cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Applications Of Physical Unclonable Functions on ASICS and FPGAs
Creators: name: Usmani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: With the ever-increasing demand for security in embedded systems and wireless sensor networks, we require integrating security primitives for authentication in these devices. One such primitive is known as a Physically Unclonable Function. This entity can be used to provide security at a low cost, as the key or digital signature can be generated by dedicating a small part of the silicon die to these primitives which produces a fingerprint unique to each device. This fingerprint produced by a PUF is called its response. The response of PUFs depends upon the process variation that occurs during the manufacturing process. In embedded systems and especially wireless sensor networks, there is a need to secure the data the collected from the sensors.
To tackle this problem, we propose the use of SRAM-based PUFs to detect the temperature of the system. This is done by taking the PUF response to generate temperature based keys. The key would act as proofs of the temperature of the system. In SRAM PUFs, it is experimentally determined that at varying temperatures there is a shift in the response of the cells from zero to one and vice-versa. This variation can be exploited to generate random but repeatable keys at different temperatures.
To evaluate our approach, we first analyze the key metrics of a PUF, namely, reliability and uniqueness. In order to test the idea of using the PUF as a temperature based key generator, we collect data from a total of ten SRAM chips at fixed temperatures steps. We first calculate the reliability, which is related to bit error rate, an important parameter with respect to error correction, at various temperatures to verify the stability of the responses. We then identify the temperature of the system by using a temperature sensor and then encode the key offset by PUF response at that temperature using BCH codes. This key-temperature pair can then be used to establish secure communication between the nodes. Thus, this scheme helps in establishing secure keys as the generation has an extra variable to produce confusion.
We developed a novel PUF for Xilinx FPGAs and evaluated its quality metrics. It is very compact and has high uniqueness and reliability. We also implement 2 different PUF configurations to allow per-device selection of best PUFs to reduce the area and power required for key-generation. We also evaluate the temperature response of this PUF and show improvement in the response by using per-device selection.
What land-use pattern emerges with landscape-scale management? An ecosystem-service perspective
Creators: name: Cong, Ronggang
name: Ekroos, Johan
name: G. Smith, Henrik
name: Brady, Mark
name: Cong, Ronggang
name: Ekroos, Johan
name: G. Smith, Henrik
name: Brady, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agent-based model
subject: landscape-scale management
subject: ecosystem services
subject: land sharing
subject: land sparing
subject: land-use pattern index
subject: governance

description: It is argued that landscape-scale management (LSM) of habitat is better than farm-scale management (FSM) when considering the externality of ecosystem services. Given this advantage, how to regulate individual farmers’ land-use decisions to achieve the LSM solution is an issue of common concern both for farmers and policymakers. Specifically, it needs to be determined if there exists a dominant land-use pattern that characterizes the LSM solution compared to FSM solution. In addition to the area of habitat, we design a land-use pattern index (LPI) to characterize the configuration of habitat and project it onto the sharing-sparing continuum. We find that the LSM solution is characterized by less intensive farming, and configurations of habitat are closer to land sharing. However, as crop dependency on ecosystem-services declines, the land-use patterns with LSM and FSM converge and the configurations of habitat start to resemble to land sparing. In addition, when habitat quality improves the configurations of habitat on the border farms become important. Finally, the less mobile service-providers are, the more farmers should focus on land-use patterns on their own farms. Our indices of land-use patterns could be integrated into the cross-compliance of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) to better manage ecosystem-service in the future.
MOESM3 of The role of cardiac rehabilitation using exercise to decrease natriuretic peptide levels in non-surgical patients: a systematic review
Creators: name: Alphonsus, Christella
name: Pooveshni Govender
name: Reitze Rodseth
name: Biccard, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological 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: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Risk of bias graph.
