cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Detailed presentation, SI Alonso-Alcalde et al. 2025, CONEXP
Creators: name: Alonso-Alcalde, Rodrigo
name: Benito-Calvo, Alfonso
name: González Sacristán, Cristina
name: Navazo Ruiz, Marta
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fire
subject: Palaeolithic
subject: Experimental Archaeology
subject: Pyroarchaeology

description: Supplementary Material from Alonso-Alcalde et al. 2025
CONEXP
Presentation
description: Supplementary Data from Alonso Alcalde et al., 2025
Practical Pointer Aliasing Analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Sean
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: Two names are aliased if they refer to the same location at a program point during execution. Pointer aliasing analysis for C programs is essential for compile-time analyses and optimizations. Many techniques have been proposed in the literature. Some are fast, but not so precise; some are quite precise, but not fast in some cases. We have developed a technique which decomposes program statements into independent sets in terms of their effects on pointer aliasing. Each set implies a program segment which includes the statements in the set and some control statements. Each segment can be analyzed for pointer aliasing independently. Therefore the program decomposition allows the use of more than one analysis algorithm on a same program and the use of appropriate aliasing analyses based on characteristics of pointers being analyzed. We handle features in C such as function pointers, indirect calls through functions pointers, unions, and type casting with some restrictions. We have also developed a points-to analysis algorithm and an aliasing analysis algorithm. Both are ow-insensitive and context-insensitive; thus they are efficient and can be used on large programs. For each assignment lhs=rhs in a program, the aliasing analysis effectively assumes there is also an assignment rhs=lhs while the points-to analysis does not make such assumptions. Therefore the points-to analysis is more precise than the aliasing analysis. ii We have implemented prototypes of the program decomposition, the points-to and the aliasing analysis algorithms; empirical results on a set of C programs are given. We have also experimented with combining two or more aliasing/points-to analyses for a same program by using the program decomposition; we present empirical results of our preliminary experiment.
Orthogonality preserving property for pairs of operators on Hilbert $C^*$-modules
Creators: name: Frank, Michael
name: Moslehian, M. S.
name: Zamani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B49 (Primary) 46L05, 46L08 (Secondary)

description: We investigate the orthogonality preserving property for pairs of mappings on inner product $C^*$-modules extending existing results for a single orthogonality-preserving mapping. Guided by the point of view that the $C^*$-valued inner product structure of a Hilbert $C^*$-module is determined essentially by the module structure and by the orthogonality structure, pairs of linear and local orthogonality-preserving mappings are investigated, not a priori bounded. The intuition is that most often $C^*$-linearity and boundedness can be derived from the settings under consideration. In particular, we obtain that if $\mathscr{A}$ is a $C^{*}$-algebra and $T, S:\mathscr{E}\longrightarrow \mathscr{F}$ are two bounded ${\mathscr A}$-linear mappings between full Hilbert $\mathscr{A}$-modules, then $\langle x, y\rangle = 0$ implies $\langle T(x), S(y)\rangle = 0$ for all $x, y\in \mathscr{E}$ if and only if there exists an element $γ$ of the center $Z(M({\mathscr A}))$ of the multiplier algebra $M({\mathscr A})$ of ${\mathscr A}$ such that $\langle T(x), S(y)\rangle = γ\langle x, y\rangle$ for all $x, y\in \mathscr{E}$. In particular, for adjointable operators $S$ we have $T=(S^*)^{-1}$, and any bounded invertible module operator $T$ may appear. Varying the conditions on the mappings $T$ and $S$ we obtain further affirmative results for local operators and for pairs of a bounded and of an unbounded module operator with bounded inverse, among others. Also, unbounded operators with disjoint ranges are considered. The proving techniques give new insights.
description: 23 pages, In this last revision several new examples are added and some minor changes appeared in the text. To appear in Aequat. Math
Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) michaelikati van Someren
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes michaelikati

