cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Knowledge Production and Collaboration in the Life Sciences: Interviews with Scientists in Industry, Universities and the National Health Service, 2005-2006
Creators: name: King, Z.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: This is a qualitative dataset.

 This study examined the human behaviour underpinning collaboration in the life sciences. It focused on collaboration between universities and industries; and regional collaboration. It sought to explain the incidence of knowledge production in terms of individual career factors and how organisational factors interact with the individual to determine innovation outcomes.

 Interviews were conducted with scientists in universities, industry (large and small firms and entrepreneurial ventures), and the National Health Service. Many of the academic and clinical scientists were leaders their field in areas relevant to biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostic and agrochemical industries and/or with clinical applications.

 Interviews focused on career background, scientific specialism, important collaborators, and particularly the role and relative contribution of the production of knowledge as evidence in patent applications. Questions also focused on interviewees' views of institutional frameworks within which collaborations unfold and on policy initiatives to promote collaboration, particularly localised collaboration.

 Further information about the study can be found at the project's website or ESRC funding webpage.
Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005
Creators: name: Taylor, R.
name: Rogaly, B.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: This is a qualitative data collection.

 The project charted changes since 1940 in the interface between official descriptions of three Norwich council estates (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) as deprived, and residents' own social and spatial identity practices.

 It looked critically at the extent to which residents' social identity practices concord with the notion that the estates make up a homogeneous "community". Through analysing the conflicts between groups of residents with divergent settlement histories, including Travellers, Irish settlers, former rural labourers from Norfolk and people re-housed from central Norwich, it contributed to the unpacking of "whiteness" as an ethnic category in Britain.

 Areas identified in official documents as "deprived" since the 1970s, have been the target for area-based initiatives, most recently channelling resources through the NELM (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) New Deal for Communities project. Through 25 life-history interviews the researchers aimed to analyse the impact of these initiatives, and the interrelation between policy and its impact on residents' identifications and identity practices. These interviews are not straightforward verbatim transcripts but were redrafted and approved by the participants. The anonymised names used in the transcripts are consistent with those used in the published outputs of the project.

 Further information can be found at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1930-2005 webpage and the ESRC 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates award webpage.
Equilibration and Order in Quantum Floquet Matter
Creators: name: Moessner, R.
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium theormodynamics is characterized by two fundamental ideas: thermalisation--that systems approach a late time thermal state; and phase structure--that thermal states exhibit singular changes as various parameters characterizing the system are changed. We summarise recent progress that has established generalizations of these ideas to periodically driven, or Floquet, closed quantum systems. This has resulted in the discovery of entirely new phases which exist only out of equilibrium, such as the $π$-spin glass or Floquet time crystal.
description: short (6 pages) pedagogical introduction to recent developments, 2 figures
Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership, 2006-2007
Creators: name: Forrester, G.
name: Gunter, H.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership, 2006-2007 explored the relationship between the state, public policy and knowledge by focusing on New Labour's investment in the leadership of schools as a central strategy for delivering reform. Specifically the project focused on identifying and examining the types of knowledge, the ways of knowing and the legitimisation of knowers involved in framing, promoting and securing leadership. Overall, it described, analysed and provided an explanation of the ideas behind educational leadership policymaking.

 The data available from the UKDA comprise interviews with 116 policymakers, including educational researchers, head teachers, private sector consultants, government ministers, civil servants and advisers.

 Further information about the project can be found on the ESRC Award web page.
Identities in Neighbour Discourse: Community, Conflict and Exclusion, 2004-2006
Neighbour Disputes
Creators: name: Edwards, D.
name: Stokoe, E.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this project was to develop knowledge of how social and personal identities are relevant to community conflict and cohesion via a study of neighbour disputes. Aiming to discover which identities appeared in people’s complaints; their salience, and their relevance to the persistence or resolution of conflict. The researchers aimed to conduct a study of neighbour disputes based on ‘naturally-occurring’ conversational data, rather than on post-hoc accounts given in research interviews and surveys. This meant finding settings where ordinary people make complaints about, and argue with, their neighbours. The researchers audio-recorded approximately 600 conversations between members of the public and professionals: (1) telephone calls to mediation centres, local council environmental health and anti-social behaviour units, and (2) police interviews with suspects in neighbourhood crime. The latter were not deposited with the UK Data Archive.

