cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Are Our Students Seeing Reflections of Themselves in the Texts that They are Being Read?": A Case Study of Read Aloud Texts in a North Carolina Elementary School
Creators: name: Astolfi, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: School librarians

description: Today’s schools are becoming increasingly diverse and classroom teachers are being held accountable for the achievement of all students. However, recent statistics show that students of color are not performing as well as their white peers on standardized reading achievement tests. This case study looks at the read aloud texts used by classroom teachers in a North Carolina elementary school. Texts were analyzed for their inclusion of characters of color. Teacher interviews were conducted to gain an understanding of how and why these specific read aloud texts were chosen. Results of the content analysis are compared to the student population to determine whether or not the students of color at the case study school are seeing reflections of themselves in the read aloud texts. Case study results show that students of color at this elementary school are underrepresented in the read aloud texts used by teachers.
Constraint-based Reasoning for Description Logics with Concrete Domains and Aggregations
Creators: name: WUDHICHART SAWANGPHOL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 10303 Optimisation
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Aggregation over concrete domains is a very natural extension to Description Logics (DLs), as it allows individuals to be organised by their physical attribute values. However, reasoning support for aggregations, such as sums, counting, or min/ max, has proved challenging, since any naive extension will immediately result in an undecidable logic. This thesis introduces a new DL with concrete domains and aggregations that has useful yet decidable reasoning tasks. It therefore enables the expression of complex phenomena involving numerical values. We show that concept satisfiability for this DL is NP-complete, and describe an implementation based on a sound and complete encoding into Constraint Programming (CP). This enables us to exploit efficient CP solvers that naturally and efficiently deal with both the abstract and concrete parts of the logic at the same time.
The State of Open Source Software in North Carolina School Media Centers
Creators: name: Gill, Pushpinder K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004
Subjects: Open Source Software (OSS)
School Media Centers
North Carolina (NC)
Integrated Library Systems (ILS)

description: This paper explores the open source movement as it applies to integrated library systems (ILS) in the state of North Carolina. A review of the open source movement is provided as well as the pros and cons of adopting such a system at the school media level. A convenient sample of six school media centers in North Carolina was sampled and their school media specialists were interviewed regarding the current ILS. Results demonstrated that none of the systems currently in use were open source nor did there appear to be a great need for open source adoption. Suggestions are given to foster open source adoption at the state level.
Corallistes Schmidt 1870
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Corallistidae
Corallistes

description: Genus Corallistes Schmidt, 1870 Distribution: Florida, Caribbean, Mexican Gulf, Brazil, southern africa (KwaZuluNatal coast), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea (Pisera and Lévi 2002).
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
A Usability Study of a Website for Digitized Oral Histories
Creators: name: Roberson, Amy N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009
Subjects: Information needs--Evaluation
Oral history
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Archives--Use studies
Internet--College and university libraries

description: This study tested the usability of the Advanced Search, Browse Theme by Collection, and  Excerpt View pages of the Oral Histories of the American South website. These pages  allow users to access audio and transcripts for over 500 oral histories from the Southern  Oral History Program from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.  The study found that participants were satisfied with the search and browse options  available via the site. The results also suggest a few minor changes to the layout of the  pages to improve usability and satisfaction.
Theory and Musical Performance of the Chorus in Sixteenth-Century Italy. A Case Study: Vicenza 1585.
Creators: name: Restani, Donatella
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2015

