cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review on Joint Modelling of Longitudinal Measurements and Time-To-Even
Creators: name: Sousa, Inês
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2011

description: In longitudinal studies subjects are measured for one or more response variable, over time. Although the underlying evolution of such response variables is continuous in time, in practice the measurements are observed at discrete time points. In longitudinal clinical trials it is also common to observe relevant events, generating time-to-event data. If both types of data are available, we might be interested in the association between the two processes, longitudinal and time-to-event. Commonly, when death is considered the event, the observation sequence of longitudinal measurements is terminated by the event process. When the two observed processes are related, the analysis of the data set should be suited to the specific objectives. We distinguish three situations: if the interest is to analyse the longitudinal outcome response variable with drop-out at the time-to-event; to analyse time-to-event, whilst exploiting correlation with a noisy version of a time-varying risk factor; or to analyse the relationship between the two processes. Joint models assume a full distribution for the joint distribution of longitudinal and time-to-event processes, which includes a description of the relation between the two processes.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2011): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Missing Data in Regression Models for Non-Commensurate Multiple Outcomes
Creators: name: Teixeira-Pinto, Armando
name: Normand, Sharon-Lise
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2011

description: Biomedical research often involves the measurement of multiple outcomes in different scales (continuous, binary and ordinal). A common approach for the analysis of such data is to ignore the potential correlation among the outcomes and model each outcome separately. This can lead not only to loss of efficiency but also to biased estimates in the presence of missing data. We address the problem of missing data in the context of multiple non-commensurate outcomes. The consequences of missing data when using likelihood and quasi-likelihood methods are described, and an extension of these methods to the situation of missing observations in the outcomes is proposed. Two real data examples illustrate the methodology.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2011): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Gynecologic Cancer Risk and Genetics: Informing an Ideal Model of Gynecologic Cancer Prevention
Creators: name: Tindale, Lauren
name: Zhantuyakova, Almira
name: Lam, Stephanie
name: Woo, Michelle
name: Kwon, Janice
name: Hanley, Gillian E.
name: Knoppers, Bartha
name: Schrader, Kasmintan
name: Peacock, Stuart J.
name: Talhouk, Aline
name: Dummer, Trevor J. B.
name: Metcalfe, Kelly
name: Pashayan, Nora
name: Foulkes, William D.
name: Manchanda, Ranjit
name: Huntsman, David G.
name: Stuart, Gavin
name: Simard, Jacques
name: Dawson, Lesa
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Individuals with proven hereditary cancer syndrome (HCS) such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 have elevated rates of ovarian, breast, and other cancers. If these high-risk people can be identified before a cancer is diagnosed, risk-reducing interventions are highly effective and can be lifesaving. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of Canadians with HCS are unaware of their risk. In response to this unmet opportunity for prevention, the British Columbia Gynecologic Cancer Initiative convened a research summit “Gynecologic Cancer Prevention: Thinking Big, Thinking Differently” in Vancouver, Canada on 26 November 2021. The aim of the conference was to explore how hereditary cancer prevention via population-based genetic testing could decrease morbidity and mortality from gynecologic cancer. The summit invited local, national, and international experts to (1) discuss how genetic testing could be more broadly implemented in a Canadian system, (2) identify key research priorities in this topic and (3) outline the core essential elements required for such a program to be successful. This report summarizes the findings from this research summit, describes the current state of hereditary genetic programs in Canada, and outlines incremental steps that can be taken to improve prevention for high-risk Canadians now while developing an organized population-based hereditary cancer strategy.
Optimal Dynamic Treatment Methods
Creators: name: Henderson, Robin
name: Ansell, Phil
name: Alshibani, Deyadeen
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2011

description: This paper reviews and develops methods for implementing in practice recent ideas in the field of optimal dynamic treatment allocation. Given longitudinal sequences of observational data on health status and treatment selection for a cohort of patients, the aim is to determine a regime, or decision rule, which can be used to select treatment in order to optimise some final response or outcome. The approach to this problem that has been taken in the causal inference literature is shown to be extendable to problems in the field of stochastic optimisation. New diagnostic techniques to aid in model assessment are developed, and an application in anticoagulation is presented.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2011): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Comparative Genomics Approach to the Identification of QTL Candidate Genes
Creators: name: Jow, Howsun
name: Boys, Richard J.
name: Wilkinson, Darren J.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2011

