cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Choerodon anchorago
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Choerodon
Choerodon anchorago

description: Choerodon anchorago (Bloch 1791) —Anchor tuskfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover as Choerops anchorago by Peters (1877: 843). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Yap (Caroline Islands), Palau and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Solitary, in seagrass, sand and rubble areas near sheltered coral reefs, 1–25 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Dimensions of the Los Angeles SO_2/sulfate problem
Creators: name: Cass, Glen R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1975

description: Sulfur dioxide emission trends are reviewed in relation to sulfur dioxide air quality in the Los Angeles area. Emission fluctuations over the 19-year period from 1956 through 1974 are explained in terms of emission control policy changes. Simple statistical tests indicate that measured SO_2 air quality levels at Long Beach and downtown Los Angeles track changes in emission strength at nearby sources and from sources with low effective stack height.

Atmospheric oxidation of SO_2 to form particulate sulfates is discussed. Sulfate air quality measurements at Los Angeles show a broad summer seasonal peak in all years of record, with isolated periods of very high sulfate concentration in some winters of record. The geographic distribution of long term average sulfate concentrations is examined and found to be rather uniform across existing monitoring stations in the Los Angeles Basin. Fluctuations in measured sulfate values from day to day are shown to track changes in inversion height, relative humidity, total suspended particulate levels, and ozone concentrations. From these relationships, it is suggested that day-to-day fluctuations in sulfate concentration are driven mainly by changes in SO_2 to sulfate reaction rate and by changes in the effective mixing volume of the air basin.
description: © 1975 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

This work has been supported by the Ford Foundation (Grant No. 740-0469), a grant to the author from Rockwell International, and gifts to the Environmental Quality Laboratory.

The author wishes to thank Anna Pechanec and Betsy Krieg for research assistance on this project. Thanks is also due to the staff of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District for cooperation and assistance in furnishing data for this analysis. Valuable advice on data handling procedures was furnished by Dr. R. C. Y. Koh.

NOTE TO CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: This is a condensed version of materials presented at the Conference on Strategies for Air Pollution Control in the South Coast Air Basin, December 2-3, 1975. Remarks presented at that meeting concerning the automotive aspects of Los Angeles sulfate air quality are published separately as "Lead as a Tracer for Automotive Particulates: Projecting the Sulfate Air Quality Impact of Oxidation Catalyst Equipped Cars in Los Angeles," Environmental Quality Laboratory Memorandum No. 12.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo15.pdf
Smartphone-based Eye Tracking System using Edge Intelligence and Model Optimisation
Creators: name: Gunawardena, Nishan
name: Lui, Gough Yumu
name: Ginige, Jeewani Anupama
name: Javadi, Bahman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A significant limitation of current smartphone-based eye-tracking algorithms is their low accuracy when applied to video-type visual stimuli, as they are typically trained on static images. Also, the increasing demand for real-time interactive applications like games, VR, and AR on smartphones requires overcoming the limitations posed by resource constraints such as limited computational power, battery life, and network bandwidth. Therefore, we developed two new smartphone eye-tracking techniques for video-type visuals by combining Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with two different Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), namely Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). Our CNN+LSTM and CNN+GRU models achieved an average Root Mean Square Error of 0.955 cm and 1.091 cm, respectively. To address the computational constraints of smartphones, we developed an edge intelligence architecture to enhance the performance of smartphone-based eye tracking. We applied various optimisation methods like quantisation and pruning to deep learning models for better energy, CPU, and memory usage on edge devices, focusing on real-time processing. Using model quantisation, the model inference time in the CNN+LSTM and CNN+GRU models was reduced by 21.72% and 19.50%, respectively, on edge devices.
description: I have included the three papers as reference, which are closely related. We have expanded the future work section to provide a more thorough discussion of the concepts of "varying lighting conditions" and "dynamic user environments." We have added a note below Table 4 to clarify the abbreviations' meaning. Elaborated the role of the Domain Expert within the presentation layer in Section 4.1
Cirrhilabrus beauperryi Allen, Drew & Barber 2008
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Cirrhilabrus
Cirrhilabrus beauperryi

