cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Source amplitudes for active exterior cloaking
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Amirkulova, Feruza A.
name: Parnell, William J.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer Applications
Signal Processing

description: The active cloak comprises a discrete set of multipole sources that destructively interfere with an incident time harmonic scalar wave to produce zero total field over a finite spatial region. For a given number of sources and their positions in two dimensions it is shown that the multipole amplitudes can be expressed as infinite sums of the coefficients of the incident wave decomposed into regular Bessel functions. The field generated by the active sources vanishes in the infinite region exterior to a set of circles defined by the relative positions of the sources. The results provide a direct solution to the inverse problem of determining the source amplitudes. They also define a broad class of non-radiating discrete sources.
Signal and noise extraction in multivariate ARMA model
Creators: name: Vitale, C.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Viene affrontato il problema della decomposizione di un ARMA k-plo nel segnale ARMA k-plo e nell'errore quando l'errore è "white". La decomposizione è analizzata nel caso generale di componenti correlate. Si dimostra che l'ordine della matrice polinomiale MA del segnale è condizionata all'ordine delle matrici AR ed MA del processo ed una condizione necessaria perché possa assumere dai valori è che le componenti siano correlate. Si analizzano due casi particolari quello dell'incorrelazione, ed in particolare delle componenti canoniche, e quello di correlazione massima, infine viene derivato il filtro matriciale ottimale,in  media quadratica, per stimare il segnale e l' errore.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Selective cannabis strain allergy in a patient presenting with a local allergic reaction
Creators: name: Stepaniuk, Peter
name: Kanani, Amin
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Cannabis use is growing domestically due to recent legalization in many jurisdictions. There are two main species of cannabis, Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica, and thousands of different commercially available cannabis strains. Although there are multiple reports of cannabis allergy in the literature, to our knowledge, there is no prior published report of selective cannabis strain allergy. Case presentation: A 31-year-old male was referred for allergy assessment due to several episodes of localized pruritus and erythema after direct contact with various strains of cannabis. He had noted that the severity of his reaction appeared to be strain dependent. He developed a severe local reaction involving bilateral periorbital edema shortly after coming into direct contact with one particular strain of cannabis. He denied any adverse symptoms after inhalation of cannabis. Fresh skin prick testing was performed to various strains of cannabis and had positive testing to the three of the five tested strains. Conclusions: We believe this is the first reported case of selective cannabis strain allergy based on patient history and skin prick testing. This case report outlines the variability in different strains of cannabis and stresses the importance of further research into cannabis allergen identification. Multiple cannabis allergens should be included and incorporated into commercial extracts when they become routinely available.
Additional file 1 of Listening to families with a person with neurodegenerative disease talk about their quality of life: integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches
Creators: name: Aza, Alba
name: Gómez-Vela, María
name: Badia, Marta
name: Begoña Orgaz, M.
name: González-Ortega, Eva
name: Vicario-Molina, Isabel
name: Montes-López, Estrella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Caregiver Focus Group Questions.
Latino criminology: unfucking colonial frameworks in ‘Latinos and crime’ scholarship
Creators: name: León, Kenneth Sebastian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Latino criminology
Race and crime
Latino studies

description: To “unfuck” is to correct a situation, or yourself if necessary, and in a timely manner. There is an enduring need to audit and deconstruct the colonial features of criminological theory and criminal justice practices. To better understand these enduring colonial harms, this article offers a forward-looking prospectus on the merits of a Latino Criminology and highlights the shared historical and conceptual overlaps between critical criminology and Latino studies in studying state violence, interpersonal harms, and racialized social control. Compatible with both orthodox and progressive perspectives in criminology and criminal justice scholarship, an emergent and politically reflexive Latino Criminology centers the margins by articulating areas of intervention for scholars to improve criminological inquiry and depart – or unfuck ourselves – from the many settler colonial and white supremacist inheritances of our field.
