cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The mathematical structure of the genetic code: a tool for inquiring on the origin of life
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Diego Luis; CNR-IMM, Bologna Section-Bologna Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna
name: Giannerini, Simone; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna
name: Rosa, Rodolfo; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Bologna CNR-IMM, Bologna Section-Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we present a review and some new thoughts on our work about the mathematical structure of the genetic code. The model proposed is a new theoretical tool that allows a fresh insight on many open problems related to the origin, the evolution and the present structure of the genetic machinery. In particular, we show that such model implies the existence of dichotomic classes, quantities that might play a preeminent role in the management of the genetic information including error control mechanisms. We introduce and use techniques for the analysis of dependent sequences in order to study the correlation structure of series of dichotomic classes derived from protein coding segments of DNA. The results show the existence of a complex context-dependent correlation structure; such dependence gives important information about coding and decoding strategies that nature has implemented along evolutionary times on DNA and RNA sequences.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 2/3 (2009); 143-157
La production d’hypothèses et le développement du raisonnement scientifique au cycle 3 : effets du Mobile Learning et du vocabulaire spécifique
Creators: name: ELAOUMARI, MURIEL
name: JÉGOU, CORINNE
name: IMPEDOVO, MARIA-ANTONIETTA
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raisonnement scientifique, hypothèse, école primaire, Mobile Learning

description: This study focuses on the hypothesis issuance stage, as part of the investigation process in cycle 3 of primary school by questioning the link between students' ability to make hypotheses and the use of augmented reality. It also assesses students' specific vocabulary level and investigates a possible relationship between this level and their ability to hypothesize. The research question we propose to answer is the following: How do specific vocabulary skills and the use of augmented reality promote the scientific reasoning of astronomy students?
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 3, N. 2 (2023) - Colloque SIEST Méditerranée 8, Tunisia
Attitudes of University Students toward Statistics as a Pathway to Data Literacy: A Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pascual, Rosaura Fernández
name: Mariscal, David Caballero
name: Pinto, Maria
name: Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We conducted a meta-analysis of 29 primary studies indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Education Resources Information Center databases up to 2023 to investigate the attitudes of university students regarding basic training in statistics. We considered data collected through Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics (SATS) questionnaires, specifically its 36-item and 28-item versions. To measure the effect size, we considered standardized pre- and post-test differences. Intrinsic and extrinsic moderating variables such as region, discipline, educational level, learning methodology, code-based software practice (RStudio), and source were also analyzed. In doing so, we explain the observed heterogeneity and possible publication bias. Our findings reveal slight mean effect sizes with significant but variable changes. This suggests that the instruction received does not lead to substantial changes in the attitudes declared at the beginning of such training courses. Differences were observed, depending on the region, discipline, and inclusion of RStudio practice. Improving students’ attitudes on mastering statistics is crucial for the development of data literacy competencies. Therefore, specific instruments to address the training and evaluation of students in the critical interpretation of data and their widespread use are becoming increasingly necessary.
Energy-efficient resource hyper-visioning in private clouds
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Sahar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The term “private Cloud” refers to a group of computers working together within a business. In this thesis the energy consumption in private Clouds is reduced. This reduction is achieved through adaptive resource hyper-visioning decisions. Its adaptiveness comes from its ability to learn from the relation between resource hyper-visioning decisions and energy consumption level. The proposed adaptive resource hyper-visioning mechanisms use a statistical technique called Bayesian Inference. Bayesian Inference based mechanisms reduced energy consumption and shortened execution time. Such energy reduction translates into the elimination of tons of Carbon dioxide emission annually.
Enhancing Dementia Care through Interior Design: Cultural Adaptation and Modification of Environments in the Middle East-North African Region
Creators: name: Al-Qusous, Dina
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the intersection of interior design and dementia care, focusing on the transposition of Western design methods to the Middle East-North African (MENA) region. The thesis follows a structured approach, beginning with an introduction to dementia and the potential of interior design to reduce anxiety and enhance comfort in dementia care spaces. A comprehensive literature review examines the existing research on interior design practices, the nature of dementia, and studies that demonstrate the impact of design interventions on individuals with dementia.

Drawing from the literature review, the thesis examines a series of case studies as the primary research method. The case studies comprise the Hogeweyk in the Netherlands, the Harmonia Village in the UK, and the Farah Rehabilitation Centre for the Elderly in Kuwait. These case studies provide valuable insights into successful design practices in different cultural contexts and their impacts design methods to the MENA region. It considers the cultural and contextual factors unique to the region, aiming to inform the creation of culturally appropriate and supportive environments for individuals with dementia. Through this exploration, the thesis uncovers an unexpected finding – the potential for the Western world to learn from MENA's home care services. This realization prompts a broader reflection on the exchange of knowledge and practices between regions, highlighting the mutually beneficial aspects of transposing care home design from the Western world to MENA, and the home care approach from MENA to the Western world.