 Further information about the project can be found on the ESRC grant award page.
Anomalous Amplification of a Homodyne signal via Almost-Balanced Weak Values
Creators: name: Liu, Wei-Tao
name: Martínez-Rincón, Julián
name: Viza, Gerardo I.
name: Howell, John C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technique of almost-balanced weak values amplification (ABWV) was recently proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116: 100803 (2016)]. We demonstrate this technique using a modified Sagnac interferometer, where the counter-propagating beams are spatially separated. The separation between the two beams provides additional amplification, with respect to using colinear beams in a Sagnac interferometer. As a demonstration of the technique, we perform measurements of the angular velocity in one of the mirrors of the interferometer. Within the same setup, the weak-value amplification technique is also performed for comparison. Much higher amplification factors can be obtained using the almost-balanced weak values technique, with the best one achieved in our experiments being as high as $1.2\times10^7$. In addition, the amplification factor monotonically increases with decreasing post-selection phase for the ABWV case in our experiments, which is not the case for weak-value amplification at small post-selection phases.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. comments are welcome
Opportunities to Parallelize Path Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Mike
name: Kremer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper discusses opportunities to parallelize graph based path planning algorithms in a time varying environment. Parallel architectures have become commonplace, requiring algorithm to be parallelized for efficient execution. An additional focal point of this paper is the inclusion of inaccuracies in path planning as a result of forecast error variance, accuracy of calculation in the cost functions and a different observed vehicle speed in the real mission than planned. In this context, robust path planning algorithms will be described. These algorithms are equally applicable to land based, aerial, or underwater mobile autonomous systems. The results presented here provide the basis for a future Research project in which the parallelized algorithms will be evaluated on multi and many core systems such as the dual core ARM Panda board and the 48 core Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC). Modern multi and many core processors support a wide range of performance vs. energy tradeoffs that can be exploited in energyconstrained environments such as battery operated autonomous underwater vehicles. For this evaluation, the boards will be deployed within the Slocum glider, a commercially available, buoyancy driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, IEEE OCEANS, 2011 - Kona , 19-22 Sept. 2011
title: The impact of plants on indoor air quality and the wellbeing of building occupants
Creators: name: Berger, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Indoor plants are introduced into buildings to benefit the occupants’ health and well-being, but their room-scale impact and effect on people’s responses is poorly understood. Through experiments in controlled chambers, naturally ventilated offices and measurements of people’s psychological responses, this thesis investigated interactions between the plant, indoor air quality (IAQ) and building occupants. There were significant differences between the plants’ performance in chamber-scale versus room-scale experiments. Species selection, leaf area and planting density were identified as key factors for maximising [CO2] reduction and adding moisture to indoor environments. Most moisture was added by plants in hot, dry environments. At office-scale, the building design, air change rate (ACH) and environmental conditions had a greater impact than the plants on the rate of CO2 and moisture removal from the office (28m3 ). There was a seasonal variation in the ACH and the plants’ evapotranspiration rate, with the highest rates in the summer. In the offices the plants emitted 35-68 g of water vapour/day/plant depending on the species and environmental conditions, but 65% -100% was lost through air exchange and absorption. No significant impact on the [CO2] reduction ratewas determined. Whilst the impact of potted plants on IAQ was small or insignificant at office-scale, the physical appearance of the plant had a significant impact on 520 participants, whose responses were measured through a photo-questionnaire. All healthy plants were perceived to positively impact wellbeing and IAQ. An unhealthy plant was perceived negatively for wellbeing and IAQ impacts. Perceptions of wellbeing benefits were affected by the participants’ perceived interest and beauty of the plant. Perceived IAQ benefits were associated with the healthiness of the plant appearance and canopy density. Participants perceived the plants would have a greater benefit for their well�being than for IAQ
The influence of perceived control on appetitive and aversive decision making
Creators: name: Wang, Kainan (Sally)
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: The ability to perceive and exercise control over an outcome is both desirable and beneficial to our wellbeing. Organisms are biased to seek control in situations where rewards are available and such bias has been shown to recruit the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and striatum. Moreover, when given control over potentially aversive outcomes, organisms increase behaviors to avoid those outcomes. These findings suggest that perceived control exerts behavioral influences in both appetitive and aversive environments. Yet, several questions remain unanswered. First, if an organism shows behavioral preference towards control in appetitive contexts, can we measure this bias and study the subjective value of control neurally? To find out, we employed the Value of Control (VoC) task where human participants were asked to make a series of binary choices between having control and no-control over a reward-seeking game. The mere presence of the control-option evoked activity in the striatum. Importantly, we extracted the positive subjective value of control and demonstrated that it was tracked in the vmPFC. Second, because control confers protective effects against behavioral passivity in aversive contexts, it remains uncertain whether it is potent enough to reverse behavioral passivity following prolonged exposure to uncontrollability. To investigate this, we employed the Control in Aversive Domain (CAD) task to examine whether the introduction of controllability can rescue participants' behavior after persistent uncontrollability. We observed that even after developing behavioral passivity, instatement of control was able to restore avoidance behavior, and this behavioral reversal correlated with participants' vmPFC activity. Third, it is unknown whether exposure to acute stress can negatively impact participants' perception of control. To study this, we subjected participants to an acute stressor prior to implementing the VoC and CAD tasks. We found that exposure to acute stress did not significantly alter participants' subjective value of control but it did induce participants to exhibit greater behavioral responses towards uncontrollable aversive stimuli. Collectively, these studies show that perceived control can bias behavior via its rewarding values and protective effects. They also highlight the role of corticostriatal circuitry in encoding control, which has important implications in our understanding of psychopathologies associated with the loss of control.
Lake District Stakeholders' Perceptions of Personal, Organisational and Environmental Change, 2004-2005
Creators: name: Macnaghten, P.
name: Tipping, E.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2019