description: Resource replaces submitted Manuscript Under Review (SMUR)
Darwin-E: an environment for imposing regularity on object-oriented software
Creators: name: Pal, Partha P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: Regularity in this dissertation means conformity to unifying principles -- principles that affect every part of a software system, or, some significant and well-defined subset of its parts. Complexity of a large system can be reduced by incorporating some meaningful regularity into it. Regularity can be used to explicate structural aspects that were invisible otherwise. Furthermore, various thumb-rules of software construction, certain architectural patterns, and constraints underlying various design models can also be expressed as regularity. An explicit and formal statement of the desired regularities therefore, can serve as a guideline to construct a well-designed software that is easier to understand and maintain. Strict imposition of these regularities on the other hand leads to a controlled evolution of the software, with a guaranteed conformance to its desired model and underlying guidelines. Object-orientation is the technology of choice today for building large systems. We considered software development in Eiffel, one of the advanced object-oriented languages and showed that there are many cases where regularities would increase the comprehensibility, mangeability and reliability of Eiffel systems pal92 . However, neither the language nor its host environments has the infrastructure for formulating and imposing such regularities. The paradigm of Law-Governed Architecture (LGA) provides the perspective needed for realizing regularities: regularities can be formulated and enforced as the "law" under LGA. We developed a prototype environment named Darwin-E that supports LGA for Eiffel. The novelty of the Darwin-E environment is its ability to perform compile-time enforcement of a wide range of useful laws, thus imposing desired regularities upon object-oriented (Eiffel) systems being developed in it. Several other aspects of a software project that benefit from LGA, such as controlling developer activities, configuration management and monitoring, are also handled in Darwin-E. The main contribution of this dissertation is that it demonstrates the feasibility of using regularities as an integral part of object-oriented software construction. Besides, being an environment whose principal focus is the software product, Darwin-E complements the approaches taken by process-centered environments.
Additional file 4 of A rapid scoping review of fear of infertility in Africa
Creators: name: Boivin, Jacky
name: Carrier, Judith
name: Zulu, Joseph Mumba
name: Edwards, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Explanations.docx Explanations for why choices affected fertility
Emergence of hierarchy in directed online social networks
Creators: name: Gupte, Mangesh
name: Shankar, Pravin
name: Li, Jing
name: Muthukrishnan, S.
name: Iftode, Liviu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010

description: Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarchy for different types of people, and at different scales. We conjecture that people form connections in social network based on their perceived social hierarchy; as a result, the edge directions in directed social networks can be leveraged to infer hierarchy. In this paper, we define a measure of hierarchy in a directed social network, and present an efficient algorithm to compute this measure. We validate our measure using ground truths including Wikipedia notability score. We use this measure to study hierarchy in several directed online social networks including Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, and curated lists of several types of people based on different occupations, and different organizations. Our experiments how hierarchy emerges as the networks grows on different online social networks. We show that the degree of stratification in a network is bounded and does not increase after the graph has become large.
title: We’re Coming Out! – “Home” and “Away” Identities in the Field of International Education: An Emotional Construction and Negotiation of the Self
Creators: name: Frisoli, Paul St. John
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Multiple Identities
subject: Autoethnographic Approach
subject: Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Federation Agency for International Development (FAID)
subject: Diaries
subject: Self-Discovery
subject: Queer
subject: LGBTQ
subject: Gay
subject: Banga Sharini
subject: WEZAP radio project
subject: Away
subject: Home
subject: Power
subject: Sense of Self
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Disability and Equity in Education
subject: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
subject: Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

description: Once upon a time, there was a young man from the country of Federation. In this era of postmodernism, Paul St. John Frisoli held fragmented and multiple identities that were at times complimentary and contradictory. He believed that whether he was angry, happy, frustrated, or satisfied that emotions offered clues to these identities. One day, Paul left for the islands of Banga Sharini where he worked on the WEZAP radio project that was funded by the Federation Agency for International Development (FAID). During his stay, he developed new Consultant and Foreign Identity selves while leaving his “home” identities of the Student, Family, and Secret Gay Partner behind. This adventure, told from an autoethnographic approach, examined his daily dairies and letters written to those in the Federation in order to highlight the validity of bridging personal and professional accounts of research in academic inquiry. Paul used the lenses of Cultural Studies to examine how international development work impacted his various fragmented identities. Throughout this self-discovery process, he continuously examined the emotions displayed during the construction his “away” identities while concurrently observing the interaction of these new selves with his “home” identities. What he discovered was a stretching effect on his “home” and “away” identities caused by power, agency, and emotions.
Some remarks on the causality definitions un the non-linear theory of stochastic processes
Creators: name: Sartore, D.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Il concetro di causalità di Granger è usato estensivamente in econometria e si assiste ad una notevole mole di lavori in cui tale concetto viene utilizzato nella fase della verifica empirica per una più corretta specificazione della struttura dei modelli.