In conclusion, the thesis provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of interior design in dementia care and highlights the significance of transposing Western design methods to the MENA region. It acknowledges the importance of culturally sensitive design practices and emphasizes the need to consider the individual's unique background, culture, and life experiences when designing dementia care spaces. The thesis offers valuable insights and recommendations to designers and architects, urging them to integrate simple design guidelines to enhance the well-being and quality of life for individuals with dementia.

The research adds to the existing body of knowledge on dementia care, interior design, and the transference of knowledge across cultures. It follows a methodical approach, commencing from basic concepts to literature review, case studies, and ending with fresh viewpoints on cultural adaptation. By spotlighting the potential of knowledge exchange and the importance of integrating diverse cultural practices, the thesis presents possible future research directions. Specifically, it calls upon designers, architects, and policymakers to devise dementia care environments that align with the unique cultural and personal requirements of individuals with dementia.
Additional file 1 of Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, attenuated retinal thickening in spontaneously diabetic Torii fatty rats
Creators: name: Inoue, Kazuho
name: Yamada, Shohei
name: Hoshino, Seiko
name: Watanabe, Minoru
name: Kimura, Kenjiro
name: Kamijo-Ikemori, Atsuko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Western blot analysis of eye CD31 (a) and α-Tubulin on the same membrane (b) in each group. Western blot analysis of eye eNOS (c), and α-Tubulin on the same membrane (d) in each group. The red lines represent the edge of each cut membrane.
Hurt into Poetry: The Political Verses of Seamus Heaney and Robert Bly
Creators: name: Triggs, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Year: 1992
Subjects: Poetry, Modern
Political poetry
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Northern Irish troubles
Political violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th century
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Bly, Robert

