cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Feasibility Study of LIMMS, A Multi-Agent Modular Robotic Delivery System with Various Locomotion and Manipulation Modes
Creators: name: Zhu, Taoyuanmin
name: Fernandez, Gabriel I.
name: Togashi, Colin
name: Liu, Yeting
name: Hong, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The logistics of transporting a package from a storage facility to the consumer's front door usually employs highly specialized robots often times splitting sub-tasks up to different systems, e.g., manipulator arms to sort and wheeled vehicles to deliver. More recent endeavors attempt to have a unified approach with legged and humanoid robots. These solutions, however, occupy large amounts of space thus reducing the number of packages that can fit into a delivery vehicle. As a result, these bulky robotic systems often reduce the potential for scalability and task parallelization. In this paper, we introduce LIMMS (Latching Intelligent Modular Mobility System) to address both the manipulation and delivery portion of a typical last-mile delivery while maintaining a minimal spatial footprint. LIMMS is a symmetrically designed, 6 degree of freedom (DoF) appendage-like robot with wheels and latching mechanisms at both ends. By latching onto a surface and anchoring at one end, LIMMS can function as a traditional 6-DoF manipulator arm. On the other hand, multiple LIMMS can latch onto a single box and behave like a legged robotic system where the package is the body. During transit, LIMMS folds up compactly and takes up much less space compared to traditional robotic systems. A large group of LIMMS units can fit inside of a single delivery vehicle, opening the potential for new delivery optimization and hybrid planning methods never done before. In this paper, the feasibility of LIMMS is studied and presented using a hardware prototype as well as simulation results for a range of sub-tasks in a typical last-mile delivery.
title: Using interest-driven differentiation to increase support and engagement in a grade 3/4 BC inclusive French immersion classroom: self-reflective action research
Creators: name: Hoefer, Elise
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: With the new redesigned curriculum from BC Ministry of Education, the BC Inclusion policy and growth in the French Immersion program, there is an increasing need to support diverse learners in second-language classrooms. Teachers are encouraged to use a differentiated approach to teaching, and so my query quickly became focused on improving my interest-driven differentiated instructional approach in my inclusive grade 3/4 French Immersion classroom. Conducted over a 6-month period in a primary/intermediate classroom, this self-reflective action research study demonstrates how an interest-driven differentiated approach can be used as an effective teaching strategy for increasing engagement and success of all types of learners in a French Immersion classroom. Key themes that emerged were community building, UDL designs, language development, skill building and technology. Overall, this research demonstrates how a self-reflective interest-driven differentiated teaching approach can improve teaching practices and enhance the learning and engagement of students in an inclusive French Immersion primary classroom.
Magnetic resonance imaging of the fronto-parietal brain network in autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Creators: name: Silk., Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Congruences modulo powers of $2$ for the number of unique path partitions
Creators: name: Krattenthaler, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05A15, Secondary 05A17, 11A07, 11P83

description: We compute the congruence class modulo 16 of the number of unique path partitions of $n$ (as defined by Olsson), thus generalising previous results by Bessenrodt, Olsson and Sellers [Ann. Combin. 13 (2013), 591-602].
description: AmS-LaTeX, 7 pages
Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins Gießen 71 (1986)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
name: Justus Liebig University Giessen
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: ddc:943

description: Vorwort des Herausgebers Nachruf Pfarrer Waldemar Küther Nachruf Dr. Fritz H. Hermann Nachruf Karl Friedrich Euler Kurt Heyne: Widerstand in Gießen und Umgebung 1933-1945 Exkursionen und Vorträge des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins im Berichtsjahr 1985/86 Inhaltsverzeichnis der "Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins" NF. Bd. 62-71 (1977-1986)
Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins Gießen 73 (1988)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
name: Justus Liebig University Giessen
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: ddc:943

