cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical analysis of tourism destination competitiveness
Creators: name: GARDINI, ATTILIO; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The growing relevance of tourism industry for modern advanced economies has increased the interest among researchers and policy makers in the statistical analysis of destination competitiveness. In this paper we outline a new model of destination competitiveness based on sound theoretical grounds and we develop a statistical test of the model on sample data based on Italian tourist destination decisions and choices. Our model focuses on the tourism decision process which starts from the demand schedule for holidays and ends with the choice of a specific holiday destination. The demand schedule is a function of individual preferences and of destination positioning, while the final decision is a function of the initial demand schedule and the information concerning services for accommodation and recreation in the selected destinations. Moreover, we extend previous studies that focused on image or attributes (such as climate and scenery) by paying more attention to the services for accommodation and recreation in the holiday destinations. We test the proposed model using empirical data collected from a sample of 1.200 Italian tourists interviewed in 2007 (October - December). Data analysis shows that the selection probability for the destination included in the consideration set is not proportional to the share of inclusion because the share of inclusion is determined by the brand image, while the selection of the effective holiday destination is influenced by the real supply conditions. The analysis of Italian tourists preferences underline the existence of a latent demand for foreign holidays which points out a risk of market share reduction for Italian tourism system in the global market. We also find a snow ball effect which helps the most popular destinations, mainly in the northern Italian regions.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 2 (2008); 153-166
Online instrumentation and feedback directed optimization of Java
Creators: name: Arnold, Matthew
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002

description: The overhead involved in collecting fine-grained profiling information makes feedback-directed optimizations diÆult to perform online at runtime. As a result, the vast majority of work in offline feedback-directed optimization is not yet being applied in online systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of a fully automatic online approach for performing instrumentation and feedback-directed optimization. Our approach uses instrumentation sampling to reduce the overhead of instrumentation, thus eliminating many of the limitations present in existing online systems. Several online feedback-directed optimizations are described, including a novel algorithm for performing feedback-directed splitting. Our experimental results show improvements in peak performance of up to 20% while overhead remains low, with no individual execution being degraded more than 2%.
Chemical interaction, space-charge layer, and molecule charging energy for a TiO2/TCNQ interface
Creators: name: Martínez, José I.
name: Flores, Fernando
name: Ortega, José
name: Rangan, Sylvie
name: Ruggieri, Charles
name: Bartynski, Robert
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2015
Subjects: Organic electronegativity
Space charge layer
Organic oxides
Chemical Reactions

description: Three driving forces control the energy level alignment between transition-metal oxides and organic materials: the chemical interaction between the two materials, the organic electronegativity, and the possible space charge layer formed in the oxide. This is illustrated in this study by analyzing experimentally and theoretically a paradigmatic case, the TiO2(110)/TCNQ interface; due to the chemical interaction between the two materials, the organic electron affinity level is located below the Fermi energy of the n-doped TiO2. Then, one electron is transferred from the oxide to this level and a space charge layer is developed in the oxide, inducing an important increase in the interface dipole and in the oxide work function.
Comparison of Quadrature Schemes in DOM for Anisotropic Scattering Radiative Transfer Analysis
Creators: name: Hunter, Brian
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Radiation transport
Computation
Phase function
Heat Transfer

description: The commonly implemented level-symmetric SN quadrature set for the discrete-ordinates method suffers from a limitation in discrete direction number to avoid physically unrealistic weighting factors. This limitation can have an adverse impact for determining radiative transfer, as directional discretization results in angular false scattering errors due to distortion of the scattering phase function in addition to the ray effect. To combat this limitation, several higher-order quadrature schemes with no directional limitation have been developed. Here, four higher-order quadrature sets (Legendre-equal weight, Legendre-Chebyshev, triangle tessellation, and spherical ring approximation) are implemented for determination of radiative transfer in a 3-D cubic enclosure containing participating media. Heat fluxes obtained at low direction number are compared to the SN quadrature and Monte Carlo predictions to gauge and compare quadrature accuracy. Investigation into the reduction/elimination of angular false scattering with increase in direction number, including heat flux accuracy with respect to Monte Carlo and computational efficiency, is presented. It is found that while the higher-order quadrature sets are able to effectively minimize angular false scattering, the number of directions required is extremely large, and thus it is more computationally efficient to implement proper phase-function normalization to obtain accurate results.
Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the N501Y SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in complex with ACE2 and 2 potent neutralizing antibodies
Creators: name: Zhu, Xing
name: Mannar, Dhiraj
name: Srivastava, Shanti Swaroop
name: Berezuk, Alison
name: Demers, Jean-Philippe
name: Saville, James
name: Leopold, Karoline
name: Li, Wei
name: Dimitrov, Dimiter S.
name: Tuttle, Katharine
name: Zhou, Steven
name: Chittori, Sagar
name: Subramaniam, Sriram
Publisher: name: PLoS Biology
Year: 2021