description: One of the stubborn issues in modern poetry is the question of its proper, or most effective, political role. Since the time of the romantics, poets have tended by nature and habit toward inwardness, but certain exigent occasions, wars and revolutions, have continually “hurt” them into public utterance. Still there is always an uneasiness attending these public occasions, a sense that the true business of the poet lies elsewhere. Modern poets have only rarely played an active part in the public events surrounding them, and they have been likely to waver between Shelley’s injunction to act as “unofficial legislators” and Yeats’s more sobering advice: “I think it better that in times like these / A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth / We have no gift to set a statesman right.”
SUN'IY INTELLEKT VA RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALARNING IQTISODIYOT SOHASIDA YARATIB BERAYOTGAN IMKONIYATLAR
Creators: name: Primov, Asadulla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Sun’iy intellekt (SI) va raqamli texnologiyalar bugungi global iqtisodiyotning ajralmas qismlariga aylangan. Ular iqtisodiy faoliyatni avtomatlashtirish, samaradorlikni oshirish va xarajatlarni kamaytirishda muhim vosita sifatida xizmat qilmoqda. Mazkur tezisda SI va raqamli texnologiyalarning iqtisodiy sohalarga ko‘rsatayotgan ta’siri, xususan ishlab chiqarish, moliya, xizmat ko‘rsatish va boshqaruv tizimlaridagi imkoniyatlari yoritilgan. Dasturiy algoritmlar, ma’lumotlar tahlili, raqamli platformalar va avtomatlashtirilgan tizimlar orqali ish unumdorligini sezilarli darajada oshirish imkoniyati mavjud. Shu bilan birga, yangi ish o‘rinlarining yaratilishi, sarmoya oqimining ko‘payishi ham raqamli iqtisodiyotning muhim jihatlaridan hisoblanadi. Tezisda ushbu o‘zgarishlarning iqtisodiy samaradorlikka qanday ta’sir ko‘rsatayotgani bo‘yicha tahlillar keltiriladi.
Hardness and Algorithms for Local Register Allocation
Creators: name: Liberatore, Vincenzo
name: Farach, Martin
name: Kremer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: We study the problem of local register allocation (LRA): assign pseudo-registers to actual registers in a basic block so as to minimize the spill cost. Our version of LRA does not allow instruction scheduling, but only the insertion of spill code. We assume that the spill cost depends only on the number and type of load and store operations, but not on their position. Although LRA has been intensively studied, very little was known about it. LRA could be solved exactly by an algorithm that took exponential time and space. On the other hand, LRA was not known to be NP-hard. LRA could be solved by heuristics, but the relative performance of those heuristics was unclear. In this paper, We prove that LRA is NP-hard. We describe the rst space- and time-efficient optimum algorithm. We propose a new heuristics for LRA which we call Conservative-Furthest-First (CFF). We conduct detailed experiments on common benchmarks. We compare the optimum algorithm, the heuristics Furthest-First (FF), Clean-First (CF), and CFF. We obtain statistics on the running time of the allocators and on the dynamic instruction count of the compiled code. CFF is the best suboptimal heuristic under both performance measures.
Cognitive Disengagement and Biological Stress Responses in Early Adolescence
Creators: name: Jopling, Ellen
name: Tracy, Alison
name: LeMoult, Joelle
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: Individual differences in biological responses to stress increase risk for the onset and exacerbation of health and psychiatric conditions. Biases in cognitive disengagement are hypothesized to underlie these individual differences in biological responses to stress. However, no studies have examined which cognitive disengagement bias has the strongest relation with biological responses to stress, and no studies have examined this relation during early adolescence, despite evidence that this is a critical developmental window in which patterns of cognition and biological responses to stress influence trajectories of health throughout life. The current study is the first to test whether difficulty disengaging attention versus working memory from valenced stimuli is associated with biological responses to stress in early adolescence. Youth between 11 and 13 years of age completed two computer-based tasks to assess biases in attention and working memory disengagement to valenced stimuli, and then completed a standardized psychosocial stressor. Consistent with expectations, attention and working memory disengagement biases were associated with stress responses of both the neuroendocrine and autonomic nervous systems, but bias valence and cognitive system influenced the directionality of results. These findings inform our understanding of cognitive mechanisms that influence biological stress reactivity.
Evolutionary Computation Methods and their applications in Statistics
Creators: name: Battaglia, Francesco; Department Of Statistics-Sapienza University, Rome
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A brief discussion of the genesis of evolutionary computation methods, their relationship to artificial intelligence, and the contribution of genetics and Darwin’s theory of natural evolution is provided. Then, the main evolutionary computation methods are illustrated: evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, estimation of distribution algorithms, differential evolution, and a brief description of some evolutionary behavior methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimization. We also discuss the role of the genetic algorithm for multivariate probability distribution random generation, rather than as a function optimizer. Finally, some relevant applications of genetic algorithm to statistical problems are reviewed: selection of variables in regression, time series model building, outlier identification, cluster analysis, design of experiments.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 2/3 (2009); 187-200
Statistical Methods in Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Inferences
Creators: name: Bertolotti, Luigi; Department Of Animal Productions, Epidemiology And Ecology, And Molecular Biotechnology Center-University Of Torino,
name: Giacobini, Mario; Department Of Animal Productions, Epidemiology And Ecology, Faculty Of Veterinary Medicine, And Molecular Biotechnology Center-University Of Torino
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Molecular instruments are the most accurate methods in organisms’identification and characterization. Biologists are often involved in studies where the main goal is to identify relationships among individuals. In this framework, it is very important to know and apply the most robust approaches to infer correctly these relationships, allowing the right conclusions about phylogeny. In this review, we will introduce the reader to the most used statistical methods in phylogenetic analyses, the Maximum Likelihood and the Bayesian approaches, considering for simplicity only analyses regardingDNA sequences. Several studieswill be showed as examples in order to demonstrate how the correct phylogenetic inference can lead the scientists to highlight very peculiar features in pathogens biology and evolution.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 2/3 (2009); 225-234
Projet inclusif de sciences interdisciplinaire au collège
Creators: name: COPREAUX, LUCIE
name: ROLLINDE, EMMANUEL
name: KHANFOUR-ARMALÉ, RITA
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2024
Subjects: Didactic engineering, inclusion, interdisciplinarity, collaborative practices

description: The present research revolves around teaching practices within an inclusive, interdisciplinary Science project with 6th grade general and SEGPA students, by teachers both within and outside their disciplinary field. In the context of collaborative research, observations and analyses by researchers and teachers of difficulties in characterizing knowledge through the use of the theoretical framework of TACD (Theory of Joint Action in Didactics) enabled us to model effective tools to overcome these difficulties. Observation of a specific SVT session conducted by an SVT teacher and a PC teacher before and after the implementation of these tools shows a change in the teacher's posture outside his or her discipline, from control to letting go, which in turn promotes autonomous student learning.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 3, N. 2 (2023) - Colloque SIEST Méditerranée 8, Tunisia
Stromsparen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Stromsparen
subject: Energiewende
subject: Energiebereitstellung
subject: Energieverbrauch
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung richtet sich an politische Entscheidungsträger und an die interessierte Fachöffentlichkeit. Dargestellt werden die wesentlichen Umwelt- und Klimaaspekte, die sich aus der Stromnutzung ergeben. Außerdem wird geprüft, inwieweit die aktuellen Energieverbrauchsdaten dem Erreichen der Einsparziele entsprechen. Und schließlich soll aufgezeigt werden, welche grundlegenden Änderungen notwendig sind, um vorhandene Stromeinsparpotenziale zu heben. Das trägt auch dazu bei, die Energiewende-Ziele der Bundesregierung zu erreichen.
The rise of the sharing economy: guesthouse boom and the crowding-out effects of tourism in Lisbon
Creators: name: Ferreira, João Pedro
name: Ramos, Pedro
name: Lahr, Michael L.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Crowding-out
Guesthouses
Historic downtown
Metropolitan area
Multiregional input–output
Sharing economy

