cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Predictors of Persistence and Resurgence: Evaluation of a Behavioral Momentum-Based Approach
Creators: name: Sweeney, Mary M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The basic behavioral process of operant conditioning contributes to problem behaviors in psychological disorders. Escape from aversive situations in depression, the rewarding effects of drugs in substance abuse, and the receipt of caregiver attention for disruptive behavior in intellectual or developmental disabilities are just a few examples of operant reinforcement contingencies that perpetuate undesirable behavior. Behavioral treatment strategies often introduce alternative sources of reinforcement for a desirable alternative behavior. Although treatments can be effective, alternative reinforcement removal can trigger relapse of the problem behavior, called resurgence. Persistence in alternative reinforcement treatments and resurgence can be understood from the prospective of behavioral momentum theory, which predicts greater operant persistence and resurgence when there is a greater history of reinforcement associated with the context in which an operant response occurs. Shahan and Sweeney incorporated resurgence into the framework of behavioral momentum theory, and the proposed model makes explicit qualitative and quantitative predictions that are tested in this dissertation. Chapter 1 provides the background and significance of resurgence of operant behavior, and gives an introduction to behavioral momentum theory and the quantitative model of resurgence. Chapter 2 reports two recently published experiments that show increased time with alternative reinforcement treatment reduces subsequent resurgence in an animal model with pigeon subjects. The study presented in Chapter 3 examined how persistence and resurgence may be affected when alternative reinforcement is delivered in a novel context. This experiment, which used rat subjects, integrated and compared the animal model of resurgence with another operant relapse phenomenon, renewal, in which context change alone is known to induce relapse of a previously reduced response. Chapter 4 describes a study with college undergraduates as participants that tested the feasibility of a brief, three-alternative, forced-choice procedure as a human operant model of resurgence. Despite procedural manipulations of the length of training and probability of reward for choice of the target stimulus, resurgence was never consistently observed. Chapter 5 provides an integrative discussion of these research topics.
'LEGAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LABOUR REGULATIONS ON BILATERAL FTAS: PRESENTING THE CHILEAN INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK AS AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT'
Creators: name: VON BAHTEN, GUSTAVO LUIZ
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: There is a great challenge on our contemporary society, which is to conciliate the global trade liberalization with the establishment of an efficient labour protection network, both on developed and on developing countries. The primary scope of this research is to bring up an analysis of the main direct and indirect impacts and the ?effet utile? of the inclusion of labour regulations on several contemporary bilateral free-trade agreements, in particular through a comparison concerning the dichotomy between the American pragmatic trade policies and the European idealist conceptions on this field. This investigation does not intend to discuss the merit of possible commercial advantages of FTAs, but endeavour to acquaint their consequences on the labour area, making efforts to ensure worker?s rights protection without bringing up protectionist measures that could embarrass an already complex international commercial system. Furthermore, this study aims to present the Chilean successful economic integration model, which for more than three decades combines trade liberalization and social advances through the establishment of significant FTAs with strategic trade partners, and must be understood as an efficient legal, political and economical framework for other Latin American States. On a post-habermasian international paradigm with deep inspiration on the transmodernity proposed by Dussel, those considerations assume a crucial importance, and the concrete outcomes brought by the Chilean economic agreements must be used as good examples for a Continent where, unfortunately, rhetorical skills still prevail among pragmatism and where there is a disturbing dissemination of an ideology typical of authoritarian, populist and anachronistic governments.
Сертифікаційна модель автоматизованої програмної системи управління навчальним закладом WEBportal ПНУ
Creators: name: Kuz, Mykola
name: Запухляк, Руслан
name: Козленко, Микола
name: Пікуляк, Микола
name: Лазарович, Ігор
name: Ткачук, Валерій
name: Незамай, Борис
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461207
subject: Software quality, processes and metrics

description: Доведено необхідність проведення сертифікації програмного забезпечення управління навчальним закладом. Побудована ієрархічна модель якості програмних продуктів, що встановлює взаємозв’язки між характеристиками, підхарактеристиками, властивостями якості, а також метриками вимірювання властивостей якості та ваговими коефіцієнтами. Розроблена модель якості програмного забезпечення АСУ WEBportal, що є власною розробкою Прикарпатського національного університету імені Василя Стефаника. Розроблена сертифікаційна модель якості даного програмного забезпечення, що встановлює чітку процедуру сертифікаційних досліджень програмного забезпечення АСУ WEBportal.