description: The recently reported “UK variant” (B.1.1.7) of SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be more infectious than previously circulating strains as a result of several changes, including the N501Y mutation. We present a 2.9-Å resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of the complex between the ACE2 receptor and N501Y spike protein ectodomains that shows Y501 inserted into a cavity at the binding interface near Y41 of ACE2. This additional interaction provides a structural explanation for the increased ACE2 affinity of the N501Y mutant, and likely contributes to its increased infectivity. However, this mutation does not result in large structural changes, enabling important neutralization epitopes to be retained in the spike receptor binding domain. We confirmed this through biophysical assays and by determining cryo-EM structures of spike protein ectodomains bound to 2 representative potent neutralizing antibody fragments.
Data in Context Series 2: Creating Contextual Data
Creators: name: De Weerdt, Hilde
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is part 2 of a series of three lectures entitled Data in Context given by Prof. De Weerdt at the Summer School for Quantitative History held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, from July 6 to 16, 2024. The Summer School is jointly organized by the Department of History at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Center of Quantitative History at HKU Business School, and the School of History at Renmin University of China, in collaboration with the International Society for Quantitative History and the HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Individual slides should be credited to the authors indicated. As this is a report on a project in progress data on the slides should not be cited without prior consent of the authors.
Estimation of parameters of a two-parameter rectangular distribution and its characterization by k-th
Creators: name: SARAN, JAGDISH; Department Of Statistics-University Of Delhi
name: PANDEY, APARNA; Department Of Statistics-P.G.D.A.V. College, New Delhi
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, we shall make use of the properties of the k-th upper record values to develop the inferential procedures such as point estimation. We shall obtain the best linear unbiased estimates of parameters of a two-parameter rectangular distribution based on k-th record values. The efficiency of the best linear unbiased estimates of the parameters based on two k-th record values has been compared with that of the corresponding estimates based on a complete set of k-th record values. At the end we give the characterization of the two-parameter rectangular distribution using k-th upper record values.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 2 (2008); 167-178
Can screening measures for autism in adults predict diagnosis?
Creators: name: Baron-Cohen, Simon
name: Robinson, Janine
name: Allison, Carrie
name: Clare, Isobel
name: Auyeung, B
name: Lombardo, M
name: Nagra, N
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019

description: Abstract Background: Clinic referrals for the diagnosis of autism spectrum conditions (hereafter autism) in adults of average or above IQ are on the rise. The increase is placing pressure on clinical services to meet demand. This may partly reflect under-diagnosis of this subgroup of autism for historical reasons. Screening measures at the point of referral may aid adult services to identify those individuals who are highly likely to receive a diagnosis, enabling more efficient diagnostic procedures. Aims: To test the predictive validity of three screening measures: the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and Empathy Quotient (EQ) (both self-report), and the Relatives Questionnaire (RQ) (retrospective parent/informant-report). Methods: N=460 adults attending a specialist diagnostic service between January 2011 and December 2014 in England were screened using the AQ, EQ, and RQ. The criterion for a diagnosis of autism was a score of >10 on the Adult Asperger Assessment (AAA) in combination with expert clinical judgement. Results: 88% (N= 405) of the adults assessed met the criterion for a diagnosis of autism, with those who were diagnosed scoring, as predicted, significantly higher on the AQ and RQ and lower on the EQ. 9.8% (N=45) reached the cut-off score on only one measure, and 35% (N=161) reached the cut-off score on 2 measures. 51.3% (N=236) met the cut-off score on all 3 measures. Meeting the cut-off on all three measures indicated a 98% likelihood of a clinical diagnosis of autism in assessed individuals. Conclusion: The findings from this study confirm that the combination of all 3 screening measures strongly predicts diagnosis, compared with using one or two measures alone. Our finding that the 3 screeners combined have a PPV of 98% means that services can be confident that those who screen positive on all three measures are in fact likely to be affected by the condition. With services under increasing pressure, referrals can be triaged on the basis of screening profiles, creating the opportunity for services to develop a pathway that includes an accelerated assessment for those screening positive on all measures. This would save resources for the more complex referrals or those with an atypical screening presentation.
description: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care (CLAHRC) East of England and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Autism Research Trust, the MRC, the Templeton World Charitable Trust, and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 777394. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA and AUTISM SPEAKS, AUTISTICA, SFARI
Dummy covariates in CUB models
Creators: name: IANNARIO, MARIA; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Naples Federico II
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we discuss the use of dummy variables as sensible covariates in a class of statistical models which aim at explaining the subjects’ preferences with respect to several items. After a brief introduction to CUB models, the work considers statistical interpretations of dummy covariates. Then, a simulation study is performed to evaluate the power discrimination of an asymptotic test among sub-populations. Some empirical evidences and concluding remarks end the paper.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 2 (2008); 179-200
A New Finding of a Tethered Cord in a Patient with Okamoto Syndrome
Creators: name: Conteh, Fatu
name: Tyagi, Rachana
name: Brooks, Susan S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Okamoto syndrome
Tethered cord

