cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes davisii

description: Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897 (mandibularis group)
Holotype. ♂ USA, Michigan (?) (Michigan Agricultural College), 17 Apr. 1886 (INHS 179717) = Sphecodes persimilis Lovell & Cockerell 1907
County records: Alger, Antrim, Calhoun, Ingham, Kent, Leelanau, Livingston, Oakland, Ottawa, Tuscola, Van Buren.
Notes. This is a common and widespread species, originally described from a single male specimen. It is considered a senior synonym of S. persimilis, which was described from the female. Mitchell (1960) pointed out the possible synonymy and Abrams & Eickwort (1980) considered this probable. Mike Arduser and JSA have each applied this synonymy, but its establishment was relatively obscure since it was not done as part of a published revision but rather has appeared online and implicitly in faunal checklists (Arduser 2010; Ascher et al. 2014; Goldstein & Ascher 2016). Sphecodes davisii is a cleptoparasite of Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius) and A. sericeus (Förster) (Abrams & Eickwort 1980).
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
Measures of galaxy environment III: difficulties in identifying protoclusters at z~2
Creators: name: Shattow, G. M.
name: Croton, Darren
name: Skibba, R. A.
name: Muldrew, S. I.
name: Pearce, F. R.
name: Abbas, U.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Galaxy environment is frequently discussed, but inconsistently defined. It is especially difficult to measure at high redshift where only photometric redshifts are available. With a focus on early forming protoclusters, we use a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation to show how the environment measurement around high-redshift galaxies is sensitive to both scale and metric, as well as to cluster viewing angle, evolutionary state and the availability of either spectroscopic or photometric data. We use two types of environment metrics (nearestneighbour and fixed aperture) at a range of scales on simulated high-z clusters to see how 'observed' overdensities compare to 'real' overdensities. We also 'observationally' identify z = 2 protocluster candidates in our model and track the growth histories of their parent haloes through time, considering in particular their final state at z = 0. Although the measured environment of early forming clusters is critically dependent on all of the above effects (and in particular the viewing angle), we show that such clusters are very likely (90 per cent) to remain overdense at z = 0, although many will no longer be among the most massive. Object-to-object comparisons using different methodologies and different data, however, require much more caution.
Sphecodes dichrous Smith 1853
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes dichrous

description: Sphecodes dichrous Smith 1853 (dichrous group)
Syntype. ♀ ♂ USA, E. Doubleday (NHM).
= Sphecodes knetschi Cockerell 1898 (New synonymy)
Syntype. ♀ ♂ USA, Illinois, Terra Cotta, 25 Aug. 1897, 5 Sep. 1897, goldenrod, R. Knetsch (NMNH).
County records: Clinton, Ingham, Jackson, Livingston, Muskegon, Washtenaw.
Notes. Mitchell (1960) records this species under both names. Although the synonymy, first recognized by Mike Arduser, has been applied implicitly, it has not been published formally.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
title: Research on Inquiry-based Learning in Teacher Education
Creators: name: Weyland, Ulrike
name: Fichten, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Inquiry-based Learning is considered as a long-standing tradition in teacher education. For a few years this approach has been also linked to the curricular requirements of long-term internships (cf. [ref:5]). Although there are many implementation types (cf. [ref:4]) there is no[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Optical fibers for miniaturized surface-enhanced Raman-scattering probes
Creators: name: Hartley, Jennifer S.
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Stoddart, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A range of optical fibers with surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) functionalized tips have been evaluated for use as micro-scale sensing devices. In order to optimize the sensitivity of the optical fiber probe, the relationship between SERS intensity and different fiber parameters was investigated. It was found that the numerical aperture, core size, mode structure, and core material have a major effect on the probe performance, as does the numerical aperture of the microscope objective. The results suggest that an ideal fiber for SERS sensing should be single mode at the excitation wavelength and have low-background core material.
title: Orientation and Motivation by Combining Research Based Learning and Orientation Studies
Creators: name: Yenice Campbell, Züleyha
name: Schmitt, Franz-Josef
name: Schröder, Christian
name: Moldenhauer, Marcus
name: Zipfel, Sandra Bettina
name: Friedrich, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Research-based learning encourages students to engage with different topics and subjects in a motivating learning environment. The orientation program MINTgrün at Technische Universität Berlin offers two semesters for open choices of teaching modules including a series of specially designed[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: Student-Centered Learning Environment for Self-Regulated Project-Based Learning in Higher Education: A Qualification/Selection Study
Creators: name: Zarouk, Mohamed Yassine
name: Restivo, Francisco
name: Khaldi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Self-Regulated (SRL) and Project-Based (PBL) among others are innovative pedagogical approaches fostering a multitude of critical strategies for success in the twenty-first century. Students drive their own learning through inquiry, as well as work collaboratively to research and create projects that[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: The Humboldtian Ideal of Higher Education – Undergraduate Research-based Learning in Political Science
Creators: name: Zettl, Christian
name: Nikolopoulos, Iris
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Undergraduate research within study programs have gained considerable relevance in teaching Political Science in the past few years. Yet, most of these programs are optional and are implemented at the end of the curriculum in the last year of study. At Zeppelin University, scholars of Political Science[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: Executive functions as moderators of the worked example effect on statistical reasoning – A replication study
Creators: name: Bichler, Sarah
name: Fischer, Frank
name: Bühner, Markus
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: A prerequisite for sophisticated statistical reasoning is that students learn to apply statistical concepts [ref:1] and make sound methodological decisions. For prospective researchers, such skills are essential to successfully participate in research communities during and after university[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Body Composition: A Population-Based Study of Adults
Creators: name: Hayley, Amie
name: Williams, Lana J.
name: Kennedy, Gerard A.
name: Berk, Michael
name: Brennan, Sharon L.
name: Pasco, Julie A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Results: Women: After adjusting for age, alcohol intake, antidepressant medication use and physical activity, EDS was associated with greater waist circumference and body mass index (BMI). EDS was also associated with 1.5-1.6-fold increased odds of being overweight or obese. Men: After adjusting for age, alcohol use, physical activity and smoking status, EDS was associated with greater BMI. These findings were not explained by the use of sedative or antidepressant medication. EDS was also associated with 1.5-fold increased likelihood of being obese, independent of these factors. No differences in lean mass, %body fat, or %lean mass were detected between those with and without EDS for men or women.

