cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On efficiency of cluster sampling on sampling on two occasions
Creators: name: Kumar Pradhan, B.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper it has been shown that even if the intra-class correlation coeffcient among the units in the same cluster is positive, under certain condition, the cluster sam-pling on two occasions is likely to be more efficient than the simple random sampling on two occasions to estimate the population mean of the character under study on current (second) occasion.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 183-191
Dichorionic Twins Discordant for Massive Perivillous Fibrinoid Deposition: Report of a case and review of the literature
Creators: name: Faye-Petersen, Ona Marie
name: Sauder, A.
name: Estrella, Y.
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Discordant twin growth
Massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition
Placental fibrinoid

description: Massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition (MFD) and maternal floor infarction (MFI) are lesions of unknown etiology associated with poor perinatal outcomes, including fetal intrauterine growth restriction and neurodevelopmental injury, and high risks of pregnancy loss and recurrence in subsequent gestations. Maternal floor infarction is comprised of massive intervillous fibrinoid deposition concentrated at the maternal floor. Massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition is a similar lesion, however is diffuse within the parenchyma. MFD/MFI lesions represent a spectrum of severity of cloak-like perivillous fibrinoid deposition and there is mounting evidence that, often, they represent sequelae of immune-mediated phenomena and/or an imbalance in factors that normally maintain the fluidity of blood in the maternal space. There are only a handful of reported instances of discordant MFD/MFI occurrence in twin placentas. We present a fourth such occurrence in a fused, dichorionic diamniotic twin placenta and submit that our dizygotic twin gestation case provides additional supportive evidence that immune-mediated mechanisms are involved in the formation of pathologic accumulations of fibrinoid, in at least some cases.
Some remarks about the number of permutations one should consider to perform a permutation test
Creators: name: Marozzi, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The main practical drawback of permutation testing is that, except for very small sample sizes, the number of all possible permutations is usually impractically large. Although now fast and relatively cheap computing facilities are at our disposal, this problem is still interesting, in particular for applied statisticians. The main idea is that it is not necessary to compute all possible permutations to obtain a reliable p-value estimate of the test. To deal with this problem, one may approximate the exact p-value of the test by using a random sample from all permutations. The aim of this paper is to reply to this question: how many permutations should be considered in the p-value estimation procedure? We suggest to use 500-1000 permutations to estimate the size and power of a permutation test, via Monte Carlo simulations, at the a significance level of 5% and 2000-5000 when a = 1%. Moreover, we suggest to use 5000 permutations in actual applications when a = 5% and 10000 when a = 1%. These suggestions are based on a review of many papers, a simulation study and two applications to actual data sets.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 193-201
PlanetP: using gossiping and random replication to support reliable peer-to-peer content search and retrieval
Creators: name: Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Francisco
name: Martin, Richard P.
name: Nguyen, Thu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002

description: We introduce the PlanetP system, which explores the construction of a reliable peer-to-peer (P2P) content search and retrieval service using randomly circulated global state between peers of an unstructured community. Our work represents a novel alternative approach to recent P2P systems that focus on enabling very large scale name-based object location using sophisticated distributed data structures. We show that our simpler approach scales to several thousand peers (ultimately targeting the regime of about ten thousand) and converges in several minutes using only modest bandwidth while still maintaining reliable search, ranking, and retrieval similar to an Internet search engine. Unlike current search engines or other P2P systems, however, PlanetP does not require centralized directories or management, nor builds a complex distributed data structure. PlanetP achieves its goals using three major components. First, peers collaborate to maintain local copies of the global membership directory along with compact summaries of shared content using a randomized gossiping algorithm. Second, peers implements a per query, text-based ranking algorithm to help users ignore irrelevant documents. Finally, peers collaborate to replicate unpopular content—popular content is naturally highly replicated via hoarding—using Reed Solomon erasure coding to increase the probability of successful retrievals.
Jodia croceago Denis & Schiffermuller 1775
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Jodia
Jodia croceago

