cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards a cosmic-ray mass-composition study at Tunka Radio Extension
Creators: name: Kostunin, D.
name: Bezyazeekov, P. A.
name: Budnev, N. M.
name: Fedorov, O.
name: Gress, O. A.
name: Haungs, A.
name: Hiller, R.
name: Huege, T.
name: Kazarina, Y.
name: Kleifges, M.
name: Korosteleva, E. E.
name: Krömer, O.
name: Kungel, V.
name: Kuzmichev, L. A.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, N.
name: Mirgazov, R. R.
name: Monkhoev, R.
name: Osipova, E. A.
name: Pakhorukov, A.
name: Pankov, L.
name: Prosin, V. V.
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
name: Schröder, F. G.
name: Wischnewski, R.
name: Zagorodnikov, A.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2017

description: The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a radio detector at the TAIGA facility located in Siberia nearby the southern tip of Lake Baikal. Tunka-Rex measures air-showers induced by high-energy cosmic rays, in particular, the lateral distribution of the radio pulses. The depth of the air-shower maximum, statistically depends on the mass of the primary particle, is determined from the slope of the lateral distribution function (LDF). Using a model-independent approach, we have studied possible features of the one-dimensional slope method and tried to find improvements for the reconstruction of primary mass. To study the systematic uncertainties given by different primary particles, we have performed simulations using the CONEX and CoREAS software packages of the recently released CORSIKA v7.5 including the modern high-energy hadronic models QGSJet-II.04 and EPOS-LHC. The simulations have shown that the largest systematic uncertainty in the energy deposit is due to the unknown primary particle. Finally, we studied the relation between the polarization and the asymmetry of the LDF.
MSCCD: Grammar Pluggable Clone Detection Based on ANTLR Parser Generation
Creators: name: Zhu, Wenqing
name: Yoshida, Norihiro
name: Kamiya, Toshihiro
name: Choi, Eunjong
name: Takada, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For various reasons, programming languages continue to multiply and evolve. It has become necessary to have a multilingual clone detection tool that can easily expand supported programming languages and detect various code clones is needed. However, research on multilingual code clone detection has not received sufficient attention. In this study, we propose MSCCD (Multilingual Syntactic Code Clone Detector), a grammar pluggable code clone detection tool that uses a parser generator to generate a code block extractor for the target language. The extractor then extracts the semantic code blocks from a parse tree. MSCCD can detect Type-3 clones at various granularities. We evaluated MSCCD's language extensibility by applying MSCCD to 20 modern languages. Sixteen languages were perfectly supported, and the remaining four were provided with the same detection capabilities at the expense of execution time. We evaluated MSCCD's recall by using BigCloneEval and conducted a manual experiment to evaluate precision. MSCCD achieved equivalent detection performance equivalent to state-of-the-art tools.
description: ICPC2022
Automated generalisation of buildings using CartAGen platform
Creators: name: Boodala, Jagadish
name: Dikshit, Onkar
name: Balasubramanian, Nagarajan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a methodology to automatically derive the generalised representations of buildings at scales 1:25K, 1:50K, and to delineate the urban area for 1:250K scale representation. These generalised representations are derived from 1:10K scale. The automatic generalisation processes are realised using the specific algorithms and the generalisation models available in the CartAGen (CARTographic Agent GENeralisation) platform. The CartAGen is an open source map generalisation platform developed by IGN France. The proposed methodology in this paper is evaluated using the data products available from the Ordnance Survey, UK, and the Survey of India, India. This study investigates the applicability of the CartAGen platform for generalising the data products which have been excluded from the investigations by IGN France. This paper discusses the modifications required for such data products.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA 39, 2019)
Energy and exergy analysis of prosumers in hybrid energy grids
Creators: name: Delgado, Benjamin Manrique
name: Sunliang Cao
name: Hasan, Ala
name: Sirén, Kai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Surplus energy can be a recurrent phenomenon in zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) with onsite generation systems, usually resulting in the export of excess electricity. Yet, converting electricity into heat and exporting it could improve the overall energy balance. This study analyses the energy and exergy performance of a Finnish nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) as a heat and electricity prosumer, and proposes alternative energy topologies to improve energy and exergy levels, primary energy demand and CO2 emissions. The results show that increasing the installed capacity of the photovoltaic systems would lead to zero energy, exergy, emissions and a balance of primary energy. However, by instead using the surplus electricity to drive a heat pump and export heat, the currently installed capacity would lead to a net energy export of over 4000 kWh/a. Thus, energy conversion could significantly enhance the contribution from heat and electricity prosumers to smart energy grids, though not without affecting other criteria. Two management strategies arise: favouring heat export improves the net energy and CO2 emissions reduction but lessens the net exergy, while favouring electricity export improves the net exergy and primary energy reduction. The findings highlight that energy conversion can enhance nZEB performance and its exchange with hybrid grids.
