cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
IMU Based Deep Stride Length Estimation With Self-Supervised Learning
Creators: name: Sui, Jien-De
name: Chang, Tian-Sheuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stride length estimation using inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors is getting popular recently as one representative gait parameter for health care and sports training. The traditional estimation method requires some explicit calibrations and design assumptions. Current deep learning methods suffer from few labeled data problem. To solve above problems, this paper proposes a single convolutional neural network (CNN) model to predict stride length of running and walking and classify the running or walking type per stride. The model trains its pretext task with self-supervised learning on a large unlabeled dataset for feature learning, and its downstream task on the stride length estimation and classification tasks with supervised learning with a small labeled dataset. The proposed model can achieve better average percent error, 4.78\%, on running and walking stride length regression and 99.83\% accuracy on running and walking classification, when compared to the previous approach, 7.44\% on the stride length estimation.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
UPDATED RDA GLOBAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Creators: name: Sisu, Diana
name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Willems, Marieke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RDA, Research Data Alliance, RDA Communication Plan

description: RDA communications at global level is managed and performed by an editorial team made up of representatives from US, Europe and Australia/Asia. Overall communications are organized within a detailed plan which encompasses the definition and management of communication channels, according to different levels of priorities: website, email campaigns, monthly newsletters, social media
 distribution, webinars, RDA Annual magazine, press releases, blogs and content production, collaterals and graphics, videos, and any other communication channels and tools that can be used to properly promote RDA activities. The Communication plan is implemented and managed by regional leadership on a rotation basis to ensure a more pragmatic and streamlined global communications strategy, which is synchronised with regional activities as much as possible. This deliverable outlines the global communication strategy for RDA, and focuses on the contribution made by RDA Europe 4.0 through the RDA secretariat.
Wiretapping's fruits, the first amendment, and the paradigms of privacy
Creators: name: Bell, Bernard W.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Privacy
Fourth amendment
First amendment
Wiretapping

description: This paper explores the legal system’s treatment of privacy along five dimensions. The dimensions focus on: (1) physical location, (2) the means of communication, (3) the means of intrusion, (4) subject matter, and (5) confidential relationships. The paper illustrates how reliance on some, but not others, in particular contexts serves to determine the results courts reach or statutes ordain. The papers shows the U.S. Supreme Court has systematically favored particular paradigms in ways that often make privacy protections porous. The paper then discusses the dimensions of privacy in the context of Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding liability for publishing material obtained from a private citizen who wiretapped a conversation in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
New formulas for approximation of pi and other transcendental numbers
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Digits
Pi
Iteration functions
Order of convergence
Algorithms

description: We derive many new formulas for approximation of pi. The formulas make use of a sequence of iteration functions called the Basic Family; a nontrivial determinantal generalization of Taylor’s theorem; other ingredients; as well as several new results presented in the present paper. In one scheme, one evaluates members of the Basic Family, for an appropriately selected function, all at the same input. This scheme generates almost a fixed and pre-selected number of digits in each successive evaluation. The computation amounts to the evaluation of a recursive formula and is equivalent to the computation of special Toeplitz matrix determinants. The approximations of pi obtained via this scheme are within simple algebraic extensions of the rational field. In a second scheme, the fixed-point iteration is applied to any fixed member of the Basic Family, while selecting an appropriate function. In this scheme we prove high-order of convergence from the initial point. We report on some preliminary computational results obtained via Maple. Analogous formulas can be used to approximate other transcendental numbers. For instance, we also give a formula for approximation of e.
The Freestall Reimagined: Effects on Stall Hygiene and Space Usage in Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Beaver, Annabelle
name: Strazhnik, Emma
name: Von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
name: Weary, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Modern freestall barns for dairy cattle have been constructed with considerations for dairy cow cleanliness; partitions and other stall features such as neck rails are designed to reduce manure contamination of bedding and decrease farm labor. However, cows prefer to lie in more open spaces, including on bedded packs and pasture. We created an “alternative” housing area by modifying a traditional freestall pen and including flexible partitions to create larger lying areas. We assessed cattle lying behaviour, including lying postures, in this alternative pen (ALT) compared to an open pack (OP) and freestalls (FS) with different stocking densities. We also assessed levels of manure contamination across systems. Cleanliness was highest in FS, but ALT provided substantial improvement compared to OP. Cattle spent more time lying down in OP and ALT compared to FS. There were few differences in postures (such as lying with limbs outstretched) between OP and ALT, but cows in both of these systems more often lay in extended positions compared to when they were housed in FS. Housing in OP and ALT was associated with reduced perching for cows with high body weight; perching has been linked to an increased prevalence of both hoof lesions and lameness. Thus, alternative lying areas can offer a solution for producers seeking to provide cattle with the advantages of a more open lying area, while improving hygiene relative to an open pack.
My Health Record Adoption and utilisation behaviour in Australia
Creators: name: Andargoli, Amir
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: E-Health promises many benefits in improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare to its stakeholders. Globally, earlier studies on E-Health uncover that the adoption rate of these systems is unsatisfactory. Furthermore, despite E-Health being part of the Australian government policy since 1999, the current body of knowledge on e-Health is relatively inapt. Amir’s research through a qualitative narrative inquiry, investigated the adoption of My Health Record and it uncovers the barriers and drivers of this system. The findings of this research provides a framework to guide policymakers to deliver a better and efficient healthcare system.
On the Road, Playing with LEGO, and Learning about the Library: The Rutgers Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part Two
Creators: name: Lotts, Megan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Makerspaces
LEGO toys
Teams in the workplace
Academic Libraries