description: At the urban scale, tourism activities can compete for spaces formerly used by housing and rendering opposing structured economic consequences. As tourism can generate jobs, there is the idea among urban residents that they can become victim of tourism increase. In this work, we apply a multiregional input–output model to assess the economic impacts of guesthouse boom in Lisbon city according to three scenarios and a hypothetical distribution of residential choices between the center and the periphery. This is particularly poignant because the supply of guesthouse units has risen from 100 in 2010 to more than 10,000 units in 2018. We find that Lisbon guesthouses were responsible by creating a total of more than 29,400 jobs nationwide and by increasing the national gross domestic product by 0.5%. At the regional level, only about 50% of the positive economic impacts of tourism were retained by Lisbon—the rest is split between the city’s suburbs and the rest of the country. Also, we conclude that the regional distribution of gains becomes even more unbalanced if the city center observes a large exodus of its residents to the periphery.
Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum-Free Delhi
Creators: name: Ghertner, D. Asher
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: informal housing
displacement
Public spaces
Gentrification
India

description: This paper examines the narratives through which associations of private property owners in Delhi depict slums as zones of incivility and “nuisance.” In tracing how this “nuisance talk” travels into and gains legitimacy in popular and state visions of urban space, the paper shows the role of discourse in justifying and enacting exclusionary urban imaginaries. As a lay term, nuisance is widely used to identify forms of aesthetic impropriety. But, as a primary element of environmental law, nuisance operates discursively as a catchall category allowing diverse private grievances to be expressed in terms of environmental welfare and the public interest. The widening depiction of slums as nuisances hence reworks the public/private divide, inserting once local codes of civility into the core of public life. By examining how nuisance talk circulates between property owners' associations, the media, and the government, the paper shows how slum demolitions have become widely read as a form of environmental improvement.
Additional file 2 of A propensity score-matched analysis of the impact of statin therapy on the outcomes of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer receiving anti-PD-1 monotherapy: a multicenter retrospective study
Creators: name: Takada, Kazuki
name: Shimokawa, Mototsugu
name: Takamori, Shinkichi
name: Shimamatsu, Shinichiro
name: Hirai, Fumihiko
name: Tagawa, Tetsuzo
name: Okamoto, Tatsuro
name: Hamatake, Motoharu
name: Tsuchiya-Kawano, Yuko
name: Otsubo, Kohei
name: Inoue, Koji
name: Yoneshima, Yasuto
name: Tanaka, Kentaro
name: Okamoto, Isamu
name: Nakanishi, Yoichi
name: Mori, Masaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Univariate and multivariate analyses of PFS and OS in the original cohort.
Let's Call a Star a Star: Task Performance, External Status, and Exceptional Contributors in Organizations
Creators: name: Kehoe, Rebecca R.
name: Lepak, David P.
name: Bentley, F. Scott
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Star employee
Human capital
Status
Task performance
Performance