description: Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) michaelikati van Someren
subspecies gurneri van Someren, 1946a —original combination: Aedes (Dunnius) michaelikati gurneri. Distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania (White 1980; Wilkerson et al. 2021).
subspecies michaelikati van Someren, 1946a —original combination: Aedes (Dunnius) michaelikati. Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania (White 1980).
These nominal taxa are poorly known. The typical form and subspecies gurneri were described in the same paper (van Someren 1946a). Available data suggest that the former is restricted to coastal areas (type locality near Mombasa, Kenya) whereas the latter (type locality near Nairobi) has an inland distribution. The two forms are also morphologically distinct—the adults of gurneri are darker than those of michaelikati, there are no white scales on the maxillary palpi of either sex, abdominal terga V and (usually) VI of females lack basal white bands and the shape and armature of the male gonostylus are different. The larvae of the two forms have not been studied in detail, but they may be distinguished by the shape of seta 1-C, which is blunt-tipped in michaelikati and sharply pointed in gurneri. Based on apparent allopatry and morphological distinctions, gurneri is hereby formally recognized as a separate species: Aedes gurneri (van Someren, 1946a). Aedes gurneri is currently listed as a species in the Encyclopedia of Life.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
A culture that is hard to defend: extralegal factors in federal death penalty cases
Creators: name: Gould, Jon B.
name: León, Kenneth Sebastian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Federal death penalty
Local legal culture
Capital punishment

description: Empirical research has exposed a troubling pattern of capital punishment in the United States, with extralegal factors such as race, class, and gender strongly correlated with the probability of a death sentence. Capital sentencing also shows significant geographic disparities, although existing research tends to be more descriptive than explanatory. This study offers an alternative conception of local legal culture to explain place-based variation in the outcomes of federal capital trials, accounting for the level of attorney time and expert resources granted by the federal courts to defend against a death sentence. Using frequentist and Bayesian methods—supplemented with expert interviews—we empirically assess the processes determining the total allocation of defense resources in federal death penalty trials at the peak of the federal death penalty—between 1998 and 2004. Our findings strongly connect extralegal factors to the lowest levels of defense resources, which in turn correlate with a higher risk of a death sentence. Far from being idiosyncratic discrepancies, these are systemic and systematic extralegal factors that stand between a defendant and his opportunity to defend against a death sentence. Ultimately, we argue for a reconceptualization of extralegal influences and the relationship between local legal culture and capital case outcomes.
Ensuring System Integrity Using Limited Local Memory
Creators: name: Butt, Shakeel
name: Ganapathy, Vinod
name: Iftode, Liviu
name: Nakajima, Tatsuo
name: Kinebuchi, Yuki
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011

description: System integrity monitors, such as rootkit detectors, rely critically on the ability to fetch and inspect pages containing code and data of a target system under study. To avoid being infected by malicious or compromised targets, state of the art system integrity monitors rely on virtualization technology to set up a tamper-proof execution environment. Consequently, the virtualization infrastructure is part of the trusted computing base. However, modern virtual machine monitors are complex entities, with large code bases that are difficult to verify. In this paper, we present a new machine architecture called limited local memory (LLM), which we leverage to set up an alternative tamper-proof execution environment for system integrity monitors. This architecture leverages recent trends in multicore chip design to equip each processing core with access to a small, private memory area. We show that the features of the LLM architecture, combined with a novel secure paging mechanism, suffice to bootstrap a tamper-proof execution environment without support for hardware virtualization. We demonstrate the utility of this architecture by building a rootkit detector that leverages the key features of LLM. This rootkit detector can safely inspect a target operating system without itself becoming the victim of infection.
Does the release from adaption differ between racial ingroup and outgroup faces? Does emotional expression moderate this finding?
Creators: name: Arshiya Aggarwal
name: Camp, Nicholas
name: Hughes, Brent
name: Hopkins, Julia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This preregistration is written to address the following questions: Does release from neural adaption differ between racial ingroup and outgroup faces? Does emotional expression moderate this finding? Does participant race moderate these effects?
ON DEMAND: Ungrading – ditching the numerical scores to improve learning and engagement
Creators: name: Frankenfeld, Cara
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: TEACHING CHALLENGE: While grades represent a way to differentiate student accomplishment or mastery of material, grade anxiety is a critical issue among students. Concern has been raised in the pedagogical literature as to whether numerical grades impair, rather than encourage, student learning. SOLUTION STRATEGY: For two graduate courses, ungrading approaches were implemented in an attempt to reduce grade anxiety and enhance student learning. Feedback was provided on student work, but numerical scores were eliminated or reduced. In one course (completed), no numerical grades were provided for any of the student work and students selected and justified their earned grade at the end of the semester. In another course (in progress), in order to address necessary data collection for competency attainment for secondary accreditation, summative assignments were ungraded and a single formative final exam was graded. Grades for the course were based on completion of summative assignments along with the score for the final exam. CONTEXT/EVIDENCE:A driving factor in the implementation of ungrading was empirical evidence that supports that students do not remember qualitative feedback when presented with numerical scores. From anecdotal evidence, student interactions often primarily center on numerical scores rather than substantive content. For example, students often ask why did I miss these points, rather than asking what I am missing to understand this material. The former puts teachers on the defensive to justify a score and focus on the negative what was wrong, where the latter can open up a dialogue about the material. A major objective was to shift the student focus to learning the material and encourage risk-tasking and utilizing individual strengths in learning. FORMAT: The session will provide a summary of research on student engagement and learning related to numerical grades and an overview of ungrading approaches described in pedagogical literature. The presenter will provide an overview of the two approaches taken and the rationale for each approach, given the different courses. In the completed course, based on the pre- and post-course assessment, students gained “a little more” to “a lot more” confidence in all of the areas that the course is designed to address. Additional data and feedback from the course in progress will be provided and contrasted. As part of the session, participants will be provided with a reflection worksheet and have small group discussion. TAKE AWAYS/ADAPTATION: Participants will able to assess whether their course/s might be appropriate to ungrading approaches and what resources they need to implement. Participants will also receive a list of ungrading approaches and associated research.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
3D genome organization in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition spectrum
Creators: name: Pang, Qing You
name: Tan, Tuan Z.
name: Sundararajan, Vignesh
name: Chiu, Yi-Chia
name: Chee, Edward Yu Wing
name: Chung, Vin Yee
name: Arjandas, Choolani Mahesh
name: Huang, Ruby Yun-Ju
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: DepArray report containing the scan settings used in CellBrowser analysis software for immunofluorescence detection. The immunofluorescence images of the single cells are also generated in the report with the intensity signal of the immunofluorescence markers used. "PEO1_HEYA8_DepArray_Report" is the DepArray report generated from the DepArray run using PEO1 + HEYA8 single cell suspension. "OVCA429_shGRHL2_tet_DepArrayReport" is the DepArray report generated from the DepArray run using OVCA429 shGRHL2 Tet-inducible single cell suspension. "Cell ID and DepArray ID additional information.xlsx" details the match between "Cell ID" of single cells to its "DepArray ID", used in the DepArray reports.
Doing Data on YouTube: Outreach and Education using Web 2.0
Creators: name: Womack, Ryan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Data
Research--Data processing
Instructional video
Instructional films