Queste applicazioni hanno mostrato risultati anche contrastanti tra loro, poiché la verifica empirica dipende dalla diversa struttura dei tests, dalla numerosità campionaria della serie storica, dall'ordine dei ritardi temporali utilizzati nel modello per una corretta specificazione dinamica e dalle procedure di "filtering" delle serie al fine di ottenere la condizione di stazionarità. In particolare, le diverse definizioni di causalità di Sims e di Pierce-Haugh hanno dato origine a differenti procedure per la verifica dell'ipotesi di causalità.
Risulta quindi rilevante analizzare le relazioni di equivalenza tra le diverse definizioni esistenti in letteratura affinché le discrepanze tra verifiche empiriche non risultino erroneamente imputabili all'utilizzazionc di una diversa definizione del concetto di causalità. Nell' articolo, la discussione sui concetti di causalità è condotta all'interno della teoria dei processi stocastici, al di fuori quindi del dibattito recentemente sviluppatosi in ambito filosofico.
Scopo della ricerca è quello di proporre un'estensione del concetto di causalità proprio di Pierce-Haugh al caso non lineare, dimostrando che questa definizione estesa è implicata dalla definizione non lineare di causalità nel senso di Granger.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Sex differences in the intestinal microbiome: interactions with risk factors for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease
Creators: name: Ahmed, Shamon
name: Spence, J. D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: There are clearly sex differences in cardiovascular disease. On average, women experience cardiovascular events at an older age, and at any age, women, on average, have less atherosclerotic plaque than men. The role of the human intestinal microbiome in health and disease has garnered significant interest in recent years, and there have been indications of sex differences in the intestinal microbiome. The purpose of this narrative review was to evaluate evidence of sex differences in the interaction between the intestinal microbiome and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Several studies have demonstrated changes in microbiota composition and metabolic profile as a function of diet, sex hormones, and host metabolism, among other factors. This dysbiosis has consequently been associated with several disease states, including atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. In this respect, there is a growing appreciation for the microbiota and its secreted metabolites, including trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), derived from intestinal bacterial metabolic pathways involving dietary choline and l-carnitine, as novel risk factors for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular outcomes. Although traditional risk factors for vascular disease have been studied broadly over the years, there exists little research to evaluate interactions of cardiovascular risk factors with a potentially sexually dimorphic intestinal microbiome. This review evaluates the role of sex differences in the composition of the intestinal microbiome, including effects of sex hormones on the microbiome, and the effects of these sex differences on cardiovascular risk factors. Diabetes and obesity exhibit sexual dimorphism, while the data concerning hypertension and dyslipidemia remain inconclusive based on the available literature. In addition, an increased proportion of gram-negative species capable of driving metabolic endotoxemia and a low-grade inflammatory response, as well as decreased numbers of butyrate-producing species, have been observed in relation to traditional vascular risk factors. In this context, circulating SCFAs and TMAO are recognized as key metabolites of the intestinal microbiome that can be readily measured in the blood for the evaluation of metabolic profile. Conclusion: Novel strategies focused on resolving intestinal dysbiosis as a means to slow progression of atherosclerosis and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease should be evaluated through a lens of sex differences.
On sample selection procedures using two auxiliary characters
Creators: name: Kumar, P.
name: Gupta, V. K.
name: Nigam, A. K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Nell'articolo sono proposte alcune procedure di selezione campionaria con probabilità variabile basate sull'utilizzazione di due variabili ausiliarie. L'applicabilità di queste tecniche è illustrata con una esemplificazione pratica ed è inoltre studiata l'efficienza delle procedure proposte.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Economic Statistic and similar disciplines
Creators: name: Erba, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The A. intent was to start a consideration on the contests of the scientific subjects belonging to the area of Economic Statistics. More precisely this work attemps to connects the different economic thems with the historic moments in which they began to be studied thanks to statistic methods.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Cooperative caching middleware for cluster-based servers
Creators: name: Cuenca-Acuna, Francisco Matias
name: Nguyen, Thu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: We consider the use of cooperative caching to manage the memories of cluster-based servers. Over the last several years, a number of researchers have proposed locality-conscious servers that implement content-aware request distribution to address this problem. During this development, it has become conventional wisdom that cooperative caching cannot match the performance of these servers. Unfortunately, while locality-conscious servers provide very high performance, their request distribution algorithms are typically bound to specific applications. The advantage of building distributed servers on top of a block-based cooperative caching layer is the generality of such a layer; it can be used as a building block for diverse services, ranging from file systems to web servers. In this paper, we reexamine the question of whether a server built on top of a generic block-based cooperative caching algorithm can perform competitively with locality-conscious servers. Specifically, we compare the performance of a cooperative caching-based web server against L2S, a highly optimized locality-conscious server. Our results show that by modifying the replacement algorithm of traditional cooperative caching algorithms, we can achieve much of the performance provided by locality-conscious servers. Our modification increases network communication to reduce disk accesses, a reasonable trade-off considering the current trend of relative performance between LANs and disks.