description: We report a boy with Okamoto syndrome who presented to us at 11 years and 3 months of age with bladder dysfunction and gait difficulties suggestive of tethered cord syndrome (TCS). To date, TCS has yet to be reported in the history of individuals with this syndrome (Table 1). The patient subsequently underwent filum terminale sectioning with neuromonitoring for release of his cord. This surgery is relatively safe (Michelson and Ashwal, 2004), and this patient showed a reversal of his TCS symptoms at follow-up clinical visits.
title: EnGeoMAP Test Data: Simulated EnMAP Satellite Data for Mountain Pass, USA, and Rodalquilar, Spain
Creators: name: Boesche, Nina
name: Mielke, Christian
name: Segl, Karl
name: Chabrillat, Sabine
name: Rogass, Christian
name: Thompson, David R.
name: Lundeen, Sarah
name: Brell, Maximilian
name: Guanter, Luis
Publisher: name: GFZ Data Services
Year: 2016

description: EnMAP Technical Report;
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
Creators: name: Motto, Douglass
name: Martin, Richard P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016

description: We describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.
Engendering development strategies and macroeconomic policies: what’s sound and sensible?
Creators: name: Berik, Gunseli
name: Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2009
Subjects: Feminist economics
Macroeconomics
Social Justice

description: The contributors to this edited volume explore the effects of various development strategies and associated macroeconomic policies on women's well-being and progress towards gender equality. Detailed analyses of major UN reports on gender reveal the different approaches to assessing absolute and relative progress for women and the need to take into account the specifics of policy regimes when making such assessments. The book argues that neoliberal policies, especially the liberalization of trade and investment, make it difficult to close gender wage and earnings gaps, and new gender sensitive policies need to be devised. These and other issues are all examined in more detail in several gendered development histories of countries from Latin America and Asia.
Estimation of the reciprocal of the mean of the Inverse Gaussian distribution with prior information
Creators: name: SINGH, HOUSILA P.; School Of Studies In Statistics-Vikram University, Ujjain
name: PANDIT, SHEETAL; School Of Studies In Statistics-Vikram University, Ujjain
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper considers the problem of estimating the reciprocal of the mean of the Inverse Gaussian distribution when a prior estimate or guessed value λ0 of the shape parameter λ is available. We have proposed a class of estimators with its mean squared error formula. Realistic conditions are obtained in which the estimator is better than usual estimator, uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) and the minimum mean squared error estimator (MMSE). Numerical illustrations are given in support of the present study.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 2 (2008); 201-216
The effect of class distribution on classifier learning
Creators: name: Weiss, Gary M.
name: Provost, Foster
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Many of today's large data sets must be reduced in size before invoking inductive algorithms, due to the costs associated with procuring/processing the data, and because most of these algorithms cannot handle enormous amounts of data. In these cases it is important to select the training data carefully so the impact on classifier performance is minimized. A tacit assumption behind much research on classifier induction is that the class distribution of the training data should match the "natural" distribution of the data. In this paper we analyze the relationship between training class distribution and classifier performance on 25 data sets and show that the natural distribution usually is not the best distribution for learning--a different class distribution should generally be chosen when the dataset size must be limited. We also explain how changing the class distribution of the training set affects classifier learning and why one training distribution might be better than another.
Performance enhancement of alkali-aggregate reaction damaged concrete columns using fibre reinforced polymers composites
Creators: name: Kubat, Thamer
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A large number of concrete structures around the world are affected by the deterioration induced by alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR). The PhD research focuses on the effectiveness of using carbon fibre reinforced polymers as wrapping material in rehabilitation of concrete columns damaged by AAR.
Biochemical and Thermochemical Conversion of Switchgrass to Biofuels
Creators: name: Balan, Venkatesh
name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Bals, Bryan
name: Chundawat, Shishir P. S.
name: Jin, Mingjie
name: Dale, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biorefinery
Switchgrass
Biochemical conversion
Thermochemical conversion