Additional file 1 of Pattern recognition in lymphoid malignancies using CytoGPS and Mercator
Creators: name: Abrams, Zachary B.
name: Tally, Dwayne G.
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Coombes, Caitlin E.
name: Payne, Philip R. O.
name: Abruzzo, Lynne V.
name: Coombes, Kevin R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Sokal Michener experiments.
Towards Security-Optimized Placement of ADS-B Sensors
Creators: name: Darabseh, Ala'
name: Pöpper, Christina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2

description: Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) sensors deployed on the ground are central to observing aerial movements of aircraft. Their unsystematic placement, however, results in over-densification of sensor coverage in some areas and insufficient sensor coverage in other areas. ADS-B sensor coverage has so far been recognized and analyzed as an availability problem; it was tackled by sensor placement optimization techniques that aim for covering large enough areas. In this paper, we demonstrate that the unsystematic placement of ADS-B sensors leads to a security problem, since the realization and possible deployment of protective mechanisms is closely linked to aspects of redundancy in ADS-B sensor coverage. In particular, we model ADS-B sensor coverage as a multi-dimensional security problem. We then use multi-objective optimization techniques to tackle this problem and derive security-optimized near-optimal placement solutions. Our results show how the location of sensors play a significant role in reducing the success rate of attackers by providing a sufficient number of sensors within a specific geographical area to verify location claims and reducing the exposure to jamming attacks.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted as a short paper in WiSec 2022. This is a technical report for more details about our accepted paper
Aerial Computing: A New Computing Paradigm, Applications, and Challenges
Creators: name: Pham, Quoc-Viet
name: Ruby, Rukhsana
name: Fang, Fang
name: Nguyen, Dinh C.
name: Yang, Zhaohui
name: Le, Mai
name: Ding, Zhiguo
name: Hwang, Won-Joo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In existing computing systems, such as edge computing and cloud computing, several emerging applications and practical scenarios are mostly unavailable or only partially implemented. To overcome the limitations that restrict such applications, the development of a comprehensive computing paradigm has garnered attention in both academia and industry. However, a gap exists in the literature owing to the scarce research, and a comprehensive computing paradigm is yet to be systematically designed and reviewed. This study introduces a novel concept, called aerial computing, via the amalgamation of aerial radio access networks and edge computing, which attempts to bridge the gap. Specifically, first, we propose a novel comprehensive computing architecture that is composed of low-altitude computing, high-altitude computing, and satellite computing platforms, along with conventional computing systems. We determine that aerial computing offers several desirable attributes: global computing service, better mobility, higher scalability and availability, and simultaneity. Second, we comprehensively discuss key technologies that facilitate aerial computing, including energy refilling, edge computing, network softwarization, frequency spectrum, multi-access techniques, artificial intelligence, and big data. In addition, we discuss vertical domain applications (e.g., smart cities, smart vehicles, smart factories, and smart grids) supported by aerial computing. Finally, we highlight several challenges that need to be addressed and their possible solutions.
description: Accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time-scale
Creators: name: Mak, Julian
name: Marshall, David P.