description: Nachruf Dr. Günther Rath Karl Friedrich Euler: Hospital zum Heiligen Geist und St. Elisabeth zu Giessen Karl Friedrich Euler: Die Geschichte des Gießener Aussätzigen-Hospitals Thomas Weyrauch: Die Entwicklung der Stadt Gießen und ihrer Umgebung unter Hauptmann Caspar von Schutzbar Reimer Stobbe: Genealogie der Familie von Rodenhausen nach den Grabsteinen in Großen-Linden und Kirchberg Otto Stumpf: Bericht des landgräflich hessen-darmstädtischen Amtmanns Klipstein über die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse im Oberamt Gießen Karl Müller: Daten aus der Geschichte von Nieder-Hörgern Helmut Nachtigall: Die Gefachauszier an Hüttenberger Hoftoren - eine Bilddokumentation mit Erläuterungen Karlheinz Lang: Zur Baugeschichte der Stadtkirche in Gießen Ernst Dieter Nees: Die Hessische Zentralstelle für Volksbildung und Jugendpflege und ihre Verbindungen zu Gießen Miszelle: Gerhard Wiesemüller: Landgraf Heinrich III. von Hessen hält einen Schiedstag Hans Szczech: Exkursionen und Vorträge des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins im Berichtsjahr 1987 Buchbesprechungen
title: Policy documents and the pre-referral process in BC schools
Creators: name: Paet-Bullaoit, Samantha
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Special education

description: The Pre-Referral Process is an integral component of the education system in BC. The pre-referral process is the steps in between identifying a significant concern in student learning or behaviour and School-Based Team meetings. Through there is a high prevalence of school-based teams and a requirement for a pre-referral process to be in place in schools there is little Canadian research or guidelines for this process. Through a document analysis, this study examined the documents used in the pre-referral process to attempt to what information can policy documents provide to guide pre-referral processes for identifying and planning for different learning needs? 17 responses to the request for pre-referral documentation were collected and 14 formal forms were interrogated in this qualitative study. The results indicate that the documents focused heavily on administrative data and areas of concern while neglecting a focus on areas of strength and data collection. Themes emerging from these documents included illustrating a pattern of inconsistency in formatting, information, length and expectations, as well as noting the driving force as either a step to Special Education Designation or supporting classroom teachers.
Towards an Awareness of Time Series Anomaly Detection Models' Adversarial Vulnerability
Creators: name: Tariq, Shahroz
name: Le, Binh M.
name: Woo, Simon S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Time series anomaly detection is extensively studied in statistics, economics, and computer science. Over the years, numerous methods have been proposed for time series anomaly detection using deep learning-based methods. Many of these methods demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets, giving the false impression that these systems are robust and deployable in many practical and industrial real-world scenarios. In this paper, we demonstrate that the performance of state-of-the-art anomaly detection methods is degraded substantially by adding only small adversarial perturbations to the sensor data. We use different scoring metrics such as prediction errors, anomaly, and classification scores over several public and private datasets ranging from aerospace applications, server machines, to cyber-physical systems in power plants. Under well-known adversarial attacks from Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) methods, we demonstrate that state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) methods, which claim to be robust against anomalies and have been possibly integrated in real-life systems, have their performance drop to as low as 0%. To the best of our understanding, we demonstrate, for the first time, the vulnerabilities of anomaly detection systems against adversarial attacks. The overarching goal of this research is to raise awareness towards the adversarial vulnerabilities of time series anomaly detectors.
description: Part of Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '22)
Supplementary Material for "Sensor-based proximity metrics for team research"
Creators: name: Müller, Jörg
name: Meneses, Julio
name: Humbert, Anne Laure
name: Guenther, Elisabeth Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: wearable sensors
sociometric badges
bluetooth
infrared
team science
work group
gender diversity
organization
context

description: The collection of files provides supplementary material to the article on "Sensor-based proximity metrics for team research. A validation study across three organizational contexts." S1 - Supplementary Tables. Contain results of quantitative analysis in table format. S2 - Supplementary Settings. Contains the firmware settings of the Sociometric badges devices. S3 - Supplementary Illustrations. Contains illustrations of simulated reference distributions, work environment layout among others. S4 - Collection of R scripts used for the analysis. To re-run the analysis, all files need to be downloaded into the same folder. Instructions for installing required R software packages are provided in the corresponding scripts. The dataset (version 1.1.2) is available under the following link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3446071
Brillouin Scattering Self-Cancellation
Creators: name: Florez, Omar
name: Jarschel, Paulo F.
name: Espinel, Yovanny A. V.
name: Cordeiro, Cristiano M. B.
name: Alegre, Thiago P. Mayer
name: Wiederhecker, Gustavo S.
name: Dainese, Paulo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between light and acoustic phonons is strongly modified in sub-wavelength confinement, and has led to the demonstration and control of Brillouin scattering in photonic structures such as nano-scale optical waveguides and cavities. Besides the small optical mode volume, two physical mechanisms come into play simultaneously: a volume effect caused by the strain induced refractive index perturbation (known as photo-elasticity), and a surface effect caused by the shift of the optical boundaries due to mechanical vibrations. As a result proper material and structure engineering allows one to control each contribution individually. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the perfect cancellation of Brillouin scattering by engineering a silica nanowire with exactly opposing photo-elastic and moving-boundary effects. This demonstration provides clear experimental evidence that the interplay between the two mechanisms is a promising tool to precisely control the photon-phonon interaction, enhancing or suppressing it.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, supplementary material
title: A preschool and kindergarten numeracy and communication benchmark screener for a response to intervention model
Creators: name: Novak, Shirley M.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Acalculia

