cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating Biases in News Recommendations
Creators: name: Langenhagen, Florian
Publisher: name: Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Data Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: With increasing automation and the continuous development of machine learning, modern algorithms are now used in almost all areas to improve and simplify workflows. Recommendation Systems (RS) are one group of these algorithms. They enable automated suggestions of items based on the interests of the user. In this work, we will focus on the investigation of biases in recommendation systems for news. News Recommendation Systems (NRS) provide a way to suggest targeted news to users according to their needs. As news is the primary source of information, it is imperative that it is presented fairly and free from bias. Thus, in addition to good recommendations for the user, novelty and diversity should be ensured by the NRS. For this purpose, several experiments are conducted with the MIND dataset, which has collected 1,000,000 users’ data on MSN. This work gives an overview of the different biases in the feedback loop of news recommendation systems. In particular, data and model biases are examined and related to other user biases. The research should enable a template for bias modeling. All tests are presented in a Github repository https://github.com/LaKin314/Investigating_biases_in_News_Rec.
Yields of the Field Experiments 1992
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1992
Integral Images: Efficient Algorithms for Their Computation and Storage in Resource-Constrained Embedded Vision Systems
Creators: name: Ehsan, Shoaib
name: Clark, Adrian F.
name: Rehman, Naveed ur
name: McDonald-Maier, Klaus D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The integral image, an intermediate image representation, has found extensive use in multi-scale local feature detection algorithms, such as Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF), allowing fast computation of rectangular features at constant speed, independent of filter size. For resource-constrained real-time embedded vision systems, computation and storage of integral image presents several design challenges due to strict timing and hardware limitations. Although calculation of the integral image only consists of simple addition operations, the total number of operations is large owing to the generally large size of image data. Recursive equations allow substantial decrease in the number of operations but require calculation in a serial fashion. This paper presents two new hardware algorithms that are based on the decomposition of these recursive equations, allowing calculation of up to four integral image values in a row-parallel way without significantly increasing the number of operations. An efficient design strategy is also proposed for a parallel integral image computation unit to reduce the size of the required internal memory (nearly 35% for common HD video). Addressing the storage problem of integral image in embedded vision systems, the paper presents two algorithms which allow substantial decrease (at least 44.44%) in the memory requirements. Finally, the paper provides a case study that highlights the utility of the proposed architectures in embedded vision systems.
Numerical Results of the Field Experiments 1970
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Numerical Results of the Field Experiments 1970
Yields of the Field Experiments 1971
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1971
Yields of the Field Experiments 1973
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1973
The Experiences of Adult Readers of Young Adult Fiction
Creators: name: Overton, Kelly M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003
Subjects: Young adult literature
Genre fiction Studies
Reader's advisory Adult
Readers Adults