description:
This is a qualitative data collection. The study is part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme.

 This small-scale research project is part of a RELU Capacity Building Project (CBP) aimed at setting the foundations for interdisciplinary and socially inclusive research at Lancaster University on issues of land use change. Conducted during the last stage of the project, the interviews that constitute this dataset were held with individuals that had been identified as potential partners in future research. While previous informal interviews had provided insights into the official analysis and visions of Lake District futures, these more formal interviews were aimed at gaining a more personal account of processes of institutional and environmental change in the Lake District. More specifically, the objectives of the interviews were:

 1) To better understand the personal circumstances and professional sensibilities of individuals that had been identified as potential research partners. This information would allow the members of the RELU CBP to gain a thorough understanding of their research and policy priorities, and be sensitive to their values and implicit assumptions in order to develop a smoother and more robust long term working relationship;
 2) To explore the relationship between perceptions of personal, organisational and environmental change in the current transition towards a multifunctional countryside. More specifically, to examine how expectations of change are embedded within perceptions of the (in)ability of organisations/regulatory frameworks/research tools to lead/adapt to environmental and socio-economic transformations.

 The interviews cover the following issues:
 1) Personal and professional background and reasons for pursuing a career in the environment/conservation/development;
 2) How interviewees’ perceptions of what they are doing are changing;
 3) How interviewees are trying to understand the present in the light of an emerging future;
 4) Perceptions of change in the Lake District in the next 25 years.