description: Despite rapid advances in sequencing technology, many commercially relevant species remain unsequenced, and many that are sequenced have very poorly annotated genomes. There is therefore still considerable interest in using comparative approaches to exploit information from well-characterised model organisms in order to better understand related species. This paper develops a statistical method for automating part of a comparative genomics bioinformatic pipeline for the identification of genes and genomic regions in a model organism associated with a QTL region in an unsequenced species. A non-parametric Bayesian statistical model is used for characterising the density of a large number of BLAST hits across a model species genome. The method is illustrated using a test problem demonstrating that markers associated with Bovine hemoglobin can be automatically mapped to a region of the human genome containing human hemoglobin genes. Consequently, by exploiting the (relatively) high quality of genome annotation for model organisms and humans it is possible to quickly identify candidate genes in those well-characterised genomes relevant to the quantitative trait of interest.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2011): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Estimation of the Parameter of a pARMAX Model
Creators: name: Ferreira, Marta
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: Max-autoregressive models for time series data are useful when we want to make inference about rare events, mainly in areas like hydrology, geophysics and finance. In fact, they are more convenient for analysis than heavy-tailed ARMA, as their finite-dimensional distributions can easily be written explicitly. The recent power max-autoregressive model (pARMAX) has the interesting feature of describing an asymptotic independent tail behavior, a property that can be observed in various data series. An estimator of the model parameter c (0 < c < 1) is already available in the literature, but only in the restrictive case c > 1/2. Here it is presented an estimator for all c ∈ (0, 1). Consistency and asymptotic normality are also stated.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Improving on Minimum Risk Equivariant and Linear Minimax Estimators of Bounded Multivariate Location Parameters
Creators: name: Marchand, Éric
name: T. Payandeh Najafabadi, Amir
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: We propose improvements under squared error loss of the minimum risk equivariant and the linear minimax estimators for estimating the location parameter θ of a p-variate spherically symmetric distribution, with θ restricted to a ball of radius m centered at the origin. Our construction of explicit improvements relies on a multivariate version of Kubokawa’s Integral Expression of Risk Difference (IERD) method. Applications are given for univariate distributions, for the multivariate normal, and for scale mixture of multivariate normal distributions.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Fighting corruption with pyramids: A Law and Economics approach to combating corruption in post-socialist countries
Creators: name: Jakovljevic, Ana <1981>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: SECS-P/06 Economia applicata

description: Corruption is, in the last two decades, considered as one of the biggest problems within the international community, which harms not only a particular state or society but the whole world. The discussion on corruption in law and economics approach is mainly run under the veil of Public choice theory and principal-agent model. Based on this approach the strong international initiatives taken by the UN, the OECD and the Council of Europe, provided various measures and tools in order to support and guide countries in their combat against corruption. These anti-corruption policies created a repression -prevention-transparency model for corruption combat. Applying this model, countries around the world adopted anti-corruption strategies as part of their legal rules. Nevertheless, the recent researches on the effects of this move show non impressive results. Critics argue that “one size does not fit all” because the institutional setting of countries around the world varies. Among the countries which experience problems of corruption, even though they follow the dominant anti-corruption trends, are transitional, post-socialist countries. To this group belong the countries which are emerging from centrally planned to an open market economy. The socialist past left traces on institutional setting, mentality of the individuals and their interrelation, particularly in the domain of public administration. If the idiosyncrasy of these countries is taken into account the suggestion in this thesis is that in public administration in post-socialist countries, instead of dominant anti-corruption scheme repression-prevention-transparency, corruption combat should be improved through the implementation of a new one, structure-conduct-performance. The implementation of this model is based on three regulatory pyramids: anti-corruption, disciplinary anti-corruption and criminal anti-corruption pyramid. This approach asks public administration itself to engage in corruption combat, leaving criminal justice system as the ultimate weapon, used only for the very harmful misdeeds.
Optimized Clusters for Disaggregated Electricity Load Forecasting
Creators: name: Misiti, Michel
name: Misiti, Yves
name: Oppenheim, Georges
name: Poggi, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: To account for the variation of EDF’s (the French electrical company) portfolio following the liberalization of the electrical market, it is essential to disaggregate the global load curve. The idea is to disaggregate the global signal in such a way that the sum of disaggregated forecasts significantly improves the prediction of the whole global signal. The strategy is to optimize, a preliminary clustering of individual load curves with respect to a predictability index. The optimized clustering procedure is controlled by a forecasting performance via a cross-prediction dissimilarity index. It can be assimilated to a discrete gradient type algorithm.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Role of Non-coding RNAs in chemotherapeutic treatments
Ruolo dei Non coding RNAs nei trattamenti chemioterapici
Creators: name: Vannini, Ivan <1975>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: BIO/14 Farmacologia