description: Cirrhilabrus beauperryi Allen, Drew & Barber 2008 —Purple fairy-wrasse (Fig. 107)
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Allen & Erdmann (2012: 651). Photographs of specimens from Kavieng region taken on 1 and 3 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey. A small school was photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 m depth, by Dean Tully on 26 June 2013; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, St. KR 122, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Endemic to northeastern Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Solitary or in small groups, on coral rubble adjacent to lagoon reefs or slopes of seaward reefs, 5–32 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Preceptor education program impact on implementation of the preceptor role
Creators: name: Bohnarczyk, Nancy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this mixed methods study was to identify potential benefits and gaps in an academic-based preceptor education program offered to long-term care facilities in New Jersey.  Preceptors are experienced nurses who provide guidance, support and instruction to new nurses transitioning from student to professional. Through an online survey and individual interviews, preceptors who participated in the program reflected on to what extent and in what ways the program impacted their understanding of key concepts critical to the preceptor role, as well as their ability to effectively apply these concepts in the work setting.  Informed by Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation framework, the data were also analyzed to determine if potential benefits and gaps in understanding and applying preceptor concepts in the work setting differed by innovator category.   All preceptors who attended the preceptor education program were invited to participate in the study.  Of 55 participants, a total of 32 completed surveys.  A stratified random sample was employed to obtain representation from each innovator category for the interviews.  A total of 15 preceptors participated in the interview process.  Survey data analysis showed that respondents as a whole rated both their understanding and application as highest for the feedback and adult learning concepts.  Analysis by individual innovator category indicated that the Early Adopter (EA) category had the highest means for understanding and application.  The EAs rated feedback as the highest concept for understanding and application.   Interviews identified common program benefits of discussion groups and use of program materials as scaffolds.  Challenge or gap themes included amount of course materials and in-person class, role conflict and lack of continued support from the program. Analysis by innovator category identified introducing preceptor concepts to others as being a theme specific to the Early Adopter and Innovator categories.  While the challenge themes of in-person class and lack of continued support were common to all three innovator categories, role conflict was not present in the Innovator group.  Based on study findings, recommendations for the preceptor education program revisions include increasing active learning strategies, converting theory to an online component, and developing a PD refresher program.
Scapheremaeus marmoratus Berlese 1910
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus marmoratus

description: Scapheremaeus marmoratus (Berlese, 1910)
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) marmoratus Berlese, 1910, 227, fig. 64.
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) marmoratus: Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985, 242. Scapheremaeus marmoratus: Marshall, Reeves & Norton, 1987, 237.
Scapheremaeus marmoratus: Norton & Kethley, 1989, 430.
Scapheremaeus marmoratus: Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 1995, 160.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Onthophagus abyssinicus Gillet 1925
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus abyssinicus

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) abyssinicus Gillet, 1925
Type locality: “Abyssinie” [Ethiopia].
Distribution: Ethiopia (d’Orbigny 1908, 1913).
Comment: Gillet (1925) proposed Onthophagus abyssinicus as a new replacement name for Onthophagus brevifrons d’Orbigny, 1908 which is a junior primary homonym of Onthophagus brevifrons Horn, 1881.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Emissions and air quality trends in the South Coast Air Basin
Creators: name: Trijonis, John C.
name: Peng, Ted K.
name: McRae, Gregory J.
name: Lees, Lester
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: This paper documents the historical trends of pollutant emissions and ambient air quality for the South Coast Air Basin (SCAB) for the period 1965-1974. Emission trends for nitrogen oxides. reactive hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide are developed. A detailed appendix describes the methodology and presents the latest test information -- in particular the contribution of evaporative emissions from light-duty vehicles. Basin-wide and county trends are presented to characterize the overall changes as well as the spatial distribution of emissions. Ambient concentrations of total nitrogen oxides (NO_x), nitrogen dioxide (NO_2), oxidant (OX), and carbon monoxide (CO) are compared to the emissions changes during the same period. Detailed analyses of air quality indices, including extreme levels, average values. and frequency of standard violation are presented for each pollutant. The final section of the paper discusses current and proposed control strategies and their impact on future air quality.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

This paper was presented at the Conference on Strategies for Air Pollution Control in the South Coast Air Basin, sponsored by the Environmental Quality Laboratory and Industrial Associates at the California Institute of Technology on 2-3 December 1975. The comments of several people in attendance at the conference were helpful to the authors in preparing this memorandum. Several members of the California Air Resources Board Technical Staff, Donald Bratton, Spencer Duckworth, John Kinosian, Howard Linnard, and Jack Paskind, deserve particular thanks for contributing data and comments.