title: Electron Transfer and Substrate Reduction in Nitrogenase
Creators: name: Danyal, Karamatullah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Population growth over the past ~50 years accompanied by the changes in dietary habits due to economic growth have markedly increased the demand for fixed nitrogen. Aided by biological nitrogen fixation, the Haber-Bosch process has been able to fulfill these demands. However, due to its high temperature and pressure requirements, Haber-Bosch is an expensive process. Every year, approximately 2% of the total energy expenditure by man is used to manufacture fixed nitrogen. Biological systems, on the other hand, produce ammonia at ambient temperature and pressure with much higher efficiency than the Haber-Bosch process. Research in the field of biological nitrogen fixation could prove valuable in understanding the mechanism of the enzyme responsible, nitrogenase. This could eventually allow researchers to mimic the enzyme and fix nitrogen at standard temperature and pressure, which would lead to greater availability of fixed nitrogen and a better standard of living for mankind.
As part of this research, nitrogenase of Azotobacter vinelandii was studied to understand the order of events in reduction of substrates and the conformational changes in the enzyme responsible for its ability to reduce said substrates at room temperature and pressure. This knowledge was used to study variant forms of nitrogenase that could be activated using controlled external reductants. This freedom from the biological reductant of nitrogenase opens the door for further research into the understanding and development of enzyme mimics that can reduce substrates at room temperature and pressure.
Low-temperature properties of the Hubbard model on highly frustrated one-dimensional lattices
Creators: name: Derzhko, O.
name: Richter, J.
name: Honecker, A.
name: Maksymenko, M.
name: Moessner, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the repulsive Hubbard model on three highly frustrated one-dimensional lattices -- sawtooth chain and two kagomé chains -- with completely dispersionless (flat) lowest single-electron bands. We construct the complete manifold of {\em exact many-electron} ground states at low electron fillings and calculate the degeneracy of these states. As a result, we obtain closed-form expressions for low-temperature thermodynamic quantities around a particular value of the chemical potential $μ_0$. We discuss specific features of thermodynamic quantities of these ground-state ensembles such as residual entropy, an extra low-temperature peak in the specific heat, and the existence of ferromagnetism and paramagnetism. We confirm our analytical results by comparison with exact diagonalization data for finite systems.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables
Green technological diversification and regional recombinant capabilities: the role of technological novelty and academic inventors
Creators: name: Orsatti, Gianluca
name: Quatraro, Francesco
name: Scandura, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: We study the entry of regions in new green technological specializations, specifically investigating the role of recombinant novelty and academic inventors and the interplay between the two. We conduct an empirical analysis on a panel of Italian NUTS-3 regions observed from 1999 to 2009. The results show that both recombinant novelty and the presence of academic inventors are positively associated with new entries in green technological specializations, and that their interaction provides a compensatory mechanism in regions lacking adequate novel combinatorial capabilities. The findings of this study are relevant for policymakers involved in the elaboration of successful regional specialization strategies in green technological domains.
On the Disruption of Star Clusters in a Hierarchical Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
name: Hunter, Deidre A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of the number of clusters as a function of mass M and age T suggests that clusters get eroded or dispersed in a regular way over time, such that the cluster number decreases inversely as an approximate power law with T within each fixed interval of M. This power law is inconsistent with standard dispersal mechanisms such as cluster evaporation and cloud collisions. In the conventional interpretation, it requires the unlikely situation where diverse mechanisms stitch together over time in a way that is independent of environment or M. Here we consider another model in which the large scale distribution of gas in each star-forming region plays an important role. We note that star clusters form with positional and temporal correlations in giant cloud complexes, and suggest that these complexes dominate the tidal force and collisional influence on a cluster during its first several hundred million years. Because the cloud complex density decreases regularly with position from the cluster birth site, the harassment and collision rates between the cluster and the cloud pieces decrease regularly with age as the cluster drifts. This decrease is typically a power law of the form required to explain the mass-age distribution. We reproduce this distribution for a variety of cases, including rapid disruption, slow erosion, combinations of these two, cluster-cloud collisions, cluster disruption by hierarchical disassembly, and partial cluster disruption. We also consider apparent cluster mass loss by fading below the surface brightness limit of a survey. In all cases, the observed log M - \log T diagram can be reproduced under reasonable assumptions.