description: Jodia croceago ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 Se considera un defoliador poco importante de los encinares cordobeses (NAVARRO CERRILLO
 & FERNÁNDEZ REBOLLO, 2000).
  * Xylena exsoleta (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (9-V-2010, oruga).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 326, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Dose-response evaluation for the antibiotic treatment in gynaecological surgery
Creators: name: D'Arrigo, G.
name: Munaò, F.
name: Caratozzolo, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The goal of the statistical survey is to study possibile differences between two groups of randomized patients treated by two different antibiotic treatments for gynaecological surgeries (mono and bi somministration). The multivariate statistical analysis has been performed according to multivariate and multistrata permutation tests by Pesarin (2001). Results shows no differences between two treatments.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 203-211
A Lower Bound On Determinants From Linear Programming
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: We derive a lower bound on determinants, utilizing a theorem of linear programming. Let l and u be positive lower and upper bounds on the moduli of the eigenvalues of a real or complex invertible matrix A. If the modulus of the trace of A is at least nl, n the dimension of A, we derive a better lower bound on the determinant of A than the trivial lower bound, ln . In particular, given a diagonally dominant real matrix with positive diagonal entries, our lower bound is applicable and improves the lower bound derivable from Gerschgorin's circle theorem. We describe the application of the lower bound as an auxiliary result in representing square roots, the number , and e x , as the limiting quotient of Toeplitz determinants.
Modular Concrete Type-Inference for Statically Typed Object-oriented Programming Languages
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: The problem of concrete type-inference for statically typed object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, C++) determines at each program point, those objects to which a reference may refer or a pointer may point during execution. We present a new technique called analysis-using-abstract-values which performs modular and demand driven concrete type-inference of a robust subset of Java without threads and exceptions and C++ without exceptions. Our algorithm is provably precise on programs with only single-level types2 and without dynamic dispatch, and has the worst-case complexity of O(n4 ) which is an improvement over the O(n7 ) worst-case bound achievable by applying previous approaches of [RHS95] and [LR91] to this case. For general programs, the algorithm is polynomial-time and computes a safe solution.
title: Topical Locality in the Web
title: Experiments and Observations
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Davison, Brian D.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the foundation for a usable World-Wide Web. In this paper, we examine to what extent these ideas hold by empirically testing whether topical locality mirrors spatial locality of pages on the Web. In particular, we find that the likelihood of linked pages having similar textual content to be high; the similarity of sibling pages increases when the links from the parent are close together; titles, descriptions, and anchor text represent at least part of the target page; and that anchor text may be a useful discriminator among unseen child pages. These results present the foundations necessary for the success of many web systems, including search engines, focused crawlers, linkage analyzers, and intelligent web agents.
A Kullback-Leiber Divergence Filter for Anomaly Detection in Non-Destructive Pipeline Inspection
Creators: name: Zhou, Ruikun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Anomaly Detection
Proximity Sensors
Non-destructive Testing

description: Anomaly detection generally refers to algorithmic procedures aimed at identifying relatively rare events in data sets that differ substantially from the majority of the data set to which they belong. In the context of data series generated by sensors mounted on mobile devices for non-destructive inspection and monitoring, anomalies typically identify defects to be detected, therefore defining the main task of this class of devices. In this case, a useful way of operationally defining anomalies is to look at their information content with respect to the background data, which is typically noisy and therefore easily masking the relevant events if unfiltered. In this thesis, a Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence filter is proposed to detect signals with relatively high information content, namely anomalies, within data series. The data is generated by using the model of a broad class of proximity sensors that apply to devices commonly used in engineering practice. This includes, for example, sensory devices mounted on mobile robotic devices for the non-destructive inspection of hazardous or other environments that may not be accessible to humans for direct inspection. The raw sensory data generated by this class of sensors is often challenging to analyze due to the prevalence of noise over the signal content that reveals the presence of relevant features, as for example damage in gas pipelines. The proposed filter is built to detect the difference of information content between the data series collected by the sensor and a baseline data series, with the advantage of not requiring the design of a threshold. Moreover, differing from the traditional filters which need the prior knowledge or distribution assumptions about the data, this KL Divergence filter is model free and suitable for all kinds of raw sensory data. Of course, it is also compatible with classical signal distribution assumptions, such as Gaussian approximation, for instance. Also, the robustness and sensitivity of the KL Divergence filter are discussed under different scenarios with various signal to noise ratios of data generated by a simulator reproducing very realistic scenarios and based on models of real sensors provided by manufacturers or widely accepted in the literature.
Fisher, von Mises, Jeffreys, Neyman, Pearson and statistical inferences
Creators: name: Costantini, D.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In the paper are compared the foundations of the statistical inferences of Neyman-Pearson, of Fisher and the Bayesian estimation of von Mises and Jeffreys.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 2 (2004); 227-256
Dryobota labecula
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Dryobota
Dryobota labecula

