cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover Determinants in Fortune 50 Companies: Insights from Employee Reviews from Indeed.com
Creators: name: Sainju, Bishal
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: We explored 682176 employee reviews of Fortune 50 companies from Indeed.com using topic discovery techniques like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Structural Topic Modeling (STM) to identify salient aspects in employee reviews and automatically infer latent topics that tend to drive employee satisfaction. We also studied how various satisfaction factors could be related to employee turnover. We discovered important topics in the reviews, including Management and Leadership, Advancement Opportunity, Pay and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, and Culture, which we compare to the five Job Descriptive Index (JDI) facets. Both LDA and STM discovered well-separated and distinguishable topics. We also incorporated a “Job Status” covariate in STM, which helped distinguish between what topics were talked about most by “Former” vs “Current” employees, and consequently helped us analyze the factors that could have caused employee turnover. We found that Leadership and Management and Overwork and Stressful Environment were the dominant factors contrasting between former and current employees, suggesting that they might be a leading cause of employee turnover. Furthermore, we post-processed the topic probability result from the STM model and analyzed it to determine sector-wise topic contribution for each topic, and also analyzed the company-wise topic contribution in each sector. We found that Retail sectors talked the most about Pay and Benefits and Length of Breaks, whereas the Technology sector’s employees were more concerned about the Work-Life Balance issue. Our results are directly usable to support company behavioral management decision makers to conceive and evaluate initiatives intended to enhance employee satisfaction. Furthermore, our techniques, including a novel visualization of topic composition and quality, are generalizable to any setting that uses topic discovery from unstructured text, and especially those comparing topics across entities.
Additional file 1 of The Atacama toad (Rhinella atacamensis) exhibits an unusual clinal pattern of decreasing body size towards more arid environments
Creators: name: Durán, Felipe
name: Méndez, Marco A.
name: Correa, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Raw data used in this study.
Reproducing Kernels for Visual Surface Interpolation.
Creators: name: Boult, Terrance E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Computer science

description: We examine the details of two related methods for the recovery of virtual surfaces from space depth data. The methods use the reproducing kernels of Hilbert spaces to construct a spline interpolating the data. such that this spline is of minimal norm. We discuss the numerical properties of the two methods presented, and give example interpolations.
Additional file 2 of The Atacama toad (Rhinella atacamensis) exhibits an unusual clinal pattern of decreasing body size towards more arid environments
Creators: name: Durán, Felipe
name: Méndez, Marco A.
name: Correa, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Results of the analyses by sex.
Kinetic theory for non-equilibrium stationary states in long-range interacting systems
Creators: name: Nardini, Cesare
name: Gupta, Shamik
name: Ruffo, Stefano
name: Dauxois, Thierry
name: Bouchet, Freddy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study long-range interacting systems perturbed by external stochastic forces. Unlike the case of short-range systems, where stochastic forces usually act locally on each particle, here we consider perturbations by external stochastic fields. The system reaches stationary states where external forces balance dissipation on average. These states do not respect detailed balance and support non-vanishing fluxes of conserved quantities. We generalize the kinetic theory of isolated long-range systems to describe the dynamics of this non-equilibrium problem. The kinetic equation that we obtain applies to plasmas, self-gravitating systems, and to a broad class of other systems. Our theoretical results hold for homogeneous states, but may also be generalized to apply to inhomogeneous states. We obtain an excellent agreement between our theoretical predictions and numerical simulations. We discuss possible applications to describe non-equilibrium phase transitions.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; v2: small changes, close to the published version
Measures and thresholds applied to demonstrate competence for surgical interventions in patients by healthcare practitioners: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Mather, Helen
name: McCracken, Giles
name: Bateman, Heidi
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education

description: This study will systematically identify and map the existing evidence in the area of surgical skill and attainment of competence.
Universal response of optimal granular damping devices
Creators: name: Sánchez, Martín
name: Rosenthal, Gustavo
name: Pugnaloni, Luis A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Granular damping devices constitute an emerging technology for the attenuation of vibrations based on the dissipative nature of particle collisions. We show that the performance of such devices is independent of the material properties of the particles for working conditions where damping is optimal. Even the suppression of a dissipation mode (collisional or frictional) is unable to alter the response. We explain this phenomenon in terms of the inelastic collapse of granular materials. These findings provide a crucial standpoint for the design of such devices in order to achieve the desired low maintenance feature that makes particle dampers particularly suitable to harsh environments.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: The Radical Right in England and Wales: Permission to Hate?