description: ApJ vol. 712, March 20, 2010, 33 pages 15 figures
title: Numerical Examination of Flux Correction for Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations on Unstructured Meshes
Creators: name: Work, Dalon G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This work examines the feasibility of a novel high-order numerical method, which has been termed Flux Correction. It has been given this name because it "corrects" the flux terms of an established numerical method, cancelling various error terms in the fluxes and making the method higher-order. In this work, this change is made to a traditionally second-order finite volume Galerkin method. To accomplish this, higher-order gradients of solution variables, as well as gradients of the fluxes are introduced to the method. Gradients are computed using lagrange interpolations in a fashion reminiscent of Finite Element techniques. For the Euler Equations, Flux Correction is compared against Flux Reconstruction, a derivative of the high-order Discontinuous Galerkin and Spectral Difference methods, both of which are currently popular areas of research in high-order numerical methods. Flux Correction is found to compare favorably in terms of accuracy, and exceeds expectations for convergence rates. For the full Navier-Stokes Equations, the effect of curved elements on Flux Correction are examined. Flux Correction is found to react negatively to curved elements due to the gradient procedure's poor handling of high-aspect ratio elements.
DEBITUS ORDO. TRADIZIONE E ORIGINALIT� NEL METODO DI SPINOZA.
Creators: name: PAGLIANO, SARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Debitus ordo. Tradition and originality of method in Spinoza. This research explores the philosophical significance of the ordo geometricus in Spinoza, focusing on the following three points: the controversial question of the rapport between form and content in his Ethica; the relationship between ordo and methodus in Spinoza; and the origin and tradition of ordo geometricus relative to Spinozian application. Concordant with the interpretation that there is a profound connection in Spinoza between form and content and the coincidence of ordo and methodus, the thesis follows three paths of inquiry: the first concerns the identification of the origin and history of the geometric method; the second is a detailed analysis of Spinoza?s works intended to demonstrate how the peculiar articulation of his philosophy presupposes this convergence of form and content and of ordo and methodus; the third concerns the ethical implications of the ordo geometricus. For the first part, which considers the intersection of logic and mathematics as constituent elements of the modern geometric method, both traditions are traced from their ancient origins to their physiognomy in the late sixteenth century. With regard to logic the predominant figures of reference are Aristotle and Zabarella for their hypothetical influence upon Spinoza; while for mathematics our point of departure is Euclid and his commentators Pappo and Proclo, up to the reform introduced by mathematicians at the end of the sixteenth century, particularly Clavio. This overview of the confluence of logic and mathematics also subsumes the positions of Hobbes and Descartes, especially the concepts of analysis and synthesis and the doctrine of definition. Our second path of inquiry, which deals principally with textual investigation, focuses particularly on those aspects of Spinoza?s philosophy that may be considered fundamental with respect to the intrinsic use of the ordo geometricus: the idea of truth as index sui, the doctrine of parallelism, the doctrine of definition, and the concept of God. In conclusion we turn to another, ulterior aspect of the significance of geometric order in Spinoza, specifically the ethical implications of the ordo geometricus: the scientific approach to affects, the relationship between affectus and passio, the deduction of passions from the concept of conatus, the debitus ordo of the intellect as order of action and liberation from the oppression of passions. The entire work aims at showing how in Spinoza?s thought the geometric order of the Ethica is the necessary consequence of the coincidence between the order of being, order of knowing and order of joy, and of the identification of methodus and ordo.
