cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ISLA BELLA: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Creators: name: Sandoval, Stephannie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Isla Bella: A Collection of Short Stories is an original collection of short stories which traces generations of young women and men as they come of age in Isla Bella, one of three satellite islands in the Caribbean Sea, located near the coast of its South American parent-nation. This project utilizes the post-colonial setting to explore generational divides and family secrets as the island develops and decays, both through the creation of a tourist economy and the power of natural disasters. Themes featured in this thesis include the search for identity and place, as well as the question of free-will and the inevitable fallout originating from choice.The work is a foray into the world of Young Adult literature and the genre of magical realism.
ISLA BELLA: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Creators: name: Sandoval, Stephannie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Isla Bella: A Collection of Short Stories is an original collection of short stories which traces generations of young women and men as they come of age in Isla Bella, one of three satellite islands in the Caribbean Sea, located near the coast of its South American parent-nation. This project utilizes the post-colonial setting to explore generational divides and family secrets as the island develops and decays, both through the creation of a tourist economy and the power of natural disasters. Themes featured in this thesis include the search for identity and place, as well as the question of free-will and the inevitable fallout originating from choice.The work is a foray into the world of Young Adult literature and the genre of magical realism.
Quantum sensor networks as exotic field telescopes for multi-messenger astronomy
Creators: name: Dailey, Conner
name: Bradley, Colin
name: Kimball, Derek F. Jackson
name: Sulai, Ibrahim
name: Pustelny, Szymon
name: Wickenbrock, Arne
name: Derevianko, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-messenger astronomy, the coordinated observation of different classes of signals originating from the same astrophysical event, provides a wealth of information about astrophysical processes with far-reaching implications. So far, the focus of multi-messenger astronomy has been the search for conventional signals from known fundamental forces and standard model particles, like gravitational waves (GW). In addition to these known effects, quantum sensor networks could be used to search for astrophysical signals predicted by beyond-standard-model (BSM) theories. Exotic bosonic fields are ubiquitous features of BSM theories and appear while seeking to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy and solve the hierarchy and strong CP problems. We consider the case where high-energy astrophysical events could produce intense bursts of exotic low-mass fields (ELFs). We propose to expand the toolbox of multi-messenger astronomy to include networks of precision quantum sensors that by design are shielded from or insensitive to conventional standard-model physics signals. We estimate ELF signal amplitudes, delays, rates, and distances of GW sources to which global networks of atomic magnetometers and atomic clocks could be sensitive. We find that, indeed, such precision quantum sensor networks can function as ELF telescopes to detect signals from sources generating ELF bursts of sufficient intensity. Thus ELFs, if they exist, could act as additional messengers for astrophysical events.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
PUBLIC SECONDARY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EDUCATORS' USE OF TEACHING ARTISTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY STUDENT
Creators: name: Montchal, Alyssa
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3603
subject: Music
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: This study examines how secondary instrumental music educators are meeting the needs of their students by partnering with teaching artists in the classroom. The central questions to this study are: what are the services that teachers have access to through instrumental performing arts organizations; and how do those services meet the needs of their classroom? There are several studies that outline how and why partnerships between classroom educators and teaching artists are successful, but there is no national scope of what is being done and how these tools are being used. To complete this study, I analyzed national longitudinal data provided through the Cultural Data Project’s “Data Arts Survey” and conducted a national survey of secondary instrumental educators. Using this research, classroom teachers can find what they can expect in partnering with an organization and which types of organizations provide the most robust programming options. There are also implications for arts organizations on how they can better support the needs of teachers and form better sustained long term partnerships.
Buenoa konta Nieser & Pelli 1994
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Buenoa
Buenoa konta

description: Buenoa konta Nieser & Pelli, 1994
 Buenoa konta Nieser & Pelli, 1994: 1-3, figs. 1-4.