description: With dwindling oil reserves and growing environmental concerns, researchers are looking at producing sustainable biofuels and chemicals from renewable resources like switchgrass. Biofuels and biochemicals will be produced in the near future from switchgrass in biorefineries using both biochemical and thermochemical platforms. We have summarized recent literature pertaining to different processing steps within the biochemical platform (pretreatment, enzyme hydrolysis, microbial fermentation, protein extraction) and thermochemical platform (pyrolysis, bio-oil, gasification, combustion, hydrothermal process) in this chapter. Though we have improved our fundamental understanding on the different processing steps to produce biofuels, several challenges still have to be overcome to create a bioeconomy and produce fuels and chemicals from biomass in an economic and sustainable manner.
Mechanical Ventilation Monitoring: Development of a Network Data Acquisition System
Creators: name: Arn, Ng Qing
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Management of mechanical ventilation treatment can be challenging due to patient-specific conditions and lack of monitoring system. This thesis develops a network system that enables automated, continuous and real-time data acquisition of ventilator waveform data. The data acquired is stored and processed into lung respiratory mechanics, enabling in-depth analysis of patient lung conditions. This information can potentially aid clinicians to evaluate patient’s condition during mechanical ventilation treatment, thus allowing better decision making and care.
Too Many Cooks? Tracking Internal Labor Market Dynamics in Food Service with Case Studies and Quantitative Data
Creators: name: Lane, Julia
name: Moss, Philip
name: Tilly, Chris
name: Salzman, Hal
Publisher: name: Russell Sage Foundation
Year: 2123
Subjects: Labor supply
Food service
Food industry and trade
Wages
Employment (Economic theory)