Conclusions: These data suggest that EDS is associated with several anthropometric adiposity profiles, independent of associated lifestyle and health factors. Among women, symptoms of EDS are pervasive at both overweight and obese BMI classifications; suggesting a need for further clinical examination to assess possible temporal associations with underlying sleep pathology.

Background: Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is often associated with increased adiposity, particularly when assessed in the context of samples of sleep-disordered patients; however, it is unclear if this relationship is sustained among nonclinical, population-based cohorts. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between EDS and a number of body composition markers among a population-based sample of men and women. Copyright:

Methods: This study assessed 1066 women aged 21-94 yr (median = 51 yr, IQR 35-66), and 911 men aged 24-92 yr (median = 60 yr, IQR 46-73) who participated in the Geelong Osteoporosis Study (GOS) between the years 2001 and 2008. Total body fat mass was determined from whole body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans, and anthropometric parameters (weight, height, and waist circumference) were measured. Lifestyle and health information was collected via self-report. Sleepiness was assessed using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). Scores of 10 were considered indicative of EDS.
title: Inquiry-Based Learning in Higher Education Statistics: Effects on Students’ Self-Efficacy, Attitudes, and Achievement Emotions
Creators: name: Bod, Petra
name: Sommerhoff, Daniel
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Despite its importance in the age of big data, many students do not like statistics [ref:4]. An instructional approach to change this situation could be the implementation of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in statistics classes, especially tutorials. IBL has been shown to improve students’[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Sphecodes fattigi Mitchell 1956
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes fattigi

description: Sphecodes fattigi Mitchell 1956 (mandibularis group)
Holotype. ♂ USA, Florida, Gainesville, 25 Apr. 1921, P. W. Fattig (CUIC).
= Sphecodes prostygius Mitchell, 1960 (New synonymy)
Holotype. ♀ USA, New Hampshire, Meredith Center, 3 Aug. 1957, Solidago, R. A Morse (CUIC).
County records: Alger, Clinton, Lake, Missaukee, Van Buren.
Notes. This unpublished synonymy by M. Arduser has been applied in databases and implicitly in other studies but has not been formally stated.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
Discourses about Fake News, Conspiracies and Counterknowledge in Spain
Creators: name: Fernández-García, Belén
name: Salgado, Susana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This research addresses the role of populist parties as disinformation agents. It specifically focuses on their use of Twitter to challenge the traditional authorities of knowledge and sources of information. The analysis relies on a content analysis of tweets to identify 1) the strategies employed to contest the “truth”; 2) the alternative sources of knowledge and information proposed; 3) the specific issues mentioned in those tweets and used to substantiate such strategies. Our findings confirm the relevance of these discourses and strategies in the populist parties’ tweets and particularly in the radical right.
Sphecodes heraclei subsp. heraclei heraclei Robertson 1897
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes heraclei
Sphecodes heraclei heraclei robertson 1897

