cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Profiling of diferulates (plant cell wall cross-linkers) using ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Vismeh, Ramin
name: Lu, Fachuang
name: Chundawat, Shishir P. S.
name: Humpula, James F.
name: Azarpira, Ali
name: Balan, Venkatesh
name: Dale, Bruce E.
name: Ralph, John
name: Jones, A. Daniel
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Animal feed
Cell wall
High pressure liquid chromatography
Coumaric acids
Plant cells
Tandem mass spectrometry

description: Recalcitrance of grasses to enzymatic digestion arises to a significant degree from a complex array of phenolic crosslinks between cell wall polysaccharide chains that inhibit their conversion to biofuels and lower their nutritive value for animal feed applications. Polysaccharide esters of ferulic acid are abundant in plant cell walls. Crosslinks between polysaccharides are formed through oxidative dehydrodimerization of ferulates, producing dehydrodiferulates (henceforth termed diferulates). Such ferulates and diferulates further crosslink plant cell walls by radical coupling cross-reactions during lignification. Although cell wall digestibility can be improved by cell wall metabolic engineering, or post-harvest by various pretreatment processes, a more comprehensive understanding of the role and impact of ferulate crosslinking on polysaccharide hydrolysis would be accelerated by availability of analytical methods that can distinguish the various diferulates released during biomass pretreatments, many of which are isomers. In this report, we present an ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC/MS/MS) strategy for comprehensive separation and identification of diferulate isomers. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectra of [M + H]+ ions distinguished various isomers without requiring derivatization. Characteristic product ions for 8-O-4-, 8-8-non-cyclic, 8-8-cyclic, 8-5-cyclic, 8-5-non-cyclic, and 5-5-linked isomers were identified. All diferulates were identified either as di-acids in extracts of NaOH-hydrolyzed corn stover, or as a diverse group of diferulate mono- and di-amides in extracts of Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX™)-treated corn stover. This approach allows for direct analysis of released diferulates with minimal sample preparation, and can serve as the foundation for high-throughput profiling and correlating pretreatment conditions with biomass digestibility in biorefineries producing biofuels and biochemicals.
How COVID-19 changed clinical research strategies: a global survey.
Creators: name: Bauer, Annina
name: Eskat, Anja
name: Ntekim, Atara
name: Wong, Creany
name: Eberle, Deborah
name: Hedayati, Elham
name: Tay, Fabian
name: Yau, Henry
name: Stockley, Louise
name: De Medina Redondo, María
name: Şen, Selçuk
name: Egert-Schwender, Silvia
name: Üresin, Yağız
name: Grossmann, Regina
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Prospective Clinical Research Report
COVID-19
pandemic
clinical trial unit
academic research institution
clinical research
research ethics
regulatory authorities
trial management
central trial coordination
rapid review

description: OBJECTIVE: Clinical research has faced new challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to excessive operational demands affecting all stakeholders. We evaluated the impact of COVID-19 on clinical research strategies and compared different adaptations by regulatory bodies and academic research institutions in a global context, exploring what can be learned for possible future pandemics. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional online survey and identified and assessed different COVID-19-specific adaptation strategies used by academic research institutions and regulatory bodies. RESULTS: All 19 participating academic research institutions developed and followed similar strategies, including preventive measures, manpower recruitment, and prioritisation of COVID-19 projects. In contrast, measures for centralised management or coordination of COVID-19 projects, project preselection, and funding were handled differently amongst institutions. Regulatory bodies responded similarly to the pandemic by implementing fast-track authorisation procedures for COVID-19 projects and developing guidance documents. Quality and consistency of the information and advice provided was rated differently amongst institutions. CONCLUSION: Both academic research institutions and regulatory bodies worldwide were able to cope with challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic by developing similar strategies. We identified some unique approaches to ensure fast and efficient responses to a pandemic. Ethical concerns should be addressed in any new decision-making process.
A quantitive study of small disjuncts: experiments and results
Creators: name: Weiss, Gary M.
name: Hirsh, Haym
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: Systems that learn from examples often express the learned concept in the form of a disjunctive description. Disjuncts that correctly classify few training examples are known as small disjuncts and are interesting to machine learning researchers because they have a much higher error rate than large disjuncts. Previous research has investigated this phenomenon by performing ad hoc analyses of a small number of datasets. In this paper we present a quantitative measure for evaluating the effect of small disjuncts on learning and use it to analyze 30 benchmark datasets. We investigate the relationship between small disjuncts and pruning, training set size and noise, and come up with several interesting results.
Arctic tundra soil bacterial communities active at subzero temperatures detected by stable isotope probing
Creators: name: Gadkari, Preshita S.
name: McGuinness, Lora R.
name: Männistö, Minna K.
name: Kerkhof, Lee J.
name: Häggblom, Max M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020