description: In Playing with LEGO®, Learning about the Library, & “Making” Campus Connections: The Rutgers University Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part One, the author discusses the importance of outreach, creativity, and innovation to the future of academic libraries. Low-cost making activities, can encourage creative problem-solving skills and be an innovative way to teach students, faculty, and staff more about academic libraries. In this article, the author will look more closely at the hands-on learning experiences that resulted when academic library faculty and staff were introduced to the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology by means of a mobile makerspace.
Port of the Future - Addressing Efficiency and Sustainability at the Port of Livorno with 5G
Creators: name: Cavalli, Laura
name: Lizzi, Giulia
name: Cavalli, Laura
name: Lizzi, Giulia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: 5G
subject: Sustainability
subject: Port
subject: SDGs

description: Adapting traditional business models to be more cost-effective, and socially and environmentally sustainable – the triple bottom line of sustainable development – is becoming increasingly important. This applies to all industries, diverse and multidimensional sectors and activities, of which ports are a key example. This can be achieved by implementing sustainable port growth policies, through new or re-designed operational planning. As part of this, introducing new technologies into port processes and ecosystems that factor in the environment, but have wider-reaching benefits, will enable a move towards the port of the future. Although the expected consequences of a changed climate are one of the reasons behind actions in coastal protection and port management, issues such as scarcity of prime building locations, use of resources, environmental impact and the lives of neighboring communities also affect business decisions. 5G networks and digital technologies are crucial to addressing these challenges and transforming port operations to generate sustainable development. Different methods can be used to measure the impact of technological advancements on competitiveness, efficiency and growth of the sector. In this report, however, we identify the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding measurable key port performance indicators that can be used to monitor sustainability performance and help make business decisions for port master plans. Launched in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 17 SDGs and their 169 associated targets represent an authoritative global guideline to achieving sustainability across different sectors. The agenda has many targets that can be directly or indirectly linked to port operations. These include the protection and management of ecosystems, as well as goals related to infrastructure and the circular economy, sustainable cities and communities, principles of good corporate governance, and data transmissibility and partnership relations management. With a timeline stretching to 2030, port authorities have time and capacity to contribute to the accomplishment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Achieving the SDGs also requires public and private sector partnerships. In such a setup, port community actors are engines for change. They not only facilitate the reduction of emissions, to enable energy transition and stimulate the circular economy, but are also points of dialogue with urban stakeholders and port cities.
QR Out of a Tensed Clause: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Quantifier raising
Antecedent-contained deletion (ACD)
VP-ellipsis
Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers
Language Acquisition

