cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies
Creators: name: Wirbel, Jakob
name: Essex, Morgan
name: Forslund, Sofia Kirke
name: Zeller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional File 1: Supplementary Figures.
АЙРИМ ХОРЖИЙ ДАВЛАТЛАРНИНГ ЖАЗОНИ ИЖРО ЭТИШ ТЎҒРИСИДАГИ ҲУҚУҚИЙ НОРМАЛАР ТАҲЛИЛИ
Creators: name: Хожамуратов, Мухамметали
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Хорижий мамлакатлардаги жиноятчиликнинг ҳозирги ҳолати, динамикаси, таркибидаги ўзгаришлар бизга яқин бўлган бир қатор тенденцияларни очиб берди, бу эса жиноий жазолар соҳасида умумий муаммоларнинг пайдо бўлишига олиб келди. Буржуа қамоқхонасини ўрганишни илм-фанга қарши ва реакцион, деб баҳолаш ўтмишда қолди. Ҳозир илғор капиталистик мамлакатларда пенитенциар назария ва амалиётни ўрганиш маҳаллий фан хизматига топширилди.
Simulating Protoplanetary Disk Ices
Creators: name: Ballering, Nicholas P.
name: Cleeves, L. Ilsedore
name: Anderson, Dana E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: New observations with powerful infrared facilities, most notably JWST, will reveal the spectral signatures of ices in protoplanetary disks in unprecedented detail. The diversity, abundance, and distribution of disk ices play vital roles in planet formation and the delivery of biocritical volatiles to planets. Disks are physically and chemically heterogeneous, so inferring the ice properties from observations is non-trivial. I will present results from an ongoing program to forward-model disk ice spectral features, providing a powerful tool to fully understand the ice reservoirs probed by observations. The models use a kinetics-based gas-grain chemical evolution code to simulate the distribution of ices in a disk, followed by radiative transfer using a subset of key ice species to simulate the observations. I will discuss which ice species should be detectable and how the observable features vary with system properties, including stellar type, disk inclination, inheritance vs. reset initial chemical conditions, and subsequent chemical evolution. I will also highlight the value of obtaining spatially resolved spectra of edge-on disks (possible with, e.g., JWST's integral field units) to constrain the vertical distribution of ices.
Additional file 2 of Ratatosk: hybrid error correction of long reads enables accurate variant calling and assembly
Creators: name: Holley, Guillaume
name: Beyter, Doruk
name: Ingimundardottir, Helga
name: Møller, Peter L.
name: Snædis Kristmundsdottir
name: Eggertsson, Hannes P.
name: Halldorsson, Bjarni V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 Review history.
title: The making of Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF) grand strategy: origins and implementation
Creators: name: Raymon, Ricky
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: This study examines the origins and implementation of Indonesia’s grand strategy, the Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF), during Joko Widodo’s first term (2014-2019). Though Indonesia’s leaders sought recognition of the country’s geography as an archipelagic state decades ago, they did not adopt until recently a maritime-based grand strategy. The sudden emergence and adoption of the GMF - given the long period during which political leaders had but little appreciation for the country’s maritime domain – makes for a puzzle that this dissertation attempts to address. To approach the topic, the study draws on several theoretical frameworks, builds on Neoclassical Realist theory for insights relating to the role of domestic factors in mediating systemic imperatives. To capture specifically the origins of the GMF, the dissertation also draws on works on policy entrepreneurship. With respect to its implementation in relation to foreign policy and defence, the study relies on insights from the literature on leaders’ personality and foreign policy making, bureaucratic politics, and civil-military relations. The analysis provided is informed by multiple interviews with individuals closely related to GMF formulation and implementation. The dissertation demonstrates that while major shifts in Indonesia’s external environment — in form of China’s increasing assertiveness and the rise of the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical narrative — stimulated the GMF’s formation, it was domestic factors — the 2014 Presidential Election and the dissatisfaction over the previous development policy and foreign policy administration— that led the GMF to be adopted as Indonesia’s new grand strategy. Notwithstanding the success of policy entrepreneurship in GMF adoption, its implementation in foreign policy and defence has proven to be half-hearted and ambiguous. The thesis attributes this to President Widodo’s general disinterest in foreign policy and defence, fewer influential advocates of the GMF in its implementation phase, and Widodo’s close relationship with the army.