name: Madec, Gurvan
name: Maddison, James R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The global ocean overturning circulation, critically dependent on the global density stratification, plays a central role in regulating climate evolution. While it is well-known that the global stratification profile exhibits a strong dependence to Southern Ocean dynamics and in particular to wind and buoyancy forcing, we demonstrate here that the stratification is also acutely sensitive to the mesoscale eddy energy dissipation time-scale. Within the context of a global ocean circulation model with an energy constrained mesoscale eddy parameterization, it is shown that modest variations in the eddy energy dissipation time-scale lead to significant variations in key metrics relating to ocean circulation, namely the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation strength, and global ocean heat content, over long time-scales. The results highlight a need to constrain uncertainties associated with eddy energy dissipation for climate model projections over centennial time-scales, but also for paleoclimate simulations over millennial time-scales.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures; preprint version; accepted by Geophysical Research Letters, post-print version to be made available at a later point
Link between special schools and mainstream schools - A case study for children with moderate learning difficulties.pdf
Creators: name: Kiarago, Leonard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education

description: The study was supervised by the University of Birmingham as part fulfilment for the MEd in Inclusion and Special Educational Needs. Purposive sampling was adopted for the case study. Data collection techniques included observations and interviews. Ethical guidelines set by the British Educational Research Association were adhered to in establishing ethical framework for the sampling strategy and data collection techniques.
Modelling of light scattering by cirrus ice crystals using geometric optics combined with diffraction of facets
Creators: name: Clarke, Adrian Jonathan Miles
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: A new 3D model of light scattering applicable to dielectric faceted objects is presented. The model combines Geometric Optics with diffraction on individual facets yet maintains the low computational expense of standard Geometric Optics. The current implementation of the model is explained and then applied to the problem of light scattering by ice crystals in cirrus clouds. Accurate modelling of the scattering properties of such crystals is crucial to better understanding of cirrus radiative properties and hence to climate modelling and weather forecasting. Calculations using the new model are compared to a separation of variables method and the Improved Geometric Optics method with encouraging results. The model shows significant improvements over standard Geometric Optics. The size applicability of the new model is discussed. The model is applied to a range of crystal geometries that have been observed in cirrus including the hexagonal column, the hollow column, the droxtal and the bullet rosette. For each geometry the phase function and degree of linear polarization are presented and discussed. Ice analogue crystals grown at the University of Hertfordshire have optical properties very close to ice but are stable at room temperature. The geometries of three ice analogue crystals are reconstructed and the single scattering properties of the reconstructions are presented. 2D scattering patterns calculated using the model are compared to laboratory photographs of scattering patterns on a screen created by an ice analogue hexagonal column. The agreement is shown to be very good. By applying the model to a range of geometries, it is shown that the results in the form of 2D scattering patterns can potentially be used to aid particle characterization. By combining the model with a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, comparisons are made with aircraft radiance measurements of cirrus provided by the Met Office. The improvements over standard Geometric Optics are found to persist following a radiative transfer treatment.
A Bridge to Nowhere: A Healthcare Case Study for Non-Reformist Design
Creators: name: Huber, Linda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the face of intensified datafication and automation in public sector industries, frameworks like design justice and the feminist practice of refusal provide help to identify and mitigate structural harm and challenge inequities reproduced in digitized infrastructures. This paper applies those frameworks to emerging efforts across the U.S. healthcare industry to automate prior authorization -- a process whereby insurance companies determine whether a treatment or service is 'medically necessary' before agreeing to cover it. Federal regulatory interventions turn to datafication and automation to reduce the harms of this widely unpopular process shown to delay vital treatments and create immense administrative burden for healthcare providers and patients. This paper explores emerging prior authorization reforms as a case study, applying the frameworks of design justice and refusal to highlight the inherent conservatism of interventions oriented towards improving the user experience of extractive systems. I further explore how the abolitionist framework of non-reformist reform helps to clarify alternative interventions that would mitigate the harms of prior authorization in ways that do not reproduce or extend the power of insurance companies. I propose a set of four tenets for nonreformist design to mitigate structural harms and advance design justice in a broad set of domains.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, CHI 2025
