cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparison of the Discrete-Ordinates Method and the Finite-Volume Method for Steady-State and Ultrafast Radiative Transfer Analysis in Cylindrical Coordinates
Creators: name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Hunter, Brian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Radiation
Heat Transfer
Computation
Discrete-Ordinates Method
Finite Volume Method

description: The time-dependent equation of radiative transfer is solved for an axisymmetric cylindrical medium using both the discrete-ordinates method and the finite-volume method. Steady and transient flux profiles are determined for absorbing and scattering media. Results for each solution method are compared and shown for various grid numbers, scattering albedos, and optical thicknesses. A comparison of computational time and memory usage between the methods is presented. It is found that the finite-volume method uses more memory and has a longer convergence time than the discrete-ordinates method for all cases, due to the difference in angular treatment.
Notes on the fourth HPCD Workshop
Creators: name: Davison, Brian D.
name: Miyake, Keith M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: The fourth HPCD Workshop was held at Rutgers University on July 17 and 18, 1997, which was approximately the midpoint of the fourth year of the four year project. The workshop provided the opportunity to review the project goals, to bring together the people related to the project, summarize the experiences, and identify spinoffs and outgrowths of the HPCD effort. During the technical sessions of the workshop, investigators from each of the project's areas summarized the research that had been done in the project, concentrating on the previous year. This memo briefly outlines each talk and any ensuing discussion.
Additional file 2 of Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic – a literature review for clinical practice
Creators: name: Lubbe, Welma
name: Botha, Elina
name: Niela-Vilen, Hannakaisa
name: Reimers, Penny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Mothers guide to breastfeeding and COVID-19.
Additional file 9 of Pharmacogenomics of in vitro response of the NCI-60 cancer cell line panel to Indian natural products
Creators: name: Sankaran, Hari
name: Negi, Simarjeet
name: McShane, Lisa M.
name: Zhao, Yingdong
name: Krushkal, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. Supplementary Table 3: Negatively correlated pathways in Subtree 3
Additional file 1 of The relationship between a microfinance-based healthcare delivery platform, health insurance coverage, health screenings, and disease management in rural Western Kenya
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Molly
name: Amisi, James Akiruga
name: Szkwarko, Daria
name: Tran, Dan N.
name: Genberg, Becky
name: Luetke, Maya
name: Kianersi, Sina
name: Namae, Jane
name: Laktabai, Jeremiah
name: Sonak Pastakia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Characteristics of the study population of 300 residents of two communities in rural western Kenya, 2018–2019, stratified by microfinance group and two control group communities.
Not a Nurse, Not Househelp: The New Occupation of Elder Carer in Urban Ghana
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Elder care
Domestic service
Education
Aging
Ghana

description: As Ghana goes through a demographic transition, in which people are living longer and with long-term, chronic diseases (de-Graft Aikins et al 2012), families are experiencing a growing strain in caring for their elderly and frail members. Reciprocities across the generations are changing (Aboderin 2006, Apt 1996, Dsane 2013). There is a growing demand for elder care providers to supplement the direct care of kin busy with work and school in Ghana and abroad. Middle-class households in urban and peri-urban areas tend to use the labor of househelp and fostered adolescents for this purpose, while wealthier households and middle-class urban households with access to migrant remittances increasingly turn to carers hired through commercial nursing agencies, who supplement the work of househelp and fostered adolescents and work alongside them in households. Thus, changes in ageing in Ghana have generated a new, emergent occupation: the elder carer. Although the occupation is modeled after its counterpart in the United Kingdom and other Western countries, I argue that it is understood in relation and opposition to recognized social roles in Ghana, in particular those of daughter, househelp, and nurse.
Plexippus bhutani Zabka 1990
Creators: name: Peng, Xian-Jin
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Yang, Zi-Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Plexippus
Plexippus bhutani

description: Plexippus bhutani Zabka
 Plexippus bhutani Zabka – Xie & Peng, 1993: 21, Figs. 9-11 (female); Peng et al., 1993: 180, Figs. 629-631 (female); Song Zhu & Chen, 1999: 540, Figs. 311a, 312a (female).
  Material examined. –  1 female (IZCAS), Cangshan Mountain, Dali Bai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, 9 Mar.2002, coll. Z. X. Li; 1 female (ZRC), Wuying Town, Weishan District, Yunnan Province, China, 8 Jun.1999, coll. Z. X. Li.
  Distribution. –  Bhutan, China (Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Peng, Xian-Jin, Li, Shuqiang & Yang, Zi-Zhong, 2004, The Jumping Spiders From Dali, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 413-417 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 416, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244117
Active elastodynamic cloaking
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Amirkulova, Feruza A.
name: Parnell, William J.
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2014
Subjects: Active cloaking
Elastodynamics
Graf's addition theorem
Multipole
Source amplitudes
Bessel functions
Fraunhofer region (Electromagnetism)
Elastic waves
Harmonic analysis (Mathematics)