Modellbasierte, sichere Service- und Netzwerkkonfiguration in der Gebäudeautomation
Creators: name: Wall, Arne
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Die moderne Maschine-zu-Maschine-Kommunikation (M2M) wird zunehmend durch offene Standards und Webtechnologien geprägt. Dadurch ist es möglich, Geräte verschiedener Hersteller miteinander IP-basiert zu vernetzen und an das Internet anzubinden. Dabei verschmelzen das Web und die lokalen Netzwerke der Gebäudeautomation. Dieselben Angriffstechniken auf Server und Clients lassen sich auf eingebettete Systeme übertragen. Während Webserver und Endgeräte durch regelmäßige Sicherheitsupdates gegen Angriffe gehärtet werden, bleiben eingebettete Systeme oftmals auf der Strecke.
A 2D and 3D segmentation-based microstructure study on the role of brittle phases in diffusion brazed AISI 304L/NiCrSiFeMoB joints
Creators: name: Otto, Johannes Leon
name: Sauer, Lukas M.
name: Brink, Malte
name: Schaum, Thorge
name: Lingnau, Lars A.
name: Macias Barrientos, Marina
name: Walther, Frank
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding
subject: Intermetallic phases
subject: Failure mechanism
subject: Microstructure-property correlations
subject: 3D-FIB-SEM
subject: Precipitation morphology
subject: 660
subject: Diffusionslöten
subject: Intermetallische Verbindungen
subject: Werkstofffehler
subject: Gefüge
subject: Mikrostruktur
subject: Phasenanalyse
subject: Rasterelektronenmikroskop

description: Nickel-based filler metals are frequently used in high temperature vacuum diffusion brazing for austenitic stainless-steel joints when components are subjected to high static or dynamic loads, corrosive environments and elevated temperatures. Due to melting point depressing metalloids such as silicon and boron, hard and brittle intermetallic phases are formed during the brazing process depending on the diffusion mechanisms. These brittle phases significantly affect mechanical and corrosive properties of the compounds. To quantify the influences of their amount, morphology and distribution, deep learning image segmentation was applied to segment these phases of the athermal solidification zone and the diffusion zone. Subsequently, characteristic microstructure parameters were calculated from these. The parameters of six different brazed joint variations were compared with their experimental characterization of mechanical and corrosive properties so that several correlations could be identified. Finally, a layer-by-layer removal of a brazed joint was performed using a focused ion beam, and a 3D model was reconstructed from the generated images to gain a mechanism-based understanding beyond the previous 2D investigations.
description: Materials and design.;Vol. 235. 2023, Article-ID: 112401
Implementation of risk-based approaches in urban land use planning - the example of the city of Erftstadt, Germany
Creators: name: Greiving, Stefan
name: Kruse, Philip
name: Othmer, Felix
name: Fleischhauer, Mark
name: Fuchs, Marisa
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Urban land use planning
subject: City of Erftstadt
subject: Flood
subject: Heavy rain
subject: Binding land use plan
subject: Risk-based planning
subject: Simulated planning procedure
subject: 710

description: This article presents the testing of the principle of risk-based planning using the example of the city of Erftstadt, Germany, which was affected by the devastating flood of 2021. The basis of this article was a simulated land use plan approval procedure for a flood-prone site in the urban district of Erftstadt-Liblar. In the contributions, the contents of the environmental report relating to effects to be expected for disasters as well as designations of a risk-based flood-proofed land use plan are presented. As a result of the gaming simulation, the hazard zone plan proves to be a suitable instrument for operationalizing the consideration of flood prevention in risk-prone areas. The simulation also provides evidence that it is possible to implement a risk-based approach within the current legal planning framework in Germany that is laid down by the Federal Building Code (BauGB). Innovative elements are the considerations of the protection worthiness of different types of infrastructures by spatially and contextually differentiated designations. The hazard zone concept, as such, and the findings of the gaming simulation will be used by the state planning authority for an amendment of the regional plan of North-Rhine Westphalia and will therefore be mandatory for the land use planning of all municipalities.
description: Sustainability;2023, 15(21), 15340
Beitrag zur quantitativen Abriebbestimmung an explantierten Hüftendoprothesen unter Berücksichtigung der Deformation
Creators: name: Ambrosat, Tina
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Zur Quantifizierung von Abrieb in den Gleitflächen von explantierten Hüftendoprothesen wurde ein neues Verfahren entwickelt. Dieses beinhaltet die Anordnung der Messdatenpunkte auf der Gleitfläche, die Identifizierung des Abriebgebietes in den Messdatenpunkten durch Analyse der Krümmungen und sowie die Rekonstruktion der nicht-abgeriebenen Geometrie mit einer Regelgeometrie. Die Eignung dieses Verfahrens wurde sowohl durch Anwendung auf einen hochskalierten Probekörper mit bekannten Referenzdaten als auch auf einen realen Explantatkopf gezeigt.
