cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The representing localic groupoid for a geometric theory
Creators: name: Manuell, Graham
name: Wrigley, Joshua L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18F10, 22A22, 03G30, 06D22, 18B25

description: We give an expository, and hopefully approachable, account of the Joyal-Tierney result that every topos can be represented as a topos of sheaves on a localic groupoid. We give an explicit presentation of a representing localic groupoid for the classifying topos of a given geometric theory and discuss links with the topological groupoids of Forssell.
description: 37 pages, minor edits
A Versatile Estimation Procedure Without Estimating the Nonignorable Missingness Mechanism
Creators: name: Zhao, Jiwei
name: Ma, Yanyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: We consider the estimation problem in a regression setting where the outcome variable is subject to nonignorable missingness and identifiability is ensured by the shadow variable approach. We propose a versatile estimation procedure where modeling of missingness mechanism is completely bypassed. We show that our estimator is easy to implement and we derive the asymptotic theory of the proposed estimator. We also investigate some alternative estimators under different scenarios. Comprehensive simulation studies are conducted to demonstrate the finite sample performance of the method. We apply the estimator to a children’s mental health study to illustrate its usefulness.
Design-Based Ratio Estimators and Central Limit Theorems for Clustered, Blocked RCTs
Creators: name: Schochet, Peter Z.
name: Pashley, Nicole E.
name: Miratrix, Luke W.
name: Kautz, Tim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This article develops design-based ratio estimators for clustered, blocked randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with an application to a federally funded, school-based RCT testing the effects of behavioral health interventions. We consider finite population weighted least-square estimators for average treatment effects (ATEs), allowing for general weighting schemes and covariates. We consider models with block-by-treatment status interactions as well as restricted models with block indicators only. We prove new finite population central limit theorems for each block specification. We also discuss simple variance estimators that share features with commonly used cluster-robust standard error estimators. Simulations show that the design-based ATE estimator yields nominal rejection rates with standard errors near true ones, even with few clusters.
Traveling Identities: Migrations in Film, Fiction and Memoir (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Rueschmann, Eva
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: In an age of increased movement of people across the globe, this seminar focuses on past and present experiences of (im)migrants, which have inspired a number of recent and contemporary novels, feature films, documentaries, memoirs, and theoretical debates about cultural identity, place and displacement. Using cultural studies of travel, diaspora, ethnicity, and theories of identity and home as critical frameworks for discussion, we will examine some of the following issues addressed in narrative film, fiction and memoirs: the complexities of adaptation or resistance to new cultures; culture transfer, hybridity and biculturality; the journey as metaphor, escape, physical ordeal and psychological odyssey; the meanings of nostalgia and home; intergenerational conflicts between tradition and modernity; representation and negotiations of national and ethnic identities; the cultural and psychological consequences of border crossings; and the interconnections of language, culture and sense of self. Some of the questions we will address are: How can fictional narratives provide us with insight into different perspectives and experiences of migration and displacement? How does film/literature capture a different imaginary relationship migrants must create to a new homeland?
title: Entwicklung eines Simulationsmodells für elektrische Radnabenantriebe
Creators: name: Elster, Lukas
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: Aktuell richten sich immer mehr Forschungsfragen an die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten des automatisierten Fahrens. Das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderte Verbundprojekt UNICARagil setzt an dieser Stelle an. Zielsetzung des Projekts ist der Entwurf einer disruptiven, modularen und dienstorientierten Fahrzeugarchitektur und die Entwicklung einer elektrifizierten Fahrplattform mit radindividuellem Antrieb und Lenkung. Eine integrierte Fahrdynamik- und Trajektorienregelung (FTR) berechnet aus einer Soll-Trajektorie Stellsignale für die Aktorik. Zur simulativen Überprüfung der Funktionsweise der FTR wird die Simulationssoftware CarMaker verwendet. Die Simulationsmodelle der mechatronischen Systeme sind allerdings unzureichend abgebildet. Die Systemkonfiguration, Systemdynamik und die Dienste Architektur bleibt bisher unberücksichtigt. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Masterthesis wird ein Modellbildungsprozess für die Komponenten der Dynamikmodule durchlaufen. Dabei werden die Komponenten Antriebs-, Brems-, und Lenkungsaktor, Leistungselektronik, Kinematik sowie Reifen adressiert. Nach der Darstellung der grundlegenden Aspekte zum Verständnis der Arbeit wird basierend auf einer Literaturrecherche und der Architektur der Dienste eine Anforderungsliste definiert. Die Schnittstellen zur FTR werden für eine Funktionsgewährleistung einbezogen. In der Anforderungs-liste sind zusätzlich zu den Anforderungen der Submodelle der einzelnen Komponenten Verifikationsmethoden und Integrationstests definiert, wodurch der Entwicklungsprozess abgesichert wird. Anhand der Anforderungen werden Modellierungskonzepte bewertet und basierend auf ihrer Relevanz für die Modellierung ausgewählt. Dazu werden zuerst CarMaker Modelle der Komponenten analysiert und bei Konflikten mit Anforderungen weitere Modelle untersucht. Während dieses Prozesses werden relevante Parameter identifiziert und dokumentiert, die zu Modellparametrierung notwendig sind. Am Ende der Modellierung werden die Komponentenmodelle in Simulink umgesetzt und zu einem Gesamtfahrzeugmodell in CarMaker integriert. Mittels der Verifikationsmethoden aus der Anforderungsliste wird die Implementierung der Modelle überprüft. Dabei werden in einem ersten Schritt Komponententests anhand von Simulationsdaten durchgeführt. Integrationstests der Komponentenmodelle und des Gesamtsystems sind der nächste Schritt. Falls Unzulänglichkeiten in den Modellen existieren, werden die Modelle in einem iterati-ven Prozess überarbeitet, bis die Anforderungen erfüllt sind. Mittels eines Open-Loop Tests der Dynamikmodule mit Signalen der FTR, werden die Schnittstellen zwischen den beiden Systemen überprüft. Zum Abschluss der Arbeit werden basierend auf Identifikationsmethoden Versuche abgeleitet, um die in der Modellbildung definierten Parameter der einzelnen Komponentenmodelle zu ermitteln.
Traveling Identities: Migrations in Film, Fiction and Memoir (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Rueschmann, Eva
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2025