description: Arctic soils store vast amounts of carbon and are subject to intense climate change. While effects of thaw on the composition and activities of Arctic tundra microorganisms has been examined extensively, little is known about the consequences of temperature fluctuations within the subzero range in seasonally frozen or permafrost soils. This study identified tundra soil bacteria active at subzero temperatures using stable isotope probing (SIP). Soils from Kilpisjärvi, Finland were amended with 13C-cellobiose and incubated at 0, -4, and -16°C for up to 40 weeks. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of 13C-labelled DNA revealed distinct subzero-active bacterial taxa. The SIP experiments demonstrated that diverse bacteria, including members of Candidatus Saccharibacteria, Melioribacteraceae, Verrucomicrobiaceae, Burkholderiaceae, Acetobacteraceae, Armatimonadaceae, and Planctomycetaceae were capable of synthesizing 13C-DNA at subzero temperatures. Differences in subzero temperature optima were observed, for example with members of Oxalobacteraceae and Rhizobiaceae found to be more active at 0°C than at -4°C or -16°C, whereas Melioribacteriaceae were active at all subzero temperatures tested. Phylogeny of 13C-labelled 16S rRNA genes from the Melioribacteriaceae, Verrucomicrobiaceae, and Candidatus Saccharibacteria suggested that these taxa formed subzero-active clusters closely related to members from other cryo-environments. This study demonstrates that subzero temperatures impact active bacterial community composition and activity which may influence biogeochemical cycles.
New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford 'gateway' suburbs
Creators: name: Easthope, Hazel
name: Stone, Wendy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The concentration of disadvantaged people in certain parts of cities is almost always seen as undesirable by urban researchers and policymakers. But is this always the case? Our research demonstrates that it isn't. Concentrations of people who are often classified as "disadvantaged" - namely newly arrived humanitarian refugees and their families - can have significant positive outcomes. This is because such "gateway suburbs", while housing large numbers of disadvantaged people, are not disadvantaged places. As part of a broader research project, we chose two suburbs that were identified as disadvantaged and characterised by high numbers of immigrants. We spoke with residents and local service providers about their experiences, place changes over time and current settlement opportunities for newly arriving migrants. The suburbs we chose were Auburn in Sydney and Springvale in Melbourne.
Large language model prompting strategies for automated scoring of aphasia assessments: an empirical study
Creators: name: Bedrick, Steven
name: Salem, Alexandra
name: Gale, Robert
name: Fergadiotis, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
Informatics
Aphasia
Stroke
Natural Language Processing
Quality of Life

description: Anomia is the inability to access and retrieve the intended words during language production, and is a cardinal feature of the acquired neurogenic language disorder known as aphasia. Aphasia affects 2.5-4 million people in the US and, given the aging trend in the population, the incidence of aphasia will increase in the coming decades. Communication difficulties have a significant impact on the health-related quality of life of people with aphasia (PWA), and are associated with substantial healthcare costs. As such, diagnosis and assessment of word retrieval is essential.
A systems genomics approach to uncover patient-specific pathogenic pathways and proteins in ulcerative colitis.
Creators: name: Brooks-Warburton, Johanne
name: Modos, Dezso
name: Sudhakar, Padhmanand
name: Madgwick, Matthew
name: Thomas, John P
name: Bohar, Balazs
name: Fazekas, David
name: Zoufir, Azedine
name: Kapuy, Orsolya
name: Szalay-Beko, Mate
name: Verstockt, Bram
name: Hall, Lindsay J
name: Watson, Alastair
name: Tremelling, Mark
name: Parkes, Miles
name: Vermeire, Severine
name: Bender, Andreas
name: Carding, Simon R
name: Korcsmaros, Tamas
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
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article