Computational memory architectures for autobiographic and narrative virtual agents
Creators: name: Ho, Wan Ching
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: This thesis develops computational memory architectures for autobiographic and narrative virtual agents. Humans and many animals naturally possess a sophisticated memory system for reasoning, learning and also sharing information with others. However it has been a difficult challenge to model the characteristics of such a memory system in the research fields of both Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life. We propose a framework for enhancing reactive autonomous agents to retrieve meaningful information from their dynamic memories in order to adapt and survive in their environments. Our approach is inspired by psychology research in human memory and autobiographic memory – through remembering the significance of episodic events that happened in the past, agents with autobiographic memory architectures are capable of reconstructing past events for the purpose of event re-execution and story-telling. The memory architectures that were developed are capable of organizing and filtering significant events which originate in agents’ own experiences as well as stories told by other agents. To validate our memory architectures, both simple and complex Artificial Life type of virtual environments with static as well as dynamic resources distribution were implemented that provide events with different levels of complexity and affect the internal variables of the agents. The performance of various types of agents with different memory control architectures are first compared in single-agent experiments. Each agent’s behaviour is observed and analysed quantitatively together with its lifespan and internal states measurements. Group performance with and without communication are measured in experiments with multiple autobiographic ii agents. Results confirm our research hypothesis that autobiographic memory can prove beneficial – resulting in increases in the lifespan of an autonomous, autobiographic, minimal agent. Furthermore, higher communication frequency brings better group performance for Long-term Autobiographic Memory agents in multi-agent experiments. An interface has been developed to visualise agents’ dynamic autobiographic memory to help human observers to understand the underlying memory processes. This research leads to insights into how bottom-up story-telling and autobiography reconstruction in artificial autonomous agents allow temporally grounded behaviour to emerge. This study therefore results in a contribution to knowledge in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence.
The relationship between attachment and social anxiety, focusing on self-esteem and locus of control as possible mediators
Creators: name: McCarty, Karen
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: Social anxiety is an excessive fear of social situations characterised by negative beliefs about one's performance in social situations and an exaggerated perception of the potential for catastrophic outcomes, e.g. negative judgements by others, humiliation, and loss of self-worth (Clark & Wells, 1995). People with social anxiety report experiencing their parents as emotionally cold, controlling or intrusive, and as using criticism or shame when disciplining them (Harvey, Ehlers & Clark, 2005; Leung, Heimberg, Holt & Bruch, 1994; Rapee & Melville, 1997). Social anxiety may be conceptualised from an attachment perspective particularly as interpersonal relationships are fundamental to both, and the experiences of being parented reported by people with social anxiety, may predispose individuals to developing an insecure attachment style. Self-esteem and locus of control are related to both social anxiety and attachment, and therefore may be important to both of these. The following study was conducted to examine the relationship between adult attachment and social anxiety, using an interview measure of attachment (ASI; Bifulco, Lillie, Ball & Moran, 1998). Thirty adults, recruited from a university and social anxiety support groups were screened for a high threshold of symptoms, of social anxiety. Participants completed self-report questionnaires for anxiety, self-esteem and locus of control, and were interviewed. The study found that this socially anxious group had a predominately insecure attachment style, and more specifically fearful and anxious classifications. Individuals with an insecure attachment style were not found to be significantly more socially anxious, though those with a fearful style and an anxious attachment classification were significantly more socially anxious. Social anxiety was significantly related to low self-esteem but not to locus of control. Finally individuals with an insecure attachment style did not report significantly lower self-esteem or external locus of control. The results are discussed in the context of attachment theory and cognitive models of social anxiety. Suggestions are made with regards to the development of existing treatment approaches for social anxiety, incorporating attachment components.
Additional file 1 of Construction and validation of a nomogram for predicting prolonged air leak after minimally invasive pulmonary resection
Creators: name: Li, Rongyang
name: Xue, Mengchao
name: Ma, Zheng
name: Qu, Chenghao
name: Wang, Kun
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Yue, Weiming
name: Zhang, Huiying
name: Tian, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Results of ROC curve for training cohort sorted by Youden index (top 15).