description: We develop a new typology of star employees, wherein we identify three types of stars – universal stars, performance stars, and status stars – on the basis of stars’ unique combinations of task performance and external status. By classifying stars in this way and disentangling task performance and external status as unique and simultaneously important qualities underlying the distinct contributions of different types of stars, we provide a basis for more accurately identifying the full range of individuals who create exceptional value, and offer novel insights into stars’ various influences in organizations. With this foundation, we explore how different types of stars’ distinct qualities and bases of value creation affect both the security of their star standing and their relative abilities to appropriate value. We then expand our focus to consider stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they exist, discussing the implications of stars’ distinct attributes for patterns of value creation, value capture, and value preservation associated with stars’ complementarities and redundancies with other organizational resources. Finally, we propose several lines of inquiry through which future research may leverage the proposed typology to address issues related to the management of different types of stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they are embedded.
Evolution and Creation
Creators: name: Facchini, Fiorenzo; University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: STATISTICA re-proposes a note of Fiorenzo Facchini — a distinguished anthropologist of the University of Bologna — published on the Osservatore Romano (17/01/2006) and cited by New York Times (18/01/2006). As the reader can easily observe, the strength of the Darwinian thought has provoked a deep reflection also inside the catholic tradition, witnessed here by a scientist that is at a same time a man of the church. After Darwin, such tradition has been forced to modify deeply its philosophical view about the real world.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 2/3 (2009); 235-239
What is it about the therapeutic alliance that enables trust and engagement with adult survivors of childhood abuse?
Creators: name: Tudge, Shona Margaret
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study involved an investigation of qualities of the therapeutic alliance that contribute to trust and engagement when working with adult survivors of childhood abuse, a clinical population renowned for high dropout rates. Thirteen experienced psychologists and 30 of their clients were interviewed, with analyses highlighting factors related to: advanced empathy (cognitive understanding, deep emotional empathy, and instilling responsibility); deep client acceptance (validation, therapeutic presence); therapeutic boundaries (firm and flexible, therapist self-disclosure); issues of power and control (slow pace, goals and direction of therapy); and effective repair work. Clinically meaningful data was revealed that is applicable across psychotherapeutic orientations.
Elderly mortality in Italian regions at the beginning of the health transition (1881-1921)
Creators: name: DEL PANTA, LORENZO; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche-Alma Mater Studiorum, Università Di Bologna
name: CALÒ, DANIELA GIOVANNA; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche-Alma Mater Studiorum, Università Di Bologna
name: BELOTTI, LAURA M.B.; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche-Alma Mater Studiorum, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The paper aims to highlight and analyze possible regional patterns of mortality at advanced age (70-90 years) in Italy at the turn of the nineteenth century. The available data are referred to four distinct occasions, namely 1881-82, 1900-01, 1911-12 and 1921-22. After focusing attention on several elderly mortality indicators, we propose to analyze the resulting three-way array (with modes regionsindicatorsoccasions) using the STATIS method. As a critical preliminary step, new regional life tables for 1881-82 are constructed in order to reduce the possible bias due to the inaccuracy of the age distribution of the population and of the deaths in 1881. The resulting life tables are compared with Gini and Galvani’s ones and those available in the Human Mortality Database.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 4 (2009); 243-267
The Prevalence of Gender Topics in U.S. Economics Journals
Creators: name: Rodgers, Yana V.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Gender
Economics
Journals

description: This study complements existing research on the contributions and rankings of female economists with a descriptive analysis of the prevalence of gender issues in U.S. economics journals. Assuming that labor economics and development economics are the fields most likely to examine gender issues, I compare the incidence of gender-related articles in the last decade in leading U.S. general economics journals with top journals in the labor and development fields. I also examine the gender composition of authors of gender-related articles in all journals. Results indicate that the highest ranked field journals publish a higher percentage of articles on gender than do the leading general journals from among their labor and development papers. And unlike the common perception, a disproportionate number of the gender articles are written by men rather than women, particularly in the labor and general journals. The results suggest that departments that use publication in general journals as a proxy for overall research quality, and which do not consider alternative evaluations of research as potential full substitutes, may be using biased measures of the quality and importance of research on gender. The publication policies of general economics journals and the promotion policies of certain economics departments may have a direct effect in reducing both the number and perceived prestige of voices addressing issues of gender in economics.
A comparison of adjusted Bayes Estimators of an ensemble of small area parameters
Creators: name: FABRIZI, ENRICO; Dipartimento Di Scienze Economiche E Sociali-Università Cattolica Del S. Cuore, Sede Di Piacenza
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: With “ensemble properties” of small area estimators, we mean their ability to reproduce the Empirical Distribution Function (EDF) characterizing the collection of underlying small area parameters (means, totals). Good “ensemble properties” may be relevant when estimation of non-linear functionals of the EDF of small area parameters (such as their variance) is needed. Small area estimators associated to the popular Fay-Herriot model are considered. “Bayes estimators”, i.e. posterior means, do not enjoy of good ensemble properties. In this paper three different adjusted predictors are compared, by means of a simulation exercise, under the assumption of correctly specified model. As the distributional assumptions on the random effects are difficult to assess, the considered predictors are compared also with respect to their robustness to the presence of failures in the distributional assumptions on the random effects.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 4 (2009); 269-284
On comparing the prediction variances of some central composite designs in spherical regions: a review
Creators: name: CHIGBU, POLYCARP E.; Department Of Statistics-University Of Nigeria, Nsukka
name: UKAEGBU, EUGENE C.; Department Of Statistics-University Of Nigeria, Nsukka
name: NWANYA, JULIUS C.; Department Of Statistics-University Of Nigeria, Nsukka
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Three second-order response surface designs, namely: central composite design, small composite design and minimum-run resolution V design are compared for factors 3 to 7 in spherical regions using the G-    and I-  optimality criteria. The structures of the response variances of the designs are displayed graphically using the variance dispersion graphs. The maximum and average response variances are determined analytical as functions of the radii of the design region. Results for the G-    and I- optimality criteria are obtained for a spherical region. The results suggest that none of the designs is uniformly better than the others with respect to the optimality criteria and the variance dispersion graphs for the factors considered.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 4 (2009); 285-298
Cystodermella cinnabarina
Creators: name: Saar, Irja
name: Cooper, Jerry A.
name: Trudell, Steven A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Agaricaceae
Cystodermella
Cystodermella cinnabarina