description: This study provides insight into the range of experiences of adults who read young adult  fiction. The data was collected using two focus groups to interview sixteen adult readers  about their perceptions of themselves as readers as well as the contributions of young  adult fiction to their lives as adults. Once analyzed, the data was used to clarify that  adults are motivated by many factors when choosing to read young adult fiction, and that  their lives are indeed enriched by the experience.
Direct Readout of Nitrogen-Vacancy Hybrid-Spin Quantum Register in Diamond by Photon Arrival Time Analysis
Creators: name: He, Jingyan
name: Tian, Yu
name: Hu, Zhiyi
name: Ye, Runchuan
name: Wang, Xiangyu
name: Lu, Dawei
name: Xu, Nanyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum state readout plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies, spanning applications in sensing, computation, and secure communication. In this work, we introduce a new approach for efficiently reading populations of hybrid-spin states in the nitrogen-vacancy center of diamond using a single laser pulse, which utilizes the excited state level anti-crossing mechanism at around 500 Gs. Reading spin state populations through this approach achieves the same outcome as traditional quantum state diagonal tomography but significantly reduces the experimental time by an order of magnitude while maintaining fidelity. Moreover, this approach may be extended to encompass full-state tomography, thereby obviating the requirement for a sequence of spin manipulations and mitigating errors induced by decoherence throughout the procedure.
Yields of the Field Experiments 1967
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1967
Trajectory of the stellar flyby that shaped the outer solar system
Creators: name: Pfalzner, Susanne
name: Govind, Amith
name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike the Solar System planets, thousands of smaller bodies beyond Neptune orbit the Sun on eccentric ($e >$ 0.1) and ($i>$ 3$^\circ$) orbits. While migration of the giant planets during the early stages of Solar System evolution can induce substantial scattering of trans-Neptunian objects (TNO), this process cannot account for the small number of distant TNOs ($r_p >$ 60 au) outside the planets' reach. The alternative scenario of the close flyby of another star can instead produce all these TNO features simultaneously, but the possible parameter space for such an encounter is vast. Here, we compare observed TNO properties with thousands of flyby simulations to determine the specific properties of a flyby that reproduces all the different dynamical TNO populations, their location and their relative abundance and find that a 0.8$^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$ $M_{\odot}$ star passing at a distance of $ r_p =$ 110 $\mathbf{\pm}$ 10 au, inclined by $i$ = 70$^\circ$ $^{+5}_{-10}$ gives a near-perfect match. This flyby also replicates the retrograde TNO population, which has proved difficult to explain. Such a flyby is reasonably frequent; at least 140 million solar-type stars in the Milky Way are likely to have experienced a similar one. In light of these results, we predict that the upcoming Vera Rubin telescope will reveal that distant and retrograde TNOs are relatively common.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures Open access version of original Nature Astronomy available under 10.1038/s41550-024-02349-x
The VisOR System: Testing the Utility of User Interface Components for Feature-based Searching in Video Retrieval Software
Creators: name: Gruss, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004
Subjects: Information retrieval
Information systems--Special subjects--Video recordings
Indexing--Video recordings

description: This study uses a test video retrieval system, VisOR, to assess the value of user interface components that provide feature-based searching on automatically-extracted visual and auditory features.  In particular, the study attempts to find a) whether sliders that allow users to adjust the relative weights of individual features improve performance on search tasks, b) which features prove the most useful in conducting normal search tasks, c) whether feature-based searching is difficult for the typical used, and d) whether color and brightness-based searching enables users to find exact-match shots especially quickly.  Seventeen subjects completed 14 search tasks each.  For a), it was discovered that the weight sliders had no significant effect on performance.  For b), it was found the keywords, Indoors/Outdoors, and Cityscape/Landscape proved most useful.  For c), user questionnaires indicated no special difficulty or frustration.  For d), it was found that users who regularly use color and brightness components for searching consistently found exact-match shots more quickly than others.
Miconia schnellii Wurdack
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Miconia
Miconia schnellii

description: Miconia schnellii Wurdack
Oreja de mula, Uña de gato (CR).
 Terrestrial shrubs or trees. Distribution in PILA 1300–3400 m, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, cloud forest, low elevation oak forest, páramo. Global distribution: Costa Rica, Panama. Records: A.K. Monro 4106 (BM, INB, MO), A.K. Monro 5178 (BM, INB), A.K. Monro 5201 (BM, INB), B.B. Klitgaard 836 (BM, INB), D. Santamaría 7290 (BM, INB, PMA), D. Solano 5090 (BM, INB, PMA), D. Solano 5210 (BM, INB, PMA), G. Davidse 23901 (MO), N. Zamora 4087 (BM, INB, PMA). Nuevo registro para Panamá.
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
A Reflection on Terrorism and Inequalities
Creators: name: Federici, Maria Caterina
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2017
Subjects: terrorism, inequalities, sociology