Men training to be secondary English teachers : a case study
Creators: name: Thomas, Keith Robert
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2006

description: This is a case study of seven men training to be secondary English teachers on a one year Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) in a. university department of education. Men training to be English teachers are worthy of investigation because men are in a minority both on PGCE secondary English courses and in English departments in schools in England. As more women than men teach English in secondary schools, initial training takes place in predominantly female English departments and school mentors are more likely to be female. Within this statistical context, this qualitative study attempts to understand what happens to a group of men during their initial training as they enter part of the education profession that is predominantly female. Men's socialisation and processes of adaptation have been widely researched in the predominantly female areas of early years and primary education, but have been hitherto overlooked in the secondary sector, in spite of the perception of the feminisation of the subject of English. In the study, female mentors are shown to possess gendered stereotypical expectations of male trainees regarding their ability to work hard, organise paperwork, plan effectively and exert forceful power. With limited access to other male English teachers, the male trainees resist the classroom management strategies they observe, preferring to be `comfortable', `laid back' and `jokey'. They develop more gentle teaching styles and personae that they see as appropriate for male teachers working with teenagers. Their relationship with the subject of English also shifts as they reject the new emphasis on functional literacy and embrace the literature components of the English curriculum, which are more familiar to them. Their experience of training forces the men to reconsider their masculinities and to renegotiate relationships with colleagues, pupils and the subject of English. The analysis of the interrelationship between the three areas of masculinities, initial teacher development and the subject of English reveals deeper knowledge of each. Within the richness of the findings, the interconnections between the three areas are explored and a unique body of knowledge about male English teachers during their training is revealed.
Optimal Space-Variant Anisotropic Tikhonov Regularization for Full Waveform Inversion of Sparse Data
Creators: name: Gholami, Ali
name: Gazzola, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a challenging, ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem that requires robust regularization techniques to stabilize the solution and yield geologically meaningful results, especially when dealing with sparse data. Standard Tikhonov regularization, though commonly employed in FWI, applies uniform smoothing that often leads to oversmoothing of key geological features, as it fails to account for the underlying structural complexity of the subsurface. To overcome this limitation, we propose an FWI algorithm enhanced by a novel Tikhonov regularization technique involving a parametric regularizer, which is automatically optimized to apply directional space-variant smoothing. Specifically, the parameters defining the regularizer (orientation and anisotropy) are treated as additional unknowns in the objective function, allowing the algorithm to estimate them simultaneously with the model. We introduce an efficient numerical implementation for FWI with the proposed space-variant regularization. Numerical tests on sparse data demonstrate the proposed method's effectiveness and robustness in reconstructing models with complex structures, significantly improving the inversion results compared to the standard Tikhonov regularization.
Additional file 2 of Pattern recognition in lymphoid malignancies using CytoGPS and Mercator
Creators: name: Abrams, Zachary B.
name: Tally, Dwayne G.
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Coombes, Caitlin E.
name: Payne, Philip R. O.
name: Abruzzo, Lynne V.
name: Coombes, Kevin R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Goodman Kruskal experiments.
Considering built environment and spatial correlation in modeling pedestrian injury severity
Creators: name: Prato, Carlo G.
name: Kaplan, Sigal
name: Patrier, Alexandre
name: Rasmussen, Thomas K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: This study looks at mitigating and aggravating factors that are associated with the injury severity of pedestrians when they have crashes with another road user and overcomes existing limitations in the literature by focusing attention on the built environment and considering spatial correlation across crashes. Method: Reports for 6,539 pedestrian crashes occurred in Denmark between 2006 and 2015 were merged with geographic information system resources containing detailed information about the built environment and exposure at the crash locations. A linearized spatial logit model estimated the probability of pedestrians sustaining a severe or fatal injury conditional on the occurrence of a crash with another road user. Results: This study confirms previous findings about older pedestrians and intoxicated pedestrians being the most vulnerable road users and crashes with heavy vehicles and in roads with higher speed limits being related to the most severe outcomes. This study provides novel perspectives by showing positive spatial correlations of crashes with the same severity outcomes and emphasizing the role of the built environment in the proximity of the crash. Conclusions: This study emphasizes the need for thinking about traffic calming measures, illumination solutions, road maintenance programs, and speed limit reductions. Moreover, this study emphasizes the role of the built environment, because shopping areas, residential areas, and walking traffic density are positively related to a reduction in pedestrian injury severity. Often, these areas have in common a larger pedestrian mass that is more likely to make other road users more aware and attentive, whereas the same does not seem to apply to areas with lower pedestrian density.