Stellar ages from asteroseismology
Creators: name: Lebreton, Yveline
name: Montalban, Josefina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology provides powerful means to probe stellar interiors. The oscillations frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles. Since these are tightly linked with the mass and evolutionary state, we can expect to determine the age and mass of a star from the comparison of its oscillation spectrum with predictions of stellar models. Such a comparison suffers both from the problems we face when modeling a particular star (as the uncertainties on global parameters and chemical composition) and from our misunderstanding of processes at work in stellar interiors (as the transport processes that may lead to core mixing and affect the model ages). For stars where observations have provided precise and numerous oscillation frequencies together with accurate global parameters and additional information (as the radius or the mass if the star is in a binary system, the interferometric radius or the mean density if the star is an exoplanet host), we can also expect to better constrain the physical description of the stellar structure and to get a more reliable age estimation. After a survey of stellar pulsations, we present some seismic diagnostics that can be used to infer the age of a star as well as their limitations. We then illustrate the ability of asteroseismology to scrutinize stellar interiors on the basis of a few exemples. In the years to come, extended very precise asteroseismic observations are expected, in photometry or in spectroscopy, from ground-based (HARPS, CORALIE, ELODIE, UVES, UCLES, SIAMOIS, SONG) or spatial devices (MOST, CoRoT, WIRE, Kepler, PLATO). This will considerably enlarge the sample of stars eligible to asteroseismic age determination and should allow to estimate the age of individual stars with a 10-20% accuracy.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, Proc. of the IAU Symp. 258 "The Ages of Stars", Baltimore USA 13-17 Oct 2008, eds D. Soderblom et al., CUP in press
Megaregions and COVID-19: a call for an innovative governing structure in the United States
Creators: name: Ross, Catherine
name: Rao, Arthi
name: Yoo, Chisun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: In the United States, megaregions, which are networks of urban centres and their hinterlands, have a greater prevalence of COVID-19, but have been overlooked as a geographical unit for multi-jurisdictional governance for pandemic response. Existing multi-metropolitan planning organization (MPO) collaborations and state-level COVID-19 coalitions in the United States demonstrate the utility of the megaregion as an effective framework for regional collaboration and operations. Using multilevel modelling, we explore the significance of megaregions in explaining disease occurrence. The results suggest that the megaregion can be an appropriate geographical scale for multi-jurisdictional operations, governance and pandemic response.
title: Preserving Legacy: The Development of the Design Workshop Archives and Digital Collection at Utah State University
Creators: name: Dunlap, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The Design Workshop Archives and Digital Collection offer a unique opportunity for analysis of the archival process for landscape architecture collections. The goal of this project was to analyze the format of landscape architecture archive collections and design protocol for the creation of the Design Workshop Archives and Digital Collection. A review of best practices and experimentation has guided the appraisal and accessioning of four of Design Workshop’s Legacy Projects. The integration of a digital collection gathered from physical drawings, paper manuscripts, and computer files offers unique opportunities to establish standards and procedures for the creation of an archive at a university campus. The collaboration of professionals, archivists, and landscape architecture staff to create the archives has proven to be useful in many ways. The result is a manual composed of a review of best practices along with an account of the accessioning process undertaken in the creation of this new collection. Scholarly review of the archives evidenced the need for an altered approach to the archiving process in order to support the creation of the digital collection and the quantity of project material. Additional measures were created to appropriately represent and preserve the unique visual components of the works.
PROGRESS REPORT of THE MACHINE CONSTRUCTION AND FEL PROGRAM ON LISA AT LNF
Creators: name: M. CASTELLANO
name: P. PATTERI
name: F. TAZZIOLI
name: J. ZHUANG
name: N. CAVALLO
name: F. CEVENINI
name: F. CIOCCI
name: G. DATTOLI
name: A. DI PACE
name: G. P. GALLERANO
name: A. RENIERI
name: E. SABIA
name: A. TORRE
name: L. CATANI
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1992

description: We report the construction progress of the superconducting (SC) linac LISA and of the FEL experiment SURF at LNF. The design criteria of the 25 MeV transport line from the linac to the undulator are presented and the operating and emittance measurements of the 100 keV gun are described.
title: An Evaluation of the Food Web Dynamics and Predator Prey Interactions in Scofield Reservoir
Creators: name: Winters, Lisa K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Aquatic food webs are comprised of complex spatial and temporal interactions within and among trophic levels. Human manipulations, such as construction of reservoirs, enhance uncertainties in our understanding of aquatic food web structure. Reservoirs are novel ecosystems which contain a unique composition of species. Species introductions into reservoirs may disrupt interactions within an already complex and poorly understood food web.