description: This paper presents an argument based on evidence from experiments featuring Antecedent-Contained Deletion (ACD) sentences situated in carefully-manipulated discourse contexts, that covert movement is not grammatically constrained by tense. ACD is a form of Verb Phrase Ellipsis in which ellipsis is embedded in its antecedent. Under an account appealing to Quantifier Raising, the quantificational phrase containing the ellipsis site raises to a VP-external position, allowing the VP to become the antecedent. When ACD is embedded in a non-finite clause, such sentences are ambiguous, since multiple VPs can serve as an antecedent. However, when ACD is embedded in a finite clause, the range of interpretations has been claimed to be restricted, because of an independent ‘clause-bounded’ movement constraint on Quantifier Raising. However, there are exceptions to this generalization. I present evidence from an experimental investigation of finite-clause-embedded ACD sentences, relying on Cecchetto (2004), to demonstrate that under the right discourse conditions, the supposedly unavailable Matrix reading surfaces robustly, at a percentage that is surprising if the constraint were rooted in the grammar. I argue that these results call into question the source of this locality restriction, and propose that it has nothing to do with an arbitrary grammatical constraint on movement.
Simple interpretation of the seemingly complicated X-ray spectral variation of NGC 5548
Creators: name: Midooka, Takuya
name: Ebisawa, Ken
name: Mizumoto, Misaki
name: Sugawara, Yasuharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 5548 is a very well-studied Seyfert 1 galaxy in broad wavelengths. Previous multiwavelength observation campaigns have indicated that its multiple absorbers are highly variable and complex. A previous study applied a two-zone partial covering model with different covering fractions to explain the complex X-ray spectral variation and reported a correlation between one of the covering fractions and the photon index of the power-law continuum. However, it is not straightforward to physically understand such a correlation. In this paper, we propose a model to avoid this unphysical situation; the central X-ray emission region is partially covered by clumpy absorbers composed of double layers. These "double partial coverings" have precisely the same covering fraction. Based on our model, we have conducted an extensive spectral study using the data taken by XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and NuSTAR in the range of 0.3-78 keV for 16 years. Consequently, we have found that the X-ray spectral variations are mainly explained by independent changes of the following three components; (1) the soft excess spectral component below ~1 keV, (2) the cut-off power-law normalization, and (3) the partial covering fraction of the clumpy absorbers. In particular, spectral variations above ~1 keV are mostly explained only by the changes of the partial covering fraction and the power-law normalization. In contrast, the photon index and all the other spectral parameters are not significantly variable.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, Published in MNRAS
Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: periscope up! Broadcasting via live streaming
Creators: name: Anderson, Katie Elson
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Social media
Libraries
Librarians
Social networks
Live streaming
Video
Facebook live
Periscope

description: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to get acquainted with social networks and apps: up periscope! broadcasting via live streaming. Design/methodology/approach This study is a general review paper. Findings The popularity and growth of live streaming applications should not be overlooked by information professionals. Originality/value Even if the library does not use the app itself, it is important to be aware that patrons are using these tools to stream their lives to the world.
Integral identities for reflection, transmission and scattering coefficients
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018

description: Several integral identities related to acoustic scattering are presented. In each case the identity involves the integral over frequency of a physical quantity. For instance, the integrated transmission loss, a measure of the transmitted acoustic energy through an inhomogeneous layer, is shown to have a simple expression in terms of spatially averaged physical quantities. Known identities for the extinction cross section and for the acoustic energy loss in a slab with a rigid backing, are shown to be special cases of a general procedure for finding such integral identities.
A Highly Adaptive Acoustic Model for Accurate Multi-Dialect Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Yoo, Sanghyun
name: Song, Inchul
name: Bengio, Yoshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the success of deep learning in speech recognition, multi-dialect speech recognition remains a difficult problem. Although dialect-specific acoustic models are known to perform well in general, they are not easy to maintain when dialect-specific data is scarce and the number of dialects for each language is large. Therefore, a single unified acoustic model (AM) that generalizes well for many dialects has been in demand. In this paper, we propose a novel acoustic modeling technique for accurate multi-dialect speech recognition with a single AM. Our proposed AM is dynamically adapted based on both dialect information and its internal representation, which results in a highly adaptive AM for handling multiple dialects simultaneously. We also propose a simple but effective training method to deal with unseen dialects. The experimental results on large scale speech datasets show that the proposed AM outperforms all the previous ones, reducing word error rates (WERs) by 8.11% relative compared to a single all-dialects AM and by 7.31% relative compared to dialect-specific AMs.
Flexible work options and mothers' perceptions of career harm
Creators: name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
name: Kolenikov, Stanislav
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Flexible work
Motherhood