description: This chapter appeared in: Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace (2003) Eileen Applebaum, Annette Bernhardt, Richard J Murnane New York: Russell Sage.
Labour market dualism and the transition from temporary to permanent jobs in the province of Bologna
Creators: name: ALBONI, FABRIZIO; Presidente Di ResCoop S.R.L.
name: CAMILLO, FURIO; Department Of Statistical Sciences “P. Fortunati”-University Of Bologna
name: TASSINARI, GIORGIO; Department Of Statistical Sciences “P. Fortunati”-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this present study we are going to avail ourselves of figures regarding new employment and employment termination, registered at the Bologna Provincial Labour Exchange for the three-year period 2004-2006, in order to calculate the duration of job placements, according to the type of contract, and the likelihood of temporary workers being made unemployed: in order to do so, we shall utilise the survival curves method based on the Kaplan and Maier filter (Cox and Oates, 1984). Given the impossibility of estimating true transition matrices, in that the database fails to “cover” all outgoing events, the survival curves method at least enables us to estimate the “duration” of permanence in a given state. The utilisation of the Bologna Provincial Employment Centre’s records enables us to cover a sufficiently long period of time, which in turn enables us to obtain sufficiently stable estimates unaffected by contingencies. Clearly, the results may not be generalised for the whole of Italy, although they do nevertheless provide a meaningful insight into the situation of temporary workers (also given the healthy state of the Bologna province’s labour market).
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 2 (2008); 217-230
Gini s ideas: new perspectives for modern multivariate statistical analysis
Creators: name: MONTANARI, ANGELA; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna
name: MONARI, PAOLA; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Corrado Gini (1884-1964) may be considered the greatest Italian statistician. We believe that his important contributions to statistics, however mainly limited to the univariate context, may be profitably employed in modern multivariate statistical methods, aimed at overcoming the curse of dimensionality by decomposing multivariate problems into a series of suitably posed univariate ones.In this paper we critically summarize Gini’s proposals and consider their impact on multivariate statistical methods, both reviewing already well established applications and suggesting new perspectives.Particular attention will be devoted to classification and regression trees, multiple linear regression, linear dimension reduction methods and transvariation based discrimination.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 239-254
Association between mental health, caries experience and gingival health of adolescents in sub-urban Nigeria
Creators: name: El Tantawi, Maha
name: Folayan, Morenike O
name: Oginni, Olakunle
name: Adeniyi, Abiola A
name: Mapayi, Boladale
name: Yassin, Randa
name: Chukwumah, Nneka M
name: Sam-Agudu, Nadia A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: This study assessed the association of mental health problems and risk indicators of mental health problems with caries experience and moderate/severe gingivitis in adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Osun State, Nigeria. Data collected from 10 to 19-years-old adolescents between December 2018 and January 2019 were sociodemographic variables (age, sex, socioeconomic status); oral health indicators (tooth brushing, use of fluoridated toothpaste, consumption of refined carbohydrates in-between-meals, dental services utilization, dental anxiety and plaque); mental health indicators (smoking habits, intake of alcohol and use of psychoactive drugs) and mental health problems (low and high). Gingival health (healthy gingiva/mild gingivitis versus moderate/severe gingivitis) and caries experience (present or absent) were also assessed. A series of five logistic regression models were constructed to determine the association between presence of caries experience and presence of moderate/severe gingivitis) with blocks of independent variables. The blocks were: model 1—sociodemographic factors; model 2—oral health indicators; model 3—mental health indicators and model 4—mental health problems. Model 5 included all factors from models 1 to 4. Results: There were 1234 adolescents with a mean (SD) age of 14.6 (2.7) years. Also, 21.1% of participants had high risk of mental health problems, 3.7% had caries experience, and 8.1% had moderate/severe gingivitis. Model 5 had the best fit for the two dependent variables. The use of psychoactive substances (AOR 2.67; 95% CI 1.14, 6.26) was associated with significantly higher odds of caries experience. The frequent consumption of refined carbohydrates in-between-meals (AOR: 0.41; 95% CI 0.25, 0.66) and severe dental anxiety (AOR0.48; 95% CI 0.23, 0.99) were associated with significantly lower odds of moderate/severe gingivitis. Plaque was associated with significant higher odds of moderate/severe gingivitis (AOR 13.50; 95% CI 8.66, 21.04). High risk of mental health problems was not significantly associated with caries experience (AOR 1.84; 95% CI 0.97, 3.49) or moderate/severe gingivitis (AOR 0.80; 95% CI 0.45, 1.44). Conclusion: The association between mental problems and risk indicators with oral diseases in Nigerian adolescents indicates a need for integrated mental and oral health care to improve the wellbeing of adolescents.
Graduates job mobility: a longitudinal analysis
Creators: name: BACCI, SILVIA; Department Of Statistics “G. Parenti”-University Of Florence
name: CHIANDOTTO, BRUNO; Department Of Statistics “G. Parenti”-University Of Florence
name: DI FRANCIA, ANGELO; Consorzio Interuniversitario ALMALAUREA
name: GHISELLI, SILVIA; Consorzio Interuniversitario ALMALAUREA
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: As part of the analysis of the external effectiveness of university education, a special area of attention is represented by graduates’ mobility for occupational reasons. Understanding whether or not the various types of degree courses affect mobility to a significant extent and estimating the net effect induced by individual and context-related characteristics as well as the tendency of this phenomenon over time will help provide information support to universities for use in their decision-making processes. This article proposes a multi-level longitudinal analysis to investigate the above aspects. The analysis draws upon the ALMALAUREA database relative to graduates from the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 interviewed at 1, 3 and 5 years from graduation.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 255-279
Explaining reasoning in description logics
Creators: name: McGuinness, Deborah L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Knowledge-based systems, like other software systems, need to be debugged while being developed. In addition, systems providing "expert advice" need to be able to justify their conclusions. Traditionally, developers have been supported during debugging by tools which offer a trace of the operations performed by the system (e.g., a sequence of rule firings in a rule-based expert system) or, more generally by an explanation facility for the reasoner. Description Logics, formal systems developed to reason with taxonomies or classification hierarchies, form the basis of several recent knowledge-based systems but do not currently offer such facilities. In this thesis, we explore four major issues in explaining the conclusions of procedurally implemented deductive systems, concentrating on a specific solution for a class of description logics. First, we consider how to explain a highly optimized procedural implementation in a declarative manner. We begin with a formal proof-theoretic foundation for explanation and we illustrate our approach using examples from our implementation in the CLASSIC knowledge representation system. Next, we consider the issue of handling long, complicated deduction chains. We introduce methods designed to break up description logic queries and answers into small, manageable pieces, and we show how these are used in our approach and how they support automatically generated explanations of followup questions. Next, we consider the problem of explaining negative deductions. We provide a constructive method for explanation based on generating counter-examples. Finally, we address the issue of limiting both object presentation and explanation. We offer a meta-language for describing interesting aspects of complicated objects and use this language to limit the amount of information that should be presented or explained. The work in this thesis has been motivated by design and application work on a description logic-based system and a significant portion of our work has been implemented for CLASSIC and is in use.
Edgeworth and Cornish Fisher expansions and confidence intervals for the distribution, density and
Creators: name: WITHERS, CHRISTOPHER S.; Applied Mathematics Group Industrial Research Limited
name: NADARAJAH, SARALEES; School Of Mathematics-University Of Manchester
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We show that kernel density estimates of bandwidth h=h(n)→0 satisfy the Cornish-Fisher assumption with parameter m=nh. This allows Cornish-Fisher expansions about the normal for standardized and Studentized kernel density estimates. The expansions given are formal and the conditions for existence/validity are not explored. The expansions lead to first order confidence intervals (CIs) of level 1−ω +O(n−β), where β =p/(2p+ 2) for one-sided CIs and β = p/(p+1) for two-sided CIs, where p is the order of the kernel used. The second order one- and two-sided CIs are given with β =2p/(2p+3) and β =2p/(p+2). We show how to choose the bandwidth for asymptotic optimality.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 281-301
title: Chaotic Behaviour of the Regional Climate Models,
CRCM5 and HIRHAM5, in Ensemble Simulations over an Arctic Domain
Creators: name: Nikiéma, Oumarou
name: Sommerfeld, Anja
name: Laprise, René
name: Rinke, Annette
name: Dethloff, Klaus
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
Green's functions for symmetric loading of an elastic sphere with application to contact problems
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Titovich, Alexey S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Green’s function
Sphere
Contact