description: The transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are a group of long non-coding RNAs involved in human carcinogenesis. The factors regulating the expression of T-UCRs and their mechanism of action in human cancers are unknown. In this work it was shown that high expression of uc.339 associates with lower survival in 204 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.  Moreover, it was shown that uc.339 found up-regulated in archival NSCLC samples, acts as a decoy RNA for miR-339-3p, -663-3p and -95-5p. So, Cyclin E2, a direct target of three microRNAs is up-regulated, inducing cancer growth and migration.  Evidence of this mechanism was provided from cell lines and primary samples confirming that TP53 directly regulates uc.339. These results support a key role for uc.339 in lung cancer.
Supplementary document for Maskless nanostructure photolithography by ultrahigh order modes of the symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide - 5507209.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Meng
name: Dai, Hailang
name: Shang, Yuxi
name: Cao, Zhuangqi
name: Chen, Xianfeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplementary document
Effect of Laser Shock Peening on Fatigue Crack Propagation of Aeronautical Structures
Creators: name: Taddia, Sara <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ING-IND/04 Costruzioni e strutture aerospaziali

description: Laser Shock Peening (LSP) is a surface enhancement treatment which induces a significant layer of beneficial compressive residual stresses up to several mm
underneath the surface of metal components in order to improve the detrimental effects of crack growth behavior rate in it.
The aim of this thesis is to predict the crack growth behavior of thin Aluminum specimens with one or more LSP stripes defining a compressive residual stress area.
The LSP treatment has been applied as crack retardation stripes perpendicular to the crack growing direction, with the objective of slowing down the crack when approaching the LSP patterns.
Different finite element approaches have been implemented to predict the residual stress field left by the laser treatment, mostly by means of the commercial
software Abaqus/Explicit.
The Afgrow software has been used to predict the crack growth behavior of the component following the laser peening treatment and to detect the improvement
in fatigue life comparing to the specimen baseline.
Furthermore, an analytical model has been implemented on the Matlab software to make more accurate predictions on fatigue life of the treated components.
An educational internship at the Research and Technologies Germany- Hamburg department of Airbus helped to achieve knowledge and experience to write this thesis.
The main tasks of the thesis are the following:
-To up to date Literature Survey related to laser shock peening in metallic
structures
-To validate the FE models developed against experimental measurements
at coupon level
-To develop design of crack growth slow down in centered and edge cracked
tension specimens based on residual stress engineering approach using laser
peened patterns transversal to the crack path
-To predict crack growth behavior of thin aluminum panels
-To validate numerical and analytical results by means of experimental tests.
Strategien gegen Obsoleszenz
Creators: name: Cerny, Lisa
name: Golde, Michael
name: Jacob, Anett
name: Fabian, Matthias
name: Krause, Susann
name: Oehme, Ines
name: Löwe, Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Obsoleszenz
subject: Produktlebensdauer
subject: umweltfreundliche Produkte
subject: Nachhaltige Produkte
subject: Nachhaltige Produktgestaltung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Untersuchungen im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes haben gezeigt, dass Elektrogeräte kürzer genutzt werden als noch vor 10 Jahren. Produkte, die vor Erreichen einer optimalen Lebens- oder Nutzungsdauer ersetzt werden (sogenannte Obsoleszenz), haben einen höheren Verlust von Ressourcen und eine vermehrte Entstehung von Abfällen zur Folge. Daher sieht das Umweltbundesamt Handlungsbedarf und hat auf Basis von zwei Forschungsvorhaben nun in einem Positionspapier Empfehlungen für Strategien gegen Obsoleszenz vorgelegt. Quelle: Umweltbundesamt
description: Untersuchungen im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes haben gezeigt, dass Elektrogeräte kürzer genutzt werden als noch vor 10 Jahren. Produkte, die vor Erreichen einer optimalen Lebens- oder Nutzungsdauer ersetzt werden (sogenannte Obsoleszenz), haben einen höheren Verlust von Ressourcen und eine vermehrte Entstehung von Abfällen zur Folge. Daher sieht das Umweltbundesamt Handlungsbedarf und hat auf Basis von zwei Forschungsvorhaben nun in einem Positionspapier Empfehlungen für Strategien gegen Obsoleszenz vorgelegt.
Overview of Linear Structural Models in Errors in Variables Regression
Creators: name: Gillard, Jonathan
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: This paper aims to overview the numerous approaches that have been developed to estimate the parameters of the linear structural model. The linear structural model is an example of an errors in variables model, or measurement error model that has wide practical use. This paper brings together key concepts from a scattered literature to give an accessible account of existing work on this particular errors in variables model.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Contemporary Art And The Movement Of Ideas: Locating The Contemporary Monochrome: On Nothing And The Movement Of Meaning Between East And West
Creators: name: Thomas, David
name: Jung, Hungtak
name: Kim, Kunghee
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: his 2700 word chapter discusses the monochrome /colour in contemporary Eastern and Western art practice. This builds on papers presented at conferences in British School Rome 2008 and Acuads in 2007 . The work looks at the monochrome as continuing relevant form of art practice and not as anendpoint in the history of Western Modernism.