description: Sphecodes heraclei heraclei Robertson 1897 (dichrous group)
County records: Ionia, Livingston.
Notes. Recorded by Evans (1986) from the E.S. George Reserve, Livingston County, and recently recollected by T. Wood (pers. comm.) at the Portland State Game Area, Ionia County.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
title: Case representation scaffolds improve diagnostic efficiency in 4th-5th year medical students: a randomized controlled laboratory study
Creators: name: Braun, Leah
name: Zottmann, Jan
name: Wirth, Stefan
name: Fischer, Martin
name: Schmidmaier, Ralf
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Understanding diagnostic competence and how it can be fostered is a major challenge in medical education research. Although different strategies to improve diagnostic accuracy have been investigated, little is known about students’ diagnostic efficiency operationalized as correct[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Intrinsic linewidth calculation in an argon X-ray laser based on the model of geometrically dependent gain coefficient
Creators: name: Hariri, A.
name: Sarikhani, S.
Publisher: name: The Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ar X-ray laser, intrinsic linewidth, ASE

description: OPTICA APPLICATA; 02/2017; ISSN 1429-7507
Sphecodes illinoensis
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes illinoensis

description: Sphecodes illinoensis (Robertson 1903) (mandibularis group)
County records: Allegan, Leelanau, Livingston, Oceana, Ottawa, Roscommon, Van Buren, Washtenaw.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
Was Bleibt Von Horkheimers Und Adornos "Dialektik Der Aufklärung" Heute? Ein Philosophischer Mythos Auf Dem Prüfstand
Creators: name: Arnold, Eckhart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: critical theory, dialectics of englighment

description: This presentation contains a critiqual examination of the main theses of Max Horkheimer's and Theodor W. Adorno's "Dialectics of Enlightment". Most of them are found to be unfounded and wrong.
description: see https://eckhartarnold.de/EN/philosophy.html#Dialectics_of_Enlightenment_Critque for further material
Estudio De Calidad De Los Repositorios De Recursos Educativos Abiertos En El Marco De La Educacion Universitaria
Creators: name: Atenas, Javiera
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Open Educational Resources, Repositories, Quality Assurance

description: Esta tesis se basa en la definición de RREA propuesta por McGreal (2011) quien los describe como bases de datos digitales que albergan contenido de aprendizaje, aplicaciones y herramientas, tales como vídeos, grabaciones de audio, aplicaciones multimedia y herramientas de redes sociales, ya que a través de estos repositorios los REA se vuelven accesibles a estudiantes y docentes. Esta multiplicidad de recursos, requiere de guías que aseguren la calidad de los RREA y de sus recursos, permitiendo su uso efectivo y un potencial aumento su impacto y alcance para asegurar estos puedan ser utilizados por un gran número de docentes y estudiantes.

Hasta ahora, las normas y estándares internacionales apuntan hacia la construcción de repositorios para información en distintos soportes y formatos. En el caso de las normas relacionadas con los repositorios documentales, estos se rigen por la norma ISO/TR 17068:2012; el almacenamiento de documentos de archivo y material de bibliotecas por la norma ISO 11799:2003; los formatos de intercambio de imágenes por la norma ISO/IEC 24800-5:2011 y los procesos de distribución abierta se rigen por la norma ISO/IEC 14769:2001 (DCMI, 2012; ISO, 2012).

No obstante, no existen medios de apoyo que logren validar la calidad de los repositorios de REA en entornos de formatos diversos. Este problema se agrava considerando la fluidez de los recursos digitales, su constante reutilización, edición y difusión por distintos medios, construyendo un entorno difícilmente regulable por alguna normativa internacional actual. Es sobre este vacío del conocimiento donde esta investigación opera.