description: An active elastodynamic cloak destructively interferes with an incident time harmonic in-plane (coupled compressional/shear) elastic wave to produce zero total elastic field over a finite spatial region. A method is described which explicitly predicts the source amplitudes of the active field. For a given number of sources and their positions in two dimensions it is shown that the multipole amplitudes can be expressed as infinite sums of the coefficients of the incident wave decomposed into regular Bessel functions. Importantly, the active field generated by the sources vanishes in the far-field. In practice the infinite summations are clearly required to be truncated and the accuracy of cloaking is studied when the truncation parameter is modified.
Additional file 1 of Health systems strengthening interventions for perinatal common mental disorders and experiences of domestic violence in Cape Town, South Africa: protocol for a pilot implementation study
Creators: name: Abrahams, Zulfa
name: Schneider, Marguerite
name: Honikman, Simone
name: Olckers, Patti
name: Boisits, Sonet
name: Seward, Nadine
name: Lund, Crick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Overview of study designs used during the Pre-Implementation Phase [43].
Additional file 1 of Mesenchymal stem cell-based Smad7 gene therapy for experimental liver cirrhosis
Creators: name: Dong-Na Su
name: Shi-Pin Wu
name: Xu, Shang-Zhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Example of cultured bone marrow MSCs and the expression of Smad7-EGFP. (A) Example of MSCs isolated from rat bone marrow and cultured at passage 1. (B) MSCs infected with a lentiviral vector carrying Smad7-EGFP gene. Supplementary Fig. 2. Examples of western blotting. The cropped box areas are presented in Fig. 5. Lane 1: Cirrhosis+MSC-Smad7 (21 day); Lane 2: Cirrhosis+BMSCs (21 day); Lane 3 Cirrhosis (21 day); Lane 4: Conrol (21 day); Lane 5: Cirrhosis+MSC-Smad7 (7 day); Lane 6: Cirrhosis+BMSCs (7 day); Lane 7: Cirrhosis (7 day); Lane 8: Control (7 day). Supplementary Table 1. Primer sequences for RT-PCR.
Plexippus yinae Peng & Li
Creators: name: Peng, Xian-Jin
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Yang, Zi-Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Plexippus
Plexippus yinae

description: Plexippus yinae Peng & Li
 Plexippus yinae Peng & Li, 2003: 755, Figs. 5A-E (male).
  Material examined. –  1 male (IZCAS), campus of Dali College, Dali City, Yunnan, 18 Jan.2001, coll. Z. X. Li; 1 male (ZRC), campus of Dali College, Dali City, Yunnan, 18 Jan.2001, coll. Z. X. Li.
  Distribution. –  China (Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Peng, Xian-Jin, Li, Shuqiang & Yang, Zi-Zhong, 2004, The Jumping Spiders From Dali, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 413-417 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 416, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244117
Indoor spatial positioning: Mining and prediction
Creators: name: Lam, Luan Duong Minh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Indoor spatial positioning refers to people's spatial behaviour in terms of the places that they visit in an indoor environment. Understanding indoor spatial positioning has many benefits for a wide range of applications including monitoring the health of elderly people in nursing homes, exercise science, warehouse management systems, tracking shoppers in retail situations, and general understanding of movement flow. In this thesis, we investigate software that monitors and mines spatial positioning behaviours by analysing historical movement data.
Monitoring the Structure of Regenerating Vegetation Using Drone-Based Digital Aerial Photogrammetry
Creators: name: Nuijten, Rik J. G.
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Watson, Catherine
name: Theberge, Dustin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Measures of vegetation structure are often key within ecological restoration monitoring programs because a change in structure is rapidly identifiable, measurements are straightforward, and structure is often a good surrogate for species composition. This paper investigates the use of drone-based digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) for the characterization of the structure of regenerating vegetation as well as the ability to inform restoration programs through spatial arrangement assessment. We used cluster analysis on five DAP-derived metrics to classify vegetation structure into seven classes across three sites of ongoing restoration since linear disturbances in 2005, 2009, and 2014 in temperate and boreal coniferous forests in Alberta, Canada. The spatial arrangement of structure classes was assessed using land cover maps, mean patch size, and measures of local spatial association. We observed DAP heights of short-stature vegetation were consistently underestimated, but strong correlations (rs > 0.75) with field height were found for juvenile trees, shrubs, and perennials. Metrics of height and canopy complexity allowed for the extraction of relatively tall and complex vegetation structures, whereas canopy cover and height variability metrics enabled the classification of the shortest vegetation structures. We found that the boreal site disturbed in 2009 had the highest cover of classes associated with complex vegetation structures. This included early regenerative (22%) and taller (13.2%) wood-like structures as well as structures representative of tall graminoid and perennial vegetation (15.3%), which also showed the highest patchiness. The developed tools provide large-scale maps of the structure, enabling the identification and assessment of vegetational patterns, which is challenging based on traditional field sampling that requires pre-defined location-based hypotheses. The approach can serve as a basis for the evaluation of specialized restoration objectives as well as objectives tailored towards processes of ecological succession, and support prioritization of future inspections and mitigation measures.
KERNELGEN – the design and implementation of a next generation compiler platform for accelerating numerical models on GPUs
Creators: name: Mikushin, Dmitry
name: Likhogrud, Nikolay
name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013