description: Whether or not mothers, who often struggle with balancing work and parenting responsibilities, perceive that they face career harm in exchange for control over flexible work options at their jobs is an unanswered question. Using 2009 original data from a random-digit-dial telephone survey of 441 mothers located across the United States, this study focuses on how control over two latent variables measuring flexibility, flexible work arrangements (such as scheduling and place of work) and time-off options, influences mothers' career harm perceptions in a total of three work domains: 1) wages/earnings; 2) raises or promotions; and 3) job evaluations. We find perceptions of career harm among only one-fifth of mothers; in addition, control over time-off options reduced perceived career damage related to parenting duties. Mothers may have less to fear than previously hypothesized about the potential sacrifices they have to make when they have significant control over certain flexibility options.
Application of Raman Spectroscopic Methods in Food Safety: A Review
Creators: name: Petersen, Marlen
name: Yu, Zhilong
name: Lu, Xiaonan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Food detection technologies play a vital role in ensuring food safety in the supply chains. Conventional food detection methods for biological, chemical, and physical contaminants are labor-intensive, expensive, time-consuming, and often alter the food samples. These limitations drive the need of the food industry for developing more practical food detection tools that can detect contaminants of all three classes. Raman spectroscopy can offer widespread food safety assessment in a non-destructive, ease-to-operate, sensitive, and rapid manner. Recent advances of Raman spectroscopic methods further improve the detection capabilities of food contaminants, which largely boosts its applications in food safety. In this review, we introduce the basic principles of Raman spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and micro-Raman spectroscopy and imaging; summarize the recent progress to detect biological, chemical, and physical hazards in foods; and discuss the limitations and future perspectives of Raman spectroscopic methods for food safety surveillance. This review is aimed to emphasize potential opportunities for applying Raman spectroscopic methods as a promising technique for food safety detection.
Click-mediated enrichment of specific genomic loci
Creators: name: Witte, Anna
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chromatin purification
subject: Click-chemistry
subject: Epigenetics
subject: Genetic code expansion
subject: Proteomics
subject: 570
subject: 540
subject: Epigenetik
subject: Proteom
subject: Chromatin

description: In all organisms, the genetic information of cells is stored in the nucleotide sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The human organism consists of more than 200 different somatic cell types with the same genetic information (genotype). Even though, they drastically differ in their morphology and function (phenotype), which is related to different gene expression levels. Gene expression is controlled by macromolecular interactions and epigenetic modifications on chromatin that are highly locus-specific and drive functional aspects of each locus. Even though, the compositions of macromolecules and modifications on many chromosome loci remain poorly understood, in part due to the lack of locus-specific chromatin purification methods that would allow for targeted, discovery-oriented analyses. In this work, the first enrichment method based on bio-orthogonal conjugation (“click-chemistry) with encoded programmable DNA binding domains (transcription-activator like effectors – TALEs) for purification of user-defined genomic loci was established. This click-mediated enrichment provides complementary potential compared to the existing enzymatic biotinylation strategies used in chromatin enrichment methods in the view of site-specificity and proteome-wide background. This method will enable correlations of local chromatin states with phenotypes as the key to a deeper understanding of the regulation landscape of the eukaryotic genome. As a first outlook experiment, we extended our approach to fusion constructs of specific TALE proteins and ten-eleven translocation (TET) dioxygenases for epigenetic editing in vivo. TETs catalyze the oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to the oxidized derivates 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), 5-formylcytosine (5fC), and 5-carboxylcytosine (5caC). In combination with the click-mediated enrichment and proteomics analysis, this will enable studying how local epigenetic changes modulate the local chromatin landscape in vivo as basis for alterations in gene expression.
Health sciences and public librarians partnering to create a culture of health
Creators: name: Zhang, Yingting
name: Perry, Karen
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Academic health sciences libraries
Community health improvement plan
Consumer health
Cultural competence
Culture of health
Health literacy
Public Libraries

description: Individuals with low health literacy experience negative health outcomes such as longer or absent recoveries, diminished quality of life, frequent and longer hospitalizations, and morbidity. The role of librarians is changing and librarians are playing a proactive role in fostering community health by providing health information resources, offering training opportunities, and partnering with local health organizations and health care providers to develop programs. This article discusses how an academic health sciences librarian and a public librarian combined their expertise and resources to create a successful partnership that continues today. The librarians were also invited to participate in a community health improvement plan (CHIP) of two major hospitals in New Jersey. The CHIP culminated in a symposium that brought together public and academic health sciences librarians and other constituents from the community who are interested in building a Culture of Health in New Jersey.
Cost-Aware Building of Cloud Services Powered by Renewable Energy
Creators: name: Torres, Jordi
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
name: Berral, Josep Ll.
name: Goiri, Inigo
name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Gavald, Ricard
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013

