined test diverges accordingly, then the power of combination-based permutation tests converges to one.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 4 (2010); 481-509
Considering groups in the statistical modeling of spatio-temporal data
Creators: name: COCCHI, DANIELA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
name: BRUNO, FRANCESCA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Spatio-temporal statistical methods are developing into an important research topic that goes beyond the study of processes that generate independent, identically distributed observations. Hierarchical models are a suitable proposal for both continuous and discrete spatio-temporal domains. They are flexible and permit separation of the various sources of uncertainty by means of a sequence of conditional models. In this work, we expanded on spatio-temporal data modeling by considering data categorization with respect to certain differentiating features. We studied the impact of the presence of subgroups on model building, with emphasis on Bayesian modeling. We discussed how differences in spatial locations can be reflected in a hierarchical model and assessed the performances of different models via a simulation study.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 4 (2010); 511-527
A Strategy for a Coherent and Comprehensive Basis for Understanding the Middle Corona
Creators: name: Seaton, Daniel B.
name: West, Matthew J.
name: Caspi, Amir
name: DeForest, Craig E.
name: Golub, Leon
name: Mason, James
name: Savage, Sabrina
name: Viall, Nicholeen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: middle corona
solar corona
heliophysics
sun
solar physics
solar instrumentation

description: This white paper discusses the need for strategic planning for continuous, coherent, and comprehensive observations of the middle corona and outlines a plan to achieve such observations in the coming decades
Communications Enabling Science from the 2050 Heliophysics System Observatory
Creators: name: Schonfeld, Samuel J.
name: Pesnell, W. Dean
name: Verniero, Jenny L.
name: Rivera, Yeimy J.
name: Halford, Alexa J.
name: Vines, Sarah K.
name: Spitzer, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: solar and space physics
heliophysics
deep space network
satellite data downlink

description: This paper outlines the current state of satellite communications resources and highlights the negative impact on scientific progress caused by the necessity of working within a bandwidth-limited data transfer environment. The paper recommends strong advocacy from the solar and heliospheric communities for maintaining and improving existing satellite communications infrastructure and advocates for the community to embrace and promote future communication technologies.
Identifying and predicting food parenting practice profiles among Canadian parents
Creators: name: Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N.
name: González, Olivia D.
name: O’Connor, Teresia M.
name: Hughes, Sheryl O.
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Food parenting practices (FPP) can affect children’s eating behaviours, yet little is known about how various FPP co-occur. The primary aim was to identify profiles of FPPs use among Canadian parents. Secondary aims included examining sociodemographic correlates of FPP profiles and evaluating whether children’s eating behaviours differed across FPP profiles. Methods: Parents (n = 799) of 5–12-year-old children completed a validated FPP Item Bank and the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify distinct FPP profiles. Regression analyses were used to explore associations between FPP profiles, sociodemographic variables (race, sex and education) and children’s eating behaviours (emotional overeating, food responsiveness, food fussiness and satiety responsiveness). Results: LCA revealed 6 FPP profiles: healthy eating environment, high engagement, reactive, high structure, controlling and low engagement. Relative to their non-White counterparts, White parents were more likely to belong in the healthy eating environment, high structure and low engagement profiles. Relative to fathers, mothers were more likely to fall in the healthy eating environment compared to low engagement profile. Parents with some post-secondary education were more likely to belong in the healthy eating environment, high structure and reactive profiles compared to the controlling profile. Emotional overeating and food responsiveness scores were lowest for healthy eating environment, high structure, low engagement profiles. Parents in the healthy eating environment profile also reported lower food fussiness scores compared to parents in the high engagement, high structure, reactive and controlling profiles. Conclusions: Findings suggest that a continuum of 6 FPP profiles may be present among Canadian parents, representing parents who use either all (high engagement), some (healthy eating environment, reactive, high structure, controlling) or little (low engagement) of the FPP examined. Future longitudinal research should evaluate how various FPP profiles influence the development of children’s eating behaviors, dietary intakes and weight status.
Intelligent automated grid generation for numerical simulations
Creators: name: Yao, Ke-Thia
name: Gelsey, Andrew
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Numerical simulation of partial differential equations (PDEs) plays a crucial role in predicting the behavior of physical systems and in modern engineering design. However, in order to produce reliable results with a PDE simulator, a human expert must typically expend considerable time and effort in setting up the simulation. Most of this effort is spent in generating the grid, the discretization of the spatial domain which the PDE simulator requires as input. To properly design a grid, the gridder must not only consider the characteristics of the spatial domain, but also the physics of the situation and the peculiarities of the numerical simulator. This paper describes an intelligent gridder that is capable of analyzing the topology of the spatial domain and of predicting approximate physical behaviors based on the geometry of the spatial domain to automatically generate grids for computational fluid dynamics simulators. Typically gridding programs are given a partitioning of the spatial domain to assist the gridder. Our gridder is capable of performing this partitioning. This enables the gridder to automatically grid spatial domains with a wide range of configurations.
Additional file 1 of The electroretinogram b-wave amplitude: a differential physiological measure for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Lee, Irene O.
name: Skuse, David H.
name: Constable, Paul A.
name: Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
name: Olsen, Ludvig R.
name: Thompson, Dorothy A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comorbidities and medications. Fig. S1. Iris colour index. Table S2. Generalised estimating equations analysis of all the variables. Table S3. Pairwise comparisons between groups. Table S4. The b-wave amplitude, b-time-to-peak and p72 values. Fig. S2. Summary of the ERG measures. Table S5. The effects of ADHD medications. Fig. S3. The effects of ADHD medications on ERG measures. Table S6. Correlations of the ERG measures and phenotypes. Fig. S4. Correlation plot network. Fig. S5. ROC Curve. Table S7. Comparisons of AUC, Cut-off point, Specificity and Sensitivity.
Heliothis peltigera
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Heliothis
Heliothis peltigera

