cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implementing Performance Funding in Three Leading States: Instruments, Outcomes, Obstacles, and Unintended Impacts
Creators: name: Dougherty, Kevin J.
name: Jones, Sosanya M.
name: Lahr, Hana Elizabeth
name: Natow, Rebecca Spiro
name: Pheatt, Lara Elaine
name: Reddy, Vikash T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: School enrollment
Academic achievement
Program budgeting
Education, Higher
Educational evaluation

description: This paper summarizes findings from a large study on the implementation and impacts of performance funding in three states that are regarded as leaders in that movement: Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee. Based on interviews with state officials and with staff at 18 colleges and universities, the authors describe the policy instruments used to implement performance funding, the impact of performance funding on institutional policies and programs, the obstacles institutions encountered in responding to performance funding demands, and the unintended impacts that ensued. While performance funding spurred institutions to make changes designed to improve student outcomes, it is difficult to gauge the impact of performance funding because it was one of several concurrent initiatives aimed at improving outcomes at the colleges. Interviewees reported several obstacles that hindered institutions’ efforts to respond to performance funding demands, including the composition of their student bodies, inappropriate metrics, and insufficient institutional capacity. Interviewees also frequently reported observed and potential impacts that were not intended by the policy designers, such as restrictions in college admissions and the weakening of academic standards.
Mechanisms of centrosome-dependent PIDDosome activation
Creators: name: Burigotto, Matteo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Centrosome number control is crucial for the faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. Centrosome amplification results into genetic instability and predisposes cells to neoplastic transformation. To preserve tissue homeostasis, the increase in centrosome number in healthy cells is invariably followed by a p53-dependent reduction in the propensity to commit to additional cell cycles. It has been previously shown that supernumerary centrosomes trigger p53 stabilization dependent on the PIDDosome (a multiprotein complex composed by PIDD1, RAIDD and Caspase?2), whose activation results in cleavage of p53?s key inhibitor, MDM2. Herein, I present evidence based on super resolution microscopy, yeast?two hybrid and reverse genetics demonstrating that PIDD1 is recruited to mature centrosomes by the centriolar distal appendage protein ANKRD26, uncoupling surveillance of centrosome number from ciliogenesis. Furthermore, I show that the centrosome constitutively recruits the PIDD1 full-length precursor, dynamically exchanging it with the cytoplasmic pool. Remarkably, albeit independent from each other, both PIDD1 centrosomal localization and autoproteolysis are required for PIDDosome-dependent Caspase-2 activation, since selective perturbation of either of these aspects resulted into compromised PIDDosome activation, blunting thereby the ability of cells to undergo p53-dependent cell cycle arrest. Moreover, I present evidence supporting the notion that physical clustering of supernumerary centrosomes upon cytokinesis failure is needed to overcome a PIDD1 concentration threshold that is limiting PIDDosome?dependent p53 activation in healthy cells. In addition, in the context of DNA damage, activation of the complex results from a p53?dependent elevation of PIDD1 levels independently of centrosome amplification. I propose that PIDDosome assembly can in both cases be promoted by an ANKRD26?dependent local increase in PIDD1 concentration close to the centrosome. Collectively, these findings provide a paradigm for how centrosomes can contribute to cell fate determination by igniting a signalling cascade.
Health workers and sustainable systems for health in a post-growth society
Creators: name: Missoni, Eduardo
name: Morales Galindo, Edmundo
Publisher: name: Visions for Sustainability
Year: 2020