description: The article considers the theme of terrorism, with regard to the social representation of the ‘other than selves’ in Europe. Foreign fighters and autochthonous jihadists are young radicalized people, often born in Europe. This fact generates processes of stigmatization for migrants and peculiar social groups. The paper discusses, in a sociological perspective with historical references, the presence of non-national social groups in Southern Europe. Mediterranean sea historically was the bridge and the locus for encounters. At the same time it was a place of conflicts and wars. However, the presence of the ‘strangers’ in Europe has for centuries been the root of European cultural diversity.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 7, No 2 (2017): On Terrorism.Theories, Issues and Research Tools
Multifunctional polymer nanofibers: UV emission, optical gain, anisotropic wetting and high hydrophobicity for next flexible excitation sources
Creators: name: Morello, Giovanni
name: Manco, Rita
name: Moffa, Maria
name: Persano, Luana
name: Camposeo, Andrea
name: Pisignano, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of UV light sources is highly relevant in many fields of science, being directly related to all those detection and diagnosis procedures which are based on fluorescence spectroscopy. Depending on the specific application, UV light-emitting materials are desired to feature a number of opto-mechanical properties, including brightness, optical gain for being used in laser devices, flexibility to conform with different lab-on-chip architectures, and tailorable wettability to control and minimize their interaction with ambient humidity and fluids. In this work, we introduce multifunctional, UV-emitting electrospun fibers with both optical gain and anisotropic hydrophobicity greatly enhanced compared to films. Fibers are described by the onset of a composite wetting state and their arrangement in uniaxial arrays further favours liquid directional control. The low gain threshold and optical losses, the plastic nature and the flexibility and stability of these UV-emitting fibers make them interesting for building light-emitting devices and microlasers. Furthermore, the found anisotropic hydrophobicity is strongly synergic with optical properties, reducing interfacial interactions with liquids and enabling smart functional surfaces for droplet microfluidic and wearable applications.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
Love Your Data!
Creators: name: Wilbrandt, Jeanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Data Management
File Naming

description: Research Data Management is gaining traction as the talk of town in Germany: funding agencies start to demand Data Managements Plans, the NFDI is taking up their work to connect research infrastructures, data stewards are hired. With this talk, I would like to raise awareness for this topic among researchers and provide them with terms and motivation to talk about and improve their data handling.
 Questions to ask yourself here are for example
 „How do I name my files so I can find them again?“,
 „What does this variable name stand for?“, or
 „Will I know in 6 months time how I measured this parameter?“. Answers to these and many more are required to write a Data Management Plan and thus ultimately to acquire funding. Here, I will outline the basic concepts, benefits, and resources available to setup and maintain good data management in compliance with good scientific practice. Remember: Documenting your research is like writing a love letter to your data. Love your data! Duration: 30 min Upload Content:  2022-09-17_LoveData.key - Original presentation in Mac Keywords format 2022-09-17_LoveData.pdf - Slides exported to PDF format 00_FILENAME_Worksheet.txt - TXT file containing the 7 steps of file naming presented in the talk for individual use. Note: The slide deck includes five xkcd Comics by Randall Munroe. The license for these can be found here: https://xkcd.com/license.html. The permanent links are as follows (in order of appearance): https://xkcd.com/1459/, https://xkcd.com/1179/, https://xkcd.com/1806/, https://xkcd.com/2143/.
description: The slide deck includes five xkcd Comics by Randall Munroe (see above).
Yields of the Field Experiments 1966
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1966
Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine Education in the U.S. and Canada: Roles for Librarians
Creators: name: Vinogradov, Amanda R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Special librarians
Questionnaires
Evidence-based medicine
Medical librarians--Education

description: This study describes the roles of veterinary librarians in Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM) education. An online survey, with questions adapted from a previous survey of dental librarians, was distributed to veterinary librarians in the U. S. and Canada. It received a 78% (n=25) response rate. The results of this survey revealed that veterinary librarians are involved in a variety of roles within EBVM education. The most frequently cited barrier to involvement in EBVM education was a low level of interest from the veterinary faculty, students, or school. Although the majority of respondents reported feeling competent about their ability to support EBVM education, several suggested that there was a need for more continuing education opportunities for librarians related to EBVM.
Information organization in a faculty expertise database
Creators: name: Keyser, Cathleen S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Information organization
Databases--Abstracting and Indexing
Public relations--Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Mass media in education--United States