Creators: name: Chana, Sadie
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Despite the prominence of the radical right in the UK, scant research has been undertaken to explore the influence that these organisations have on the perpetration of hate crime. Whilst current literature on hate crime predominantly looks at the impacts these crimes have on victims, it does not sufficiently investigate the conditions under which these crimes occur. The few studies on this issue have been conducted in the USA and Canada, the most recent of which was conducted by Perry and Scrivens (2019) who presented a new theoretical framework to account for this relationship. This framework - permission to hate - establishes a general environment of hate. This thesis contributes to the field by developing permission to hate to a more racialised social structure, and identifies the ways in which the radical right influences hate crime in England and Wales. Thus, this thesis is theory testing, adopting a similar sequential mixed-methods approach used by Perry and Scrivens. Due to the anti-minority ideology of the radical right, this thesis uses official crime statistics measuring racially and religiously aggravated crimes and demographic data to determine whether there is a correlation between these crimes and both the electoral performance of radical right parties and the protest activities of radial right organisations at the local level. In order to identify the causal mechanisms, a case study of the West Midlands is undertaken using semi-structured interviews with individuals who worked at Third Party Reporting Centres, media reports of radical right protests and more localised crime data. By combining these methods this thesis expands upon the work by Perry and Scrivens, contributing towards the theory permission to hate, whilst also highlighting the ways in which the radical right influence racially and religiously aggravated crimes. This study finds that the radical right achieve this through the consumption of alcohol during their protests, inserting themselves into local issues and how they emphasise the risks minority communities pose to British society, especially in the aftermath of high profile events.
Using Social Media to Assess the Impact of Weather and Climate on Visitation to Outdoor Recreation Settings
Creators: name: Wilkins, Emily J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: When people post photos on social media, these photos often contain information on the location, time, and date the photo was taken; all of this information is stored as metadata and is often never seen or used by the individuals posting the photos. This information can be used by researchers however, to understand the total number of visitors to parks and protected areas, as well as specific places people visit within those parks and protected areas. The first study in this dissertation reviews all the ways social media has been used to understand visitation and visitors’ experiences in parks. Researchers can connect the photo locations from social media to other datasets to understand how different factors, such as the weather or climate, influence park visitation. Weather refers to the conditions, such as temperature or precipitation, at any given place and time; climate refers to the long-term weather averages at a location, often over a period of 30 years or more. The second paper explores how weather affects where visitors go within 110 U.S. National Parks. Daily temperature and precipitation influence visitors’ elevation and distance to roads, parking areas, buildings, and bodies of water. However, the effect of weather varies in parks with different climates and landscapes. Visitors in some parks may be more able to adapt to adverse weather conditions by visiting park areas with preferable weather. In the third study, I examine how the climate of federal and state-managed public lands impact visitation by season. Across the conterminous U.S., visitation was higher in places with warmer average temperatures in the fall, spring, and winter. However, visitation was higher in places with relatively cooler average temperatures in the summer. Climate has a larger effect on visitation to public lands in the summer and winter, and in the Western U.S. Collectively, these studies provide insight into how visitation to and within parks, protected areas, and public lands in the U.S. may change due to weather conditions and climate change.
An Optimal Complexity Algorithm for Computing Topological Degree in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Boult, Terrance E.
name: Sikorski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Computer science

description: An algorithm is presented to compute the topological degree for any function from a class F. The class F consists of functions defined on a two dimensional unit square C, f, C →  ℝ², which satisfy Lipschitz condition with constant K > 0, and whose infinity norm on the boundary of C is at least d > 0. A worst case lower bound, m* = 4[K/4d], is established on the number of function evaluations necessary to compute the topological degree for any function f from the class F. The parallel information used by our algorithm permits the computation of the degree for every f in F with m* function evaluations necessary. The cost of our algorithm is shown to be almost equal to the complexity of the problem.
Perceptions of Consulting in Inclusive Preschool Classrooms
Creators: name: Forsythe, Natalie E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Consulting is a method of delivering special education services in inclusive preschool classrooms (consisting of both students with disabilities and typically developing peers) where special education teachers and related service providers (consultants) visit the classroom and support general education preschool teachers (consultees) in implementing special education services and accommodations. This thesis examined the results of a survey gathering perspectives of both consultants and consultees on the definition of the consulting role and factors in building positive consulting relationships. Providers from both groups who responded to this survey defined the consultant role as working with both students and consultees, but primarily with students. Consultants gave responses calling for additional training and understanding of the consultant role, and consultees emphasized a preference for consultants to be actively involved in the classroom. While consultants and consultees agreed that they have a positive consulting relationship and that consultants are effective in supporting students and consultees, both groups also frequently mentioned a need for establishing a respectful relationship between consultants and consultees.