description: The Agenda 2030 signed by the Heads of State and Government in 2015 set out 17 indivisible and universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Among others the Agenda 2030 proposes to achieve "sustainable, inclusive and sustained growth" (SDG 8), in fact an oxymoron due to the "limits of growth" in a finite ecosystem. The SDG 3, "Ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages", included among others the target "3.8: achieving universal health coverage”. Besides representing a substantial regression from the original WHO’s Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, which addressed among others the social and economic determinants of health, the UHC target and the SDG3 are deemed to be unattainable due to the constant increase in demand on the one side and inappropriate offer of health services on the other, both largely determined by factors outside the health sector and linked to the present hegemonic unsustainable growth-defined development model. Focusing on the health care model and the generation of its human resources, we highlight how both remained mostly anchored to standardized and, today, globalized biomedical hospital-centric models, which are inadequate to meet populations’ health needs and expectations. We then suggest the need for a paradigmatic shift in the health and social care organization (toward a human rights and social determinants approach, home- community-based care, integrated-holistic approaches, patients’ empowerment, etc.) and the health workers’ educational model (linking it to the specific characteristics of local contexts in terms of needs and resources, and to a new ethical framework). Both are pillars of the transformation of health systems toward a post-growth society.
description: Visions for Sustainability, New Visions (2020)
Get With the Program... and Finish It: Building Guided Pathways to Accelerate Student Completion
Creators: name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Cho, Sung-Woo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Most community colleges offer a wide array of programs. Yet they typically provide little guidance to help new students choose a program of study and develop a plan for completing it, despite the fact that many new students enroll without clear goals for college and careers. In prior research charting the educational pathways and outcomes of community college students, we found that students who enter a program of study in their first year are much more likely to complete a credential or transfer successfully than are students who do not enter a program until the second year or later. With so many choices available and without a clear roadmap or someone monitoring their progress, it is not surprising that many community college students indicate that they are confused and often frustrated navigating their way through college. In this paper, we describe efforts by a growing number of colleges and universities to redesign academic programs and support services to create “guided pathways” designed to increase the rate at which students enter and complete a program of study.
Further results on dissimilarity spaces for hyperspectral images RF-CBIR
Creators: name: Veganzones, Miguel Angel
name: Datcu, Mihai
name: Graña, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems are powerful search tools in image databases that have been little applied to hyperspectral images. Relevance feedback (RF) is an iterative process that uses machine learning techniques and user's feedback to improve the CBIR systems performance. We pursued to expand previous research in hyperspectral CBIR systems built on dissimilarity functions defined either on spectral and spatial features extracted by spectral unmixing techniques, or on dictionaries extracted by dictionary-based compressors. These dissimilarity functions were not suitable for direct application in common machine learning techniques. We propose to use a RF general approach based on dissimilarity spaces which is more appropriate for the application of machine learning algorithms to the hyperspectral RF-CBIR. We validate the proposed RF method for hyperspectral CBIR systems over a real hyperspectral dataset.
description: In Pattern Recognition Letters (2013)
Giustizia riparativa. Responsabilit�, partecipazione, riparazione
Creators: name: Fornasari, Gabriele
name: Mattevi, Elena
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno internazionale svoltosi a Trento in data 20 e 21 gennaio 2017 sul tema ?Giustizia riparativa: responsabilit�, partecipazione, riparazione?. Il titolo offre una sintesi degli elementi che maggiormente qualificano i procedimenti riparativi, definiti dalla Direttiva 2012/29/UE del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 25 ottobre 2012, che istituisce norme minime in materia di diritti, assistenza e protezione delle vittime di reato, come procedimenti che permettono �alla vittima e all?autore del reato di partecipare attivamente, se vi acconsentono liberamente, alla risoluzione delle questioni risultanti dal reato con l?aiuto di un terzo imparziale� (art. 2 c. 1, lett. a) punto d). Una ?partecipazione? vera, che pu� essere estesa anche alla comunit�, presuppone che le parti si confrontino con il concetto di responsabilit� per il fatto commesso, che si assumano la responsabilit� per i danni arrecati. Questa ?responsabilit�? deve tuttavia essere intesa in termini corretti, alla luce della centralit� che riveste per la giustizia riparativa la nozione di reato come ?violazione dei diritti individuali delle vittime?, di rottura di una relazione, di conflitto, pi� che di violazione della norma penale. L?obiettivo � infine quello della ?riparazione?, il cui contenuto viene concretamente a dipendere dalle esigenze di tutti gli attori coinvolti, ma che, ancora una volta, pi� che esprimere un valore economico, deve esprimere un valore di relazione.
Envisioning Performance Funding Impacts: The Espoused Theories of Action for State Higher Education Performance Funding in Three States
Creators: name: Dougherty, Kevin J.
name: Jones, Sosanya M.
name: Natow, Rebecca Spiro
name: Lahr, Hana Elizabeth
name: Pheatt, Lara Elaine
name: Reddy, Vikash T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges
Education, Higher

description: This study reviews the theories of action that advocates of performance funding have espoused for higher education in three states that are leaders in performance funding: Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee. The authors found that espoused theories of action are incompletely articulated, with significant gaps in the specification of policy instruments, desired institutional changes, and possible obstacles and unintended impacts. Performance funding is conceived largely as stimulating changes in institutional behavior and student outcomes by providing financial inducements and securing institutional buy-in. Less attention is paid to other policy instruments, such as providing information on institutional performance to the colleges and building up the capacity of institutions to engage in organizational learning and change. The authors of this paper argue that insufficiently articulating the theories of action for performance funding makes it less likely that it will be successful and avoid undue harm.
Continuation calculus
Creators: name: Geron, Bram
name: Geuvers, Herman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.1; F.1.1; F.3.1; F.3.2; F.3.3; F.4.2