description: Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
  Citada de la provincia (CALLE, 1982; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011). Nc: Névalo (23-IV-2015); casco urbano de Córdoba (24-IV-2015 / 23-24-V-2015 / 24-V-2017 /
  28-V-2020); Las Navas (7-V-2015, imago y orugas sobre Cladanthus mixtus); ermita de la Sierra (9-
  V-2015); Cinta (28-V-2015, imago libando Retama).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
‘A Well-Balanced Education’: Catholic Women’s Colleges in New Jersey, 1900-1970
Creators: name: Perrone, Fernanda H.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Colleges
Catholic schools
Graduates
Catholicism
Liberal arts education
Curricula
Trinity University
Women's Education
College Students
Higher Education

description: By examining Catholic women's colleges in New Jersey during the period 1900-1970, this paper illustrates the complexity of developing a typology of Catholic women's colleges in the United States. The first Catholic women's college in New Jersey, College of Saint Elizabeth was established in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity; followed by Mount St. Mary's, later known as Georgian Court College, in 1908; Caldwell College in 1939; and Felician, originally a junior college, in 1967. Earlier typologies of Catholic women's colleges have divided them into elite liberal arts institutions and local, vocationally-oriented colleges which served the working and lower-middle-class daughters of immigrants. Using college catalogs and yearbooks from the four New Jersey colleges, this study compiles data on curriculum, the education of faculty, college costs, and student origins, and compares it to similar data from two elite colleges, Trinity in Washington, D.C. and Manhattanville in Purchase, New York. In spite of some pressure to offer vocational courses and the challenge of giving women religious faculty members the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees, during this period New Jersey's Catholic women's colleges provided a Catholic liberal arts education for white middle-class women not unlike that offered at better known and more prestigious colleges. Only after 1970 did social and demographic changes begin to have an impact on the curriculum and student population of this sector of Catholic higher education.
Environmental fate and effects assessment of human pharmaceuticals: lessons learnt from regulatory data
Creators: name: Gildemeister, Daniela
name: Hein, Arne
name: Schröder, Patrick
name: Schwarz, Simon
name: Bachmann, Jean
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Umweltrisikobewertung
Persistenz