description: In the YouTube era, data centers need new outreach mechanisms to raise awareness of their services and instruct their clientele in the use of data resources. At Rutgers University Libraries, the Data Librarian is creating a series of video tutorials, titled "Data Snapshots", on major data resources for posting on YouTube, blogs, and university web sites. These are integrated into research guides and the newly created RutgersData blog (rutgersdata.wordpress.com), which is a news resource for the Rutgers data community. Issues in scripting, capturing, editing and manipulating the videos using various software will be discussed. The expansion of a virtual presence for data services through chat consultations and design of the blog is driven by the dispersed environment at Rutgers University, where only one dedicated data librarian serves a student population of 50,000 spread across multiple campuses. Feedback from users is also being gathered to improve design of services and guide future efforts.
description: Presentation for IASSIST/IFDO Annual Conference, Tampere, Finland, May 27, 2009
ON DEMAND: SoTL Showcase: Use the library as easily as you use your phone!
Creators: name: Henson, Jo Ann
name: Spitler, Jasmine
name: Tretola, Betsy
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Our research focuses on two teaching challenges. Primarily, we seek to improve information literacy in undergraduate Mason students through an increased use of library databases and resources. Second, we are analyzing how the availability of mobile technology impacts students’ access and use of library resources. Our subjects for our research were a Mason Core course, Marketing Management 471. We surveyed all sections of this class from 2016-2020, including our final semester during the move to online, Spring 2020. We will share the main points of our surveys, including the impact of moving to an online environment in the middle of the semester. Our research questions are: 1) How do we manage and understand the ways that students utilize technology? 2) How does that affect their information literacy when doing library research for market plans?
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
3D genome organization in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition spectrum
Creators: name: Pang, Eddy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: DepArray report containing the scan settings used in CellBrowser analysis software for immunofluorescence detection. The immunofluorescence images of the single cells are also generated in the report with the intensity signal of the immunofluorescence markers used. "PEO1_HEYA8_DepArray_Report" is the DepArray report generated from the DepArray run using PEO1 + HEYA8 single cell suspension. "OVCA429_shGRHL2_tet_DepArrayReport" is the DepArray report generated from the DepArray run using OVCA429 shGRHL2 Tet-inducible single cell suspension. "Cell ID and DepArray ID additional information.xlsx" details the match between "Cell ID" of single cells to its "DepArray ID", used in the DepArray reports.
Culture, labor supply, and fertility across immigrant generations in the United States
Creators: name: Muchomba, Felix M.
name: Jiang, Nan
name: Kaushal, Neeraj
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gender norms
Labor supply
Fertility
Immigration
Assimilation