description: This paper describes the construction and implementation of a university faculty database designed for media professionals and focuses mainly on the organization involved in describing the areas of expertise of the faculty. In this database, each faculty member is defined as being an expert on a certain topic(s). These areas of expertise, which are described by a series of keywords, are defined by belonging to at least one broad topic area. This broad topic area is subdivided into specific subject areas. The organization of the areas of expertise of faculty members is central to both this paper and this database. The use of the areas of expertise and keywords is similar to use of authority files employed by librarians to give robustness to an OPAC's subject headings and is fundamental to the functionality of the database. This paper is accompanied by a manual for maintaining information in the faculty experts database.
Predatory Publishing – The dark side of Open Access?
Creators: name: Schwamm, Hardy
name: Coyne, Aisling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: open access
predatory publishing

description: Slides for presentation at the Academic and Research Integrity Conference Ireland 2023 on 5 October 2023. Abstract: Predatory Publishing – The dark side of Open Access?
 Predatory journals are regarded as a global threat to science. These journals are characterised by “false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency”. Their threat to research integrity is that they claim to perform peer review and editorial procedures but in reality, any article will be published without quality checks if payments are made. Articles in such journals have been found in systematic reviews and were referenced by policy documents. Involved are not only authors from low- and middle-income countries but also high- and upper-middle-income countries such as Ireland. Motivations to publish in these journals are from being unaware of the predatory nature of the journal to intentionally ignoring research integrity in order to publish. There is another effect of predatory journals on the Open Access movement. Predatory behaviour is sometimes described as the “dark side” of Open Access. It is true that predatory publishers work with an Author Pays model in the same way that many Open Access journals use an Article Processing Charge (APC) as their business model. This leaves many authors confused and anxious about publishing Open Access when there might be a risk to their integrity and reputation. This paper will look at two aspects: How big is the threat of predatory publishers on research integrity (spoiler alert: in some disciplines significant!) and what can be done to minimise the impact of fraudulent actors in Open Access publishing? We will also look at how the Open Access movement can act to uphold principles of integrity, transparency and accessibility when it is faced the unintended consequences of bad actors in the OA ecosystem.
Yields of the Field Experiments 1965
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1965
Molecular Cloud Fragmentation and Core Collapse
Creators: name: Basu, Shantanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review some steps in the conversion of molecular cloud gas into stars and planets, with an emphasis in this presentation on the early stage molecular cloud fragmentation that leads to elongated filaments/ribbons. Magnetic fields can play a crucial role in all stages and need to be invoked particularly for early stage fragmentation as well as in late core collapse where it may control disk formation. I also review some elements of hydrodynamic modeling of disk evolution.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 315, From interstellar clouds to star-forming galaxies: universal processes?, P. Jablonka, P. Andre, and F.. van der Tak, eds
Yields of the Field Experiments 1964
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1964
Miconia valerioana Wurdack
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Miconia
Miconia valerioana