Crowd critique in graphic design pedagogy
Creators: name: Wong, Mun Wai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This phenomenographic study explored undergraduate graphic design students’ experiences of how crowd critique in community forums and social networking sites could be used to gather feedback in design processes. Students unanimously described crowd critique as ‘brutally harsh and honest’, wherein learning outcome from their experiences revealed: (1) confidence and resilience to crowd critiques determined their eagerness to participate; (2) different student groups required facilitation to participate. Empirical analysis showed mature students displayed higher confidence and resilience with crowd critiques. From this study, an evidence-based pioneering pedagogical guideline to scaffold crowd critique initiatives (‘CrowdCritecture’ model) in undergraduate graphic design learning was conceived.
Additional file 1 of A rapid scoping review of fear of infertility in Africa
Creators: name: Boivin, Jacky
name: Carrier, Judith
name: Zulu, Joseph Mumba
name: Edwards, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search History_Medline.docx Illustrative Search Strategy
Distribution structure of small artisan industry: analysis of descriptive model
Creators: name: Mattioli, E.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We have found that a single type of theory distribution provide a useful representation of the observed distributions by employees of artisan firms subdivided either by activity or region. This statistical law suggest an economic interpretation of a likely genesis by a stochastic process.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Checklists for inclusive teaching in higher education
Creators: name: Erber, Eva
name: Mingoia, Jessica
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2024
Subjects: teaching materials
Higher Education

description: The following checklists have been developed as part of the work of the Rutgers SGS DEI Advisory Committee’s Curriculum Mentoring Subcommittee 2023. These documents serve as guides, offering an easy way to check on the accessibility of one’s own teaching and as it relates to the class syllabus, instruction, and graded assignments. However, it is crucial to understand that these checklists are not one-size-fits-all solutions; rather, they serve as adaptable frameworks that instructors can use as a starting point and tailor them to their unique teaching contexts and the diverse needs of their student populations. These checklists are also permitted to be adapted and shared under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
title: Instruction is Contextual: An Examination of McNair Program Curricula for STEM Scholars and Recommendations Based on the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
title: Instruction is Contextual: An Examination of McNair Programs for STEM Scholars and Recommendations for Curricula Based on the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Palumbo, Laura Bolton
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Framework for Information Literacy
McNair program
Instruction of STEM students
Undergraduate research

description: The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement awards help prepare high achieving but economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students for graduate research. This paper discusses the results of a survey of the 2016-2017 institutional recipients of these awards, about curricula and pedagogy employed in their program’s research course, especially elements specifically created to assist students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. This paper also reviews librarian-led instruction for McNair scholars in STEM at Rutgers University during 2016 and 2017, designed using the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, that explores the disciplinary as well as societal, ethical, and financial contexts of research that are relevant to McNair scholars.
Additional file 2 of Listening to families with a person with neurodegenerative disease talk about their quality of life: integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches
Creators: name: Aza, Alba
name: Gómez-Vela, María
name: Badia, Marta
name: Begoña Orgaz, M.
name: González-Ortega, Eva
name: Vicario-Molina, Isabel
name: Montes-López, Estrella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Categories and codes analyzed in each dimension and times mentioned in each focus group.
Legitimized fraud and the state-corporate criminology of food - a Spectrum-based theory
Creators: name: León, Kenneth Sebastian
name: Ken, Ivy
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food crime
Fraud
Food justice
Corporate crime

description: The role that food corporations have in determining our health and nutrition is concomitant with the power and influence that corporations exercise across all commercial sectors. These large, powerful, and often multinational entities – collectively referred to as Big Food – employ a robust array of strategies to advance the organizational interests associated with a seemingly paradoxical business model: securing the continuous and ever-growing consumption of food products increasingly associated with negative health outcomes. As this model proliferates globally, the implications of this contradiction warrant specific attention to the activities of Big Food corporations through a critical criminological framework. The pervasive and increasingly legitimized activity of Big Food relies on a legal, regulatory, and moral framework that allows for the relegation of all non-market oriented value systems to be secondary to a pro-corporatist ideological and moral superstructure. Whereas previous scholarship has contributed to an understanding of what occurs when profit-maximization values collide with – and then co-opt – public health and nutrition interests, the present study offers a spectrum-based theory to explain how various degrees of food fraud are systematically incentivized by the legal privileges of corporations and the hegemonic moral economy of neoliberal governance.