description: Recent immigration to the United States and other developed nations has increasingly been from countries that have relatively traditional gender norms. This study uses data from the Current Population Survey for 2000–14 to investigate how source-country gender norms influence the labor supply and fertility of married women across immigrant generations in the US. It finds that immigrants’ and descendants’ labor supply and fertility are associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio and total fertility rate in the source country; importantly, the association declines across successive generations. Husbands’ source-country characteristics are also associated with the labor supply and fertility of immigrant women. These findings indicate evolution and assimilation of traditional gender norms in the long run.
ON DEMAND: Undergraduate Research: Enhancing Access for COS Transfer Students (5 mins)
Creators: name: Hilker-Balkissoon, Kerin
name: Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: TBA
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Aedes (Rampamyia) notoscriptus
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes notoscriptus

description: Aedes (Rampamyia) notoscriptus (Skuse)
subspecies montanus Brug, 1939 —original combination: Aedes (Finlaya) notoscriptus var. montana [sic] (subgeneric status by Stone et al. 1959). Distribution: Indonesia (Java) (Brug 1939).
subspecies notoscriptus (Skuse, 1889) —original combination: Culex notoscriptus. Distribution: Australia, Indonesia (Moluccas, Western New Guinea), New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, United States (continental) (Wilkerson et al. 2021, Philippines record unverified).
Brug (1939) described montanus as a variety of Aedes notoscriptus and Stone et al. (1959) treated it as a subspecies of notoscriptus. The two forms are widely allopatric. The typical form is restricted to the Australasian Region whereas montanus is only know from its type locality in western Java, which lies within the Oriental Region. Brug (1939) noted that he was greatly surprised “to find a specimen of A. notoscriptus (Skuse) when rearing larvae found in Lembang, Java ” because “this species was considered to be truly Australian, not being found further westward than in Saparoea, a small island near Ceram (Moluccas).” The specimen, a male, differs from the typical form in having a much shorter and distally narrowed white stripe on the hindtibia, a longer gonostylus, the claspette with a longer filament and longer setae at the base of the claspette stem, and sternum IX with a different number of setae. Based on its allopatric distribution and morphological distinctions, montanus is undoubtedly a distinct species, which is hereby formally elevated to specific status: Aedes (Rampamyia) montanus Brug, 1939. Aedes montanus is currently listed as a species in the Encyclopedia of Life.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
The complexity of computing maximal word functions
Creators: name: Allender, Eric
name: Bruschi, Danilo
name: Pighizzini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: Maximal word functions occur in data retrieval applications and have connections with ranking problems, which in turn were first investigated in relation to data compression [GS]. By the maximal word function" of a language L, we mean the problem of finding, on input x, the lexicographically largest word belonging to L that is smaller than or equal to x. In this paper, we present a parallel algorithm for computing maximal word functions for languages recognized by one{way nondeterministic auxiliary pushdown automata (and hence for the class of context{free languages). This paper is a continuation of a stream of research focusing on the problem of identifying properties others than membership which is easily computable for certain classes of languages. For a survey, see [He2].
Optical and Electronic Simulation of Gallium Arsenide/Silicon Tandem Four Terminal Solar Cells
Creators: name: Vijayakumar, Vishnuvardhanan
name: Birnie, Dunbar
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tandem solar cells
Electronic modeling
Optical modeling
Silicon solar cells

description: A tandem solar cell in a mechanical (stack like) arrangement of gallium arsenide and silicon solar cells is evaluated as a pathway towards higher efficiency terrestrial solar cells. In this work the technical feasibility of the tandem solar cell is investigated. Here we report on the detailed electrical and optical simulations of this structure quantifying various theoretical and practical loss mechanisms in the interface and in the device and indicate that an efficiency improvement of 5.13% would be attainable with present generation of gallium arsenide and silicon solar cells in this configuration. The optical and electrical parameters for gallium arsenide and silicon simulation models were extracted from experimental devices and material vendors. The developed simulation models were validated by comparing the performance of standalone gallium arsenide and silicon solar cells with experimental devices reported in the literature.
description: Support from the Corning/Saint-Gobain/Malcolm G. McLaren Endowment at Rutgers University
Keynote Workshop: Digital Storytelling Learning Activities for Any Discipline: Empowering the Student Voice (90 mins)
Creators: name: Alexander, Bryan
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: What is digital storytelling, and what does it mean for higher education? This workshop introduces long-running digital storytelling practices, including the StoryCenter curriculum. We examine how digital storytelling plays out across multiple media and platforms, then dive into how this works in higher education. Topics include pedagogical cases, curricular positions, class support, institutional support, and more.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Autonomous transport protocols for content-based networks
Creators: name: Sultan, Florin
name: Bohra, Aniruddha
name: Iftode, Liviu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002