description: Interest in powering datacenters at least partially using on-site renewable sources, e.g. solar or wind, has been growing. In fact, researchers have studied distributed services comprising networks of such “green” datacenters, and load distribution approaches that “follow the renewables” to maximize their use. Unfortunately, the prior works have not considered where to site such a network for efficient production of renewable energy, while minimizing both datacenter and renewable plant building costs. Moreover, researchers have not built real load management systems for follow-the-renewables services. Thus, in this paper, we propose a framework, optimization problem, and solution approach for siting and provisioning green datacenters for a follow-the-renewables HPC cloud service. We illustrate the location selection tradeoffs by quantifying the minimum cost of achieving different amounts of renewable energy. Finally, we design and implement a system capable of migrating virtual machines across the green datacenters to follow the renewables. Among other interesting results, we demonstrate that one can build green HPC cloud services at a relatively low additional cost compared to existing services
Processing of carbonaceous materials using donor-acceptor interactions
Creators: name: Gharib, Desi Hamed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A low energy, high yield, one-pot exfoliation and dispersion of carbonaceous materials: graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is demonstrated. The process is driven by donor-acceptor interactions, through addition of non-polar electron-deficient aromatic molecules. As a result, the dispersion yield in organic solvents is increased while reducing the energy input to only 30 minutes of mild bath sonication. It is also reported for the first time the use of dihydrolevoglucosenone, a renewable green solvent in graphene and CNT processing. The work opens up avenues for electronic structure manipulation of van-der-Waals bonded layered materials giving an insight into designing efficient exfoliation methods.
Institutional Fragmentation and Urbanisation in the EU Cities
Creators: name: Cappelli, Federica
name: Guastella, Gianni
name: Pareglio, Stefano
name: Cappelli, Federica
name: Guastella, Gianni
name: Pareglio, Stefano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Urban Sprawl
subject: Institutional Fragmentation
subject: Threshold Regression

description: This article examines the relationship between institutional fragmentation and the spatial extent of cities in Europe’s Functional Urban Areas. European Union planning regulations vary across member states, but in most cases, local authorities determine land use within the more general regulatory frameworks set by national or subnational authorities. More decentralised and fragmented settings may favour urban sprawl, allowing developers to avoid land-use restrictions in one municipality by moving to adjacent ones and providing incentives for municipalities to adopt less strict land-conversion regulations to attract households and workers. The empirical results fully support this hypothesis and unveil significant differences between small and large cities, the effect of governance fragmentation being a substantial factor in the latter case.
Unpacking the power of the Mommy Wars
Creators: name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mothering ideologies
Maternal discourses
Mommy Wars