Analysis of wall-pressure fluctuation sources from DNS of turbulent channel flow
Creators: name: Anantharamu, Sreevatsa
name: Mahesh, Krishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sources of wall-pressure fluctuations in turbulent channel flow are studied using a novel framework. The wall-pressure power spectral density (PSD) $(ϕ_{pp}(ω))$ is expressed as an integrated contribution from all wall-parallel plane pairs, $ϕ_{pp}(ω)=\int_{-δ}^{+δ}\int_{-δ}^{+δ}Γ(r,s,ω)\,\mathrm{dr}\,\mathrm{ds}$, using the Green's function. Here, $Γ(r,s,ω)$ is termed the net source cross spectral density (CSD) between two wall-parallel planes, $y=r$ and $y=s$ and $δ$ is the half channel height. Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) data at friction Reynolds number of $180$ and $400$ are used to compute $Γ(r,s,ω)$. Analysis of the net source CSD, $Γ(r,s,ω)$ reveals that the location of dominant sources responsible for the premultiplied peak in the power spectra at $ω^+\approx 0.35$ and the wavenumber spectra at $λ^+\approx 200$ is in the buffer layer at $y^+\approx 16.5$ and $18.4$ for $Re_τ=180$ and $400$, respectively. The contribution from a wall-parallel plane (located at distance $y^+$ from the wall) to wall-pressure PSD is log-normal in $y^+$ for $ω^+>0.35$. A dominant inner-overlap region interaction of the sources is observed at low frequencies. Further, the decorrelated features of the wall-pressure fluctuation sources are analyzed using spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD). We require the modes to be orthogonal in an inner product with a symmetric positive definite kernel. Spectral POD supports the case that the net source is composed of two decorrelated components - active (dominant mode) and inactive (remaining modes). The structure represented by the dominant POD mode at the premultiplied wall-pressure PSD peak inclines in the downstream direction. At the low-frequency linear PSD peak, the dominant mode resembles a large scale vertical pattern.
Misuse of Section 498A IPC: A Legal Safeguard or a Tool for Harassment?
Creators: name: Kumar, Surender
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Misuse of Section 498A IPC: A Legal Safeguard or a Tool for Harassment?

 

The Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 498A was introduced in 1983 as part of The Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act, 1983, with the primary objective of protecting women from cruelty, domestic violence, and dowry-related harassment. The provision makes cruelty against a woman by her husband or his relatives a cognizable, non-bailable, and non-compoundable offense, ensuring stringent legal protection.

However, over the past few decades, there has been growing concern regarding the misuse of Section 498A, where some individuals have allegedly used the law as a tool for legal harassment, false accusations, and financial extortion. This has led to cases of wrongful arrests, damage to reputations, mental distress, and, in extreme instances, suicides of the falsely accused.
The Effects of Mechanical Loading and Tumor Factors on Osteocyte Dendrite Formation
Creators: name: Wang, Wenbo
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Advanced breast cancer predominantly metastasizes to the skeleton, at which point patients suffer bone loss, pain, heightened fracture risk and their prognosis significantly declines. The skeleton is sensitive to its highly dynamic mechanical environment whereby bone mass is increased when applied loads are increased whereas bone loss occurs when applied loads are reduced. Increased mechanical loading inhibited bone metastatic tumor formation and progression in vivo, but the underlying mechanisms are currently under investigation. Here, we focus on the osteocyte, a specialized bone cell well-known as the primary mechanosensor and director of remodeling in the skeleton. Osteocytic dendrites are important for mechanosensing, and their number and length increase with applied loading. Dendrite connections are also known to suppress breast cancer growth and bone metastasis. How breast cancer cells affect loading-induced changes in dendrites, or downstream effects on mechanosensing and remodeling, is unknown.