description: A compact form for the static Green’s function for symmetric loading of an elastic sphere is derived. The expression captures the singularity in closed form using standard functions and quickly convergent series. Applications to problems involving contact between elastic spheres are discussed. An exact solution for a point load on a sphere is presented and subsequently generalized for distributed loads. Examples for constant and Hertzian-type distributed loads are provided, where the latter is also compared to the Hertz contact theory for identical spheres. The results show that the form of the loading assumed in Hertz contact theory is valid for contact angles up to about 10 degrees. For larger angles, the actual displacement is smaller and the contact surface is no longer flat.
Using CRISPR-induced RUNX1 mutations in the HMC-1.2 cell line to study systemic mastocytosis
Creators: name: Mercado, Ricardo
name: Carlson, Hanqian
name: Darmusey, Lucie
name: Pang, Amara
name: Maxson, Julia
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mastocytosis
subject: Mastocytosis, Systemic
subject: Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
subject: Carcinogenesis
subject: Mutation
subject: neoplastic human mast cell
subject: transcription factor
subject: oncogenesis
subject: therapeutic resistance

description: Systemic mastocytosis (SM), is a rare blood disorder that is characterized by the over-proliferation of mast cells caused by a gain-of-function mutations in KIT, a receptor tyrosine kinase. The most common mutation in KIT is D816V, which causes ligand-independent activation of the receptor. Inhibitors of KIT-D816V can be highly effective in reducing mast cell proliferation, but some patients develop drug resistance. Drug resistance and poor prognosis of patients with SM is associated with mutations in additional genes such as RUNX1, a transcription factor important for the formation and maturation of blood cells. We hypothesize that RUNX1 mutations may confer resistance to drugs targeting mutant KIT. To test this hypothesis, we used the Lenti-X CRISPR/Cas9 system on a human systemic mastocytosis cell line (HMC-1.2) to introduce a RUNX1 truncating mutation commonly observed in patients with SM.
ЛАПАРОСКОПИК УСУЛДА ГАСТРОДУОДЕНАЛ ЯРАЛАРНИНГ ПЕРФОРАЦИЯСИНИ ТИКИШ
Creators: name: Bobosharipov, Feruz
name: Nadirova, Yulduz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: 2020–2025 йиллард авомида 1-шахар клиник шифохонасида жами 562 нафар, ёши 10 ёшдан 60 ёшгача бўлган, гастродуоденал яра перфорацияси билан оғриган беморларда жарроҳлик амалиёти ўтказилди. Традицион лапаротомик усулда яра перфорациясини тикиш 1330 (85,4%) беморда амалга оширилди, лапароскопик усул эса 232 (17,4%) беморда қўлланилди.
Butt sweep reduced with good container design
Creators: name: Nelson, Warrick R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1996

description: Butt sweep can have a major detrimental impact on tree value. This economic loss occurs because of a reduction in volume of clearwood yield. Butt sweep happens when a tree starts to lean, but does not fall over. It generally only occurs after a period of wind-induced tree sway and is almost always associated with root distortion.
description: Australian Forest Growers Biennial Conference, Mount Gambier, South Australia, September 1996
title: Evaluation of a Regional Coupled Ocean – Atmosphere – Sea-Ice Model System over Greenland and the Arctic
Creators: name: Madsen, Kristine Skovgaard
name: Mottram, Ruth
name: Rasmussen, Till Andreas Soya
name: Ribergaard, Mads Hvid
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
title: Sensitivity of Grounding-Line Dynamics to Viscoelastic Deformation of the Solid-Earth in an Idealized Scenario
Creators: name: Konrad, Hannes
name: Sasgen, Ingo
name: Klemann, Volker
name: Thoma, Malte
name: Grosfeld, Klaus
name: Martinec, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
Chrysodeixis chalcites
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Chrysodeixis
Chrysodeixis chalcites