Self-Describing Fiducials for GPS-Denied Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Creators: name: Strate, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Accurate estimation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s (UAV’s) location is critical for the operation of the UAV when it is controlled completely by its onboard processor. This can be particularly challenging in environments in which GPS is not available (GPS-denied). Many of the options previously explored for estimation of a UAV’s location without the use of GPS require more sophisticated processors than can feasibly be mounted on a UAV because of weight, size, and power restrictions. Many options are also aimed at indoor operation without the range capabilities to scale to outdoor operations. This research explores an alternative method of GPS-denied navigation which utilizes line-of-sight measurements to self-describing fiducials to aid in position determination. Each self-describing fiducial is an easily identifiable object fixed at a specific location. Each fiducial relays data containing its specific location to the observing UAV. The UAV can measure its relative position to the fiducial using camera images. This measurement can be combined with measurements from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to obtain a more accurate estimate of the UAV’s location. In this research, a simulation is used to validate and assess the performance of algorithms used to estimate the UAV’s position using these measurements. This research analyzes the effectiveness of the estimation algorithm when used with various IMUs and fiducial spacings. The effect of how quickly camera images of fiducials can be captured and processed is also analyzed. Preparations for demonstrating this system with hardware are then presented and discussed, including options for fiducial type and a way to measure the true position of the UAV. The results from the simulated scenarios and the hardware demonstration preparation are analyzed, and future work is discussed.
Laser Autogenous Brazing of Biocompatible, Dissimilar Metals in Tubular Geometries
Creators: name: Satoh, Gen
name: Brandal, Grant Bjørn
name: Yao, Y. Lawrence
name: Naveed, Syed
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Materials science

description: The successful joining of dissimilar metal tubes would enable the selective use of the unique properties exhibited by biocompatible materials such as stainless steel and shape memory materials such as NiTi, to locally tailor the properties of implantable medical devices. The lack of robust joining processes for the dissimilar metal pairs found within these devices, however, is an obstacle to their development and manufacture. Traditional joining methods suffer from weak joints due to the formation of brittle intermetallics or use filler materials that are unsuitable for use within the human body. This study investigates a new process, Laser Autogenous Brazing, that utilizes a thermal accumulation mechanism to form joints between dissimilar metals without filler materials. This process has been shown to produce robust joints between wire specimens but requires additional considerations when applied to tubular parts. The strength, composition, and microstructure of the resultant joints between NiTi and Stainless Steel are investigated and the effects of laser parameters on the thermal profile and joining mechanism are studied through experiments and numerical simulations.
Bait and Snitch: Defending Computer Systems with Decoys
Creators: name: Voris, Jonathan A.
name: Jermyn, Jill
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science

description: Threats against computer networks continue to multiply, but existing security solutions are persistently unable to keep pace with these challenges. In this paper we present a new paradigm for securing computational resources which we call decoy technology. This technique involves seeding a system with data that appears authentic but is in fact spurious. Attacks can then be detected by monitoring this phony information for access events. Decoys are capable of detecting malicious activity, such as insider and masquerade attacks, that are beyond the scope of traditional security measures. They can be used to address confidentiality breaches either proactively or after they have taken place. This work examines the challenges that must be overcome in order to successfully deploy decoys as part of a comprehensive security solution. It discusses situations where decoys are particularly useful as well as characteristics that effective decoy material should share. Furthermore, we describe the tools that we have developed to efficiently craft and distribute decoys in order to form a network of sensors that is capable of detecting adversarial action that occurs anywhere in an organizations system.
The Consequences of Environmental Properties and Tree Spatial Neighborhood on Post-Fire Structure of Forest in Yosemite National Park
Creators: name: Tamjidi, Jelveh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Separating the contribution of habitat filtering and dispersal mechanisms in forming species distribution remains a challenge in community ecology. Despite the effect of environmental variables in structuring communities, only restricted numbers of them were considered as a habitat dissimilarity.
In Chapter 2, I used topography and soil properties to define habitats within the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot (YFDP). The soil enzymes were added in soil samples due to their important role in releasing nutrients into the soil environment. The preference of eleven species to a specific habitat were examined. Also, the relative importance of habitat filtering and dispersal limitation were examined. I found that more species associated with habitats defined by soil properties compare to those associated with topographically defined habitat. In addition, the contribution of dispersal process was greater in explaining change in species composition.