Additional file 3 of A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies
Creators: name: Wirbel, Jakob
name: Essex, Morgan
name: Forslund, Sofia Kirke
name: Zeller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional File 3: Supplementary Notes.
Coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water sub-Neptune atmospheres
Creators: name: Misener, William
name: Schlichting, Hilke E.
name: Young, Edward D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Sub-Neptune exoplanets are commonly hypothesized to consist of a silicate-rich magma ocean topped by a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Previous work studying the outgassing of silicate material has demonstrated that such atmosphere-interior interactions can affect the atmosphere's overall structure and extent. But these models only considered SiO in an atmosphere of hydrogen gas, without considering chemical reactions between them. Here we couple calculations of the chemical equilibrium between H, Si, and O species with an atmospheric structure model. We find that substantial amounts of silane, SiH4, and water, H2O, are produced by the interaction between the silicate-rich interior and hydrogen-rich atmosphere. These species extend high into the atmosphere, though their abundance is greatest at the hottest, deepest regions. For example, for a 4 MEarth planet with an equilibrium temperature of 1000 K, a base temperature of 5000 K, and a 0.1 MEarth hydrogen envelope, silicon species and water can comprise 30 percent of the atmosphere by number at the bottom of the atmosphere. Due to this abundance enhancement, we find that convection is inhibited at temperatures \(\gtrsim\) 2500 K. This temperature is lower, implying that the resultant non-convective region is thicker, than was found in previous models which did not account for atmospheric chemistry. Our findings show that significant endogenous water is produced by magma-hydrogen interactions alone, without the need to accrete ice-rich material. We discuss the observability of the signatures of atmosphere-interior interaction and directions for future work, including condensate lofting and more complex chemical networks.
Lesson development for Open Source Software best practices adoption
Creators: name: Kuzak, Mateusz
name: Harrow, Jen
name: Jimenez, Rafael C.
name: Martinez, Paula Andrea
name: Psomopoulos, Fotis E.
name: Varekova, Radka Svobodova
name: Via, Allegra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: training, Open Source, software guidelines, best practices, recommendations, Open Science, Reproducible Research, sustainability, FAIR

description: The “ELIXIR Training Platform” partnered with The Carpentries (Software and Data Carpentry) to train life science researchers in computing and data management skills. The “ELIXIR Software development best practices” group, which is part of the ELIXIR Tools Platform, has proposed “Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software”  aiming to help researchers and developers to adopt Open Source Software (OSS) practices and thus improve the quality and sustainability of research software.
Self-supervision through Random Segments with Autoregressive Coding (RandSAC)
Creators: name: Hua, Tianyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Inspired by the success of self-supervised autoregressive representation learning in natural language (GPT and its variants), and advances in recent visual architecture design with Vision Transformers (ViTs), in this thesis, we explore the effect various design choices have on the success of applying such training strategies for visual feature learning. Specifically, we introduce a novel strategy that we call Random Segments with Autoregressive Coding (RandSAC). In RandSAC, we group patch representations (image tokens) into hierarchically arranged segments; within each segment, tokens are predicted in parallel, similar to BERT, while across segment predictions are sequential, similar to GPT. We illustrate that randomized serialization of the segments significantly improves the performance and results in distribution over spatially-long (across-segments) and -short (within-segment) predictions which are effective for feature learning. We illustrate the pertinence of these design choices and explore alternatives on a number of datasets (e.g., CIFAR10, CIFAR100, ImageNet). While our pre-training strategy works with vanilla Transformer, we also propose a conceptually simple, but highly effective, addition to the decoder that allows learnable skip-connections to encoder’s feature layers, which further improves the performance.