Sin embargo, solucionar completamente este problema no es el foco específico de este trabajo, sino que el objetivo central de este estudio es proponer un marco que permita medir y asegurar la calidad de los repositorios de REA.
Image Quality Assessment: Learning to Rank Image Distortion Level
Creators: name: Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira
name: Shimshi, Or
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5; I.4
subject: 62H35, 68U10, 68T05

description: Over the years, various algorithms were developed, attempting to imitate the Human Visual System (HVS), and evaluate the perceptual image quality. However, for certain image distortions, the functionality of the HVS continues to be an enigma, and echoing its behavior remains a challenge (especially for ill-defined distortions). In this paper, we learn to compare the image quality of two registered images, with respect to a chosen distortion. Our method takes advantage of the fact that at times, simulating image distortion and later evaluating its relative image quality, is easier than assessing its absolute value. Thus, given a pair of images, we look for an optimal dimensional reduction function that will map each image to a numerical score, so that the scores will reflect the image quality relation (i.e., a less distorted image will receive a lower score). We look for an optimal dimensional reduction mapping in the form of a Deep Neural Network which minimizes the violation of image quality order. Subsequently, we extend the method to order a set of images by utilizing the predicted level of the chosen distortion. We demonstrate the validity of our method on Latent Chromatic Aberration and Moire distortions, on synthetic and real datasets.
Determination of Steel Emissivity for the Temperature Prediction of Structural Steel Members in Fire
Creators: name: Sadiq, H.
name: Wong, M. B.
name: Tashan, J.
name: Al-Mahaidi, Riadh
name: Zhao, X.-L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A numerical method, with which experimental results were processed, was adopted to measure the total emissivity of mild steel specimens at high temperatures. This method is derived from considering the transient thermal energy equilibrium between a steel specimen and its surrounding heating environment. As a first step to validate this method, the results obtained at a low temperature were compared with those using infrared thermographic techniques, and a good correlation of 87% was achieved. The numerical model was then extended to high temperatures to investigate the variation of emissivity of steel with temperatures. The convective heat transfer coefficient used in the numerical model was examined in great detail using results obtained from transient high temperature tests. The emissivity of steel obtained from this study shows that steel emissivity varies over a range of temperatures and the variation becomes more abrupt between 400 and 500 degrees C. Formulation for the emissivity of steel at rising temperatures is recommended for steel design in fire.
Power laws in physics
Creators: name: Sethna, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Getting the most from power-law-type data can be challenging. James Sethna points out some of the pitfalls in studying power laws arising from emergent scale invariance, as well as important opportunities.
Sphecodes johnsonii Lovell 1909
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes johnsonii

description: Sphecodes johnsonii Lovell 1909 (mandibularis group)
County records: Cheboygan, Clinton, Ingham, Van Buren.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
title: Training Concept: Efficient and Strategic Reading of Academic Texts
Creators: name: Czech, Henning
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Learning through inquiry requires students to self-regulate their learning behavior as well as related cognitions and motivational resources in order to gain new knowledge and develop relevant competencies. These competencies include being able to deal with relatively challenging academic texts as the[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: The Role of Epistemic Beliefs in Supervisory Relationships
Creators: name: Dudko, Yevgenia
name: Ouellette, Diana
name: Zottmann, Jan
name: Fischer, Martin
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Personal epistemology (i.e. beliefs and assumptions about knowing and knowledge) affects intellectual development, learning and education. The system of individual beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning is known as epistemic beliefs (EB; [ref:2]). Although the majority[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Enhanced photorefractive performance in CdSe quantum-dot-dispersed poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) polymers
Creators: name: Li, Xiangping
name: van Embden, Joel
name: Chon, James
name: Evans, Richard A.
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on the enhanced photorefractive behavior of a CdSe quantum-dot-dispersed less expensive polymer of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile). The capability of CdSe quantum dots used as photosensitizers and the associated photorefractive performance are characterized through a photocurrent experiment and a two-beam coupling experiment, respectively. An enhanced two-beam coupling gain coefficient of 12.2 cm−1 at 46 V/μm was observed owning to the reduced potential barrier. The photorefractive performance per CdSe quantum dot is three orders of magnitude higher than that in the sample sensitized by trinitrofluorenone in poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile), and almost ten times higher than that in the CdSe quantum-dot-sensitized poly(N-vinylcarbazole) polymers.
Sphecodes levis Lovell & Cockerell 1907
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes levis