description: Programs with control are usually modeled using lambda calculus extended with control operators. Instead of modifying lambda calculus, we consider a different model of computation. We introduce continuation calculus, or CC, a deterministic model of computation that is evaluated using only head reduction, and argue that it is suitable for modeling programs with control. It is demonstrated how to define programs, specify them, and prove them correct. This is shown in detail by presenting in CC a list multiplication program that prematurely returns when it encounters a zero. The correctness proof includes termination of the program. In continuation calculus we can model both call-by-name and call-by-value. In addition, call-by-name functions can be applied to call-by-value results, and conversely.
description: In Proceedings COS 2013, arXiv:1309.0924
Examining the Effectiveness of Online Learning Within a Community College System: An Instrumental Variable Approach
Creators: name: Jaggars, Shanna
name: Xu, Di
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Using a large administrative dataset from a statewide community college system, the authors employed an instrumental variable technique to estimate the impact of online versus face-to-face course delivery on student course performance, as indicated by course persistence and final course grade. To control for self-selection bias, distance from each student’s home to the student’s college campus was used as an instrument for the likelihood of enrolling in an online section of a given course. Course fixed effects were added to the instrumental variable model to compare students who took different sections of the same course with different delivery formats, potentially controlling for within- and between-course selection bias. Analyses yield robust negative estimates for online learning in terms of both course persistence and course grade. These results suggest that policymakers and college administrators may need to improve the quality of online learning before enacting policies that would incentivize an accelerated expansion of online enrollments.
Пространственный подход и ГИС-инструменты в комплексных исследованиях Южнорусского средневековья
Creators: name: Томашевський, Андрій
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Томашевский А.П. Пространственный подход и ГИС-инструменты в комплексных исследованиях Южнорусского средневековья. Археология и геоинформатика. Первая международная конференция. Тезисы докладов. – М.: ИА РАН, 2012. – С.44-45.
There's nothing certain but the uncertain : uncertainty causing network events and how romantic couples discuss them
Creators: name: Hazzard, Jacob Irwin
name: 0000-0001-8845-555X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Romantic couples
Social networks
Network events
Uncertainty
Communication strategy
Social comparison

description: Romantic couples face a myriad of stressors, one of which is how certain they are about the status of their relationship. This study further explored how romantic couples discussed events that occurred within their social networks that may lead to increases in their uncertainty about their relationship. Participants were invited into a lab or a place of their convenience. They were given a prompt informing them a close couple of theirs was dissolving. They were then video-recorded discussing how this event would impact their relationship. The videos were coded for valence and directness strategies for each couple member and a series of regressions were conducted to test the hypotheses. This study found that being asked to ruminate about a hypothetical friend couple break up led to significantly higher levels of uncertainty. All other hypotheses were not supported. This study set the groundwork for network events and their impact on romantic couples’ uncertainty levels. Future directions are discussed, and potential models are suggested.
Evoluzione dell'istituto della riscossione tributaria: cenni storici e spunti ricostruttivi
Creators: name: Magliaro, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento
Year: 2007

description: Lo studio del diritto tributario � studio di obbligazioni pubbliche che si caratterizzano per la subordinazione alla cura di un interesse pubblico. L?interesse generale alla riscossione dei tributi � un interesse vitale per la collettivit� perch� rende possibile il regolare funzionamento dei servizi pubblici. Per molti anni l?attenzione degli studiosi ? e non solo ? si � concentrata soprattutto sulla istituzione dei tributi e sull?accertamento, relegando la successiva fase della riscossione tributaria in un ruolo di secondo piano rispetto alla fase precedente. Sembrava quasi che una volta determinato il debito d?imposta si fosse esaurito il compito dell?Amministrazione, come se ininfluente fosse il gettito effettivo. La ragione di questo apparente disinteresse per una fase cos� centrale per l?esistenza stessa dello Stato pu� forse rinvenirsi nell?aver da sempre rimesso ad un ente esterno all?Amministrazione statale i compiti di riscossione. Il 1� ottobre 2006 � stato soppresso il sistema di affidamento in concessione del servizio nazionale della riscossione; le funzioni relative alla riscossione sono state attribuite all?Agenzia delle Entrate che le esercita mediante la Riscossione S.p.A. ? oggi Equitalia S.p.A. Una novit� importante perch� - con questa riforma - l'ordinamento italiano ha voluto superare un'anomalia europea, quella dell'affidamento a soggetti privati dell'incarico di provvedere alla riscossione dei crediti tributari. Lo scritto si propone, dopo aver ripercorso le tappe fondamentali nell?evoluzione dell?istituto della ricossione tributaria, di proporre profili ricostruttivi del fenomeno proprio all?indomani della riforma.
Hersilia lelabah Rheims & Brescovit 2004
Creators: name: Lin, Yejie
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Hersilia
Hersilia lelabah