description: Dryobota labecula (Esper, [1788])
  Citada de Sierra Morena: orugas sobre Q. ilex y Q. suber, de marzo a mayo (EXTREMERA et al.,
  2004; PÉREZ GUERRERO et al., 2008; JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, 2011a, d). Defoliador importante
 (NAVARRO CERRILLO & FERNÁNDEZ REBOLLO, 2000). Nc: Zagrilla Baja (9-I-2005).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 326, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Sea-Level Constraints on the Amplitude and Source Distribution of Meltwater Pulse 1A
Creators: name: Liu, Jean
name: Milne, Glenn A.
name: Kopp, Robert E.
name: Clark, Peter U.
name: Shennan, Ian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cryosphere--Research
Paleoclimatology
Climatology

description: During the last deglaciation, sea levels rose as ice sheets retreated. This climate transition was punctuated by periods of more intense melting; the largest and most rapid of these – Meltwater Pulse 1A – occurred about 14,500 years ago, with rates of sea level rise reaching approximately 4 m per century1-3. Such rates of rise suggest ice-sheet instability, but the meltwater sources are poorly constrained, thus limiting our understanding of the causes and impacts of the event4-7. In particular, geophysical modelling studies constrained by tropical sea-level records1,8,9 suggest an Antarctic contribution of more than seven meters, whereas most reconstructions from Antarctica indicate no substantial change in ice-sheet volume around the time of Meltwater Pulse 1A10. Here we use a glacial isostatic adjustment model to reinterpret tropical sea level reconstructions from Barbados2, the Sunda Shelf3 and Tahiti1. According to our results, global mean sea level rise during Meltwater Pulse 1A was between 8.6 and 14.6 metres (95% probability). As for the melt partitioning, we find an allowable contribution from Antarctica of either 4.1 to 10.0 m or 0 to 6.9 m (95% probability), using two recent estimates11,12 of the contribution from the North American ice sheets. We conclude that a significant contribution of melt from the Antarctic ice sheets is not necessarily required to explain the documented sea level rise during Meltwater Pulse 1A.
Effects of the two-component measurement error model on X control charts
Creators: name: COCCHI, DANIELA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
name: SCAGLIARINI, MICHELE; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The statistical properties of Shewhart control charts are known to be highly sensitive to measurement errors. The statistical model relating the measured value to the true, albeit not observable, value of a product characteristic, is usually Gaussian and additive. In this paper we propose to extend the said model to a more general formulation by introducing the two-component error model structure. We study the effects of the proposed error-model on the performance of the mean control charts, since gauge imprecision may seriously alter the statistical properties of the control charts. In order to take measurement errors into account in the design of the control charts we explore the use of different methods based on a weighted variance concept, a skewness correction method and an empirical reference distribution approach respectively. The different approaches are discussed and compared by Monte Carlo simulation. Results indicate that the last two methods produce the best results.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 307-327
Evaluating the Security Risks of Freedom on Social Networking Websites
Creators: name: Ur, Blase E.
name: Maung, Crystal
name: Ganapathy, Vinod
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009

description: Many Web 2.0-based social networking sites permit their users to post comments containing a variety of HTML tags on other users’ profiles. In this paper, we show that allowing arbitrary users to post multimedia HTML content on other users’ social network profiles is an attack vector. Specifically, we demonstrate three attacks— the Social-DDoS attack, the Social-C&C attack, and the Browserchoking attack—each of which allows an arbitrary Web user to jeopardize the security of other Web users. Using the Social-DDoS attack, a malicious Web user can launch a distributed denial of service attack against a Web server; the Social-C&C attack allows a botmaster to covertly and efficiently deliver commands to bot-infected machines; and the Browser-choking attack cripples Web browsers by increasing their memory consumption and prevents users from viewing targeted social network pro- files. We present an experimental evaluation of these attacks on two popular social networking Web sites, Myspace and Flickr. Our results show that the attacks can be highly effective when launched using popular social network profiles. In the context of our results, we discuss the security risks of allowing social network users to post media files on other users’ pages, and we conclude with a discussion of possible approaches to mitigate these risks.
The subzero microbiome: Microbial activity in frozen and thawing soils
Creators: name: Nikrad, Mrinalini P.
name: Kerkhof, Lee J.
name: Häggblom, Max M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Permafrost
Tundra soils
Psychrophilic bacteria
Subzero activity
Climatic changes
Greenhouse gases