In Scofield Reservoir in central Utah, a rapidly expanding population of Utah chub poses a detrimental threat to the blue-ribbon trout fishery. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has recently stocked cutthroat trout and tiger trout (a brown trout x brook trout hybrid) to potentially reduce Utah chub numbers as well as to enhance the sport fishery. I used standard fisheries techniques to describe food web interactions and to assess the potential for these piscivorous trout to control the expanding Utah chub population, as well as to determine sport fish performance and quantify diet overlap amongst top predators. Using bioenergetics modeling, I estimated very high rates of Utah chub consumption by cutthroat trout and tiger trout. These two species collectively display control of Utah chub, as the chub population is no longer exponentially increasing. Cutthroat trout and tiger trout are likely not food limited and convincingly exhibit high performance, as abundance of Utah chub is still extremely high. Both diet and stable isotope analysis showed significant overlap between these top piscivores in the reservoir, but also substantial overlap between cutthroat trout and rainbow trout with respect to Utah chub. Analysis of rainbow trout suggested this species is performing poorly; rainbow trout had extremely low catch rates and never switched to a piscivorous diet at larger sizes. Utah chub and rainbow trout had similar diet compositions, and thus rainbow trout may be competing (poorly) for food and space resources. This study contributes to our understanding of interspecific interactions among these unique assemblages of top predators in this artificial system. This research also provides knowledge to fisheries managers tasked with providing optimal sport fisheries in these artificial and dynamic systems, as well as expanding on our extremely limited knowledge of tiger trout ecology.
ROCK MASS CHARACTERIZATION AND SPATIAL ESTIMATION OF GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES THROUGH GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: FERRARI, FEDERICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: This thesis deals with geostatistics, which is a branch of statistics focusing on spatial or spatiotemporal datasets, and explores its possible application to rock mechanics, with particular reference to wide areas, located in the Alpine context. The final objective of this work is the estimation (i.e. the prediction), through geostatistical techniques, of the geomechanical parameters determining the quality of rock masses, starting form punctual and scattered sampling locations.This thesis is a contribute in assessing how the rock mass features, in the Alpine geological context, can be regarded as regionalized variables, and the geostatistical tool can be used to foresee the spatial structure of rock masses. The main topic regards the estimation of rock mass properties, and their associated variations, at regional scale, through geostatistical techniques. The estimation consists in forecasting the behaviour and the values of a regionalized variable, in an area, starting form punctual and scattered measures. The main challenge is to understand if the geostatistical techniques, applied so successfully to local and specific problems, can be applied also at regional scale (i.e. considering very wide portion of territory), finding the best method useful to make estimation of that scale. Actually to have a tool able to predict the rock mass parameters at regional scale can be very useful in areas interested by the planning and construction of large-scale engineering works. The study areas, chosen to verify the applicability of geostatistical methods at regional scale, are both located in the Central Alps: the first is the Italian Alpine Valley named Valchiavenna (SO), while the second is in Switzerland, near the Grimselpass.The main innovative aspercts of this thesis, respect to the previous works, are: - the area involved in the estimations: very wide areas have been considered in order to verify if geostatistics give good results also at regional scale; - the geology of the site: hard rock masses outcropping on two different location of the Alpine chain have been investigated: the first one is in the Italian Central Alps and the second one in the Swiss Alps;- the starting measurements: data have been collected in situ using both direct and indirect measurements (i.e. geomechanical survey in Valchiavenna, combined with photogrammetric analysis at Grimsel test site).
Putting missions in their place: micro-missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation
Creators: name: Henderson, Dylan
name: Morgan, Kevin
name: Delbridge, Rick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We draw on first-hand experience and empirical evidence to address current concerns that the mission approach carries too much emphasis on technological innovation and top-down state-led action. We identify the concept of smaller scale ‘micro-missions’ that address place-based challenges. In so doing, we show a role for universities that extends beyond the entrepreneurial triple helix and demonstrate how a mission approach can be effective beyond an emphasis exclusively on science and technology and economic outcomes. We highlight universities as safe, convening spaces and their role in bringing together local actors in designing and delivering a micro-missions approach.
Supersymmetry, Localization and Quantum Entropy Function
Creators: name: Banerjee, Nabamita
name: Banerjee, Shamik
name: Gupta, Rajesh Kumar
name: Mandal, Ipsita
name: Sen, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AdS_2/CFT_1 correspondence leads to a prescription for computing the degeneracy of black hole states in terms of path integral over string fields living on the near horizon geometry of the black hole. In this paper we make use of the enhanced supersymmetries of the near horizon geometry and localization techniques to argue that the path integral receives contribution only from a special class of string field configurations which are invariant under a subgroup of the supersymmetry transformations. We identify saddle points which are invariant under this subgroup. We also use our analysis to show that the integration over infinite number of zero modes generated by the asymptotic symmetries of AdS_2 generate a finite contribution to the path integral.