Set of Agricultural Data Sources characterisations done within the AGRICORE Project
Creators: name: Consortium, AGRICORE Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Agricultural research and agricultural policy impact assessment is normally supported by the analysis of several datasets with different characteristics and their own complexity. Some datasets are statistically oriented (such as Eurostat), following the evolution of statistical macroeconomics phenomena by giving a structural or cognitive overview. They might be used to make a forecast analysis (ex-ante analysis) or a policy evaluation (ex-post). Some other datasets are policy-oriented (such as FADN), providing specific information for policymakers and for specific policy sectors (fisheries, environment, agriculture etc.). Such datasets can be implemented by governments or international organisations oriented towards specific objectives, such as the fight against world hunger, rural development, etc. Therefore, datasets are created for a specific purpose and follow specific generation methodologies. A dataset must allow researchers to obtain information in the most efficient way, timely and functionally. To that end, it should contain those variables that are most common or most widely used, using appropriate units of analysis and standardised units of measurement. But it should also ensure that the information on these and other characteristics (the dataset metadata) is publicly available and easily interpretable by researchers during the phase of identifying and searching for relevant data. The tools to reach this objective are the ontologies, which allow a common way of conceptualising the characteristics of datasets, allowing easy extraction of metadata and grouping of datasets with similar properties. The quality and usefulness of these datasets descriptions depend on the quality and efficiency of the ontologies used by researchers as a basis to characterise them. In the scope of the AGRICORE project, a new dedicated ontology (AGRICORE DCAT 2.0) was designed to capture the information needed down to the level of the variables. This ontology constitutes the base for the structural design of the Agricultural Research Data Index Tool (ARDIT), a web-based tool that allows the characterisation of agricultural datasets and their subsequent search and query. In task T.1.3, 71 Tables of the Eurostat database, 34 tables of the OECD, 48 tables of FAOstat and the FADN have been characterised. In task T.1.4, 30 geo-referenced datasets have been characterised by STAM and the other partners involved in the task. As part of Task T1.5 of the AGRICORE project, 56 national and regional datasets have been described using ARDIT, namely 26 for Spain, 10 from the RICA (Italy), 8 for Greece and 11 for Poland. In Task 1.6, 12 tables from 2 projects (FLINT and AGRI4CAST) were characterised.
Investigating variable accretion in T Tauri stars using FUV spectroscopy with UVIT
Creators: name: Nayak, Prasanta K.
name: Walter, Frederick
name: Narang, Mayank
name: Puravankara, Manoj
name: Herczeg, Gregory
name: France, Kevin
name: Tyagi, Himanshu
name: Banerjee, Bihan
name: Subramaniam, Annapurni
name: Panwar, Neelam
name: Yadav, Ram Kesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: T-Tauru Stars, pre-main sequence stars

description: T Tauri stars (TTSs) are low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars, surrounded by protoplanetary disks. Accreting TTS are called Classical TTS (CTTS) and are characterized by strong line emission in UV (C IV, Si IV, He II) and optical (Hα). Non-accreting, disk-less weak-line TTS (WTTS) shows weak emission lines due to chromospheric activity and lack of H2 emission from disks. Variability in line luminosities is one of the defining characteristics of CTTSs. The main source of variability is thought to be the change in accretion rate. While optical spectroscopic and photometric surveys commonly search for variability, a few T Tauri stars have repeated observations in the UV. The evolution of the UV spectrum is moreover unknown, despite the importance of UV in heating the disk gas, influencing gas chemistry, and driving photo evaporative winds. Recently, a monitoring program in UV spectroscopy has been initiated using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), named Ultra-violet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (ULLYSES). Being members of the ULLYSES program, we have developed follow-up FUV spectroscopic observations using UVIT on AstroSat. 30 ks was allotted in the current observational cycle as a part of a pilot study to observe a TTS (HD202917) and the observation is completed. We also obtained simultaneous ground-based optical spectra using CHIRON at the SMARTS telescope. I will present the results from this UVIT program and discuss how UVIT can be used to make a complementary program to the ULLYSES.
title: Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility in a Large International Financial Corporation in Switzerland from the Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Viewpoint
Creators: name: Tadjallimehr, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: In the context of globalisation and the increasing power and impact of globally acting corporations on the environment and societies, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gaining central importance. CSR is, however, a difficult term to define and understanding of its concept varies among stakeholders. In this way, its absorption and adoption into a corporation could vary depending on the particular conditions, such as market segment, management paradigm, regulations and other societal and environmental conditions. As a comprehensive concept, Triple Bottom Line (TBL) sustainability provides a holistic framework for a comprehensive CSR policy implementation within a global context considering environmental, societal, and economic aspects. TBL suggests that these aspects are interwoven and cannot be managed separately. The level of adoption of a TBL-based CSR policy could be, therefore, an indication of the degree of a sustainable business conduct. This thesis assesses the current level of adoption of a TBL-based CSR policy in a global financial corporation headquartered in Switzerland by a) assessing employees’ perception of the impact of various CSR-related aspects on corporations’ financial and operational performance and b) the managerial perceptions and the position of the dominant management paradigm in relation to CSR. The thesis considers the corporation as a social organization comprising aspects of complexity. With these lenses, the requirements of a TBL-based CSR policy are discussed and contrasted with the functionalist dominant management paradigm, which is perceived and assumed as shareholder value-oriented and as being focused solely on profit maximization. A survey among the employees has been conducted capturing the individual employee’s perception of sustainability and the involved values for their judgment of the corporation’s performance indicators. Furthermore, a series of interviews with four directors in charge of CSR activities have been conducted on their perception of CSR, its implementation within the corporation and on managerial aspects in dealing with CSR. The analysis results of both studies were presented to these directors in the joint analysis and reflection sessions with the aim of capturing emerging additional insights, generating actionable knowledge, and specifying actions for change where possible.