description: On 3 March 1585 Sophocle’s Oedipus Tyrannus was staged at Vicenza on the opening night of the Olympic Theatre. Orsatto Giustiniani translated the tragedy into Italian and Andrea Gabrieli composed the music for the choruses. Individual parts were published in 1588 (Venezia, Angelo Gardano), but other interesting material regarding Oedipus’s choruses is also available; this includes the staging designs created by the artistic manager Angelo Ingegneri and by the famous scholar Sperone Speroni, various kinds of comments, as well as a number of reviews by Ingegneri himself and other spectators, such as Giacomo Dolfin, Antonio Riccoboni and Filippo Pigafetta. We even have a review written by Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, who had actually not seen the play. This article concentrates on the analysis of these documents by contextualizing them within the current ideas on the chorus which derived from the contemporary reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Olympic Academy. The Academicians knew Alessandro Pazzi’s Latin translation (1536) as well as Bernardo Segni’s vernacularisation (1549) of the Poetics and some of them were also well acquainted with Robortello’s (1548), Vettori’s (1560), and Castelvetro’s commentaries (1570) on it. Being the first modern mise en scène of an ancient tragedy and because of its wide cultural implications, the Vicenza 1585 Oedipus proves therefore an interesting case study in order to investigate of the sixteenth-century transmission, translation, and interpretation of ancient Greek and Latin treatises on poetry, rhetoric, and music. Their rediscovery triggered new critical considerations and brought about musical experiments with special regard to the chorus, whose echo (maybe) even reached foreign travellers.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 1 No 1 (2015): The Chorus in Drama
Collaborative Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping for a Swarm of Flying Robots in an Indoor Environment
Creators: name: ILANKAIKONE SENTHOORAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

description: This research explored a way of providing situational awareness inside potentially damaged buildings to disaster management teams using swarms of aerial robots. The aim was to equip robots with technology that enables mapping with limited resources and without any aid from a centralised station or reliance on external infrastructure. This work is an important step towards the realisation of robotic systems with higher levels of autonomy, scalability and robustness at lower costs, enabling their usability in real-life application scenarios like disaster situations to provide knowledge that would help in saving lives.
Current Metadata Process Practices
Creators: name: Sullivan, Tessa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Business Processes--Metadata
Metadata--Management
Metadata--Quality Control
Surveys--Metadata
Metadata--Software

description: An effective and easily maintainable information organization system is vital to the success of any enterprise, be it in the public or private sector. The proper use of metadata is a key means to this end. Applying metadata, however, is not a static task. Rather, it is a process by which metadata is created and manipulated by any number of people, using a variety of tools at different stages of the lifecycle of a digital object. Information on these components of the metadata process was gathered via a survey of metadata practitioners. The study found the metadata process is quite complex, with substantial variability in all components. A large variety of software applications are used for manipulating of metadata. This result and the fact that in-house developed tools were most common suggest there is no single turn-key solution for the metadata process. In conclusion, careful planning of the metadata process, including consideration of all sources of an enterprise's information, is essential to the successful implementation of a metadata process.
On the existence of finite critical trajectories in a family of quadratic differentials
Creators: name: Thabet, Faouzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we discuss the possible existence of finite critical trajectories connecting two zeros a(t) and b(t) of a family of quadratic differentials satisfying some properties. We treat the cases of holomorphic and meromorphic quadratic differentials, and we give new proofs concerning the supports of limit measures of the root-counting measures of the generalized Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials with varying parameters.
description: 12 pages
Learning and Inference of Probabilistic Finite State Machines using MML and Applications to Classification Problem
Creators: name: VIDYA SAIKRISHNA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This thesis examines the problem of learning Probabilistic Finite State Machines from text data and applies it to text classification. Probabilistic Finite State Machines capture regularities and patterns in the text data very effectively and this feature is combined with the ability to compress using the Minimum Message Length principle. Different approaches are developed and are applied on a two-class classification scenario like, classifying spam and non-spam emails on the Enron spam datasets and prediction of individuals in the Activities of Daily Living datasets. The approaches produce significant results and outperform the existing methods of classification.
A new catalogue of Stroemgren-Crawford uvbybeta photometry
Creators: name: Paunzen, Ernst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new all-sky catalogue of all available uvbybeta measurements from the literature was generated. The uvbybeta photometric system is widely used for the study of various Galactic and extragalactic objects. It measures the colour due to temperature differences, the Balmer discontinuity, and blanketing absorption due to metals. The data for the individual stars were cross-checked on the basis of the Tycho-2 catalogue. This catalogue includes very precise celestial coordinates, but is magnitude and spatial resolution limited. However, the loss of objects is only marginal and is compensated for by the gain of homogeneity. In total, 298 639 measurements of 60 668 stars were used to derive unweighted mean indices and their errors. Photoelectric and CCD observations were treated in the same way. The presented data set can be used for various applications such as new calibrations of astrophysical parameters, the standardization of new observations, and as additional information for ongoing and forthcoming all-sky surveys.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics: 3 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Corallistes masoni
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Corallistidae
Corallistes
Corallistes masoni