description: LaTeX file, 31 pages; v2: minor correction; v3: typos corrected
D2.1. Report on Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement Strategy
Creators: name: Lisa Häberlein
name: Philipp Hövel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: public trust in science
stakeholder engagement
stewards of trust

description: The report explains the objectives of the stakeholder engagement strategy in VERITY, provides an overview of the envisaged engagement activities in different work packages (WP) and related tasks, specifies the types of stakeholder engagement formats, and describes the criteria and determining factors for stakeholder mapping, including the distinction between stewards of trust and other relevant stakeholders. When developing the strategy, VERITY draws on findings from The BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook (Durham, Baker, Smith, Moore & Morgan, 2014) and the Guidebook for Socio- Economic Impact Assessment of Research Infrastructures by RIPATHS (Griniece et al., 2020), but also considers recent stakeholder engagement approaches and recommendations, for example from projects such as ROSiE (Lindemann, 2021) and ETHNA System (Häberlein, Mönig & Hövel 2021a).

The first section of the report explains what the stakeholder engagement strategy is and why stakeholder engagement is crucial for VERITY. In this context, the text highlights the transformation process within the ecosystem of trust and its actors. It also identifies potential risks and corresponding measures, which are further differentiated in subsequent chapters. Moreover, the text addresses the methods that were used to develop the stakeholder engagement strategy and explains which activities will be carried out in cooperation with other WPs. At this stage, it is discussed how the definition and selection criteria for stewards of trust and other relevant stakeholders were established. Subsequently, the report outlines how the stakeholder management in VERITY works, especially regarding diversity and consideration of factors such as gender, nationality, language, age, education, income, etc., and what the next steps will be. The report also shows how a mutual engagement strategy has been developed and what role the ADvisory and IMpact (ADIM) Board and Cluster will play in the project. The final section summarises how the stakeholder engagement strategy is helping VERITY to facilitate the transition from 'science for society' to 'science with and for society' (Owen, Macnaghten & Stilgoe, 2012).
Enhancement of Critical Temperature up to 100K of YBCO Ozone Annealed Pellets by Deuterium Absorption
Creators: name: F. Celani
name: M. Boutet
name: D. Di Gioacchino
name: A. Spallone
name: P. Tripodi
name: S. Pace
name: M. Polichetti
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1993

description: In this paper we report preliminary results about transition temperatures of YBa_2Cu_3O_7 pellets loaded with high pressure deuterium gas. After the gas loading non-superconducting phases were not detected by X-ray diffraction. The complex magnetic AC susceptibility has been measured as a function of the temperature. One D-YBCO pellet exhibited a magnetic critical temperature (T_c) as high as 100K and the absence of a significant weakening of the superconducting grain coupling. Another sample, with T_c of 95.8K in free air, showed a T_c onset as high as 102K under 35bar of deuterium gas pressure.
title: The Impact of Computer-Adaptive Benchmark Data and Assessment Literacy on Student Achievement and Motivation in Mathematics
Creators: name: Rushton, Sheryl J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Over the past several decades there has been an emphasis in educational research on student assessment and achievement in mathematics. Formative assessments are designed to inform the instructional decision making process and require assessment literacy to interpret and use data provided by these assessments. Many teachers and students were lacking assessment literacy; therefore, they were unable to adjust their instruction and study habits to increase student performance on summative assessments. This study investigated the impact Scholastic Math Inventory (SMI) benchmarks and assessment literacy training had on summative assessments and student motivation in mathematics. The researcher analyzed unit posttest scores and results from the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) for seventh- and eighth-grade mathematics control and treatment groups. The study took place in a public International Baccalaureate (IB) charter school that served families from suburban communities in northern Utah. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), using previous CRT math scores as the covariate, was conducted to determine whether there was a difference in the scores of the students who received the SMI benchmarks and assessment literacy training and the students who did not receive this treatment. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) tested whether there was a difference between the IMMS scores for the students who received the SMI benchmarks and assessment literacy training versus students who did not receive this treatment. The study results indicated that summative scores for seventh- and eighth-grade students who received instruction for the unit along with SMI benchmark and assessment literacy training were not statistically different from students in the control group. The results also showed that the student mathematical motivation overall mean scores were not statistically significant. However, the subscale of satisfaction did show a significant difference in the means. The researcher recommended that use of SMI and assessment literacy training be examined carefully, as these strategies may not improve summative assessment scores in all cases.