description: Cystodermella cinnabarina (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Harmaja (2002:45). (Figs. 3C–D)
Holotype:—none preserved or designated. Neither specimen nor illustration present in Schweinitz's herbarium (now in PH).
 Neotype (designated here):— ESTONIA. Saaremaa: Harilaid, in Pinus sylvestris forest on sand dunes, on moss, 58.46372°N, 21.91358°E, 20 September 2007, V. Liiv (TUF106009; ITS sequence: GenBank/ UNITE: PP575898 / UDB011139).
 Basionym: Agaricus granulosus Batsch var. cinnabarinus Albertini & Schweinitz (1805:147).
 Synonyms: Agaricus cinnabarinus (Albertini & Schweinitz) Fries (1857:29).
 Cystoderma cinnabarinum (Albertini & Schweinitz: Fries) Fayod (1889:351).
 Agaricus terryi Berkeley & Broome [as Terreii] (1870:462).
 Cystoderma terreyi (Berkeley & Broome) Harmaja (1978:30).
 Cystoderma texense Thiers [as texensis] (1957:721).
 Cystoderma myriadocystis Heinemann & Thoen (1973:14).
 Cystodermella lactea Musumeci (2006:25).
 Cystodermella mazahuensis Pérez Moreno, Moreno-Solís & Ayala-Vásquez (Ayala Vásquez et al. 2023:4).
 Specimens studied:— USA. Texas: Montgomery Co., Sam Houston National Forest near Richards, in Pinus and Quercus woods, gregarious in humus, 3 December 1951, H.D. Thiers 1419 (holotype of Cystoderma texense, MICH 10541!). UNITED KINGDOM. Scotland: Morayshire, Forres, 29 October 1870, M. Terry (holotype of Agaricus terryi, K(M)140617!).
 Notes:— Cystodermella cinnabarina is characterised by a pileus in shades of orange to reddish, rarely in shades of brown or white (it is common that the basidiomata fade; compare Figs. 3C–D), ellipsoid to oblong basidiospores, 3.0–5.0 × 2.0–3.5 µm (av. 4.0 × 2.6 µm), Qav = 1.5–1.6 (av. 1.5), and with narrowly lageniform caulo-, cheilo- and pleurocystidia, 26–50 × 4–10 × 2–4µm, with a spear-like apex covered with crystals.
 Saar (2016) showed conspecificity of taxa having a brown pileus and stipe (C. myriadocystis, ITS: LN878145) or white basidiomata (C. lactea, ITS: LN878144) to C. cinnabarina based on ITS sequences from the type specimens. In our analyses, ITS sequences from the holotypes of Cystoderma texense, Cystodermella mazahuensis, and C. terryi clustered together with Cystodermella cinnabarina (Fig. 1). Of the four names clustered in this clade, Cystodermella cinnabarina is the oldest, making the others synonyms.
description: Published as part of Saar, Irja, Cooper, Jerry A. & Trudell, Steven A., 2024, Two new species of Cystodermella and new combinations in Ripartitella (Agaricineae, incertae sedis) and Cystolepiota (Verrucosporaceae), pp. 81-98 in Phytotaxa 658 (1) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.658.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13217459
Autographa gamma
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Autographa
Autographa gamma