description: Most of the Earth's biosphere is characterized by low temperatures (<5 °C) and cold-adapted microorganisms are widespread. These psychrophiles have evolved a complex range of adaptations of all cellular constituents to counteract the potentially deleterious effects of low kinetic energy environments and the freezing of water. Microbial life continues into the subzero temperature range, and this activity contributes to carbon and nitrogen flux in and out of ecosystems, ultimately affecting global processes. Microbial responses to climate warming and in particular, thawing of frozen soils are not yet well understood although the threat of microbial contribution to positive feedback of carbon flux is substantial. To date, several studies have examined microbial community dynamics in frozen soils and permafrost due to changing environmental conditions, and some have undertaken the complicated task of characterizing microbial functional groups and how their activity changes with changing conditions, either in situ or by isolating and characterizing macromolecules. With increasing temperature and wetter conditions microbial activity of key microbes and subsequent efflux of greenhouse gases also increase. In this review, we aim to provide an overview of microbial activity in seasonally frozen soils and permafrost. With a more detailed understanding of the microbiological activities in these vulnerable soil ecosystems, we can begin to predict and model future expectations for carbon release and climate change.
Learning for low carbon living: the potential of mobile learning applications for built environment trades and professionals in Australia
Creators: name: Winfree, Tomi
name: Goldacre, Paul
name: Sherkat, Mohammadhossein
name: Graham, Peter
name: Mendoza, Antonette
name: Miller, Tim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Professionals and tradespeople do not promote low carbon building options unless they have proven solutions and confidence to implement them. Consequently, without effective education and training they continue to 'lock in' high carbon options. Studies of education and training in sustainable and low-carbon building practices indicate collaborative learning approaches are required to address this issue. This paper presents interim results arguing there is potential to explore mobile learning application opportunities using user segmentation and emotional goal modelling methods. The research challenge addressed by this project is how to equip and motivate professionals, tradespeople and consumers to adopt low carbon opportunities.
Time series outlier detection: a new non parametric methodology (washer)
Creators: name: VENTURINI, ANDREA; Divisione Analisi E Ricerca Economica Territoriale, Banca D’Italia – Sede Di Venezia
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The production and exploitation of statistical data for a large amount of high frequency time series must allow a timely use of data ensuring a minimum quality standard. This work provides a new outlier detection methodology (washer): efficient for timesaving elaboration and implementation procedures, adaptable for general assumptions and for needing very short time series, reliable and effective as involving robust non parametric test. Some simulations, a case study and a ready-to-use R-language function (washer.AV()) conclude the work.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 329-344
Acoustic scattering from an infinitely long cylindrical shell with an internal mass attached by multiple axisymmetrically distributed stiffeners
Creators: name: Titovich, Alexey S.
name: Norris, Andrew N.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shell
Acoustics
Scattering

description: A thin infinitely long elastic shell is stiffened by J in number identical lengthwise ribs distributed uniformly around the circumference and joined to a rod in the center. The 2D model of the substructure is a rigid central mass supported by J axisymmetrically placed linear springs. The response of the shellspring-mass system is quite different from a fluid filled shell or that of a solid cylinder due to the discrete number of contact points which couple the displacement of the shell at different locations. Exterior acoustic scattering due to normal plane wave incidence is solved in closed form for arbitrary J. The scattering matrix associated with the normal mode solution displays a simple structure, composed of distinct sub-matrices which decouple the incident and scattered fields into J families. The presence of a springs-mass substructure causes resonances which are shown to be related to the subsonic shell flexural waves, and an approximate analytic expression is derived for the quasi-flexural resonance frequencies. Numerical simulations indicate that the new solution for J ≥ 3 springs results in a complicated scattering response for plane wave incidence. As the number of springs becomes large enough, the total scattering cross-section is asymptotically zero at low frequencies and slightly increased compared to the empty shell at moderate frequencies due to the added stiffness and mass. It is also observed that the sensitivity to the angle of incidence diminishes as the number of springs is increased. This system can be tuned by selecting the shell thickness, spring stiffness and added mass to yield desired quasi-static effective properties making it a candidate element for graded index sonic crystals.
Supplementary Table S2 from Biomechanical properties of a buzz-pollinated flower
Creators: name: Brito, Vinicius Lourenço Garcia
name: Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Pereira
name: Caique Rocha Resende
name: Montealegre-Zapata, Fernando
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Comparison of mixed-effects models explaining the vibration amplitude recorded in floral structures of Solanum rostratum. In all models, VRMS measured in floral structures was considered the response variable and floral structure (str = corolla, feeding or pollinating anther), axis of measurement (axes = x, y or z) and/or recorded VRMS in the receptacle (rec) were considered fixed effects. Plant accession was considered a random effect. Models were built in a decreasing order of complexity from a full model including interactions. * = interaction; K = number of parameters; AIC = Akaike information criteria; ΔAIC = difference between the AIC for the considered model and the minimum AIC among all the models; Wt = model probabilities; LL = Log Likelihood. Sample size: 540 vibration measurements from 10 flowers.
Supplementary Figure S2 from Biomechanical properties of a buzz-pollinated flower
Creators: name: Brito, Vinicius Lourenço Garcia
name: Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Pereira
name: Caique Rocha Resende
name: Montealegre-Zapata, Fernando
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S2. Oscillograms and power frequency spectra of all 539 analysed vibrations. Spectral analysis was done on the last 300 ms of the recorded vibration.
Dichonia aprilina
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Dichonia
Dichonia aprilina