description: GPUs are getting more and more important in scientific computing, slowly growing from peripheral accelerators into central processing nodes. In the same time, current OpenACC and HMPP directive-based approaches imply offloading of “hot” code regions onto GPUs, as the only one possible development strategy. Furthermore, as the portion of GPU code and target application size grows, essential limitations of this programming model such as unsupported external functions calls and insufficient data dependencies analysis become critical. This paper introduces more robust parallelism detection approach based on runtime-assisted polyhedral analysis and LLVM compiler infrastructure, as well as a novel GPU-centric execution model. Complemented by GCC frontend, NVPTX backend and other parts, complete GPU compiler prototype called KernelGen has been developed. Test kernels produced by KernelGen are up to 60% faster than PGI OpenACC compiler. KernelGen is proposed as community open-source platform for GPU compiler optimizations research
Additional file 2 of Health systems strengthening interventions for perinatal common mental disorders and experiences of domestic violence in Cape Town, South Africa: protocol for a pilot implementation study
Creators: name: Abrahams, Zulfa
name: Schneider, Marguerite
name: Honikman, Simone
name: Olckers, Patti
name: Boisits, Sonet
name: Seward, Nadine
name: Lund, Crick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Overview of the cascaded training model.
On the factors explaining the power of some goodness-fit tests
Creators: name: Frosini, B. V.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: E' noto universalmente che i vari test di adattamento difendono bene rispetto a certe alternative, e assai meno bene rispetto ad altre. Prendendo in esame alcuni test, rappresentativi della classe dei test di adattaménto che dipendono dalla funzione di ripartizione campionaria (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Cramér-von Mises ecc.), si è indagato sui fattori che principalmente influenzano il comportamento di questi test, fissando l'attenzione sul caso di ipotesi nulla Ho completamente specificata.
Dato che i test in questione dipendono dalle osservazioni attraverso la trasformazione della variabile originaria per mezzo della funzione di ripartizione sotto Ho, si è voluto innanzitutto indagare sugli effetti di questa trasformazione sotto vari tipi di alternative. Esemplificando mediante due funzioni di ripartizione particolarmente sémplici, si è poi verificato che per una piccola dimensione campionaria sono fattori decisivi (1) la variabilità delle statistiche ordinali della distribuzione uniforme U (0,1), e (II) l'andamento della derivata della funzione di ripartizione effettiva (supposta continua per ipotesi). Si è infine osservato—anche per mez-zo di appropriate esemplificazioni— che la distanza tra la funzione di ripartizione effettiva e quella sotto Ho diventa il fattore decisivo al crescere della dimensione campionaria; in pratica, tale distanza prende sicuramente il sopravvento sui primi due fattori quando la dimensione campionaria supera il valore di cento.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Using organic phase-change materials for enhanced energy storage in water heaters: an experimental study
Creators: name: Wang, Jifen
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Cai, Le
name: Zhang, Kai
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Energy storage enhancement
Organic phase-change material
Latent heat
Composite
Water heater