description: Hersilia lelabah Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 (Fig. 9) Hersilia lelabah Rheims & Brescovit, 2004: 2855, figs 7–9. Type material. Holotype ♀, Malaysia, Borneo, Sabah, Kinabalu National Park (6°N, 116°E, 700 m), 1991–1992, deposited in Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, not examined. Other material examined. 3♀ (IZCAS), China, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Jinghong City, Guanping County, Shiwudui, Seasonal Rainforest, 22.2280°N, 100.8894°E, elev. ca 888 m, 20.VII.2012, Qingyuan Zhao and Zhigang Chen leg. Diagnosis. See Rheims & Brescovit (2004). Distribution. China, Malaysia. The species is reported from China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yejie & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines, pp. 132-145 in Zoological Systematics 47 (2) on page 137, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022204, http://zenodo.org/record/7175761
Entering a Program: Helping Students Make Academic and Career Decisions
Creators: name: Karp, Melinda Jane Mechur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: In this literature review, the author examines the evidence on student decision making in the community college, focusing on the activities most relevant to students’ entry into programs of study—academic and career planning. Although there is a large body of theoretical discussion and empirical evidence on potentially effective approaches to guidance and counseling, a review of current advising and counseling practices reveals barriers to effective implementation of these approaches on community college campuses. As currently structured, community college advising is limited in its ability to assist students in identifying career goals and academic pathways that will help them achieve those goals. The literature reviewed in this paper points to four broad principles to guide restructuring efforts: (1) that program pathways should balance structure with exploration; (2) that career counseling should drive an integrated approach to advising; (3) that colleges should provide services to students based on their level of need; and (4) that colleges should strategically deploy resources to allow for developmental advising.
Optimal cropping pattern based on short-term streamflow forecasts to improve agricultural economic benefits and crop productivity under uncertainty conditions
Creators: name: Talukdar, Gaurav
name: Bhattacharjya, Rajib Kumar
name: Sarma, Arup Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Accelerated urbanization has led to diminished land for agricultural activities. Riverine ecosystems play an important role in allocating fertile lands to support agricultural activities. A substantial component of the uncertainty in agricultural productivity comes from seasonal variations linked to inter-annual climate fluctuations. Therefore, understanding the complicated phenomena of streamflow in a riverine environment is important for agricultural and water resources decision making. The present work focuses on forecasting monthly to seasonal streamflow using persistence flow, historical analogues, and artificial neural network approaches. Based on these forecasts, decisions on cropping patterns were made by developing an optimization framework using the constrained linear programming and inexact multiobjective fuzzy linear programming approaches. The proposed fuzzy programming approach was found to be beneficial in producing fair and stable solutions under uncertainty. The findings reveal that integrating forecasting and optimization knowledge could aid in precisely evaluating ecosystem services and meeting rising food demand.
Hersilia Audouin 1826
Creators: name: Lin, Yejie
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Hersilia