In Chapter 3, I studied the underlying processes in shaping four abundant species spatial arrangement in YFDP. I examined the effect of habitat heterogeneity, dispersal process, fire event, interaction of adults on juveniles, and negative density dependence (as a result of increasing density) in shaping species spatial distribution. My results suggest that dominant species spatial patterns are partially explained by topographic variables, dispersal limitation, biotic interactions, and fire history.
Resonant harmonic generation and collective spin rotations in electrically driven quantum dots
Creators: name: Nowak, M. P.
name: Szafran, B.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin rotations induced by an AC electric field in a two-electron double quantum dot are studied by an exact numerical solution of the time dependent Schroedinger equation in the context of recent electric dipole spin resonance experiments based on the Pauli blockade. We demonstrate that the splitting of the main resonance line by the spin exchange coupling is accompanied by the appearance of fractional resonances and that both these effects are triggered by interdot tunnel coupling. We find that the AC driven system generates residual but distinct harmonics of the driving frequency which are amplified when tuned to the main transition frequency. The mechanism is universal for electron systems in electrically driven potentials and works also in the absence of electron-electron interaction or spin-orbit coupling.
description: Corrected version accepted for PRB
Soil Health, Phosphorus and Carbon Dynamics in Response to a One-Time Compost Application and Cover Crops in Organic Dryland Winter Wheat
Creators: name: Atoloye, Idowu Ademola
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Organic dryland winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) growers in the U.S. are faced with high interannual variability in yields. This is related to the low annual precipitation and low soil fertility on the cultivated soils. Improving soil health is the key to increasing and maintaining crop yields. In this study, we compared the effects of different rates (0, 12.5, 25 and 50 Mg DW ha-1 compost and 2 Mg ha manure-1) of large quantities of steer manure compost and the inclusion of cover crops versus fallow on soil health and on carbon and phosphorus dynamics in two organic dryland systems with varying soil characteristics and microclimatic conditions. The two sites are located in Snowville and Blue Creek, Utah. At Snowville, the soil fertility is extremely low, pH is 8.5, and average total annual precipitation is 290 mm. At Blue Creek, the soil is more fertile, pH is 7.2 and average total annual precipitation is 485 mm. The results showed that the compost effect on measured physical, biological and chemical soil health indices (soil moisture, dehydrogenase and phosphatasesenzyme activities, soil organic carbon, Olsen P) were greater than the effects of cover crops at both sites. Differences were also found in phosphorus cycling between the two sites, with potential long-term impacts in soils with extreme low fertility due to lower rate of nutrient mineralization. By applying large quantities of compost (25-50 Mg DW ha-1) once, organic dryland winter wheat farmers can improve soil health, enhance SOM associated water retention and availability, and provide an environment for continuous sustainable wheat yield.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with seasonal influenza and HPV vaccination uptake among different ethnic groups in Arab and Jewish society in Israel
Creators: name: Shahbari, Nour Abed Elhadi
name: Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat
name: Davidovitch, Nadav
name: Brammli-Greenberg, Shuli
name: Grifat, Rami
name: Mesch, Gustavo S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Research questionnaire.
The Costs of Cutting Health Care: An Analysis of Recent Changes to New Jersey FamilyCare
Creators: name: Thampi, Kalyani
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Health insurance
Medicaid
Poor children
Working poor

description: This policy report uses results from the Family Resource Simulator and the Basic Needs Budget Calculator to analyze New Jersey’s work support policies through the lens of cuts to New Jersey FamilyCare (NJFC). It examines the significant and measurable ways in which these cuts affect low-income children and families, the state budget, and the local economy. The report closes with policy recommendations that could provide a better investment in New Jersey’s working families and its economy.
Re-use and Reproducibility: Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Stodden, Victoria C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Communication of technical information
Information technology

description: To support the reliability and accuracy of the scientific record, science policy, research infrastructure, and the culture of science must facilitate the sharing of data and code resulting from scientific research, much of which is now produced using computational methods. Though the need to support the reproducibility of computational research is now widely recognized, copyright and other factors present challenges to the development of policies and practices.
Contributions to information-based complexity, image understanding and logic circuit design.