Contemporary Art Journal is a new bilingual magazine funded by private sources and the local governmental regional arts organization. It is internationally distibuted and encourages a dialogue between S.Korea and the Engish speaking world.

The work builds upon my ongoing research in time and colour as manifest via reductive and abstract artworks in Eastern and western art. It places for the first time young Korean and Australian artists alonside an older generation and discusses the philosophic ideas of nothing..The chapter was part of first issue of a bilingual journal supported by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation S. Korea, and furthers the understanding of content. It fosters ongoing research links between RMIT and Korea and builds upon personal research contacts there.
Optimal Alarm Systems for FIAPARCH Processes
Creators: name: Costa, Conceição
name: G. Scotto, Manuel
name: Pereira, Isabel
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: In this work, an optimal alarm system is developed to predict whether a financial time series modeled via Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric Power ARCH (FIAPARCH) models, up/down crosses some particular level and give an alarm whenever this crossing is predicted. The paper presents classical and Bayesian methodology for producing optimal alarm systems. Both methodologies are illustrated and their performance compared through a simulation study. The work finishes with an empirical application to a set of data concerning daily returns of the São Paulo Stock Market.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Folding Method for Extreme Quantiles Estimation
Creators: name: Guillou, Armelle
name: Naveau, Philippe
name: You, Alexandre
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: In order to estimate extreme quantiles from independent and identically distributed random variables, we propose and study a novel folding procedure that improves quantile estimates obtained from the classical Peaks-Over-Threshold method (POT) used in Extreme Value Theory. The idea behind the folding approach is to connect the part of a distribution above a given threshold with the one below it. A simplified version of this approach was studied by You et al. (2010). In this paper, an extension based on two thresholds is proposed to better combine the folding scheme with the POT approach. Simulations indicate that this new strategy leads to improved extreme quantiles estimates for finite samples. Asymptotic normality of the folded POT estimators is also derived.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Estimation Following Subset Selection from Truncated Poisson Distributions under Stein Loss Function
Creators: name: Shanubhogue, A.
name: R. Al-Mosawi, Riyadh
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2010

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a subset selected from p (p ≥ 2) left-truncated Poisson distributions under Stein loss function. Two problems of estimations are considered; average worth and simultaneous estimation. For the average worth, the natural estimator is shown to be positively biased with respect to Stein loss function and the Unique Minimum Risk Unbiased Estimator UMRUE is obtained. For the simultaneous estimation problem, we have shown that the natural estimator is positively biased with respect to Stein loss function and the UMRUE is obtained. The inadmissibility of the natural estimator of the simultaneous estimation is also proved and a class of dominating estimators is obtained. Monte Carlo simulation is undertaken to compute the biases and risks of the two problems of estimation.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
The Effect of Haloperidol and Chlorpromazine on Salivary Flow Rate in Male Schizophrenic patients
Creators: name: Chaiyaporn Yingcharoenparsuk
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: Haloperidol,Chlorpromazine,Unstimulated Whole Salivary Flow Rate