description: Hersilia long sp. nov. (Figs 1E, 4, 9) Type material. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS-Ar42717), China, Sichuan, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Danba County, Waba Village, 30.9308°N, 101.7646°E, 30.VII.2004, Yi Ming leg. Diagnosis. The female of the new species resembles those of H. caudata Audouin, 1826 by the narrowed copulatory openings, short copulatory ducts, and slender secondary spermathecae. However, this new species can be distinguished by the diamond-shaped median septum (Fig. 4A) (vs. rectangular in H. caudata (Baehr & Baehr, 1993, fig. 15e)), posterior margin recurved (Fig. 4B) (vs. straight in H. caudata (Baehr & Baehr, 1993, fig. 15f, e)), sickle-shaped fertilization ducts (Fig. 4B) (vs. wide, flag-shaped in H. caudata (Baehr & Baehr, 1993, fig. 15f), and the length of primary spermathecae is the same as the length of the secondary spermathecae (Fig. 4B) (vs. primary spermathecae shorter than secondary spermathecae (Baehr & Baehr, 1993, fig. 31f)). Description. Female holotype (Figs 1E, 4A–B). Total length 7.60. Carapace 2.68 long, 2.74 wide, yellow-brown with brown pattern, margin brown. Clypeus height 0.72, brown anteriorly. Chelicerae brown, terminus dark brown, with 5 retromarginal denticles. Eye area dark brown around PME and PLE; eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.20, ALE 0.11, PME 0.21, PLE 0.20, AME–AME 0.15, AME–ALE 0.11, PME–PME 0.13, PME–PLE 0.17, AME–PME 0.10, ALE–PLE 0.06. Legs yellow-brown, with black stripe. Leg measurements: leg I: 18.58 (5.19 + 5.96 + 3.99 +2.64 + 0.80), leg II: 18.18 (5.05 + 5.42 + 4.40 + 2.62 + 0.69), leg III: 6.91 (2.09 + 2.16 + 1.82 + 0.84), leg IV: 17.40 (4.67 + 5.23 + 4.17 + 2.46 + 0.87). Leg formula: 1243. Abdomen 4.69 long, 4.22 wide, yellow-brown with black pattern. Epigyne (Fig. 4) median septum with wrinkles anteriorly; copulatory openings at lateral margins of median septum. Copulatory ducts almost as long as spermathecae in each pair. Two pairs of spermathecae; primary spermathecae ovoid, secondary spermathecae kidney-shaped. Fertilization ducts sickle-shaped. Etymology. The species is named after the Chinese pinyin long (dragon); noun. Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yejie & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines, pp. 132-145 in Zoological Systematics 47 (2) on pages 137-139, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022204, http://zenodo.org/record/7175761
description: {"references": ["Baehr, M., Baehr, B. 1993. The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region including New Guinea. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Arachnida, Araneae). Spixiana, 19 (Suppl.): 1 - 95."]}
Self-organized criticality in X-ray flares of gamma-ray burst afterglows
Creators: name: Wang, F. Y.
name: Dai, Z. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray flares detected in nearly half of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are one of the most intriguing phenomena in high-energy astrophysics. All the observations indicate that the central engines of bursts, after the gamma-ray emission has ended, still have long periods of activity, during which energetic explosions eject relativistic materials, leading to late-time X-ray emission. It is thus expected that X-ray flares provide important clues to the nature of the central engines of GRBs, and more importantly, unveil the physical mechanism of the flares themselves, which has so far remained mysterious. Here we report statistical results of X-ray flares of GRBs with known redshifts, and show that X-ray flares and solar flares share three statistical properties: power-law frequency distributions for energies, durations, and waiting times. All of the distributions can be well understood within the physical framework of a self-organized criticality (SOC) system. The statistical properties of X-ray flares of GRBs are similar to solar flares, and thus can both be attributed to a SOC process. Both types of flares may be driven by a magnetic reconnection process, but X-ray flares of GRBs are produced in ultra-strongly magnetized millisecond pulsars or long-term hyperaccreting disks around stellar-mass black holes.
description: This is the original submitted version. The final revised version has been published in Nature Physics
Efficiency in the Community College Sector: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Creators: name: Agasisti, Tommaso
name: Belfield, Clive
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: This paper estimates technical efficiency scores across the community college sector. Using stochastic frontier analysis and data from IPEDS for 2003–2010, we estimate efficiency scores for 950 community colleges and perform a series of sensitivity tests to check for robustness. We find that community colleges have become more efficient over time but find no evidence of economies of scale. We also find significant variation in efficiency across colleges, with only part of this variation explained by exogenous differences by state and across student characteristics.
Hersilia martensi Baehr & Baehr 1993
Creators: name: Lin, Yejie
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Hersilia
Hersilia martensi

description: Hersilia martensi Baehr & Baehr, 1993 (Fig. 9) Hersilia martensi Baehr & Baehr, 1993: 21, figs 17c–d; Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2011: 211, figs 11–14. Type material. Holotype ♂, Nepal, Tal von Birethanti, 1000–1300 m, 14.VII.1973, deposited in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, not examined. Other material examined. 1♀ (IZCAS), China, Tibet, Nyingchi City, Medog County, Baibung, near Jiagagou Bridge, 29.2511°N, 95.1953°E, elev. ca 805 m, 18. VI.2016, Jianglang Wu leg. Diagnosis. See Baehr & Baehr (1993) and Dankittipakul & Singtripop (2011). Distribution. Nepal, Thailand, China. The species is reported from China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yejie & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines, pp. 132-145 in Zoological Systematics 47 (2) on page 140, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022204, http://zenodo.org/record/7175761
description: {"references": ["Baehr, M., Baehr, B. 1993. The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region including New Guinea. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Arachnida, Araneae). Spixiana, 19 (Suppl.): 1 - 95."]}
Demographic and Academic Characteristics of Pell Grant Recipients at Community Colleges
Creators: name: Cho, Sung-Woo
name: Jacobs, James
name: Zhang, Christine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Using data on more than 50,000 community college students who first enrolled during the 2005–06 academic year at one of nine community colleges in three large states, this paper presents demographic and academic characteristics of students who did and did not receive a Pell Grant. The descriptive findings suggest that, despite lower levels of initial college readiness, Pell recipients had a stronger academic focus than non-Pell recipients. Yet, while Pell recipients had higher credit completion ratios and were more likely to complete an award, they were also more likely to be enrolled in the same college with more than 30 credits after five years. This suggests that Pell recipients at community colleges may be taking a longer period of time to complete an academic credential than is prudent.
Ступінь археологічної дослідженості: методика, практика, результати та перспективи майбутнього
Creators: name: Томашевський, Андрій
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: ТТомашевський, А. 2018. Ступінь археологічної дослідженості: методика, практика, результати та перспективи майбутнього. І Всеукраїнський археологічний з’їзд: матеріали роботи. - К.: ІА НАН України, 2019. с. 77–90
Over-cooled haloes at z > 10: a route to form low-mass first stars
Creators: name: Prieto, Joaquin
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Verde, Licia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown by Shchekinov & Vasiliev2006 (SV06) that HD molecules can be an important cooling agent in high redshift z >10 haloes if they undergo mergers under specific conditions so suitable shocks are created. Here we build upon Prieto et al. (2012) who studied in detail the merger-generated shocks, and show that the conditions for HD cooling can be studied by combining these results with a suite of dark-matter only simulations. We have performed a number of dark matter only simulations from cosmological initial conditions inside boxes with sizes from 1 to 4 Mpc. We look for haloes with at least two progenitors of which at least one has mass M > M_cr (z), where M_cr (z) is the SV06 critical mass for HD over-cooling. We find that the fraction of over-cooled haloes with mass between M_cr (z) and 10^{0.2} M_cr (z), roughly below the atomic cooling limit, can be as high as ~ 0.6 at z ~ 10 depending on the merger mass ratio. This fraction decreases at higher redshift reaching a value ~0.2 at z ~ 15. For higher masses, i.e. above 10^{0.2} M_cr (z) up to 10^{0.6} M_cr (z), above the atomic cooling limit, this fraction rises to values ~ 0.8 until z ~ 12.5. As a consequence, a non negligible fraction of high redshift z > 10 mini-haloes can drop their gas temperature to the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature limit allowing the formation of low mass stars in primordial environments.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Murricia caishen Lin & Li 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lin, Yejie
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Murricia
Murricia caishen