description: Sphecodes levis Lovell & Cockerell 1907 (mandibularis group)
County records: Van Buren.
Notes. Mitchell (1960) record. Two female specimens from Van Buren Co. at JBWM. This species has been recorded a a cleptoparasite of Lasioglossum quebecense (see Michener 1978).
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
title: FLIK. A concept for successfully instructing inquiry-based learning in compact seminars “en bloc”
Creators: name: Fischer, Matthias
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Guidelines for instructing inquiry-based teaching formats usually assume seminars with regular (bi-) weekly classroom sessions to be most effective for supervising and enhancing students’ research projects (e.g., [ref:1]). But what if either structural imperatives (e.g., external instructors,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: Humboldt reloaded – perennial effect study, interdisciplinary projects, summer school and teaching coaching for research-based learning
Creators: name: Gerstenberg, Julia
name: Reinmuth, Evelyn
name: Sand, Johanna
name: Stefani, Anne Maria
name: Frank, Cornelia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: “To get students enthusiastic about scientific research right from the start" this is the aim of the initiative "Humboldt reloaded" at the University of Hohenheim. So far, between the winter semester 2011/12 and the summer semester 2017 in almost 900 student research projects,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Chronological Self-Training for Real-Time Speaker Diarization
Creators: name: Padfield, Dirk
name: Liebling, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Diarization partitions an audio stream into segments based on the voices of the speakers. Real-time diarization systems that include an enrollment step should limit enrollment training samples to reduce user interaction time. Although training on a small number of samples yields poor performance, we show that the accuracy can be improved dramatically using a chronological self-training approach. We studied the tradeoff between training time and classification performance and found that 1 second is sufficient to reach over 95% accuracy. We evaluated on 700 audio conversation files of about 10 minutes each from 6 different languages and demonstrated average diarization error rates as low as 10%.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, ICASSP 2021
title: Active open online learning: A practical approach to improving statistical literacy among learners
Creators: name: Herrera-Bennett, Arianne
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: With the rise of technology in educational design, massive open online courses (MOOCs) are becoming more popular to facilitate teaching and learning, emphasizing open-access, interactive, and self-paced instruction. Such platforms have been invoked to improve statistical education among [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Productivity and Welfare Implications of Switching to Improved Varieties from Oil Palm Research in Southern Benin
Creators: name: Midingoyi, Soul-Kifouly
name: Houedjofonon, Elysée
name: Sossou, Hervé
name: Codjo, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the improved varieties of oil palm on farm-level performance and aggregate welfare. The study employs primary data collected from a sample of 1142 oil palm plantation-owning households. Endogenous switching regression treatment model was first used to account for self-selectivity and endogeneity in adoption decision to estimate yield and cost impacts that were subsequently inserted into the economic surplus modelling for accurate measurement of the supply-shift parameter used to compute the welfare effect. Findings show signifcant impacts of adopting improved oil palm varieties on yield and production cost. Farmers who used improved varieties enjoy 38% increase in yield that requires 45% increase in cost of production. These changes in yield and cost led to a research induced shift in palm oil supply of 82%, resulting in an increase in total economic surplus of US$ 56 millions per annum with 59% accrued to consumers. This gain from adoption could lift nearly 47 thousand people (1% of total poor) out of poverty per annum. These findings underscore the need of more investments in oil palm research and diffusion of research products which could be seen as effective tools to tackle poverty.
Effect of depolarization on temporal coherence within a focused supercontinuum
Creators: name: Chick, Brendan J.
name: Chon, James
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Under the conditions of vectorial diffraction, an increase in refraction at the extremities of the lens rotates the incident polarization state which transfers energy from the initial state to the orthogonal transverse field and the longitudinal field, which is known as depolarization. Since the field is a vectorial field containing three polarization components, the theory for the degree of coherence is first extended to incorporate cross-correlation effects within these vectorial components which are calculated through a coherency matrix. The use of this matrix provides an insight into interesting correlation effects between copropagating vectorial fields such as the coupled modes (linear polarized modes) of the supercontinuum generated by a photonic crystal fiber. An investigation is presented on the coherence times for the supercontinuum field generated by cross coupling into the photonic crystal fiber. The coherence times under cross-coupling conditions show that the degree of coherence of the two coupled modes from the fiber are different, which is due to the differences in phase. For a supercontinuum with a linear polarization state, the coherence times along the x, y, and z axes are different, with the most significant change occurring along the optical axis (z) where the coherence time changes by an order of magnitude when the numerical aperture is increased from 0.1 to 1.
title: Investigating the (Local) Archive. Student Motivation through Research-based Learning – A Case-Study from History
Creators: name: Klöber, Rafael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: In evaluations of history courses at Heidelberg, students tend to articulate a vague dissatisfaction with the practical relevance of what they learn in class. Student feedback shows that the students largely do not perceive their course-activities to be particular disciplinary practices. This has two[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: Preparing teacher students for learning by research: Fostering students’ methodological skills through inverted classroom