To examine how breast cancer cells modulate osteocyte function, we exposed osteocytes (MLO-Y4 cells) to medium conditioned by breast cancer cells (MDA-MB231 cells) and to fluid shear stress using a rocker platform (2 hrs per day for 3 days, shear stress 1.1 Pa). In the absence of loading, treatment with tumor conditioned media alone did not alter dendrite number per MLO or overall cell number. When loading was applied to MLOs treated with conditioned media, dendrite formation increased in MLOs despite the presence of tumor-derived factors. Conditioned media and loading together reduced MLO cell number, suggesting that the combination of these two factors may be stimulating apoptosis and dendrite formation increases in the remaining viable cells. Next, to model the more physiological situation in which both cell populations undergo loading, we exposed MLOs to loading as well as media conditioned by breast cancers that were also similarly loaded. When control (nonloaded) MLOs were treated with conditioned media from loaded breast cancer cells, their dendrite formation increased in a manner similar to that observed due to loading alone. When MLOs simultaneously underwent loading and treatment with loaded conditioned media, dendrite formation was greatest. Loaded conditioned media also decreased MLO cell number independent of MLO loading status. The results suggested that loading stimulates breast cancer cells to induce both osteocyte dendrite formation and apoptosis, which is a possible mechanism for the inhibitory role of applied loading on bone metastasis.
Impacts of CAP “greening” on Polish farms
Creators: name: Wąs, Adam
name: Majewski, Edward
name: Czekaj, Stefania
name: Wąs, Adam
name: Majewski, Edward
name: Czekaj, Stefania
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: greening
subject: CAP
subject: farm income
subject: Shannon Index
subject: Positive Mathematical Programming

description: After a long debate between political bodies of the EU, the final decision about the shape of the CAP in the next programming period has been made. The initial proposal of the European Commission was very ambitious yet, after the announcement of its final version, there is a common belief that green requirements have been watered down. This paper presents the results of impact analysis based on the most recent proposition of CAP reform with a specific focus on “greening” of direct payments. It evaluates changes in the cropping structure and economic results of Polish farms from the perspective of the year 2020. For the analyses, the authors proposed an original farm typology using data taken from 10890 farms from FADN sampled in 2011. A farm optimization model with PMP technique was used to estimate potential effects of the reform for 218 types of Polish farms. The farm model results have been scaled-up to the country level. Results show that a majority of Polish farms are already complying with the new requirements. Adjustment of the remaining farms to the new requirements leads to only small changes in the cropping structure and has negligible impact on income generated by the Polish farm sector.
Inteligência Emocional e Burnout na Prática Profissional dos Assistentes Sociais
Creators: name: Assanali, Nureia
name: Marques, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Revista Temas Sociais
Year: 2024

description: A inteligência emocional (IE) e o burnout, são conceitos que têm sido bastantes estudados individualmente e entre si, porém são escassos os estudos que relacionam com o serviço social. Nesse sentido, o seguinte trabalho, tem como objetivo compreender a importância da IE na prática profissional dos assistentes sociais e, relacionar com os níveis de burnout. Foi aplicada uma metodologia mista, e a amostra foi recolhida através do método “Bola de neve”, obtendo um total de sessenta e um participantes, através da realização de um questionário de respostas abertas e fechadas pelo Google Forms a assistentes sociais de diversas áreas. Os resultados foram analisados através do programa IBM® SPSS® e, embora as correlações não tenham revelado relações estatisticamente significativas, foi possível concluir uma correlação negativa entre IE e burnout, refletindo que quanto mais baixos os níveis de IE, maior os níveis de burnout. Foi ainda observado uma correlação negativa entre o burnout e os anos de experiência de profissão, evidenciando que, quantos mais anos de atividade profissional, menos probabilidade de atingir níveis de burnout e, por fim, verificou-se uma correlação positiva entre IE emocional e os anos de experiência profissional, constatando quanto mais anos de prática profissional, mais altos os níveis de IE. A relação entre IE e serviço social é profunda e multifacetada.
description: Revista Temas Sociais , n. 7 (2024): Temas Sociais
Agent-Based Modeling of Farming Behavior: A Dutch Case Study on Milk Quota Abolishment and Sustainable Dairying
Creators: name: Oudendag, Diti
name: Hoogendoorn, Mark
name: Jongeneel, Roel
name: Oudendag, Diti
name: Hoogendoorn, Mark
name: Jongeneel, Roel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: agent based modelling
subject: dairy
subject: milk quota

description: Gaining insight on the effect of policies upon the agricultural domain is essential for policy makers, famers and the agribusiness sector. A variety of models have therefore been developed that enable a prediction of agricultural development under different policies. Most models do however not make predictions on a fine grained level and are weak in accounting for specific factor market and resource constraints farmers (agents) face at farm level. The paper presents an agent-based model where each farm is modeled by means of an agent and studies the effect of milk quota abolishment. Two simulations policy simulations are made: 1) abolition of the milk quota; and 2) land-tied sustainable dairy scenario. Outcomes are analyzed and compared with the predictions of sector models.