description: Dichonia aprilina (Linnaeus, 1758)   Citada de Los Pedroches: imago en octubre (GALÁN BOLUDA, 2014).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 326, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
A new family of skewed slash distributions generated by the normal kernel
Creators: name: PUNATHUMPARAMBATH, BINDU; Department Of Statistics St. Thomas College, Pala, Kerela
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The present paper is a generalization of the recent paper by Nadaraja and Kotz (2003) (Skewed distributions generated by the normal kernel, “Statistics & Probability Letters’’, 65, pp. 269-277). The new family of univariate skewed slash distributions generated by the normal kernel arises as the ratio of skewed distributions generated by the normal kernel and independent uniform power function distribution. The properties of the resulting distributions are studied. Normal, skew normal, slash (slash normal) and skew slash distributions are special cases of this new family. The normal distribution belongs to this family, since when the skewness parameter is zero and tail parameter tends to infinity the skew slash distributions generated by normal kernel reduces to the normal distribution. The slash normal family is also belongs to this family when the skewness parameter is zero. These distributions provide us alternative choices in simulation study and in particular, in fitting skewed data sets with heavy tails. We believe that the new class will be useful for analyzing data sets having skewness and heavy tails. Heavy-tailed distributions are commonly found in complex multi-component systems like ecological systems, microarray, biometry, economics, sociology, internet traffic, finance, business etc. We are working on maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters using EM algorithm and to apply our models for analysing the genetic data sets.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 345-353
Regimes of Remittance Dependency: Global Structures and Trajectories of the Erstwhile Soviet ‘Bloc'
Creators: name: Böröcz, József
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emigration and immigration
Migrant remittances
Dependency theory
Economic dependence
Former Soviet bloc
Former communist countries
Former Soviet republics
Migration