description: In this paper, we argue for a new approach to reliable transport protocols in which connections are established between endpoints in a generic content-based network. In such a network, endpoints are named by content and mapped to host addresses using a content-based location and routing sheme. We identify two key design priniples for autonomous protools: (i) an endpoint name spae deoupled from the network host address space and (ii) relaxed end-to-end semantis, whih allows intermediate nodes in the network to be dynamial ly involved in the transport. We use these priniples to propose a transport protool with dynami onnetion splitting for reliable ommuniation in ontent-based networks. Autonomous transport layer protools deouple ommuniation endpoints from the network addressing and routing, therefore they are partiularly suitable for handling endpoint mobility. They can be deployed in a wide range of arhitetures, from networks of embedded systems or sensors to overlay networks over the Internet.
Pterostilbene Changes Epigenetic Marks at Enhancer Regions of Oncogenes in Breast Cancer Cells
Creators: name: Harandi-Zadeh, Sadaf
name: Boycott, Cayla
name: Beetch, Megan
name: Yang, Tony
name: Martin, Benjamin
name: Ren, Kevin
name: Kwasniak, Anna
name: Dupuis, John H.
name: Lubecka, Katarzyna
name: Yada, R. Y. (Rickey Yoshio), 1954-
name: Howe, LeAnn
name: Stefanska, Barbara
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Epigenetic aberrations are linked to sporadic breast cancer. Interestingly, certain dietary polyphenols with anti-cancer effects, such as pterostilbene (PTS), have been shown to regulate gene expression by altering epigenetic patterns. Our group has proposed the involvement of DNA methylation and DNA methyltransferase 3B (DNMT3B) as vital players in PTS-mediated suppression of candidate oncogenes and suggested a role of enhancers as target regions. In the present study, we assess a genome-wide impact of PTS on epigenetic marks at enhancers in highly invasive MCF10CA1a breast cancer cells. Following chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-sequencing in MCF10CA1a cells treated with 7 μM PTS for 9 days, we discovered that PTS leads to increased binding of DNMT3B at enhancers of 77 genes, and 17 of those genes display an overlapping decrease in the occupancy of trimethylation at lysine 36 of histone 3 (H3K36me3), a mark of active enhancers. We selected two genes, PITPNC1 and LINC00910, and found that their enhancers are hypermethylated in response to PTS. These changes coincided with the downregulation of gene expression. Of importance, we showed that 6 out of 17 target enhancers, including PITPNC1 and LINC00910, are bound by an oncogenic transcription factor OCT1 in MCF10CA1a cells. Indeed, the six enhancers corresponded to genes with established or putative cancer-driving functions. PTS led to a decrease in OCT1 binding at those enhancers, and OCT1 depletion resulted in PITPNC1 and LINC00910 downregulation, further demonstrating a role for OCT1 in transcriptional regulation. Our findings provide novel evidence for the epigenetic regulation of enhancer regions by dietary polyphenols in breast cancer cells.
Reduced commutativity of moduli of operators
Creators: name: Pietrzycki, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we investigate the question of when the equations $A^{*s}A^{s}=(A^{*}A)^{s}$ for all $s \in S$, where $S$ is a finite set of positive integers, imply the quasinormality or normality of $A$. In particular, it is proved that if $S=\{p,m,m+p,n,n+p\}$, where $2\leq m < n$, then $A$ is quasinormal. Moreover, if $A$ is invertible and $S=\{m,n,n+m\}$, where $m \leq n$, then $A$ is normal. Furthermore, the case when $S=\{m,m+n\}$ and $A^{*n}A^n \leq (A^*A)^n$ is discussed.
On The Phase Space Dynamics of Neuronal Systems: Model, Experiments, and Analysis.
Creators: name: Banerjee, Arunava
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: We investigate the phase space dynamics of local systems of biological neurons in order to deduce the salient computational characteristics of such systems. We develop an abstract physical system that models local systems of spiking biological neurons. The system is based on a limited set of realistic assumptions and in consequence accommodates a wide range of neuronal models. An appropriate instantiation of the system is used to simulate the dynamics of a typical column in the neocortex. The results of the simulations demonstrate that the dynamical behavior of the system is akin to that observed in neurophysiological experiments. Analysis of local properties of flows in the phase space of the system reveals the classic characteristics of a chaotic system, namely, contraction, expansion, and folding. The criterion for the dynamics of the system to be sensitive to initial conditions is identified. Based on physiological parameters it is deduced that (a) periodic orbits in the region of the phase space corresponding to "normal operational conditions" are almost surely (with probability=1) unstable, (b) periodic orbits in the region of the phase space corresponding to "seizure like conditions" are almost surely stable, and (c) trajectories in the region of the phase space corresponding to "normal operational conditions" are almost surely sensitive to initial conditions. Based on these results preliminary conclusions are drawn about the computational nature of neocortical neuronal systems.
MINDFULNESS SESSION: Mindfulness Activities to Incorporate into Your Courses (30 mins)
Creators: name: Rivera, Millie
name: Schreibstein, Melissa
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Instructional faculty and our students are living in a time when massive change and stress are at an all-time high. This stress creeps into our classrooms and disrupts learning. Luckily, faculty don’t need to be experts on the science and application of well-being to support their students. In this session, Dr. Milagro Rivera from the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development and Melissa Schreibstein from the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being will teach you how to integrate well-being into your classroom without adding one more item on top of your overflowing plate. Attendees will learn a few simple and quick well-being activities that can be relied on in virtual and in-person environments to promote focus and centered learning.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Hydrovatus rufoniger subsp. rufoniger
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Hydrovatus
Hydrovatus rufoniger
Hydrovatus rufoniger rufoniger (clark, 1863)