description: Funder: European research council grant number 336159
description: Funder: European Research Council Advanced Grant ERC-2015-AdG, 694679, CrUCCial
description: Funder: Academic Clinical Fellow supported by the National Institute of Health Research Health Education England (HEE) Genomics Education Programme
description: Funder: National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary under Grant FK 13426
description: Funder: Clinical Research Fund (KOOR), University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium
description: Funder: Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards (100974/Z/13/Z and 220876/Z/20/Z)
description: Funder: Norwich Research Park Translational Fund NRP/TF/5.3
description: We describe a precision medicine workflow, the integrated single nucleotide polymorphism network platform (iSNP), designed to determine the mechanisms by which SNPs affect cellular regulatory networks, and how SNP co-occurrences contribute to disease pathogenesis in ulcerative colitis (UC). Using SNP profiles of 378 UC patients we map the regulatory effects of the SNPs to a human signalling network containing protein-protein, miRNA-mRNA and transcription factor binding interactions. With unsupervised clustering algorithms we group these patient-specific networks into four distinct clusters driven by PRKCB, HLA, SNAI1/CEBPB/PTPN1 and VEGFA/XPO5/POLH hubs. The pathway analysis identifies calcium homeostasis, wound healing and cell motility as key processes in UC pathogenesis. Using transcriptomic data from an independent patient cohort, with three complementary validation approaches focusing on the SNP-affected genes, the patient specific modules and affected functions, we confirm the regulatory impact of non-coding SNPs. iSNP identified regulatory effects for disease-associated non-coding SNPs, and by predicting the patient-specific pathogenic processes, we propose a systems-level way to stratify patients.
Language Purism and Gender: Icelandic Trans* Activists and the Icelandic Linguistic Gender Binary
Creators: name: Josephson, Jyl
name: Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gender binary
Trans* identities
Icelandic language
Icelandic nationalism
Language frontier

description: In this essay, the authors offer the case of Iceland as a “language frontier” for the trans* community, given the nationalistic linguistic context and the deeply gendered nature of the Icelandic language.We begin by briefly outlining the legal situation with respect to trans* identification and the ability to transition. We then outline the conflict over terminology in the context of the Icelandic language and Icelandic national identity. Using empirical interview data, we discuss the difficulty Icelandic poses as a language for trans* identified people, given the deeply gendered nature of the language. We see no easy solution to this complex problem of language, nationalism, and identity.
title: A novel MRI compatible mouse fracture model to characterize and monitor bone regeneration and tissue composition
Creators: name: Schmitz, Nina
name: Timmen, Melanie
name: Kostka, Katharina
name: Hörr, Verena
name: Schwarz, Christian
name: Faber, Cornelius
name: Hansen, Uwe
name: Matthys, Romano
name: Raschke, Michael J.
name: Stange, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Over the last years, murine in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributed to a new understanding of tissue composition, regeneration and diseases. Due to artefacts generated by the currently used metal implants, MRI is limited in fracture healing research so far. In this study, we investigated a novel MRI-compatible, ceramic intramedullary fracture implant during bone regeneration in mice. Three-point-bending revealed a higher stiffness of the ceramic material compared to the metal implants. Electron microscopy displayed a rough surface of the ceramic implant that was comparable to standard metal devices and allowed cell attachment and growth of osteoblastic cells. MicroCT-imaging illustrated the development of the callus around the fracture site indicating a regular progressing healing process when using the novel implant. In MRI, different callus tissues and the implant could clearly be distinguished from each other without any artefacts. Monitoring fracture healing using MRI-compatible implants will improve our knowledge of callus tissue regeneration by 3D insights longitudinal in the same living organism, which might also help to reduce the consumption of animals for future fracture healing studies, significantly. Finally, this study may be translated into clinical application to improve our knowledge about human bone regeneration.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
title: Le riviste di architettura come strumenti del progetto
Creators: name: Ferlenga, Alberto
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Casabella Continuita
David and Friedrich Gillys Sammlung
Architectural Theories
Architectural Journals