description: In an age of increased movement of people across the globe, this seminar focuses on past and present experiences of (im)migrants, which have inspired a number of recent and contemporary novels, feature films, documentaries, memoirs, and theoretical debates about cultural identity, place and displacement. Using cultural studies of travel, diaspora, ethnicity, and theories of identity and home as critical frameworks for discussion, we will examine some of the following issues addressed in narrative film, fiction and memoirs: the complexities of adaptation or resistance to new cultures; culture transfer, hybridity and biculturality; the journey as metaphor, escape, physical ordeal and psychological odyssey; the meanings of nostalgia and home; intergenerational conflicts between tradition and modernity; representation and negotiations of national and ethnic identities; the cultural and psychological consequences of border crossings; and the interconnections of language, culture and sense of self. Some of the questions we will address are: How can fictional narratives provide us with insight into different perspectives and experiences of migration and displacement? How does film/literature capture a different imaginary relationship migrants must create to a new homeland?
Effectiveness of Audio Feedback in Distance Education
Creators: name: Olesova, Larisa
name: Johnston, Joyce
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: online learning; technology-enhanced learning; evidence-based practices

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Diaspora, Exile, and Displacement: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Fishzon, Anna
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2025

description: Violent upheavals of the twentieth century – imperialism, the two world wars, struggles for national independence, decolonization, and the Cold War -- have made exile and dislocation the great preoccupations of literary works, autobiography, and theoretical writings. Globalization, driven by unprecedented trade and new technologies of communication, information, and travel, has accelerated the movement of people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. Diaspora is thus treated here not as a singular but rather historically varied and heterogeneous phenomenon. The transnational mobility of people may be the result of forced or voluntary migration, self-exile or expulsion. Refugees, people in transit, are the product of war, ideological heterodoxy and persecution, ethnic conflict, and natural calamity.  Under the broad rubrics of ‘diaspora’, ‘exile’ and ‘displacement’ we will move through the course thematically, taking a cross-cultural and cross-temporal approach and covering the following topics: nostalgia and homelessness, the ideologies of ‘home’ and nation, immigrant and diasporic cultures, experiences and memory of war, genocide, the politics of multiculturalism, the predicament of minorities, the exilic perspective, the redefinition of cosmopolitanism, identity questions (belonging, ‘national origins’, assimilation, acculturation), issues relating to race (racism), sexuality and gender, as well as borders, ‘mixing’, and language.
Exploring Social Media Learning Activities and Perceptions of Faculty and Students' Use of Social Media in Higher Education
Creators: name: Zgheib, Ghania
name: Dabbagh, Nada
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: social media learning; technology-enhanced learning; reflective teaching practice