description: 1, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Toward the Definition of a Structural Equation Model of Patent Value
Creators: name: Martinez-Ruiz, Alba
name: Aluja-Banet, Tomas
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: This paper aims to propose a structural equation model which relates the variables that determine the patent value. Even though some patent indicators have been directly used to infer the private or social value of innovations, the results suggest that patent value is a more complex variable that may be modeled as an endogenous unobservable variable in a first- and in a second-order model, and which depends respectively on three and four constructs. Such variables include the knowledge used by companies to create their inventions, the technological scope of the inventions, the international scope of protection, and the technological usefulness of the inventions. The model allows the conceptualization of patent value into a potential and a recognized value of intangible assets, aiming toward an index construction approach. Partial least square (PLS) path modelling is performed as an exploratory model-building procedure. We use a sample of 2,901 patents granted in the United States in the field of renewable energy.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
การนำระดับของการชัก (grades of convul-sion) มาใช้ปรับกระบวนการรักษาด้วยไฟฟ้าโดยยาระงับความรู้สึก (modified electro convulsive therapy)
Creators: name: สุชัย อนันตวณิชกิจ
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2548
Subjects: สถาบันจิตเวชศาสตร์สมเด็จเจ้าพระยา กรมสุขภาพจิต

description: 1, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
การพัฒนาคุณภาพโรงพยาบาลจิตเวช : กรณีโรงพยาบาลศรีธัญญา
Creators: name: อรวรรณ  ศิลปกิจ
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2548
Subjects: โรงพยาบาลศรีธัญญา กรมสุขภาพจิต

description: 1, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
The Social Skills Training of Chronic Psychiatric Patients in Srithanya Hospital
Creators: name: Surapin Tanratanakul
name: Sunee Ekwattanaphan
name: Nattawadee Ratananikom
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: the social skills training,chronic psychiatric patients

description: 2, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Factors Influencing Stress Management Behaviors of Thai Muslim High-School Adolescents in Three Border Provinces of Southern Thailand
Creators: name: Rohani Jaeasae
name: Wandee Suttharangsee
name: Jintana Leardpaiboon
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: Stress management behaviors,Thai Muslim adolescents

description: 2, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Still I - VI (text)
Creators: name: Duxbury, Lesley
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360699
subject: Visual arts not elsewhere classified

description: The book, 'Designing Place: An Archaeology of the Western District' was produced to complement the NETS and RMIT DRI funded research endeavour, 'Stony Rises Project' and brought together the contributions of artists, designers, geologist and social scientist to present a scholarly text that presented an holistic view of the Western District of Victoria, for the first time. As an artist on the project Duxbury was selected because of her previous involvement with the Western District and her engagement with its landscape that she had represented in earlier artworks. In writing about her previous and contemporary experience and phenomenological engagement with this region Duxbury related to the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth who wrote about her deep embodiment in the Lake District of UK in the 19th century and contemporary Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie who also writes about her everyday, local experiences of the natural environment of Scotland.