 Further information for this study may be found through the ESRC Research Catalogue webpage: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Address Environmental and Social Issues Resulting from Changes in Land Use.
An X-ray/SDSS sample (II): outflowing gas plasma properties
Creators: name: Perna, Michele
name: Lanzuisi, Giorgio
name: Brusa, Marcella
name: Cresci, Giovanni
name: Mignoli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy-scale outflows are nowadays observed in many active galactic nuclei (AGNs); however, their characterisation in terms of (multi-) phase nature, amount of flowing material, effects on the host galaxy, is still unsettled. In particular, ionized gas mass outflow rate and related energetics are still affected by many sources of uncertainties. In this respect, outflowing gas plasma conditions, being largely unknown, play a crucial role. Taking advantage of the spectroscopic analysis results we obtained studying the X-ray/SDSS sample of 563 AGNs at z $<0.8$ presented in our companion paper, we analyse stacked spectra and sub-samples of sources with high signal-to-noise temperature- and density-sensitive emission lines to derive the plasma properties of the outflowing ionized gas component. For these sources, we also study in detail various diagnostic diagrams to infer information about outflowing gas ionization mechanisms. We derive, for the first time, median values for electron temperature and density of outflowing gas from medium-size samples ($\sim 30$ targets) and stacked spectra of AGNs. Evidences of shock excitation are found for outflowing gas. We measure electron temperatures of the order of $\sim 1.7\times10^4$ K and densities of $\sim 1200$ cm$^{-3}$ for faint and moderately luminous AGNs (intrinsic X-ray luminosity $40.5
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Charge States and FIP Bias of the Solar Wind from Coronal Holes, Active Regions, and Quiet Sun
Creators: name: Fu, Hui
name: Madjarska, Maria S.
name: Xia, Lidong
name: Li, Bo
name: Huang, Zhenghua
name: Wangguan, Zhipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Connecting in-situ measured solar-wind plasma properties with typical regions on the Sun can provide an effective constraint and test to various solar wind models. We examine the statistical characteristics of the solar wind with an origin in different types of source regions. We find that the speed distribution of coronal hole (CH) wind is bimodal with the slow wind peaking at ~400 km/s and a fast at ~600 km/s. An anti-correlation between the solar wind speeds and the O7+/O6+ ion ratio remains valid in all three types of solar wind as well during the three studied solar cycle activity phases, i.e. solar maximum, decline and minimum. The N_Fe/N_O range and its average values all decrease with the increasing solar wind speed in different types of solar wind. The N_Fe/N_O range (0.06-0.40, FIP bias range 1-7) for AR wind is wider than for CH wind (0.06-0.20, FIP bias range 1-3) while the minimum value of N_Fe/N_O (0.06) does not change with the variation of speed, and it is similar for all sourceregions. The two-peak distribution of CH wind and the anti-correlation between the speed and O7+/O6+ in all three types of solar wind can be explained qualitatively by both the wave-turbulence-driven (WTD) and reconnection-loop-opening (RLO) models, whereas the distribution features of N_Fe/N_O in different source regions of solar wind can be explained more reasonably by the RLO models.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ, 11 pages, 4 figures
Talking Robots: a Critical Examination of Strategies for Public Engagement with Robotic Technologies, 2007-2008
Creators: name: Wilkinson, C.
name: Bultitude, K.
name: Dawson, E.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: Robotics encompasses a broad range of academic disciplines including engineering, biology, neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. It is a significant area of emerging science, and one where views regarding fact and fiction are particularly confused. Talking Robots aimed to investigate existing public attitudes to robotic technologies and their potential social impacts, alongside an examination of engagement strategies and their effectiveness, using robotics engagement events as examples.

 The project utilised the Walking with Robots network which is an existing series of events generated by prominent UK-based roboticists and science communicators and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Participant reactions to a series of 11 engagement events with a robotic focus were studied. Structured in-depth observations were made of the engagement events examining both verbal and non-verbal communication. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three distinctive groups: 1) event organisers who arranged the activities, 2) engagers or experts that were involved in the activities, and 3) audience participants or people engaged in activities.

 Further information can be found on the ESRC award web page.
The M33 Synoptic Stellar Survey. II. Mira Variables
Creators: name: Yuan, Wenlong
name: He, Shiyuan
name: Macri, Lucas M.
name: Long, James
name: Huang, Jianhua Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the discovery of 1847 Mira candidates in the Local Group galaxy M33 using a novel semi-parametric periodogram technique coupled with a Random Forest classifier. The algorithms were applied to ~2.4x10^5 I-band light curves previously obtained by the M33 Synoptic Stellar Survey. We derive preliminary Period-Luminosity relations at optical, near- & mid-infrared wavelengths and compare them to the corresponding relations in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
description: Includes small corrections to match the published version
Becoming a Mother, 2005-2007
Identities in Process: Becoming African Caribbean, Bangladeshi and White Mothers
Creators: name: Hollway, W.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2010

description: This is a qualitative dataset.

 This research project aimed to contribute to theoretical, methodological and policy understandings of the changes in women’s identities in the process of becoming mothers for the first time. It addressed questions central to the Economic and Social Research Council Identities and Social Action research programme objectives: the mutual influence of intra-psychic and social worlds, the negotiation of self in relation to others, the universal and culturally particular, continuity and change, the processes of identification, agency, regulation and positioning in structures and discourses. The research gave equal emphasis to the psychological and social worlds of the participating mothers and aimed to pioneer methods that allow both to be studied as part of the same questions.