description: Murricia caishen sp. nov. (Figs 1F, 8–9) Type material. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS-Ar42723), China, Hainan, Wuzhishan City, Wuzhishan Nature Reserve, 18.9070°N, 109.6792°E, elev. ca 744 m, 8.VIII.2007, Shuqiang Li leg. Diagnosis. The female of the new species resembles all Murricia species by the central part of the copulatory duct expanded, the primary spermathecae slender, with complex folding (Figs 8A–B), and the secondary spermathecae with multiple branches with spherical end. Description. Female holotype (Figs 1F, 8). Total length 5.76. Carapace 2.41 long, 3.12 wide. Clypeus height 0.27, brown anteriorly. Chelicerae yellow-brown, terminus dark brown, with five retromarginal denticles. Eye area dark brown around PME and PLE; eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.19, ALE 0.04, PME 0.11, PLE 0.10, AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.13, PME–PME 0.13, PME–PLE 0.12, AME–PME 0.05, ALE–PLE 0.09. Legs yellow-brown, with black stripe. Leg measurements: leg I: 13.28 (3.76 + 3.82 + 3.06 +2.03 + 0.61), leg II: 14.42 (4.04 + 4.36 + 3.33 + 2.14 + 0.55), leg III: 5.00 (1.57 + 1.62 + 1.14 + 0.67), leg IV: 12.47 (3.59 + 3.43 + 3.07 + 1.79 + 0.59). Leg formula: 2143. Abdomen 3.12 long, 4.29 wide, yellow-brown, middle with a black horizontal stripe; laterally black. Epigyne (Fig. 8). Epigynal field triangular. Median septum absent. Copulatory openings located posteriorly, conspicuous, separated. Copulatory ducts long and slender. Two pairs of spermathecae; primary spermathecae slender, complexly coiled, secondary spermathecae short; spermathecal ducts short. Fertilization ducts paddle-shaped. Etymology. The species is named after Caishen, the god of prosperity and profit in Chinese culture; noun. Distribution. Known only from the type locality. Funding The study was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31972869). Acknowledgements The English was checked by Sarah Crews. Guo Tang, Guo Zheng, Qingyuan Zhao, Zhigang Chen, Jianglang Wu, Francesco Ballarin and Yunchun Li helped in field collections. Wenhui Zhu helped checking paratypes of Hersilia yunnanensis.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yejie & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines, pp. 132-145 in Zoological Systematics 47 (2) on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022204, http://zenodo.org/record/7175761
Induction by Coinduction and Control Operators in Call-by-Name
Creators: name: Kakutani, Yoshihiko
name: Kimura, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.3; D.3.3; F.4.1

description: This paper studies emulation of induction by coinduction in a call-by-name language with control operators. Since it is known that call-by-name programming languages with control operators cannot have general initial algebras, interaction of induction and control operators is often restricted to effect-free functions. We show that some class of such restricted inductive types can be derived from full coinductive types by the power of control operators. As a typical example of our results, the type of natural numbers is represented by the type of streams. The underlying idea is a counterpart of the fact that some coinductive types can be expressed by inductive types in call-by-name pure language without side-effects.
description: In Proceedings COS 2013, arXiv:1309.0924
Community College Economics for Policymakers: The One Big Fact and the One Big Myth
Creators: name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Belfield, Clive
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges
Education, Higher
Education and state
School management and organization