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Improving accuracy of GPT-3/4 results on biomedical data using a retrieval-augmented language model
Creators: name: Soong, David
name: Sridhar, Sriram
name: Si, Han
name: Wagner, Jan-Samuel
name: Sá, Ana Caroline Costa
name: Yu, Christina Y
name: Karagoz, Kubra
name: Guan, Meijian
name: Hamadeh, Hisham
name: Higgs, Brandon W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in natural language processing (NLP). Broad corpora capture diverse patterns but can introduce irrelevance, while focused corpora enhance reliability by reducing misleading information. Training LLMs on focused corpora poses computational challenges. An alternative approach is to use a retrieval-augmentation (RetA) method tested in a specific domain.
 To evaluate LLM performance, OpenAI's GPT-3, GPT-4, Bing's Prometheus, and a custom RetA model were compared using 19 questions on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) disease. Eight independent reviewers assessed responses based on accuracy, relevance, and readability (rated 1-3).
 The RetA model performed best in accuracy (12/19 3-point scores, total=47) and relevance (13/19, 50), followed by GPT-4 (8/19, 43; 11/19, 49). GPT-4 received the highest readability scores (17/19, 55), followed by GPT-3 (15/19, 53) and the RetA model (11/19, 47). Prometheus underperformed in accuracy (34), relevance (32), and readability (38).
 Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 had more hallucinations in all 19 responses compared to the RetA model and Prometheus. Hallucinations were mostly associated with non-existent references or fabricated efficacy data.
 These findings suggest that RetA models, supplemented with domain-specific corpora, may outperform general-purpose LLMs in accuracy and relevance within specific domains. However, this evaluation was limited to specific questions and metrics and may not capture challenges in semantic search and other NLP tasks. Further research will explore different LLM architectures, RetA methodologies, and evaluation methods to assess strengths and limitations more comprehensively.
A Versatile Estimation Procedure without Estimating the Nonignorable Missingness Mechanism
Creators: name: Zhao, Jiwei
name: Ma, Yanyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: We consider the estimation problem in a regression setting where the outcome variable is subject to nonignorable missingness and identifiability is ensured by the shadow variable approach. We propose a versatile estimation procedure where modeling of missingness mechanism is completely bypassed. We show that our estimator is easy to implement and we derive the asymptotic theory of the proposed estimator. We also investigate some alternative estimators under different scenarios. Comprehensive simulation studies are conducted to demonstrate the finite sample performance of the method. We apply the estimator to a children’s mental health study to illustrate its usefulness.
Diaspora, Exile, and Displacement: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Fishzon, Anna
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Violent upheavals of the twentieth century – imperialism, the two world wars, struggles for national independence, decolonization, and the Cold War -- have made exile and dislocation the great preoccupations of literary works, autobiography, and theoretical writings. Globalization, driven by unprecedented trade and new technologies of communication, information, and travel, has accelerated the movement of people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. Diaspora is thus treated here not as a singular but rather historically varied and heterogeneous phenomenon. The transnational mobility of people may be the result of forced or voluntary migration, self-exile or expulsion. Refugees, people in transit, are the product of war, ideological heterodoxy and persecution, ethnic conflict, and natural calamity.

Under the broad rubrics of 'diaspora', 'exile' and 'displacement' we will move through the course thematically, taking a cross-cultural and cross-temporal approach and covering the following topics: nostalgia and homelessness, the ideologies of 'home' and nation, immigrant and diasporic cultures, experiences and memory of war, genocide, the politics of multiculturalism, the predicament of minorities, the exilic perspective, the redefinition of cosmopolitanism, identity questions (belonging, 'national origins', assimilation, acculturation), issues relating to race (racism), sexuality and gender, as well as borders, 'mixing', and language.
Canción del curro marinero: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool e-Scriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Borders, Displacement, Media (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Atoui, Farah
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2025