The preparation of this paper was a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Environmental Quality Laboratory No. 740-0469).
description: Submitted - EQLmemo16.pdf
Arorathrips Bhatti
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Arorathrips

description: Arorathrips Bhatti
(Figs 23–24)
This New World genus currently includes eight species, but several other species described in Chirothrips should be transferred here (Mound & Marullo, 1996). These species are distinguished by the reduction of the metasternal furca, such that the furcal pits are widely separated not close together medially (Fig. 24). One of these species, A. mexicanus, is now widespread on grasses throughout the tropics and subtropics, and Mound & Palmer (1972) provided an illustrated account, under the generic name Chirothrips, of the two Arorathrips species known from Australia (A. mexicanus and A. spiniceps). Larvae of species in these genera apparently always develop each within a single grass floret, and the few larvae that have been examined have such small legs that they seem to be effectively immobile.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Scapheremaeus morenoi Balogh & Mahunka 1974
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus morenoi

description: Scapheremaeus morenoi (Balogh & Mahunka, 1974)
Scutovertex morenoi Balogh & Mahunka, 1974, 19, fig 13.
Scapheremaeus morenoi: Subías, 2004, 158. [recombination]
Type depository: Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Havana, Cuba; Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.
Type locality: Pico Suecica (1730 masl), Sierra Maestra, Oriente Province, CUBA. Habitat: from moss forest.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Affordances of community of inquiry methods in measuring and evaluating teaching presence to guide practice
Creators: name: Chingwe, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The Community of Inquiry (COI) model’s construct of teaching presence provides a useful framework for understanding the practice-based requirements of effective online instruction. Teaching presence consists of instructor practice related to instructional design, direct instruction, facilitating discourse, and assessment of student work for the purpose of realizing educationally worthwhile outcomes. Providers of online continuing professional development courses may benefit from focusing on teaching presence to evaluate and improve practice. Two primary COI methods are used for measuring teaching presence in online courses: content analysis and student surveys. The purpose of this study was to compare the relative advantages of each method to guide improvements to practice. The mixed methods case study research design collected data on teaching presence in five online, instructor-led professional development courses. A sample of 26 students was surveyed to capture their reflections on the types and amounts of teaching presence they perceived in the courses. A content analysis was undertaken in two of the five courses to identify and tabulate instances of teaching presence in course content. Findings included that content analysis methods captured the quantity and location of teaching presence in the analyzed courses and made a useful distinction between teaching presence related to instructional design as compared to instructor-student interactions. Content analysis limitations included its focus on quantity and not quality. Pre- and post-course rubrics were proposed as a more practical approximation of the content analysis method. The student survey was found to capture student perceptions of the presence and quality of teaching presence. The student survey also had the advantage of an absolute scale to identify aspects of teaching presence in need of improvement. A shortened student survey was proposed to include only items for which student perceptions would be most appropriate. Two products were developed to support the transition of COI methods to professional development settings: a Teaching Presence Evaluation Toolkit with rubric and student survey measurement tools designed for program administrators, and an online course, Improving Teaching Presence in Online Courses, for instructors to learn best practices for the expression of teaching presence.
Bolacothrips Uzel
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Bolacothrips

description: Bolacothrips Uzel
Judging from the presence and position of the ctenidia on the abdominal tergites (Fig. 30), this genus of 12 species is closely related to genus Thrips. As with Stenchaetothrips, the genus represents a group of Old World species each of which is specific to Poaceae. Bolacothrips species have 7-segmented antennae, but are unusual in having simple sensoria on segments III −IV, whereas these are always forked in species of Thrips and Stenchaetothrips. One Australian species listed previously under this genus (Mound, 1996) lacks abdominal ctenidia, and is here transferred to the new genus above as Aliceathrips australiensis. There is no satisfactory overview of the 12 species of Bolacothrips, and some are not satisfactorily distinguished from each other. Bhatti (1983) provided a checklist of 10 species together with extensive notes on two of these; zur Strassen (1993) described one new species from Cape Verde Islands together with useful comparative notes, and Masumoto & Okajima (2002) described one new species with a key to three species from Japan. One of the 12 species has the body brown (africanus), four have the abdomen yellow with the terminal segments brown (evittatus, eximius, graminis, pulcher), and the remainder are almost uniformly yellow. All species in this genus apparently breed on grass leaves, and all of them are particularly similar to each other in details of body sculpture and chaetotaxy.
Key to Bolacothrips species from Australia
1. Abdomen with terminal segments (VIII) IX–X dark brown............................................... pulcher
-. Abdomen almost uniformly yellow........................................................... striatopennatus
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Scapheremaeus morulisensillatus Rios & Palacios-Vargas 1998
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus morulisensillatus