description: Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
  Citada de la mitad sur provincial (JIMÉNEZ, 2010; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011). Nc: Zagrilla Baja (24-III-2010, oruga sobre Mentha spicata); casco urbano de Córdoba (26-III-
  8-IV-2017, oruga sobre Cymbalaria muralis / 2-IX-2017 / 7-III-2019 / 24-X-2019); casco urbano de
 Guadalcázar (8-IX-2020).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 320, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
title: High Resolution Sea-Ice Modelling and Validation of the Arctic
with Focus on South Greenland Waters, 2004–2013
Creators: name: Madsen, Kristine Skovgaard
name: Rasmussen, Till Andreas Soya
name: Ribergaard, Mads Hvid
name: Ringgaard, Ida Margrethe
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
The multidimensional measurement of poverty: a fuzzy set approach
Creators: name: COSTA, MICHELE; Department Of Statistics-"Alma Mater Studiorum" University Of Bologna
name: DE ANGELIS, LUCA; Department Of Statistics-"Alma Mater Studiorum" University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: By using fuzzy set theory a multidimensional analysis of poverty of Italian households is performed on the basis of SHIW data. A set of composite indicators is constructed in order to analyze different dimensions of poverty. For each indicator is calculated an unidimensional poverty ratio, thus allowing a comparison among indicators on the dimensions of poverty. Finally, a multidimensional poverty ratio is obtained.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 303-319
Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
name: Kawahara, Shigeto
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Clear speech
Speaker-hearer relationship
Language Acquisition

description: In this paper, we ask whether children are sensitive to the needs of their interlocutor, and, if so, whether they – like adults – modify acoustic characteristics of their speech as part of a communicative goal. In a production task, preschoolers participated in a word learning task that favored the use of clear speech. Children produced vowels that were longer, more intense, more dispersed in the vowel space, and had a more expanded Fo range than normal speech. Two perception studies with adults showed that these acoustic differences were perceptible and were used to distinguish normal and clear speech styles. We conclude that preschoolers are sensitive to aspects of the speaker–hearer relationship calling upon them to modify their speech in ways that benefit their listener.
Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimator for some discrete distributions generated by
Creators: name: FARBOD, DAVOOD; Department Of Probability And Statistics, Faculty Of Mathematics And Mechanics-Yerevan State University, Yerevan
name: GASPARIAN, KAREN V.; Department Of Probability And Statistics, Faculty Of Mathematics And Mechanics-Yerevan State University, Yerevan
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In large-scale biomolecular sysrems there are frequency distribuions with properties like Stable Laws. It is of interest to construct such frequency distributions. In the present article we consider Cauchy stable law. The large-sample distribution of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (M.L.E.) of the scale parameter for some discrete distributions generated by Cauchy stable law are investigated. The existence, strong consistency, asymptotic normality and asymptotic efficiency of that is established.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 321-326
Characteristics of Bow-Tie Antenna Structures for Semi-Insulating GaAs and InP Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Creators: name: Alfihed, Salman
name: Foulds, Ian G.
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: This work presents a study of photoconductive (PC) terahertz (THz) emitters based upon varied bow-tie (BT) antenna structures on the semi-insulating (SI) forms of GaAs and InP. The BT antennas have electrodes in the form of a Sharp BT, a Broad BT, an Asymmetric BT, a Blunted BT, and a Doubled BT. The study explores the main features of PC THz emitters for spectroscopic studies and sensors application in terms of THz field amplitude and spectral bandwidth. The emitters’ performance levels are found to depend strongly upon the PC material and antenna structure. The SI-InP emitters display lower THz field amplitude and narrower bandwidth compared to the SI-GaAs emitters with the same structure (and dimensions). The characterized Doubled BT structure yields a higher THz field amplitude, while the characterized Asymmetric BT structure with flat edges yields a higher bandwidth in comparison to the sharp-edged structures. This knowledge on the PC THz emitter characteristics, in terms of material and structure, can play a key role in future implementations and applications of THz sensor technology.
title: Geodatabase and WebGIS Project for Long-Term Permafrost Monitoring at the Vaskiny Dachi Research Station, Yamal, Russia
Creators: name: Dvornikov, Yury
name: Leibmann, Marina
name: Heim, Birgit
name: Bartsch, Annett
name: Haas, Antonie
name: Khomutov, Artem
name: Gubarkov, Anatoly
name: Mikhaylova, Maria
name: Mullanurov, Damir
name: Widhalm, Barbara
name: Skorospekhova, Tatiana
name: Federova, Irina
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
Employment accessibility and rising seas
Creators: name: Noland, Robert B.
name: Wang, Sicheng
name: Kulp, Scott
name: Strauss, Benjamin H.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sea-level rise
Accessibility
Climate Change