description: Corallistes masoni (Bowerbank, 1869) Lion Gulf, Marseille coast, Figuier dark cave, 43°20’N 5°25’E, 12 m of depth, SCUBA diving (Pouliquen 1972) Lion Gulf, Marseille coast, Morgiou, dark cave, 30 m of depth, SCUBA diving (Pouliquen 1972) NE-Ligurian Sea, S. Lucia Bank, 43°34’N 09°28’E, seamount, muddy bottom, 550-640 m of depth, trawling (Magnino et al. 1999); Central Tyrrhenian Sea, white corals bank, 400-600 m of depth, trawling (Magnino et al. 1999) Distribution: W-Mediterranean, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira.
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
The Relative Effectiveness of Text and Images in Image Search Result Listings
Creators: name: Vidas, Alexandra J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Information retrieval
Information Services--Special Subjects--Pictures
Relevance Judgments
Use studies
Information systems--Design
Pictures

description: This study was conducted to determine the best type of image surrogate to use within search result sets: Text, Image Preview, or Text + Image Preview. Users' performance and satisfaction with the three different image surrogates within search result sets were evaluated. Data was collected from 28 participants via a web-based system of questionnaires and logs of their interactions with result set presentations. Of the three image surrogate types, Image Preview and Text + Image Preview surrogates consistently outperformed Text surrogates on measures of the time required to make relevance judgments, the quality of those relevance judgments, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. While relevance judgment scoring with Image Preview and Text + Image Preview surrogates was identical, answers to the post-session questionnaire indicated that users may prefer the Text + Image Preview surrogate, as it was "liked best overall" by more people.
Essential Skills Needed to Prepare LIS Graduates for Careers in Special Libraries: A Survey of Special Librarians
Creators: name: Haven, Dana M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Library schools--Students
Library schools--Curriculum
Surveys--Special librarians
Special librarians--Skills analysis
Special libraries

description: This paper describes a study conducted to identify the skills that special librarians consider most essential in preparing graduates of library and information science programs to work in special libraries.  A review of the literature indicates that there is still some debate about what skills can or should be taught in library schools to prepare students for work in special libraries; there is also debate about what types of skills employers of special libraries deem most essential to thrive in these environments.  This study used an online survey to solicit the opinions of practicing special librarians on the issue, garnering 709 usable responses.  Survey results indicate that a graduate's soft skills may be more beneficial than library science or technical skills, and the highest-ranked skill across the three categories was communication skills.  The findings are of primary interest to students interested in careers in special librarianship but may also be beneficial in helping educators and administrators assess LIS curricula.
Pure Gravity Mediation and Spontaneous B-L Breaking from Strong Dynamics
Creators: name: Babu, Kaladi S.
name: Schmitz, Kai
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In pure gravity mediation (PGM), the most minimal scheme for the mediation of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking to the visible sector, soft masses for the standard model gauginos are generated at one loop rather than via direct couplings to the SUSY-breaking field. In any concrete implementation of PGM, the SUSY-breaking field is therefore required to carry nonzero charge under some global or local symmetry. As we point out in this note, a prime candidate for such a symmetry might be B-L, the Abelian gauge symmetry associated with the difference between baryon number B and lepton number L. The F-term of the SUSY-breaking field then not only breaks SUSY, but also B-L, which relates the respective spontaneous breaking of SUSY and B-L at a fundamental level. As a particularly interesting consequence, we find that the heavy Majorana neutrino mass scale ends up being tied to the gravitino mass, Lambda_N ~ m_3/2. Assuming nonthermal leptogenesis to be responsible for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe, this connection may then explain why SUSY necessarily needs to be broken at a rather high energy scale, so that m_3/2 >~ 1000 TeV in accord with the concept of PGM. We illustrate our idea by means of a minimal model of dynamical SUSY breaking, in which B-L is identified as a weakly gauged flavor symmetry. We also discuss the effect of the B-L gauge dynamics on the superparticle mass spectrum as well as the resulting constraints on the parameter space of our model. In particular, we comment on the role of the B-L D-term.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
General Editors' Preface
Creators: name: Avezzù, Guido
name: Bigliazzi, Silvia
name: Serpieri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2015