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Computer science

description: This work consists of three parts. The first two describe new results In information-based complexity and applications of the general theory to the field of computer vision. The last presents an average case result of a different sort: the design of a binary comparator. Part I is joint work with G. W. Wasilkowski. In this part, we study approximation of linear functionals on a separable Banach space equipped with a Gaussian measure. We study optimal information and optimal algorithms in average case, probabilistic and asymptotic settings, for a general error functional. We prove that adaptive information is not more powerful than non-adaptive information and that µ-spline algorithms, which are linear, are optimal in all three settings. We specialize our results to spaces of functions with continuous rth derivatives, equipped with a Wiener measure. In particular, we show that the interpolation by the natural splines of degree r+1 yields the optimal algorithms. We apply the general results to the problem of integration. Part II of this work studies the following image understanding problems: 2 & 1/2 D sketch, shape from shading, and optical flow. We point out how known general optimality results in the worst case model may be applied to these problems. We indicate some preliminary results and work in progress, concerning the numerical solution of these problems. Algorithms which differ from those currently used in practice are proposed. Part III provides a design of a binary comparator with completion signal, for the purpose of optimizing the average processing time. The average propagation delay is a constant, independent of n, the number of inputs, while the logic complexity is a linear function of n.
Molecular Mechanisms and Design of Hydrogen-Bonded Materials for Thermal Applications
Creators: name: He, Jinlong
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Heat transfer at the nanoscale plays an important role in determining the reliability and performance of many innovative advanced materials technologies such as nanoelectronics, semiconductor, biomedical devices, polymers, and composites. Extensive efforts have been made to design materials with extraordinary thermal properties. However, fundamental understanding of heat transfer in many of these materials is still not lacking, because the thermal transport processes are governed by several factors including molecular morphology and chemical bonding. Among these factors, the atomic bonding between two dissimilar materials or within single materials is of particular interest due to its ubiquity and importance in physical processes. This work will focus on the demonstration and fundamental understanding of nanoscale thermal transport enhanced by incorporating hydrogen bonds in materials design.
Molecular dynamics is performed for studying heat transfer processes in two typical hydrogen-bonded materials: (1) protein secondary structures, and (2) electrode/electrolyte composites in lithium ion batteries. Theoretical calculation and analysis show that heat transfer can be tuned in a wide range by modifying the hydrogen bonds. Results will not only provide new physical insights, but will also guide the rational design of materials for desired thermal properties towards many applications.
Z'-gauge Bosons as Harbingers of Low Mass Strings
Creators: name: Anchordoqui, Luis A.
name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Goldberg, Haim
name: Huang, Xing
name: Lust, Dieter
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive Z'-gauge bosons act as excellent harbingers for string compactifications with a low string scale. In D-brane models they are associated to U(1) gauge symmetries that are either anomalous in four dimensions or exhibit a hidden higher dimensional anomaly. We discuss the possible signals of massive Z'-gauge bosons at hadron collider machines (Tevatron, LHC) in a minimal D-brane model consisting out of four stacks of D-branes. In this construction, there are two massive gauge bosons, which can be naturally associated with baryon number B and B-L (L being lepton number). Here baryon number is always anomalous in four dimensions, whereas the presence of a four-dimensional B-L anomaly depends on the U(1)-charges of the right handed neutrinos. In case B-L is anomaly free, a mass hierarchy between the two associated Z'-gauge bosons can be explained. In our phenomenological discussion about the possible discovery of massive Z'-gauge bosons, we take as a benchmark scenario the dijet plus W signal, recently observed by the CDF Collaboration at Tevatron. It reveals an excess in the dijet mass range 150 GeV/c^2, 4.1σbeyond SM expectations. We show that in the context of low-mass string theory this excess can be associated with the production and decay of a leptophobic Z', a singlet partner of SU(3) gluons coupled primarily to baryon number. Even if the CDF signal disappears, as indicated by the more recent D0 results, our analysis can still serve as the basis for future experimental search for massive Z'-gauge bosons in low string scale models. We provide the relevant cross sections for the production of Z'-gauge bosons in the TeV region, leading to predictions that are within reach of the present or the next LHC run.