Investigation of the Incompatibilities of Cement and Superplasticizers and Their Influence on the Rheological Behavior
Creators: name: Pott, Ursula
name: Jakob, Cordula
name: Jansen, Daniel
name: Neubauer, Jürgen
name: Stephan, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 660 Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
subject: rheology
subject: incompatibility of superplasticizer
subject: hydration
subject: spread flow test
subject: penetration
subject: in-situ XRD
subject: calorimetry
subject: ultrasound
subject: SEM

description: The rheological behavior of cement paste and the improvement of its flowability takes center stage in many research projects. An improved flowability can be achieved by the addition of superplasticizers (SP), such as polycarboxylate ethers (PCE). In order to be able to use these PCEs effectively and in a variety of ways and to make them resistant to changes in the environment, it is crucial to understand the influence of SPs on cement hydration. For that reason, the topic of this paper was the incompatibility of a specific SP and an ordinary Portland cement (OPC). The incompatible behavior was analyzed using rheological tests, such as the spread flow test and penetration test, and the behavior was compared by means of an ultrasound technique and explained by the phase content measured by in-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) the heat evolution measured by calorimetry, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. We showed that the addition of the SP in a high dosage led to a prevention of the passivation of the most reactive and aluminum-containing clinker phases, aluminate and brownmillerite. This induced the aluminate reaction to take place in the initial period and led to an immediate stiffening of the cement paste and, therefore, to the complete loss of workability. The results showed that in addition to the ettringite, which began to form directly after water addition, hemicarbonate precipitated. The fast stiffening of the paste could be prevented by delayed addition of the SP or by additional gypsum. This fast stiffening was not desirable for SPs, but in other fields, for example, 3D printing, this undesirable interaction could be used to improve the properties of printable mortar.
Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) Observations of eps Eridani
Creators: name: Weinberger, Alycia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Poster for the 2023 Workshop showing preliminary results on the spatial distribution of warm dust (exoZodi) around epsilon Eridani using data taken from the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.
Fluorescence Imaging Analysis: The Case of Calcium Transients
Creators: name: Pouzat, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: nonparametric regression
Poisson regression
Region of interest
Brain slices

description: A course given at the Summer school of the Écolde de Neurosciences de Paris Île-de-France (ENP) in 2013.
Creative Informatics - a toolkit for digital events
Creators: name: Chan, Kam
name: Panneels, Inge
name: Warren, Katherine
name: Upton, Liam
name: Orme, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: creative informatics
online events
toolkit
digital
creative industries
remote working

description: Creative Informatics is a research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together. We are a collaboration between University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, Creative Edinburgh and CodeBase. We run many events, from meetups and networking, to drop-in sessions and workshops to support applications and funding of various programmes. We don’t do any specific teaching, however many of our sessions are intended to be informative and enable peer collaboration and knowledge exchange. In August 2020, Creative Informatics wrote an informal and practical guide to our experiences pivoting to online events in light of the restrictions of Covid-19 and numerous lockdowns. This toolkit offers a more structured journey on planning and delivering an online event. We offer more technical know-how, top tips and questions you should ask yourself whether you are new to hosting events or are a more seasoned pro. This is our standard of practice and is by no means exhaustive as platforms and audiences needs change but we hope this will give you a solid ground to work up from. This toolkit was written in 2021 and reflects our knowledge and experience of hosting events as online or hybrid.
Additional file 4 of A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies
Creators: name: Wirbel, Jakob
name: Essex, Morgan
name: Forslund, Sofia Kirke
name: Zeller, Georg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional File 4. Review History.