description: General Editors' Preface
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 1 No 1 (2015): The Chorus in Drama
Is atomic carbon a good tracer of molecular gas in metal-poor galaxies?
Creators: name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Clark, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon monoxide (CO) is widely used as a tracer of molecular hydrogen (H2) in metal-rich galaxies, but is known to become ineffective in low metallicity dwarf galaxies. Atomic carbon has been suggested as a superior tracer of H2 in these metal-poor systems, but its suitability remains unproven. To help us to assess how well atomic carbon traces H2 at low metallicity, we have performed a series of numerical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds that cover a wide range of different metallicities. Our simulations demonstrate that in star-forming clouds, the conversion factor between [CI] emission and H2 mass, $X_{\rm CI}$, scales approximately as $X_{\rm CI} \propto Z^{-1}$. We recover a similar scaling for the CO-to-H2 conversion factor, $X_{\rm CO}$, but find that at this point in the evolution of the clouds, $X_{\rm CO}$ is consistently smaller than $X_{\rm CI}$, by a factor of a few or more. We have also examined how $X_{\rm CI}$ and $X_{\rm CO}$ evolve with time. We find that $X_{\rm CI}$ does not vary strongly with time, demonstrating that atomic carbon remains a good tracer of H2 in metal-poor systems even at times significantly before the onset of star formation. On the other hand, $X_{\rm CO}$ varies very strongly with time in metal-poor clouds, showing that CO does not trace H2 well in starless clouds at low metallicity.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures. Updated to match the version accepted by MNRAS. The main change from the previous version is a new sub-section (3.6) discussing the possible impact of freeze-out and other processes not included in our numerical simulations
Neophrissospongia Pisera & Levi 2002
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Corallistidae
Neophrissospongia

description: Genus Neophrissospongia Pisera & Lévi, 2002 Distribution. Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Pacific Ocean (Pisera and Lévi 2002; present paper).
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Efficient Identification of Arbitrarily Shaped and Varied Density Clusters in High-dimensional Data
Creators: name: YE ZHU
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering has become one of the most important processes of knowledge discovery from data in the era of big data. It explores and reveals the hidden patterns in the data, and provides insight into the natural groupings in the data. This PhD project aims to solve two existing problems of density-based clustering in order to efficiently identify the arbitrarily shaped and varied density clusters in high-dimensional data. I have investigated and designed different approaches for each problem. The effectiveness of these proposed approaches has been verified with extensive empirical evaluations on synthetic and real-world datasets.
The Chorus in Early Twentieth-Century Spanish Theatre
Creators: name: Ambrosi, Paola
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2015