description: The course engages with this global perspective on bordering practices as violent mediators of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism through the lens of film and moving image studies, anchoring the analysis of border struggles within film and art practices as well as processes of mediation. Rather than focusing on border spectacles emerging from Western sites of media and knowledge production, we will begin from the get-go with counter-visual media interventions that expose the logics, formation, and function of borders, and present counter-narratives, counter-images and counter-histories that oppose the ones produced by contemporary media regimes to shape public imaginaries.
Borders, Displacement, Media (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Atoui, Farah
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: The course engages with this global perspective on bordering practices as violent mediators of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism through the lens of film and moving image studies, anchoring the analysis of border struggles within film and art practices as well as processes of mediation. Rather than focusing on border spectacles emerging from Western sites of media and knowledge production, we will begin from the get-go with counter-visual media interventions that expose the logics, formation, and function of borders, and present counter-narratives, counter-images and counter-histories that oppose the ones produced by contemporary media regimes to shape public imaginaries.
Minimax programming problems subject to addition-Łukasiewicz fuzzy relational inequalities and their optimal solutions
Creators: name: Wang, Xue-Ping
name: Li, Meng
name: Shu, Qian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article focuses on minimax programming problems subject to addition-Łukasiewicz fuzzy relational inequalities. We first establish two necessary and sufficient conditions that a solution of the fuzzy relational inequalities is a minimal one and explore the existence condition of the unique minimal solution. We also supply an algorithm to search for minimal solutions of the fuzzy relational inequalities starting from a given solution. We then apply minimal solutions of the fuzzy relational inequalities to the minimax programming problems for searching optimal solutions. We provide two algorithms to solve a kind of single variable optimization problems, and obtain the greatest optimal solution. The algorithm for finding minimal solutions of a given solution are also used for searching minimal optimal solutions.
description: 25
Network Functional Varying Coefficient Model
Creators: name: Zhu, Xuening
name: Cai, Zhanrui
name: Ma, Yanyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: We consider functional responses with network dependence observed for each individual at irregular time points. To model both the interindividual dependence and within-individual dynamic correlation, we propose a network functional varying coefficient (NFVC) model. The response of each individual is characterized by a linear combination of responses from its connected nodes and its exogenous covariates. All the model coefficients are allowed to be time dependent. The NFVC model adds to the richness of both the classical network autoregression model and the functional regression models. To overcome the complexity caused by the network interdependence, we devise a special nonparametric least-squares-type estimator, which is feasible when the responses are observed at irregular time points for different individuals. The estimator takes advantage of the sparsity of the network structure to reduce the computational burden. To further conduct the functional principal component analysis, a novel within-individual covariance function estimation method is proposed and studied. Theoretical properties of our estimators, which involve techniques related to empirical processes, nonparametrics, functional data analysis and various concentration inequalities, are analyzed. We analyze a social network dataset to illustrate the powerfulness of the proposed procedure.
When is a Research and Scholarship Intensive Course Considered 'Research' by the IRB?
Creators: name: Dade, Aurali
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: research experiences for undergraduates; scholarship of teaching and learning

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Canción del curro marinero: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool e-Scriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Taking Inquiry-Based Learning Online: Possibilities and Challenges
Creators: name: Saunders, Catherine
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: online learning; inquiry-based learning; scholarship of teaching and learning; assessment

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Supplementary document for Digitally-tunable Dispersion Management Using Chirped Multimode Waveguide Gratings - 6252978.pdf
Creators: name: Dai, Daoxin
name: Liu, Shujun
name: Liu, Dajian
name: Yu, Zejie
name: Liu, Liu
name: Shi, Yaocheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Medical Humanities, Race, and Gender (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: This class will be a seminar on medical humanities, with a special focus on race and gender, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought renewed attention to health disparities. Although there will be some older texts dealing with medicine and literature, the focus will be contemporary readings and films having to do with medical humanities. We will seek to understand how race and gender have impacted the medical treatment and perception of bodies, as well as the ways in which individuals have asserted control over healing and their bodies in the face of medical hegemony. Alternative (indigenous, native, or folk) modes of healing will also be considered as aspects of this field of study.
Using Institutional Data to Inform Course and Curriculum Planning
Creators: name: Hazel, Stephanie
name: Detlev, Angela
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mason resource; student retention; student persistance; student engagement; student motivation

description: Faculty often ask what they can learn about their students before the semester

begins so that they can plan instruction that will better engage students in

learning. While most individual-level data are protected, Mason makes available

a great deal of information through student-level data, statistical profiles, the

Common Data Set, student surveys, and learning outcomes assessment reports.