description: In recent years, Mommy Wars discourse, or an expressed judgment between mothers who work for pay and those who stay at home with their children, has emerged as a significant part of American culture. Yet knowledge about both its substantive underpinnings as well as the breadth of its influence across sociodemographic groups is limited. On these points, some research has suggested that racial differences regarding adherence to particular mothering ideologies will drive Mommy Wars discourse among white, middle-class mothers but not among African-American, middle-class mothers. This study investigates 125 middle-class yet racially diverse mothers about the content and prevalence of Mommy Wars discourse among their peers. Contrary to expectations, Mommy Wars discourse, although based on strong beliefs regarding appropriate maternal practices, was limited in its scope. In addition, Mommy Wars discourse was a minority perspective among white, middle-class mothers but a plurality perspective among African-American, middle-class mothers.
Modular Data-flow Analysis of Statically Typed Object-oriented Programming Languages
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: The solution of data-flow analysis of object-oriented programming languages such as C++/Java is needed for many important applications: aggressive code optimization, side-effect analysis, program specialization, program slicing and data-flow-based testing. However, data-flow analysis of object-oriented programming languages is difficult due to a large number of heap-allocated objects whose fields point to other heap-allocated objects (recursive structures), dynamic dispatch, frequent method invocations, a large number of methods, many invocation contexts per method and exceptions. In this thesis we present a new data-flow analysis technique called Relevant Context Inference (RCI) for modular, flow- and context-sensitive data-flow analysis of statically typed object-oriented programming languages such as C++ and Java. This technique has been designed to overcome the above difficulties. RCI has several long sought-after characteristics: 1. It can analyze programs by keeping only a part of the programs in memory at a time, with a constant bound on the number of times a procedure needs to be in memory. 2. It can analyze incomplete programs such as libraries. 3. It can analyze programs that have exceptions. We have built a prototype of RCI for points-to analysis of C++ programs. The empirical results obtained using this prototype and presented in this thesis show that RCI is effective in practice. We present several new complexity characterizations of points-to analysis in the presence of object-oriented language constructs: exceptions and dynamic dispatch. Our results clearly identify the difficult features and indicate approximations that any efficient algorithm has to make. We also present a new approach to data-flow-based testing of object-oriented libraries using RCI . We show how the information computed by RCI can be used for generating relevant test cases.
Simulating high-time resolution radio-telescope observations
Creators: name: Luo, Rui
name: Hobbs, George
name: Yong, Suk Yee
name: Zic, Andrew
name: Toomey, Lawrence
name: Dai, Shi
name: Dunning, Alex
name: Li, Di
name: Marshman, Tommy
name: Wang, Chen
name: Wang, Pei
name: Wang, Shuangqiang
name: Zhang, Songbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new software package for simulating channelised, high-time resolution data streams from radio telescopes. The software simulates data from the telescope and observing system taking into account the observation strategy, receiver system and digitisation. The signatures of pulsars, fast radio bursts and flare stars are modelled, including frequency-dependent effects such as scattering and scintillation. We also simulate more generic signals using spline curves and images. Models of radio frequency interference include signals from satellites, terrestrial transmitters and impulsive, broadband signals. The simulated signals can also be injected into real data sets. Uses of this software include the production of machine learning training data sets, development and testing of new algorithms to search for anomalous patterns and to characterise processing pipelines.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS in press
Subchronic Tolerance Trials of Graded Oral Supplementation with Phenylalanine or Serine in Healthy Adults
Creators: name: Miura, Naoki
name: Matsumoto, Hideki
name: Cynober, Luc
name: Stover, Patrick J.
name: Elango, Rajavel
name: Kadowaki, Motoni
name: Bier, Dennis M.
name: Smriga, Miro
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Phenylalanine and serine are amino acids used in dietary supplements and nutritional products consumed by healthy consumers; however, the safe level of phenylalanine or serine supplementation is unknown. The objective of this study was to conduct two 4-week clinical trials to evaluate the safety and tolerability of graded dosages of oral phenylalanine and oral serine. Healthy male adults (n = 60, 38.2 ± 1.8y) completed graded dosages of either phenylalanine or serine supplement (3, 6, 9 and 12 g/d) for 4 weeks with 2-week wash-out periods in between. Primary outcomes included vitals, a broad spectrum of circulating biochemical analytes, body weight, sleep quality and mental self-assessment. At low dosages, minor changes in serum electrolytes and plasma non-essential amino acids glutamine and aspartic acid concentrations were observed. Serine increased its plasma concentrations at high supplemental dosages (9 and 12 g/day), and phenylalanine increased plasma tyrosine concentrations at 12 g/day, but those changes were not considered toxicologically relevant. No other changes in measured parameters were observed, and study subjects tolerated 4-week-long oral supplementation of phenylalanine or serine without treatment-related adverse events. A clinical, no-observed-adverse-effect-level (NOAEL) of phenylalanine and serine supplementation in healthy adult males was determined to be 12 g/day.
The Determinants of Organizational Innovation: An Interpretation and Implications for Research Libraries
Creators: name: Jantz, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Association of College and Research Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Organizational innovation
Organizational change
Research libraries
Management
Leadership

description: The research reported here is focused on a specific type of change in an organization – an innovation. In an empirical analysis of research libraries, it was found that five factors had a significant impact on the innovation performance of the library. These factors relate to the strategy, organizational structure, and leadership of the research library. The study sample consisted of 50 libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries. This paper will discuss the theoretical model, explain the effects of these five variables, highlight certain additional correlations that are meaningful, and discuss implications for research libraries.
Democracy Health Questionnaire (DHQ) and Democracy Health Index (DHI)
Creators: name: Jokić, Boris
name: Matić Bojić, Jelena
name: Ristić Dedić, Zrinka
name: Baketa, Nikola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Democracy
subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This deliverable describes the development of the Democracy Health Questionnaire (DHQ) and the Democracy Health Index (DHI) through stages of conceptualisation, item development and piloting. The final versions of DHQ will be used in assessing democracy health of 2000 schools and institutions providing non-formal educational programmes across ten partner countries.
The Future of Large, Internationally Active Banks: Does Scale Define the Winners?
Creators: name: Hughes, Joseph P.
name: Mester, Loretta J.
Publisher: name: World Scientific
Year: 2018
Subjects: Banks and banking
Efficiency
Economies of scale
Regulations
Banking Law