description: Human pharmaceuticals are extensively studied and assessed before marketing approval. Since 2006, this also includes an assessment of environmental risks. In the European Union, this is based on the guideline on the environmental risk assessment of medicinal products for human use (EMEA/CHMP/SWP/4447/00 corr 2), which is currently under revision. For Germany, the German Environment Agency (UBA) is tasked with the evaluation of environmental risks of human pharmaceuticals. Applicants seeking approval of medicinal products need to submit fate and effect data, in case predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) exceed 10 ng/L in surface waters, or the substance is of specific concern through its mode of action or physico-chemical characteristics. Over the last decade, this regulatory work resulted in an internal agency database containing effect data on approximately 300 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). A considerable part of this data is currently not publicly available due to property rights held by the respective applicants. The database was evaluated to draw conclusions on how the current assessment approach may be improved. The evaluation of aquatic effect data shows considerable variation in ecotoxic effect concentrations, but supports the current use of 10 ng/L as PEC action limit. For endocrine-active substances and antibiotics, a clear sensitivity profile was observed, which allows a more targeted assessment in the future. The conclusions drawn from terrestrial effect data are less clear, as the database itself is biased because information is only available for substances with high sorption. Further adaptations of the terrestrial assessment strategy, including action triggers, appear necessary. Fate data show a high persistence of many APIs: approximately 43% of all APIs are classified as very persistent; 12% of these show DT50 values in a range where abiotic or biotic degradation is not expected. Overall, the evaluation has shown that improvements of the current guideline are possible. © The Author(s) 2021
Relations between recursive definitions and their efficient implementations
Creators: name: Paull, Marvin C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1977

description: Typically there are significant differences between the initial formulation of an algorithm and its ultimate implementation. For example the minimum path between two nodes in a weighted di-graph can be found by enumerating all paths between the two nodes and choosing the smallest. This approach can easily be formulated as a recursively defined function, which may in turn be implemented in a standard way. This is significantly different than Dykstra's algorithm, the favored shortest path implementation. On the one side, close to the problem statement, then there is an initial, simply formulated, but often inefficient algorithm. On the other side, nearer to the final implementation, is an efficient algorithm. The study of the connection between these two is the subject of this paper. It will be assumed that the initial formulation of an algorithm is as a recursive definition and that this definition is in a standard form. The recursive definition, though sufficient to provide the value of the function anywhere in its domain, is non-deterministic as to which of a variety of sequential implementations are to be used to determine that value. The variety of implementations correspond to the various orders of substitution which are equally valid in evaluating such a definition. Some orders of evaluation become possible only if the primitive functions which enter into the recursive definition have appropriate properties. Different orders of evaluation will result in different memory requirements, but will not cause significant time differences in the resultant implementations. This dependence of memory requirements on the order of evaluation is one of the main subjects of this paper. Implementation of the recursive definition generally requires the repetitive execution of similar operations. If it can be shown that some pairs of these operations will yield the same or similar intermediate results at different points in the computation--then only one such intermediate result need be computed and remembered. It may then be accessed from memory when needed again instead of being recomputed. This can happen many times in a sufficiently systematic way so that a significant time saving can be realized. The existence of this situation depends on properties of the primitive functions which compose the recursive definition. A significant class of problems for which time efficient implementations are available are explored in this paper.
The evolution of demographic studies. An overview from the ’80s: from a macro descriptive perspective to
Creators: name: RETTAROLI, ROSELLA; Department Of Statistical Sciences   University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of the paper is to review the evolution of different approaches to the analysis of population data from the mid-80’s of the XXth century until now. Demographers’ interests and theories, says J. Caldwell (2000), depend not only on data but also on changes and evolutions that the data reveal. In the period covered by the analysis one can identify different dimensions. Among the most important we have to recall the shift of the paradigm in dealing with demographic data and measures from a macro descriptive approach to the dynamic analysis of cohorts and biographical reconstructions. An effort is made to trace the evolution of demographic studies through the major international surveys on family and reproductive behavior (FFS and GGP) underlying new needs in collecting population data in order to answer new questions on the determinants of demographic behavior, and hence the population dynamics.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 9-22
Age and cause mortality structure in the Italian regions at the beginning of the health transition: a research
Creators: name: DEL PANTA, LORENZO; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche-Università Di Bologna
name: POZZI, LUCIA; Dipartimento Di Economia, Impresa   E Regolamentazione-Università Di Sassari
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper aims at exploring Italian mortality structure (by age and cause of death) at the regional level in the last decades of the 19th Century. These years, corresponding to the beginning of the health transition process, were crucial in the Italian experience. The analysis is based on a careful exploitation of the volume “Statistica delle cause delle morti 1888”, published in 1890, by the General Directorate of Statistics. This volume is the only one which offers for the Italian regions, before the second World war, death statistics classified according to both age and cause together. The principal objectives of this descriptive contribution are essentially to illustrate the territorial variation of mortality conditions in the first phase of the health transition process as well as to underline the relevance and the complexities of the causes specific mortality analysis to explain the geographical mortality differentials in terms of age and sex.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 23-49
Period and cohort effects on elderly mortality: a new relational model for smoothing mortality surfaces
Creators: name: BARBI, ELISABETTA; Department Of Statistics-Sapienza University Of Rome
name: CAMARDA, CARLO G.; Max Planck Institute For Demographic Research
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This study investigates the relative importance of period and cohort effects in adult and elderly mortality in Italy and Sweden in the second half of the 20th century. For this purpose, we devised a two-dimensional semi-parametric model for mortality surfaces that produces good fit to the data and robust estimates of the period and cohort parameters. The findings of this study show that period effects have been of primary importance in the process of mortality reduction at adult and old ages observed in the last decades. The effects of early-life conditions are modest and often not statistically significant
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 51-69
Proving Relative Lower Bounds for Incremental Algorithms
Creators: name: Berman, A. Michael
name: Paull, Marvin C.
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1985