description: Scapheremaeus morulisensillatus Rios & Palacios-Vargas, 1998
Scapheremaeus morulisensillatus Rios & Palacios-Vargas, 1998, 190, fig. 5.
Type depository: Department of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico City. Type locality: “Los Dinamos” National Park, Distrito Federal, MEXICO. Habitat: mosses on rocks.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Cirrhilabrus condei Allen & Randall 1996
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Cirrhilabrus
Cirrhilabrus condei

description: Cirrhilabrus condei Allen & Randall 1996 —Condé's fairy-wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed in Kavieng Lagoon by Jeff Kinch during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in 2013 (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 15).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: New Guinea to northern Queensland (Australia). On coral rubble adjacent to lagoon reefs or slopes of seaward reefs, 5–70 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Stable $f(Q)$ gravity model through non-trivial connection
Creators: name: Narawade, S. A.
name: Lohakare, Santosh V.
name: Mishra, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study effectively reconstructs a cosmological model utilizing covariant $f(Q)$ gravity within Connection-III and FLRW spacetime. The dynamic behavior of the reconstructed model is thoroughly analyzed using the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and various observational datasets. Our robust findings demonstrate that the model displays quintessence behavior at the present epoch and converges to the $Λ$CDM model at late time. It is confirmed through comprehensive evaluations against energy conditions that the Null Energy Condition remains positive throughout cosmic evolution, and the Dominant Energy Condition is consistently satisfied. The Strong Energy Condition is initially fulfilled in the early Universe but violated in the late epoch. Moreover, scalar perturbations extensively assess stability, affirming the strength of the model with respect to the Hubble parameter. This research offers compelling insights into cosmic acceleration, suggesting that $f(Q)$ gravity can effectively displace the $Λ$CDM model and provides a convincing alternative explanation for the current accelerating expansion of the Universe without relying on the cosmological constant.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
The Wizard of Oz effect
Creators: name: Covington, Tamika M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: In a nation founded upon race, freedom, and justice for all, African Americans still find themselves collectively marginalized by a complex web of systems functioning in a synchronized manner to thwart their attainment of wealth. The concepts of racism and racial discrimination have been persistently interwoven within the fabric of this society, pervading public and social institutions such as healthcare, education, economics, entertainment, labor, law, and politics (Fuller, 1964). The Wizard of Oz Effect unpacks the pretention that equality insofar as education and wealth attainment does or can exist in an inherently racist society. Political policies such as redlining and restrictive covenants have undergirded unfair housing and anti-voting tactics, which in turn reinforce unequal schooling (Orfield, 2013). President Nixon’s Drug War in the 1970’s had an enormous and deleterious effect on the Black community, the likes from which it has still not recovered. Political decisions by lawmakers and socially constructed attitudes about White racial superiority drive the continued dilemma of inequity pervasive in schools and workplaces. Guided by the central question, “What is the intersection between race, institutional racism, and education in America?” this study is intended to be a critical analysis of political ideologies and how they filter down into society to produce educational and opportunity gaps which invariably translate into significant wealth gaps between European and African Americans. These relationships are examined through the sociopolitical record, highlighting federal laws and critical events using primary and secondary source documents including legislative texts, court decisions, news accounts, documentaries, periodicals, and previous investigations. Philosophical models such as Critical Race Theory and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy are operationalized as tools to analyze attitudes, behaviors, and decisions made in the society pertaining race and education. The cost of racialized inequality is also explored in a discussion about extreme imbalances of poverty and social dysfunction which are two resulting forces of a society so entrenched in the problem of race.
STEM education and social issues
Creators: name: Khichi Jr, Narendra Neel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The number of jobs in STEM (science, engineering, math, and technology) fields   increased 16 percent from 14.2 million in 2004 to 16.5 million jobs in 2012 (Government   Accountability Office [GAO], 2014). Students at STEM-based higher education institutions   research ways to build and improve infrastructure, study methods to face climate change, create   algorithms to improve day-to-day efficiency, and design apps that benefit our lives and ones that   provide solutions to problems we face as a society. However, STEM institutions are generally   not known for their emphasis on addressing social issues. Often students do not enroll in STEM   institutions to learn about issues that affect our national and global communities. Garibay (2015)   found that STEM students who seek to become engineers, computer scientists, and scientific   researchers have low levels of social awareness and view the importance of working for social   change as less important to their career goals. In addition, students who spent time as a STEM   major are more likely to show signs of lower social awareness at the end of college, and   majoring in a STEM field has a negative relationship with student understanding of diverse   global communities.     An intervention module that focused on social issues and social inequity was used to   investigate student beliefs of the social issues and social inequity topics. Further, the study   examined to what extent a redesigned STS (Science, Technology and Society) course at the New   Jersey Institute of Technology influenced student perceptions of social issues and how their work   can potentially be seen as a catalyst for social change. Student written responses, a researcher   reflective interview, a questionnaire, and a focus group were used in this qualitative action   research study.
Biomedical Question Answering using a 'Farm' of Open Large Language Models
Creators: name: Panou, Dimitra
name: Dimopoulos, Alexandros
name: Reczko, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Question Answering
BioASQ
Large Language Models
Retrieval-augmented generation