description: Organic phase-change material for enhanced energy storage was prepared by adding SiO2 particles in a certain proportion into molten palmitic acid (PA) with stirring and intensive sonication at a constant temperature. The thermal properties of the SiO2/PA composite were experimentally characterized. As compared with the pure PA, the latent heat capacity of the composite with addition of 3 wt% SiO2 particles is increased by 51.7 kJ/kg, reaching 214.7 kJ/kg, which is the highest value among the composites tested with varying SiO2 ratio from 1 to 5 wt%; the thermal conductivity of the 3 wt% SiO2/PA composite is also increased by 12% at 30 oC (solid state) and 7% at 70 oC (liquid state), respectively. A water heater was built and tested with embedded capsules containing the 3 wt% SiO2/PA composite and pure PA, respectively. The lab-built phase-change water heater is much smaller in size than an ordinary household water heater in comparison and uses reduced electrical power. However, it responds faster and has a larger volume ratio of hot water output to water heater size. During the turning-off test, the water heater with 3 wt% SiO2/PA can provide 2.23 times hot water of its tank size at a time; while the ordinary water heater can only provide 1.41 times of its tank volume.
A study of the ' marginal' likelihood ratio test for serial correlation
Creators: name: Corduas, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This is a study on the use of marginal likelihood for testing serial correlation in regression models. In particular, we consider a 'classical' model with first order autocorrelated errors and we investigate the possibility of improving the performance of the likelihood ratio test, in small samples, by using the marginal likelihood. This method allows us ti remove the effect of the presence of nuisance parameters in the likelihood function and to reduce the bias of the ML estimator of three autoregressive parameter, which seems to be the cause of the poor power of the likelihood ratio test. The distribution of the test statistic under the nullhypothesis, and its power under the alternatives, is thereby investigated.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Single-cell genomics unveils a canonical origin of the diverse mitochondrial genomes of euglenozoans
Creators: name: Záhonová, Kristína
name: Lax, Gordon
name: Sinha, Savar D
name: Leonard, Guy
name: Richards, Thomas A
name: Lukeš, Julius
name: Wideman, Jeremy G
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: The supergroup Euglenozoa unites heterotrophic flagellates from three major clades, kinetoplastids, diplonemids, and euglenids, each of which exhibits extremely divergent mitochondrial characteristics. Mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) of euglenids comprise multiple linear chromosomes carrying single genes, whereas mitochondrial chromosomes are circular non-catenated in diplonemids, but circular and catenated in kinetoplastids. In diplonemids and kinetoplastids, mitochondrial mRNAs require extensive and diverse editing and/or trans-splicing to produce mature transcripts. All known euglenozoan mtDNAs exhibit extremely short mitochondrial small (rns) and large (rnl) subunit rRNA genes, and absence of tRNA genes. How these features evolved from an ancestral bacteria-like circular mitochondrial genome remains unanswered. Results: We sequenced and assembled 20 euglenozoan single-cell amplified genomes (SAGs). In our phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses, three SAGs were placed within kinetoplastids, 14 within diplonemids, one (EU2) within euglenids, and two SAGs with nearly identical small subunit rRNA gene (18S) sequences (EU17/18) branched as either a basal lineage of euglenids, or as a sister to all euglenozoans. Near-complete mitochondrial genomes were identified in EU2 and EU17/18. Surprisingly, both EU2 and EU17/18 mitochondrial contigs contained multiple genes and one tRNA gene. Furthermore, EU17/18 mtDNA possessed several features unique among euglenozoans including full-length rns and rnl genes, six mitoribosomal genes, and nad11, all likely on a single chromosome. Conclusions: Our data strongly suggest that EU17/18 is an early-branching euglenozoan with numerous ancestral mitochondrial features. Collectively these data contribute to untangling the early evolution of euglenozoan mitochondria.
On a class of models for longitudinal data analysis
Creators: name: Forcina, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In questo lavoro si studiano le stime di massima verosimiglianza dei parametri di regressione, autocorrelazione e di composizione della varianza nel caso di distribuzione normale. Si assume che il termine errore possa essere rappresentato mediante due componenti distinte, di cui una sia costante all'interno di ciascuna unità sperimentale e l'altra segua un processo stocastico autoregressivo od a media mobile del primo ordine. La metodologia sviluppata in questo lavoro si applica sia al caso di dati non bilanciati rispetto al tempo, sia al caso che le osservazioni non siano equispaziate nel tempo.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Additional file 1 of Lung response to prone positioning in mechanically-ventilated patients with COVID-19
Creators: name: Protti, Alessandro
name: Santini, Alessandro
name: Pennati, Francesca
name: Chiurazzi, Chiara
name: Ferrari, Michele
name: Iapichino, Giacomo E.
name: Carenzo, Luca
name: Dalla Corte, Francesca
name: Lanza, Ezio
name: Martinetti, Nicolò
name: Aliverti, Andrea
name: Cecconi, Maurizio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Online data supplement.
Quadratic forms in complex normal varieties: basic results
Creators: name: Conradie, W. J.
name: Gupta, A. K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In questo articolo si studia la forma quadratica per le variabili normali complesse. Gli argomenti considerati sono la distribuzione della forma quadratica in termin i di sviluppo in serie , le condizioni necessarie affinché la forma quadratica segua la distribuzione del chi-quadro e la indipendenza delle forme quadratiche.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Librarians’ Preference of Virtual Meeting Platforms
Creators: name: Larrivee, Anne
name: Anderson, Katie Elson
Publisher: name: Northwest Missour State University, Maryville, Missouri
Year: 2013
Subjects: Librarians
Virtual meeting platforms
Virtual meetings