 Aims and objectives of the study were:
to contribute to theoretical understandings of women’s identities during the transition into motherhood

to examine empirically the co-articulation between motherhood and ethnicised, racialised, age-related, kin-related, class and socio-economic status-based, national and gendered identities in first-time mothers

to develop innovative qualitative methods appropriate to psycho-social identities research

to contribute to community-based professionals' understandings of first-time mothers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds

to contribute to the programme psycho-social concepts and methods useful to the theorisation of identification in social science identities research
Further details about the study are available in the user guide.
In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Approach to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem
Creators: name: Hergert, H.
name: Bogner, S. K.
name: Lietz, J. G.
name: Morris, T. D.
name: Novario, S. J.
name: Parzuchowski, N. M.
name: Yuan, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a pedagogical discussion of Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) methods, in particular the In-Medium SRG (IMSRG) approach for solving the nuclear many-body problem. These methods use continuous unitary transformations to evolve the nuclear Hamiltonian to a desired shape. The IMSRG, in particular, is used to decouple the ground state from all excitations and solve the many-body Schrödinger equation. We discuss the IMSRG formalism as well as its numerical implementation, and use the method to study the pairing model and infinite neutron matter. We compare our results with those of Coupled cluster theory, Configuration-Interaction Monte Carlo, and the Self-Consistent Green's Function approach. The chapter concludes with an expanded overview of current research directions, and a look ahead at upcoming developments.
description: 73 pages, to appear in Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer), "An advanced course in computational nuclear physics: Bridging the scales from quarks to neutron stars", edited by M. Hjorth-Jensen, M. P. Lombardo, and U. van Kolck
Two famous results of Einstein derived from the Jarzynski equality
Creators: name: Gittes, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jarzynski equality (JE) is a remarkable statement relating transient irreversible processes to infinite-time free energy differences. Although twenty years old, the JE remains unfamiliar to many; nevertheless it is a robust and powerful law. We examine two of Einstein's most simple and well-known discoveries, one classical and one quantum, and show how each of these follows from the JE. Our first example is Einstein's relation between the drag and diffusion coefficients of a particle in Brownian motion. In this context we encounter a paradox in the macroscopic limit of the JE which is fascinating, but also warns us against using the JE too freely outside of the microscopic domain. Our second example is the equality of Einstein's $B$ coefficients for absorption and stimulated emission of quanta. Here resonant light does irreversible work on a sample, and the argument differs from Einstein's equilibrium reasoning using the Planck black-body spectrum. We round out our examples with a brief derivation and discussion of Jarzynski's remarkable equality.
description: Added comment: To appear in Am. J. Phys
Hybrid intelligent models for improved classification performance: Application of Linear Discriminant Analysis to a small dataset of secondary school pupil attainment
Creators: name: Wagner, Kat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A short paper looking at performance of Portuguese students, with an aim to train a selection of classifiers for improved performance prediction. The study tests a variety of methods (Linear Discriminant Analysis, Principal Component Analysis, Fisherface) as a preprocessing step to reduce noise across input variables and lead to better accuracy, sensitivity and recall of the subsequent machine learning models. Linear Discriminant Analysis is found to be most successful in optimising the models' performance.
Ethnicity, Identity and Social Relations in Prison, 2006-2008
Creators: name: Phillips, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This is a qualitative data collection.

 The project examined individual and collective identities in prisons. In particular, it focused on how ethnic and masculine identities have a bearing on prisoners' social relationships. The study had three main aims:
to examine the role of ethnic identities in shaping social relationships in prison, and compare this with relations in prisoners' home communities

to determine how different racialised masculine identities are expressed in terms of, for example, ethnicity, religion, age, nationality and regionality

to assess the influence of institutional practices on individuals and group identities, the extent and nature of prisoner solidarity, and provide evidence of social hierarchies and gang membership that are influenced by identity
The project comprised two ethnographic studies conducted in Kent, at a male young offenders' institution (Her Majesty's Young Offenders' Institution (HMYOI) Rochester) and an adult male prison (Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Maidstone). Two main research methods were used: interaction and observation of prison life over an eight-month period; and semi-structured interviews with 60 young adult prisoners and 50 adult prisoners.
 Activities at the two research sites were as follows:
at HMP Maidstone, which is a Category C prison for adult men, the researchers observed prisoner social relations through informal interactions with prisoners on the wings, interacting with them at work, in classes, during association, exercise, worship and visiting times. Fifty prisoners agreed to be interviewed, and five also took part in a focus group interview

At HMYOI Rochester, a prison for young men aged 18-21 years, the researchers observed prisoner social relations through informal interactions with prisoners on the wings, interacting with them at work, in classes, during associations, exercise, worship, and visiting times. Sixty prisoners at Rochester agreed to be interviewed.
This collection comprises 111 interview transcripts. Users should note that access to these data requires express permission of the depositor.