title: Examining the Impact of DIfferent Virtual Manipulative Types on the Nature of Students' SMall-Group Discussions: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Case Study of Techno-Mathematical Discourse
Creators: name: Anderson-Pence, Katie L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This study examined the influence of different virtual manipulative types on the nature of students’ techno-mathematical discourse (TMD) when working with a partner. The research used a concurrent mixed-methods design using identical samples to compare and synthesize the results. For this study, six fifth-grade students participated in nine sessions of mathematics instruction using virtual manipulatives. The study compared three virtual manipulative types: combined (multiple representations, open environment), pictorial (single visual representation, open environment), and tutorial (multiple representations, structured environment). Students’ levels of discourse in generalization, justification, and collaboration were measured as well as students’ use of physical and computer gestures while working with each virtual manipulative type. One-way ANOVAs indicated statistically significant differences in quality of student discourse when using the different virtual manipulative types. When working with combined virtual manipulatives, students’ discussions reflected consistently higher levels of discourse than when working with pictorial or tutorial virtual manipulatives. When working with tutorial and pictorial virtual manipulatives, students’ discussions reflected consistently lower levels of discourse. However, pictorial virtual manipulatives were associated with the largest amount of discussion among student pairs and the highest frequency of gesture use. The results of this study suggest that in order to encourage meaningful TMD, teachers should choose technology tools (e.g., virtual manipulatives) that combine multiple representations (i.e., combined virtual manipulative type) and provide the opportunity to engage in cognitively demanding tasks. The results of this study indicate that tutorial virtual manipulatives did not encourage meaningful mathematical discourse with these student pairs. This means that the tutorial virtual manipulative type may be better suited for the practice of mathematics concepts or for individual learning than for partner work. The patterns and trends identified in this study contribute to the existing literature on the complex issues that surround mathematical discourse and the use of technology in the classroom.
Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Ford, L. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum field theory allows for the suppression of vacuum fluctuations, leading to sub-vacuum phenomena. One of these is the appearance of local negative energy density. Selected aspects of negative energy will be reviewed, including the quantum inequalities which limit its magnitude and duration. However, these inequalities allow the possibility that negative energy and related effects might be observable. Some recent proposals for experiments to search for sub-vacuum phenomena will be discussed. Fluctuations of the energy density around its mean value will also be considered, and some recent results on a probability distribution for the energy density in two dimensional spacetime are summarized.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to proceedings of Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09), Norman, Oklahoma, September 2009
VE-CADHERIN ORCHESTRATES EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS AIMED AT ENDOTHELIAL STABILISATION
Creators: name: MORINI, MARCO FRANCESCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: In healthy tissues blood vessels undergo a process known as vascular stabilisation in order to tightly control vascular permeability and ensure an optimal perfusion of the tissue. Vascular stabilisation is accomplished through endothelial cell-cell contact formation, basement membrane deposition and mural cell recruitment. Conversely, tumor vessels lack vascular stability features leading to increased interstitial fluid pressure, reduced drug delivery and easier metastatic dissemination. Vascular Endothelial (VE)-cadherin plays a crucial role in adherens junction (AJ) formation between endothelial cells (ECs) and in the regulation of vascular permeability. Given this, we sought to determine in more details how VE-cadherin promotes the expression of vascular stability genes in ECs. We found that the expression and clustering of VE-cadherin at AJs upregulates a subset of endothelial-specific genes encoding the tight junction protein claudin-5, Vascular Endothelial-Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase (VE-PTP) and von Willebrand factor (vWf). Most importantly, these genes are well-known for their key role in promoting vascular stabilisation. In the absence of VE-cadherin claudin-5, VE-PTP and vWf are repressed by the combined activity of the transcription factor Forkhead-box O1 (FoxO1), ?-catenin and Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins, a family of epigenetic repressors of transcription. Here we show that FoxO1 and ?-catenin interact with PcG proteins in ECs and that they work as PcG protein recruiters on claudin-5, VE-PTP and vWf promoters. Strikingly, we found also that VE-cadherin is able to sequester part of Enhancer of Zeste homolog 2 (Ezh2), a key PcG protein, out of the nucleus in a ?-catenin- and p120-catenin-dependent manner. Preventing p120-dependent Ezh2 sequestration at the plasma membrane leads to the repression of claudin-5, VE-PTP and vWf, thus suggesting that the sequestered pool of Ezh2 is functionally relevant for gene expression. Since in human ovarian cancer EZH2 is often upregulated in tumor vessels, we took advantage of this condition to demonstrate that CLAUDIN-5 expression is strongly downregulated when EZH2 expression is increased. This suggests that CLAUDIN-5 undergoes an epigenetic regulation exerted by PcG proteins in vivo as well. To conclude, our findings prove for the first time that AJ organisation can influence gene expression at the epigenetic level and provide new insights into the understanding of vascular stabilisation paving the way for developing new therapies for diseases characterized by vessel instability such as cancer.