description: Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Citada de la provincia (CALLE, 1982; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
  Nc: Arroyo de la Jurada; Cambuco; casco urbano de Córdoba; casco urbano de Guadalcázar; casco urbano de Pozoblanco; El Chorrillo; embalse de Cogollarta; María Auxiliadora; Medina Azahara; Navarreta; sierra de los Santos. Imagos desde finales de enero a comienzos de julio y desde finales de octubre a comienzos de diciembre, con un máximo en la segunda quincena de mayo (Fig. 2). En la capital liban Lantana y Pelargonium, en el campo Echium y Lavandula. En la capital, imago en una telaraña el 13-V-2015 e imago capturado por Passer domesticus el 15-VI-2018. En El Chorrillo, oruga sobre Mentha pulegium el 16-VI-2014.
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Ratio-cum-product type exponential estimator
Creators: name: SINGH, HOUSILA P.; School Of Studies In Statistics-Vikram University, Ujjain
name: UPADHYAYA, L. N.; Department Of Applied Mathematics-Indian School Of Mines, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
name: TAILOR, RAJESH; School Of Studies In Statistics-Vikram University, Ujjain
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper addresses the problem of estimating the population mean of the study variate Y using information on two auxiliary variables X1 and X2 . A ratio-cum-product type exponential estimator has been suggested and its bias and mean squared error have been derived under large sample approximation. An almost unbiased ratio-cum-product type exponential estimator has also been derived by using Jackknife technique envisaged by Quenouille (1956). A generalized version of the ratio-cum-product exponential estimator has also been given along with its properties. Numerical illustration is given in support of the present study.
description: Statistica; Vol 69, No 4 (2009); 299-310
Exploring gender diversity in CS at a large public R1 research university
Creators: name: Babeş-Vroman, Monica
name: Juniewicz, Isabel
name: Lucarelli, Bruno
name: Fox, Nicole
name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Tjang, Andrew
Publisher: name: ACM";"ACM
Year: 2017
Subjects: Computer science education
Gender diversity
Student retention
Introduction to computer science

description: With the number of Computer Science (CS) jobs on the rise, there is a greater need for Computer Science graduates than ever. At the same time, most CS departments across the country are only seeing 25-30% of female students in their classes, meaning that we are failing to draw interest from a large portion of the population. In this work, we explore the gender gap in CS at Rutgers University using three data sets that span thousands of students across 3.5 academic years. By combining these data sets, we can explore interesting issues such as retention, as students progress through the CS major. For example, we find that a large percentage of women taking the Introductory CS1 course for majors do not intend to major in CS, which contributes to a large increase in the gender gap immediately after CS1. This finding implies that a large part of the retention task is attracting these women to further explore the major. We correlate our findings with initiatives that some CS programs across the country have taken to significantly improve their gender diversity, and identify initiatives that we can start with in our effort to increase the diversity in our program. These findings may also be applicable to the computing programs at other large public research universities.
Which economic analysis is really enabled by district maps in Italy?
Creators: name: FREO, MARZIA; Department Of Statistical Science-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Industrial clusters have played a central role for economies of many countries during the past decades. While there is an abundance of qualitative analysis on these, for a long time many observers lament the lack of a statistical operational definition of industrial agglomerations, which may constitute a classificatory paradigm whereby data may be organized on a geographical basis so as to submit theoretical hypotheses to both measurement and econometric testing. The present paper aims at disentangling which economic analysis is really enabled by the available district maps for the Italian territory. To this purpose the two most relevant maps, one of whom is by the National Office of Statistics (ISTAT), are compared to highlight the different descriptions of the industrial districts geography and its transformations. The two approaches reveal many notes of disagreement. As a whole, the method adopted by ISTAT represents a fundamentally important contribution to local economic analysis; nonetheless, some useful suggestions might be received by means of this comparison.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 1 (2010); 53-72
Evidence for statins in people over 70
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 130 reviews the evidence for statins in people aged seventy and older. Conclusions: Statins have not been proven to increase survival in the combined primary and secondary prevention population of people over 70. Statins have not been proven to reduce serious cardiovascular events in primary prevention in people over 70. Statins reduce serious cardiovascular events for secondary prevention in people over 70, but the relative and absolute benefit is less than in younger people. More evidence should be available within 4-7 years.
On the solvability of singular integral equations via Gauss-Jacobi quadrature
Creators: name: Gerasoulis, Apostolos
name: Srivastav, Ram P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1981