Greening direct payments in Italy: what consequences for arable farms?
Creators: name: Cimino, Orlando
name: Henke, Roberto
name: Vanni, Francesco
name: Cimino, Orlando
name: Henke, Roberto
name: Vanni, Francesco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: CAP reform
subject: direct payments
subject: CAP greening
subject: Italian farming systems
subject: FADN

description: The paper analyses the effects of greening measures on farm income in Italy focusing on two specialised farming systems that will be largely affected by the introduction of green payments : the maize production system, localized mainly in Northern regions, and the durum wheat production system, especially localised in Central and Southern regions. Data show that in the case of the farms specialised in maize production, the green payments generally do not compensate the reduction of the farm gross margin, while for the farms specialised in durum wheat, the green payments would cover the reduction of farm gross margin determined by the introduction of the greening obligations.
Modelling robust crop production portfolios to assess agricultural vulnerability to climate change
Creators: name: Mitter, Hermine
name: Heumesser, Christine
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Mitter, Hermine
name: Heumesser, Christine
name: Schmid, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: climate change impact
subject: adaptation
subject: agricultural vulnerability
subject: portfolio optimization
subject: agri-environmental policies

description: Agricultural vulnerability is assessed by (i) modelling climate change impacts on crop yields and gross margins, (ii) identifying crop production portfolios for adaptation, and (iii) analyzing the effect of agricultural policies and risk aversion on adaptive capacity. We combine, spatially explicit, a statistical climate change model, the bio-physical process model EPIC and a portfolio optimization model. Under climate change, optimal portfolios include higher shares of intensive crop managements which increase crop yields and gross margins by 2-3%. Abolishment of decoupled but higher agri-environmental payments would reduce nitrogen fertilizer inputs by 23-33%, but also crop yields and gross margins by 18-37%.
Physical Activity and Early Menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study II
Creators: name: Zhao, Mingfei
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Early menopause, the cessation of menstrual function before age 45, occurs in 10% of women, and is associated with higher premature mortality and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Lifestyle factors like physical activity may influence menopause timing, but results from prior research are inconsistent. We evaluated the association between physical activity and the occurrence of early natural menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study II. Premenopausal women were followed prospectively from 1989 to 2011. Menopause status was self-reported biennially. Time per week participating in specific activities was reported every four years and used to calculate metabolic task hours (MET). Moderate and vigorous activity in adolescence and young adulthood was reported in 1997. We used Cox proportional hazards model to evaluate the association between physical activity and incidence of natural menopause before age 45 controlling for potential confounding factors. We observed no significant association between adulthood physical activity and early menopause. For example, compared to women with/wk, the hazard ratio for women in the highest category (≥42 MET h/wk) of cumulatively-averaged total physical activity was 0.90 (95% confidence interval: 0.76-1.07; P-trend: 0.63). Similarly, activity in adolescence and young adulthood were unrelated to risk. Body mass index did not modify the relation of physical activity and early menopause. Our findings suggest that physical activity is not associated with incident early menopause.
Exploring the determinants for adopting water conservation measures. What is the tendency of landowners when the resource is already at risk?