Creators: name: Mertens, Claudia
name: Schumacher, Fabian
name: Basten, Melanie
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: At most German universities, a practical term at school including empirical inquiry-based project work is compulsory for teacher students (MSW, 2009). Preceding the practical phase students attend seminars to acquire basic methodological skills and get support with their research projects [ref:2].[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: The Zeppelin Project. Undergraduate research at Zeppelin University
Creators: name: Nikolopoulos, Iris
name: Zettl, Christian
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: The Zeppelin Project is a module in the first and second semester of study, which is obligatory for all undergraduate study programs at Zeppelin University. As part of this module students must develop a research question within small groups and elaborate this question by using scientific theories and[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
title: Implications of multiperspectivity and social reflexivity in planning (developmental) research processes with stakeholders
Creators: name: Reisas, Sabine
name: Sandmann, Julia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Science is confronted with the notion to not only finding solutions for problems raised by society, but also to evoke transformative learning processes and social change [ref:1]. From this perspective, research is interlinked in real-world settings to deduce adequate options for action for[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
Enhanced photocurrent in crystalline silicon solar cells by hybrid plasmonic antireflection coatings
Creators: name: Fahim, Narges F.
name: Ouyang, Zi
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Zhang, Yinan
name: Shi, Zhengrong
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Photocurrent enhancement induced by plasmonic light trapping is of great interest for photovoltaics. We design and demonstrate hybrid plasmonic antireflection coatings as an efficient light trapping strategy for broadband absorption and photocurrent enhancement in crystalline silicon solar cells. Gold nanoparticles of size ranging from 15 to 150 nm are embedded in standard SiNx antireflection coatings with a thickness of 90 nm. Through optimizing the location of tailored nanoparticles within the SiNx layer, both light scattering enhancement and near-field light concentration can be harnessed. A maximum increase of 6.3% in photocurrent is achieved for textured multi-crystalline Si solar cells with the optimum configuration.
title: Evidence-based practice: Norms of evidence production in different disciplines
Creators: name: Scappucci, Gina
name: Osterhaus, Christopher
name: Fischer, Frank
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Evidence-based practice requires that practitioners base their decisions on the best evidence currently available. Researchers therefore need to identify and disclose the most robust evidence that can be transferred into practice. To this end, what counts as sound evidence is constantly debated and [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Learning through Inquiry in Higher Education: Current Research and Future Challenges (INHERE 2018)
The Kinematics and Ionization Structure of the Extended Emission Line Region of QSO E1821+643
Creators: name: Rosborough, Sara A.
name: Robinson, Andrew
name: Seelig, Trent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most luminous quasars are created by major, gas-rich mergers and E1821+643, an optically luminous quasar situated at the center of a cool-core cluster, appears to be in the late stages of the post-merger blowout phase. This quasar is also identified as a gravitational recoil candidate, in which the supermassive black hole (SMBH) has received a recoil kick due to anisotropic emission of gravitational waves during the coalescence of a progenitor SMBH binary. We analyze long-slit spectra of the extended, ionized gas surrounding E1821+643 to study its kinematics and ionization. We have identified three kinematically distinct components, which we associate, respectively, with a wide-angle polar wind from the nucleus, kinematically undisturbed gas, and a redshifted arc-like structure of gas, at a distance of 3-4\arcsec~(13-18 kpc) from the nucleus. The latter component coincides with the northern and eastern extremities of an arc of [OIII] emission seen in HST images. This feature could trace a tidal tail originating from a merger with a gas-rich galaxy to the South-East of the nucleus, whose presence has been inferred by Aravena et al. from the detection of CO emission. Alternatively, the arc could be the remnant of a shell of gas swept-up by a powerful quasar wind. The emission line ratios of the extended gas are consistent with photoionization by the quasar, but a contribution from radiative shocks cannot be excluded.
Advantages in Using a Stock Spring Selection Tool that Manages the Uncertainty of the Designer Requirements
Creators: name: Paredes, Manuel
name: Sartor, Marc
name: Masclet, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper analyses the advantages of using a stock spring selection tool that manages the uncertainty of designer requirements. Firstly, the manual search and its main drawbacks are described. Then a computer assisted stock spring selection tool is presented which performs all necessary calculations to extract the most suitable spring from within a database. The algorithm analyses data set with interval values using both multi-criteria analysis and fuzzy logic. Two examples, comparing manual and assisted search, are presented. They show not only that the results are significantly better using the assisted search but it helps designers to detail easily and precisely their specifications and thus increase design process flexibility.
TACTICS, an interactive platform for customized high-content bioimaging analysis
Creators: name: Shimoni, R.
name: Pham, K.
name: Yassin, M.
name: Gu, M.
name: Russell, Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 510302
subject: Classical and physical optics