 Further information may be found on the Ethnicity, Identity, and Social Relations in Prison ESRC project award web page, and on the Identities and Social Action research programme web site.
Diving into buoyancy: exploring the Archimedes principle through engineering
Creators: name: Thiam, Mouhamadou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our daily lives, we observe objects sinking, floating, or rising when immersed in a fluid. The Archimedes principle, which explains an object's behavior when immersed in a fluid, is important in fluid mechanics; however, it is a relatively complex concept for middle school students to grasp, as they often harbor misconceptions. To initiate conceptual change among students regarding the misconception "heavy objects sink and light objects float," I created a project during which students build a stable submarine that uses fluid transfers to move up, down, and forward while carrying a load. Students must take into account several variables, from the design of the submarine to the choice of materials. Additionally, students write a report that includes a user manual, challenges they encountered and how they overcame those challenges, and a detailed text that links theory to their submarine.
description: 8 pages, 3 Figures
KW_Paper.pdf
Creators: name: Wagner, Kat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A short paper looking at performance of Portuguese students, with an aim to train a selection of classifier models for improved performance prediction. The study uses a Fisherface method normally applied to computer vision tasks as a preprocessing step to reduce noise across input variables and lead to better accuracy, sensitivity and recall of the subsequent machine learning models.
The Graph Laplacian and Morse Inequalities
Creators: name: Contreras, Ivan
name: Xu, Boyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The objective of this note is to provide an interpretation of the discrete version of Morse inequalities, following Witten's approach via supersymmetric quantum mechanics, adapted to finite graphs, as a particular instance of Morse-Witten theory for cell complexes. We describe the general framework of graph quantum mechanics and we produce discrete versions of the Hodge theorems and energy cut-offs within this formulation.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Solutions for Practice-oriented Requirements for Optimal Path Planning for the AUV "SLOCUM Glider"
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a few important practiceoriented requirements for optimal path planning for the AUV "SLOCUM Glider" as well as solutions using fast graph basedalgorithms. These algorithms build upon the TVE (time-varying environment) search algorithm. The experience with this algorithm, requirements of real missions along the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf and the idea to find the optimal departure time are the motivation to address the field of research, which is described in this paper. The main focus of this paper is a discussion of possible methods to accelerate the path planning algorithm, without deterioration of the results.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, IEEE OCEANS, 2010 - Seattle, 20-23 Sept. 2010
Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008
Use, Role and Application of Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People
Creators: name: Hine, N.
name: Harris, J.
name: Arnott, J.
name: Kroll, T.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: Advanced Technology in the Lives of Disabled People, 2007-2008 assesses the use, application and role of advanced technologies in the lives of disabled people. Although disabled people are excited by the potential benefits of using new advanced technological devices at home, research has shown that one third of assistive devices are abandoned early and lie unused. This study aimed to explore why this happens, what the users actually need and how technology can rise to the challenges of flexibility and user choice.

 This study comprises 45 semi-structured interviews with people with a variety of different disabilities. In the study, 'disabled people' are people between the ages of 18 and 65 who have impairments (physical/sensory/learning difficulties/ mental health issues). 'Advanced technologies' are devices (often electronic) that assist the disabled person or improve functioning. These take many different forms, for example an automatic door opener can be attached to a closed circuit TV system, mobile telephones can act as universal pagers to alert the user to a number of environmental hazards, (for example, fire, gas escape).