Covariance & missing plot technique in triallel crosses
Creators: name: Lal, B.
name: Dhamija, A.
name: Kaushik, L. S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Nell'articolo è presentato un metodo di analisi per gli incroci a tre alleli in caso di dati mancanti. Sono fornite le formule per la stima dei parametri genetici, delle varianze relative alle stime dei parametri, ed infine le formule per ottenere le devianze relative a varie componenti. Il metodo è inoltre illustrato con un esempio.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Timing of impulses from the central amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the brainstem
Creators: name: Nagy, Frank Z.
name: Paré, Denis
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Amygdaloid body
Anxiety
Fear

description: The amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) are thought to subserve distinct functions with the former mediating rapid fear responses to discrete sensory cues and the latter longer “anxiety-like” states in response to diffuse environmental contingencies. Yet, these structures are reciprocally connected and their projection sites overlap extensively. To shed light on the significance of BNST-amygdala connections, we compared the antidromic response latencies of BNST and central amygdala (CE) neurons to brainstem stimulation. Whereas the frequency distribution of latencies was unimodal in BNST neurons (~10 ms mode), that of CE neurons was bimodal (~10 and ~30 ms modes). However, after stria terminalis (ST) lesions, only short-latency antidromic responses were observed, suggesting that CE axons with long conduction times course through the ST. Compared to the direct route, the ST greatly lengthens the path of CE axons to the brainstem, an apparently disadvantageous arrangement. Since BNST and CE share major excitatory basolateral amygdala (BL) inputs, lengthening the path of CE axons might allow synchronization of BNST and CE impulses to brainstem when activated by BL. To test this, we applied electrical BL stimuli and compared orthodromic response latencies in CE and BNST neurons. The latency difference between CE and BNST neurons to BL stimuli approximated that seen between the antidromic responses of BNST cells and CE neurons with long-conduction times. These results point to a hitherto unsuspected level of temporal coordination between the inputs and outputs of CE and BNST neurons, supporting the idea of shared functions.
description: R01 MH-073610
Intrinsic hypergeometric random variable
Creators: name: Baldessari, B.
name: Weber, J.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: La variabile casuale ipergeometrica intrinseca è la frequenza dei valori uno in n variabili casuali zero-uno scelte, mediante campionamento semplice senza ripetizione, da N variabili casuali zero-uno dipendenti.
Della variabile casuale ipergeometrica intrinseca si determina la distribuzione campionaria, si studiano alcune sue proprietà e si dimostra che essa ha come casi particolari le variabili casuali binomiale ed ipergeometrica e la variabile casuale che Galambos (1978) pone a fondamento dello sviluppo della teoria asintotica dei records.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Relevant Context Inference
Creators: name: Landi, William
name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999

description: Relevant context inference (RCI) is a modular technique for flow- and context-sensitive data-flow analysis of statically typed object-oriented programming languages such as C++ and Java. RCI can be used to analyze complete programs as well as incomplete programs such as libraries; this approach does not require that the entire program be memory-resident during the analysis. We show that RCI can handle exceptions. We also discuss application of RCI to unit testing of libraries and explain how the information computed by RCI can be used for generating relevant test cases. RCI is presented in the context of points-to analysis. The empirical evidence obtained from a prototype implementation argues the effectiveness of RCI.