Duxbury's contribution to the project and the field was through a combination of text and images, whereby she was able to use photographs and previous work to inspire the text. Rather than relying on words alone to evoke place Duxbury utilised her own images to reflect on experiences and embodiment of the landscape, which extended and added value to the ethos of the publication, which was to represent a holistic portrayal of a specific and iconic location.
Lupus Mastitis - rare but typical imaging findings
Creators: name: Macedo, Carlos
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 47 years
description: Clinical History: 47 years-old female patient, with a history of systemic lupus, underwent routine breast mammography and ultrasonography. Final Diagnosis: Lupus mastitis
Of Force? Plasticity, Annihilation and Change
Creators: name: Cree, Dylan Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Catherine Malabou’s conception of plasticity as potentially having a creative or destructive form provides both philosophy and the neurosciences with a dynamic and generative concept for describing the workings and transformations of psychological, social, and material phenomena. Exploring the dynamism of Malabou’s plasticity, I question: how is plasticity, whether as a giving or receiving form, constituted to be so dynamic? Drawing somewhat from Heidegger’s account of change, I propose thinking of form as existing within a world of forces, to be a force, and be composed of force(s). The problem being, though somewhat presupposed and even alluded to in her elaborations of form and destructive plasticity, Malabou doesn’t conceptualize force nor advance it as a necessity for conceptualizing plasticity. Nevertheless, developing upon Christopher Watkin’s idea for engaging Malabou’s plasticity relationally within a broader ecology, we come to see how, whether ontically or ontologically, force(s) appear to be what makes plasticity dynamic. As a result, in order to address the figure of force as being integral to form, I argue that Malabou will need to somehow transfigure her conception of plasticity. Ultimately, in my estimation, such elaboration may lead to plasticity’s conceptual re-birth in the form of a mediating force.
The Exploration of the Relationships Between African American Students and their Non-African American Teachers and the Impact on Student Achievement
Creators: name: Griffin, Kortney
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: To see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.
description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between African American
students and their non-African American teachers through student perception and achievement.
The measurement tool was a perception survey. The researcher analyzed a 23-question, Likertstyle
survey completed by student participants that determined their views on school, teachers,
and their perspective on individual relationships with their teacher. The questions sought to
identify information about the students’ general perceptions of school and teacher qualities. The
questions also sought information on students’ perceptions of actually receiving these qualities
from their teachers. The results indicated that students, regardless of their academic achievement,
value particular traits in their teachers. The results also indicate that students experience these
qualities more frequently in teachers that have similar cultural backgrounds to them despite no
correlation to student achievement.
High Quantile Estimation and the Port Methodology
Creators: name: Henriques-Rodrigues, Lígia
name: Gomes, M. Ivette
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: In many areas of application, a typical requirement is to estimate a high quantile χ1−p of probability 1−p, a value, high enough, so that the chance of an exceedance of that value is equal to p, small. The semi-parametric estimation of high quantiles depends not only on the estimation of the tail index γ, the primary parameter of extreme events, but also on an adequate estimation of a scale first order parameter. The great majority of semi-parametric quantile estimators, in the literature, do not enjoy the adequate behaviour, in the sense that they do not suffer the appropriate linear shift in the presence of linear transformations of the data. Recently, and for heavy tails (γ > 0), a new class of quantile estimators was introduced with such a behaviour. They were named PORT-quantile estimators, with PORT standing for peaks over random threshold. In this paper, also for heavy tails, we introduce a new class of PORT-quantile estimators with the above mentioned behaviour, using the PORT methodology and incorporating Hill and moment PORT-classes of tail index estimators in one of the most recent classes of quantile estimators suggested in the literature. Under convenient restrictions on the underlying model, these classes of estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal for adequate k, the number of top order statistics used in the semi-parametric estimation of χ1−p.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Limit Model for the Reliability of a Regular and Homogeneous Series-Parallel System
Creators: name: Reis, Paula
name: Canto E Castro, Luísa
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: In large-scale systems the study of the exact reliability function can be an intricate problem. In these cases it is better to admit that the number of system components goes to infinity so as to find asymptotic models that give a good interpretation of the reliability. In this paper we will use some results of extreme value theory to obtain the asymptotic distribution of the reliability of a regular and homogeneous series-parallel system.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Comparisons of the Performances of Estimators of a Bounded Normal Mean Under Squared-Error Loss
Creators: name: Dou, Yiping
name: Van Eeden, Constance
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: This paper is concerned with the estimation under squared-error loss of a normal mean θ based on X ∼ N (θ, 1) when |θ| ≤ m for a known m > 0. Nine estimators are compared, namely the maximum likelihood estimator (mle), three dominators of the mle obtained from Moors, from Charras and from Charras and van Eeden, two minimax estimators from Casella and Strawderman, a Bayes estimator of Marchand and Perron, the Pitman estimator and Bickel’s asymptotically-minimax estimator. The comparisons are based on analytical as well as on graphical results concerning their risk functions. In particular, we comment on their gain in accuracy from using the restriction, as well as on their robustness with respect to misspecification of m.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Saddlepoint Approximation to a Distribution-Free Test for Stochastic Ordering in the Competing Risks Model
Creators: name: Murakami, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: The approximation for the distribution function of a test statistic is extremely important in statistics. A distribution-free test for stochastic ordering in the competing risks model has been proposed by Bagai et al. (1989). Herein, we performed a standard saddlepoint approximation in the tails for the Bagai statistic under finite sample sizes. We then compared the saddlepoint approximation with the Bagai approximation to obtain the exact critical value. The table of the critical values was extended by using the saddlepoint approximation. Additionally, the orders of errors of a saddlepoint approximation were derived.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Bayesian Shrinkage Approach in Weibull Type -II Censored Data Using Prior Point Information
Creators: name: Prakash, Gyan
name: Singh, D.C.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: In the present paper we study the performance of the Bayes Shrinkage estimators for the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution under the squared error loss and the LINEX loss functions in the presence of a prior point information of the scale parameter when Type -II censored data are available. The properties of the minimax estimators are also discussed.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Monitoring Industrial Processes with Robust Control Charts
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Fernanda
name: Gomes, M. Ivette