description: The presence of the chorus in contemporary Spanish theatre is a still largely unexplored subject. Its recurrent use by Spanish playwrights from the 1920s and 1930s, and almost uninterruptedly on to the 1970s, has been probably perceived as so widespread, functional and naturally tied to the text as to be taken for granted and not worth a specific critical investigation; suffice it to say that even the works of famous authors, such as Federico García Lorca, have not been thoroughly examined in this respect. The writing style adopted by the leading authors of the early twentieth-century Spanish theatrical new wave is deeply engrained in the classic and baroque traditions: I refer in particular to Ramón del Valle-Inclan, Miguel de Unamuno, Ramón Gomez de la Serna, José Bergamín, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, just to mention some main exponents of that happy cultural season known as Etad de Plata. Their work offers interesting examples of chorus; indeed, the aim of this article is to point out an essential line of investigation of the presence of the chorus in early twentieth-century Spanish drama by restraining the analysis to a few meaningful texts by Bergamín, Lorca and Alberti, and by especially exploring its performative potentialities.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 1 No 1 (2015): The Chorus in Drama
Different Victims, Same Layout: Email Visual Similarity Detection for Enhanced Email Protection
Creators: name: Shukla, Sachin
name: Mirzaei, Omid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the pursuit of an effective spam detection system, the focus has often been on identifying known spam patterns either through rule-based detection systems or machine learning (ML) solutions that rely on keywords. However, both systems are susceptible to evasion techniques and zero-day attacks that can be achieved at low cost. Therefore, an email that bypassed the defense system once can do it again in the following days, even though rules are updated or the ML models are retrained. The recurrence of failures to detect emails that exhibit layout similarities to previously undetected spam is concerning for customers and can erode their trust in a company. Our observations show that threat actors reuse email kits extensively and can bypass detection with little effort, for example, by making changes to the content of emails. In this work, we propose an email visual similarity detection approach, named Pisco, to improve the detection capabilities of an email threat defense system. We apply our proof of concept to some real-world samples received from different sources. Our results show that email kits are being reused extensively and visually similar emails are sent to our customers at various time intervals. Therefore, this method could be very helpful in situations where detection engines that rely on textual features and keywords are bypassed, an occurrence our observations show happens frequently.
description: To be published in the proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2024)
Stress channelling in extreme couple-stress materials Part I: Strong ellipticity, wave propagation, ellipticity, and discontinuity relations
Creators: name: Gourgiotis, Panos A.
name: Bigoni, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Materials with extreme mechanical anisotropy are designed to work near a material instability threshold where they display stress channelling and strain localization, effects that can be exploited in several technologies. Extreme couple stress solids are introduced and for the first time systematically analyzed in terms of several material instability criteria: positive-definiteness of the strain energy (implying uniqueness of the mixed b.v.p.), strong ellipticity (implying uniqueness of the b.v.p. with prescribed kinematics on the whole boundary), plane wave propagation, ellipticity, and the emergence of discontinuity surfaces. Several new and unexpected features are highlighted: (i.) Ellipticity is mainly dictated by the 'Cosserat part' of the elasticity and (ii.) its failure is shown to be related to the emergence of discontinuity surfaces; (iii.) Ellipticity and wave propagation are not interdependent conditions (so that it is possible for waves not to propagate when the material is still in the elliptic range and, in very special cases, for waves to propagate when ellipticity does not hold). The proof that loss of ellipticity induces stress channelling, folding and faulting of an elastic Cosserat continuum (and the related derivation of the infinite-body Green's function under antiplane strain conditions) is deferred to Part II of this study.
AI-Driven Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) on the ROAD Dataset: A Comparative Analysis for Automotive Controller Area Network (CAN)
Creators: name: Guerra, Lorenzo
name: Xu, Linhan
name: Bellavista, Paolo
name: Chapuis, Thomas
name: Duc, Guillaume
name: Mozharovskyi, Pavlo
name: Nguyen, Van-Tam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The integration of digital devices in modern vehicles has revolutionized automotive technology, enhancing safety and the overall driving experience. The Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is a central system for managing in-vehicle communication between the electronic control units (ECUs). However, the CAN protocol poses security challenges due to inherent vulnerabilities, lacking encryption and authentication, which, combined with an expanding attack surface, necessitates robust security measures. In response to this challenge, numerous Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been developed and deployed. Nonetheless, an open, comprehensive, and realistic dataset to test the effectiveness of such IDSs remains absent in the existing literature. This paper addresses this gap by considering the latest ROAD dataset, containing stealthy and sophisticated injections. The methodology involves dataset labelling and the implementation of both state-of-the-art deep learning models and traditional machine learning models to show the discrepancy in performance between the datasets most commonly used in the literature and the ROAD dataset, a more realistic alternative.
New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. Spectroscopic confirmation of near-infrared selected candidates
Creators: name: Ivanov, Valentin D.
name: Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.
name: Bekki, Kenji
name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Emerson, Jim
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Kamath, Devika
name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
name: Piatti, Andres E.
name: For, Bi-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi--stellar objects (quasars) located behind nearby galaxies provide an excellent absolute reference system for astrometric studies, but they are difficult to identify because of fore- and background contamination. Deep wide--field, high angular resolution surveys spanning the entire area of nearby galaxies are needed to obtain a complete census of such quasars. We embarked on a program to expand the quasar reference system behind the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds, the Magellanic Bridge, and the Magellanic Stream, connecting the Clouds with the Milky Way. Hundreds of quasar candidates were selected based on their near--infrared colors and variability properties from the ongoing public ESO VISTA Magellanic Clouds survey. A subset of 49 objects was followed up with optical spectroscopy. We confirmed the quasar nature of 37 objects (34 new identifications), four are low redshift objects, three are probably stars, and the remaining three lack prominent spectral features for a secure classification; bona fide quasars, judging from their broad absorption lines are located, as follows: 10 behind the LMC, 13 behind the SMC, and 14 behind the Bridge. The quasars span a redshift range from z~0.5 to z~4.1. Upon completion the VMC survey is expected to yield a total of ~1500 quasars with Y<19.32 mag, J<19.09 mag, and Ks<18.04 mag.
description: A&A, accepted; 11 pages, 7 figures
Lyric Genre Interactions in the Choruses of Attic Tragedy
Creators: name: Bagordo, Andreas
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2015