description: The interrelationship between language and numeracy skill acquisition has been a topic of research in recent decades. In the early years of formal schooling, language/communication benchmark screening assessments have been utilized by school districts to establish the amount of support required for student success. Few benchmark screeners have been created to determine the support needed for successful numeracy knowledge attainment. Even fewer have been developed and implemented to determine the language/numeracy connection in early learners. The project is a preschool and kindergarten informal numeracy skills benchmark screener assessment which includes an emphasis on mathematical language. This screener is to be applied as part of the Response to Intervention model of instruction. The assessment is to be administered by a classroom teacher in the first term of kindergarten or the last term of preschool. The information and observation data are to be analyzed for an RTI level of support determination.
title: What do teachers feel and think about when teaching in the inclusive classroom?
Creators: name: Rani, Komal
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: The purpose of this project was to learn about teachers’ perceptions towards inclusive education in India. Understanding what conditions and factors contribute to human motivation, wellbeing, and satisfaction is essential to design inclusive classrooms and create approaches that will assist teachers as they work to reach their goal. The purpose of my project was to look at what problem’s teacher faced (personally or systemically) in their attempts to allow Indian classrooms to become truly inclusive. The main objective of my study was to find out what teachers felt and thought about when teaching in inclusive classrooms?
title: How can we better support female students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Pohlod, Layna
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Autistic girls