description: Aim of this essay is to propose a reflection on the role of journals in the renovation of architecture. For this purpose an excursus through specific episodes in the nature and history of the communication of architectural theories and practices is attempted, from the first treaties to the birth of magazines at the end of the XVIII century. The theoretical elaboration of architecture in the past was concentrated in treaties, but when modernity manifests itself in new phenomena of transformation involving the whole human environment, other instruments become necessary to reshuffle the cards of knowledge and make it possible to understand what has been going on for a long time, but is difficult to “see”. Works “to establish principles”, “propose rules” and “fix taste”, as Marc-Antoine Laugier asked in 1755. And catalogues, repertories, and magazines are among these instruments. Prominent is the case of “Sammlung Nützlicher Aufsätze und Nachrichten die Baukunst Betreffend. Für Angehende Baumeister und Freunde der Architektur”, the first issue of which was published in Berlin in 1797 on the initiative of David Gilly. Its short life and influence were similar to other magazines that came out in the first decades of the XX century, all of which had a fleeting life and were run by “militant” architects rather than generic directors or editors. “Casabella-Continuità” proved to be a place of reflection, professional renewal and cultural struggle and, somehow like Gilly’s “Sammlung”, will be the cradle of a new generation of architects who developed the most important part of their training within it; as a whole it will constitute a real instrument of cultural re-foundation. The most incisive journals have never been the first promoters of new seasons, but rather careful and selective collectors of what the world was expressing: new needs, new instances, new sensibilities, new projects; moments, at the same time, of rereading the past and of critical reading of the present, particularly careful to use the specific point of view of architecture in all its potentiality, to strengthen it, and to transform the particular ability of architects to intervene on the form of the world into a useful and conscious instrument of improvement.
A Randomized Depression Prevention Trial Comparing Interpersonal Psychotherapy--Adolescent Skills Training to Group Counseling in Schools
Creators: name: Young, Jami F.
name: Benas, Jessica S.
name: Schueler, Christie M.
name: Gallop, Robert
name: Gillham, Jane E.
name: Mufson, Laura
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2017
Subjects: Depression in adolescence
Depression, Mental--Prevention
Group counseling for teenagers
Skills training

description: Given the rise in depression disorders in adolescence, it is important to develop and study depression prevention programs for this age group. The current study examined the efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), a group prevention program for adolescent depression, in comparison to group programs that are typically delivered in school settings. In this indicated prevention trial, 186 adolescents with elevated depression symptoms were randomized to receive IPT-AST delivered by research staff or group counseling (GC) delivered by school counselors. Hierarchical linear modeling examined differences in rates of change in depressive symptoms and overall functioning from baseline to the 6-month follow-up assessment. Cox regression compared rates of depression diagnoses. Adolescents in IPT-AST showed significantly greater improvements in self-reported depressive symptoms and evaluator-rated overall functioning than GC adolescents from baseline to the 6-month follow-up. However, there were no significant differences between the two conditions in onset of depression diagnoses. Although both intervention conditions demonstrated significant improvements in depressive symptoms and overall functioning, results indicate that IPT-AST has modest benefits over groups run by school counselors which were matched on frequency and duration of sessions. In particular, IPT-AST outperformed GC in reduction of depressive symptoms and improvements in overall functioning. These findings point to the clinical utility of this depression prevention program, at least in the short-term. Additional follow-up is needed to determine the long-term effects of IPT-AST, relative to GC, particularly in preventing depression onset.
Human occupation development in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt with Alpine and Himalayan reflections in the light of rural-urban development ‘socio-economy’, semi-arid watershed management ‘cocio-ecology’ and land use policy ‘governance’
Creators: name: Shams El Din, Ahmed
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: NX Arts in general

description: In theory and practice, centralization, sub-optimization, and transborder crisscross culture have been extensively discussed over decades with limited progress on the interdisciplinary level in the developing countries (precisely in the remote semi-arid highland regions: the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula). Post the Egyptian National Reforms Revolution of January 25, 2011 CE, the need for a decentralized governance structure in the Arab Republic of Egypt surfaced once again as one of the very demanding reforms for socio-economic and socio-ecological sustainable development., accounting to several domestic (e.g. social strategy, behaviour and stratification; traditional tribal system ‘kinship seniority’ and  alliances; social homogeneity subdivisions; survival strategies and interaction; urbanization, trade and mobility; productivity and resources exploitation) and external ones (e.g. cross political and economic interest, and warfare). A Comparative Corporate Governance Model ‘CCGM’ based on three integrated sub-models is conducted to identify, address, and feasibly resolve the previously discussed issues: 1 a newly modified timeline-based version of Quality Function Deployment ‘QFD’, addressing the socioeconomic aspects and needs (i.e. issues of interest; domestic and global practice); 2 heritage-based arid/semi-arid watershed management model, utilizing the heritage economic-conservation and experimental  archeology methodologies and techniques as the core for a low cost model; 3 dynamic sub-monitoring model, enabling multilevel decision making actions (i.e.  predictive/preventive); all under routine and  breaking governance events In practice, the high mountains act as a system under pre-defined criteria. The CCGM resolves the legislative and administrative constraints (e.g. land use and ownership) by decentralizing the  planning and decision making process on the micro-local/municipal and macro-regional/governorate levels. It is an interdisciplinary approach towards natural-cultural heritage conservation and preservation under the sustainability and decrease theories while being  subjected to a domestic profit maximization trend. It is conducted inSinai Peninsula with reflections on the Alpine and Himalayan contexts.
South Africa's foreign economic policy: strategies of an emerging power
Creators: name: Steenkamp Fonseca, Raymond
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: In democratic South Africa, the foreign economic policy introduced and implemented was shaped not only by the changes in the international distribution of power, evident in the international economy, but also by what happened at the State level. The ANC’s electoral dominance, strong Executive presidency, and the dominant discourse of liberation ideology, shaped the multilateral character and South-South orientation of foreign economic policy.  Relations with the economic powers, the USA and the EU are initially considered as regards South Africa’s integration into the global economy. More weight is given to the relationship with the G8, the IMF and the WTO and South Africa’s participation in global economic governance. But it is argued that the multilateral setting of the WTO provided the best setting for South Africa’s strategies of reformism through the power of ideas, alliances and coalition building. However the reformist vision in application has resulted more in a foreign policy enhancing bilateral relations rather than contributing to a new articulation of a democratic, multilateral global order.
Un dialogo mancato La ricezione dell’architettura brasiliana sulle riviste italiane (1946-1949)
Creators: name: Pisani, Daniele
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Brazilian Modern Architecture
Italian Architectural Magazines
Fortune
Albe Steiner
Lina Bo Bardi
Pietro Maria Bardi
Luigi Claudio Olivieri