description: We describe a modular MATLAB® Toolbox named TACTICS for time-lapse image analysis that meets several requirements not generally offered by currently available software packages: (i) the ability to assess quality of extracted imaging information by directly linking data end points to the original position, (ii) massively parallel analysis of each parameter, for flow cytometry-like assessment of possible relationships between parameters within sub-populations of the images, (iii) options for user control of the tracking such as an interface to restrict the analysis region, (iv) manual correction of automated processes and (v) user interfaces for post-tracking analysis that is linked to the original images, including options to view cell pedigrees and normalized polarization ratios based on fluorescence ratiometric measurements.
Sphecodes mandibularis Cresson 1872
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes mandibularis

description: Sphecodes mandibularis Cresson 1872 (mandibularis group)
Lectotype. ♀ USA, Texas, Bosque Co.: G.W. Belfrage (ANSP: 2133). Designated by Cresson (1916).
= Sphecodes stygius Robertson 1893
Lectotype. ♀ USA, Illinois, Carlinville, 12 Aug. 1891, C.A. Robertson (INHS: 11944). Designated by W.E. LaBerge in Webb (1980).
County records: Allegan, Antrim, Barry, Benzie, Charlevoix, Clinton, Kalamazoo, Leelanau, Livingston, Montcalm, Van Buren.
Notes. The synonymy of these two names, proposed by M. Arduser, has not been well established in the literature, although S. mandibularis has been used in faunal studies for the species (Wolf & Ascher 2009, Ascher et al. 2014, Goldstein & Ascher 2016). Mitchell (1960) treated the species as S. stygius rather than S. mandibularis because the female lectotype of the latter from Bosque County, Texas was extralimital.
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
Sphecodes minor Robertson 1898
Creators: name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Rightmyer, Molly G.
name: Isaacs, Rufus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes minor

description: Sphecodes minor Robertson 1898 (dichrous group)
County records: Barry, Ingham, Shiawassee.
Notes. Recorded as a cleptoparasite of Lasioglossum cinctipes, with two separate broods that attack nests in spring and summer during the solitary and social phases of the host (Knerer & Atwood 1967).
description: Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
Examining brain-cognition effects of ginkgo biloba extract: Brain activation in the left temporal and left prefrontal cortex in an object working memory task
Creators: name: Stough, Con
name: Silberstein, Richard
name: Pipingas, Andrew
name: Song, J.
name: Camfield, D. A.
name: Nathan, P. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ginkgo Biloba extract (GBE) is increasingly used to alleviate symptoms of age related cognitive impairment, with preclinical evidence pointing to a pro-cholinergic effect. While a number of behavioral studies have reported improvements to working memory (WM) associated with GBE, electrophysiological studies of GBE have typically been limited to recordings during a resting state. The current study investigated the chronic effects of GBE on steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) topography in nineteen healthy middle-aged (50-61 year old) male participants whilst completing an object WM task. A randomized double-blind crossover design was employed in which participants were allocated to receive 14 days GBE and 14 days placebo in random order. For both groups, SSVEP was recorded from 64 scalp electrode sites during the completion of an object WM task both pre- and 14 days post-treatment. GBE was found to improve behavioural performance on the WM task. GBE was also found to increase the SSVEP amplitude at occipital and frontal sites and increase SSVEP latency at left temporal and left frontal sites during the hold component of the WM task. These SSVEP changes associated with GBE may represent more efficient processing during WM task completion.