description: Virtual participation in professional organization and other committee meetings outside of one’s home institution continues to increase as time and money for travel to these events decreases. As the profession moves into a model of increased virtual communication, questions arise as to the best platform and tools to be used for the most effective method of communication. This study seeks to determine which platforms are currently being used, which platforms are preferred by organizers and participants and which platforms will best serve the needs of the committee. Results of this study on preferences for virtual platforms can help individuals and organizations make decisions on the best tools for this method of communication.
Advancing instructional coaching with teacher formative assessment and input
Creators: name: Shernoff, Elisa S.
name: Lekwa, Adam J.
name: Reddy, Linda A.
Publisher: name: IGI Global
Year: 2017

description: With increased attention to teacher quality and accountability, instructional coaching has emerged as a popular form of teacher support and professional development in literacy and other areas of instruction. Despite significant interest from school personnel, researchers, and federal funders, there remains a lack of consensus around the key components and activities of instructional coaching. To that end, studies that use quantitative and qualitative methods can offer valuable information on the development and validation of coaching practices. This chapter briefly describes the Classroom Strategies Assessment System Coaching Model that draws on the adult learning and formative assessment literature. We offer key observations of educators' knowledge of and experience in instructional coaching from focus groups conducted with teachers in high-poverty, urban elementary schools. Directions for practice and research are discussed.
About individuation of standard-representative elements for cognitive process
Creators: name: Freguglia, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper is a development of the epistemological analysis based on the assumption that the cognitive-inductive structure is a starting point of a particular kind of cognitive process. We will assume this process to be a cognitive transformation from one state to another of a dynamic countable system. Our purpose is to determine some elements (standard-representative) aimed at deepening the knowledge of the system mentioned above.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time
Creators: name: Davison, Brian D.
name: Liberatore, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: The rapid growth of traffic on the World-Wide Web results in heavier loads on networks and servers and in increased latency experienced while retrieving web documents. This paper presents a framework that exploits idle periods to satisfy future HTTP requests speculatively and opportunistically. Our proposal differs from previous schemes in that speculative dissemination always gives precedence to on-demand traffic, uses ranged requests for improved performance, and can be implemented over a connectionless transport. The protocol uses bounded and little server state even as the workload was increased and it is resistant to erroneous estimates of available bandwidth. Substantial latency improvements are reported over pure on-demand strategies.
Additional file 1 of An evaluation of the evidence brief for policy development process in WHO EVIPNet Europe countries
Creators: name: Murphy, Adrianna
name: Šubelj, Maja
name: Babarczy, Balázs
name: Köhler, Kristina
name: Chapman, Evelina
name: Truden-Dobrin, Polonca
name: Oliver, Kathryn
name: Nahrgang, Saskia
name: Reinap, Marge
name: Kuchenmüller, Tanja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Data collection tool for semi-structured interviews. Appendix S2. Composition of EBP teams in each study country.
Open Science. Forschungsdatenmanagement in Deutschland. NFDI und NFDI4Objects - Internationale Vernetzung. UB Bern.
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: NFDI
NFDI4Objects
FDM
FDM Internationalisierung
eScience
research data
Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenmanagement

description: The aim of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) is to systematically manage scientific and research data, provide long-term data storage, backup and accessibility, and network the data both nationally and internationally. These are the slides from an internal workshop at the University Library Bern.
Prioritized Sweeping Converges to the Optimal Value Function
Creators: name: Li, Lihong
name: Littman, Michael
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Prioritized Sweeping
Asynchronous Dynamic Programming
Asymptotic Convergence
Decision-Theoretic Planning
Markov Decision Process