description: The paper aims at investigating the reception of Brazil’s Modern Architecture in the Italian architecture magazines between 1946 and 1949. The result of the research is that, with few exceptions, only a limited number of articles were dedicated to Brazil’s Modern Architecture in this period; and most of these articles were focused on professionals that did work in Brazil but that either emigrated from Italy or were of Italian descent. This way, the peculiar traits of most of the current architectural production in Brazil ended up being misunderstood and omitted. The paper also attempts to understand the reasons (mostly cultural but also depending on other factors, like the difficulty in accessing first-hand information) why there was a missed dialogue between the Italian architectural scene and the internationally acclaimed Brazilian one during this period.
Architettura e cultura della vita La rivista “A” di Lina Bo e Carlo Pagani
Creators: name: Pireddu, Alberto
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lina Bo Bardi
Carlo Pagani
A
Culture
Life

description: “We have to start anew, from letter A, to generate a happy life for everyone” we read on the cover of “A – News, Architecture, Home, Art” first issue, which later became “A – Culture of Life”: the magazine that Lina Bo and Carlo Pagani built with Bruno Zevi in 1946, with the hope of involving an audience as vast as possible during the collective reconstruction of the country, destroyed by the Second World War. The article does explore the suspended space and the brief life of this small utopia, aiming at demonstrating how “A” was the magazine that for its directors, engaged in a very intense outreach activity during such years, meant most of all to understand and pass on the civil value of architecture. Also, the text does explore its themes and contents, depicting its protagonists and unusual graphic design, trying to comprehend the originality of its message, in a national editorial scenario still of always great liveliness, and the uncompromising attitude, politically advanced and, for the same reason revolutionary, that represented its strength and, in a way, the real reason behind its sudden closure.
Improved estimation of population proportion possessing sensitive attribute with unknown repeated trials in randomized response sampling
Creators: name: Singh, H. P.
name: Mathur, N.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper proposes an estimator for population proportion p possessing sensitive attribute under unknown repeated trials model envisaged by Singh and Joarder (1997). The exact bias and mean square error of the proposed estimators are worked out. The superiority of the suggested estimator over Warner (1965) estimator and Singh and Joarder (1997) estimator have been discussed through numerical illustrations. An approximate expression for MSE is also given.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 3 (2004); 537-544
Un confronto tra metodi di identificazione di osservazioni outlier in indagini longitudinali finalizzate alla stima di una variazione: proposte teoriche e verifiche empiriche
Creators: name: Gismondi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: If the main purpose of a sampling survey consists in the estimation of a change concerning a certain quantitative variable, the presence of outliers could lead to significant biases in the estimation process. As a consequence, problems occurring are: a) how identifying outliers; b) how treating them from a statistical point of view. In this paper we tried to evaluate the technique for identifying outliers, originally proposed by Hidiroglou and Berthelot, presenting a new technique as well, that generally leads both to a significantly lower amount of units identified as outliers and of micro-data alterations. Moreover, we proposed and compared some criteria for defining the tolerance intervals. Finally, we carried out an empirical study, in which we compared 14 different ways for dealing with outliers.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 2 (2002); 323-343
Consumers and food recalls: what does the public want to hear?
Creators: name: Hallman, William K.
name: Nucci, Mary L.
name: Hooker, Neal H.
name: Cuite, Cara L.
Publisher: name: International Association for Food Protection
Year: 2009
Subjects: Food recalls
Communication
Perception
Pathogens
Risk assessment
Epidemiology