We will guide participants through a brief case study and discuss the implications,

limitations, and inferences that can be reasonably drawn from institutional data.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Medical Humanities, Race, and Gender (Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2026

description: This class will be a seminar on medical humanities, with a special focus on race and gender, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought renewed attention to health disparities. Although there will be some older texts dealing with medicine and literature, the focus will be contemporary readings and films having to do with medical humanities. We will seek to understand how race and gender have impacted the medical treatment and perception of bodies, as well as the ways in which individuals have asserted control over healing and their bodies in the face of medical hegemony. Alternative (indigenous, native, or folk) modes of healing will also be considered as aspects of this field of study.
Quantifying Spatial Audio Quality Impairment
Creators: name: Watcharasupat, Karn N.
name: Lerch, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatial audio quality is a highly multifaceted concept, with many interactions between environmental, geometrical, anatomical, psychological, and contextual considerations. Methods for characterization or evaluation of the geometrical components of spatial audio quality, however, remain scarce, despite being perhaps the least subjective aspect of spatial audio quality to quantify. By considering interchannel time and level differences relative to a reference signal, it is possible to construct a signal model to isolate some of the spatial distortion. By using a combination of least-square optimization and heuristics, we propose a signal decomposition method to isolate the spatial error from a processed signal, in terms of interchannel gain leakages and changes in relative delays. This allows the computation of simple energy-ratio metrics, providing objective measures of spatial and non-spatial signal qualities, with minimal assumptions and no dataset dependency. Experiments demonstrate the robustness of the method against common spatial signal degradation introduced by, e.g., audio compression and music source separation. Implementation is available at https://github.com/karnwatcharasupat/spauq.
description: Accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
An Action-Oriented Response to E-Learning
Creators: name: Scholars Of Studying Teaching Collaborative On E-Learning, Members
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: online learning; technology-enhanced learning; scholarship of teaching and learning

description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
The Films of Spike Lee and the Novels of Toni Morrison (2016 Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2026

description: Toni Morrison and Spike Lee have had a large impact on how the United States conceptualizes issues of race. This interdisciplinary course will consider the ways the films of Lee and the novels of Morrison complicate dominant historical and cultural perceptions of the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will be organized around key historical issues; on each topic Morrison and Lee present nuanced and multi-faceted critiques of the dominant society’s understanding of these topics.   A strong focus of this course will be contextualizing the films of Spike Lee and Toni Morrison in terms of historical and cultural debates about race, gender, sexuality, art, US culture, poverty, and activism. So with each unit our first goal will be researching and understanding historical and cultural background to the debates being staged in the films and books. However, literature and film often interact with, critique, and revise the meaning of culture and history. With each unit our second goal will therefore be understanding how Lee and Morrison’s works critique “mainstream” US culture’s understanding of specific cultural/historical questions or events. Finally, our third goal will be learning specific criteria for the evaluation of how meaning is generated in literary and cinematic texts. So we will also spend some time acquiring the skills, tools, and vocabulary necessary to read narrative, both in novels and in film.
The Films of Spike Lee and the Novels of Toni Morrison (2016 Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Toni Morrison and Spike Lee have had a large impact on how the United States conceptualizes issues of race. This interdisciplinary course will consider the ways the films of Lee and the novels of Morrison complicate dominant historical and cultural perceptions of the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will be organized around key historical issues; on each topic Morrison and Lee present nuanced and multi-faceted critiques of the dominant society's understanding of these topics.

A strong focus of this course will be contextualizing the films of Spike Lee and Toni Morrison in terms of historical and cultural debates about race, gender, sexuality, art, US culture, poverty, and activism. So with each unit our first goal will be researching and understanding historical and cultural background to the debates being staged in the films and books. However, literature and film often interact with, critique, and revise the meaning of culture and history. With each unit our second goal will therefore be understanding how Lee and Morrison's works critique "mainstream" US culture's understanding of specific cultural/historical questions or events. Finally, our third goal will be learning specific criteria for the evaluation of how meaning is generated in literary and cinematic texts. So we will also spend some time acquiring the skills, tools, and vocabulary necessary to read narrative, both in novels and in film.
Quantum Rényi and $f$-divergences from integral representations
Creators: name: Hirche, Christoph
name: Tomamichel, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smooth Csiszár $f$-divergences can be expressed as integrals over so-called hockey stick divergences. This motivates a natural quantum generalization in terms of quantum Hockey stick divergences, which we explore here. Using this recipe, the Kullback-Leibler divergence generalises to the Umegaki relative entropy, in the integral form recently found by Frenkel. We find that the Rényi divergences defined via our new quantum $f$-divergences are not additive in general, but that their regularisations surprisingly yield the Petz Rényi divergence for $α< 1$ and the sandwiched Rényi divergence for $α> 1$, unifying these two important families of quantum Rényi divergences. Moreover, we find that the contraction coefficients for the new quantum $f$ divergences collapse for all $f$ that are operator convex, mimicking the classical behaviour and resolving some long-standing conjectures by Lesniewski and Ruskai. We derive various inequalities, including new reverse Pinsker inequalities with applications in differential privacy and explore various other applications of the new divergences.
description: 44 pages. v2: improved results on reverse Pinsker inequalities + minor clarifications. v3: some generalizations and clarifications; published version
Parietal sinus pericranii with bilateral emissary veins
Creators: name: IGLESIAS GORDO, JAIME
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Blood
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Varices