 Paratypes: 1 brachypterous ♂, 1 brachypterous ♀; glued to pinned paper; Brasil, M.G. [Minas Gerais], Lagoa Santa, Lagoa Olhos D’Água, 05.09.[19]91, Pelli, A. col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 10, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
A large population of galaxies 9 to 12 billion years back in the history of the Universe
Creators: name: Fevre, O. Le
name: Paltani, S.
name: Arnouts, S.
name: Charlot, S.
name: Foucaud, S.
name: Ilbert, O.
name: McCracken, H. J.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: team, the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the evolution of galaxies, we need to know as accurately as possible how many galaxies were present in the Universe at different epochs. Galaxies in the young Universe have hitherto mainly been identified using their expected optical colours, but this leaves open the possibility that a significant population remains undetected because their colours are the result of a complex mix of stars, gas, dust or active galactic nuclei. Here we report the results of a flux-limited I-band survey of galaxies at look-back times of 9 to 12 billion years. We find 970 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts between 1.4 and 5. This population is 1.6 to 6.2 times larger than previous estimates, with the difference increasing towards brighter magnitudes. Strong ultraviolet continua (in the rest frame of the galaxies) indicate vigorous star formation rates of more than 10 to 100 solar masses per year. As a consequence, the cosmic star formation rate is higher than previously measured at redshifts of 3 to 4.
description: Published in Nature, 22 September 2005
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation of lattice Boltzmann model for compressible flows on unstructured moving meshes
Creators: name: Saadat, Mohammad Hossein
name: Karlin, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the application of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) technique to a compressible lattice Boltzmann model for the simulation of moving boundary problems on unstructured meshes. To that end, the kinetic equations are mapped from a moving physical domain into a fixed computational domain. The resulting equations in the computational domain are then numerically solved using the second-order accurate finite element reconstruction on an unstructured mesh. It is shown that the problem regarding the geometric conservation law (GCL), which needs a special treatment in the ALE Navier-Stokes solvers, does not appear here and the model satisfies the GCL exactly. The model is validated with sets of simulations including uniform flow preservation and compressible flow past airfoil with plunging and pitching motions at different Mach numbers. It is demonstrated that the results are in good agreement with the experimental and other available numerical results in the literature. Finally, in order to show the capability of the proposed solver in simulating high-speed flows, transonic flow over pitching airfoil is investigated. It is shown that the proposed model is able to capture the complex characteristics of this flow which involves multiple weak shock waves interacting with the boundary and shear layers.
PUBLIC SECONDARY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EDUCATORS' USE OF TEACHING ARTISTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY STUDENT
Creators: name: Montchal, Alyssa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines how secondary instrumental music educators are meeting the needs of their students by partnering with teaching artists in the classroom. The central questions to this study are: what are the services that teachers have access to through instrumental performing arts organizations; and how do those services meet the needs of their classroom? There are several studies that outline how and why partnerships between classroom educators and teaching artists are successful, but there is no national scope of what is being done and how these tools are being used. To complete this study, I analyzed national longitudinal data provided through the Cultural Data Project’s “Data Arts Survey” and conducted a national survey of secondary instrumental educators. Using this research, classroom teachers can find what they can expect in partnering with an organization and which types of organizations provide the most robust programming options. There are also implications for arts organizations on how they can better support the needs of teachers and form better sustained long term partnerships.
title: The meaning of euthanasia: Catholic teaching and nurses' practice in the care of the dying
Creators: name: Hoskins, Sylvia Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This research study has contributed to the body of knowledge, new knowledge in applying Christian and Catholic moral theological principles to how nurses make end-of-life decisions and the possibility of how they could be involved were euthanasia to be legalised and how this could impact on the Christian nurse's role in caring for the patient. In addition the study has contributed new information on the experiences of one group of nurses working in care homes and how they make end-of-life decisions. The study also confirms research previously undertaken on end-of-life decision-making and the experiences of other nurses in the United Kingdom as well as other countries. Using a qualitative design as a framework, an investigation was undertaken to explore the experiences of eleven qualified nurses from care homes within one geographical area in the north of Scotland, and how they made decisions on end-of-life care. A review of nursing and moral philosophy and moral theology literature is undertaken to place the empirical study within the context of contemporary definitions of euthanasia, current legislation and key debates. The empirical research is evaluated to determine how any legalisation of euthanasia in the United Kingdom could impact on Christian nurses' decision-making and their roles in caring for the patient, in the light of Christian moral principles. The originality of the research lies in the exploration of the phenomenon with a particular group of nurses and the relation of the study findings to Christian moral principles.
Proxius (Neoproxius) amazonicus Kormilev 1976
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Proxius
Proxius amazonicus

description: Proxius (Neoproxius) amazonicus Kormilev, 1976
 Proxius (Neoproxius) amazonicus Kormilev,1976: 739-740, figs. 4-5.
 Holotype: ♀, glued to pinned paper; Brazil, Amazonas, 5 km W Cacau Pereira, across Rio Negro from Manaus, 120 m, July[VII] 24, 1973, R. T. Schuh col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
A TURIZMUS MINT A KITÖRÉS ÉS A FEJLŐDÉS ESZKÖZE NYÍREGYHÁZÁN
TOURISM, AS MEANS OF THE BREAKING OUT AND DEVELOPMENT IN NYÍREGYHÁZA
Creators: name: Kozma, Mária
name: Bagdi, Róbert
name: Kozma, Mária
name: Bagdi, Róbert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: desztináció
subject: turizmusfejlesztés
subject: kereslet-kínálat
subject: szabadidős turizmus
subject: kulturális turizmus
subject: egészségturizmus
subject: destination
subject: tourism development
subject: demand and supply
subject: leisure activities
subject: cultural tourism
subject: health tourism

description: Nyíregyháza a 2011. évi népszámlás eredményei alapján 119.746 fős népességével Magyarország hetedik legnagyobb városának, továbbá az északkeleti országrész gazdasági, kulturális központjának is számít. A várost nem soroljuk hagyományosan a legfontosabb hazai desztinációk közé, saját turisztikai régiójában azonban, az Észak-Alföldön az idegenforgalmi adóbevételek alapján (közel 20 millió HUF, 2011) a hatodik legfontosabb településnek számított. A megyeszékhely legfontosabb attrakciója a vadaspark, de különösen a nyár folyamán számos egyéb lehetőség nyílik meg a turisták számára a szabadidő hasznos eltöltésére. E tanulmány elsőként a Központi Statisztikai Hivatal adatai, majd a városban megfordult turisták körében végzett kérdőíves kutatás eredményei alapján kívánja bemutatni a turizmus jelenlegi helyzetét. A nyíregyházi turizmus jövőjét pozitívan befolyásolhatja, hogy a hozzájuk érkező turisták többségének (86,3%) véleménye alapján a helyi lakosság vendégszeretőnek bizonyult. A pozitív várakozást az is erősítheti, hogy a turisták a kulturális programokat a második legfontosabb (45%) tényezőnek gondolták, hogy miért érdemes a várost meglátogatni. ----------- Nyíregyháza is the seventh densely populated settlement in Hungary with 119.746 inhabitants, and it is reckoned the economical and cultural centre of the north-eastern part of Hungary. The county seat is not regarded a traditionally well-known tourism destination, although it is ranked at 6th place in North Great Plain tourism region on the basis of local tourism tax of tourism guest nights (around 20 million HUF, 2011). The main attraction of the county seat is the Zoo, but mainly during the summer seasons there are many other possibilities for tourists. This paper focuses firstly on official data of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, and secondly on the results of a questionnaire among the local tourists to determine the present position of tourism. Tourists found mostly (86.3%) kind hospitality in Nyíregyháza, which fact could have a positive effect on the future of the local tourism. Cultural programs were mentioned as the second important factor (45%) among the tourism purposes.
Transition from Knudsen to molecular diffusion in activity of absorbing irregular interfaces
Creators: name: Andrade, J. S.
name: da Silva, H. F.
name: Baquil, M.
name: Sapoval, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate through molecular dynamics the transition from Knudsen to molecular diffusion transport towards 2d absorbing interfaces with irregular geometry. Our results indicate that the length of the active zone decreases continuously with density from the Knudsen to the molecular diffusion regime. In the limit where molecular diffusion dominates, we find that this length approaches a constant value of the order of the system size, in agreement with theoretical predictions for Laplacian transport in irregular geometries. Finally, we show that all these features can be qualitatively described in terms of a simple random-walk model of the diffusion process.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Vision-based Fight Detection from Surveillance Cameras
Creators: name: Aktı, Şeymanur
name: Tataroğlu, Gözde Ayşe
name: Ekenel, Hazım Kemal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Vision-based action recognition is one of the most challenging research topics of computer vision and pattern recognition. A specific application of it, namely, detecting fights from surveillance cameras in public areas, prisons, etc., is desired to quickly get under control these violent incidents. This paper addresses this research problem and explores LSTM-based approaches to solve it. Moreover, the attention layer is also utilized. Besides, a new dataset is collected, which consists of fight scenes from surveillance camera videos available at YouTube. This dataset is made publicly available. From the extensive experiments conducted on Hockey Fight, Peliculas, and the newly collected fight datasets, it is observed that the proposed approach, which integrates Xception model, Bi-LSTM, and attention, improves the state-of-the-art accuracy for fight scene classification.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2019
Aneurus carioca Kormilev 1968
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Aneurus
Aneurus carioca

description: Aneurus carioca Kormilev, 1968
 Aneurus carioca Kormilev, 1968: 48-49, figs. 1-2.
 Holotype: ♀, pinned; [Brazil], Rio de Janeiro, VIII.1952, Ary Vulcano col.
 Remarks: In the original description, the collection year is 1962,however the label specifies 1952.The current status of the species is Iralunelus carioca (Kormilev, 1968).
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Virus Matter. Covit-19 Spatial Politics of Body World Ecology
Creators: name: Stergiou, Lina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 129999 Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Taking into account scientific research and facts up to the date this essay was written (20 March 2020), the terms 'SARS-CoV-2,' 'Covit-19,' 'Virus,' and Computer Virus' are here examined, their properties, and the bodily and global effects of the first two, for suggesting that Covit-19 phenomenon is enacted by a cut-together apart between in/human/in/organic entities producing radical un/boundaries that sweep the body. Indeed, it is here argued, the unit of transfigurations is the body, turning a phenomenon into a dynamic interiorized world view departure point. The essay shows why and how Covit-19 is a de/stabilizing, creative, liberating, collective site of integral dynamics in/towards a new body world ecology.
Optimum strategy for energy degraders and ionization cooling
Creators: name: Farley, Francis J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methodology for calculating the profile and emittance of a particle beam as it is slowed down in matter, including the effects of multiple scattering, axial magnetic field and lithium lens. Strategies are determined for minimum final emittance. For ionization cooling, boron carbide is superior to liquid hydrogen while a beryllium lens has merit.
description: 26 pages, no figures, submitted to NIMA. New emphasis on problems of focusing muon beams and added new section 15 on focusing by high field solenoids
title: REALITY AND IDEOLOGY
title: THE USE OF GENDER INDEXING FEATURES IN REALITY TV
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gerencser, Steven J.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Languages and literature
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: This article analyzes 4 episodes of the Japanese reality television program Terrace house: Aloha State for instances of gender indexing language to investigate the gap between actual speaker usage of these features and the linguistic ideology surrounding their usage as is perpetrated and perpetuated by media. Specifically, the gender indexing features which will be investigated to accomplish this are sentence final particles and first-person pronouns. Instances of these linguistic features are typically presented as features of gendered language, but as will be demonstrated, this does match their actual usage by speakers. I set out to answer three research questions, (1) what is the frequency with which Japanese-speakers actually use gender indexing features on Terrace House, (2) how are these forms being used by the speakers to take stances and construct identity, (3) is there a gap between the linguistic ideology behind these gender indexing features and their reality that can be determined through examining how they are attributed to speakers through English translated into Japanese subtitles. Discourse analysis is an incisive methodology for this study as I intend to show the relationship between discourse and gender & linguistic ideology.
description: © 2021 Steven J. Gerencser
Robust Q-learning
Creators: name: Ashkan Ertefaie
name: McKay, James R.
name: Oslin, David
name: Strawderman, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Q-learning is a regression-based approach that is widely used to formalize the development of an optimal dynamic treatment strategy. Finite dimensional working models are typically used to estimate certain nuisance parameters, and misspecification of these working models can result in residual confounding and/or efficiency loss. We propose a robust Q-learning approach which allows estimating such nuisance parameters using data-adaptive techniques. We study the asymptotic behavior of our estimators and provide simulation studies that highlight the need for and usefulness of the proposed method in practice. We use the data from the “Extending Treatment Effectiveness of Naltrexone” multi-stage randomized trial to illustrate our proposed methods.
Efficient extraction of high pulse energy from partly quenched highly Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers
Creators: name: Hernandez, Pablo G. Rojas
name: Belal, Mohammad
name: Baker, Colin
name: Pidishety, Shankar
name: Feng, Yutong
name: Friebele, E. Joseph
name: Shaw, L. Brandon
name: Rhonehouse, Daniel
name: Sanghera, Jasbinder
name: Nilsson, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate efficient pulse-energy extraction from a partly-quenched erbium-doped aluminosilicate fiber amplifier. This has a high erbium-concentration, which allows for short devices with reduced nonlinear distortions, but which also results in partial quenching and thus significant unsaturable absorption, even though the fiber is still able to amplify. Although the quenching degrades the average-power efficiency, the pulse energy remains high, and our results point to an increasingly promising outcome for short pulses. Furthermore, unlike unquenched fibers, the conversion efficiency improves at low repetition rates, which we attribute to smaller relative energy loss to quenched ions at higher pulse energy. A short (2.6 m) cladding-pumped partly-quenched Er-doped-fiber with 95-dB/m 1530-nm peak absorption and saturation energy estimated to 85 μJ, reached 0.8 mJ of output energy when seeded by 0.2-μs, 23-μJ pulses. Thus, according to our results, pulses can be amplified to high energy in short highly-Er-doped fibers designed to reduce nonlinear distortions, at the expense of average-power efficiency
description: Manuscript submitted to Optics Express. Peer-Review extended up to March, 31
Equity in Funding for ALAANA Arts Organizations: Understanding the Context
Creators: name: Roberts, Aja
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research set out to unpack the disparities of unequitable funding for nonprofit arts field and its impact on arts organizations of color. Through a wealth of context and deeper understanding from interviews I use the term “ALAANA (African, Latino, Asian, Arab, and Native American arts organizations” to define nonprofit organization that preserves, promotes, serves “as evidenced from mission statement, programming, or both, the cultures of one or more explicitly identified ethnic group through the arts. While this is not a new issue for the arts field this research intends to further the conversation forward with a number of interviews from practitioners, foundations, and ALAANA arts organizations.The research structured into five chapters: Framing ALAANA Arts Organizations, Funding for ALAANA Arts Organizations, The Grantmaking Process, Governance and Internal Capacity, and Sustainability for ALAANA Arts Organizations. Dialogue around equitable funding and the grant making processes without understanding the context and characteristics of these organizations. Through interviews and seminal literature on this topic I determine the following themes that come out of consistent with the literature and interviews. Because of historical inequities in the U.S. ALAANA arts organizations have not had access to participate in competing for foundation giving or have chosen not pursue funding from foundations because of erroneous measures within the grant proposal and guidelines to procure funding. From this type of this research we understand that achieving equity in funding will not come without a clear value of art forms and discipline, a desire from the funders to engage with all art forms and disciplines, and a shift in funding practices that preclude ALAANA organizations from participating in the grant cycle. Funders support should take into account the context of their desired size and operating model. Without a collective dialogue from funders, ALAANA arts organizations, and practitioners the arts field achieving equity in funding will be a soloed movement and not a paradigm shift for all.
Bayesian Projected Calibration of Computer Models
Creators: name: Fangzheng Xie
name: Yanxun Xu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: We develop a Bayesian approach called the Bayesian projected calibration to address the problem of calibrating an imperfect computer model using observational data from an unknown complex physical system. The calibration parameter and the physical system are parametrized in an identifiable fashion via the L2-projection. The physical system is imposed a Gaussian process prior distribution, which naturally induces a prior distribution on the calibration parameter through the L2-projection constraint. The calibration parameter is estimated through its posterior distribution, serving as a natural and non-asymptotic approach for the uncertainty quantification. We provide rigorous large sample justifications of the proposed approach by establishing the asymptotic normality of the posterior of the calibration parameter with the efficient covariance matrix. In addition to the theoretical analysis, two convenient computational algorithms based on stochastic approximation are designed with strong theoretical support. Through extensive simulation studies and the analyses of two real-world datasets, we show that the proposed Bayesian projected calibration can accurately estimate the calibration parameters, calibrate the computer models well, and compare favorably to alternative approaches.
Survival and Protection of Traditional Chinese Villages in the Context of Urbanization
Creators: name: YU Yan
name: YU Yan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Traditional village, Urbanization, Survival, Protection, Dynamic inheritance

description: The traditional village is the witness of farming civilization, but also the most important carrier of China’s excellent traditional culture. However, in the process of high-speed urbanization, more and more traditional villages get gradually depressed and have problems of survival crisis. Fully exploring the value of traditional villages and protecting and activating them have attracted wide attention. This paper firstly introduced definition of traditional villages and analyzed the influence of urbanization on traditional Chinese villages. Then, it came up with recommendations for survival of Traditional Chinese villages in the context of urbanization from establishing the protection mechanism, raising the protection awareness, and strengthening dynamic inheritance, to provide some ideas and methods for protection and upgrade of traditional villages.
Operation Benefit of Fruit Dealers in Shizishan Street Farm market
Creators: name: SHI Wei
name: SHI Wei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm market, Fruit dealers, Operation benefits, Net cost-benefit ratio

description: This paper mainly discussed the operation benefits of fruit dealers in farm market. Taking fruit dealers in Shizishan Street Farm market in Wuhan City as the research object, this paper introduced current operation situation of fruit dealers and made a descriptive statistical analysis on characteristics of operators, operation situation, and cognitive status. Besides, it introduced the concept of net cost-benefit ratio to reflect the operation benefits. From further analysis on the operation benefits of fruit dealers, it found that there is little difference in the cost-benefit ratio between dealers in the farm market. The average net cost-benefit ratio was 11.94%. Specifically, if the total cost is 100 yuan, the dealer can obtain 12 yuan net profit. In order to find out how cost factors affect the operation benefits, it established a regression model for cost factors and net cost-benefit ratio. According to the survey results, when the wholesale cost increases 10000 yuan, the cost-benefit ratio will increase by 1.454 percentage points, thus increasing the wholesale investment is helpful for increasing the net cost-benefit ratio; when the loss cost increases 10000 yuan, the cost-benefit ratio will increase by 7.501 percentage points, thus the dealers can increase the operation benefits through controlling the loss cost and reducing the operation cost. Finally, it came up policy recommendations from the perspective of government and operators.
Equity in Funding for ALAANA Arts Organizations: Understanding the Context
Creators: name: Roberts, Aja
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts
classificationCode: 3606
subject: Visual arts

description: This research set out to unpack the disparities of unequitable funding for nonprofit arts field and its impact on arts organizations of color. Through a wealth of context and deeper understanding from interviews I use the term “ALAANA (African, Latino, Asian, Arab, and Native American arts organizations” to define nonprofit organization that preserves, promotes, serves “as evidenced from mission statement, programming, or both, the cultures of one or more explicitly identified ethnic group through the arts. While this is not a new issue for the arts field this research intends to further the conversation forward with a number of interviews from practitioners, foundations, and ALAANA arts organizations.The research structured into five chapters: Framing ALAANA Arts Organizations, Funding for ALAANA Arts Organizations, The Grantmaking Process, Governance and Internal Capacity, and Sustainability for ALAANA Arts Organizations. Dialogue around equitable funding and the grant making processes without understanding the context and characteristics of these organizations. Through interviews and seminal literature on this topic I determine the following themes that come out of consistent with the literature and interviews. Because of historical inequities in the U.S. ALAANA arts organizations have not had access to participate in competing for foundation giving or have chosen not pursue funding from foundations because of erroneous measures within the grant proposal and guidelines to procure funding. From this type of this research we understand that achieving equity in funding will not come without a clear value of art forms and discipline, a desire from the funders to engage with all art forms and disciplines, and a shift in funding practices that preclude ALAANA organizations from participating in the grant cycle. Funders support should take into account the context of their desired size and operating model. Without a collective dialogue from funders, ALAANA arts organizations, and practitioners the arts field achieving equity in funding will be a soloed movement and not a paradigm shift for all.
New Urbanization Development of Feixi County in Hefei City
Creators: name: DING Jinyan
name: YU Zhongxiang
name: DING Jinyan
name: YU Zhongxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Feici County, New urbanization, Development

description: Based on the current land use in Feixi County, this paper analyzed the problems in the process of promoting new urbanization in Feixi County. It pointed out that the new urbanization is the urbanization taking the livelihood, sustainable development and quality as connotation, taking the pursuit of equality, happiness, transformation, green, health, and intensive use as core objectives, taking realizing regional integration and coordination, industrial upgrade and low carbon transformation, ecological civilization, intensive and high efficiency, institutional reform and innovation as main contents. Combined with the characteristics and shortcomings, it came up with pertinent recommendations for new urbanization of Feixi County.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL: THE DATING DILEMMA FOR EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN INTERESTED IN EDUCATED BLACK MEN
Creators: name: Montique, Chesmore Simon
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There is a disparity in the Black community such that educated Black women outnumber educated Black men. This becomes a concern for Black women when trying to find a potential mate of similar racial identity and educational background. The present study seeks to assess the dating dilemma for educated Black women (Bachelor’s level degree and above) by examining their satisfaction with the dating pool, possible responses to the disparity, and the importance of their potential mate’s race and education level. A 26-item questionnaire was dispersed to 227 Black women regarding dating preferences and responses to the disparity. Results indicate a statistical significance for the importance of both, a partner’s race and education level. Almost half (48%) of these Black women expressed dissatisfaction with the dating pool but this was not statistically significant. Dating higher than one’s preferred age range was the most endorsed response to the dating dilemma. Overall, women expressed an endorsement for the education level of their partner being more important than race, but only slightly. Future research and implications are discussed.
Study on the “Going out” Strategy in Reform of the Supply Front for Agriculture
Creators: name: QU Sidian
name: QU Sidian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: “Going out” strategy, Grain security, Agricultural production capacity cooperation, Reform of the supply-front

description: The three rural issues have been always valued by all circles. At present, the main conflict of agriculture in China has been changed from insufficient total amount to structural conflict. Thus, deeply promoting the reform of agricultural supply front has become a primary work in rural areas. It is required to follow the national grain security strategy based on domestic supply and moderate imports, to ensure production capacity. Besides, China should make full use of domestic and foreign markets and resources to protect the domestic agricultural consumption demand, which is favorable for resolving the current structural conflict and also favorable for sustainable agricultural development.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL: THE DATING DILEMMA FOR EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN INTERESTED IN EDUCATED BLACK MEN
Creators: name: Montique, Chesmore Simon
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: There is a disparity in the Black community such that educated Black women outnumber educated Black men. This becomes a concern for Black women when trying to find a potential mate of similar racial identity and educational background. The present study seeks to assess the dating dilemma for educated Black women (Bachelor’s level degree and above) by examining their satisfaction with the dating pool, possible responses to the disparity, and the importance of their potential mate’s race and education level. A 26-item questionnaire was dispersed to 227 Black women regarding dating preferences and responses to the disparity. Results indicate a statistical significance for the importance of both, a partner’s race and education level. Almost half (48%) of these Black women expressed dissatisfaction with the dating pool but this was not statistically significant. Dating higher than one’s preferred age range was the most endorsed response to the dating dilemma. Overall, women expressed an endorsement for the education level of their partner being more important than race, but only slightly. Future research and implications are discussed.
Leisure Agriculture Based on Cultural Resources of Sani People in Yunnan
Creators: name: HUA Jinzhu
name: CHEN Zebin
name: SHI Yajun
name: LIU Jia'ni
name: YAO Liyuan
name: ZHANG Yuyu
name: HU Jingxiang
name: WANG Haotian
name: ZHENG Zhiwei
name: HUA Jinzhu
name: CHEN Zebin
name: SHI Yajun
name: LIU Jia'ni
name: YAO Liyuan
name: ZHANG Yuyu
name: HU Jingxiang
name: WANG Haotian
name: ZHENG Zhiwei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Shilin, Sani People, Leisure agriculture, Culture

description: Through exploring the material and nonmaterial cultural resources in leisure agriculture of Sani People in Shilin of Yunnan Province, this paper introduced festivals, marriage, traditional clothing, and food culture of Sani People, and present the long history and brilliant culture of Sani People. These culture resources could be used to expand the cultural aspects of leisure agriculture, to solve the problems of low participation and less distinct characteristics. This study can provide a reference for building the high-end leisure agriculture with distinct characteristics of Yunnan Province, to form a new growth point for regional growth.