title: SMARTPHONES FOR ONLINE STUDY: EFFECTS ON LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT
Creators: name: Miller, B
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Online classrooms and online learning have proliferated as smartphones have become ubiquitous. The combination of developments relating to the efficacy of online learning and the use of smartphone as tools to gather and process information have raised questions about the impact of smartphones on higher education. Smartphones have become more and more a part of our daily lives. The smartphone has been an especially critical component of the lives of teenagers and young adults. It is as important to have a smartphone as it once was to get a driver’s license. In the United States, the Department of Education brought forth a motion that allowed children to bring their devices in to schools. Many of the officials had no doubt in their minds that this would facilitate effective learning. Past research indicates that students are willing to embrace the use of smartphones in their learning. Based on current statistics, even economically disadvantaged students are able to access smartphones, though they may not have access to other gadgets such as laptops and Internet connections at their homes. According to scholarly literature, smartphones become a tool for learning the moment they are used to take pictures as notes and record videos when conducting interviews. Smartphones also have many other qualities that make them useful for learning: connectivity, portability, interactivity, and individuality. This study investigated differences in the way students approach online learning, comparing those who use smartphones, rather than mobile devices more generally, to access their online classroom and students who use more traditional tools, such as desktop and laptop computers, to access their online classroom. This study used a mixed-methods research design to investigate the use of smartphones and their effect on learning behaviors and engagement in online education at a regionally accredited US institution. The study examined quantitative aggregate and latent qualitative differences in relation to the effects smartphone devices have on students’ approach to learning and engagement when these devices are used as a means of accessing and studying through an online learning management system. The study found statistically significant differences in the ways students approach their own learning using their smartphone to log in to their learning management system and students who used other iv technological mediums to sign in to their learning management system. The study also found statistically significant differences in engagement patterns, albeit conflicting results have been found in comparisons between online students who indicated using their smartphones to log in to the learning management system when compared to students using desktop computers or tablets. The study also revealed that the type of tasks online students perform with a smartphone varies significantly from the tasks that students perform when using a desktop or tablet.
title: Stochastic Methods for Emulation, Calibration and Reliability Analysis of Engineering Models
Creators: name: Garbuno Inigo, A
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation examines the use of non-parametric Bayesian methods and advanced Monte Carlo algorithms for the emulation and reliability analysis of complex engineering computations. Firstly, the problem lies in the reduction of the computational cost of such models and the generation of posterior samples for the Gaussian Process’ (GP) hyperparameters. In a GP, as the flexibility of the mechanism to induce correlations among training points increases, the number of hyperparameters increases as well. This leads to multimodal posterior distributions. Typical variants of MCMC samplers are not designed to overcome multimodality. Maximum posterior estimates of hyperparameters, on the other hand, do not guarantee a global optimiser. This presents a challenge when emulating expensive simulators in light of small data. Thus, new MCMC algorithms are presented which allow the use of full Bayesian emulators by sampling from their respective multimodal posteriors. Secondly, in order for these complex models to be reliable, they need to be robustly calibrated to experimental data. History matching solves the calibration problem by discarding regions of input parameters space. This allows one to determine which configurations are likely to replicate the observed data. In particular, the GP surrogate model’s probabilistic statements are exploited, and the data assimilation process is improved. Thirdly, as sampling- based methods are increasingly being used in engineering, variants of sampling algorithms in other engineering tasks are studied, that is reliability-based methods. Several new algorithms to solve these three fundamental problems are proposed, developed and tested in both illustrative examples and industrial-scale models.
Using JWST Spectra to Explore Exoplanet Deep Interiors
Creators: name: Thorngren, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: exoplanet

description: The giant planets of the solar systems have atmospheres depleted in metals compared to their bulk. These hidden metals are sequestered into cores and other compositional layers deep within the planet, but their presence is revealed through gravitational moments and bulk densities. The wide diversity of exoplanets would make this very valuable information to have for comparative planetology; for example, one could compare planets formed by gravitational instability vs core accretion, those in wide vs close-in (circularized) orbits, and dense vs puffy planets of the same mass. Whether metals are mixed into the envelope during formation depends on how and when they were accreted, such as pebble accretion or late planetesimal accretion. Using JWST atmospheric observations to set the upper boundary conditions on interior structure models, we can infer the quantity of metals in the deep interior to learn about planet formation on top of the existing approach focused on C:O ratios. I will describe how these models are constructed, show some early results of this approach, and discuss how these can inform our understanding of planet formation and evolution.
SYMBOLISM AND ALLEGORY IN CLASSIC LITERATURE: IN THE REVIEW OF WORKS "THE GREAT GATSBY" AND "ANIMAL FARM".
Creators: name: Kabulova, Tumaris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This study aims to delve into the world of symbolism and allegory in classic literature, examining their various forms in the example of works as F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"  and George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and the impact they have on readers' understanding and interpretation of  them. These literary devices provide readers with a richer and more complex understanding of the themes and messages in a story.