description: Miconia valerioana (Standl.) Wurdack
 Terrestrial shrubs. Distribution in PILA 200–1500 m, low elevation mixed forest, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, secondary forest. Global distribution: Costa Rica, Panama. Records: A. De Sedas 880 (INB, PMA), A. De Sedas 918 (INB, PMA), L. Martínez 369 (INB, PMA), A.K. Monro 6113 (INB, PMA), D. Santamaría 7725 (INB, PMA), D. Solano 5891 (INB, PMA).
 ε -PILA Monochaetum amistadense Almeda
 Terrestrial shrubs. Distribution in PILA 2400–3300 m, low elevation oak forest, páramo. Global distribution: Endemic to Costa Rica. Records: A. Chacón 521 (CR, INB, MO), E. Alfaro 3276 (INB), G. Davidse 25932 (CR, MO), G. Davidse 29023 (MO).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
Metal-Enhanced Near-Infrared Fluorescence by Micropatterned Gold Nanocages
Creators: name: Camposeo, Andrea
name: Persano, Luana
name: Manco, Rita
name: Wang, Yi
name: Del Carro, Pompilio
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Li, Zhi-Yuan
name: Pisignano, Dario
name: Xia, Younan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF), the localized surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures amplify the absorption of excitation light and assist in radiating the consequent fluorescence of nearby molecules to the far-field. This effect is at the base of various technologies that have strong impact on fields such as optics, medical diagnostics and biotechnology. Among possible emission bands, those in the near-infrared (NIR) are particularly intriguing and widely used in proteomics and genomics due to its noninvasive character for biomolecules, living cells, and tissues, which greatly motivates the development of effective, and eventually multifunctional NIR-MEF platforms. Here we demonstrate NIR-MEF substrates based on Au nanocages micropatterned with a tight spatial control. The dependence of the fluorescence enhancement on the distance between the nanocage and the radiating dipoles is investigated experimentally and modeled by taking into account the local electric field enhancement and the modified radiation and absorption rates of the emitting molecules. At a distance around 80 nm, a maximum enhancement up to 2-7 times with respect to the emission from pristine dyes (in the region 660 nm-740 nm) is estimated for films and electrospun nanofibers. Due to their chemical stability, finely tunable plasmon resonances, and large light absorption cross sections, Au nanocages are ideal NIR-MEF agents. When these properties are integrated with the hollow interior and controllable surface porosity, it is feasible to develop a nanoscale system for targeted drug delivery with the diagnostic information encoded in the fluorophore.
description: 41 pages, 18 figures
Yields of the Field Experiments 1962
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1962
Electronic Government Publications and Definitions in State Legislation
Creators: name: Siekiera, Beth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Library Legislation-- Information Policy
State government information--Internet resources
State Publications
Records Management--Legal Aspects

description: State governments have shifted their publication practices from producing mainly print-only formats to creating electronic publications. In 2003, the American Association of  Law Libraries conducted a survey that indicated that few states were collecting and  preserving these electronic documents. It also showed that few state laws reflected the  change in publication formats. The purpose of this study is to examine the language used  in state law regarding electronic government publications as of 2008. The results show  that most states have a broad definition that does not mention electronic formats, but  includes them by interpretation. Further studies regarding the relationship between these  laws and collection, compliance from state agencies, and funding are suggested.
Love your Data! [Poster]
Creators: name: Wilbrandt, Jeanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Data Management
FAIR Data Principles
Research Data Life Cycle

description: How to make sure your data is safe and sound -- a starter This poster guides the eye from the starting point of a common situation (in which researchers experience panic and confusion stemming from chaotic research data management [RDM]) via things that should be kept in mind (the research data life cycle and the FAIR principles) and three easy, first steps (labelling, documenting, and backups) to the benefits of good RDM and hints towards the next steps (incl. writing a data management plan). Here, a starter is provided that aims to give researchers with no prior experience in research data management an overview of the topic without going into too much detail. The focus lies on making the most important RDM actions approachable and to instigate motivation to further implement and maintain good RDM habits. Upload Content:  2022-09-21_Poster_LoveData_Wilbrandt.pdf Note: This poster includes a comic from the series "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com), namely "A story told in file names" (https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1323).
description: This poster includes a comic from the series "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham (see above).
description: {"references": ["NYU Health Sciences Library (2013) Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts (Higher Quality). Youtube Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66oNv_DJuPc", "Wilkinson, Mark D., Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, u.\u00a0a. \"The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship\". Scientific Data 3, Nr. 1 (15. M\u00e4rz 2016): 1\u20139. https://doi.org/10/bdd4.", "McKiernan, Erin C, Philip E Bourne, C Titus Brown, Stuart Buck, Amye Kenall, Jennifer Lin, Damon McDougall, u.\u00a0a. \"How open science helps researchers succeed\". Herausgegeben von Peter Rodgers. eLife 5 (7. Juli 2016): e16800. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16800."]}
Yields of the Field Experiments 1953
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1954
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1953
title: An Exploration of Integrated Reporting and Its Applicability: A Stakeholder Perspective
Creators: name: Zhou, Tiran
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Integrated reporting (IR) is an emerging corporate practice shaped by market forces and regulations. The organisations (IIRC, 2021; IDSA, 2016) and scholars (Abeysekera, 2013; Branwijck, 2012; and Eccles & Krzus, 2010) developed the five IR approaches based on their requirements. The study aims to explore the applicability of IR from a stakeholder perspective, particularly on guiding principles and content elements aspects. Quantitative content analysis and semi-structured in-depth interviews are employed to investigate the companies’ IR disclosure and stakeholders’ perceptions.