Classification Performance of Support Vector Machines on Topologically Filtered Synthetic Aperture Sonar Signals
Creators: name: Fennell, Sean
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Because of its inherent high-dimensionality, automatic target recognition of undersea objects using synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is an area where support vector machines (SVM) can be a useful tool for classification. Using standard SVM algorithms and kernels, we investigated changes in classification performance from applying topological filters to SAS signatures of undersea mine-like objects (MLO). We simulated real-world data collection conditions by using systematic sampling to determine the minimum resolution and number of target looks necessary to maximize performance. Our results indicate good classification performance using the topological filters. Performance improves as the number of samples is increased and when a combination of topological structures are employed. The results also indicate that performance improves as the resolution is increased; however, beyond a certain point, performance will degrade as the structure of the samples approach the maximum possible resolution for the data set. When compared against the performance of un-filtered data, topological filtering achieved equivalent levels of accuracy but only with larger amounts of training data. The structure of the first three principle component plots on the topologically filtered data suggests that the method of vectorization may be limiting the performance of the support vector machine and that other combinations of vectorization methods and classification algorithms may provide better results.
Study on the Development of Rural Tourism in Liaoning Province
Creators: name: REN Chenghao
name: CUI Ting
name: YANG Xin
name: REN Chenghao
name: CUI Ting
name: YANG Xin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural tourism, Liaoning Province, Experience

description: As an important old industrial base in Northeast China, Liaoning Province is facing good opportunities for development in the context of rural tourism booming. This paper summarizes the concept and function of rural tourism, analyzes the present situation and characteristics of rural tourism development in Liaoning Province, and points out the main problems. Finally, to make Liaoning's rural tourism develop better and faster and provide a reference for other regions, the following recommendations are made: focusing on the development of experience-based rural tourism products; improving the level of rural tourism service and reception; strengthening the construction and renovation of rural tourism infrastructure.
Classification Performance of Support Vector Machines on Topologically Filtered Synthetic Aperture Sonar Signals
Creators: name: Fennell, Sean
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Because of its inherent high-dimensionality, automatic target recognition of undersea objects using synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is an area where support vector machines (SVM) can be a useful tool for classification. Using standard SVM algorithms and kernels, we investigated changes in classification performance from applying topological filters to SAS signatures of undersea mine-like objects (MLO). We simulated real-world data collection conditions by using systematic sampling to determine the minimum resolution and number of target looks necessary to maximize performance. Our results indicate good classification performance using the topological filters. Performance improves as the number of samples is increased and when a combination of topological structures are employed. The results also indicate that performance improves as the resolution is increased; however, beyond a certain point, performance will degrade as the structure of the samples approach the maximum possible resolution for the data set. When compared against the performance of un-filtered data, topological filtering achieved equivalent levels of accuracy but only with larger amounts of training data. The structure of the first three principle component plots on the topologically filtered data suggests that the method of vectorization may be limiting the performance of the support vector machine and that other combinations of vectorization methods and classification algorithms may provide better results.
Study on Rural Land Consolidation of Anhui Province Based on Consolidation Potential[]
Creators: name: YU Bo
name: YU Zhongxiang
name: YU Bo
name: YU Zhongxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consolidation potential, Countryside, Land consolidation, Anhui Province

description: Starting from status quo of land use in Anhui Province, consolidation potential of rural land in Anhui Province is measured and analyzed, and benefit analysis of land consolidation is conducted. It is pointed out that land consolidation is essential condition of realizing beautiful countryside construction. By combining its own characteristics and shortages, the countermeasures and suggestions on rural land consolidation of Anhui Province are proposed, such as scientific consolidation plan, innovating incentive mechanism and guiding public participation.
Coordinated Development of Land Use and Ecological Environment in Hefei Economic Circle
Creators: name: ZHU Rui
name: YU Zhongxiang
name: ZHU Rui
name: YU Zhongxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land use, Ecological environment, Coordinated development, Hefei Economic Circle

description: From the land use and ecological environment of Hefei Economic Circle, this paper established two sets of subsystem evaluation indicator system. It separately determined the weight coefficient of indicators in two indicator system. Using the coordination degree model, it made a scientific evaluation and analysis of coordinated development of land use and ecological environment in Hefei Economic Circle. Finally, on the basis of analysis results, it came up with pertinent recommendations for coordinated development of land use and ecological environment in Hefei Economic Circle.