description: Introduction: Motivating people to appropriately respond to a food recall can be extremely difficult. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify public perceptions of food safety and food recalls, and to determine what messages will encourage the public to perform desired responses to recalls such as checking their homes for the recalled product. Methods: A survey research firm was hired to conduct a national, random-digit dial telephone survey of 1,101 Americans in all 50 states. Data were collected during August and September, 2008. Results: The findings indicate that 80% of Americans believe that food recalls are becoming more frequent, though far fewer believe that the number of recalls increased between 2006 and 2007. Knowledge about the mechanisms of the food recall system is quite low (e.g., 73% believe that the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for recalls of meat and poultry). More than half of Americans (59%) report having looked in their home for recalled foods at least once, and 35% of these report having found some. When asked to rate the types of information that are most important for the media to include in stories about food recalls, the illnesses and symptoms caused by eating the recalled product and whether anyone has become ill from eating the product were rated as the most important. Similarly, respondents said that knowing how many people had been made ill by a food recall would be most likely to motivate them to check their homes for a recalled food product. Significance: Taken together, the findings indicate that before paying attention to any of the more detailed information about food recalls, Americans want to determine whether a food recall applies to them (and the food they eat) and the severity of the problem.
description: 96th annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection
Costellazioni eccentriche L’universo Olivetti e la rivista “Zodiac”
Creators: name: Aymonino, Aldo; Bilò, Federica
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2022
Subjects: Adriano Olivetti
Bruno Alfieri
Zodiac
Architectural Journals

description: This paper is a summary of the research the two authors are carrying into the editorial history of “Zodiac”, which will be published shortly in a book. The first series of “Zodiac” (1957-1973) is published by Edizioni di Comunità, Adriano Olivetti's publishing house. Since it is impossible to understand the intellectual and biographical structure of "Zodiac" without having an idea, albeit approximate, of the complex entrepreneurial, intellectual, editorial and financial history of Olivetti's constellation, the first part of the essay is dedicated to these events. The essay then examines the relationship between Adriano Olivetti and architecture, a relationship based on the theme of community. It then analyses the structure of the magazine, the people involved and the authors who contributed to it. Finally, the essay dwells on the themes and the relationship between articles, images and drawings.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied and the Pavlovian puzzle
Creators: name: Brent, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A visitor to this country over the past week might wonder where, or in what year, he or she has landed. It’s now nine sleeps since Anzac Day 2017, and hundreds of articles and hours of rolling outrage have been expended on a few words posted on Facebook by part-time ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied on 25 April: "LEST. WE. FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)" The post was quickly taken down and an apology published. Too late. Immigration minister Peter Dutton called it a "disgrace"; assistant multicultural affairs minister Zed Seselja, one of several Coalition figures calling for Abdel-Magied’s sacking, found it "despicable." Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce gleaned from the incident a "sense that the culture of the ABC is in some instances at odds with the culture of Australia." Former prime minister Tony Abbott invoked his beloved "Team Australia" to explain that "the ABC is supposed to support Australia, it’s supposed to support Australian values, and there's nothing more Australian, nothing more sacred than the commemoration of Anzac Day."
Caos, statistica e metodi di ricampionamento
Creators: name: Giannerini, S.
name: Rosa, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Chaos theory offers to the statistician new perspectives for time series analysis as well as concepts and ideas that have a through contribution to statistics. On the other hand, statistical methodology has shown to play a crucial role for the comprehension of nonlinear and chaotic phenomena. From this standpoint we present some essential notions for the analysis of chaotic time series. Particular attention is given to the problem of estimating Lyapunov exponents, together with the derivation of confidence intervals for estimates. For this latter problem we propose a solution based on resampling by means of spline interpolation. We show from simulations that the distribution of the maximal Lyapunov exponent obtained by way of resampling a single series with our method, agrees with the true distribution obtained from series with different initial conditions.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 359-378
Leveraging collaborative research and community-engaged partnerships for inclusive data science training and capacity building
Creators: name: Paris, Stephanie
name: Espinosa, Shanthia N.
name: Link, Aaron R.
name: Braley, Amanda
name: Marriott, Lisa K.
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
subject: Data Science
subject: diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)
subject: representation
subject: demographics
subject: outreach
subject: educational scholarship