description: A general powerful method that permits simple proofs of relative lower bounds for incremental update algorithms is presented. This method is applied to derive a hierarchy of relative incremental complexity. Which classifies functions by relative lower bounds. We demonstrate our technique by bounding a number of incremental algorithms drawn from various domains. The method described expands upon work by Paull, Berman, and Cheng ~71 and generalizes a result of Even and Gazit 2. Our results have interesting implications with respect to the optimality of an incremental algorithm previously developed by Ryder in [9, 101. We also show that for certain graphs, Frederickson's update algorithm for minimum spanning tree is nearly optimal. Perhaps most importantly, the proof method and hierarchy suggest which types of problems are likely to yield good incremental algorithms (i.e., of lower complexity) and which cannot be improved by an incremental approach.
Convergence processes in developing countries’ populations and the role of family planning commitments
Creators: name: FARINA, PATRIZIA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Milano Bicocca
name: ORTENSI, LIVIA ELISA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Milano Bicocca
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We live in a world that is politically and economically influenced by demographic issues. Structural and economical characteristics and health issues play a significant role in the international political debate with often no real perception of their importance. The process of economical and demographical convergence in Developing World doesn’t follow the same path for all countries. The analysis of indicators related to the last 15-years period shows that a widespread improvement in demographic and development indicators doesn’t come along with a similar economic development. As a matter of fact on this second dimension countries that were at a more advanced economical stage in 1996 had the best improvements, while least developed remain still deepening pre-existing inequalities. Population structure follows a similar differentiation among countries that show first signs of ageing and others that remains with a pre-transitional structure. In this context family planning can significantly drive demographic transition even in absence of a substantial economic development.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 71-93
User Activity Patterns During Information Search
Creators: name: Cole, Michael J.
name: Hendahewa, Chathra
name: Belkin, Nicholas J.
name: Shah, Chirag
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2015
Subjects: Task
Cognitive effort
User study
personalization
information search behavior