Response surface exploration with spline functions: biased regressors
Creators: name: Onukogu, I. B.
name: Esele, I. I.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Nell'articolo si mostra come una superficie di risposta possa essere approssimata in un punto con una funzione "spline" polinomiale di primo ordine con k vincoli su ogni asse. Il vettore gradiente della superficie è poi stimato sui parametri del regressore "spline" in modo tale da minimizzare l'errore quadratico medio dello stimatore. Questo dà luogo alla formulazione di un nuovo algoritmo per l'ottimizzazione delle superfici di risposta sia segmentate che non segmentate. Confronti numerici fra la procedura iterativa con "spline" con il metodo Speepest Ascent, con il metodo di Quasi-Newton e con il metodo delle direzioni coniugate mostrano che il metodo "spline" è spesso più efficiente.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 2 (1987)
Additional file 5 of A rapid scoping review of fear of infertility in Africa
Creators: name: Boivin, Jacky
name: Carrier, Judith
name: Zulu, Joseph Mumba
name: Edwards, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Consequences.docx Feared consequences of infertility
Infant Expressions in an Approach/Withdrawal Framework
Creators: name: Sullivan, Margaret Wolan
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Facial expression
Emotions in infants
Motivation (Psychology)
Withdrawal (Psychology)
Infants
Approach

description: Since the introduction of empirical methods for studying facial expression, the interpretation of infant facial expressions has generated much debate. The premise of this paper is that action tendencies of approach and withdrawal constitute a core organizational feature of emotion in humans, promoting coherence of behavior, facial signaling and physiological responses. The approach/withdrawal framework can provide a taxonomy of contexts and the neurobehavioral framework for the systematic, empirical study of individual differences in expression, physiology, and behavior within individuals as well as across contexts over time. By adopting this framework in developmental work on basic emotion processes, it may be possible to better understand the behavioral principles governing facial displays, and how individual differences in them are related to physiology and behavior, function in context.
Statistical inferences
Creators: name: Costantini, D.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The various types of statistical inferences are confronted taking into account one of fundamental stones of the history of statistic the case of the additional hours' sleep gained by the use of hyoscyamine hydrobromide analysed by Student.
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 3 (1987)
Additional file 3 of A rapid scoping review of fear of infertility in Africa
Creators: name: Boivin, Jacky
name: Carrier, Judith
name: Zulu, Joseph Mumba
name: Edwards, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. excluded studies.docx Studies excluded (DOCX 27 kb)
Additional file 1 of Because they’re worth it? A discussion paper on the value of 12-h shifts for hospital nursing
Creators: name: Dall’Ora, Chiara
name: Ejebu, Ourega-Zoé
name: Griffiths, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Search strategy.
Biosensor-assisted high performing cell selection using an E. coli toxin/antitoxin system
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaonan
name: Cabales, Avaniek
name: Li, Zhenghong
name: Zhang, Haoran
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biosensor
Toxin/antitoxin genes
High-performing cell selection
Tryptophan biosynthesis
Phenylalanine biosynthesis
Metabolic Engineering

description: Selection for high-producing cells in a mixed population is of great significance for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering applications. Here, we developed a cell selection mechanism that utilized a product-responsive biosensor to control the expression of E. coli endogenous toxin hipA or antitoxin hipB genes for selective removal of low-performing cells. This approach eliminates the use of exogenous antibiotics as the selection marker and offers a solution to flexibly meet the need of using either downregulating (off-switch) or upregulating (on-switch) biosensors. As a proof-of-concept, we showed that the developed cell selection systems encompassing a tryptophan biosensor (off-switch) and the toxin hipA gene dramatically enhanced the tryptophan production in E. coli, which was mechanistically characterized by monitoring the dynamic expression of the GFP-labelled hipA gene. The cell selection system was also extended for phenylalanine over-production using a phenylalanine biosensor (on-switch) and the antitoxin gene hipB. Our findings show that this approach has strong potential for wide applications in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering.
Bayesian hypothesis testing in forensic science
Creators: name: Scozzafava, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Un classico esempio di test di ipotesi in una perizia legale può essere affrontato, mediante il concetto di pseudodensità, con un metodo introdotto in un precedente lavoro. In particolare, vengono sottolineati alcuni aspetti caratteristici di questo approccio probabilistico "senza misura".
description: Statistica; Vol 47, No 3 (1987)
Recueil des edits, ordonnances, declarations, traitez et concordats du regne de Léopold I. de glorieuse memoire, duc de Lorraine et de Bar. Avec differens arrêts de réglemens rendus en consequence, tant au Conseil d'Etat, et des finances, Bureau des eaux et forêts et autres, que dans les cours souveraines, outre plusieurs réglemens de police du conseil de ville de Nancy sur des cas importans et publics. Tome I
Creators: name: Léopold I (Duc De Lorraine) ; 1679-1729
name: Lorraine, Duché De
Publisher: name: A Nancy, chez la veuve de Jean-Baptiste Cusson, imprimeur-libraire ordinaire de S. A. R. sur la place, au Nom de Jesus. M.