description: Hydrovatus rufoniger rufoniger (Clark, 1863)
(Fig. 20)
 Hyphidrus [sic!] rufoniger Clark, 1863: 423.
 Hydrovatus rufoniger rufoniger (Clark) - Biström, 1996: 388, and references therein; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 198.
  Material examined.  – Number? - „ Singapour “ after Régimbart (1899) (Biström 1996). Not seen.- 57 specimens - Central catchment area - 10 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 16 May.1992, coll. C. M. Yang (ZRC); 3 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 6 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich (CBH, ZRC); 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 20 Sep.1993, y 843, coll. Yang (ZRC); 41 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, 21 Apr.1997, coll. Balke & Hendrich (CBH). Sungai Buloh - 1 ex., Nature Park, 5 Dec.1996, coll. L. Hendrich & A. Wong (ZRC).
 Distribution. – India, Bangla Desh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Cambodia, West Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Ceram, New Guinea (Biström, 1996, Balke et al., 1999).
  Ecology. – Hydrovatus rufoniger rufoniger  inhabits shallow, gloomy water of open swamps, artificial ponds (e.g., fish ponds, paddy fields), and slow flowing drainage ditches. The habitat must be rich in rotten leaves, submerged plants, and dense stands of sedges. The species is also attracted to light (Biström 1996).
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
Exploiting redundancy to conserve energy in storage systems
Creators: name: Pinheiro, Eduardo
name: Bianchini, Ricardo
name: Dubnicki, Cezary
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2005

description: This paper makes two main contributions. First, it introduces Diverted Accesses, a technique that leverages the redundancy in storage systems to conserve disk energy. Second, it evaluates the previous (redundancy-oblivious) energy conservation techniques, along with Diverted Accesses, as a function of the amount and type of redundancy in the system. The evaluation is based on novel analytic models of the energy consumed by the techniques. Using these energy models and previous models of reliability, availability, and performance, we can determine the best redundancy configuration for new energy-aware storage systems. To study Diverted Accesses for realistic systems and workloads, we simulate a wide-area storage system under two file-access traces. Our modeling results show that Diverted Accesses is more effective and robust than the redundancy-oblivious techniques. Our simulation results show that our technique can conserve 20-61% of the disk energy consumed by the wide-area storage system
WORKSHOP: [For GTAs] Engaging Students and Giving Feedback as a GTA (90 mins)
Creators: name: Broeckelman-Post, Melissa
name: Loudres Fernandez
name: Polk, Tom
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: TBA
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Aedes (Rusticoidus) rusticus
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes rusticus