Die 32. Tagung der Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft 1990 in Trier mit Exkursionen in die nördliche Eifel und nach Luxemburg
Creators: name: Dirian, Andreas
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 41/42 (1991): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Modelling the propagation of crevasses and calving in ice shelves
Creators: name: Zarrinderakht, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers and ice sheets that terminate in the ocean, and their stability and mass balance play a crucial role in controlling the sea level. One of the major processes affecting their stability is the calving of icebergs, which is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon. In order to understand and predict the mass balance of ice shelves, it is essential to investigate the physical processes that control iceberg calving. Despite the challenging nature of this problem, due to the lack of observational data and the mathematical and numerical difficulties involved in modeling crevasses penetration, this topic remains of great scientific and practical importance. This Ph.D. thesis focuses on the investigation of the fundamental parameters that influence crack growth and, as a result, the rate of iceberg calving. The study considers the effect of hydrological parameters, such as water table height, as well as geometry aspect ratio, basal and surface crevasse positions, and ice shelf extensional forcing. The research begins with the assumption of ice as an elastic medium with abrupt crevasse penetration, and progresses to a more advanced visco-elastic model that accounts for gradual changes in parameters. The model is compared to several recent related models and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach are discussed. The findings of this study reveal that the purely instantaneous stress-based calving laws that have become popular in large-scale ice sheet mechanics are too simplistic to accurately describe the complex process of iceberg calving. Instead, the study proposes a more comprehensive approach that takes into account the interplay between multiple parameters and their gradual changes over time. In conclusion, this Ph.D. thesis provides a valuable contribution to the field of stability of ice shelves by investigating the physical processes that control iceberg calving. The results of this research will inform and support the efforts to better understand and predict the behavior of crevasses on ice shelves, and their indirect impact on global sea level.
EMPOWER Strategy Document and Collaboration Roadmap v0
Creators: name: De La Oliva, Antonio
name: Azcorra, Arturo
name: Fdida, Serge
name: Bourse, Didier
name: Raymonf Knopp
name: Mourad, Alain
name: Lehne, Per Hjalmar
name: Mespoulhes, Emilie
name: Maglavera, Stavroula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This document presents the initial version of the EMPOWER Strategy Document and Collaboration Roadmap. This initial version is the result of the discussion on the first six months of the Project and includes the initial strategy for collaboration and the planned roadmap/agenda of activities and collaboration opportunities for the short term. This document focuses on the definition of the key challenges to overcome for a fruitful collaboration and a deep analysis of the different actors involved in the research on advance wireless communication platforms.
title: Exploring the teaching skills of the clinical nurse mentors of 4th year undergraduate nursing students in critical care placements.
Creators: name: Abou-Zaid, C
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: This study looked at how Clinical Nursing Mentors (CNMs) in Bahrain are prepared to take on the role of teaching undergraduate nursing students (UNSs) in their 4th year through their critical care placement (CCP). The importance of having acute and critical care experience as an undergraduate nursing student has been widely discussed and it has also been noted that this specific environment can offer an opportunity to broaden and strengthen the students’ existing knowledge, prior to application for registration after graduation. This is due to the variety of conditions and complexities that are involved in patient care within the critical care setting (Williams & Palmer, 2013). Nursing practice is an integral part of the UNSs training and development process where the CNMs plays a very important role (Eleigil & Sari, 2008). This qualitative study was designed to investigate, within an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) framework, how CNMs in Bahrain are trained and prepared for their role. 24 CNMs were recruited to take part in workshops and focus groups. The use of the AI framework in collaboration with the focus groups gave the researcher an insight to what the CNMs need regarding their preparation for this role and what they have to offer from their own experiences in regard to UNSs’ preparation. 8 postgraduate nurses from a Medical University in Bahrain, in their first 3 years after graduation were also included in the study to assess their opinion on mentorship in critical care areas and how they felt on becoming clinical nurse mentors. The data provided information that could assist in developing a new approach to the mentorship training provided by the participating training hospitals. The results were consistent with previous anecdotal requests of the clinical nurse mentors for changes to the training which included: formal certification, more teaching and learning modules, how to teach in clinical practice, and more yearly updates. The results will assist the nursing faculty within the university in the preparation of CNMs’ training, which will enhance their teaching skills and encourage student learning in critical care.
Characterizing Accretion Mechanisms across the Brown Dwarf and Planetary Mass Regimes
Creators: name: Betti, Sarah
name: Follette, Kate
name: Ward-Duong, Kim
name: Peck, Anne
name: Aoyama, Yuhiko
name: Dacus, Beck
name: Bary, Jeff
name: Marleau, Gabriel-Dominique
name: Mohammad, Khalid
name: Palmo, Joe
name: Plunkett, Cailin
name: Robinson, Connor
name: Wang, Will
name: Edwards, Suzan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Recent discoveries of accreting brown dwarfs (BD) and exoplanets have placed new importance on understanding the mechanisms that control their formation. Accretion mechanisms are well understood for stars, and substellar objects have been assumed to operate similarly; however, simulations suggest that accretion rates (Ṁ) of substellar objects are controlled by their formation mechanisms. I will discuss my work disentangling physical and systematic effects in substellar accretion properties using the Comprehensive Archive of Substellar and Planetary Accretion Rates (CASPAR). CASPAR consists of >1000 measured Ṁs from ~800 T-Tauri stars, BDs, and planetary mass companions (PMC), making it the largest compiled sample of Ṁs for these objects to-date. I systematically rederive all physical and accretion properties using Gaia distances, consistent ages and evolutionary models, and a single set of line to total-accretion-luminosity scaling relations. This update decreases the M-Ṁ relation scatter by 7%, indicating that the remaining broad scatter is attributable to physical effects such as age and variability. I will also present the detection of the first NIR accretion signatures from a protoplanet, Delorme 1 (AB)b, and found from Paγ, Paβ, and Brγ line emission, it accretes at a rate of 3-4x10-8 MJ/yr. Ratios of its NIR emission lines are most consistent with planetary shock accretion models, and its high Ṁ suggests disk fragmentation formation.