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: The Shewhart control charts, used for monitoring industrial processes, are the most popular tools in Statistical Process Control (SPC). They are usually developed under the assumption of independent and normally distributed data, an assumption rarely true in practice, and implemented with estimated control limits. But in general, we essentially want to control the process mean value and the process standard deviation, independently of the data distribution. In order to monitor these parameters, it thus seems sensible to advance with control charts based on robust statistics, because these statistics are expected to be more resistant to moderate changes in the underlying process distribution. In this paper, we investigate the advantage of using control charts based on robust statistics. Apart from the traditional control charts, the sample mean and the sample range charts, we consider robust control charts based on the total median and on the total range statistics, for monitoring the process mean value and the process standard deviation, respectively. Through the use of Monte Carlo simulations, we compare these charts in terms of robustness and performance.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Forecasting Time Series with Boot.EXPOS Procedure
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Clara
name: Neves, M. Manuela
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: To forecast future values of a time series is one of the main goals in times series analysis. Many forecasting methods have been developed and its performance evaluated. In order to make a selection among an avalanche of such emerging methods they have to be compared in a kind of forecasting competition. One of these competitions is the M3 competition with its 3003 time series. The competition results in Makridakis and Hibon (2000) paper are frequently used as a benchmark in comparative studies. The Boot.EXPOS approach developed by the authors, combines the use of exponential smoothing methods with the bootstrap methodology to forecast time series. The idea is to join these two approaches (bootstrap and exponential smoothing) and to construct a computational algorithm to obtain forecasts. It works in an automatic way and can be summarized as follows: (i) choose an exponential smoothing model, among several proposed using the mean squared error, and obtain the model components; (ii) fit an AR to the residuals of the adjusted model; the order of the AR is selected by AIC criterion; (iii) center the new residuals obtained in previous step and resample; (iv) obtain a bootstrapped replica of the time series according to the AR model and exponential smoothing components found in first step; (v) forecast future values according to model in (i); (vi) compute the point forecast as the mean or as the median of the predicted values. The performance of the procedure here proposed is evaluated by comparing it with other procedures presented in the M3 competition. Some accuracy measures are used for that comparison. All computational work is done using the R2.8.1 software (R Development Core Team, 2008).
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Forecasting in INAR(1) Model
Creators: name: Silva, Nélia
name: Pereira, Isabel
name: Silva, M. Eduarda
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: In this work we consider the problem of forecasting integer-valued time series, modelled by the INAR(1) process introduced by McKenzie (1985) and Al-Osh and Alzaid (1987). The theoretical properties and practical applications of INAR and related processes have been discussed extensively in the literature but there is still some discussion on the problem of producing coherent, i.e. integer-valued, predictions. Here Bayesian methodology is used to obtain point predictions as well as confidence intervals for future values of the process. The predictions thus obtained are compared with their classic counterparts. The proposed approaches are illustrated with a simulation study and a real example.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Parameter Estimation for INAR Processes Based on High-Order Statistics
Creators: name: Silva, Isabel
name: Silva, M. Eduarda
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: The high-order statistics (moments and cumulants of order higher than two) have been widely applied in several fields, specially in problems where it is conjectured a lack of Gaussianity and/or non-linearity. Since the INteger-valued AutoRegressive, INAR, processes are non-Gaussian, the high-order statistics can provide additional information that allows a better characterization of these processes. Thus, an estimation method for the parameters of an INAR process, based on Least Squares for the third-order moments is proposed. The results of a Monte Carlo study to investigate the performance of the estimator are presented and the method is applied to a set of real data.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Filters for Short Nonstationary Sequences
Creators: name: S.G. Pollock, D.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: This paper gives an account of some techniques of linear filtering which can be used for extracting the business cycle from economic data sequences of limited duration. It is argued that there can be no definitive definition of the business cycle. Both the definition of the business cycle and the methods that are used to extract it must be adapted to the purposes of the analysis; and different definitions may be appropriate to different eras.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Detecting Social Interactions in Bivariate Probit Models with an Endogenous Dummy Variable
Creators: name: Jaenicke, Johannes
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: This paper analyzes the possibility of detecting observable and non-observable social interactions in a bivariate probit model with an endogenous dummy regressor via Monte Carlo simulation. In small samples, we find severe size distortions of the Wald test and only a low probability of detecting observable and non-observable social interactions. In large samples, however, we find this test to be very powerful.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Reconfiguring Knowledge Ecosystems : Librarians and adult literacy educators in knowledge exchange work
Creators: name: O'Brien, Heather, 1977-
name: De Forest, Heather
name: McCauley, Aleha
name: Sinnamon, Luanne
name: Smythe, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Knowledge exchange, also called knowledge translation, mobilization, or transfer, increasingly factors in university strategic plans and funding agency mandates. The growing emphasis on research that includes community engagement and making research knowledge more accessible and useful for nonacademic constituents often brings in knowledge brokers, whose activities promote sharing of research knowledge among different actors. In this article, we consider how librarians and adult literacy educators engage in this work as professionals uniquely positioned to advance knowledge exchange initiatives. Three initiatives in British Columbia, Canada, involve academic librarians and adult literacy educators engaging in knowledge exchange work in transformative ways. We describe how they are reconfiguring knowledge making, sharing, and use with constituents and bridging nonacademic and university communities. This approach disrupts traditional notions of who produces and consumes knowledge and who is an expert while acknowledging how place-based approaches are essential for advancing knowledge exchange initiatives.
Insurance Type Model for the Health Cost of Cold Housing
Creators: name: Gilchrist, Robert
name: Kamara, Alim
name: Rudge, Janet
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: This paper introduces a substantive problem, namely the link between fuel poverty and excess winter morbidity amongst older people, and shows how the GAMLSS suite of programs (www.gamlss.com) can be used to provide a very flexible method of modelling both the number of hospital admissions and the corresponding lengths of stay in hospital. The approach is closely related to the models that have been used to model the number of insurance claims, and their cost (see Heller et al. (2007)). We fit the Beta Binomial distribution and a variety of continuous distributions.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Prewhitening-Based Estimation in Partial Linear Regression Models
Creators: name: Aneiros-Pérez, German
name: Vilar-Fernández, Juan Manuel
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: The problem of semiparametric modelling in time series is considered. For this, partial linear regression models are used, that is, regression models where the regression function is the sum of a linear and a nonparametric component. Two estimators for the nonparametric component are shown: one estimator takes into account the dependence structure in the errors of the regression function and the another estimator not. Both estimators are compared in practice for several real time series concerning economics and finance. In addition to the partial linear regression model, other regression models are included in the comparison.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
The study of schizophrenic patients' and their relatives' quality of life: a case-study of Day Hospital's patients, Somdetchaopraya Institute of Psychiatry
Creators: name: Norrawee Phoomchan
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: quality of life,psychiatric symptoms,schizophrenic patients,Day Hospital