Triplet Higgs Bosons at Electron-Positron Colliders
Creators: name: R. Godbole
name: B. Mukhopadhyaya
name: M. Nowakowski
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1994

description: We investigate the possibility of probing the triplet Higgs boson sector via single charged Higgs production in the process e^+e^--> H+l_vl, at high energy electron-positron colliders, using the tree level H^+W^-Z coupling which is a unique feature of such models. We find that even LEP-200 can give nontrivial information upto M_H± ≃ 120 GeV if the doublet-triplet mixing is not restricted by the current value of the ρ parameter which is the case in models with a custodial Symmetry. Further we point out that in such models, the 4-body, tree level decay H^±> W*Z*-> 4 fermions dominates and hence provides a very clean signal when the four fermions are leptons. At NLC the discovery range for the charged Higgs in triplet models via this process is ∼ 400 GeV.
Pseudopotential density functional treament of atoms and molecules in cartesian coordinate grid
Creators: name: Roy, Amlan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a follow-up of our recently proposed work on pseudopotential calculation (Ref. [21]) of atoms and molecules within DFT framework, using cartesian coordinate grid. Detailed results are presented to demonstrate the usefulness, applicability of the same for a larger set of species (5 atoms; 53 molecules) and exchange-correlation functionals (local, nonlocal). A thorough comparison on total, component, ionization, atomization energies, eigenvalues, potential energy curves with available literature data shows excellent agreement. Additionally, HOMO energies for a series of molecules show significant improvements by using the Leeuwen-Baerends exchange potential, compared to other functionals considered. Comparison with experiments has been made, wherever possible.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures,
MOESM17 of Common metabolic networks contribute to carbon sink strength of sorghum internodes: implications for bioenergy improvement
Creators: name: Li, Yin
name: Tu, Min
name: Feng, Yaping
name: Wang, Wenqing
name: Messing, Joachim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Science
Molecular Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology

description: Additional file 17. Validation of RNA-seq results by qPCR.
D2.1. Report on Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement Strategy
Creators: name: Häberlein, Lisa
name: Hövel, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: public trust in science
stakeholder engagement
stewards of trust

description: The report explains the objectives of the stakeholder engagement strategy in VERITY, provides an overview of the envisaged engagement activities in different work packages (WP) and related tasks, specifies the types of stakeholder engagement formats, and describes the criteria and determining factors for stakeholder mapping, including the distinction between stewards of trust and other relevant stakeholders. When developing the strategy, VERITY draws on findings from The BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook (Durham, Baker, Smith, Moore & Morgan, 2014) and the Guidebook for Socio- Economic Impact Assessment of Research Infrastructures by RIPATHS (Griniece et al., 2020), but also considers recent stakeholder engagement approaches and recommendations, for example from projects such as ROSiE (Lindemann, 2021) and ETHNA System (Häberlein, Mönig & Hövel 2021a).

The first section of the report explains what the stakeholder engagement strategy is and why stakeholder engagement is crucial for VERITY. In this context, the text highlights the transformation process within the ecosystem of trust and its actors. It also identifies potential risks and corresponding measures, which are further differentiated in subsequent chapters. Moreover, the text addresses the methods that were used to develop the stakeholder engagement strategy and explains which activities will be carried out in cooperation with other WPs. At this stage, it is discussed how the definition and selection criteria for stewards of trust and other relevant stakeholders were established. Subsequently, the report outlines how the stakeholder management in VERITY works, especially regarding diversity and consideration of factors such as gender, nationality, language, age, education, income, etc., and what the next steps will be. The report also shows how a mutual engagement strategy has been developed and what role the ADvisory and IMpact (ADIM) Board and Cluster will play in the project. The final section summarises how the stakeholder engagement strategy is helping VERITY to facilitate the transition from 'science for society' to 'science with and for society' (Owen, Macnaghten & Stilgoe, 2012).