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 7 months
description: Clinical History: A 7 month old male presented to hospital with a lump in the parietal region adjacent to the sagittal suture that increased in the supine position and disappeared when standing up. The lump had grown during the last month. Final Diagnosis: Sinus pericranii
The Films of Spike Lee and the Novels of Toni Morrison (2017 Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Toni Morrison and Spike Lee have had a large impact on how the United States conceptualizes issues of race. This interdisciplinary course will consider the ways the films of Lee and the novels of Morrison complicate dominant historical and cultural perceptions of the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will be organized around key historical issues; on each topic Morrison and Lee present nuanced and multi-faceted critiques of the dominant society's understanding of these topics.

A strong focus of this course will be contextualizing the films of Spike Lee and Toni Morrison in terms of historical and cultural debates about race, gender, sexuality, art, US culture, poverty, childhood, and activism. So with each unit our first goal will be researching and understanding historical and cultural background to the debates being staged in the films and books. However, literature and film often interact with, critique, and revise the meaning of culture and history. With each unit our second goal will therefore be understanding how Lee and Morrison's works critique "mainstream" US culture's understanding of specific cultural/historical questions or events. Finally, our third goal will be learning specific criteria for the evaluation of how meaning is generated in literary and cinematic texts. So we will also spend some time acquiring the skills, tools, and vocabulary necessary to read narrative, both in novels and in film.
Beyond Scale: The Diversity Coefficient as a Data Quality Metric for Variability in Natural Language Data
Creators: name: Miranda, Brando
name: Lee, Alycia
name: Sundar, Sudharsan
name: Casasola, Allison
name: Koyejo, Sanmi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current trends in pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily focus on the scaling of model and dataset size. While the quality of pre-training data is considered an important factor for training powerful LLMs, it remains a nebulous concept that has not been rigorously characterized. To this end, we propose a formalization of one key aspect of data quality -- measuring the variability of natural language data -- specifically via a measure we call the diversity coefficient. Our empirical analysis shows that the proposed diversity coefficient aligns with the intuitive properties of diversity and variability, e.g., it increases as the number of latent concepts increases. Then, we measure the diversity coefficient of publicly available pre-training datasets and demonstrate that their formal diversity is high compared to theoretical lower and upper bounds. Finally, we conduct a comprehensive set of controlled interventional experiments with GPT-2 and LLaMAv2 that demonstrate the diversity coefficient of pre-training data characterizes useful aspects of downstream model evaluation performance -- totaling 44 models of various sizes (51M to 7B parameters). We conclude that our formal notion of diversity is an important aspect of data quality that captures variability and causally leads to improved evaluation performance.
The Films of Spike Lee and the Novels of Toni Morrison (2017 Syllabus)
Creators: name: Cutter, Martha J.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2026

description: Toni Morrison and Spike Lee have had a large impact on how the United States conceptualizes issues of race. This interdisciplinary course will consider the ways the films of Lee and the novels of Morrison complicate dominant historical and cultural perceptions of the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will be organized around key historical issues; on each topic Morrison and Lee present nuanced and multi-faceted critiques of the dominant society’s understanding of these topics.   A strong focus of this course will be contextualizing the films of Spike Lee and Toni Morrison in terms of historical and cultural debates about race, gender, sexuality, art, US culture, poverty, childhood, and activism. So with each unit our first goal will be researching and understanding historical and cultural background to the debates being staged in the films and books. However, literature and film often interact with, critique, and revise the meaning of culture and history. With each unit our second goal will therefore be understanding how Lee and Morrison’s works critique “mainstream” US culture’s understanding of specific cultural/historical questions or events. Finally, our third goal will be learning specific criteria for the evaluation of how meaning is generated in literary and cinematic texts. So we will also spend some time acquiring the skills, tools, and vocabulary necessary to read narrative, both in novels and in film.
Using Dropbox as an Electronic Portfolio in ESL Classrooms
Creators: name: Pullen, Mark
name: Snow, Charles
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: online learning; technology-enhanced learning