Creators: name: Grammatikopoulou, Ioanna
name: Pouta, Eija
name: Myyrä, Sami
name: Grammatikopoulou, Ioanna
name: Pouta, Eija
name: Myyrä, Sami
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: water eutrophication
subject: conservation
subject: GIS data
subject: probit model

description: In Finland, water conservation policy sets equal incentive regardless of the condition of the environment. Before any policy reform, it is vital to investigate landowners’ tendency for adoption. In this study we were particularly interested in examining the tendency for adoption if the soil quality implies a high leaching risk or water quality is already poor. For this purpose, survey data were combined with GIS data. Furthermore the aim was to analyse the effect of farm and farmer characteristics and attitudes on adoption. The findings derived by probit models indicated that, for active farmers, financial variables were the key determinants. For passive owners, adoption was also explained by attitudes. Contrary to our expectations, there is no spontaneous tendency for water conservation in deteriorated areas. Targeted agri-environmental measures, even though costly, cannot be avoided.
Fully 3D Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Boussinesq Fluid
Creators: name: Walters, S. J.
name: Forbes, L. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs when a heavier fluid overlies a lighter fluid, and the two seek to exchange positions under the effect of gravity. We present linearized theory for arbitrary 3D initial disturbances that grow in time, and calculate the evolution of the interface for early times. A new spectral method is introduced for the fully 3D non-linear problem in a Boussinesq fluid, where the interface between the light and heavy fluid is approximated with a smooth but rapid density change in the fluid. The results of large-scale numerical calculation are presented in fully 3D geometry, compared and contrasted with the early-time linearized theory.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
The Impact of Wind Scalings on Stellar Growth and the Baryon Cycle in Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Huang, Shuiyao
name: Katz, Neal
name: Davé, Romeel
name: Oppenheimer, Benjamin D.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Fardal, Mark
name: Kollmeier, Juna A.
name: Peeples, Molly S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many phenomenologically successful cosmological galaxy formation simulations employ kinetic winds to model galactic outflows, a crucial ingredient in obtaining predictions that agree with various observations. Yet systematic studies of how variations in kinetic wind scalings might alter observable galaxy properties are rare. Here we employ GADGET-3 simulations to study how the baryon cycle, stellar mass function, and other galaxy and CGM predictions vary as a function of the assumed outflow speed $v_w$ and the scaling of the mass loading factor $η$ with velocity dispersion $σ$. We design our fiducial model to reproduce the measured wind properties at 25% of the virial radius from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulations. We find that a strong dependence of $η\sim σ^5$ in low mass haloes with $σ< 106\ \mathrm{km\ s^{-1}}$ is required to match the faint end of the stellar mass functions at $z > 1$. The wind speed also has a major impact, with faster winds significantly reducing wind recycling and heating more halo gas. Both effects result in less stellar mass growth in massive haloes and impact high ionization absorption in halo gas. We cannot simultaneously match the stellar content at $z=2$ and $z=0$ within a single model, suggesting that an additional feedback source such as AGN might be required in massive galaxies at lower redshifts, but the amount needed depends strongly on assumptions regarding the outflow properties. We run a 50 $\mathrm{Mpc/h}$, $2\times576^3$ simulation with our fiducial parameters and show that it matches a range of star-forming galaxy properties at $z\sim0-2$. In closing, the results from simulations of galaxy formation are much more sensitive to small changes in the feedback implementation than to the hydrodynamic technique.
description: 31 pages, 19 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Should we internalize intertemporal production externalities in the case of pest resistance?
Creators: name: Martin, Elsa
name: Martin, Elsa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: stock externality
subject: pest resistance
subject: technology change

description: Pesticides efficiency decreases with their global application by farmers. Within a strategic dynamic framework, this results in a classic intertemporal production externality. We analyze the fiscal scheme that can be implemented in order to internalize this externality. We show that it is able to restore socially optimal paths but that final time of pesticide use differs. With this scheme, farmers have a tendency to switch to alternative pest-control technology, as integrated pest management, earlier than is optimal. Furthermore, the socially optimal switching time can be later than the one obtained under a situation without control.
Costs and benefits associated with the externalities generated by Dutch agriculture
Creators: name: Jongeneel, Roel
name: Polman, Nico
name: Van Der Ham, Corinda
name: Jongeneel, Roel
name: Polman, Nico
name: Van Der Ham, Corinda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: cost-benefit analysis
subject: externalities
subject: environment
subject: agriculture

description: This paper provides an estimate of costs and benefits of the negative and, to a lesser extent, positive externalities associated with the Dutch agricultural sector. A cost-based approach, rather than a demand-based of full CBA approach has been followed. Implications of methodological assumptions are discussed and some efforts are made to empirically cross-validate cost estimates. Total benefits due to agricultural production, according to available data and research in the Netherlands, are calculated to be €5,533.0 million a year and the total costs are calculated to be €1,885.7 million. Using the available information, total net benefits of agriculture in the Netherlands are estimated to be €3,647.3 million per year for the period 2005 until 2012. The external costs are equivalent to €952 per ha of arable and pasture land and are high relative to estimates found for other countries.
Agricultural Cooperatives and Cooperative Law
Creators: name: Avsec, Franci
name: Zerjav, Primoz
name: Avsec, Franci
name: Zerjav, Primoz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The paper analyses the advantages and weakpoints of cooperatives, especially in agriculture, as they are identified by the contemporary cooperative theory. The theoretical findings are connected with the comparative survey of recent developments of the cooperative law, where the draft new model law on agricultural cooperatives in USA, the Regulation No. 1435/2003/EC about the statute of the European Cooperative Society (Societas Cooperativa Europaea, SCE) and cooperative regulation in some other states as well as the Slovenian Act on Cooperatives are mentioned. The development of the modern cooperative law is characterised by two trends. Due to the globalisation, the cooperative law is being directly or, at least indirectly, hamonized on the international level. The setting up of internal market in various integrations (EU, for instance), which includes the free movement of production factors and widely interpreted right of establishment, brings also more or less latent competition among different legal regimes. Moreover, in several states some legal provisions about cooperatives are being modelled following the joint-stock company example. All these developments have their advantages and risks.
Using e-Participation for Mission Statement Development: Promises and Challenges
Creators: name: Fegert, Jonas
name: Stein, Carolin
name: Peukert, Christian
name: Weinhardt, Christof
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: e-participation
mission statements

description: Mission statements are documents that summarize an organization's core values and strategies and are used to motivate employees by creating a common understanding among them. However, studies have shown that employees often seek more involvement in the development of mission statements in their organizations. Digitization pushes the implementation of new information and communication technology in the workplace. Therefore, we argue for the potential of using e-participation for the creation of a mission statement. With this paper, we contribute to digital government research by presenting a nominal group process consisting of eight activities, for the deployment of e-participation for the purpose of mission statement development. We evaluate the suggested process using an existing e-participation tool. Our evaluation results reveal challenges of implementing e-participation with the tested tool, especially regarding the usability. Therefore, we provide an overview of specific improvements in the design of e-participation platforms that should be considered in the further development of such platforms.
Supplementary document for Automated Multi-target Super-resolution Microscopy with Trust Regions - 6167972.pdf
Creators: name: Schodt, David
name: Farzam, Farzin
name: Liu, Sheng
name: Lidke, Keith
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental tex files and figures
Design for Sustainability through a Life Cycle Assessment Conceptual Framework Integrated within Product Lifecycle Management
Creators: name: Zou, Renpeng
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: The need to include sustainable design principles during product realization poses several challenges in need of research. The demand for greener products has increased while competition has shortened product realization processes. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) provides solutions in accelerating the development process and time to market by managing the information through a full life cycle of a product line. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a way to predict the environmental impacts that should be expected over the complete life cycle of a given product, but LCA methods are not well suited to efficient comparison of product alternatives during early design stages. Customers and other stakeholders demand products that not only comply with regulations and minimize environmental impacts, but also minimize costs and maximize certain performance objectives of a product. Thus, an approach is needed to unify validation of new products compliance with holistic consideration of environmental impacts along with other objectives over a complete life cycle for the selection of the optimal design concept in an efficient manner.