description: Prioritized sweeping (PS) and its variants are model-based reinforcement-learning algorithms that have demonstrated superior performance in terms of computational and experience efficiency in practice. This note establishes the first—to the best of our knowledge—formal proof of convergence to the optimal value function when they are used as planning algorithms. We also describe applications of this result to provably efficient model-based reinforcement learning in the PAC-MDP framework. We do not address the issue of convergence rate in the present paper
Additional file 12 of Joint analysis of duration of ventilation, length of intensive care, and mortality of COVID-19 patients: a multistate approach
Creators: name: Hazard, Derek
name: Kaier, Klaus
name: Cube, Maja Von
name: Grodd, Marlon
name: Bugiera, Lars
name: Lambert, Jerome
name: Wolkewitz, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 12. format: docx, title: Theoretical_Background.docx, description: Theoretical aspects of the analyses of the real data examples.
Using buddies to live longer in a boring world
Creators: name: Passarella, Andrea
name: Imieliński, Tomasz
name: Goel, Samir
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2004

description: In a sensor network monitoring natural environment, the readings of sensor nodes show high temporal and spatial correlation. This stems from the fact that most characteristics of natural environment (chemical concentration, temperature, humidity, pollution, etc) do not change abruptly in space and time. From a sensor’s perspective then, the environmental phenomena are quite predictable, and hence, “boring”. In this paper, we introduce the novel idea of buddies to exploit temporal correlation. We propose a simple Buddy protocol to implement this idea. We analyze the performance of the protocol and identify factors that influence it. We discuss research challenges that would pave the way for more efficient protocols based on this idea.
Convolution and mixing properties of the demage model
Creators: name: Panaretos, J.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Il modello di danno è applicabile nei casi in cui un'osservazione originale sia sottoposta ad un processo distruttivo. In questo articolo sono trattati i modelli di danno con una distribuzione di sopravvivenza binomiale. La forma della distribuzione risultante viene trovata nel caso in cui la variabile originale casuale sia la convoluzione di "S" variabili casuali indipendenti. E' discusso inoltre il caso in cui la distribuzione originale sia una mistura discreta. E' stabilita infine una relazione fra le distribuzioni delle variabili casuali originali, di sopravvivenza e risultante.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Additional file 1 of Comparative efficacy of BG-Sentinel 2 and CDC-like mosquito traps for monitoring potential malaria vectors in Europe
Creators: name: Bertola, Michela
name: Fornasiero, Diletta
name: Sgubin, Sofia
name: Mazzon, Luca
name: Pombi, Marco
name: Montarsi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sampling sites and climatic data (temperature and precipitation) for the sampling period (trapping cycle). Table S2. Numbers and percentages of adults of species of the Anopheles maculipennis complex molecularly identified, according to collection method.
Influence of physico-chemical changes on enzymatic digestibility of ionic liquid and AFEX pretreated corn stover
Creators: name: Chundawat, Shishir P. S.
name: Sousa, Leonardo
name: Singh, Seema
name: Melnichenko, Yuri B.
name: Dale, Bruce E.
name: Simmons, Blake A.
name: Cheng, Gang
name: Balan, Venkatesh
name: Kent, Michael S.
name: Ong, Markus
name: Li, Chenlin
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Pretreatment
Ionic liquid
AFEX
Delignification
Crystallinity
SANS
Surface area
Enzymatic saccharification

description: Ionic liquid (IL) and Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) pretreatments were studied to develop a comparative perspective for their effects on biomass structure, composition, and subsequent efficiency of enzymatic saccharification. It was found that AFEX pretreatment completely preserves plant carbohydrates, whereas IL pretreatment extracts 76% of hemicellulose. In contrast to AFEX, the native crystal structure of the recovered corn stover from the IL pretreatment process was significantly disrupted. Both pretreatment techniques can achieve more than 70% of the theoretical sugar yield in terms of glucose and xylose after 48 hours of enzymatic hydrolysis using commercial enzyme cocktails. IL pretreatment requires lesser enzyme loading and shorter hydrolysis time to reach 90% yields. Hemicellulase addition to the cellulase mixture led to significant improvements in the yields of both glucose and xylose for AFEX pretreated corn stover. These results provide insights into the mechanisms of IL pretreatment and indicate its promise as a novel pretreatment technique.
Primate dietary ecology in the context of food mechanical properties
Creators: name: Coiner-Collier, Susan
name: Scott, Robert S.
name: Chalk-Wilayto, Janine
name: Cheyne, Susan M.
name: Constantino, Paul
name: Loyola, Laura C.
name: Dominy, Nathaniel J.
name: Elgart, Alison A.
name: Glowacka, Halszka
name: Ossi-Lupo, Kerry
name: Raguet-Schofield, Melissa
name: Taylor, Andrea B.
name: Talebi, Mauricio G.
name: Sala, Enrico A.
name: Sieradzy, Pawel
name: Vinyard, Christopher J.
name: Wright, Barth W.
name: Yamashita, Nayuta
name: Lucas, Peter W.
name: Vogel, Erin R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Food mechanical properties
Toughness
Young’s modulus
Feeding behavior
Primate diet