description: In this study, I link a conceptual contribution with a three-step empirical inquiry. I conceptualize migrant remittances as a form of external economic dependency. Next, I describe recent changes in the strength of the empirical relationship between migrant remittances as percentages of the GDP and per capita GDP for all societies of the world. Employing what Charles Tilly called “variation-finding comparison,” I examine, next, the—as it turns out, quite sizeable—residual variation in the relative magnitude of remittances that remains after controlling for per capita GDP, and interpret it as a marker for patterns of remittance dependency. Finally, I trace the recent trajectories of the societies that had, until one generation ago, constituted the Soviet “bloc” against the backdrop of the global distribution in remittance dependency.
Umweltforschung im Überblick
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: UFORDAT
subject: Umweltforschungsdatenbank
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Umweltforschung im Überblick, genau das bietet die Umweltforschungsdatenbank UFORDAT. Über 120.000 Beschreibungen von Forschungs- undEntwicklungsprojekten informieren über das Forschungsgeschehen im deutschsprachigen Raum (Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz). Die Datenbank dokumentiert sowohl öffentlich geförderte Projekte (Bund, Länder, EU) als auch privatwirtschaftlich finanzierte Forschung von Unternehmen, Stiftungen, Verbänden und Vereinen.
International Relations (IR), beyond ‘facts and norms’: A century of western and non-western perspectives
Creators: name: SEETHI, KM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The article brings together the major contributions in the special issue of the Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations 2019-2020
Factors influencing healthy menopause among immigrant women: a scoping review
Creators: name: Zou, Ping
name: Waliwitiya, Thumri
name: Luo, Yan
name: Sun, Winnie
name: Shao, Jing
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Huang, Yanjin
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Many factors influence the menopausal transition and the complexity of this transition increases with the addition of immigration transition. This review aims to identify the factors that influence the menopausal transition for immigrant women based on ecosocial theory. Methods: A scoping review of English publications was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines using CINAHL, AgeLine, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, ERIC, Nursing and Allied Health Database, PsycARTICLES, Sociology Database, and Education Research Complete. Thirty-seven papers were included for this review. Results: The factors which influence the menopausal transition for immigrant women were grouped into three categories: (a) personal factors, (b) familial factors, and (c) community and societal factors. Personal factors include income and employment, physical and psychological health, perceptions of menopause, and acculturation. Familial factors include partner support, relationships with children, and balancing family, work, and personal duties. Community and societal factors encompassed social network, social support, healthcare services, traditional cultural expectations, and discrimination in host countries. Conclusions: Interventions addressing the menopausal transition for immigrant women should be designed considering different psychosocial factors and actively work to address systemic barriers that negatively impact their transition.
An empirical examination of personal learning within the context of teams.
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
name: Jackson, Susan E.
name: Colakoglu, Saba
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Adult learning
Transformational leadership
Task routineness
Task interdependence

description: Using a sample of 588 employees in 59 work teams, we tested a model that situates personal learning within the context of teams, viewing it as a joint function of teams’ leadership climate (i.e., transformational leadership) and task characteristics (i.e., task routineness and task interdependence). Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that the positive relationships between transformational leadership climate and the two dimensions of personal learning (relational job learning and personal skill development) were moderated by the nature of the teams’ tasks. Specifically, transformational leadership climate was more strongly associated with personal learning for members of teams working on tasks that were less routine, rather than more routine. However, no significant moderation was found for leadership climate and task interdependence. Our findings underscore the importance of taking into account the contextual conditions within which leadership influence occurs while also demonstrating the potential role that leaders can play in promoting employees’ personal learning. Overall, our study bolsters theories that conceptualize adult learning as a transaction between people and their social environments and points to a practical need to match leadership styles with team task characteristics to unleash transformational leadership effects.
Time Skewing: A Value-Based Approach to Optimizing for Memory Locality
Creators: name: McCalpin, John
name: Wonnacott, David
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: As the gap between proessor and main memory speed ontinues to grow, higher ahe hit rates are required for eÆient proessor use. Re- ent work on ompile-time transformations to improve loality in sienti progams has foused on loop fusion, tiling, and distribution; previous work suggests that loop skewing is not useful in optimizing for loality. In this artile, we show that the value of loop skewing may only be evident in a ompiler that inludes transformations that have not been applied in empirial studies of loality (suh as the interhange of imperfetly nested loops). We also show how a new approah to data transformation an be used to further redue memory traÆ for these alulations
Additional file 1 of Image-guided navigation for locally advanced primary and locally recurrent rectal cancer: evaluation of its early cost-effectiveness
Creators: name: Lindenberg, Melanie
name: Kramer, Astrid
name: Kok, Esther
name: Retèl, Valesca
name: Beets, Geerard
name: Ruers, Theo
name: van Harten, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.: Supplement 1. Patient characteristics of patients included in the study of Kok et al. 2020. Supplement 2. Characteristics of patients included in the prospective study evaluating quality of life. Supplement 3. Overview of sources for input of the model. Supplement 4. Details on the additional costs for using the navigation system during surgery. Supplement 5. Details of state costs. Supplement 6. Detailed information on the scenario input parameters. Supplement 7. Probabilistic results for LARC and LRRC when Scenario 2 is present. Supplement 8. Graphical visualization of Expected Value of Perfect Information.
Remote Driving: A Ready-to-go Approach to Autonomous Car? - Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Bekris, Kostas
name: Liu, Ruilin
name: Elgammal, Ahmed
name: Ganapathy, Vinod
name: Gerla, Mario
name: Yi, Jingang
name: Iftode, Liviu
name: Melchi, Michel
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015