description: To be published in PRD
title: Smartphone-GPS Literature Review Complete Database
title: Supplementary Materials S1
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rout, Angela
Publisher: name: Computational Media Design
Year: 2020
Subjects: Smartphone-GPS, urban, design, planning,

description: We conducted a two-stage search process to build a database of papers relevant to smartphone-GPS data and human behaviour studies: a key-term sweep of two academic search engines to identify focal papers, and a review of titles of other studies cited in the focal set to gather a second set of related papers. The first search was intended to represent the breadth of the literature, and the second was to dig deeper into a subset of the results to identify work that was pertinent to the research theme. To identify search terms for the first stage we conducted an iterative search for key words using the Web of ScienceTM (Science Citation Index Expanded) and ScopusTM. We developed a keyword search using relevant terms which we grouped into four categories: 1) terms for mobile phone; 2) terms for sensing and tracking; 3) terms for human behaviour; and, 4) terms to identify studies. Search terms were:"GPS" AND ("cellphone" OR "mobile phone" OR "smartphone" OR "smart phone") AND ("sensing" OR "tracking" OR "recording" OR "participat*") AND ("urban" OR "City" OR "behavior" OR "behaviour" OR "human") AND ("data" OR "study"). Search conducted early 2018
Seek, test and treat continuum among a cohort of injecting drug users (IDUs) and their sexual partners in HIV prevention project in Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Terlikbayeva, Assel
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Rozental, Yelena
name: Yegeubayeva, Saltanat
name: Ismailova, Leyla
name: Famouri, Maryam Leila
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public health

description: Recent reviews of access to treatment and care among injecting drug users (IDUs) in low-income and middle-income countries revealed a disproportionately low coverage of IDUs by HIV testing, treatment, and care. Central Asia and Kazakhstan are experiencing one of the most rapidly progressing IDU-driven HIV epidemics in the world, and have a particularly low coverage of IDUs by HIV testing, treatment, and care programs.
Project delivery and contract strategy for district energy projects - a lifecycle approach
Creators: name: Mogerman, Aaron Egon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: New district energy projects provide Canadians with an opportunity to decentralize their energy supply, create efficiency in the production and distribution of energy and enable the use of renewable fuels. With the support of Provincial and Federal initiatives, public institutions and municipalities across Canada are beginning to consider these systems as viable solutions to their energy needs. However, relatively few of these projects have been built in Canada and a clear methodology for delivery of these projects has yet to emerge. The selection of an appropriate project delivery strategy is essential to ensuring the owner’s key objectives can be met over the entire lifecycle of the district energy facility. Through a comprehensive literature review, case study interviews and questionnaires, this research has identified and validated the key project delivery and contract strategy (PDCS) selection factors (objectives) for owners of new Canadian district energy projects. These selection factors have been aligned with a comprehensive list of PDCS alternatives, using relative effectiveness values. The scoring of these effectiveness values has been validated through a series of workshops with senior industry representatives across a range of key disciplines. The final data were used to produce a simple PDCS decision support tool for project managers who are considering building a district energy facility in Canada.
Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes
Creators: name: Snider, Neal
name: Diab, Mona T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Information technology
Computer science

description: We exploit the resources in the Arabic Treebank (ATB) for the novel task of automatically creating lexical semantic verb classes for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Verbs are clustered into groups that share semantic elements of meaning as they exhibit similar syntactic behavior. The results of the clustering experiments are compared with a gold standard set of classes, which is approximated by using the noisy English translations provided in the ATB to create Levin-like classes for MSA. The quality of the clusters is found to be sensitive to the inclusion of information about lexical heads of the constituents in the syntactic frames, as well as parameters of the clustering algorithm. The best set of parameters yields an Fβ=1 score of 0.501, compared to a random baseline with an Fβ=1 score of 0.37.
Algebraic and transcendental solutions of some exponential equations
Creators: name: Sondow, Jonathan
name: Marques, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11J91, Secondary 11D61

description: We study algebraic and transcendental powers of positive real numbers, including solutions of each of the equations $x^x=y$, $x^y=y^x$, $x^x=y^y$, $x^y=y$, and $x^{x^y}=y$. Applications to values of the iterated exponential functions are given. The main tools used are classical theorems of Hermite-Lindemann and Gelfond-Schneider, together with solutions of exponential Diophantine equations.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, corrected top of p. 4
Acquisition, Processing, and Analysis of Video, Audio and Meteorological Data in Multi-Sensor Electronic Beehive Monitoring
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sarbajit
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, a widespread decline has been seen in honey bee population and this is widely attributed to colony collapse disorder. Hence, it is of utmost importance that a system is designed to gather relevant information. This will allow for a deeper understanding of the possible reasons behind the above phenomenon to aid in the design of suitable countermeasures.