A rapid simulation modelling process for novice software process simulation modellers
Creators: name: Ahmed, Rizwan
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: In recent years, simulation modelling of software processes have has promoted as a tool to understand, study, control, and manage software development processes. Claims have been made that simulation models are useful and effective at gaining insight into software development processes. However, little has been said about the process of developing simulation models for software engineering problems. Simulation modelling is a young discipline in software engineering. Consequently, many number software process simulation modellers are thought to be novices. The simulation modelling process is believed to have had an effect on the quality of a simulation study. Although there is a body of knowledge available in the general simulation literature to guide and educate novices, the software process simulation modelling literature lacks information for novice software process simulation modellers to understand and adopt a simulation modelling process. This thesis aims to develop a simulation modelling process for novice software process simulation modellers. This thesis reports how the development and evaluation of a simulation modelling process for novice software process simulation modellers. The rapid simulation modelling process (RSMP) is based on an empirical study of the contexts and practices of expert simulation modellers in SPSM and Operational Research (OR). The RSMP is intended to be independent of a particular simulation technique (i. e. system dynamics or discrete event simulation) and guides novice software process simulation modellers through a set of steps that should be undertaken during a simulation study; the RSMP emphasises heavy client contact and provides guidelines for model documentation. The RSMP has been evaluated through controlled experiments with novice software process simulation modellers using system dynamics (SD) modelling. In the future, it will be further evaluated with software process simulation modellers using discrete event simulation. The RSMP has also been evaluated with a panel of expert software process simulation modellers. The main contribution of this study lies in providing novice software process simulation modellers with a simulation modelling process, which embodies real world simulation practice and is intended to be independent of a particular simulation technique.
The value of counselling in a school for children with complex needs
Creators: name: Flitton, Beverley Jane
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2007

description: Background to the study Reports have indicated that young people with learning difficulties are at greater risk of developing mental health problems; yet there is very little provision for this client group and a lack of understanding of what might be appropriate. This study evaluates counselling in a school for students with complex needs. The project seeks to underst~nd the effects of humanistic counselling for young people with learning difficulties from the students', teachers', teaching assistants' and counsellor's perspectives. Method The study is a mixed methods intervention stugy using both qualitative and quantitative measures. Thirty students were referred for counselling by the staff at the school. Fifteen were selected for the first year intervention; the other fifteen acted as a comparison group for the first year, and then were given counselling for the second year. The counselling provided was evaluated using data of four kinds: the counsellor's notes of sessions; the students' selfconcept at four times; their opinion of the value of counselling; the staff responses to the student's functioning in the classroom at four times; the students' responses to the PiersHarris 2 questionnaire. Results Results indicate that many' of the students in this project did benefit from humanistic counselling. Staff in the school identified benefits to over half of the students and reported that the students' behaviour, communication, concentration in class, and general levels of happiness improved. Data from the students and counsellor support these results. The students' were able to lessen their secondary handicap, improve communication, mcrease their level of autonomy and manage everyday life events more effectively. Conclusion The study demonstrated that participants benefited from the intervention; that counselling met a significant need among students; that additional support for school staff and parents was desirable; and that counselling of this kind should be much more widely available.
Budget and projected timeline
Creators: name: Bishop, Tarun Edward
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2019

description: Budget:
Item: amount
Salaries:
Attorney/project director: $100/hr. x 100 hours $10,000.00
Investigator: $20/hr. x 300 hours $6,000.00
TOTAL GRANT REQUEST: $16 K
Effect of berberine on the viability of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells in nutrients deficient condition
Creators: name: Ghorbani, Ahmad
name: Rahimi, Vafa Baradaran
name: Sadeghnia, Hamid Reza
name: Hosseini, Azar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: This study was designed to examine whether berberine protects rat adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs) against glucose and serum deprivation (GSD)-induced cell death. ASCs were cultured for 24 h in GSD condition in the presence of berberine and then cell viability, apoptosis and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were evaluated. The GSD condition significantly decreased ASCs viability and increased ROS generation and apoptosis. Incubation with 0.75–3 μM berberine partially increased cell viability and decreased ROS generation and apoptosis in GSD condition. In conclusion, berberine partially protects ASCs in nutrients deficient condition and may help ASCs to preserve their survival during cell therapy of ischemia.