The study provides evidence of an apparent gap between the companies’ IR disclosure and stakeholders’ perceptions. The content analysis results suggest that financial performance is the most highlighted content element in the sample, followed by governance. The result is different from IIRC’s strategic focus approach. The findings of the interviews provide evidence that strategy, business model, and risk management are the three primary content elements, and materiality, connectivity, and conciseness are the three primary guiding principles of IR from the stakeholders’ perspective. However, it is challenging for stakeholders to assess the guiding principles of IR because of the limited explanations provided in the IR framework.

The thesis is the first study, including all the identified guiding principles and content elements of IR. The study discusses multiple guiding principles and content elements of IR, providing a comprehensive view of the IR for future research. The study also provides practical implications for policymakers, companies, and stakeholders. The policymakers should provide more detailed explanations regarding some core concepts of IR (e.g., conciseness, materiality, and business model). The companies engaging with IR should consider the demands and requirements of stakeholders for more information about corporate strategy and business model. Finally, standard setters and stakeholders should consider the important role of quantitative thresholds when assessing materiality in IR.
Yields of the Field Experiments 1955
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1956
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1955
Yields of the Field Experiments 1956
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1956
Memory-Efficient Design Strategy for a Parallel Embedded Integral Image Computation Engine
Creators: name: Ehsan, Shoaib
name: Clark, Adrian F.
name: Cheung, Wah M.
name: Bais, Arjunsingh M.
name: Menzat, Bayar I.
name: Kanwal, Nadia
name: McDonald-Maier, Klaus D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In embedded vision systems, parallel computation of the integral image presents several design challenges in terms of hardware resources, speed and power consumption. Although recursive equations significantly reduce the number of operations for computing the integral image, the required internal memory becomes prohibitively large for an embedded integral image computation engine for increasing image sizes. With the objective of achieving high-throughput with minimum hardware resources, this paper proposes a memory-efficient design strategy for a parallel embedded integral image computation engine. Results show that the design achieves nearly 35% reduction in memory for common HD video.
description: Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), 2011
Yields of the Field Experiments 1957
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1957
New Relational Processes in Social Services
Creators: name: Boccacin, Lucia
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2017
Subjects: third sector; social partnerships; co-production

description: The paper proposes a comparison between current thought and on-going research concerning social partnerships, social co-production and governance.

The term partnership refers to a structural configuration characterized by the co-presence of state, market and third sector and by collaborative social action that seeks to achieve project goals.

The concept of co-production concerns the participation of individual initiatives among the general public, the goal of which is to benefit the city itself and the contribution of the subject to the production process of services, through participation in voluntary organizations and networks of relationships.

The function of governance often affects the role that third sector organizations can play in policy planning.
The consideration these three concepts has recently begun to be explored in surveys and qualitative studies conducted in Italy and looks to be useful in promoting understanding of emerging configurations of the third sector in the field of human services.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 7, No 1 (2017)
Yields of the Field 1952
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1953
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field 1952
Opera as Social Status: The Private Teatro Sociale as a Reproduced Disposition to Mantua’s Cultural Habitus
Creators: name: Kotnik, Vlado
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2017
Subjects: opera; social status; Mantua