description: Our research as well as that by other authors has found scale economies at all sizes of banks and the largest scale economies at the largest banks – that is, larger banks are able to provide products at lower average cost than smaller banks. While the earlier literature found that scale economies are exhausted beyond a modest size – no larger than $100 billion and usually much smaller – a number of recent studies have found scale economies beyond this point, in fact, economies that increase with size. Based on a model that appropriately accounts for endogenous risk-taking and controls for any cost-of-funding advantages conferred on large banks, we find that technological factors, not advantages in funding costs, account for their scale economies. The literature does not indicate whether these benefits of larger size outweigh the potential costs in terms of systemic risk that large scale may impose on the financial system. However, if public policy considerations imply that society would be better off with smaller financial institutions, restrictions that limit the size of financial institutions, if effective, may put large banks at a competitive disadvantage in global markets where competitors are not similarly constrained. Moreover, size restrictions may not be effective since they work against market forces and create incentives for firms to avoid them. Avoiding the restrictions could thereby push risk-taking outside of the more regulated financial sector without necessarily reducing systemic risk. If such limits were imposed, intensive monitoring for such risks would be required. These factors need to be considered when evaluating policies concerning financial institution scale.
description: The Future of Large, Internationally Active Banks
Interband magnon drag in ferrimagnetic insulators
Creators: name: Arakawa, Naoya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new drag phenomenon, an interband magnon drag, and report on interaction effects and multiband effects in magnon transport of ferrimagnetic insulators. We study a spin-Seebeck coefficient $S_{\textrm{m}}$, a magnon conductivity $σ_{\textrm{m}}$, and a magnon thermal conductivity $κ_{\textrm{m}}$ of interacting magnons for a minimal model of ferrimagnetic insulators using a $1/S$ expansion of the Holstein-Primakoff method, the linear-response theory, and a method of Green's functions. We show that the interband magnon drag enhances $σ_{\textrm{m}}$ and reduces $κ_{\textrm{m}}$, whereas its total effects on $S_{\textrm{m}}$ are small. This drag results from the interband momentum transfer induced by the magnon-magnon interactions. We also show that the higher-energy band magnons contribute to $S_{\textrm{m}}$, $σ_{\textrm{m}}$, and $κ_{\textrm{m}}$ even for temperatures smaller than the energy difference between the two bands.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; published version
Remodeling the cortex in memory: Increased use of a learning strategy increases the representational area of relevant acoustic cues
Creators: name: Bieszczad, Kasia M.
name: Weinberger, Norman M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Associative learning
Primary auditory cortex
Receptive field
Representation
Neurophysiology

description: Associative learning induces plasticity in the representation of sensory information in sensory cortices. Such high-order associative representational plasticity (HARP) in the primary auditory cortex (A1) is a likely substrate of auditory memory: it is specific, rapidly acquired, long-lasting and consolidates. Because HARP is likely to support the detailed content of memory, it is important to identify the necessary behavioral factors that dictate its induction. Learning strategy is a critical factor for the induction of plasticity (Bieszczad & Weinberger, 2010b). Specifically, use of a strategy that relies on tone onsets induces HARP in A1 in the form of signal-specific decreased threshold and bandwidth. The present study tested the hypothesis that the form and degree of HARP in A1 reflects the amount of use of an "onset strategy". Adult male rats (n=7) were trained in a protocol that increased the use of this strategy from approximately 20% in prior studies to approximately 80%. They developed signal-specific gains in representational area, transcending plasticity in the form of local changes in threshold and bandwidth. Furthermore, the degree of area gain was proportional to the amount of use of the onset strategy. A second complementary experiment demonstrated that use of a learning strategy that specifically did not rely on tone onsets did not produce gains in representational area; but rather produced area loss. Together, the findings indicate that the amount of strategy use is a dominant factor for the induction of learning-induced cortical plasticity along a continuum of both form and degree.
The Cariboo Sentinel
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Barkerville, B.C. : George Wallace
Year: 2011