description: The male to female ratio of all those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is four to one. This study aims to examine why. Are female children are less likely to have ASD or are they simply less likely to be diagnosed? Since ASD diagnosis is based on research conducted with male children, female children with ASD are being under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed. Female children with ASD demonstrate and utilize a strategy called camouflaging behaviour that masks their disability, causing them to go largely unnoticed when observed. This can result in two main negative consequences: they do not benefit from early intervention strategies and lack of identification and support can impact mental wellness, leading to social issues and mental health issues. Through semi-structured interviews, this study aims to understand what teachers know, do, and need to know about identifying and supporting female students with ASD academically and socially-emotionally. Through data analysis, it was found that educator knowledge surrounding the female phenotype of ASD is lacking. Education and awareness, with focus on early recognition and social emotional learning, need to be increased so early intervention and gendered supports can be offered as young as possible in order to properly support female students with ASD.
Effects of Boundary on Orbital Magnetization for a Bilayer System with Different Chern Numbers
Creators: name: Wang, Si-Si
name: Yu, Yan
name: Guan, Ji-Huan
name: Dai, Yi-Ming
name: Wang, Hui-Hui
name: Zhang, Yan-Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The real space formalism of orbital magnetization (OM) is an average of the local OM over some appropriate region of the system. Previous studies prefer a bulk average (i.e., without including boundaries). Based on a bilayer model with an adjustable Chern number at half filling, we numerically investigate the effects from boundaries on the real space expressions of OM. The size convergence processes of its three constituent terms $M_{\mathrm{LC}}$, $M_{\mathrm{IC}}$, $M_{\mathrm{BC}}$ are analysed. The topological term $M_{\mathrm{BC}}$ makes a nonnegligible contribution from boundaries as a manifestation of edge states, especially in the case of nonzero Chern numbers. However, we show that the influence of the boundary on $M_{\mathrm{LC}}$ and $M_{\mathrm{IC}}$ exactly compensates that on $M_{\mathrm{BC}}$. This compensation effect leads to the conclusion that the whole sample average is also a correct algorithm in the thermodynamic limit, which gives the same value as those from the bulk average and the $k$ space formula. This clarification will be beneficial to further studies on orbitronics, as well as the orbital magnetoelectric effects in higher dimensions.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
supp.pdf from Planning spatial networks with Monte Carlo tree search
Creators: name: Darvariu, Victor-Alexandru
name: Hailes, Stephen
name: Musolesi, Mirco
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We tackle the problem of goal-directed graph construction: given a starting graph, finding a set of edges whose addition maximally improves a global objective function. This problem emerges in many transportation and infrastructure networks that are of critical importance to society. We identify two significant shortcomings of present reinforcement learning methods: their exclusive focus on topology to the detriment of spatial characteristics (which are known to influence the growth and density of links), as well as the rapid growth in the action spaces and costs of model training. Our formulation as a deterministic Markov decision process allows us to adopt the Monte Carlo Tree Search framework, an artificial intelligence decision-time planning method. We propose improvements over the standard upper confidence bounds for trees (UCT) algorithm for this family of problems that addresses their single-agent nature, the trade-off between the cost of edges and their contribution to the objective, and an action space linear in the number of nodes. Our approach yields substantial improvements over UCT for increasing the efficiency and attack resilience of synthetic networks and real-world Internet backbone and metro systems, while using a wall clock time budget similar to other search-based algorithms. We also demonstrate that our approach scales to significantly larger networks than previous reinforcement learning methods, since it does not require training a model.
Transport through Quantum Anomalous Hall Bilayers with Lattice Mismatch
Creators: name: Yu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yan-Yang
name: Wang, Si-Si
name: Guan, Ji-Huan
name: Yang, Xiaotian
name: Xia, Yang
name: Li, Shu-Shen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate quantum transport properties of quantum anomalous Hall bilayers, with arbitrary ratio of lattice constants, i.e., with lattice mismatch. In the simplest case of ratio 1 (but with different model parameters in two layers), the inter-layer coupling results in resonant traversing between forward propagating waves in two layers. In the case of generic ratios, there is a quantized conductance plateau originated from two Chern numbers associated with two layers. However, the phase boundary of this quantization plateau consists of a fractal transitional region (instead of a clear transition line) of interpenetrating edge states (with quantized conductance) and bulk states (with unquantized conductance). We attribute these bulk states as mismatch induced in-gap bulk states. Different from in-gap localized states induced by random disorder, these in-gap bulk states are extended in the limit of vanishing random disorder. However, the detailed fine structure of this transitional region is sensitive to disorder, lattice structure, sample size, and even the configuration of leads connecting to it, due to the bulk and topologically trivial nature of these in-gap bulk states.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
title: Trauma-informed practices in the classroom
Creators: name: Parmar, Natalie
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psychic trauma in children