description: This article aims at exploring the traces of the choral lyric genres in tragic choruses, with special regard to the allusive presence of the paian, the epinikion, the partheneion, the hymenaios, and the threnos. The retracing in a dramatic context of elements belonging to these traditional genres and to their correspondent ritual occurrences brings about an intriguing web of correspondences in which these lyric patterns are developed, combined or even radically refashioned depending on the peculiarities of the single tragic plots. The investigation of the choral-lyrical passages is conducted by means of a close reading of the interactions between the pragmatic dimension of what we may define as ‘lyric paradigms’ that underlie ritual performances, and the individual choral songs in order to show how the tragic choruses may mirror and possibly perpetuate pre-existent lyric genres.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 1 No 1 (2015): The Chorus in Drama
Discodermia Du Bocage 1870
Creators: name: Manconi, Renata
name: Serusi, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Theonellidae
Discodermia

description: Genus Discodermia Du Bocage, 1870 Distribution: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea (Pisera and Lévi 2002).
description: Published as part of Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, pp. 71-87 in ZooKeys 4 (4) on page 85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.4.39, http://zenodo.org/record/576426
Signatures of polarized chiral spin disproportionation in rare earth nickelates
Creators: name: Li, Jiarui
name: Green, Robert J.
name: Domínguez, Claribel
name: Levitan, Abraham
name: Tseng, Yi
name: Catalano, Sara
name: Fowlie, Jennifer
name: Sutarto, Ronny
name: Rodolakis, Fanny
name: Korol, Lucas
name: McChesney, Jessica L.
name: Freeland, John W.
name: Van der Marel, Dirk
name: Gibert, Marta
name: Comin, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In rare earth nickelates (RENiO$_3$), electron-lattice coupling drives a concurrent metal-to-insulator and bond disproportionation phase transition whose microscopic origin has long been the subject of active debate. Of several proposed mechanisms, here we test the hypothesis that pairs of self-doped ligand holes spatially condense to provide local spin moments that are antiferromagnetically coupled to Ni spins. These singlet-like states provide a basis for long-range bond and spiral spin order. Using magnetic resonant X-ray scattering on NdNiO$_3$ thin films, we observe the chiral nature of the spin-disproportionated state, with spin spirals propagating along the crystallographic (101)$_\mathrm{ortho}$ direction. These spin spirals are found to preferentially couple to X-ray helicity, establishing the presence of a hitherto-unobserved macroscopic chirality. The presence of this chiral magnetic configuration suggests a potential multiferroic coupling between the noncollinear magnetic arrangement and improper ferroelectric behavior as observed in prior studies on NdNiO$_3$ (101)$_\mathrm{ortho}$ films and RENiO$_3$ single crystals. Experimentally constrained theoretical double-cluster calculations confirm the presence of an energetically stable spin-disproportionated state with Zhang-Rice singlet-like combinations of Ni and ligand moments.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
The Chorus’s "moral effect" in Italian Opera
Creators: name: Bissoli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2015