description: Training programs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) share a common goal of enhancing education and support for their students, emphasizing the importance of measuring student access, engagement, and retention across disciplines and training levels to understand their impact. Demographics should be representative of the complexity and intersectionality of student identities, with Executive Orders calling for expansion of demographic data collection practices to incorporate broader categories of race, ethnicity, religion, income, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. In August 2023, OHSU received a new five-year Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Data Science Strategy to expand data science training for middle and high school students. The collaborative project aims to 1) identify considerations for inclusive demographic data collection and responsible reporting; 2) establish a training collaborative that aligns qualitative research with data science outputs to enhance authentic representation of a diverse biomedical workforce; and 3) characterize how demographic data are used to make decisions and inform practice.
Metodi non parametrici multivariati: un'applicazione al caso della crescita
Creators: name: Pacini, Barbara
name: Pellegrini, Guido
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Nonparametric analysis of shape and dynamics of probability distributions has recently been used to identify clustering and polarization phenomena in regional economic development (Quah, 1997 a, b). The technique used to investigate which variables are relevant in determining such polarization phenomena is known as conditioning. So far this kind of approach has been applied only in a univariate context. In this paper, we propose a more general framework, referring to the literature on nonparametric local regression techniques. Following this alternative approach we are able to study the joint effect of two or more variables on the shape of the distribution of growth. An empirical illustration is given for the distribution of employment rate in 784 Italian Local Labour Markets.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 379-395
Learning to Find Out: Theories of Knowledge and Learning in Field Research
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Sage Publications
Year: 1997
Subjects: Ethnography
Ethnology
Theories of knowledge
Knowledge, Sociology of
Fieldwork

description: In Learning how to Ask (1992), Charles Briggs argues that asking questions follows cultural conventions. Fieldworkers carry assumptions about the nature of talk and knowledge, and their questions may elicit different kinds of information and relationships than expected. This essay looks ethnographically at theories of knowledge in Akuapem, Ghana, and how they interacted with my own native theories in interviews. Learning local conventions of knowledge-transmission thus becomes one of the major tasks for the fieldworker.
description: Fulbright Grant
Kriging with mixed effects models
Creators: name: Pollice, Alessio
name: Bilancia, Massimo
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper the effectiveness of the use of mixed effects models for estimation and prediction purposes in spatial statistics for continuous data is reviewed in the classical and Bayesian frameworks. A case study on agricultural data is also provided.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 405-429
Indicatori statistici per la valutazione della qualità della didattica universitaria: una proposta metodologica
Creators: name: Russo, Massimo Alfonso
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The measurement of the teaching quality is nowadays one of the basic target if the university training offer wants to be optimised. With respect to this, the law n. 370/99 represented a strong incentive to the search for techniques aimed to the identification of indicators which are capable to adequately measure the university teaching quality. However, numerous statistical methods exist which attempt to identify appropriate indicators. In this work we firstly analyse the main quantitative techniques from which it is possible to achieve multidimensional gross indicators. Afterwards, we propose an alternative methodological procedure. Its main feature is that the resulting quantitative measure of synthesis does not require any preventive numerical transformation of the modalities of the ordinal qualitative variables observed. Furthermore, it is independent from both theoretical constraints and the arbitrary effect of individual choices. Lastly, as an empirical application and for comparative purposes, we carry out an analysis while using the new qualitative indicator. To this end, we use data from questionnaires submitted to the students of the University of Foggia during the academic year 2000-2001.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 431-452
Una proposta di meta-analisi basata sulla combinazione di classificatori per il problema del riconoscimento del parlatore
Creators: name: Brutti, Pierpaolo
name: Fabi, Francesco
name: Jona Lasinio, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often different features extracted from raw data used for identification. Methods of combining multiple classifiers with different features are viewed as a general problem in various application areas. In this paper some statistical methods based on mixtures of experts models able to combine classifiers and different feature sets are illustrated and applied to the text-independent speaker recognition problem. The comparison takes place on the basis of a dataset composed of more then 50 vocal signals (Italian speakers, phone calls recording).
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 455-473
Un metodo statistico per il riconoscimento del parlatore basato sull'analisi dei formanti
Creators: name: Bove, Tommaso
name: Giua, Paolo Emilio
name: Forte, Alessandra
name: Rossi, Carla
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper, a method for the forensic identification of speakers is presented, based on the analysis of the pitch and the first three formants of the four vowel: "a", "e", "i" and "o". Using these data, the method estimates the probability density function (pdf) of the Mahalanobis distance both of the defendant from himself (intra-distance estimation) and from the voices of the control set (inter-distance estimation), using the Kernel method for each vowel. The Mahalanobis norm is then used to estimate the pdf related to the four vowel. The sample under study is then classified according to the Maximum Likelihood Criterion approach. This allows one to estimate a unique decision threshold and the probabilities of the two possible classification errors (false acceptance and false rejection). The method has been applied to real data provided by Police Scientific Service of Rome, in the framework of a European Project.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 3 (2002); 475-490
Segomotsi
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In story writing, characters and their creators share a symbiotic relationship. In protagonist Sienna, the story subconsciously, and then consciously, unravels forms of grieving and guides its players (author, character, reader) toward reconciliation with loss and self. ‘Segomotsi’ borrows from reality and the imagined, from the conscious and unconscious. I am applying the self as data in the ‘lived experience’ of studying my own grief (auto-ethnography) and that of Sienna’s (ethnography). In its study of grief, the story indicates there is no clean separation of author and reader. With the self as subject, cathartic narrative can be a starting point for viewing new worlds.
Estimating the sampling uncertainty for the analysis of solid refused fuel
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Varianzanalyse
Abfallverbrennung