Electronic Beehive Monitoring is one such way of gathering critical information regarding a colony’s health and behavior without invasive beehive inspections. In this dissertation, we have presented an electronic beehive monitoring system called BeePi that can be placed on top of a super and requires no structural modifications to a standard beehive (Langstroth or Dadant beehive), thereby preserving the sacredness of the bee space without disturbing the natural beehive cycles. The system is capable of capturing videos of forager traffic through a camera placed over the landing pad. Audio of bee buzzing is also recorded through microphones attached outside just above the landing pad. The above sensors are connected to a low-cost raspberry pi computer, and the data is saved on the raspberry pi itself or an external hard drive.
In this dissertation, we have developed an algorithm that analyzes those video recordings and returns the number of bees that have moved in each video. The algorithm is also able to distinguish between incoming, outgoing, and lateral bee movements. We believe this would help commercial and amateur beekeepers or even citizen scientists to observe the bee traffic near their respective hives to identify the state of the corresponding bee colonies. This information helps those mentioned above because it is believed that honeybee traffic carries information on colony behavior and phenology.
Next, we analyzed the audio recordings and presented a system that can classify those recordings into bee buzzing, cricket chirping, and ambient noise. We later saw how a long–term analysis of the intensity of bee buzzing could help us understand the hive’s development through an entire beekeeping season.
We also investigated the effect of local weather conditions using 21 different meteorological variables on the forager traffic. We collected the meteorological data from a weather station located on the campus of Utah State University. Through our study, we were able to show that without the use of additional costly intrusive hardware to count the bees, we can use our bee motion counting algorithm to calculate the bee motions and then use the counts to investigate the relationship between foraging activity and local weather.
To ensure that our findings and algorithms can be reproduced, we have made our datasets and source codes public for interested research and citizen science communities.
Fruit Tree Responses to Water Stress: Automated Physiological Measurements and Rootstock Responses
Creators: name: Wheeler, William D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: New orchard plantings utilize trees grafted to dwarfing rootstocks planted close together to facilitate larger harvests. These dwarfing rootstocks have not been comprehensively studied for their ability to withstand drought. This is of special importance in the Intermountain West which has limited rainfall. Additionally, orchard growers face competition for water from a growing population and increased uncertainty in rainfall from climate change. My research examined the use of dendrometers, which measure changes in trunk diameter, and sap flow sensors, which measure how quickly sap moves, as methods to inform growers about tree water status. I also used a weighing lysimeter system to measure tree water use in four different rootstocks as they were subjected to drought.
In a field study, I placed dendrometers and sap flow sensors in a high-density apple orchard. As the trees progressed through the season and put on fruit the responses from the sensors changed. By separating data from the sap flow sensors and dendrometers into seasons, their ability to predict tree water status improved. I found that overall dendrometers would be the best way to automate measurements of tree water status.
In my first rootstock trial I examined responses of peach trees grown from seeds from an orchard maintained by Navajo farmers in South Western Utah, and a commercially available rootstock. I found that the Navajo peach trees put on more growth than the commercial trees despite drought, which suggests that they may be useful for rootstock development. In my second rootstock trial I examine the commercially available Krymsk® 5 and 6 series dwarfing cherry rootstocks for responses to drought. I found that the Krymsk® 6 rootstocks had higher rates of transpiration and used water faster than the Krymsk® 5 allowing them to put on growth quickly even during drought. Krymsk® 5 rootstocks have a lower percentage of their biomass in their roots which may have helped to conserve water.