description: Aedes (Rusticoidus) rusticus (Rossi)
subspecies rusticus (Rossi, 1790) —original combination: Culex rusticus. Distribution: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Crimean Peninsula, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia? (see Kirik et al. 2022), France, Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom (Wilkerson et al. 2021, excluding Norway, see Mehl 1996).
subspecies subtrichurus Martini, 1927 —original combination: Aedes subtrichurus (varietal status by Edwards 1932a; subspecific status by Harbach & Howard 2007). Distribution: Turkey (Martini 1927).
Martini (1927) originally described subtrichurus as a distinct species of Aedes, but later (Martini 1931a) considered it to be a variety of Ae. diversus (Theobald, 1901c). It became a variety of Ae. rusticus when diversus was synonymized with that species (Edwards 1932a). Harbach & Howard (2007) recognized subtrichurus as a subspecies of Ae. rusticus because it was originally proposed as the valid name of a species, per Article 45.6.4.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Martini (1927) described Ae. subtrichurus based on specimens from the eastern end of the Gulf of Izmit (spelled as Ismid), located at the easternmost edge of the Sea of Marmara. Because this is the only record of subtrichurus, the locality lies within the wide distribution of Ae. rusticus and it is based merely on minor morphological differences, Aedes subtrichurus Martini, 1927 is hereby formally regarded as a synonym: subtrichurus Martini, 1927, junior subjective synonym of Aedes (Rusticoidus) rusticus (Rossi, 1790). Consequently, “ Aedes subtrichurus ” should be removed from the list of species of Aedes in the Encyclopedia of Life.
With the synonymy of subtrichurus, Ae. rusticus now includes seven junior synonyms. The previously recognized synonyms include Culex maculatus Meigen, 1804, Cx. musicus Leach, 1825, Cx. pungens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827, Cx. quadratimaculatus Macquart, 1834, Cx. diversus Theobald, 1901c and Cx. nemorosus var. luteovittata Theobald, 1901c, all of which have type localities in Europe.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
On Algorithms for Simplicial Depth
Creators: name: Ouyang, Ming
name: Cheng, Andrew Y.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Simplicial depth is a way to measure how deep a point is among a set of points. Efficient algorithms to compute it are important to the usefulness of its applications, such as in multivariate analysis in statistics. A straightforward method takes O(nd+1) time when the points are in d-dimensional space. We discuss an algorithm that takes O(n2) time when the points are in three-dimensional space, and we generalize it to four-dimensional space with a time complexity of O(n4). For spaces higher than four-dimensional, there are no known algorithms faster than the straightforward method.
STEARNS CENTER FEATURED SESSION [for Instructors]: From COVID Crisis to Change: Pandemic Pedagogy and Small Changes Going Forward (90 mins) with remarks by Interim Provost Ginsberg
Creators: name: Reid, Shelley
name: Lukes, Laura
name: Borup, Jered
name: Clare, Kathleen
name: Demory, Yvonne
name: Fleming, Lila
name: Masterson, Alexandra
name: McGlinchy, Eric
name: Roman-Mendoza, Esperanza
name: Kamaljeet Sanghera
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Since everything -- everything! -- about teaching is evolving right now, and will likely still be in flux throughout the academic year, this panel is a works-in-progress discussion about what faculty are doing now in response to new demands on teachers and learners, and how we might take what we're learning forward to build a stronger future for higher education. In this session, we focus especially on small changes: alterations that faculty have made or could make with their courses during this "unprecedented" time that don't require wholesale revision but still serve to support or even improve student engagement and learning. The session will open with a very brief description by each of our panelists from across the disciplines at Mason of one "small change" that they made last spring, this summer, or for this fall to support student learning, along with a question that they are still exploring about teaching in this new era. We will then break into smaller groups so that participants can also share their changes and questions, and return for a final conversation about how we might all carry the best things we've learned during this stressful time forward, to improve our teaching and Mason students' learning in the future. Takeaway: Participants should leave with several examples of "small teaching changes" that they can implement or adapt for their current and future courses across all our new modalities. In addition, they will be asked to brainstorm at least one way that their teaching can adapt to align with some of the likely evolutions in higher education as we strive to come out of the pandemic not just having survived, but having improved how we serve students and support one another.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Variants on Andrica's conjecture with and without the Riemann hypothesis
Creators: name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A41 (Primes), 11N05 (Distribution of primes)