description: Uncertainty assessment of the parameters used for the reporting in the emissions trading system (ETS) to characterize fuels includes not only the processes in a laboratory but has to be expanded for inclusion of sampling and sample preparation. Analysis of variance was used to allocate the contributing uncertainties to the steps described. Apart from some specific results for sampling methods, it was observed that the uncertainty of sampling was in the same order of magnitude than the analytical and the sample preparation error. Several measures to enhance quality assurance in sampling and sample preparation could be derived from specific results. The results were used in the European Monitoring and Reporting Regulation, which set out the requirements for ETS. Sampling and sample preparation have to be included in uncertainty assessment as well as sampling procedures and sampling plans (including quality assurance) have to be agreed upon by the laboratories, carrying out the analytics of those samples.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Coutumes du bailliage de Saint Mihiel. Avec les ordonnances faites sur le stile et réglement de la justice au siége dudit bailliage, et aux inférieurs y ressortissans. Redigées par écrit par ordonnance de Sérénissime Prince Charles, par la grace de Dieu, Duc de Calabre, Lorraine, Bar, Gueldres, et c. Et homologuées par Son Altesse au mois de novembre mil cinq cens nonante-huit. Ensemble les articles réhomologuez par Son Altesse à présent régnant, étant en sa ville de Nancy, le vingt-troisiéme jour du mois de juillet mil six cens neuf
Creators: name: Bourgeois, Jean (Préface)
Publisher: name: Chés Jean Antoine, imprimeur et marchand libraire, au coin de la place d'Armes, à S. Jean l'Evangeliste. (A Metz)
Year: 1706
Subjects: subject: France
subject: Politique et gouvernement
subject: Saint-Mihiel
subject: Droit coutumier
subject: France
subject: Politics and government
subject: Early works to 1800
subject: Saint-Mihiel
subject: Customary law

description: Epistre signée Jean Bourgeois
description: Signatures  a8, B-X4/8, Y4
description: Reliure 18 e s.
description: Contient "Anciennes coutumes du bailliage de Saint Mihiel (p. 131-152)" "Ordonnances sur le stile et réglement de la justice en la cour du Bailliage de Saint Mihiel, et és cours inferieures y ressortissantes (p. 153-218)"
ApproxHadoop: Bringing Approximations to MapReduce Frameworks
Creators: name: Goiri, Inigo
name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Santosh, Nagarakatte
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017

description: Research has shown that approximate computing is effective at reducing the resource requirements, computation time, and/or energy consumption of large-scale computing. In this paper, we We propose and evaluate a framework for creating and running approximation-enabled MapReduce programs. Specifically, we propose approximation mechanisms that fit naturally into the MapReduce paradigm, including input data sampling, task dropping, and accepting and running a precise and a user-defined approximate version of the MapReduce code. We then show how to leverage statistical theories to compute error bounds for popular classes of MapReduce programs when approximating with input data sampling and/or task dropping. We implement the proposed mechanisms and error bound estimations in a prototype system called ApproxHadoop. Our evaluation uses MapReduce applications from different domains, including data analytics, scientific computing, video encoding, and machine learning. Our results show that ApproxHadoop can significantly reduce application execution time and/or energy consumption when the user is willing to tolerate small errors. For example, ApproxHadoop can reduce runtimes by up to 32× when the user can tolerate an error of 1% with 95% confidence. We conclude that our framework and system can make approximation easily accessible to many application domains using the MapReduce model.