Year: 1733

description: Années 1698 à 1712
description: Signatures a2, A-Fffff4 (pagination 568-585 omise)
description: Bandeau gr. s. b. aux armes ducales, signé: Papillon, au-dessus du titre de départ.
description: Armes ducales gr. s. b. au titre
Additional file 2 of A rapid scoping review of fear of infertility in Africa
Creators: name: Boivin, Jacky
name: Carrier, Judith
name: Zulu, Joseph Mumba
name: Edwards, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. PRISMA-ScR Checklist.docx PRISMA checklist for scoping reviews
Regulation of arcuate genes by developmental exposures to endocrine-disrupting compounds in female rats
Creators: name: Yasrebi, Ali
name: Mamounis, Kyle
name: Oruc, Elif
name: Zama, Aparna Mahakali
name: Uzumcu, Mehmet
name: Roepke, Troy A.
name: Yang, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Arcuate nucleus
Bisphenol A
Diethylstilbestrol
Phthalates
Methoxychlor
Energy homeostasis
Endocrine-disrupting compounds
Puberty

description: Developmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) alters reproduction and energy homeostasis, both of which are regulated by the arcuate nucleus (ARC). Little is known about the effects of EDC on ARC gene expression. In Experiment #1, pregnant dams were treated with either two doses of bisphenol A (BPA) or oil from embryonic day (E)18-21. Neonates were injected from postnatal day (PND)0-7. Vaginal opening, body weights, and ARC gene expression were measured. Chrm3 (muscarinic receptor 3) and Adipor1 (adiponectin receptor 1) were decreased by BPA. Bdnf (brain-derived neurotropic factor), Igf1 (insulin-like growth factor 1), Htr2c (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor), and Cck2r (cholescystokinin 2 receptor) were impacted. In Experiment #2, females were exposed to BPA, diethylstilbestrol (DES), di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, or methoxychlor (MXC) during E11-PND7. MXC and DES advanced the age of vaginal opening and ARC gene expression was impacted. These data indicate that EDCs alter ARC genes involved in reproduction and energy homeostasis in females.
Additional file 1 of AKT inhibition in the central nervous system induces signaling defects resulting in psychiatric symptomatology
Creators: name: Tsimberidou, Apostolia-Maria
name: Skliris, Antonis
name: Valentine, Alan
name: Shaw, Jamie
name: Hering, Ursula
name: Vo, Henry Hiep
name: Chan, Tung On
name: Armen, Roger S.
name: Cottrell, Jeffrey R.
name: Pan, Jen Q.
name: Tsichlis, Philip N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Material.
Analysis of demand for tourist services in Italy: statistical estimate and test of the Rotterdam differential model
Creators: name: Gardini, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The behaviour of the tourist consumer is analysed on the basis of statistical data concerning holiday spending gathered from the ISTAT studies of family consumer spending in italy and estimating the parameters of the Rotterdam model of demand analysis with special reference to tourist spending.
The estimation and specification problems are analysed making particular reference to seasonal factors which, in this sector, ae of singular importance.
The results demonstrate the relevance of the effect of the relative prices for the evolution and composition of tourist spending.
Price elasticity is very high for hotel service, -4.70: but also for the other services the values obtained for price elasticity ae high.
Income elasticity is greater than one for all aspects of tourist spending and confirms that this kind of consumption can be classed with luxury goods.
The estimated equations also permit us to test the validity of the basic assumptions of the neoclassical model of demand analysis, and in particular those of symmetry, negativity and homogeneity. The inferential results conform with the hypothesis under control and demonstrate that the tourist consumer behaves rationally from an economic point of view; the symmetry, negativity and homogeneity of zero degree in prices and income of demand equations indicate that the tourist consumer is not subject to monetary illusion and is capable of evaluating the effective movement of relative prices, and of taking this into consideration when deciding on holiday spending. The need for a holiday is rigid, but there are various ways of satisfying this need; the statistical analysis has demonstrated that the tourist consumer is capable of modifying the level and the composition of spending in relation to income and relative price with the aim of continuing to satisfy the need for holiday, within the budget limits, if the conditions of the problem change.