description: The use of online sharing tools such as Box or Dropbox has been developing in education as well as in other contexts. This poster presentation showcases the use of Dropbox as an electronic portfolio that affords creating individual folders, sharing them with faculty or with peers. The presentation focuses on the implementation process of Dropbox, different uses of this tool, challenges faced by faculty and students, advantages of using this tool, as well as studentsâ€™ reflections on the use of this tool in an educational context. The presenters will also describe their experiences using this tool as opposed to using traditional portfolios and Blackboard in ESL courses. Faculty across the disciplines who attend this presentation will learn about this alternative way of archiving studentsâ€™ work digitally, giving them feedback on their work, and helping them develop new skills as learners.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
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Creators: name: Lukes, Laura
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013

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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Transforming a Research Project into Teaching RS Intensive Undergraduate Course
Creators: name: Ahn, Changwoo
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2013
Subjects: research experiences for undergraduates; STEM education; critical thinking; student writing

description: The session will focus on describing the process of creating and running a research and scholarship intensive, undergraduate course in Environmental Science and Biology. Ecological Sustainability course (EVPP 378/BIOL 379) was taught first time as a RS course in Spring 2013. The course teaches students a process of doing a natural, experimental, hypotheses-driven science. The activities include conducting an experiment, collecting and analyzing data, critical reading and discussion of peer-reviewed journal articles, and communicating the results of the research project with the public (e.g., K-12 students). The session will present the whole experience with this new course and what may be improved. Also there will be discussion on how the course improves students' analytical thinking, writing skills, and ability to communicate science more effectively. There will also be discussion on how a research project in the area of the instructor's expertise can be incorporated into designing and teaching a RS course.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 5 (2013): Transformational Learning Campuswide: Insights to Enhance Student Engagement
Your Code is 0000: An Analysis of the Disposable Phone Numbers Ecosystem
Creators: name: Moreno, José Miguel
name: Matic, Srdjan
name: Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo
name: Tapiador, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Short Message Service (SMS) is a popular channel for online service providers to verify accounts and authenticate users registered to a particular service. Specialized applications, called Public SMS Gateways (PSGs), offer free Disposable Phone Numbers (DPNs) that can be used to receive SMS messages. DPNs allow users to protect their privacy when creating online accounts. However, they can also be abused for fraudulent activities and to bypass security mechanisms like Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). In this paper, we perform a large-scale and longitudinal study of the DPN ecosystem by monitoring 17,141 unique DPNs in 29 PSGs over the course of 12 months. Using a dataset of over 70M messages, we provide an overview of the ecosystem and study the different services that offer DPNs and their relationships. Next, we build a framework that (i) identifies and classifies the purpose of an SMS; and (ii) accurately attributes every message to more than 200 popular Internet services that require SMS for creating registered accounts. Our results indicate that the DPN ecosystem is globally used to support fraudulent account creation and access, and that this issue is ubiquitous and affects all major Internet platforms and specialized online services.
A Quantum Otto Engine with Shortcuts to Thermalization and Adiabaticity
Creators: name: Pedram, Ali
name: Kadıoğlu, Serhat C.
name: Kabakçıoğlu, Alkan
name: Müstecaplıoğlu, Özgür E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the energetic advantage of accelerating a quantum harmonic oscillator Otto engine by use of shortcuts to adiabaticity (for the expansion and compression strokes) and to equilibrium (for the hot isochore), by means of counter-diabatic (CD) driving. By comparing various protocols with and without CD driving, we find that, applying both type of shortcuts leads to enhanced power and efficiency even after the driving costs are taken into account. The hybrid protocol not only retains its advantage in the limit cycle, but also recovers engine functionality (i.e. a positive power output) in parameter regimes where an uncontrolled, finite-time Otto cycle fails. We show that controlling three strokes of the cycle leads to an overall improvement of the performance metrics compared with controlling only the two adiabatic strokes. Moreover, we numerically calculate the limit cycle behavior of the engine and show that the engines with accelerated isochoric and adiabatic strokes display a superior power output in this mode of operation.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures