cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pooling of Variances: The Skeleton in the Mixed Model Closet?
Creators: name: Dixon, Philip M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: I explore three related issues concerning pooling of error variances: when is it appropriate (or not) to pool, how best to evaluate equality of variances, and whether there is a cost to never pooling. I focus on pooling decisions in a combined analysis of a multi-site experiment. A-priori, sites should have different error variances. My primary question is whether an analysis that ignores unequal variances is wrong.
I find that ignoring heteroscedasticity between sites maintains, or provides slightly conservative, tests of average treatment effects and treatment-by-site interactions. Models with site-specific variances do provide more powerful tests when variances are different. Never pooling, i.e., using site-specific variances when variances are equal, also reduces power. In contrast to the relatively benign effects of pooling across sites, incorrectly pooling across treatments is much more serious.
AIC-based evaluations of variances are very sensitive to non-normality, with a strong tendency to indicate unequal variances when that is incorrect and the data are non-normal. While Levene’s test is somewhat liberal when errors are skewed or heavy-tailed, it is much more robust than AIC.
I conclude that ignoring site-specific error variances is not wrong, but modeling that heterogeneity will increase power. If there is any possibility that errors are non-normal, I suggest that variance models be evaluated using Levene’s test instead of AIC.
Domestic Tour Operators: Moving Towards Inclusive Tourism
Creators: name: Raju, Roshan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The institution of Domestic tour operators are key players in promoting and developing the tourism avenues. They are involved in making sure the tourists have a great experience while visiting any domestic tour destination. But in recent times the contribution of the domestic tour operators towards a sustainable and inclusive form of tourism has been less. The purpose of the present research is to discover the key factors which are hindrance to the domestic tour operators to promote inclusive tourism. Drawing form the literature on new institutional theories in organization studies and taking into consideration
title: Model Averaging in Agriculture and Natural Resources: What Is It? When Is It Useful? When Is It a Distraction?
Creators: name: Dixon, Philip M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: I use two examples to illustrate three methods for model averaging: using AIC weights, using BIC weights, and fully Bayesian analyses. The first example is a capture-recapture study that estimates the population size by averaging over 4 models for capture probabilities. The second is an analysis of a study of logging impacts on Curculionid weevils using a before-after-control-impact (BACI) study design. The estimated impact is averaged over 4 ecologically relevant models.
Both examples demonstrate the sensitivity of model weights, or posterior model probabilities, to the choice of prior model probabilities and prior distributions for parameters. The model averaged estimates and their confidence intervals are less influenced by those choices. The BACI-design example also demonstrates the need to carefully choose the model parameterization so that the parameter of interest, the interaction, has the same interpretation for all models in the model set. I also briefly discuss three other frequentist approaches to model averaging: bagging, stacking, and model-averaged-tail-area confidence intervals.
Multi-objective Robust Optimization using a Post-optimality Sensitivity Analysis Technique: Application to a Wind Turbine Design
Creators: name: Wang, Weijun
name: Caro, Stéphane
name: Bennis, Fouad
name: Soto, Ricardo
name: Crawford, Broderick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Toward a multi-objective optimization robust problem, the variations in design variables and design environment pa-rameters include the small variations and the large varia-tions. The former have small effect on the performance func-tions and/or the constraints, and the latter refer to the ones that have large effect on the performance functions and/or the constraints. The robustness of performance functions is discussed in this paper. A post-optimality sensitivity analysis technique for multi-objective robust optimization problems is discussed and two robustness indices are introduced. The first one considers the robustness of the performance func-tions to small variations in the design variables and the de-sign environment parameters. The second robustness index characterizes the robustness of the performance functions to large variations in the design environment parameters. It is based on the ability of a solution to maintain a good Pareto ranking for different design environment parameters due to large variations. The robustness of the solutions is treated as vectors in the robustness function space, which is defined by the two proposed robustness indices. As a result, the designer can compare the robustness of all Pareto optimal solutions and make a decision. Finally, two illustrative examples are given to highlight the contributions of this paper. The first example is about a numerical problem, whereas the second problem deals with the multi-objective robust optimization design of a floating wind turbine.
Work on the interplay among $h^+$, $h^{-}$ and hadron pair transverse spin asymmetries in SIDIS
Creators: name: Bradamante, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark a left-right asymmetry, the Collins asymmetry, is expected for each hadron produced in the process $μN \rightarrow μ' h^{+} h^{-} X$. Similarly, an asymmetry is also expected for the hadron pair, the dihadron asymmetry. Both asymmetries have been measured to be different from zero on transversely polarised proton targets and have allowed for first extractions of the transversity distributions. From the high statistics COMPASS data we have further investigated these asymmetries getting strong indications that the two mechanisms are driven by a common physical process.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
DTO_Inclusive tour_ Rosh1.docx
Creators: name: Raju, Roshan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The institution of Domestic tour operators are key players in promoting and developing the tourism avenues. They are involved in making sure the tourists have a great experience while visiting any domestic tour destination. But in recent times the contribution of the domestic tour operators towards a sustainable and inclusive form of tourism has been less. The purpose of the present research is to discover the key factors which are hindrance to the domestic tour operators to promote inclusive tourism. Drawing form the literature on new institutional theories in organization studies and taking into consideration
Stakeholder Report on Financial Innovation for Prosumer Expansion
Creators: name: Holstenkamp, L.
name: Becker, T.
name: Beigang, A.
name: Ehrtmann, M.
name: Davis, M.
name: Brown, D.
name: Hall, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: prosumers
financial innovations
business models
markets
energy
PROSEU

description: This report gives examples of financial innovations already available to prosumer business models and establishes how they can be integrated into the diverse financial markets in the European Union. The main goal of this report is to inspire stakeholders – such as financial institutions and community energy intermediaries – either to adopt these models or to adapt them to their respective national and local contexts. For this purpose, we give an overview of 10 cases - local initiatives, supporting organisations and/or financial institutions - and show how they have developed their model within the respective institutional environment.
description: H2020 project PROSEU - Prosumers for the Energy Union: Mainstreaming active participation of citizens in the energy transition. Work package 4 (WP4) - Finance and business models
Heat trace asymptotics of subordinate Brownian motion in Euclidean space
Creators: name: Fahrenwaldt, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G51, 35S05, 58J42

description: For a class of Laplace exponents we derive the heat trace asymptotics of the generator of the corresponding subordinate Brownian motion on Euclidean space. The terms in the asymptotic expansion are found to depend both on the geometry of Euclidean space and probabilistic properties of the subordinator. The key assumption is the existence of a suitable density for the Levy measure of the subordinator. An intermediate step is the computation of the zeta function of the generator. We employ methods from the theory of classical pseudodifferential operators on Euclidean space. The analysis is highly explicit and fully analytically tractable.
description: Potential Analysis, 2015
Two Decades of Distributed Peer Review in Computer Science, at Scale
Creators: name: Shah, Nihar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Distributed peer review, algorithms

description: The field of computer science has been using distributed peer review (DPR) for many years. In parallel, the number of submissions has rapidly grown with a 5-fold increase in the past 5 years. In this talk, I will describe our experience with DPR---at scale.
Fête patronale de la saint Marcel, fête provençale place de la Rouguière, jeu du bouquet
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Synthesis Report based on in-depth assessment of 10 transferable best practices
Creators: name: Maleki-Dizaji, Pouyan
name: Rueda, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Deliverable 5.3 includes the presentation of the methodological process for best practice development and comparative analysis on drivers and success factors of the different best practice cases. All best practice case studies are synthesised and showcased. In order to conduct a first comparative analysis, a Truth Table has been developed that allows to compare the different relevant factors between cases and identify cross-case patterns in order to infer general conclusions. Based on this, the findings on common drivers and success factors are presented and analysed, both collectively and individually. As a result of this analysis, a series of lessons have been learnt and a list of recommendations for policymakers and REC developers are provided. Finally, some general remarks for the transfer of best practice cases to the COME RES target regions and beyond are elaborated.
Lowering the background level and the energy threshold of Micromegas x-ray detectors for axion searches
Creators: name: Iguaz, F. J.
name: Aune, S.
name: Aznar, F.
name: Castel, J. F.
name: Dafni, T.
name: Davenport, M.
name: Ferrer-Ribas, E.
name: Galan, J.
name: Garcia, J. A.
name: Garza, J. G.
name: Giomataris, I.
name: Irastorza, I. G.
name: Papaevangelou, T.
name: Rodriguez, A.
name: Tomas, A.
name: Vafeiadis, T.
name: Yildiz, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axion helioscopes search for solar axions by their conversion in x-rays in the presence of high magnetic fields. The use of low background x-ray detectors is an essential component contributing to the sensitivity of these searches. In this work, we review the recent advances on Micromegas detectors used in the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and proposed for the future International Axion Observatory (IAXO). The actual setup in CAST has achieved background levels below 10$^{-6}$ keV$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, a factor 100 lower than the first generation of Micromegas detectors. This reduction is based on active and passive shielding techniques, the selection of radiopure materials, offline discrimination techniques and the high granularity of the readout. We describe in detail the background model of the detector, based on its operation at CAST site and at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC), as well as on Geant4 simulations. The best levels currently achieved at LSC are low than 10$^{-7}$ keV$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and show good prospects for the application of this technology in IAXO. Finally, we present some ideas and results for reducing the energy threshold of these detectors below 1 keV, using high-transparent windows, autotrigger electronics and studying the cluster shape at different energies. As a high flux of axion-like-particles is expected in this energy range, a sub-keV threshold detector could enlarge the physics case of axion helioscopes.
description: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2014)
Asset Pack
Creators: name: Pailthorpe, Baden
Publisher: name: Sullivan+Strumpf
Year: 2019

description: Asset Pack is a major solo exhibition of 11 artworks that critically engage with the aesthetics of digital assets and virtual marketplaces. Sullivan+Strumpf is one of Australia's leading commercial art galleries, representing some of the most celebrated artists from across the Asia Pacific region. Bringing together a series of real-time animations, computer sculptures, physical textures, speculative objects and a large-scale light installation, this exhibition greatly expands Pailthorpe’s practice to-date. The generative animations depict a series of ready made collections of virtual objects, programmed with spatially intelligent algorithms, whilst a series of extreme computer sculptures blur the boundaries of aesthetic experience and functionality. Through these artworks, Pailthorpe unites a collection of physical and virtual assets that together create new systems of meaning. In doing so, he recontextualises these objects and redefines their potential as artefacts of our contemporary moment.
Twilight Musical Dialogues: Musical Kin - Father and Daughter
Creators: name: Walker, Sally
Publisher: name: Twilight Musical Dialogues
Year: 2019

description: Twilight Musical Dialogues: Musical Kin --- Father and Daughter The Twilight Musical Dialogues series features collaborations with some of Australia's finest musicians. 'Musical Kin' explores artistic lives of composers with extensive musical family trees. Works from both known and lesser known composers from musical families were performed by members of musical families, and through this, familial themes were explored. In this concert for the Newcastle Music Festival, Christopher Allan (Piano) joined his daughter Miriam Allan (Soprano 'sublime singing', Gramophone) and Artistic Director, flautist Sally Walker to share part of their artistic lives, performing works by composers with extensive family trees: the Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann families. The sold out concert gained a five star review from Limelight. Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Il re pastore K. 208, L'Amero saro costante Leopold Mozart - From Nannerl's Notebook, Fanny Cacilia Hensel - Funf Lieder Op. 10: Bergeslust, Nach Suden, Vorwurf Felix Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words Op.53 no.19 in A Flat Major Clara Schumann - Nocturne in F major op 6. No 2. (featured Young Artist Elliot Kozary) Robert Schumann - Romanze Op. 94/2 Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata BWV82 "Ich habe genug": Schlummert Ein Johann Christoph Bach - Sonata No. 1 for Flute and Obligato Continuo in D minor Artwork: 'Family Tree' by Judith Clingan.
Editors’ Introduction
Creators: name: Contreras Tasso, Beatriz
name: Mena Malet, Patricio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: Today we are witnessing an unprecedented crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Its unparalleled and unpredictable character, added to its expansion and the way it has affected contemporary society, also emphasizes the underlying question, who are we? Why and in what sense? In the current context, where, on the one hand, there is a loss of confidence in the ways in which we govern ourselves, as well as an uncertainty regarding the direction that this crisis may take and the threshold to which it can lead us, the question certainly arises as to whether what we are has a background on which to support ourselves; if anything, that "who" that we claim to be and to whom we bear witness in our work can withstand the test of the unpredictable and unexpected, of what has plunged us into a situation as unusual as it is incomprehensible. As tragic as this situation affects us worldwide, it affects us both collectively and personally. With all the momentum with which this even strikes us, do we not live it precisely as a challenge to the security whereby we usually respond to the question of our personal identity? Is it not at such an exceptional moment as this, when the question of personal identity worries us greatly as soon as our temporal condition takes on real importance, which, irreversible as such, offers us in turn the opportunity to reverse the situation we are involved in? Is it not during this worldwide crisis, which we first experienced as a personal rupture, which in turn gives us the opportunity to appreciate the tension we live in, but which is present, however, most of the time, invisible to us, namely, that of being engaged in a habitual, inhabited space, consolidated by a sense that we inherit, at the same time that we believe we are called to innovate on that? Isn't this time the one that certainly makes history in our personal and social fabric? However, it seems that we also can, in an unprecedented way, experience this crisis as an identity crisis insofar as it enhances its problematic dimension.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Repensar la formación de los abogados en el contexto del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
Creators: name: Pérez Arce, Christian Nelio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: El desarrollo de las siguientes páginas, son el resultado del análisis de los planes de estudio de la Carreras de Derecho del país, caracterizadas por su enfoque jurídico tradicional y los procesos educativos vinculados a la formación de abogados en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia y en particular de la Carrera de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad Mayor de San Simón, en la cual se desarrolló un diagnóstico, que permite entender la realidad de los procesos formativos, que se ejecutan en dicha institución y que se emulan en gran parte del territorio nacional. Y es a partir del análisis de los planes de estudio y del diagnóstico, es que se esbozan algunos criterios destinados a la formación de los abogados, acordes a la pluralidad de necesidades, intereses y expectativas individuales y colectivas del Estado boliviano.
Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Fields, Brian D.
name: Molaro, Paolo
name: Sarkar, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A critical review is given of the current status of cosmological nucleosynthesis. In the framework of the Standard Model with 3 types of relativistic neutrinos, the baryon-to-photon ratio, $η$, corresponding to the inferred primordial abundances of deuterium and helium-4 is consistent with the independent determination of $η$ from observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. However the primordial abundance of lithium-7 inferred from observations is significantly below its expected value. Taking systematic uncertainties in the abundance estimates into account, there is overall concordance in the range $η= (5.7-6.7)\times 10^{-10}$ at 95% CL (corresponding to a cosmological baryon density $Ω_B h^2 = 0.021 - 0.025$). The D and He-4 abundances, when combined with the CMB determination of $η$, provide the bound $N_ν=3.28 \pm 0.28$ on the effective number of neutrino species. Other constraints on new physics are discussed briefly.
description: 15 pages, 1 (new) figure; mini-review in the Review of Particle Physics 2014 by the Particle Data Group (http://pdg.lbl.gov/)
Singularity and Power-to-Be-Another: Ipseity and Event in Claude Romano
Creators: name: Vieira, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: The philosophy of the 20th century has been constructed as a fierce critique of the modern idea of subjectivity. Phenomenology has also participated in this critique, through the critique of Husserlian phenomenology. So we find the refashioning of phenomenology from within, which is, a new contemporary French phenomenology. Our intention is to show with Claude Romano how the concept of ipseity can illuminate the contemporary debate about personal identity. Event and ipseity (selfhood) would be the key to understand the possibility of non-substantial personal singularity, as well as the possibility of being another (andersseinskönnen). In addition, we propose the example of forgiveness as an enabling event of singularity.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Good Practice Portfolio of Renewable Energy Communities
Creators: name: Maleki-Dizaji, Pouyan
name: Nowakowski, Piotr
name: Kudrenickis, Ivars
name: Rueda, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Deliverable 5.2 includes the categorisation and characterisation of all 21 good practice cases and the selection and justification of the best practice cases. The case studies are analysed according to the methodology and template elaborated in Deliverable 5.1 and describe and examine the activities, purposes and benefits of each good practice; between 1-3 for each COME RES participating country.
Ipseity: a confident odyssey of 'I can' and thrown courage of 'I do'
Creators: name: Contreras Tasso, Beatriz
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: I intend to address the question of “Who am I?”, considering Ricœur's early phenomenological inquiry, as an onto-anthropological spectrum that contributes to the understanding of ipseity in his hermeneutical phenomenology of the Self. I’ll take as a common thread the odyssey of existing and its finite condition, a recurring metaphor in Ricœur. This figure very well illustrates ipseity, since it denotes the idea of travel, effort and time. The odyssey points to the ontological sense of the precariousness of existing and its constitutive noncompliance. Both fundamental ontological characters determine existence as a task; being Oneself and a process; the self-discovery or appropriation of Oneself as an uninterrupted condition of the possibility of the realization of a meaningful life. I highlight three thematic milestones of the phenomenology of "I can" which found the ethics inside the request of "I do": His affirmative ontology in the "ontological vehemence" of "I am" (1955); his phenomenological reinstatement of feeling, as an irreducible anchor of freedom (1950-60) and his hermeneutics of the other’s imagination, as a condition of attestation (1990).
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
title: Political Culture and Women's Political Activity in Post Communist Ukraine A Case Study of the 1994 Elections
Creators: name: Wilt, Tonja M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: This research identifies and examines two distinct political cultures in post-communist Ukraine, characterized by the presence of Soviet and non-Soviet influences. Soviet political culture is associated with East Ukrainian regions where Soviet policies of Russification, collectivization and urbanization were deeply entrenched. The non-Soviet political culture is present in Western Ukraine where said policies were least successful and the Ukrainian culture is more established.

The question posed in this thesis is: To what extent, if any, do regional political cultures influence women's political activity in Ukraine? This study focuses on the Soviet practice of appointing hundreds of women to the Supreme Soviet, officially designated as the highest decision making body in the USSR. Studies show a tradition of female political representation can influence women's future representation in politics and can break down stereotypical images. Candidate data from Ukraine's 1994 parliamentary elections and regional measures of Soviet influence are used to resolve this question.

This research shows that Western Ukraine consistently ranks lowest in levels of Soviet influence and Eastern and Southern Ukraine rank the highest. In two chi-square tests, the independent variable - female candidates - was tested for independence against the dependent variable - Ukrainian region. Test outcomes and significance varied according to regional groupings. Candidate data from Ukraine's 1994 parliamentary election serves as the dependent variable, while indicators measuring Soviet influences, like ethnic Russian population, ethnic Ukrainians claiming Russian as their mother tongue, pupils in Russian schools and urbanization, serve as the independent variables.
Between Affectivity and Initiative: The Anthropological Bases of a Hermeneutical Ethics
Creators: name: Busacchi, Vinicio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: By following Ricœur’s perspective, this article aims to develop a reflection around the anthropological bases of ethics, or even, around an anthropological-hermeneutical conception of ethics. The author starts from an analysis of the key notions of affectivity and initiative to demonstrate how personal identity is formed via a hermeneutic course of emancipation as an ethical challenge. The capacity to become a person characterises Ricœur’s view on the human being. The person is the product of a process, within a difficult and contradictory dialectic between different instances.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
The reconfigurable Josephson circulator/directional amplifier
Creators: name: Sliwa, K. M.
name: Hatridge, M.
name: Narla, A.
name: Shankar, S.
name: Frunzio, L.
name: Schoelkopf, R. J.
name: Devoret, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circulators and directional amplifiers are crucial non-reciprocal signal routing and processing components involved in microwave readout chains for a variety of applications. They are particularly important in the field of superconducting quantum information, where the devices also need to have minimal photon losses to preserve the quantum coherence of signals. Conventional commercial implementations of each device suffer from losses and are built from very different physical principles, which has led to separate strategies for the construction of their quantum-limited versions. However, as recently proposed theoretically, by establishing simultaneous pairwise conversion and/or gain processes between three modes of a Josephson-junction based superconducting microwave circuit, it is possible to endow the circuit with the functions of either a phase-preserving directional amplifier or a circulator. Here, we experimentally demonstrate these two modes of operation of the same circuit. Furthermore, in the directional amplifier mode, we show that the noise performance is comparable to standard non-directional superconducting amplifiers, while in the circulator mode, we show that the sense of circulation is fully reversible. Our device is far simpler in both modes of operation than previous proposals and implementations, requiring only three microwave pumps. It offers the advantage of flexibility, as it can dynamically switch between modes of operation as its pump conditions are changed. Moreover, by demonstrating that a single three-wave process yields non-reciprocal devices with reconfigurable functions, our work breaks the ground for the development of future, more-complex directional circuits, and has excellent prospects for on-chip integration.
title: The Effects of Explicitly Teaching Summarization Skills on the Reading Comprehension of Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
Creators: name: Lay, Sherri
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Students with reading disabilities struggle with comprehending what they are reading and the necessary strategies to help them understand what they read. Summarizing what was read is a proven strategy for improving reading comprehension. This project examined one strategy for writing summaries called Generating Interactions between Schemata and Text or GIST. Participants included two 7th grade students and one 8th grade student who were in Special Education classroom for reading services. The results of this study were inconclusive. Participants showed growth in their summarizing skills, but the growth could not be adequately attributed to the GIST strategy.
The Person, a ‘Material’ Story: The Construction of Ipseity and the Writing and Reading of the Shared Space
Creators: name: D’Alessandris, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: The issue of personal identity has been connected since its first formulation, in the modern age, to the one is persistence of self in time. The most recent hypothesis of a narrative identity of person, specifically the one given by Paul Ricœur, starts from this same assumption. In this article, we will reformulate the link between person and narrative from the perspective of the category of space. The transcendental connection between time and space and the essential corporeity of the person will be the starting point for a theory of the act of reading as a construction of ipseity. This latter exhibits its singularity throughout personal understanding of places, by inhabiting a shared space which is, for its part, an architectural material narrative.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Matrix product state representation of non-Abelian quasiholes
Creators: name: Wu, Yang-Le
name: Estienne, B.
name: Regnault, N.
name: Bernevig, B. Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a detailed explanation of the formalism necessary to construct matrix product states for non-Abelian quasiholes in fractional quantum Hall model states. Our construction yields an efficient representation of the wave functions with conformal-block normalization and monodromy, and complements the matrix product state representation of fractional quantum Hall ground states.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; published version
Paul Ricoeur: Imaginative Variation and Narrative Identity
Creators: name: Recupero, Angela Monica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: The dialectic between idem and ipse, in radical opposition to Descartes’ method on which the cogito is based, represents the hermeneutics of the self. Narrative identity performs a mediating function between self-sameness and hypseity: Ricœur hypothesizes a project, the foundation of which is traced in the imaginative variation generated in the story, which recognizes identity as a narrative identity. Even though the narrative text remains central, the interpretative perspective does not follow the direction or sense of the author of the text, but instead the world to which the text opens up in its entirety.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Identity and Alienation
Creators: name: Schaumann, Linda
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: In Das Selbst als ein Anderer lässt Ricœur die personale Identität in verschiedenen Hinsichten Andersheit in sich begreifen; das Selbst steht in einem intimen Verhältnis zum Anderen und zum zeitlichen Wandel. Dabei umfasst Identität das Identifiziert-sein und das Sich-identifizieren. Letzteres kann auch nur darin bestehen, im Rahmen des Worthaltens eine fehlende tatsächliche Identifikation zu kompensieren. Es ergibt sich bei Ricœur daraus, dass ein Anderer von mir ein bestimmtes Reden und Handeln erwartet. Der Artikel zeigt, in Abgrenzung dazu, wie Worthalten mit Kant verstanden werden kann, dass hierin eine Nicht-Achtung meiner Autonomie liegt, die Entfremdung ist. Diese Entfremdung kann nur durch eine instrumentelle Auffassung meines Handelns kompensiert werden. Als Beispiel einer solchen Kompensation führe ich Blacks Konzept des Humbugs an. Mit Heideggers Konzept des Man und in Auseinandersetzung mit dem postfordistischen Arbeitsmarkt zeige ich dann, dass eine instrumentelle Identifikation mit einem sozial erwarteten Handeln jedoch auch zur Entfremdung führt.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
VIALACTEA WP5 Deliverable Item 5.3 3D Visual Analytic Frontend module and Visual Analytic portlets for the Science Gateway – v1
Creators: name: Vitello Fabio
name: Becciani Ugo
name: Costa Alessandro
name: Eva, Sciacca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document is the explanatory supplement of the 3D Visual Analytic client. The version 1 of the software is the deliverable 5.3 (D5.3) of the Work Package WP5 of the VIALACTEA project.
Sign, Meaning, and Symbol
Creators: name: Michel, Johann
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020

description: L’ambition de la présente contribution est de délimiter le champ de l’herméneutique, par contraste avec d’autres sciences ou de philosophies du langage. La voie que nous explorons propose un double mouvement paradoxal, à la fois de rétrécissement et d’élargissement de l’herméneutique. L’interprétation ne se pose que pour une catégorie particulière de signes dont la signification est problématique en fonction de contextes donnés et de l’expérience des interprètes. A ce mouvement de rétrécissement, il faut en même temps ajouter un mouvement, sur un autre plan, d’élargissement de l’objet de l’herméneutique. Car les significations problématiques ne sont nullement réductibles, ni aux signes linguistiques (énoncés, textes…), ni aux signes à double sens (les symboles) qui n’en sont qu’une partie. En d’autres termes, tout signe, dont la forme peut être iconique, indiciaire ou linguistique, dont la source peut être naturelle ou conventionnelle, dont le canal peut être visuel, auditif ou olfactif, en tant qu’il comporte une problématicité, en tant qu’il est réfractaire à la compréhension immédiate, peut faire l’objet d’une interprétation et relever corrélativement du champ de l’herméneutique.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 3, N. 2 (2019): Personal Identity: An Issue that Demands Revision in Today’s Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Memories of Julian Schwinger
Creators: name: Gerjuoy, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The career and accomplishments of Julian Schwinger, who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, have been reviewed in numerous books and articles. For this reason these Memories, which seek to convey a sense of Schwinger's remarkable talents as a physicist, concentrate primariy (though not entirely) on heretofore unpublished pertinent recollections of the youthful Schwinger by this writer, who first encountered Schwinger in 1934 when they both were undergraduates at the City College of New York.
description: 22 pages, no figures
The Cost of Problem-Based Learning: An Example in Information Systems Engineering
Creators: name: Ribaud, Vincent
name: Saliou, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-quality education helps in finding a job - but student skills heterogeneity and student reluctance to move towards a professional attitude are important barriers to employability. We re-engineered some of the technical courses of a Masters in software development using a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. Although initial results are encouraging, the cost of using PBL must be taken into account. Two aspects are particularly expensive: (i) set-up of the software development practicum, a mid-sized information system and its environment; (ii) screenwriting of problem-based learning scenarios, including procurement of input artefacts.
title: Someone's missing...and I think it's me: Our great adventure with dementia
Creators: name: Gaustad, J. L.
Publisher: name: VCU Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Someone’s missing…and I think it’s me is a unique blend of memoir, advice, and art. Gaustad chronicles her experiences with her late husband, prominent artist and VCU faculty member Gerald Donato, as they try to navigate the mysteries and terrors of early-onset dementia. Beautifully illustrated with original artwork by the author, Donato, and artist friends, Gaustad takes a brutally honest, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately life-affirming look at their challenged marriage. Although her original intent was to create a guide for those dealing with brain illness in loved ones, the book became a testament to the beauty and humor to be found above and beyond the medical travails; Someone’s Missing is a moving love story. Not missing: Transcriptions is a supplemental file containing transcriptions of the handwritten notes and journal entries contained in the book. For the print edition, this separate zine will be included in a pocket in the cover. It is also available as a separate record.
Borehole Data Management System: una applicazione web per la gestione di dati di sondaggi geologici
Creators: name: Antonovic, Milan p.
name: Cannata, Massimiliano
name: Hoffmann, Marcus
name: Brodhag, Sabine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: sondaggi geologici
stratigrafia
openlayer
postgis
reactjs

description: Negli ultimi anni l’Ufficio federale di topografia (Swisstopo), ha implementato il modello ufficiale per la rappresentazione dei dati di sondaggi geologici. Per facilitare l’adozione e le procedure di condivisione e scambio dei dati, è stato sviluppato un software standalone che è stato distribuito ai vari uffici cantonali preposti alla raccolta dei dati di sondaggi. A seguito delle sollecitazioni degli utenti, Swisstopo ha deciso di aggiornare il sistema proponendo un’implementazione basata su tecnologie web aperte.

 Per soddisfare questa esigenza il Servizio geologico nazionale ha dato un mandato alla Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI) per la realizzazione di questo applicativo. La risultante piattaforma web Open Source integra alcune tra le più consolidate tecnologie FOSS4G. Il codice è disponibile apertamente su GitHub ed è inoltre facilmente utilizzabile in ambiente Docker.

 Durante la presentazione verranno illustrate le principali funzionalità, tra cui: la modalità guest per la ricerca dei dati pubblici e l’esportazione in vari formati (PDF, CSV, ShapeFile), la modalità per gli editori con i relativi ruoli funzionali al processo di validazione e pubblicazione del dato dei sondaggi.
description: milan.antonovic@supsi.ch massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch
Has wild poliovirus been eliminated from Nigeria?
Creators: name: Famulare, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) has not been seen anywhere since the last case of WPV3-associated paralysis in Nigeria in November 2012. At the time of writing, the most recent case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Nigeria occurred in July 2014, and WPV1 has not been seen in Africa since a case in Somalia in August 2014. No cases associated with circulating vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2) have been detected in Nigeria since November 2014. Has WPV1 been eliminated from Africa? Has WPV3 been eradicated globally? Has Nigeria interrupted cVDPV2 transmission? These questions are difficult because polio surveillance is based on paralysis and paralysis only occurs in a small fraction of infections. This report provides estimates for the probabilities of poliovirus elimination in Nigeria given available data as of March 31, 2015. It is based on a model of disease transmission that is built from historical polio incidence rates and is designed to represent the uncertainties in transmission dynamics and poliovirus detection that are fundamental to interpreting long time periods without cases. The model estimates that, as of March 31, 2015, the probability of WPV1 elimination in Nigeria is 84%, and that if WPV1 has not been eliminated, a new case will be detected with 99% probability by the end of 2015. The probability of WPV3 elimination (and thus global eradication) is >99%. However, it is unlikely that the ongoing transmission of cVDPV2 has been interrupted; the probability of cVDPV2 elimination rises to 83% if no new cases are detected by April 2016. Added July 10, 2015: On June 26, a cVDPV2 case was confirmed by the Global Polio Laboratory Network. The date of paralysis was May 16. The case provides new information about cVDPV2 prevalence that is useful for assessing the accuracy of previous predictions and informing an updated forecast for the time to cVDPV2 elimination.
description: Added model validation section and updated cVDPV2 forecast in response to new case data; expanded material on surveillance sensitivity; additional minor edits; and references added. 24 pages, 4 figures
title: Report about ENCODE Workshop 'AI and Ancient Writing Cultures'
Creators: name: Bocchi, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023

description: The report presents the activities carried out during the ENCODE Workshop 'AI and Ancient Writing Cultures' (Bologna, 23-27 January 2023), where participants were guided by experts in NLP, Data Visualisation and automatic annotation training on ancient texts (papyri, manuscripts and inscriptions).It takes into account also the results of the seventh ENCODE conference 'Artificial Intelligence and Ancient Writing Cultures' (Bologna, 26 January 2023) focused on applications of Artificial Intelligence in different disciplines related to ancient writings, presenting existing projects, future developments and technical challenges.
title: Multi-objective route selection for ice-class vessels using reinforcement learning and graph-based approaches
Creators: name: Tran, Trung Tien
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Route selection for ships in ice is a complicated problem in marine navigation. The navigators have to optimize many economic and environmental factors of the routes while adhering to all maritime regulations to ensure safety. The International Maritime Organization has introduced the Polar Operational Limit Assessment Risk Indexing System (POLARIS) as guidelines for all vessels operating in the Arctic Ocean. This research investigates a framework for finding an optimal route for different ice-class vessels using two methods: graph-based approaches and reinforcement learning. The system uses ice charts from the Canadian Ice Service to explore possible routes in a grid world. Reward and cost functions are formulated to achieve operational objectives, such as optimizing the distance travelled, voyage time, and fuel consumption while complying with POLARIS regulation. The graph-based method surpasses the Q-learning in deterministic cases. Despite the shortcoming of not handling the non-deterministic environment, it also shows similar routes compared to Q-learning in a stochastic context. The trial results show that the framework provides a means to identify an optimal route for vessels navigating through ice-covered waters.
A two-component flavin-dependent monooxygenase involved in actinorhodin biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor
Creators: name: Valton, Julien
name: Filisetti, Laurent
name: Fontecave, Marc
name: Nivière, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The two-component flavin-dependent monooxygenases belong to an emerging class of enzymes involved in oxidation reactions in a number of metabolic and biosynthetic pathways in microorganisms. One component is a NAD(P)H:flavin oxidoreductase, which provides a reduced flavin to the second component, the proper monooxygenase. There, the reduced flavin activates molecular oxygen for substrate oxidation. Here, we study the flavin reductase ActVB and ActVA-ORF5 gene product, both reported to be involved in the last step of biosynthesis of the natural antibiotic actinorhodin in Streptomyces coelicolor. For the first time we show that ActVA-ORF5 is a FMN-dependent monooxygenase that together with the help of the flavin reductase ActVB catalyzes the oxidation reaction. The mechanism of the transfer of reduced FMN between ActVB and ActVA-ORF5 has been investigated. Dissociation constant values for oxidized and reduced flavin (FMNox and FMNred) with regard to ActVB and ActVA-ORF5 have been determined. The data clearly demonstrate a thermodynamic transfer of FMNred from ActVB to ActVA-ORF5 without involving a particular interaction between the two protein components. In full agreement with these data, we propose a reaction mechanism in which FMNox binds to ActVB, where it is reduced, and the resulting FMNred moves to ActVA-ORF5, where it reacts with O2 to generate a flavinperoxide intermediate. A direct spectroscopic evidence for the formation of such species within ActVA-ORF5 is reported.
A model for massless higher spin field interacting with a geometrical background
Creators: name: Bandelloni, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a very general four dimensional Field Theory model describing the dynamics of a massless higher spin $N$ symmetric tensor field particle interacting with a geometrical background.This model is invariant under the action of an extended linear diffeomorphism. We investigate the consistency of the equations of motion, and the highest spin degrees of freedom are extracted by means of a set of covariant constraints. Moreover the the highest spin equations of motions (and in general all the highest spin field 1-PI irreducible Green functions) are invariant under a chain of transformations induced by a set of $N-2$ Ward operators, while the auxiliary fields equations of motion spoil this symmetry. The first steps to a quantum extension of the model are discussed on the basis of the Algebraic Field Theory.Technical aspects are reported in Appendices; in particular one of them is devoted to illustrate the spin-$2$ case.
description: to appear on IJMMP