description: Recent projections suggest worst-case scenarios of more than six ft (1.8 m) of global mean sea-level rise by end of century, progressively making coastal flood events more frequent and more severe. The impact on transportation systems along coastal regions is likely to be substantial. An analysis of impacts for Atlantic and Cape May counties in southern New Jersey is conducted. The impact on accessibility to employment is analyzed using a dataset of sea-level increases merged with road network (TIGER) data and Census data on population and employment. Using measures of accessibility, it is shown how access will be reduced at the block-group level. An additional analysis of low and high income quartiles suggest that lower-income block groups will have greater reductions in accessibility. The implication is that increasing sea levels will have large impacts on people and the economy, and large populations will have access to employment disrupted well before their own properties or places of employment may begin to flood (assuming no adaptation).
Isolation of Lipid Droplets from Cells by Density Gradient Centrifugation
Creators: name: Brasaemle, Dawn L.
name: Wolins, Nathan E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cell cultures
Mammalian
Preparation of lipid droplets from centrifugation
Density-gradientcentrifugation
Isolation of lipid droplets

description: Lipid droplets are organelles found in most mammalian cells, as well as various plant tissues and yeast. They are composed of a core of neutral lipids surrounded by a membrane monolayer of phospholipids and cholesterol into which specific proteins are embedded. This unit provides protocols for isolating lipid droplets from mammalian cells by discontinuous density gradient centrifugation.
A bivariate CAR model for improving the estimation of relative risks
Creators: name: GRECO, FEDELE; Department Of Statistics “P. Fortunati”-University Of Bologna
name: TRIVISANO, CARLO; Department Of Statistics “P. Fortunati”-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Disease mapping studies have been widely performed at univariate level, that is considering only one disease in the estimated models. Nonetheless, simultaneous modeling of different diseases can be a valuable tool both from the epidemiological and from the statistical point of view. In this paper we propose a model for bivariate disease mapping that generalises the univariate CAR distribution. The proposed model is proven to be an effective alternative to existing bivariate models, mainly because it overcome some restrictive hypotheses underlying models previously proposed in this context. Model performances are checked via a simulation study and via application to some real case studies.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 327-347
title: Assembly of the CarboPerm WebGIS for the Laptev Sea Region, Arctic Siberia – Data Visualisation as a WebGIS Service
Creators: name: Haas, Antonie
name: Heim, Birgit
name: Zubrzycki, Sebastian
name: Elger, Kirsten
name: Schäfer-Neth, Christian
name: Morgenstern, Anne
name: Fedorova, Irina
Publisher: name: Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
Year: 2016

description: Polarforschung; 85
Least orthogonal distance estimator of structural parameters in simultaneous equation models
Creators: name: PIERACCINI, LUCIANO; Departments Of Economics-Roma Tre University
name: NACCARATO, ALESSIA; Departments Of Economics-Roma Tre University
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this paper is to present a consistent estimator of parameters in simultaneous equation model, based on characteristic roots and vectors of a matrix derived from the so called over-identifying restrictions. The Least Orthogonal Distance Estimator presented here is a more recent development of its original limited information version. The occasion, for reviewing it, has been given by its extension to a full information context which is here completely formalized and by the very encouraging results of recent simulation experiments.
description: Statistica; Vol 68, No 3/4 (2008); 349-364
Bringing life and engagement back into the classroom
Creators: name: Lotts, Megan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Library Instruction
ACRL Immersion

description: After three years of teaching an 8 week one credit information literacy course, one librarian began feeling restless and bored in the classroom. In hopes to change this boredom and bring life back into the course this librarian attended the ACRL Immersion Teaching track in fall 2011. This poster is a reflection of how the Immersion program helped to rejuvenate a sense of play in the classroom. This poster will provide a study of evaluating, re-designing, and turning an 8 week lecture based information literacy course into a creative and dynamic interactive way of educating students about the possibilities of information and the library. This poster will look at data generated from evaluating the course including an online pre test/post test and open ended questionnaires regarding the positive and negative aspects of the course. Samples of projects will be presented from this course include a film discussion, a Wikipedia project, and an explorative visit to the Special Collections Research Center. This poster will discuss the ideas of teaching information literacy through creative and interactive lenses as well as promoting the ideas of peer to peer learning in the classroom. The presenter will provide a dynamic poster as well as interact with the viewers by sharing assignment samples from students, images from the class, and stories from the ACRL Immersion program. The presenter will also share her own stories from the classroom and how a more interactive environment brought life back into this course, the students, and the library as a whole.
description: Poster presented at ALA 2013 Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 2013.