Experiences of Coping in Young Unaccompanied Refugees in the UK
Creators: name: Scott, Jacqui
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2018
Subjects: Coping
Refugee
Asylum-seeker
Unaccompanied
Resilience
Cross-language research
Religious coping
Interpretative phenomenological analysis
Qualitative

description: Research with refugees tends to be dominated by mainstream medical and trauma models. However, development of resilience theories and research on coping increasingly find that such constructs can open up currently limited understandings of the refugee experience. This research took a culturally relativist approach to explore experiences of coping in young unaccompanied refugees in the UK. Following extensive consultation, five young refugees were recruited, who were living independently or semi-independently having arrived in the UK without their family, at the age of 15 or 16. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore experiences and understanding of ‘coping’, whilst acknowledging the relative contributions of their own and my own cultural frameworks and the limitations of language; three participants made use of having an interpreter present. The accounts are presented idiographically, under three major themes that were apparent on multiple levels of the refugees’ lives, from the individual to the cultural: ‘Adaptation in the context of hardship and loss’, ‘Beliefs and worldview in shaping a new life’, and ‘Building strength and self-reliance’. These findings contribute to research finding resilience in refugee lives, whilst not to the detriment of incredible loss and pain. The research attests to the significance of cultural frameworks in refugee coping, with religion playing a key role. The themes are discussed in relation to existing literature and relevant texts, with implications for further research and clinical practice. The role of professionals as allies of refugees is suggested, in promoting socially inclusive practices that involves work both in the clinic and on community and social levels.
Considering built environment and spatial correlation in modelling pedestrian injury severity
Creators: name: Prato, Carlo G.
name: Kaplan, Sigal
name: Patrier, Alexandre
name: Rasmussen, Thomas K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Objective. This study looks at mitigating and aggravating factors that are associated with the injury severity of pedestrians when they have crashes with another road user and overcomes existing limitations in the literature by posing attention on the built environment and considering spatial correlation across crashes. Method. Reports for 6539 pedestrian crashes occurred in Denmark between 2006 and 2015 were merged with geographic information system resources containing detailed information about built environment and exposure at the crash locations. A linearised spatial logit model estimated the probability of pedestrians to sustain a severe or fatal injury conditional on the occurrence of a crash with another road user. Results. This study confirms previous findings about older pedestrians and intoxicated pedestrians being the most vulnerable road users, and crashes with heavy vehicles and in roads with higher speed limits being related to the most severe outcomes. This study provides also novel perspectives by showing positive spatial correlation of crashes with the same severity outcome and emphasising the role of the built environment in the proximity of the crash. Conclusions. This study emphasises the need for thinking about traffic calming measures, illumination solutions, road maintenance programs and speed limit reductions. Moreover, this study emphasises the role of the built environment, as shopping areas, residential areas, and walking traffic density are positively related to a reduction in pedestrian injury severity. Often, these areas have in common a larger pedestrian mass that is more likely to make other road users more aware and attentive, while the same does not seem to apply to areas with lower pedestrian density.