description: Childhood trauma can affect a student’s trajectory in terms of physical, emotional, and academic development. Physically, trauma can affect brain development and hormonal responses. The hormonal responses can result in students being in a constant fight, flight, or freeze. These responses to trauma can affect emotional development in terms of self-regulation, self-esteem, relationships, and responsible decision-making. Students can not learn effectively if they are in a state of emotional dis-regulation and do not feel safe. Hence the need for trauma-informed practices that meet the needs of students that have experienced trauma and are unable to self-soothe. This project includes workshops defining childhood trauma and its impact on academic, social and emotional domains. Then a discussion of trauma-informed practices that can be incorporated in the classroom setting.
Relationship between chromospheric evaporation and magnetic field topology in M-class solar flare
Creators: name: Sadykov, V. M.
name: Kosovichev, A. G.
name: Sharykin, I. N.
name: Zimovets, I. V.
name: Dominguez, S. Vargas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chromospheric evaporation is observed as Doppler blueshift during solar flares. It plays one of key roles in dynamics and energetics of solar flares, however, its mechanism is still unknown. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of spatially-resolved multi-wavelength observations of chromospheric evaporation during an M 1.0 class solar flare (SOL2014-06-12T21:12) using data from the NASA's IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) and HMI/SDO (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory) telescopes, and VIS/NST (Visible Imaging Spectrometer at New Solar Telescope) high-resolution observations, covering the temperature range from 10^4 K to 10^7 K. The results show that the averaged over the region Fe XXI blueshift of the hot evaporating plasma is delayed relative to the C II redshift of the relatively cold chromospheric plasma by about 1 min. The spatial distribution of the delays is not uniform across the region and can be as long as 2 min in several zones. Using vector magnetograms from HMI we reconstruct the magnetic field topology and the quasi-separatrix layer (QSL) and find that the blueshift delay regions as well as the H-alpha flare ribbons are connected to the region of magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL) and an expanding flux rope via a system of low-lying loop arcades with height < ~4.5 Mm. This allows us to propose an interpretation of the chromospheric evaporation based on the geometry of local magnetic fields, and the primary energy source associated with the PIL.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures
title: Teacher collaboration to create inclusive secondary science classrooms
Creators: name: McMorran, Andrea
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: As inclusion of students with special education needs in secondary science classrooms is becoming more common, teachers are faced with the challenge of meeting their more complex learning needs. Professional collaboration is a powerful tool that has the potential to support educators to incorporate inclusive teaching strategies into their practice in an ongoing basis. In this study, participants completed an online survey about their familiarity with inclusive teaching strategies and then participated in a collaborative action research process to investigate the research question: how can secondary science teachers collaborate to more effectively incorporate inclusive education strategies into their practice? The researcher, a special education and science teacher, led three participants through action research cycles exploring inclusive teaching practices including concept mapping and metacognitive review strategies. The action research process had positive results in improving teachers’ confidence in implementing inclusive strategies. Four themes were evident throughout the data: aspects of group work, lack of time, student benefits, and future inclusion goals. Suggestions for future research are provided based on the interpretation of the data.
Diabetes-induced changes in responsiveness of rat vasculature
Creators: name: Sikorski., Bogdan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Exploring molecular complexity with ALMA (EMoCA): Alkanethiols and alkanols in Sagittarius B2(N2)
Creators: name: Müller, H. S. P.
name: Belloche, A.
name: Xu, L. -H.
name: Lees, R. M.
name: Garrod, R. T.
name: Walters, A.
name: van Wijngaarden, J.
name: Lewen, F.
name: Schlemmer, S.
name: Menten, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the past five decades, radio astronomy has shown that molecular complexity is a natural outcome of interstellar chemistry, in particular in star forming regions. However, the pathways that lead to the formation of complex molecules are not completely understood and the depth of chemical complexity has not been entirely revealed. In addition, the sulfur chemistry in the dense interstellar medium is not well understood. We want to know the relative abundances of alkanethiols and alkanols in the Galactic Center source Sagittarius B2(N2), the northern hot molecular core in Sgr B2(N), whose relatively small line widths are favorable for studying the molecular complexity in space. We investigated spectroscopic parameter sets that were able to reproduce published laboratory rotational spectra of ethanethiol and studied effects that modify intensities in the predicted rotational spectrum of ethanol. We used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in its Cycles~0 and 1 for a spectral line survey of Sagittarius B2(N) between 84 and 114.4 GHz. These data were analyzed by assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) for each molecule. Our observations are supplemented by astrochemical modeling; a new network is used for the first time that includes reaction pathways for alkanethiols. The column density ratios involving methanol, ethanol, and methanethiol in Sgr B2(N2) are similar to values reported for Orion KL, but those involving ethanethiol are significantly different and suggest that the detection of ethanethiol reported toward Orion KL is uncertain. Our chemical model presently does not permit the prediction of sufficiently accurate column densities of alkanethiols or their ratios among alkanethiols and alkanols. Therefore, additional observational results are required to establish the level of C2H5SH in the dense and warm interstellar medium with certainty.
description: Astron. Astrophys., accepted; 14 pages of manuscript with figure and tables plus 23 pages of additional online figures. Abstract here shortened considerably
title: Games-based learning as a differentiation strategy for elementary teachers
Creators: name: Spillman, Brooke
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numeracy