description: 3, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
The SVM Approach for Box–Jenkins Models
Creators: name: Amiri, Saeid
name: Von Rosen, Dietrich
name: Zwanzig, Silvelyn
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2009

description: Support Vector Machine (SVM) is known in classification and regression modeling. It has been receiving attention in the application of nonlinear functions. The aim is to motivate the use of the SVM approach to analyze the time series models. This is an effort to assess the performance of SVM in comparison with ARMA model. The applicability of this approach for a unit root situation is also considered.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Situation Review on Voluntary Counsel-ling and Testing:Implication for Thailand Policy on Anti-Retroviral Therapies
Creators: name: Prawate Tantipiwatanaskul
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: Policy on Anti-retroviral Therapies,Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT),Situation review

description: 3, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Gang Green
Creators: name: Cininas, Jazmina
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: This catalogue essay provides an overview and analysis of the artist Rona Green's practice over the last decade. While other essays and writings on the artist have covered individual exhibitions or sets of work, my essay, "Gang Green", charted the shifts in themes, subjects and mediums within the artist's practice over the course of the decade, while also identifying trends and recurring motifs. As such, it is the most comprehensive appraisal of Green's work to date.

The catalogue essay was commissioned by the artist and the exhibition host gallery, Deakin University Art Gallery, a highly regarded academic exhibition space and public art collection. Artists are able to exhibit in the gallery by invitation only, and are chosen according to their profile and significant contribution to contemporary art practice. Writers of catalogue essays are also screened by the gallery committee to ensure high academic and professional standards.