description: Personalization of support for information seeking depends crucially on the information retrieval system’s knowledge of the task that led the person to engage in information seeking. Users work during information search sessions to satisfy their task goals, and their activity is not random. To what degree are there patterns in the user activity during information search sessions? Do activity patterns reflect the user’s situation as the user moves through the search task under the influence of his or her task goal? Do these patterns reflect aspects of different types of information-seeking tasks? Could such activity patterns identify contexts within which information seeking takes place? To investigate these questions, we model sequences of user behaviors in two independent user studies of information search sessions (N = 32 users, 128 sessions, and N = 40 users, 160 sessions). Two representations of user activity patterns are used. One is based on the sequences of page use; the other is based on a cognitive representation of information acquisition derived from eye movement patterns in service of the reading process. One of the user studies considered journalism work tasks; the other concerned background research in genomics using search tasks taken from the TREC Genomics Track. The search tasks differed in basic dimensions of complexity, specificity, and the type of information product (intellectual or factual) needed to achieve the overall task goal. The results show that similar patterns of user activity are observed at both the cognitive and page use levels. The activity patterns at both representation layers are able to distinguish between task types in similar ways and, to some degree, between tasks of different levels of difficulty. We explore relationships between the results and task difficulty and discuss the use of activity patterns to explore events within a search session. User activity patterns can be at least partially observed in server-side search logs. A focus on patterns of user activity sequences may contribute to the development of information systems that better personalize the user’s search experience.
Heliothis incarnata
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Heliothis
Heliothis incarnata

description: Heliothis incarnata (Freyer, [1838])    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
On using ethical principles of community-engaged research in translational science
Creators: name: Khodyakov, Dmitry
name: Mikesell, Lisa
name: Schraiber, Ron
name: Booth, Marika
name: Bromley, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Community-Engaged Research (CEnR)
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (U.S.)

description: The transfer of new discoveries into both clinical practice and wider community calls for reliance on interdisciplinary translational teams that include researchers with different areas of expertise, representatives of healthcare systems, including patients, and community organizations. Engaging new stakeholders in research, however, calls for a re-consideration or expansion of the meaning of ethics in translational research. We solicited expert opinion to identify ethical principles that may be novel to translational research. To do so, we conducted two online, modified-Delphi panels with 63 expert stakeholders who iteratively rated and discussed nine ethical principles commonly used in community-engaged research in terms of their importance and feasibility for use in translational research. The RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method was used to analyze the data and determine agreement and disagreement among participating experts. Both panels agreed that ethical translational research should be “grounded in trust.” While the academic panel endorsed “culturally appropriate” and “forthcoming with community about study risks and benefits,” the mixed academic-community panel endorsed “scientifically valid” and “ready to involve community in interpretation and dissemination” as important and feasible principles of ethical translational research. These findings suggest that in addition to protecting human subjects, contemporary translational science models may need to account for the interests of, and owe certain ethical obligations to, members of the investigative team and the community at large.
Approximation of polynomial root using a single input and the corresponding derivative values
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: A new formula for the approximation of root of polynomials with complex coefficients is presented. For each simple root there exists a neighborhood such that given any input within this neighborhood, the formula generates a convergent sequence, computed via elementary operations on the input and the corresponding derivative values. Each element of the sequence is defined in terms of the quotient of two determinants, computable via a recursive formula. Convergence is proved by deriving an explicit error estimate. For special polynomials explicit neighborhoods and error estimates are derived that depend only on the initial error. In particular, the latter applies to the approximation of root of numbers. The proof of convergence utilizes a family of iteration functions, called the Basic Family; a nontrivial determinantal generalization of Taylor’s theorem; a lower bound on determinants; Gerschgorin’s theorem and Hadamard’s inequality; as well as several new key results. The convergence results motivate a new strategy for general rootfinding, where in each iteration one approximates a root of the Taylor polynomial of a desirable degree, via the above sequence. The results also motivate the development of new sequences of iteration functions.
A general algorithm for time skewing
Creators: name: Wonnacott, David
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Miroproessor speed has been growing exponentially faster than memory speed in the reent past. In this paper, we onsider the long term impliations of a ontinuation of this trend. We de ne a program property known as salable loality, whih measures our ability to apply ever faster uniproessors to inreasingly large problems (just as salable parallelism measures our ability to apply more numerous proessors to larger problems). We then show that exploiting salable loality in sienti programs often requires advaned ompile-time reordering of loop iterations. We provide an algorithm that derives an exeution order, storage mapping, and ahe requirement for any desired degree of loality, for ertain programs that an be made to exhibit salable loality. Our approah is unusual in that it derives the program transformation and ahe requirement from the dataow of the alulation (a fundamental harateristi of the algorithm), instead of searhing a spae of possible transformations of the exeution order and array layout used by the programmer (whih are artifats of the expression of the algorithm). We inlude empirial results showing the e etiveness of our transformation on two small kernels and a non-trivial benhmark program. Our transformation an produe speedups for data sets residing in L2 ahe, main memory, or virtual memory. This report uni es the ma jor results of DCS-TR-379 and DCS-TR-378, presents them in terms of a general algorithm rather than a olletion of heuristis, and gives a learer presentation of the empirial data.
The Education of the Architects
L’educazione degli architetti
Creators: name: Sgarbi, Claudio; Carleton University
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: education; architecture; public space
ICAR21 - Urbanistica
formazione; architettura; spazio pubblico