description: This paper reviews broad policy trends in postsecondary education, particularly as they apply to community colleges. The review juxtaposes one big fact and one big myth and shows how rejection of the former and acceptance of the latter have impaired policymaking. The one big fact is that the economic returns to college are very high. Although this fact is broadly acknowledged by many, it is underappreciated in policy discussion. The one big myth is that the college affordability crisis is actually an efficiency crisis caused by wasteful spending by colleges. Although widely accepted, this myth is based primarily on “sticker shock,” not evidence. The result has been reduced state funding and new practices (more adjuncts, larger classes, online courses) that cut spending and lower quality; the hope is that spending falls faster than quality so that efficiency will increase. These practices are especially detrimental for community colleges. Students at community colleges, particularly first-generation and low-income students, have less knowledge about the full set of benefits of college and are likely to be very debt averse; they are also less well prepared to navigate independently through college. The direction of policy should therefore be shifted. Students should be provided with more information about how to maximize their returns to college. Colleges should implement practices that enhance quality; spending will necessarily increase, but with genuine quality enhancements, efficiency should increase as well.
Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network
Creators: name: Khairnar, Mrs. Vaishali D.
name: Kotecha, Dr. Ketan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a collection of wireless vehicle nodes forming a temporary network without using any centralized Road Side Unit (RSU). VANET protocols have to face high challenges due to dynamically changing topologies and symmetric links of networks. A suitable and effective routing mechanism helps to extend the successful deployment of vehicular ad-hoc networks. An attempt has been made to compare the performance of two On-demand reactive routing protocols namely AODV and DSR which works on gateway discovery algorithms and a geographical routing protocol namely GPSR which works on an algorithm constantly geographical based updates network topology information available to all nodes in VANETs for different scenarios. Comparison is made on the basis of different metrics like throughput, packet loss, packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay using SUMO and NS2 simulator. In this paper we have taken different types of scenarios for simulation and then analysed the performance results.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.3047, arXiv:1204.1207 by other authors
title: Die europäischen Mechanismen zum Schutz von Whistleblowern
Creators: name: Sauerschnig, Nikolaus
Year: 2023

description: Die Master-Thesis beschäftigt sich mit den europäischen Mechanismen zum Schutz von Whistleblowern. Einschlägig ist hier in erster Linie die Whistleblowing-RL (RL 2019/1937) dar. Diese stellt eine erste umfassende Rechtsgrundlage für den Schutz von Whistleblowern dar. Auch wenn die Whistleblowing-RL an einigen Stellen noch verbesserungswürdig erscheint, stellt diese gute Grundlage für die Rechte der Whistleblower dar. In Österreich erfolgt die Umsetzung der Whistleblowing-RL mittels dem Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz, dass sich nach derzeitigem Stand noch in Begutachtung befindet. Erwähnenswert sind zudem die Schutzmechanismen der Know-How-RL sowie der Marktmissbrauch-VO, die ihrerseits ebenfalls Schutzmechanismen für Whistleblower vorsehen.
Accelerating the Integrated Instruction of Developmental Reading and Writing at Chabot College
Creators: name: Edgecombe, Nicole Diane
name: Jaggars, Shanna
name: Xu, Di
name: Barragan, Melissa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges
Educational acceleration

description: This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data to compare the outcomes of students at Chabot College who participated in an accelerated, one-semester developmental English course and their peers who participated in a two-semester sequence. The sample included first-time students who entered college between summer 1999 and fall 2010; students were tracked for up to five years. Propensity score matching and regression analyses show that participation in the accelerated course was positively associated with a range of positive short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes, including entry-level college English completion, credit accumulation, grade point average, transfer to a four-year institution, and certificate and degree attainment. To better understand the quantitative findings, the authors draw on data from interviews with faculty, administrators, and staff; student focus groups; and classroom observations. The authors posit that the benefits of an accelerated course structure are amplified at Chabot College by a developmental English curriculum that is well aligned with college-level English and that develops critical academic literacy skills.
Learning ambiguous functions by neural networks
Creators: name: Ligeiro, Rui
name: Mendes, R. Vilela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.1; I.5.5
subject: 68T37, 82C32