description: Biomedical text mining and question-answering are essential and complex tasks driven by the need to access and process the ever-expanding volume of biomedicaldata. With the exponential growth of published biomedical literature, effective retrieval and accurate question-answering systems are crucial for researchers, clinicians, and medical experts to make well-informed decisions. The emergence of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a significant trend in the tech landscape, with these models increasingly tailored to address diverse tasks. In this work, we present our participation in the twelfth edition of the BioASQ challenge, which involves biomedical semantic question-answering for task 12b and biomedical question answering for developing topics for the Synergy task. We deploy a selection of open-source LLMs for embedding and retrieval of documents and snippets, as well as retrieval-augmented generators to answer biomedical questions. Dense retrieval methods, leveraging distances between dense representations of documents and questions obtained from LLM embeddings, and hybrid sparse/dense approaches, outperform traditional sparse retrieval methods in terms of mean average precision. We also implement a ’farm’ of open-source LLMs to provide exact answers to biomedical Yes/No type questions. A variety of models process the prompts, and a majority voting system combines their outputs to determine the final answer. Ideal answers, summarizing the most relevant information for each question type, are generated by the MIXTRAL LLM. In the four rounds of the 2024 BioASQ challenge, our system achieved notable results: 1st and 2nd place in two rounds for ’exact answers’,  2nd place in one round for ’documents ’ and 2nd place in one round for ’ideal answers’ in the Task Synergy, and in Task B we won the 1st place in one round for ’snippets’.
Bolacothrips pulcher Girault
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Bolacothrips
Bolacothrips pulcher

description: Bolacothrips pulcher (Girault)
Plesiothrips pulcher Girault, 1929: 3
This species has been taken widely in eastern Australia, from Cape Tribulation in northern Queensland to Batemans Bay just south of Sydney and also at Canberra. It has been found around Darwin in Northern Territory, as well as on Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. Abdominal tergites IX–X are uniformly dark brown, but VIII is variable from brown to yellowish-brown, the anterior margin of the head is sometimes shaded brown, and the fore wings are pale with a weak transverse darker mark. Judging from the description, B. graminis from Egypt is similar, but the other two species with bicoloured abdomen are considered to have almost uniformly pale fore wings, and evittatus has three pairs of posteromarginal setae on sternite II instead of the normal two pairs. In structure and chaetotaxy, pulcher is similar to the Australian specimens of striatopennatus, with one of the four lateral setae on tergite II very slightly displaced medially.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Cirrhilabrus exquisitus Smith 1957
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Cirrhilabrus
Cirrhilabrus exquisitus