description: Despite Italian operatic tradition had lengthily relegated the chorus to a mainly accessory and even decorative function, its presence in nineteenth-century melodrama progressively gained momentum and acquired a rather crucial import, especially during the Risorgimento. In his Zibaldone Giacomo Leopardi expressed his opinion about the chorus in melodrama, comparing its current ancillary position to the role and the "moral effect" it had in ancient theatre. The moral implications suggested by the poet were more precisely and firmly developed by Giuseppe Mazzini in his "Filosofia della musica" ["Philosophy of Music"], where the importance of the chorus is passionately stressed. Being aware of the centrality and communicative potential of melodrama in Italy, Mazzini charged the chorus with a mission of cultural and social renewal. This article explores these issues by examining not only famous examples taken from Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi but also less known works such as Giovanni Bottesini’s L’assedio di Firenze (1856) [The Siege of Florence]. Based upon a novel with the same title by Francesco Domenico Guerazzi, L’assedio di Firenze is a rare example of an opera in which political sentiments are openly proclaimed. Indeed, Bottesini’s use of the chorus appears to be particularly attuned to Mazzini’s idea and proves a case in point of the “moral effect” exercised by the chorus during the great season of Italian melodrama.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 1 No 1 (2015): The Chorus in Drama
Eliciting Bayesian networks via online surveys: a new approach to knowledge elicitation
Creators: name: Serwylo, Peter Edgar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bayesian Networks (BNs) are popular computer models used to perform reasoning under uncertainty. They are popular as they are one of the few computer models able to be constructed by analysing historical data or expert elicitation. The main contribution of this thesis is a new workflow for expert elicitation of BNs, aiming to reduce the associated knowledge elicitation bottleneck. This bottleneck is caused by logistical issues associated with interviewing multiple experts, resolving conflicting opinions among experts, and the combinatorial explosion that occurs when eliciting probabilities. The workflow proposed in this thesis brings together research from the fields of BN construction, knowledge acquisition, the survey methodology, and crowd sourcing. The end result is a workflow for conducting online surveys (SEBN) which has been implemented in an open source online survey tool called BN Elicitator (BNE). This workflow allows a greater number of experts to contribute to the construction of BNs compared to traditional elicitation approaches. It also reduces the workload of the knowledge engineer facilitating the BN elicitation and minimizes the time required of each expert contributing knowledge to the BN. Two evaluation surveys were conducted using the BNE software to measure how successfully the newly proposed technique was able to elicit BNs. The results of these evaluations showed a small improvement over the currently employed methods of eliciting BNs from experts (primarily face to face interviews) but also many undesirable outcomes. The improvements obtained allowed the BNE software to facilitate the elicitation of a BN was faster than would have otherwise been required for face to face interviews. However, the BN resulting from the evaluation did not compare favourably to an existing published BN. Issues with the methods used to collate survey responses into a BN were identified and discussed, such as the choice of crowd sourcing algorithms. Such issues highlight the need for further research in this area to improve the accuracy of BNs elicited using online surveys.
"To Rescue the Fair Fame and Good Name of North Carolina": A  History of The Colonial Records of North Carolina
Creators: name: Andersen, William L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
Historians--North Carolina--History--19th century
Saunders, William Laurence, 1835-1891--Colonial records of North Carolina
North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources
Archives--North Carolina--History