description: It is not, in general, possible to have access to all variables that determine the behavior of a system. Having identified a number of variables whose values can be accessed, there may still be hidden variables which influence the dynamics of the system. The result is model ambiguity in the sense that, for the same (or very similar) input values, different objective outputs should have been obtained. In addition, the degree of ambiguity may vary widely across the whole range of input values. Thus, to evaluate the accuracy of a model it is of utmost importance to create a method to obtain the degree of reliability of each output result. In this paper we present such a scheme composed of two coupled artificial neural networks: the first one being responsible for outputting the predicted value, whereas the other evaluates the reliability of the output, which is learned from the error values of the first one. As an illustration, the scheme is applied to a model for tracking slopes in a straw chamber and to a credit scoring model.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
OAO/MITSuME Photometry of Dwarf Novae: I SU Ursae Majoris
Creators: name: Imada, Akira
name: Izumiura, Hideyuki
name: Kuroda, Daisuke
name: Yanagisawa, Kenshi
name: Omodaka, Toshihiro
name: Miyanoshita, Ryo
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Nogami, Daisaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on simultaneous $g'$, $R_{\rm c}$ and $I_{\rm c}$ photometry of SU Ursae Majoris during 2011 December - 2012 February using OAO/MITSuME. Our photometry revealed that quiescence is divided into three types based on the magnitude and color. Quiescent light curves showed complicated profiles with various amplitudes and time scales. Although no superoutbursts were observed during our run, five normal outbursts occurred with intervals of 11 - 21 d. The shapes of the normal outbursts were characteristic of the outside-in type. During the rising phase of a normal outburst, the light curve showed periodic modulations with a period of ${\sim}$ 0.048111(354) d, but the origin of this peirod was unclear. We examined daily averaged color-color diagram and found that two cycles exist. This implies that the thermal limit cycle in SU UMa is complicated. We newly discovered that $g'-R_{\rm c}$ becomes red about 3 days prior to an outburst. Although the working mechanism on this reddening is unclear, we propose two possibilities: one is that the inner portion of the accretion disk is filled by matter and obscures the central white dwarf, and the other is that the stagnation effect works in the outer region of the accretion disk.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, PASJ in press
Probolomyrmex longinodus Terayama & Ogata 1988
Creators: name: Liang, Cuijun
name: Chen, Zhilin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Probolomyrmex
Probolomyrmex longinodus

description: Probolomyrmex longinodus Terayama & Ogata, 1988 (Figs 5–8) Probolomyrmex longinodus Terayama & Ogata, 1988: 592, figs 7–9. Diagnosis. Median vertical lamella of frontoclypeal projection in lateral view relatively high and with rounded dorsal outline (see Fig. 6). In lateral view propodeal teeth and posterodorsal corner of petiole less prominent, close to a right angle. In dorsal view posterior margin of petiole complete and weakly convex in dorsal view. Description of workers (n = 2, Figs 5–8). TL 3.1–3.2, HL 0.69–0.72, HW 0.45, CI 63–65, SL 0.53–0.62, SI 118–138, PW 0.37, MSL 1.01–1.02, PL 0.41–0.42, DPW 0.22–0.23, PH 0.28, LPI 67–68, DPI 52–56. In full-face view, head longer than broad, anterior 1/4 narrowed; posterior 3/4 nearly rectangular; posterior margin slightly concave; lateral margins evenly convex. Median vertical lamella of frontoclypeal projection in lateral view relatively high and with rounded dorsal outline (see Fig. 6). Antennae 12-segmented, scape relatively longer, reaching to posterior margin of head, flagellum incrassate toward apex. In lateral view, dorsal outline of mesosoma weakly convex at anterior 1/3; almost straight at posterior 2/3. Propodeal declivity deeply concave. Posterior margin of propodeum deeply concave and with a pair of acute propodeal teeth. Petiole relatively long, abruptly curved anteriorly, weakly convex dorsally and forming an arch; posterodorsal corner acutely toothed, posterior margin deeply concave; ventral margin weakly convex and then concave posteriorly, anteroventral corner acutely toothed. In dorsal view, petiole narrowed anteriorly at anterior 1/3 and almost rectangular at posterior 2/3, posterior margin complete and weakly convex. Body surface finely micro-reticulate and relatively dim; sides of mesosoma, petiole and gaster overlain by abundant small foveolae. Body dorsum with dense depressed short pubescence, without standing hairs; scape and tibiae with dense depressed short pubescence and without standing hairs. Body yellowish brown. Material examined. 2 workers, CHINA: Hainan, Qiongzhong, Mt. Limu, 19.17°N, 109.71°E, elev. 681 m, 3.IV.2016, leg. Zhilin Chen, No. G 160136. Distribution. China (Taiwan, Hainan), Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Brunei Darussalam. Remarks. P. longinodus is very similar to P. longiscapus, but well distinguished from the latter by the less prominent propodeal teeth and posterodorsal corner of petiole in lateral view, the complete posterior margin of petiole in dorsal view.
description: Published as part of Liang, Cuijun & Chen, Zhilin, 2022, Taxonomic review of Chinese ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 146-154 in Zoological Systematics 47 (2) on page 149, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022205, http://zenodo.org/record/7175849