description: Substantial variation exists in the mechanical properties of foods consumed by primate species. This variation is known to influence food selection and ingestion among non-human primates, yet no large-scale comparative study has examined the relationships between food mechanical properties and feeding strategies. Here we present comparative data on the Young’s modulus and fracture toughness of natural foods in the diets of 31 primate species. We use these data to examine the relationships between food mechanical properties and dietary quality, body mass, and feeding time. We also examine the relationship between food mechanical properties and categorical concepts of diet that are often used to infer food mechanical properties. Traditional dietary categories, such as folivory and frugivory, did not faithfully track food mechanical properties. Additionally, our estimate of dietary quality was not significantly correlated with either toughness or Young’s modulus. We found a complex relationship among food mechanical properties, body mass, and feeding time, with a potential interaction between median toughness and body mass. The relationship between mean toughness and feeding time is straightforward: feeding time increases as toughness increases. However, when considering median toughness, the relationship with feeding time may depend upon body mass such that smaller primates increase their feeding time in response to an increase in median dietary toughness, whereas larger primates may even feed for shorter periods of time as toughness increases. Our results emphasize the need for additional studies quantifying the mechanical and chemical properties of primate diets so that they may be meaningfully compared to research on feeding behavior and jaw morphology.
Additional file 2 of Comparative efficacy of BG-Sentinel 2 and CDC-like mosquito traps for monitoring potential malaria vectors in Europe
Creators: name: Bertola, Michela
name: Fornasiero, Diletta
name: Sgubin, Sofia
name: Mazzon, Luca
name: Pombi, Marco
name: Montarsi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. DHARMa residual diagnostics plots [39] (qq-plot and residuals plotted against the predicted value) for the Poisson regression model (upper plots) and the negative binomial regression model (lower plots) for Anopheles messeae/Anopheles daciae. Tests for correct distribution (KS test), dispersion and outliers are shown on the plots.
Verification of quality of death certification. a comparison between Communal and ISTAT data
Creators: name: Angelini, L.
name: Guidi, E.
name: Carletti, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The Authors estimate the quality of some variables and in particular the coding of death's causes, recorded in the first ISTAT tape (year 1980). Basing on the obtained results, the Authors state  in broad outline a good concordance degree, between ISTAT and Communal data, but the comparison shows differences for single and specific death's causes.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 1 (1987)
Refining the parallel hybrid algorithm for data flow analysis
Creators: name: Elices, Javier
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Data flow analysis is a compile-time analysis technique that gathers information about definitions and uses of variables in a program. That information is regarded as essential in optimizing and parallel compilers, and various other software understanding tools. Gathering data flow information can be performed at different levels of precision, with the most precise levels being very computationally expensive. The result is that modern tools do not perform analysis or perform it in a very approximate way. During the past few years, massively parallel machines have become the supercomputer successors, and multiprocessor boxes are getting ever more common and inexpensive, even as single-user workstations. Aggressive program understanding tools and optimizations will be made practical as soon as parallel data flow analysis algorithms become available and start being used to gather more precise data flow information than it has been profitable to obtain before. Yong-fong Lee has already worked extensively on the topic, and he implemented and profiled the performance of a parallel algorithm for data flow analysis. The algorithm was shown to be applicable for many, but not all of the program instances with which it was tested. As a continuing effort, this thesis concentrates on the development of the necessary changes to the former algorithm in order to make it effective for all tested problem instances. The result is a new algorithm that exploits the strengths of the former algorithm and corrects its weaknesses. As this thesis shows, the modifications lead to the development of two main algorithms that modify both the partitioning and the solution phases of the abovementioned algorithm. In order to validate the previous ideas, all the components in the new design have been implemented and extensively tested on a CM-5 machine to prove their applicability and effectiveness. The necessary steps to make implementations efficient are also covered, including some alternatives whose applicability may be platform dependent thus requiring some empirical experimentation.
Data-Flow Analysis of Program Fragments
Creators: name: Rountev, Atanas
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
name: Landi, William
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999