description: The Cariboo Sentinel was published in Barkerville, in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia, and ran from June 1865 to October 1875. At the time, Barkerville was home to a fast-growing community of miners who had been attracted to the Cariboo region by the discovery of gold. The Sentinel was published by George Wallace, and its stated objective was not only to disseminate mining intelligence, but also to eradicate official abuse[s] of power, both within the Cariboo region and beyond (vol. 1, no. 1, p. 2).
Translating Place-Related Questions to GeoSPARQL Queries
Creators: name: Hamzei, Ehsan
name: Tomko, Martin
name: Winter, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many place-related questions can only be answered by complex spatial reasoning, a task poorly supported by factoid question retrieval. Such reasoning using combinations of spatial and non-spatial criteria pertinent to place-related questions is increasingly possible on linked data knowledge bases. Yet, to enable question answering based on linked knowledge bases, natural language questions must first be re-formulated as formal queries. Here, we first present an enhanced version of YAGO2geo, the geospatially-enabled variant of the YAGO2 knowledge base, by linking and adding more than one million places from OpenStreetMap data to YAGO2. We then propose a novel approach to translate the place-related questions into logical representations, theoretically grounded in the core concepts of spatial information. Next, we use a dynamic template-based approach to generate fully executable GeoSPARQL queries from the logical representations. We test our approach using the Geospatial Gold Standard dataset and report substantial improvements over existing methods.
Elaegnus angustifolia Linn. genome supporting data
Creators: name: Mao, Yunfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70601 Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: It is the genome supporting data of Elaegnus angustifolia Linn.Raw sequencing reads and genome assembly are available at GenBank as BioProject PRJNA647537 (https://dataview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/object/PRJNA647537?reviewer=5dse95jg6ae9tao2s0ettacevv).
Mutation induced infection waves in diseases like COVID-19
Creators: name: Schwarzendahl, Fabian Jan
name: Grauer, Jens
name: Liebchen, Benno
name: Löwen, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After more than 6 million deaths worldwide, the ongoing vaccination to conquer the COVID-19 disease is now competing with the emergence of increasingly contagious mutations, repeatedly supplanting earlier strains. Following the near-absence of historical examples of the long-time evolution of infectious diseases under similar circumstances, models are crucial to exemplify possible scenarios. Accordingly, in the present work we systematically generalize the popular susceptible-infected-recovered model to account for mutations leading to repeatedly occurring new strains, which we coarse grain based on tools from statistical mechanics to derive a model predicting the most likely outcomes. The model predicts that mutations can induce a super-exponential growth of infection numbers at early times, which self-amplify to giant infection waves which are caused by a positive feedback loop between infection numbers and mutations and lead to a simultaneous infection of the majority of the population. At later stage -- if vaccination progresses too slowly -- mutations can interrupt an ongoing decrease of infection numbers and can cause infection revivals which occur as single waves or even as whole wave trains featuring alternative periods of decreasing and increasing infection numbers. This panorama of possible mutation-induced scenarios should be tested in more detailed models to explore their concrete significance for specific infectious diseases. Further, our results might be useful for discussions regarding the importance of a release of vaccine-patents to reduce the risk of mutation-induced infection revivals but also to coordinate the release of measures following a downwards trend of infection numbers.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
A comparison of pilot scanning patterns based on the type of cockpit
Creators: name: Pingali, Sravan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Flight instruments in an aircraft’s cockpit can be displayed in one of two types. The traditional cockpit displays the instruments by using dials and needles. The modern cockpit takes advantage of computerised screens to digitally display the instruments.
The performance of a pilot can also be affected based on the type of cockpit they fly in. This thesis compared the pilot performance between the two types of cockpit.
The results showed that pilots were able to adapt to the different type of cockpit. Such a technique ensured that their performance did not deteriorate in a new type of cockpit.
Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter
Creators: name: Vieira, Carolina Coimbra
name: Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego
name: Nepomuceno, Marília R.
name: Theile, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Missing children, i.e., children reported to a relevant authority as having "disappeared," constitute an important but often overlooked population. From a research perspective, missing children constitute a hard-to-reach population about which little is known. This is a particular problem in regions of the Global South that lack robust or centralized data collection systems. In this study, we analyze the composition of the population of missing children in Guatemala, a country with high levels of violence. We contrast the official aggregated-level data from the Guatemalan National Police during the 2018-2020 period with real-time individual-level data on missing children from the official Twitter account of the Alerta Alba-Keneth, a governmental warning system tasked with disseminating information about missing children. Using the Twitter data, we characterize the population of missing children in Guatemala by single-year age, sex, and place of disappearance. Our results show that women are more likely to be reported as missing, particularly those aged 13-17. We discuss the findings in light of the known links between missing people, violence, and human trafficking. Finally, the study highlights the potential of web data to contribute to society by improving our understanding of this and similar hard-to-reach populations.