description: Publication of The Colonial Records of North Carolina between 1886 and 1890 was  significant as the culmination of a long series of nineteenth-century efforts to preserve  and make available the source materials of early Tar Heel history, and as the crucial  factor in the establishment of a central archival agency, the North Carolina Historical  Commission, at the turn of the twentieth century. The result of a strong impulse that  combined southern Lost Cause ideology with traditional local pride and the deep-seated  patriotic desire to vindicate the reputation of the state, the Colonial Records remains,  despite its limitations, a signal achievement. This paper traces the origins of the series in  antebellum attempts to collect and publish the documentary heritage of the state, and  follows the development of the postwar editorial project - including the identification and  transcription of relevant state papers in the British Public Record Office in order to fill in  gaps in the archives at home - under the guidance of William L. Saunders.
Accelerations of structural and functional brain connectivity using heterogeneous computing
Creators: name: Zhong, Shenjun
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, the main aims are to accelerate algorithms in diffusion tractography and functional MRI connectivity analysis, by mapping them on parallel architectures. Diffusion Tractography is an algorithm for studying micro-structure of brain white matter (WM), and functional MRI is a neuroimaging procedure to explore the time series of brain activities. Both of these algorithms are widely applied in neuroscience researches. Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR) images can be processed to yield orientation information on the underlying anisotropic distribution of elongated fibers, such as in the white matter of the brain. As MR field strengths increase and scan protocols are improved, the spatial and angular resolution that can be achieved have reached the point where traditional diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) methods are being replaced in favour of non-tensor methods, so as to allow for multiple fiber directions per image voxel. Once the fiber distribution is known, the generation of whole streamlines - stochastic representations of white matter fiber bundles - while computationally dense, is intrinsically parallel and is eminently suited to acceleration with the contemporary graphical processing unit~(GPU). Here, we report the design, implementation, validation and performance analysis of two different parallel mappings of the standard probabilistic tracking algorithm that is applied to DW MR images represented in spherical harmonics. We achieve a 10x speedup on a commodity GPU, compared to the standard multi-core CPU implementation, while recovering the expected distribution of the streamlines. Our parallel implementation scales well across different hardware and problem sizes. The best rate achieved is one million streamlines computed in less than 20 seconds. The work on the accelerated sliding-window-based spatial ICA components tracking on functional MRI time-series data is also main part of our project, which is a more flexible approach of studying brain functional dynamics than traditional Region-of-Interests (ROI)-based analysis. In order to perform real-time ICA processes, we are investigating into the parallel mapping and implementations of the FastICA algorithm on GPU(s) to achieve less than 2 seconds (i.e. the sampling speed of the current scanning for fMRI sequences). This may open new possibilities of performing real-time neurofeedback studies and intraoperative image-guided neurosurgery.
A Product Review of Zotero
Creators: name: Lucas, Daniel V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer software--Zotero
Bibliographical citations--Zotero
Database management systems

description: This paper evaluates Zotero, a reference management software add-on for the Firefox  browser. The evaluation looks at Zotero's performance while installing the add-on,  entering citations, organizing and retrieving citations, enhancing citations with snapshots  and attachments, and using citations in papers and bibliographies from the perspective of  a student using the tool to create bibliographies and citations and a researcher looking to  organize their citation collection.
A community role approach to assess social capitalists visibility in the Twitter network
Creators: name: Dugué, Nicolas
name: Labatut, Vincent
name: Perez, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Twitter, social capitalists are specific users trying to increase their number of followers and interactions by any means. These users are not healthy for the service, because they are either spammers or real users flawing the notions of influence and visibility. Studying their behavior and understanding their position in Twit-ter is thus of important interest. It is also necessary to analyze how these methods effectively affect user visibility. Based on a recently proposed method allowing to identify social capitalists, we tackle both points by studying how they are organized, and how their links spread across the Twitter follower-followee network. To that aim, we consider their position in the network w.r.t. its community structure. We use the concept of community role of a node, which describes its position in a network depending on its connectiv-ity at the community level. However, the topological measures originally defined to characterize these roles consider only certain aspects of the community-related connectivity, and rely on a set of empirically fixed thresholds. We first show the limitations of these measures, before extending and generalizing them. Moreover, we use an unsupervised approach to identify the roles, in order to provide more flexibility relatively to the studied system. We then apply our method to the case of social capitalists and show they are highly visible on Twitter, due to the specific roles they hold.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1406.6611
Supplemental Material from Exploring enablers and barriers to implementing the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines: a theory-based survey of journal editors
Creators: name: Naaman, Kevin
name: Grant, Sean
name: Kianersi, Sina
name: Supplee, Lauren
name: Henschel, Beate
name: Mayo-Wilson, Evan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Survey materials, qualitative responses, and data tables.
Machine Learning Approach for Genre Prediction on Spotify Top Ranking Songs
Creators: name: Luo, Kehan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: Music prediction
Machine learning
Data analysis

description: This paper analyzed the audio features and genres of top ranking songs on Spotify from January to August in 2017. The dataset consists of daily top ranking songs, their audio features and genres. The data was collected from Kaggle.com, Spotify Web API, and Discogs AIPs. Analysis contains summary statistics, principal component analysis, and machine learning classifier implementation and evaluation. The principal component analysis converted nine audio features into three principal components and they are named as sound, words in lyrics, and rhythm according to the description of audio features they include. The machine learning method takes audio features and genres as input and predicts genres for songs in the test set based on their audio features. The classifier achieved 46.9% accuracy which is not as good as expected. Detailed procedures, results and analysis are provided.