B^0-\bar B^0 Mixing in Gauge-Higgs Unification
Creators: name: Adachi, Yuki
name: Kurahashi, Nobuaki
name: Maru, Nobuhito
name: Tanabe, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss flavor mixing and resulting Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) in a five dimensional SU(3)_color \otimes SU(3) \otimes U'(1) gauge-Higgs unification. Flavor mixing is realized by the fact that the bulk and brane localized mass terms are not diagonalized simultaneously. As the concrete FCNC processes, we calculate the rate of B^0_d-\bar B^0_d mixing and B^0_s-\bar B^0_s mixing due to the exchange of non-zero Kaluza-Klein gluons at the tree level. We obtain a lower bound on the compactification scale of order O(TeV) by comparing our prediction on the mass difference of neutral B meson with the recent experimental data.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1103.5980 [hep-ph]
title: The MacKenzie Earls of Seaforth and the Stuart dynasty, 1651-1719
Creators: name: Sheffield, Edwin Charles
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Clan MacKenzie was a dominant force in Ross-shire throughout the seventeenth century and in the early eighteenth century. Its chiefly line was the MacKenzies of Kintail/Seaforth, who at times were the earls of Seaforth and Jacobite marquesses of Seaforth, sheriffs of Ross-shire, provosts of Fortrose, Scottish Privy Councillors and Jacobite secretary of state for Scotland. However, the noble house of Seaforth remains under-analysed in scholarship for the period after 1639. Instead, scholarship tends to approach the Scottish Highlands and Highland nobility during the temporal span of this thesis (1651-1719) from an Edinburgh- and London-centric perspective and, therefore, through nobles and clans who engaged more regularly with the Scottish and British central authorities, such as the house of Argyll, consecutively chiefs of Clan Campbell. This has led to skewed understanding of Highland nobility and clanship during this period. Taking inspiration from successful noble- and Highland-centred approaches to historical research, this thesis describes and analyses the change in the strength of the house of Seaforth through focused studies on the political careers of Kenneth Mòr MacKenzie, third earl of Seaforth (1651-78), Kenneth Òg MacKenzie, fourth earl of Seaforth (1678-1701), and William Dubh MacKenzie, fifth earl of Seaforth (1701-19). To accomplish this, this thesis utilises source material irrespective of its genre or the language in which it was written, painting a multi-layered picture. This thesis uses a mixture of family papers and correspondence, governmental records, Gaelic poetry and genealogical histories to assess how the nature of Highland noble power changed from the perspective of the chief, revealing his apparent strategy. More broadly, this thesis provides a local, Seaforth-centred perspective of the years 1651-1719 in order to challenge and complement long-held historiographical beliefs on national phenomena, such as on minority and absentee lordship, Highland nobles and their gentry, clans and royalism and Jacobitism, clans and religion, and clans and politics.
Additional file 1 of Association of elevated serum aminotransferase levels with chronic kidney disease measures: hispanic community health study/study of latinos
Creators: name: Missikpode, Celestin
name: Kramer, Holly
name: Cotler, Scott J.
name: Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon
name: Lash, James P.
name: Kallwitz, Eric
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Kuniholm, Mark H.
name: Rosas, Sylvia E.
name: Ricardo, Ana C.
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Raij, Leopoldo
name: Pirzada, Amber
name: Daviglus, Martha L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Marine Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1:
Production of $π^0ρ^0$ pair in electron-positron annihilation in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Ahmadov, A. I.
name: Kuraev, E. A.
name: Volkov, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process $e^+e^- \to π^0ρ$ is described in the framework of the expanded NJL model in the energy region from 0.9 GeV to 1.5 GeV. The contribution of intermediate state with vector mesons $ω(782), \,\,ϕ(1020)$, and $ω'(1420)$, where $ω'$ is the first radial excitation of $ω$ - meson was taken into account. Results obtained are in satisfactory agreement with experimental data.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
The Role of the Recently Deorphanized G-Protein Coupled Receptor, GPR171, in Morphine Tolerance and Withdrawal
Creators: name: Afrose, Leela
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Opioid analgesics, such as morphine, represent the gold standard pain killer and the most frequently used drugs for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. Despite being a potent analgesic, morphine has unwanted and dangerous side effects with repeated use, such as tolerance and withdrawal. Tolerance is a state when a person no longer responds to a drug and a higher dose is required to achieve the same initial pain relief. Withdrawal is a set of undesirable psychological and physiological symptoms that occur after someone stops taking a drug or reduces the dose. Morphine tolerance and withdrawal play a vital role in the development of opioid addiction. One of the crucial goals to reduce opioid addiction is to develop pain therapeutics for chronic pain with high efficacy and reduced side effects. Despite centuries of extensive research, the existing treatments for chronic pain have met with limited success and developing better and alternative therapies are urgently needed. A novel G-protein coupled receptor, GPR171, is found to be highly expressed throughout the pain modulating regions of the brain. Our previous study found that activating this receptor with an agonist, enhances morphine’s pain relieving property in combination therapy during acute treatment in mice. In this study, we investigated the effects of activating this receptor during long-term morphine treatment to evaluate tolerance and withdrawal. Our results demonstrate that, activating this receptor reduces morphine induced tolerance in female mice (but not males) on a thermal pain test and it does not have any additional adverse effects on morphine tolerance and withdrawal syndrome. These results suggest the potentiality of GPR171 as a novel pain therapeutics in combination with morphine with enhanced efficacy and reduced tolerance and dependence for the treatment of chronic pain, especially for females.