description: Cirrhilabrus exquisitus Smith 1957 —Exquisite fairy-wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed in Kavieng Lagoon by Jeff Kinch during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in 2013 (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 15); a specimen observed at Nemto Island, New Hanover, 4–15 m depth, St. T 23, on 7 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Line and Tuamotu islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found in mixed coral-rubble habitats of seaward reef slopes, 5–30 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
On Computational Representations as Explanatory Tools for Intensional Reference
Creators: name: Guazzini, Jodi
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: A causa del nuovamente crescente interesse per un approccio computazionalista alla filosofia della mente, dovuto in parte significativa alla possibilit� di applicare nuovi e pi� raffinati strumenti computazionali ? teorici e pratici ? allo studio delle neuroscienze, lo scritto si propone di esaminare la fondatezza della spiegazione offerta dal modello di mentale e di operazione mentale sottesoall?approccio suddetto. Per sviluppare tale esame, si segue il duplice filo conduttore della domanda sulla legittimit� di parlare di ?rappresentazioni computazionali? e sulla legittimit� esplicativa di tali costrutti teorici, sulla scorta delle riflessioni di William Ramsey. Lo scritto si articola come segue. Il primo capitolo si propone di chiarire il concetto di ?rappresentazione computazionale? esaminando la sua genesi storica in seno al contrasto tra Comportamentismo e Cognitivismo, allo stesso tempo sforzandosi di reperire i principi-cardine che hanno guidato la costruzione del modello di mente in esame. Il secondo e il terzo capitolo proseguono il chiarimento storico-teoretico prendendo in esame il funzionamento concreto dei modelli paradigmatici di computazione, ideali e concreti. Al termine dei tre capitoli, si argomenta che la stretta connessione con il
Comportamentismo, nonch� con l'idea di scienza come metodo sperimentale incentrato sulla riproducibilit� a esso sotteso, conduce a porre un modello che pare impossibilitato in linea di principio a produrre rappresentazioni. Secondo il parere dell'autore, a causa delle specifiche ragioni di suddetta impossibilit�, il modello di mente computazionale soffre gli stessi limiti che Cassirer aveva a suo tempo obbiettato alla pretesa compiutezza degli approcci Hilbertiani di stampo finitista all'artimetica; il suo carattere riduzionistico, inoltre, lo rende vulnerabile alla questione gi� Husserliana di confondere il problema della causa naturale del pensare con il problema della fondazione della conoscenza da parte del pensiero razionale. Un'argomentazione autonoma in difesa di queste ultime conclusioni viene proposta nel capitolo conclusivo.
Scapheremaeus nashiroi Nakatamari 1989
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus nashiroi

description: Scapheremaeus nashiroi Nakatamari, 1989
Scapheremaeus nashiroi Nakatamari, 1989, 1.
Scapheremaeus nashiroi: Wang, 1998, 256, figs. 6a,b.
Type depository: not known.
Type locality: Okinawa.
Habitat: not known.
Distribution: Japan (Nakatamari, 1989); China (Wang,1998).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Onthophagus adornatus d'Orbigny 1904
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus adornatus

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) adornatus d’Orbigny, 1904
Type locality: “Nigeria: Lagos” [Lagos, Nigeria].
Distribution: Nigeria (d’Orbigny 1904, 1913).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Geothermal development and the Salton Sea
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Martin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: One of the limiting factors on energy development in the arid American West is the availability of water. Even geothermal development must take into account the hydrologic cycle of the surrounding area. In the Imperial Valley, the bloodstream of the economic body is water, and owing to the nature of the region and its water source, the mineralized Colorado River, the disposal of waste water is of major importance. The Salton Sea is presently the sump for agricultural drainage in that area. Quite incidentally, the Sea has become popular for recreational use.

It is universally recognized that geothermal development in the Valley will involve the flow to the surface of large quantities of highly mineralized water. After extraction of heat, the water must be safely disposed of. Moreover. many geothermal power generation methods would require cooling water supplies. and other methods may require water for reservoir injection. The point is that geothermal development may well impact the hydrologic cycle. Conversely the requirements of the local hydrologic cycle may well impact the nature of geothermal development. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of the Salton Sea. a key element of the Imperial Valley water system. to potential geothermal development.