 Further information can be found on ESRC MATILDAH project web page and the IDRIS research centre website. Additional information and a range of publications are available from the ESRC Award web page.
Dynamical compensation and structural identifiability: analysis, implications, and reconciliation
Creators: name: Villaverde, Alejandro F.
name: Banga, Julio R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The concept of dynamical compensation has been recently introduced to describe the ability of a biological system to keep its output dynamics unchanged in the face of varying parameters. Here we show that, according to its original definition, dynamical compensation is equivalent to lack of structural identifiability. This is relevant if model parameters need to be estimated, which is often the case in biological modelling. This realization prompts us to warn that care should we taken when using an unidentifiable model to extract biological insight: the estimated values of structurally unidentifiable parameters are meaningless, and model predictions about unmeasured state variables can be wrong. Taking this into account, we explore alternative definitions of dynamical compensation that do not necessarily imply structural unidentifiability. Accordingly, we show different ways in which a model can be made identifiable while exhibiting dynamical compensation. Our analyses enable the use of the new concept of dynamical compensation in the context of parameter identification, and reconcile it with the desirable property of structural identifiability.
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China and Japan, 2006-2007
Creators: name: Sleeboom-Faulkner, M.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2010

description: This is a qualitative data collection.

 The bioethics of human embryonic stem cell research (HESR) is controversial, including in Asia. After the 2001 US-moratorium on the federal funding of HESR, some Asian countries jumped into the 'bioethical vacuum', claiming that Asian countries do not suffer from Western religious scruples about using human embryos in research. Nevertheless, controversies around the donation of oocytes, the trade and barter of embryos, stem cell research trials, and human embryonic cloning in Asia have attracted global media attention.

 International guidelines are being adopted into diverging economic, political and socio-cultural contexts in Asia. This comparative research asked on what basis these guidelines are adopted in a socialist developing country such as China (PRC) and in a wealthy, democratic bureaucracy such as Japan. It investigated the formulation and implementation of regulations by visiting laboratories and clinics, interviewing clinicians and clients about the donation embryos and oocytes, observing scientists that handle the ‘materials’ and analysing public debates.

 Studying how bioethics guidelines created through the combined efforts by governments, medical associations and private companies impact research and international research cooperation, the research expects to provide insights into how scientists, publics and governments deal with regulatory and bioethical problems in very different economic, political and cultural contexts.
Unifying and Generalizing Methods for Removing Unwanted Variation Based on Negative Controls
Creators: name: Gerard, David
name: Stephens, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62J15 (Primary) 62F15, 62H25, 62P10 (Secondary)

description: Unwanted variation, including hidden confounding, is a well-known problem in many fields, particularly large-scale gene expression studies. Recent proposals to use control genes --- genes assumed to be unassociated with the covariates of interest --- have led to new methods to deal with this problem. Going by the moniker Removing Unwanted Variation (RUV), there are many versions --- RUV1, RUV2, RUV4, RUVinv, RUVrinv, RUVfun. In this paper, we introduce a general framework, RUV*, that both unites and generalizes these approaches. This unifying framework helps clarify connections between existing methods. In particular we provide conditions under which RUV2 and RUV4 are equivalent. The RUV* framework also preserves an advantage of RUV approaches --- their modularity --- which facilitates the development of novel methods based on existing matrix imputation algorithms. We illustrate this by implementing RUVB, a version of RUV* based on Bayesian factor analysis. In realistic simulations based on real data we found that RUVB is competitive with existing methods in terms of both power and calibration, although we also highlight the challenges of providing consistently reliable calibration among data sets.
description: 34 pages, 6 figures, methods implemented at https://github.com/dcgerard/vicar , results reproducible at https://github.com/dcgerard/ruvb_sims
Role of Identity in Participation in Children's Centre Services: the Subjective Experience of Minority Groups, 2007-2008
Creators: name: Parks, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2010

description: The objective of this study was to explore how the identity experiences of minority ethnic and gender groups affect levels of participation and engagement in Children's Centre services. The study looked at two urban Children’s Centre areas in Tyne and Wear (Areas A and B) which differed in terms of their ethnic make-up. The first area involved one Children’s Centre serving two communities with a relatively small black and minority ethnic (BME) population. The second area, which served three communities, had three Children’s Centres and also offered English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classes, which provided a focus for minority ethnic groups.

 Interviews were conducted with staff at the Children’s Centres and allied local agencies, to investigate perceptions of the level of participation of minority groups, and the efforts being made to engage them. Interviews were also conducted with local parents and carers who were eligible to use the services to explore how they saw their place in the community and how this related to their use of Children’s Centre services. The parents' interview transcripts are not available form the UKDA but themes which occurred in these interviews are available in the form of a typology of perceptions document. Basic demographic data and key responses have been drawn out from both the staff and parents’ perceptions by categories (staff, ethnicity, relationship to child).