description: The present study explored the impact that games-based learning, specifically numeracy, has as a differentiation strategy for teachers. Five participants were interviewed pre and post intervention and also worked collaboratively in a group during five collaboratively meetings to plan and review six different math games to explore their efficacy as a differentiation strategy. In addition, participants discussed was games need in order to be a useful addition to their classroom teaching practice. Participants reported the benefits and challenges with games-based learning in the classroom. Given the potential benefits, further research would be beneficial to explore the use of games-based learning in the classroom.
On the analytic properties of intertwining operators I: global normalizing factors
Creators: name: Finis, Tobias
name: Lapid, Erez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a uniform estimate for the $L^1$-norm (over any interval of bounded length) of the logarithmic derivatives of global normalizing factors associated to intertwining operators for the following reductive groups over number fields: inner forms of $GL(n)$; quasi-split classical groups and their similitude groups; the exceptional group $G_2$. This estimate is a key ingredient in the analysis of the spectral side of Arthur's trace formula. In particular, it is applicable to the limit multiplicity problem studied by the authors in earlier papers.
description: To Freydoon Shahidi, for his upcoming 70th birthday
supp.pdf from Planning spatial networks with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Creators: name: Darvariu, Victor-Alexandru
name: Hailes, Stephen
name: Musolesi, Mirco
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We tackle the problem of goal-directed graph construction: given a starting graph, finding a set of edges whose addition maximally improves a global objective function. This problem emerges in many transportation and infrastructure networks that are of critical importance to society. We identify two significant shortcomings of present reinforcement learning methods: their exclusive focus on topology to the detriment of spatial characteristics (which are known to influence the growth and density of links), as well as the rapid growth in the action spaces and costs of model training. Our formulation as a deterministic Markov decision process allows us to adopt the Monte Carlo Tree Search framework, an artificial intelligence decision-time planning method. We propose improvements over the standard upper confidence bounds for trees (UCT) algorithm for this family of problems that addresses their single-agent nature, the trade-off between the cost of edges and their contribution to the objective, and an action space linear in the number of nodes. Our approach yields substantial improvements over UCT for increasing the efficiency and attack resilience of synthetic networks and real-world Internet backbone and metro systems, while using a wall clock time budget similar to other search-based algorithms. We also demonstrate that our approach scales to significantly larger networks than previous reinforcement learning methods, since it does not require training a model.
Morphology and Molecular Gas Fractions of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies as a Function of Infrared Luminosity and Merger Stage
Creators: name: Larson, Kirsten L.
name: Sanders, David B.
name: Barnes, Joshua E.
name: Ishida, Cathy M.
name: Evans, Aaron S.
name: U, Vivian
name: Mazzarella, Joseph M.
name: Kim, Don-Chan
name: Privon, George C.
name: Mirabel, I. Felix
name: Flewelling, Heather A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new, detailed analysis of the morphologies and molecular gas fractions for a complete sample of 65 local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) from the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) using high resolution $I$-band images from The Hubble Space Telescope, the University of Hawaii 2.2m Telescope and the Pan-STARRS1 Survey. Our classification scheme includes single undisturbed galaxies, minor mergers, and major mergers, with the latter divided into five distinct stages from pre-first pericenter passage to final nuclear coalescence. We find that major mergers of molecular gas-rich spirals clearly play a major role for all sources with $L_{\rm IR} > 10^{11.5} L_\odot $; however, below this luminosity threshold, minor mergers and secular processes dominate. Additionally, galaxies do not reach $L_{\rm IR} > 10^{12.0} L_\odot $ until late in the merger process when both disks are near final coalescence. The mean molecular gas fraction (MGF $= M_{\rm H_2} / (M_* + M_{\rm H_2})$) for non-interacting and early-stage major merger LIRGs is 18$\pm 2$%, which increases to 33$\pm 3$%, for intermediate stage major merger LIRGs, consistent with the hypothesis that, during the early-mid stages of major mergers, most of the initial large reservoir of atomic gas (HI) at large galactocentric radii is swept inward where it is converted into molecular gas (H$_2$).
Calibration of mixed-polarization interferometric observations
Creators: name: Marti-Vidal, Ivan
name: Roy, Alan
name: Conway, John
name: Zensus, Anton J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heterodyne receivers register the sky signal on either a circular polarization basis (where it is split into left-hand and right-hand circular polarization) or a linear polarization basis (where it is split into horizontal and vertical linear polarization). We study the problem of interferometric observations performed with telescopes that observe on different polarization bases, hence producing visibilities that we call "mixed basis" (i.e., linear in one telescope and circular in the other). We present novel algorithms for the proper calibration and treatment of such interferometric observations and test our algorithms with both simulations and real data. The use of our algorithms will be important for the optimum calibration of forthcoming observations with the Atacama Large mm/submm Array (ALMA) in very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mode. Our algorithms will also allow us to optimally calibrate future VLBI observations at very high data rates (i.e., wide bandwidths), where linear-polarization feeds will be preferable at some stations, to overcome the polarimetric limitations due to the use of quarter-wave plates.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, 5 figures
title: Animal-assisted intervention as a support for students’ social-emotional learning in the classroom
Creators: name: Neetz, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Animals--Therapeutic use