description: In contrast to autonomous driving solutions purely based on artificial intelligence, this article discusses an alternative for autonomous cars, which involves remote over-the-network driving. The progress in ITS technology, especially in wireless networks and robotic control theory, allows envisioning teleoperated cars that are equally effective in navigating roads and highways to cars controlled by an on-board human driver. This article also examines the challenges that remote driving needs to overcome and possible solutions before turning this technology into reality
Dryobotodes eremita
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Dryobotodes
Dryobotodes eremita

description: Dryobotodes eremita (Fabricius, 1775)
  Citada de la provincia (CALLE, 1982). En Sierra Morena, orugas sobre Q. ilex y Q. faginea, de marzo a mayo (LUQUE MOHEDANO, 2002; EXTREMERA et al., 2004; PÉREZ GUERRERO et al., 2008; JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, 2011a, d). Defoliador importante que probablemente interviene en el síndrome de la seca (NAVARRO CERRILLO & FERNÁNDEZ REBOLLO, 2000; LUQUE et al., 2003). El histórico trabajo de SEYRIG (1926) recoge un parasitoide larvario.
 Nc: Fuente Agria (9-III-2014, oruga).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 326, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Record values from a family of J-shaped distributions
Creators: name: ZGHOUL, AHMAD A.; Department Of Mathematics, College Of Sciences-The University Of Jordan
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A family of J-shaped distributions has applications in life testing modeling. In this paper we study record values from this family of distributions. Based on lower records, recurrence relations and bounds as well as expressions for moments and product moments of record values are obtained, the maximum likelihood estimator of the shape parameter is derived and shown to be consistent, sufficient, complete and UMVU estimator. In addition, an application in reliability is given.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 355-365
Supplementary Table S3 from Biomechanical properties of a buzz-pollinated flower
Creators: name: Brito, Vinicius Lourenço Garcia
name: Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Pereira
name: Caique Rocha Resende
name: Montealegre-Zapata, Fernando
name: Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S3. Statistical analysis of the effect of floral structure (corolla, feeding or pollinating anther), axis of measurement (x, y or z) and amplitude of input vibrations on the Root Mean Squared amplitude velocity (VRMS; mm s-1) of transmitted vibrations measured in different parts of a buzz-pollinated flower of Solanum rostratum. Floral vibrations were applied at the base of the flower using a mechanical shaker attached to the flower's receptacle and measured either at the anther tips of feeding and pollinating anthers or at the distal end (1/4) of the upper petal. The model shown here was selected among competing linear mixed-effects models using AIC. The model includes all second-order interactions among input amplitude velocity (VRMS measured in the receptacle), floral structure and axis of measurement. In this model, input amplitude velocity, axis of measurement, and floral structure measured were considered as fixed effects and plant accession as a random effect. The reference values for the model (intercept) are petal and z-axis. Only fixed-effects are shown in the table. Sample size: 540 vibration measurements from 10 flowers.
Law-Governed Regularities in Software Systems
Creators: name: Minsky, Naftaly H.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Regularities, or the conformity to unifying principles, are essential to the comprehensibility, manageability and reliability of large software systems, and should, therefore, be considered an important element of their architecture. But, as is argued in this paper, the inherent globality of regularities makes them very hard to implement in traditional methods. This paper explores an approach to regularities which greatly simplifies their implementation, making them more easily employable for taming of the complexities of large systems. This approach, which is based on the concept of law-governed architecture (LGA), provides system designers and builders with the means for establishing regularities simply by declaring them formally and explicitly as the law of the system. Once such a law-governed regularity is declared, it is enforced by the environment in which the system is developed. We introduce here the formalism for specifying laws under the Darwin/2 environment, and give a sample of regularities that can be efficiently established by such laws. Although not all desirable regularities can be established this way, it is argued that the range of feasible law-governed regularities, which can be easily defined and efficiently enforced, is sufficiently broad for this to become a useful software engineering technique.
A comprehensive approach to parallel data flow analysis
Creators: name: Ryder, Barbara G.
name: Lee, Yong-fong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Data flow analysis
Parallel data flow analysis
Parallel Algorithms