description: A wide spectrum of tools, instruments, devices, apparatus, machines, prostheses, systems and technologies are available for every architect in the “western civilized world”. Some of the items in the spectrum are archaic like pencils while other are brand new like 3d printers or quantum computing. The bodies of the architects are transforming too. Many consolidated habits are changing very quickly: we do not draw as much as we were used to do in the recent past, we copy/paste more than writing, we think in a strange way, we travel a lot in different directions, we are exposed to a vertiginous amount of information, we are obsessed by our own waste we cannot avoid to produce and we do a lot of things in a state of permanent anxiety as if everything around us was in a state of threatening scarcity.The title of this issue of “IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura” is pretentious but its contents are simply honest. They demonstrate different attempts made by very different teachers and students to fathom the territory of public space from different directions.
description: Un’ampia gamma di strumenti, dispositivi, apparecchi, macchine, sistemi e tecnologie sono oggi disponibili per ogni architetto nel "mondo civilizzato occidentale". Alcuni di questi elementi sono arcaici, come ad esempio le matite, mentre altri sono nuovi come le stampanti 3d o di calcolo quantistico. Anche la professioni degli architetti si sta trasformando. Le abitudini consolidate stanno cambiando molto velocemente: noi non disegniamo tanto quanto eravamo abituati a fare nel recente passato, facciamo copia/incolla molto di più rispetto a quanto scriviamo, pensiamo in un modo strano, viaggiamo molto in direzioni diverse, siamo esposti a una quantità vertiginosa di informazioni, siamo ossessionati dai nostri rifiuti che non possiamo evitare di produrre e facciamo tante cose in uno stato di ansia permanente, come se tutto intorno a noi si trovi in una condizione di spaventosa precarietà.Il titolo di questo numero di "IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura "è pretenzioso, ma i suoi contenuti sono semplicemente onesti. Essi dimostrano diversi tentativi fatti da molto diversi docenti e studenti per scandagliare il territorio dello spazio pubblico attraverso diversi punti di vista.
description: IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura; Vol. 4, n. 1 (2013) - THE PUBLIC SPACE OF EDUCATION, numero speciale a cura di Luisa Bravo e Claudio Sgarbi; 5 - 8
Publics and their Spaces
Publics and their Spaces
Creators: name: Crawford, Margaret; University Of California Berkeley
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: public space; publics; community; everyday life
spazio pubblico; publics; comunità; vita quotidiana