The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of his late colleague, Alexander Martin Rodriguez, to this work. He had formulated a method of computing the behavior of the Salton Sea under a variety of future conditions, using a pocket-sized programmable computer. His work was left unfinished at his death, and was completed by Ms. Betsy Krieg.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by NSF Grant No. AER75-08793.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo17.pdf
Fundamentals on Dependence of Volume on Pressure and Temperature
Creators: name: Liu, Zi-Kui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The common wisdom that volume decreases with pressure and increases with temperature is analyzed in terms of Hillert nonequilibrium thermodynamics in the present work. It is shown that the derivative of volume to pressure in a stable system is always negative, i.e., volume decreases with the increase of pressure, when all other natural variables of the system are kept constant. This originates from the stability requirement that the conjugate variables, such as volume and negative pressure, must change in the same direction in a stable system. Consequently, since volume and temperature are not conjugate variables, they do not have to change in the same direction and thus do change in opposite directions in both natural and man-made systems. It is shown that the decrease of volume with the increase of temperature, commonly referred as negative thermal expansion (NTE) in the literature, originates from the statistical competitions of configurations in the system when the volumes of metastable configurations are smaller than that of the ground-state configuration. It is demonstrated that the zentropy theory can concisely explain and accurately predict NTE based on the density functional theory without fitting parameters.
Distributed quantum machine learning via classical communication
Creators: name: Hwang, Kiwmann
name: Lim, Hyang-Tag
name: Kim, Yong-Su
name: Park, Daniel K.
name: Kim, Yosep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum machine learning is emerging as a promising application of quantum computing due to its distinct way of encoding and processing data. It is believed that large-scale quantum machine learning demonstrates substantial advantages over classical counterparts, but a reliable scale-up is hindered by the fragile nature of quantum systems. Here we present an experimentally accessible distributed quantum machine learning scheme that integrates quantum processor units via classical communication. As a demonstration, we perform data classification tasks on 8-dimensional synthetic datasets by emulating two 4-qubit processors and employing quantum convolutional neural networks. Our results indicate that incorporating classical communication notably improves classification accuracy compared to schemes without communication. Furthermore, at the tested circuit depths, we observe that the accuracy with classical communication is no less than that achieved with quantum communication. Our work provides a practical path to demonstrating large-scale quantum machine learning on intermediate-scale quantum processors by leveraging classical communication that can be implemented through currently available mid-circuit measurements.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Productive failure in the flipped mathematics classroom
Creators: name: Kerrigan, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The flipped classroom method of instruction involves a shift in how learning and teaching take place.  Students in a flipped classroom access video tutorials at home as their primary means of instruction, while they work on rich problems requiring procedural and conceptual knowledge in class.  The flipped classroom approach has been gaining popularity in higher education (Abeysekera & Dawson, 2015) and in mathematics (Muir & Geiger, 2015).  Although studies have addressed differences between flipped and traditional methods of instruction, few have closely examined how to design activities in a flipped classroom that develop students’ higher-order thinking skills (O’Flaherty & Phillips, 2015; Song & Kapur, 2017).  Kapur’s (2008) theory of productive failure states when students have an opportunity to generate and explore solutions to a challenging task prior to being instructed on it, they are better positioned to consolidate their knowledge during and after instruction.  The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine whether repurposing the flipped classroom to include productive failure results in students’ improved understanding of targeted mathematical content.    Through work samples and a survey, it was determined that there was no statistical significance     between groups in terms of students’ performance on course assessments and video-watching     behaviors.  Correlations among various course assessments revealed a significant correlation     between students’ work on one productive failure invention task and its corresponding     conceptual knowledge posttest item.     Through video footage of in-class problem solving and a focus-group interview,     qualitative information about students’ knowledge development helped explain differences     between the two learning environments.  Students who had the productive failure experience     described their peers as critical to their learning, whereas students who did not described their     instructor as critical to their learning.  A detailed look at individual groups in the productive     failure condition revealed that students who generated more solutions and had routines for     working in a small group on the invention tasks each week realized greater success, as evidenced     by work samples and posttest items.      The results of this study will be used to guide the design of undergraduate mathematics flipped classrooms so that online and in-person class activities promote deep conceptual understanding.
Aligning practices towards a circular economy in the architecture, engineering, and construction sector: seven transitions in different stages of reconfiguration
Creators: name: van Uden, Mart
name: Wamelink, Hans
name: van Bueren, Ellen
name: Heurkens, Erwin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector is in need of a transition towards a circular economy. This article offers an analysis of two cases with a wide variation regarding project dynamics in the Netherlands. Alignments and misalignments were analyzed between practices concerning seven design strategies for circular design based on social practice theory and concepts from the multi-level perspective. Results show that many misalignments still hinder the transition, mostly concerning the use of secondary resources, such as notions regarding quality, beauty, and safety among project team members or rapid decision-making processes of the municipality that misalign with the uptake of design with secondary resources. This article offers directions for reconfiguration, such as better tuning between project planning and urban planning and taking up a more flexible stance regarding the function of the building. This research is interesting for practitioners and researchers focusing on the transition towards a circular economy in the AEC sector.