Development of polarization speckle methods for clinical melanoma evaluation
Creators: name: Louie, Daniel Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The design challenge of improving melanoma care stems from two factors: its incidence which continues to increase, and its lethality if not detected and treated early. In the search for tools that can benefit rather than exacerbate the effort to implement widespread and accessible detection of melanoma, this dissertation embarks on a research program to design a lightweight optical probing technology to quantifiably measure cellular malignancy. Probing skin tissue with a laser generates polarization speckle, a stochastic interference pattern containing both polarization and coherence information, from which tissue morphology metrics such as surface roughness can be extracted. A simple optical probe was developed to investigate polarimetry for rapid melanoma detection, while incorporating considerations for the generation of speckle in its design. This probe was tested in a pilot clinical study on a variety of skin lesions in vivo, where it was found that the mean degree of polarization (DOP±sterr) for melanoma (0.46 ± 0.09) was greater than that of benign nevus (0.31 ± 0.06) and all nonmelanoma lesions (0.28 ± 0.01). This result was expanded upon in an exploration of a new metric called polarization memory rate (PMR). Polarization memory rate is a ratio of circular to linear degrees of polarization, which is based on the scattering and depolarization differences between benign and malignant cells due to their differing optical refractive index. This metric (PMR±sterr) as measured by the probe was able to further separate melanoma (0.97 ± 0.11) from nevus (0.58 ± 0.07) and separate cancerous lesions from benign lesions with p < 0.05. Further work is done on design refinements for polarization speckle technology. Experiments were done to validate the miniaturization of speckle devices through reducing illumination to a low cost laser diode, and generating an experimental calibration curve that matches speckle contrast to surface roughness. Finally, a robust Stokes vector speckle system was constructed, employing two pixel polarizer cameras. This system was designed, constructed, and calibrated to measure the complete polarization state map of speckle. Each of these innovations furthers technological development towards a lightweight optical probing technology to quantifiably measure cellular malignancy.
title: Marketers, Big Data and Intuition – Implications for Strategy and Decision-Making
Creators: name: Krishnan, Gopal
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Marketers worldwide are grappling with issues relating to effective decision-making in context of the opportunities and challenges created by the emergence of Big Data. Marketing executives are challenged by the impact of advances in technology, measurement and Big Data in making decisions regarding delivering short-term business results and creating a long term future. Traditional marketing analytics rely more on propositional knowledge as opposed to Big Data marketing analytics that depend more on automated procedural knowledge. It has been observed in the workplace that marketers operating in the world of Big Data are challenged with how to adapt their decision making styles to these advancements. This need for change has created some amount of confusion and lack of clarity in marketing teams as has been observed in the author’s own workplace. Rather than let the operators in “the trenches” figure a way out through trial and error, this thesis and accompanying research aim to provide an actionable framework for guiding marketers as they make critical decisions. Based on theory-generating expert interviews with senior marketing leaders, this thesis proposes a novel application framework for decision-makers in Marketing, which connects the cadence of strategic, operational and tactical decisions in the business with Big Data, analytics, and intuition. The application of the framework is subsequently illustrated in a workplace setting through Action Research that seeks to improve the decision-making styles within a marketing team. The application of the framework helped the action research group to transform their quality and efficiency of insight collection, analysis and decision-making. This research thesis demonstrates the evolution of the problem, creates a novel and actionable framework that can be used by marketers, demonstrates the efficacy of the model in a workplace action research setting and finally provides a guide to implementation of this framework in the service of marketing executives in other organizations.
Empathy and perspectives
Creators: name: Lantzer, Doron
name: Rotstein, Noa
name: Moalem, Inbal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: מדובר בהרשמה מראש למחקר במסגרת קורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית באוניברסיטת תל-אביב.