description: For more than fifty years designers, planners, social scientists and political theorists have debated the meaning and significance of public space. The course “Publics and their spaces”, at the University of California Berkeley, Faculty of Architecture (College of Environmental Design), examines the multiple and complex ways in which public space has been defined along with other relevant concepts such as the public sphere, community, and democracy. It explores these ideas through theoretical readings, case studies and our own observations and research.
description: Per più di cinquant’anni progettisti, urbanisti, teorici delle scienze sociali e politiche hanno approfondito e discusso il significato dello spazio pubblico. Il corso “Publics and theirs spaces”, presso la Facoltà di Architettura (College of Environmental Design) dell’Università della California a Berkeley, esamina le molteplici e complesse espressioni attraverso cui lo spazio pubblico è stato definito, sviluppando allo stesso tempo altri concetti rilevanti legati alla sfera pubblica, alla comunità e alla democrazia. Il corso esplora queste idee attraverso letture teoriche, casi di studio e percorsi specifici di osservazione e ricerca.
description: IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura; Vol. 4, n. 1 (2013) - THE PUBLIC SPACE OF EDUCATION, numero speciale a cura di Luisa Bravo e Claudio Sgarbi; 9 - 70
Eye on the Street? Sensory Experiences in Public Places
Eye on the Street? Esperienze sensoriali negli spazi pubblici
Creators: name: Guaralda, Mirko; Queensland University Of Technology, Brisbane
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: phenomenology; teaching-research nexus; architecture; urban design
ICAR21 - Urbanistica
fenomenologia; nesso ricerca-istruzione; architettura; disegno urbano

description: Research on the sensual experience of place is not a mainstream topic in the architectural debate; it is more common in other disciplines like landscape architecture or interior design. The curriculum sometime offers opportunities of cross-pollination between disciplines; students in architecture courses might be exposed to different theories of space more typical to other fields. This paper explore the teaching/research nexus within QUT Master of Architecture research stream; the focus of the discussion is students’ experimentation with people’s experience and navigation of the public space. Theories of placemaking in relation to urban design are first introduced; then the teaching/research nexus is discussed; finally students’ experience in approaching phenomenological research within the Master of Architecture are presented.
description: Le ricerche sull’esperienza fenomenologica non sono argomento centrale nel corrente dibattito architettonico; il ruolo dei sensi é in genere discusso più in termini di paesaggio od interni. L’offerta formativa nelle scuole di architettura in alcuni casi offre esplorazioni oltre i tradizionali limiti disciplinari, gli studenti possono entrare in contatto con le differenti declinazioni del concetto di luogo. Questa ricerca discute il nesso tra ricerca ed insegnamento nel contesto della Queensland University of Technology, con particolare attenzione al Master in Architettura. Gli studenti sperimentano differenti approcci alla navigazione dello spazio urbano valutando il ruolo dell’esperienza sensoriale nell’informare l’attività mondana. L’intervento presenta il contesto teorico per poi introdurre alcuni esempi di ricerca condotti da laureandi.
description: IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura; Vol. 4, n. 1 (2013) - THE PUBLIC SPACE OF EDUCATION, numero speciale a cura di Luisa Bravo e Claudio Sgarbi; 71 - 186
Numerical stability of methods of lines for partial differential equations
Creators: name: Vichnevetsky, Robert
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1971