Management of the Self in Virtual Work: Self-Organisation and Control Among Professional Online Poker Players
Creators: name: Holts, Kaire
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2018
Subjects: virtual work
digital labour
professional online poker
gambling
staking
self-management
self-control
worker-subjectivity
enterprising self
work identity

description: This study is set in the broad context of the changing world of work that is characterised by the dissolution of full-time stable employment and the emergence of precarious, insecure forms of work (see e.g. Gorz, 1999, Hardt and Negri, 2005, Huws, 2016, Lorey, 2015, Ross, 2003, Ross, 2009, Smith, 2001, Standing, 2011). As a response to these labour market uncertainties a growing number of individuals are managing multiple areas of the self as part of their work or occupation. This trend has been termed 'the new worker-subjectivity' or 'the entrepreneurial self' that is formed through practices of self-management (Bührmann, 2005, Lorey, 2009). Despite increasing awareness of the emergence of the entrepreneurial worker-subjectivity, research into practices of self-management has only focused on occupational groups in formal work. Knowledge about the trend in the context of virtual workers who operate outside of conventional working relations and have no publicly recognised work identity is largely missing. In order to address this gap, this study explores how entrepreneurial worker-subjectivities manifest in professional online poker players as an emerging online occupation. It investigates how these workers manage themselves in the absence of formal organisational control and socially recognised occupational norms, and asks what are the effects of this self-management on the quality of their working lives? The study is based on 39 in-depth interviews with people involved in online poker or other similar activities such as online gaming or trading. The interviews were conducted either face-to-face in Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and UK or over Skype between December 2012 and May 2014. The study develops an analytical framework for researching entrepreneurial worker-subjectivities in the context of an emerging occupation and a three-stage-model of the trajectory that provides a basis for exploring the career paths of professional online poker players. Using these framework, the study finds that professional online poker players manage various areas of the self by following informal occupational rules and that their sense of professionalism is largely derived from various practices of self-management that help them distinguish from recreational players. The study also discovers conflicting relations of autonomy and control among the workers and a range of negative effects that self-management practices have on professional online poker players. It concludes that professional online poker is not a sustainable long-term career option. These findings contribute to a better understanding of virtual work, the emergence of online poker playing as a form of work and the development of the entrepreneurial worker-subjectivity.
Figure S4 from Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate
Creators: name: Barrett, Brendan J.
name: McElreath, Richard L.
name: Perry, Susan E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Techniques observed during experiment. Rows are unique individuals, from older (top) to younger (bottom). X-axis is event time. Each color represents a processing technique. Circles indicate successes. X indicate failures. The most successful technique in red (canine seam) diffused to older members of the population. Younger individuals did not use canine seam, had more failed attempts, and fewer processing attempts. Points are raw data.
The Incarcerated Pregnancy: an Ethnographic Study of Perinatal Women in English Prisons
Creators: name: Abbott, Laura Jane
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ethnography
subject: Midwifery
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Perinatal
subject: Prison
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Health
subject: Qualitative methods
subject: Institutional ethnography
subject: Prison research

description: The UK has the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe, with pregnant women making up around 6% of the female prison population. There are limited qualitative studies published that document the experiences of pregnancy whilst serving a prison sentence. This doctoral thesis presents a qualitative, ethnographic interpretation of the pregnancy experience in three English prisons. The study took place during 2015-2016 and involved semi-structured interviews with 28 female prisoners in England who were pregnant, or had recently given birth whilst imprisoned, ten members of staff, and ten months of non-participant observation. Follow-up interviews with five women were undertaken as their pregnancies progressed to birth and the post-natal phase. Using a sociological framework of Sykes’ (1958) ‘pains of imprisonment’, this study builds upon existing knowledge and highlights the institutional responses to the pregnant prisoner. My original contribution to knowledge focuses on the fact that pregnancy is an anomaly within the patriarchal prison system. The main findings of the study can be divided into four broad concepts, namely: (a) ‘institutional thoughtlessness’, whereby prison life continues with little thought for those with unique physical needs, such as pregnant women; and (b) ‘institutional ignominy’ where the women experience ‘shaming’ as a result of institutional practices which entail their being displayed in public and characterised with institutional symbols of imprisonment. The study also reveals new information about the (c) coping strategies adopted by pregnant prisoners; and (d) elucidates how the women navigate the system to negotiate entitlements and seek information about their rights. Additionally, a new typology of prison officer has emerged from this study: the ‘maternal’ is a member of prison staff who accompanies pregnant, labouring women to hospital where the role of ‘bed watch officer’ can become that of a birth supporter. This research has tried to give voice to pregnant imprisoned women and to highlight gaps in existing policy guidelines and occasional blatant disregard for them. In this sense, the study has the potential to springboard future inquiry and to be a vehicle for positive reform for pregnant women across the prison estate.
Figure S1 from Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate
Creators: name: Barrett, Brendan J.
name: McElreath, Richard L.
name: Perry, Susan E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Posterior distributions of the main effects of the estimated parameters for the global model. Vertical solid lines lie at posterior mean. Dashed curves are the prior probabilities used to estimate each parameter.