description: The use of animal-assisted intervention (AAI) is a burgeoning approach being used in education to support students’ social-emotional learning (SEL). The correlation between SEL, academic success, and preparing students to be well-rounded individuals’ post-graduation is critically relevant. For educators to guide this process, a variety of methods can be employed. Given the benefits identified in literature of AAI, it is a promising approach that educators can adopt in their personal practice. However, research indicates that while teachers are willing to implement AAI, they require further direction on where to find information, how to access it, and the process required to employ this strategy. To augment the utilization of AAI for SEL in the classroom, the focus of my paper and project (website) asserts the positive effects of AAI for mental health, emotional health, and social inclusion with links to previous research-based studies. Additional resources are available, including steps to take, explicit examples of implementation and an opportunity to collaborate with me. By creating an informal professional development tool, educators have autonomy in accessing the information.
title: Aeroacoustical Study of the Serrated Ventilation Dampers
Creators: name: Kopania, Joanna Maria
name: Bogusławski, Grzegorz
name: Wójciak, Kamil
name: Gaj, Patryk
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2022

description: Vibrations in Physical Systems, 33(3), 2022313-1 - 2022313-9
title: What insights can the experiences of Grade 3-5 teachers provide about play-based learning in math?
Creators: name: McDaniel, Linda Marie
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematics--Study and teaching--Psychological aspects

description: This thesis addressed the research question: What insights can the experiences of Grade 3-5 teachers provide about play-based learning in math? In addressing this question, and through narrative inquiry methodology, four experienced educators teaching at the Grades 3-5 levels shared their lived experiences of implementing play-based approaches in their math classes. Four main themes emerged in the course of the interviews conducted with the participants: teachers’ practices evolve throughout their careers, often in response to their own backgrounds in math; the diverse learning needs of students prompted teachers to shift away from more traditional ways of teaching towards more constructivist approaches that offer play-based learning opportunities; teachers identified connections between play-based approaches and mitigating math resistant attitudes and beliefs in their classrooms; and finally, teachers identified numerous benefits for students when including play-based approaches in their Grade 3-5 classrooms. The findings of this study provide an understanding of the value of play-based learning in teaching practice, and recommendations for utilizing play-based learning to increase engagement and decrease anxiety of students in inclusive math classrooms.
Structural Inspection Planning for Mobile Robots
Creators: name: Hagmanns, Raphael
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023

description: In this report we present a pipeline for static coverage planning of known objects, which is an important task in the field of mobile robot based inspection. We analyse the main components of the Structural Inspection Planner [1] and embed an improved implementation into a autonomous flight pipeline for UAVs. Triangle mesh models serve as input for an initial viewpoint sampling. Inspection quality and path length are optimized by formulating the viewpoint sampling as constraint QP. We thoroughly evaluate the ROS-based inspection pipeline on synthetic and real models using a Gazebo simulation. Our experimental evaluation shows that while an efficient inspection trajectory could be generated for most of the tested models, the result is very dependent on regular and well formed input models.
Dietary management of gastrointestinal disease: gluten in coeliac disease and FODMAPs in IBS
Creators: name: Shepherd., Susan Joy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Embedding SEL into everyday teaching practice in the primary classroom
Creators: name: McClinton, Tara
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social learning

description: Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing interpersonal skills that are critical for positive experiences in school, the community and future work endeavours. Students with defined social-emotional skills are more resilient and better equipped with the ability to manage challenges when they arise socially and academically. SEL supports students with the ability to solve problems peacefully, recognize emotions in self and others, self-manage and make responsible decisions. Strengthening these skills provides a foundation for positive, effects on both children and their communities. Children who have SEL deficits often struggle in school because they are unable to understand how to cope with their emotions and positively navigate social interactions. SEL is a relational teaching practice that supports the healthy development of resilience in all children, especially those who have lagging skills in this area. This style of teaching supports the healthy development of socio-emotional learning, language development and decreases anxiety, all of which positively impacts a child’s ability to learn. This project includes a professional development resource to support educators who work with children that have a gap in social-emotional skills and provides tools to create a positive SEL environment in the primary classroom. The in-service follows evidence-based professional development that includes learning over time, collaboration, and active learning.
title: Shakespeare's Shrew: Orthodoxy and Carnival
Creators: name: De Freitas, Paulo Luís
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2002