description: The gap between what we can explicitly prove regarding the distribution of primes and what we suspect regarding the distribution of primes is enormous. It is (reasonably) well-known that the Riemann hypothesis is not sufficient to prove Andrica's conjecture: $\forall n\geq 1$, is $\sqrt{p_{n+1}}-\sqrt{p_n} \leq 1$? But can one at least get tolerably close? I shall first show that with a logarithmic modification, provided one assumes the Riemann hypothesis, one has \[ {\sqrt{p_{n+1}}\over\ln p_{n+1}} -{\sqrt{p_n}\over\ln p_n} < {11\over25}; \qquad (n\geq1). \] Then, by considering more general $m^{th}$ roots, again assuming the Riemann hypothesis, I shall show that \[ {\sqrt[m]{p_{n+1}}} -{\sqrt[m]{p_n}} < {44\over25 \,e\, (m-2)}; \qquad (n\geq 3;\; m >2). \] In counterpoint, if we limit ourselves to what we can currently prove unconditionally, then the only explicit Andrica-like results seem to be variants on the results below: \[ \ln^2 p_{n+1} - \ln^2 p_n < 9; \qquad (n\geq1). \] \[ \ln^3 p_{n+1} - \ln^3 p_n < 52; \qquad (n\geq1). \] \[ \ln^4 p_{n+1} - \ln^4 p_n < 991; \qquad (n\geq1). \] I shall also slightly update the region on which Andrica's conjecture is unconditionally verified.
description: V1: 12 pages; V2: 9 pages. Discussion simplified and streamlined. Various numerical constants improved. Extra section added on what can be proved unconditionally. Updated discussion on using maximal prime gaps to verify the standard Andrica conjecture up to 1.8 x 10^{19}. V3: 10 pages; 4 references added; some cosmetic changes; more discussion of numerics; closely resembles published version
KEYNOTE ADDRESS and Q&A: Teaching Towards the Future (90 mins) with remarks from GMU President Washington
Creators: name: Alexander, Bryan
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: How will higher education change over the next generation? In this session we begin by exploring the major trends reshaping colleges and universities, from demographics and enrollment to technology and policy. Next we share several scenarios of potential campuses of the year 2035, each changed from today's institutions thanks to one or more of these forces.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future
Multireference generalization of the weighted thermodynamic perturbation method
Creators: name: Giese, Timothy J.
name: York, Darrin M.
name: Zeng, Jinzhe
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemistry
Chemistry, Physical
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics

description: We describe the generalized weighted thermodynamic perturbation (gwTP) method for estimating the free energy surface of an expensive "high-level" potential energy function from the umbrella sampling performed with multiple inexpensive "low-level" reference potentials. The gwTP method is a generalization of the weighted thermodynamic perturbation (wTP) method developed by Li and co-workers [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018, 14, 5583-5596] that uses a single "low-level" reference potential. The gwTP method offers new possibilities in model design whereby the sampling generated from several low-level potentials may be combined (e.g., specific reaction parameter models that might have variable accuracy at different stages of a multistep reaction). The gwTP method is especially well suited for use with machine learning potentials (MLPs) that are trained against computationally expensive ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) energies and forces using active learning procedures that naturally produce multiple distinct neural network potentials. Simulations can be performed with greater sampling using the fast MLPs and then corrected to the ab initio level using gwTP. The capabilities of the gwTP method are demonstrated by creating reference potentials based on the MNDO/d and DFTB2/MIO semiempirical models supplemented with the "range-corrected deep potential" (DPRc). The DPRc parameters are trained to ab initio QM/MM data, and the potentials are used to calculate the free energy surface of stepwise mechanisms for nonenzymatic RNA 2'-O-transesterification model reactions. The extended sampling made possible by the reference potentials allows one to identify unequilibrated portions of the simulations that are not always evident from the short time scale commonly used with ab initio QM/MM potentials. We show that the reference potential approach can yield more accurate ab initio free energy predictions than the wTP method or what can be reasonably afforded from explicit ab initio QM/MM sampling.
description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, copyright © 2022 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06201
SoTL SHOWCASE: Disrupting the boys club in the classroom (5 min lightning talk in 90 minute roundtable)
Creators: name: Offut, Jeff
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Many majors and courses are gender unbalanced. This talk focuses on courses where male students are in a majority, which is common in STEM fields in particular. For example, CS courses often have 10-15% female students, and software engineering often have 15-20% female students. Thus it is unfortunately common for male students to adopt excessively masculine postures that can make class meetings uncomfortable for female students. This behavior is often unintentional and unconscious, but still painful. Just as good defense in sports can disrupt the flow, I have found that this behavior can be disrupted by a mixture of education to increase awareness and encouragement of female students to empower them. This lightning talk will present 3 specific actions that teachers can take to disrupt boys club mentalities, thus changing the climate from exclusion to inclusion, and eventual belonging.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 12 (2020): Teaching Towards the Future