description: That opera was and can still be a great source of social status, prestige, cultural and symbolic capital, is already quite well known. That it can play such a role successfully in an utterly specific and intricate manner, which today seems entirely anachronistic and obsolete, is rarer to find. One such example notorious for remaining a class in itself is connected to the Mantua opera house called Teatro Sociale, which is privately owned by the heirs of the original box-holders who built the theatre in 1822, thus in a quite different Zeitgeist than today. Since then, there have been many political and social changes for the city of Mantua, which has resulted in a noticeable transformation of just one province of a much larger foreign-domineering monarchy over the patriotic unification with other Italian lands to the democratic membership within the Republic of Italy.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 7, No 1 (2017)
Pressure-Induced Structural Phase Transition in CeNi: X-ray and Neutron Scattering Studies and First-Principles Calculations
Creators: name: Mirmelstein, A.
name: Podlesnyak, A.
name: Santos, Antnio M. dos
name: Ehlers, G.
name: Kerbel, O.
name: Matvienko, V.
name: Sefat, A. S.
name: Saparov, B.
name: Halder, G. J.
name: Tobin, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pressure-induced structural phase transition in the intermediate-valence compound CeNi has been investigated by X-ray and neutron powder diffraction techniques. For the first time it is shown that the structure of the pressure-induced CeNi phase (phases) can be described in terms of the Pnma space group. Equations of state for CeNi on both sides of the phase transition are derived and an approximate P-T phase diagram is suggested for P < 8 GPa and T < 300 K. The observed Cmcm -> Pnma structural transition is analyzed using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which successfully reproduce the ground state volume, the phase transition pressure, and the volume collapse associated with the phase transition.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
title: A critical assessment on National Action Plans
title: Challenges and benefits for the promotion and pro-tection of Human Rights
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Baganz, Melissa
name: de Teresa, Aurelia Gómez
name: Lingg, Rosana T.
name: Montijo, Yuriditzi Pascacio
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 341 Völkerrecht

description: National Action Plans (NAPs) have been increas-ingly adopted world-wide after the Vienna Dec-laration in 1993, where it was urged to consider the improvement and promotion of Human Rights. In this paper, we discuss their usefulness and success by analysing the challenges present-ed during NAP processes as well as the benefits this set of actions entails: The challenges for their implementation outweigh its actual benefits. Nevertheless, NAPs have great potential. Based on new research, we elaborate a set of recom-mendations for improving the design and imple-mentation of national action planning. In order to effectively bring NAP into practice, we consider it crucial to plan and analyse every state local circumstances in detail. The latter is important, since the implementation of a concrete set of actions is intended to directly transform and improve the local living conditions of the people. In a long-term perspective, we defend the benefit of NAP’s implementation for complying obliga-tions set up by HR treaties.
description: Nationale Aktionspläne (NAP) werden seit der Wiener Erklärung von 1993, in der die Verbesse-rung und Förderung der Menschenrechte gefor-dert wird, weltweit zunehmend angenommen. In diesem Papier diskutieren wir ihren Nutzen und Erfolg, indem wir die Herausforderungen, die sich während der NAP-Prozesse ergeben, sowie die Vorteile, die dieses Maßnahmenpaket mit sich bringt, analysieren: Die Herausforderungen bei ihrer Umsetzung überwiegen die tatsächlichen Vorteile. Dennoch haben NAPs ein großes Poten-zial. Beruhend auf neueren Forschungen erarbei-ten wir eine Reihe von Empfehlungen zur Ver-besserung der Gestaltung und Umsetzung der nationalen Aktionsplanung. Um einen NAP effek-tiv in die Praxis umzusetzen, halten wir es für entscheidend, die lokalen Gegebenheiten jedes Staates im Detail zu planen und zu analysieren. Letzteres ist wichtig, da die Umsetzung eines konkreten Maßnahmenpakets die Lebensbedin-gungen der Menschen vor Ort direkt verändern und verbessern soll. Langfristig gesehen vertei-digen wir den Nutzen der Umsetzung des NAP für die Einhaltung der in den Menschenrechts-verträgen festgelegten Verpflichtungen.
description: Staat, Recht und Politik – Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere = State, Law, and Politics - Research and Discussion Papers; 13
Yields of the Field Experiments 1959
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Yields of the Field Experiments 1959