description: We present a comprehensive approach to performing data flow analysis in parallel. We identify three types of parallelism inherent in the data flow solution process: independent-problem parallelism, separate-unit parallelism and algorithmic parallelism; and describe a unified framework to exploit them. Our investigations of typical Fortran programs reveal an abundance of the last two types of parallelism. In particular, we illustrate the exploitation of algorithmic parallelism in the design of our parallel hybrid data flow analysis algorithms. We report on the empirical performance of the parallel hybrid algorithm for the Reaching Definitions problem and the structural characteristics of the program flow graphs that affect algorithm performance.
Measure of departure from marginal point-symmetry for two-way contingency tables
Creators: name: YAMAMOTO, KOUJI; Center Of Clinical Investigation And Research-Osaka University Hospital
name: TAHATA, KOUJI; Department Of Information Sciences, Faculty Of Science And Technology-Tokyo University Of Science
name: SUZUKI, MOTOKO; Department Of Information Sciences, Faculty Of Science And Technology-Tokyo University Of Science
name: TOMIZAWA, SADAO; Department Of Information Sciences, Faculty Of Science And Technology-Tokyo University Of Science
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: For two-way contingency tables, Tomizawa (1985) considered the point-symmetry and marginal point-symmetry models, and Tomizawa, Yamamoto and Tahata (2007) proposed a measure to represent the degree of departure from point-symmetry. The present paper proposes a measure to represent the degree of departure from marginal pointsymmetry for two-way tables. The proposed measure is expressed by using Cressie-Read power-divergence or Patil-Taillie diversity index. This measure would be useful for comparing the degrees of departure from marginal point-symmetry in several tables. The relationship between the degree of departure from marginal point-symmetry and the measure is shown when it is reasonable to assume underlying bivariate normal distribution. Examples are shown.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 367-380
Dryobotodes monochroma
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Dryobotodes
Dryobotodes monochroma

description: Dryobotodes monochroma (Esper, [1790])
  Citada de Sierra Morena: orugas sobre Q. ilex, Q. faginea y Q. suber, de marzo a mayo (LUQUE MOHEDANO, 2002; EXTREMERA et al., 2004; PÉREZ GUERRERO et al., 2008; JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, 2011a, d). Es otro defoliador importante que también se ha relacionado con la seca (NAVARRO CERRILLO & FERNÁNDEZ REBOLLO, 2000; LUQUE et al., 2003).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 327, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
An alternative randomized response model using two decks of cards
Creators: name: ABDELFATAH, SALLY; Department Of Statistics-Faculty Of Economics And Political Science -Cairo University
name: MAZLOUM, REDA; Department Of Statistics-Faculty Of Economics And Political Science -Cairo University
name: SINGH, SARJINDER; Department Of Mathematics-Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In an attempt to obtain trustworthy answers from the respondents regarding a sensitive question in order to estimate the population proportion possessing that sensitive attribute, Odumade and Singh (2009) have suggested a randomized response model based on the use of two decks of cards. In this paper, a modification to the structure of the two decks of cards used by Odumade and Singh (2009) is proposed. The condition when the proposed model is more efficient than the Odumade and Singh (2009) model has been obtained. The proposed model can be easily adjusted to be more efficient than the Warner (1965), Mangat and Singh (1990), Mangat (1994) and Odumade and Singh (2009) models. Another advantage of the proposed model is that it can increase the respondents’ cooperation as they will be required to answer the sensitive question only once and not twice as in the case of the Odumade and Singh (2009) model.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 381-390
Creating the Innovative Library Culture: Escaping the Iron Cage through Management Innovation
Creators: name: Jantz, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Organizational innovation
Management
Organizational change
Academic Libraries

description: To survive and thrive in the future, academic libraries must change and adapt to a rapidly evolving external environment. The obvious challenge is how to bring about this change in a world in which most major organizational changes simply do not work.
A comparison of nonparametric estimators of survival under left-truncation and right-censoring motivated by a case study
Creators: name: GASPARINI, MAURO; Department Of Mathematics-Politecnico Di Torino
name: GANDINI, MARTINA; Centro Regionale Per L’epidemiologia E  La Salute Ambientale, ARPA Piemonte – Grugliasco
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: We present an application of nonparametric estimation of survival in the presence of left-truncated and right-censored data. We confirm the well-known unstable behavior of the survival estimates when the risk set is small and there are too few early deaths. How ever, in our real scenario where only few death times are necessarily available, the proper nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator, and its usual modification, behave less badly than alternative methods proposed in the literature. The relative merits of the different estimators are discussed in a simulation study extending the settings of the case study to more general scenarios.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 3 (2011); 391-406