description: The method of lines for the numerical treatment of partial differential equations is the technique, which consists in using finite differences for the approximation of derivatives with respect to all the independent variables except one, thus obtaining a set or a system of ordinary differential equations. These are then integrated on a digital computer by the use of the well-known numerical methods for such problems. For initial value type partial differential equations, the names of continuous space and continuous time are used to distinguish methods of lines where the remaining continuous independent variable is either a spatial coordinate x or the time t, respectively. Our interest in this paper will be restricted to the continuous time methods of lines for initial value problems. In these, one obtains a system of coupled ordinary differential equations, which is also of the initial value type. In addition to the classical implementation of numerical algorithms for the integration of such problems, the recent development of continuous simulation languages, such as CSMP [1] and CSSL [2], provides a means whereby certain of these algorithms are conveniently available as pre-programmed subroutines. This, plus the fact that considerable knowledge about the properties of the numerical integration of initial value problems in ordinary differential equations has been developed in recent years, has prompted a renewed interest in this area. The first description of methods of lines for the computer solution of partial differential equations seems to be that of Hartree [13], who was interested in the use of mechanical differential analyzers. More recently, Hicks and Wei [14] gave a concise description of the numerical implementation of continuous-time methods of lines for parabolic equations among others. Methods of lines have been one of the main tools in the application of electronic differential analyzers (analog and hybrid computers) to the solution of partial differential equations and a considerable literature has been devoted to this subject (see e.g., the references cited in [20]). It should also be mentioned that several authors have devoted their attention to methods of lines taken in a somewhat different context than that adopted here. in an often referred to paper, Rothe [18] used continuous-space methods of lines strictly as a concept to prove the existence of the solution of certain parabolic equations. The Russians are credited with the coinage of the name of "methods of lines". The reader is referred to the publications of Faddeyeva [7] and Budak [4] in this respect. A question, which has not been well analyzed to date, is that of the numerical stability of methods of lines. The prediction of numerical stability is, of course, of great importance in practice, and it is to that specific question that we address ourselves in this paper.
Intraabdominal Infections in Older Adults
Creators: name: Johanning, Jason Michael
name: Berlin, Ana
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Acute abdomen
Atypical presentation
Intraabdominal infection
Geriatric surgery
Frailty
Surgical outcomes

description: Key points: Intraabdominal infections may be confined, localized, or diffuse. Compared with younger patients, elderly patients with intraabdominal infection tend to present in delayed or atypical fashion and have a narrow therapeutic window, both of which are associated with significantly increased morbidity and mortality. Treatment of intraabdominal infections is based on source control and judicious use of antibiotics. In elderly patients, this requires a balanced approach, taking into consideration the invasiveness and inherent risk of a procedure as well as its efficacy for producing the desired outcomes. Multimodal and aggressive preventative management of geriatric syndromes and collateral damage of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions decreases the risk of adverse outcomes in geriatric acute-surgery patients.
Helicoverpa armigera
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Helicoverpa
Helicoverpa armigera

description: Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])
  Lepidóptero predominante en los cultivos de algodón de la vega del Guadalquivir (OBALLE et al., 1995; RAMOS GUTIÉRREZ et al., 2004), abundante en puntos cercanos de la Campiña Baja (REDONDO & PÉREZ, 2000d; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011). En los algodonales, imagos y orugas se suceden en tres generaciones de junio a septiembre (OBALLE et al., 1995; JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, 2008, 2009, 2011b, c). El porcentaje de orugas parasitadas es relativamente alto, en torno al 20% (OBALLE et al., 1995). A pesar de ello, deben tratarse algunas parcelas ya que los daños pueden ser muy elevados (JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, 2008, 2009).
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (23-IX-2003 / 9-X-2003 / 8-XI-2003 / 8-VI-2005 / 23-IX-2005 / 24-X-2005); carretera de Araceli (24-VIII-2011); santuario de Araceli (24-VIII-2011); casco urbano de Córdoba (1-X-2015 / 24-X-2019); casco urbano de Pedro Abad (23-IX-2016).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Tumblin’ through the visual web
Creators: name: Anderson, Katie Elson
Publisher: name: Emerald
Year: 2015
Subjects: Social media
Internet
Social networks
Visual web

description: This article discusses the social media site Tumblr and the visual web and the applications in libraries. Platforms that are part of the visual Web use images, rather than text, as the primary content of a post. Text may appear, but it is secondary to the image, essentially the opposite of a long blog post where the primary content is text with optional pictures placed for emphasis or enhancement. Three social networks in particular – Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram – each gained more than 10 million visitors over the course of the year in part by catering to a desire for more visually appealing content.