 Further information is available from the ESRC Award web page.
A characterization of quaternionic Kleinian groups in dimension 2 with complex trace fields
Creators: name: Kim, Sungwoon
name: Kim, Joonhyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be a non-elementary discrete subgroup of $\mathrm{Sp}(2,1)$. We show that if the sum of diagonal entries of each element of $G$ is a complex number, then $G$ is conjugate to a subgroup of $\mathrm{U}(2,1)$.
A Mission Planning System for the AUV "SLOCUM Glider" for the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Mike
name: Williams, Christopher D.
name: Bachmayer, Ralf
name: de Young, Brad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a system for mission planning for an autonomous underwater vehicle in time-varying ocean currents. The mission planning system is designed for the AUV "SLOCUM Glider" to collect oceanographic data along the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf. The data will be used in conjunction with a numerical ocean model currently under development by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This allows for the validation and the modification of existing ocean current and climate models as well as the design of new models with the aim of improving the accuracy of forecasts. The use of the ocean current forecast data in netCDF format in an ocean current model, the algorithms which consider glider-specific behaviour, details of the program's technical implementation in C++, and, preliminary results will be described.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, OCEANS 2010 IEEE - Sydney, 24-27 May 2010
Placing Voluntary Activism in Neo-Liberal Welfare States: a Comparative Study, 2005-2008
Creators: name: Bondi, L.
name: Larner, W.
name: Fyfe, N.
name: Milligan, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2010

description: This qualitative data collection explored the extent to which different social, historical and cultural contexts within and across neo-liberal states impact on the development of voluntary activism in the sub-sectors of mental health and community safety. Focusing on place-based strategic partnerships in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, the study used in-depth interviews to explore: i) the relationship between activism, management and governance in the voluntary sector; ii) how the shift from urban government to urban governance is impacting on voluntary organisations and the development of voluntary activism; iii) the permeability of the boundaries between public, private and voluntary sectors; and iv) how the national political environment in neo-liberal states is shaping developments at local level. Theoretically, the study sought to deepen understanding of how the interrelationships between participation, place and political context contribute to different forms of activism.

 Further information about the project may be found on the Institute for Health Research and the ESRC Society Today  web pages.
A model for stealth coronal mass ejections
Creators: name: Lynch, B. J.
name: Masson, S.
name: Li, Y.
name: DeVore, C. R.
name: Luhmann, J. G.
name: Antiochos, S. K.
name: Fisher, G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are events in which there are almost no observable signatures of the CME eruption in the low corona but often a well-resolved slow flux rope CME observed in the coronagraph data. We present results from a three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of the 1--2 June 2008 slow streamer blowout CME that Robbrecht et al. (2009) called "the CME from nowhere." We model the global coronal structure using a 1.4 MK isothermal solar wind and a low-order potential field source surface representation of the Carrington Rotation 2070 magnetogram synoptic map. The bipolar streamer belt arcade is energized by simple shearing flows applied in the vicinity of the helmet streamer's polarity inversion line. The flows are large scale and impart a shear typical of that expected from the differential rotation. The slow expansion of the energized helmet streamer arcade results in the formation of a radial current sheet. The subsequent onset of expansion-induced flare reconnection initiates the stealth CME while gradually releasing the stored magnetic energy. We present favorable comparisons between our simulation results and the multiviewpoint SOHO-LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) and STEREO-SECCHI (Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation) coronagraph observations of the preeruption streamer structure and the initiation and evolution of the stealth streamer blowout CME.
description: 44 pages, 14 figures
A New Concept for an Obstacle Avoidance System for the AUV "SLOCUM Glider" Operation under Ice
Creators: name: Eichhorn, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a concept for a control System for an autonomous underwater vehicle under ice using a "SLOCUM" underwater glider. The project concept, the separate working tasks for the next one-and-a-half years and the first results will be presented. In this context the structure of the obstacle avoidance system and a simulator structure with a sensor and environment simulation as well as the interfaces to the glider hardware will be discussed. As a first result of the main research, a graph-based algorithm for the path planning in a time-varying environment (variable ocean field, moving obstacles) will be described.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, IEEE OCEANS 2009 - EUROPE Bremen, 11-14 May 2009