description: Although the Shakespearean comedies have been analysed as festive plays, and more recently even his historical plays and tragedies have been viewed in the light of Bakhtin's theory of Carnival and the carnivalesque, The Taming of the Shrew has been systematically ignored. It would appear that this situation is a result of the misogynist issues the play raises. In seeing The Taming of the Shrew as a carnivalized drama in addition to the other Shakespearean plays already placed in this category, the aim of this thesis is to show that this early comedy is perhaps even more representative of what Bakhtin termed as carnivalized literature than any other play to be found in Shakespeare's canon. This, I would suggest, is related to the intertextual qualities of a text which has interwoven in its three-plot structure popular oral tradition, elements of the Italian commedia, and the domestic clowning conventions. All these three elements are saturated with a system of images appropriate to the culture of Carnival. As a result of this, the text goes deeply into the Carnival grotesque realism described by Bakhtin. Seeing the play form as dialogic in the same way as the Bakhtinian polyphonic novel is, I argue here that The Taming of the Shrew is a dialogue of voices, in which the patriarchal one is dominant. However, the patriarchal voice is not the only one to be heard. The opposing voices threaten the patriarchal authority, even when they seem to agree with it. The play's carnivalesque open-endedness affied to its 'metatheatrical' qualities reveals the contradictions of the dominant ideology. With respect to the controversial issue of the relationship between Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew, the anonymous text is analysed here as a parody of its sources rather than as a ‘plagiarism' or a 'compilation' of Shakespeare's and Marlowe's works. The similarities and differences between these two texts are seen positively rather than dismissively.
Radiative Decays of the $X(3872)$ in the Charmonium-Molecule Hybrid Picture
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Sachiko
name: Takizawa, Makoto
name: Shimizu, Kiyotaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X(3872) radiative decay is discussed by employing a two-meson multichannel model with the charmonium components, which explains many of the other observed features of X(3872). We have found that the ratio of the branching fractions of the X(3872) radiative decays, $R_γ=\text{Br}(X(3872)\rightarrowψ(2S)γ)$ / Br$(X(3872)\rightarrow J/ψγ)$, is 1.1 $\sim$ 3.4 if one assumes that the decay occurs only from the charmonium components. The invariant mass spectra of $cc^{bar}$($2P$)$\rightarrow J/ψγ$ and $cc^{bar}$($2P$)$\rightarrow ψ(2S) γ$ are also investigated. It is found that an enhancement appears at around $E\sim 3960$ MeV in the $ψ(2S) γ$ spectrum but not in the $J/ψγ$ spectrum. This corresponds to the missing $cc^{bar}$($2P$) pole which was predicted by the quark models but has not been observed due to the coupling to the $DD^{bar}$ states. We argue that the fluctuation seen in the experimental $ψ(2S) γ$ spectrum reported by LHCb may correspond to this $cc^{bar}$($2P$) pole.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, HYP2015 proceedings
title: The EU’s support for the global Sustainable Development Agenda: how to accelerate progress until 2030
Creators: name: Von Haaren, Paula
name: Hernandez, Ariel Mascaspac
name: Berger, Axel
Publisher: name: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
publisherIdentifier: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261267915
publisherIdentifierScheme: GND
Year: 2024

description: The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)
Self-Filtering: A Noise-Aware Sample Selection for Label Noise with Confidence Penalization
Creators: name: Wei, Qi
name: Sun, Haoliang
name: Lu, Xiankai
name: Yin, Yilong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sample selection is an effective strategy to mitigate the effect of label noise in robust learning. Typical strategies commonly apply the small-loss criterion to identify clean samples. However, those samples lying around the decision boundary with large losses usually entangle with noisy examples, which would be discarded with this criterion, leading to the heavy degeneration of the generalization performance. In this paper, we propose a novel selection strategy, \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{F}il\textbf{t}ering (SFT), that utilizes the fluctuation of noisy examples in historical predictions to filter them, which can avoid the selection bias of the small-loss criterion for the boundary examples. Specifically, we introduce a memory bank module that stores the historical predictions of each example and dynamically updates to support the selection for the subsequent learning iteration. Besides, to reduce the accumulated error of the sample selection bias of SFT, we devise a regularization term to penalize the confident output distribution. By increasing the weight of the misclassified categories with this term, the loss function is robust to label noise in mild conditions. We conduct extensive experiments on three benchmarks with variant noise types and achieve the new state-of-the-art. Ablation studies and further analysis verify the virtue of SFT for sample selection in robust learning.
description: 14 pages