description: Statistica; Vol 45, No 3 (1985)
High-intensity cannabis use and hospitalization: a prospective cohort study of street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Reddon, Hudson
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Wood, Evan
name: Nosova, Ekaterina
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: DeBeck, Kora
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: There is concern that cannabis use negatively affects vulnerable groups such as youth; however, the relationship between cannabis use and health care utilization has not been well characterized in this population. We longitudinally evaluated the association between daily cannabis use and hospitalization among a prospective cohort of street-involved youth. Methods: Data were collected from the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS) in Vancouver, Canada, from September 2005 to May 2015. Participants were interviewed semi-annually and multivariable generalized estimating equation (GEE) logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between daily cannabis use and hospitalization. Results: A total of 1216 participants (31.2% female) were included in this analysis, and 373 (30.7%) individuals reported hospitalization at some point during the study period. In a multivariable GEE analysis, daily cannabis use was not significantly associated with hospitalization (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR] = 1.17, 95% Confidence interval [CI] = 0.84, 1.65). We did observe a significant interaction between daily cannabis use and sex (AOR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.34, 0.77), whereby cannabis use was associated with a decreased odds of hospitalization among males (AOR = 0.60, 95% CI = 0.47, 0.78), yet was not significantly associated with hospitalization among females (AOR = 1.19, 95% CI = 0.84, 1.67). Conclusions: The finding that daily cannabis use was not associated with hospitalization among street-involved youth is encouraging given the high rates of cannabis use in this population and the expansion of cannabis legalization and regulation. Future studies, however, are warranted to monitor possible changes in the consequences of cannabis use as cannabis legalization and regulation increase internationally.
Evaluation of the antibiotics and secondary metabolites biosynthetic potential of Plantactinospora sp. KBS50, a rare marine-derived actinomycete
Creators: name: Juboi, Holed Anak
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study aims to evaluate the metabolic capabilities of Plantactinospora sp. KBS50, a rare marine-derived actinomycete isolated from Sarawak, as a potential source of novel compounds for antibiotics discovery. This study showed that KBS50 is an excellent producer of secondary metabolite compounds that potentially exhibit various biological activities including the antimicrobial properties. Hence, our findings may pave the way for the isolation, identification and characterization of potentially novel bioactive natural product compounds from Plantactinospora sp. KBS50 for the development of new drug candidates with important pharmaceutical applications.
A Multi-class Linear Learning Algorithm Related to Winnow
Creators: name: Mesterharm, Chris
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: In this paper, we present Committee, a new multi-class learning algorithm related to the Winnow family of algorithms. Committee is an algorithm for combining the predictions of a set of sub-experts in the on-line mistake-bounded model of learning. A sub-expert is a special type of attribute that predicts with a distribution over a finite number of classes. Committee learns a linear function of sub-experts and uses this function to make class predictions. We provide bounds for Committee that show it performs well when the target can be represented by a few relevant sub-experts. We also show how Committee can be used to solve more traditional problems composed of attributes. This leads to a natural extension that learns on multi-class problems that contain both traditional attributes and sub-experts.
Some properties of a family of distributions with bouded support
Creators: name: Bologna, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Si dimostra che una famiglia F di densità con supporto limitato, che ammette la famiglia esponenziale di densità come distribuzione limite al divergere di un parametro, gode di certe proprietà. In particolare si dimostra che per una certa classe di F esiste una trasformata della variabile casuale in esame che ha distribuzione beta; si trovano le condizioni sotto le quali le densità di F possono essere considerate distribuzioni di massima entropia e, infine, si dimostra che una certa densità di F , con particolari valori dei parametri, è la distribuzione della r-esima statistica ordinata di un campione casuale proveniente dalla cosiddetta distribuzione della funzione potenza.
description: Statistica; Vol 45, No 3 (1985)
Additional file 1 of The preservation and augmentation of volatile terpenes in cannabis inflorescence
Creators: name: Bueno, Justin
name: Leuer, Emily
name: Kearney, Michael
name: Green, Edward H.
name: Greenbaum, Eric A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Conditional probability as a measure of association: a Bayesian approach (with variations on the theme)
Creators: name: Scozzafava, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A preference relation between two events T1 and T2 ,conditional on a given event G (usually,a statistical observation) has been introduced in previous papers by resorting to a sensible use of conditional probability. In this paper some examples are discussed to show the significance of this Bayesian approach as a measure of association of T1 and T2  with G, in contrast with a pure likelihood approach.
description: Statistica; Vol 45, No 4 (1985)