description: It is shown that the coefficient matrix obtained by the discretization of singular integral equations using Gauss-Jacobi quadrature formulae is nonsingular for any n, if X is not an eigenvalue of the equation.
Numerical simulations of fluid flow in the vocal tract
Creators: name: Sinder, D.
name: Duncan, H.
name: Lin, Q.
name: Slimon, S.
name: Flanagan, J.
name: Levinson, S.
name: Davis, D.
name: Liu, M.
name: Richard, G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: An alternate approach to speech synthesis based on numerical solution of Navier-Stokes (NS) and Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations is described. Unlike the traditional methods based on linear acoustic theory, the NS and RANS formulations are not limited by the assumptions of linearity, negligible viscous effects, and plane wave propagation. In the present formulation, the Navier-Stokes equations are discretized and solved using a finite difference method. Initial applications involve 2-D simulations of flow through ideal channels (straight or curved tubes) with rigid walls and constant boundary conditions (constant flow velocity at inlet, zero pressure at outlet). As expected for simple geometries, the resonance frequencies correspond to those predicted by linear acoustics. It is also shown that for curved tubes, there is an effect of curvature on frequencies above 5 kHz. In another application, the formulation is applied to the geometry of the three cardinal vowels. Periodic inflow boundary conditions are also used (a train of short pulses to represent vocal cord excitation). Synthetic speech sounds of encouraging quality are obtained for the three vowels.
Proposed Optimal Orthogonal New Additive Model (POONAM)
Creators: name: SINGH, SARJINDER; Department Of Mathematics-Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, the proposed optimal orthogonal new additive model (POONAM) is shown to remain more efficient than the recent additive model introduced by Gjestvang and Singh (2009). Several situations where the POONAM estimator shows efficiency over the Gjestvang and Singh (2009) model are simulated and investigated.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 1 (2010); 73-81
Proofs for the manuscript - On PMU data integrity under GPS spoofing attacks - A sparse error correction framework
Creators: name: Shashini De Silva
name: Kim, Jinsub
name: Cotilla-Sanchez, Eduardo
name: Hagan, Travis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90607 Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power)

description: We share the proofs for the manuscript 'On PMU data integrity under GPS spoofing attacks: A sparse error correction framework’.
A one-year study of the diurnal cycle of meteorology, clouds and radiation in the West African Sahel region
Creators: name: Collow, Allison B.
name: Ghate, Virendra P.
name: Miller, Mark A.
name: Trabachino, Lynne C.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2017
Subjects: Radiation
Diurnal Cycle
Sahel
Clouds
Thermodynamics

description: The diurnal cycles of meteorological and radiation variables are analysed during the wet and dry seasons over the Sahel region of West Africa during 2006 using surface data collected by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) programme’s Mobile Facility, satellite radiation measurements from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument aboard Meteosat 8, and reanalysis products from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The meteorological analysis builds upon past studies of the diurnal cycle in the region by incorporating diurnal cycles of lower tropospheric wind profiles, thermodynamic profiles, integrated water vapour and liquid water measurements, and cloud radar measurements of frequency and location. These meteorological measurements are complemented by 3 h measurements of the diurnal cycles of the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) and surface short-wave (SW) and long-wave (LW) radiative fluxes and cloud radiative effects (CREs), and the atmospheric radiative flux divergence (RFD) and atmospheric CREs. Cirrus cloudiness during the dry season is shown to peak in coverage in the afternoon, while convective clouds during the wet season are shown to peak near dawn and have an afternoon minimum related to the rise of the lifting condensation level into the Saharan Air Layer. The LW and SW RFDs and CREs exhibit diurnal cycles during both seasons, but there is a relatively small difference in the LW cycles during the two seasons (10 − 30Wm−2 depending on the variable and time of day). Small differences in the TOA CREs during the two seasons are overwhelmed by large differences in the surface SW CREs, which exceed 100Wm−2. A significant surface SW CRE during the wet season combined with a negligible TOA SW CRE produces a diurnal cycle in the atmospheric CRE that is modulated primarily by the SW surface CRE, peaks at midday at ∼ 150Wm−2, and varies widely from day to day.
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : sciage et rabotage des bois, structure de l'instrument, motifs de décoration alternés, dimensions des planches
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Eustrotiinae
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae

description: Subfam. Eustrotiinae    * Pseudozarba bipartita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1850)
 Nc: Arroyo de Pedroches (6-IX-2009); Zagrilla Baja (11-IX-2009); La Paz (9-V-2010); santuario de Araceli (24-VIII-2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Securing Geographical Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Pathak, Vivek
name: Yao, Danfeng
name: Iftode, Liviu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008

description: We present geographical secure path routing, an infrastructure free geographic routing protocol, that is resilient to disruptions caused by malicious or faulty nodes. Geographic locations of anonymous nodes are authenticated in order to provide location authentication and location privacy simultaneously. Our protocol also authenticates the routing paths taken by individual messages. This provides a basis for geographic security policies. This paper discusses the design and attack resistance of the secure geographic routing protocol. The overhead of location authentication is investigated under various scenarios through network simulation. Results show that the presence of malicious nodes increases the routing path length. A data delivery rate of better than 80% is sustained even if 40% of the nodes are malicious.