description: Traditional interprocedural data-flow analysis is performed on whole programs; however, such whole-program analysis is not feasible for large or incomplete programs. We propose fragment data-flow analysis as an alternative analysis approach, which addresses the problem of computing data-flow information for a specific program fragment. The analysis is parameterized by the additional information available about the rest of the program. We describe two frameworks for interprocedural flow-sensitive fragment analysis, the relationship between fragment analysis and whole-program analysis, and the requirements ensuring fragment analysis safety and feasibility. We propose an application of fragment analysis as a second analysis phase after an inexpensive flowinsensitive whole-program analysis, in order to obtain better information for important program fragments. We also describe the design of two fragment analyses derived from an already existing whole-program flowand context-sensitive pointer alias analysis for C programs and present empirical evaluation of their cost and precision. Our experiments show evidence of dramatically better precision obtainable at a practical cost.
Additional file 3 of Comparative efficacy of BG-Sentinel 2 and CDC-like mosquito traps for monitoring potential malaria vectors in Europe
Creators: name: Bertola, Michela
name: Fornasiero, Diletta
name: Sgubin, Sofia
name: Mazzon, Luca
name: Pombi, Marco
name: Montarsi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Shapiro–Wilk test and Levene’s test to check requirements of normality and homogeneity of variance across groups, respectively.
Fast ADMM Algorithm for Distributed Optimization with Adaptive Penalty
Creators: name: Song, Changkyu
name: Yoon, Sejong
name: Pavlovic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Year: 2016
Subjects: Artificial intelligence
Distributed learning
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
Constraints (Artificial intelligence)

description: We propose new methods to speed up convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), a common optimization tool in the context of large scale and distributed learning. The proposed method accelerates the speed of convergence by automatically deciding the constraint penalty needed for parameter consensus in each iteration. In addition, we also propose an extension of the method that adaptively determines the maximum number of iterations to update the penalty. We show that this approach effectively leads to an adaptive, dynamic network topology underlying the distributed optimization. The utility of the new penalty update schemes is demonstrated on both synthetic and real data, including an instance of the probabilistic matrix factorization task known as the structure-from-motion problem.
About a general method for the lower and upper distribution-free bound on Gini's concentration ratio from grouped data
Creators: name: Giorgi, G. M.
name: Pallini, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Gli Autori propongono un nuovo algoritmo per la determinazione della soglia superiore (distribution-free) del rapporto di concentrazione R del Gini per dati raggruppati.
Rilevano in particolare che il procedimento utilizzato a tal fine da Pizzetti e da Gastwirth non è rigorosamente corretto da un punto di vista matematico come si desume da alcuni risultati dovuti a Benedetti.
Vengono inoltre fornite altre soglie inferiori e superiori (distribution-free) di R.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Playing with LEGO®, Learning about the Library, & “Making” Campus Connections: The Rutgers University Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part One
Creators: name: Lotts, Megan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Makerspaces
Academic libraries
LEGO toys
Engagement
Collaboration
Library outreach programs
Libraries and community

description: As libraries continue to grow and change in the 21st century, we are seeing an increased emphasis on outreach, engagement, creativity, and innovation for academic libraries. These ideas are crucial to the future of academic libraries and makerspaces are one way for academic libraries to realize these ideas. Makerspaces can be affordable, don’t need to take up a lot of space, and have potential to be catalysts for creating partnerships within one’s community. Engaging making events can stimulate broader conversations among library patrons and library employees as well as a way for library liaisons to connect with their faculty, students, and staff.
Social media pseudonymity: Affordances, practices, disruptions
Creators: name: van der Nagel, Emily
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Discussions around social media anonymity tend to centre on themes of freedom versus harm, as anonymity can facilitate open communication, but also be an element in harassment and abuse. This thesis argues that anonymity on social media needs to be reframed as pseudonymity, which is identity work, or the strategic presentation of the self. Social media pseudonymity involves relationships between platform affordances, user practices, and networked disruptions. By negotiating platform features and rules as well as others in their network, pseudonymous people contextualise and control their identity and communication.
Additional file 4 of Comparative efficacy of BG-Sentinel 2 and CDC-like mosquito traps for monitoring potential malaria vectors in Europe
Creators: name: Bertola, Michela
name: Fornasiero, Diletta
name: Sgubin, Sofia
name: Mazzon, Luca
name: Pombi, Marco
name: Montarsi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Incident rate ratios (i.e. exponential of coefficient estimates), 95% CIs and significance for Culex pipiens and Ochlerotatus caspius. Table S5. Contrasts between trapping devices for estimated marginal means after model fitting, considering a confidence level of 0.95, for Culex pipiens and Ochlerotatus caspius. Estimates are back-transformed from the log scale.