This research addresses these matters by proposing the approach of integrating LCA software with a PLM system. A conceptual LCA framework- LCAatPLM (Life Cycle Assessment of assembly tree in PLM) is proposed that allows environmental assessment of assembly tree directly extracted from PLM. Firstly, relevant existing solutions are reviewed and several challenges are identified that prevent integration. By decomposing the structure of both PLM and LCA, a common foundation is identified for the integration. Then, a design methodology is developed to show the use of LCAatPLM within PLM environment. A charcoal grill design case study is detailed to show how evaluations can be made based on achievement of strategic goals, along with verification of compliance and the visibility of LCA and other results. Our findings show that design executions through LCA integrated with PLM reveal environmental criterion at early stages. It can be considered with other design criteria to identify and select optimal alternatives. This research transforms LCA as an evaluation tool used after a design is already completed to one that can guide designs earlier within the PLM environment.
Management of a Multiple Cohort Fishery: The Hard Clam in Great South Bay
Creators: name: Conrad, Jon M.
name: Conrad, Jon M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Bioeconomics to date has focused almost exclusively on lumped parameter models where the resource is described by a single state variable defined as biomass. While such models are convenient mathematically they may be inappropriate in fisheries where recruitment and fecundity are dependent on the age structure of the resource. This paper develops a reasonably general multiple cohort model and derives conditions for optimal harvest and age structure based on a discrete time control problem which maximizes the present value of net revenues subject to recruitment and spawning constraints. The model is applied to the hard clam resource in Great south Bay which is located on Ling Island, New York The steady state optimum calls for exclusive harvesting of the younger, ( and more valuable), "littleneck" cohorts; leaving the older, (and less valuable), "cherrystone" and "chowder" cohorts to specialize in regeneration.
Natural dark matter and light bosons with an alternative left-right symmetry
Creators: name: Frank, Mariana
name: Fuks, Benjamin
name: Özdal, Özer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a consistent analysis of the alternative left-right symmetric model emerging from $E_6$ grand unification. We include a large set of theoretical and experimental constraints, with a particular emphasis on dark matter observables and collider signals. We show that the exotic neutrino inherent to this class of models, the scotino, is a viable candidate for dark matter satisfying relic density and direct detection constraints. This has strong implications on the scotino mass restricting it to lie in a narrow window, as well as on the spectrum of Higgs bosons, rendering it predictable, with a few light scalar, pseudoscalar and charged states. Moreover, we also show that the extra charged $W'$ gauge boson can be light, and investigate the most promising signals at the future high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC. Our findings show that the most optimistic cosmologically-favoured scenarios should be observable at $5σ$, whilst others could leave visible hints provided the background is under good control at the systematical level.
description: Version accepted by JHEP
Probing into the Historical and Geographical Variants of Mandarin: A Computational Approach
Creators: name: Chen, Annie
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: This computational study reveals the primacy of language contact in the variation of language (Sarah Grey Thomason 2003). The visualization and further analysis confirm the reconceptualization of Chinese linguistic history with the theory of Horizontal Transmission (Shen 2016). Horizontal Transmission situates the development of Mandarin and other Chinese dialects in a sociopolitical landscape as a cultural complex and introduces imperfect learning to the time-capsulated process of Language Shift as an inevitable social phenomenon.
The nature of language largely determines how it can change(Janda and Joseph 2003). We have to ruminate on the fact that the grammar of language is a symbolic system of representation while living language is a complex adaptive system generated and regenerated by individuals (Shen 2015). The descriptive capacity of Shen’s theory is compatible with the nature of language being dynamic idiolects alongside a real linguistic history embodied by individual speakers in time and space. The descriptive capacity of Shen’s theory is compatible with the nature of language being dynamic idiolects alongside a real linguistic history embodied by individual speakers in time and space. Only by understanding the change mechanism of Chinese from the perspective of language contact and through the lens of language shift, the variation of Mandarin and emergence of Chinese dialects find their explanations in a salient chain of logic to create a holistic account of Chinese evolution where the intertwined influence of languages finds its manifestation.
Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz im Rahmen der Arbeitnehmerentsendung
Creators: name: Kohte, Wolfhard
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 613

description: Entsendung führt zu Problemen im Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz, weil die Bildung betrieblicher Sonderwelten, die oft sprachlich und kulturell abgeschieden sind, Defizite gegenüber der allgemeinen betrieblichen Arbeitsschutzpolitik hervorrufen. Die bisherigen Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass sich dadurch verstärkt Unfälle und Gesundheitsprobleme bei entsandten Beschäftigten ergeben. Die Europäische Union hat 1996 mit der Entsenderichtlinie die Mitgliedsstaaten in für Pflicht genommen, dass sie für entsandte Beschäftigte die Sicherung der Arbeitszeit- und Arbeitsschutzvorschriften gewährleisten. Diese Pflicht ist in Deutschland in § 2 AEntG normiert worden, jedoch fehlt bis heute die gebotene Umsetzung. Die Arbeitsschutzbehörden erhalten nicht die erforderlichen Informationen, so dass auch eine gezielte Überwachung bisher nicht stattfindet. Die Information der entsandten Beschäftigten in ihrer eigenen Sprache ist weiterhin unzureichend. Angesichts dieser Situation legt ein erster Schwerpunkt der Arbeitsschutzpolitik in einer besseren Verpflichtung der deutschen Auftraggeber, die bereits im Baustellenrecht und der Fleischwirtschaft verwirklicht worden ist. Weitere Verbesserungen können durch eine effektive Umsetzung von Kooperationspflichten (§ 8 ArbSchG) sowie auf dem zivilgesellschaftlichen Weg durch Beratungsstellen und die Arbeit der Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften erfolgen.
Effort-Related Motivational Dysfunctions: Behavioral and Neurochemical Studies of the Wistar-Kyoto Rat Model of Depression
Creators: name: Abbott, Brendan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Depression and related disorders are characterized by motivational dysfunctions, including deficits in behavioral activation and exertion of effort. Animal models of relevance to depression represent a critical starting point in elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying motivational dysfunctions. The present study explored the use of the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) animal model of depression to examine effort-related functions as measured by voluntary wheel running and performance on a mixed fixed ratio 5/progressive ratio (FR5/PR) operant task. Given the known link between activational aspects of motivation and the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) system, the behavioral effects of d-amphetamine (0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg, IP), a psychostimulant that increases DA release, were evaluated in WKY and control Sprague-Dawley (SD) male and female rats responding on a mixed FR5/PR task. An additional experiment assessed intracellular content of monoamine neurotransmitters and their metabolites in relevant mesocorticolimbic brain regions, including the medial prefrontal cortex, the nucleus accumbens and the ventrolateral striatum using HPLC-ED. WKY rats demonstrated initial effort-related deficits in FR5/PR responding compared to SD controls, which ameliorated with training. Amphetamine significantly decreased FR5 work output, but increased responding on the PR phase in both SD and WKY rats. This effect was more pronounced in SD rats compare to WKY rats. In addition, sex differences were evident both in FR5/PR performance and in the behavioral response to amphetamine treatment. Moreover, females demonstrated higher levels of voluntary wheel-running than males. Finally, tissue concentrations of dopamine were lower in the NA and VLS of WKY compared to SD rats. Taken together, results suggest dysfunctions in mesolimbic DA neurotransmission in the WKY strain, likely underlying the depressive phenotype. The present study represents an important initial step in validating the WKY strain as a rat model of effort-related dysfunctions relevant to depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
MOESM3 of Genomic adaptations to chemosymbiosis in the deep-sea seep-dwelling tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi
Creators: name: Yuanning Li
name: Tassia, Michael
name: Waits, Damien
name: Bogantes, Viktoria
name: David, Kyle
name: Halanych, Kenneth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Bioinformatic command lines used in this study.
Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in Dielectric Nanostructures via Machine Learning Approach
Creators: name: Xu, Lei
name: Rahmani, Mohsen
name: Ma, Yixuan
name: Smirnova, Daria A.
name: Kamali, Khosro Zangeneh
name: Deng, Fu
name: Chiang, Yan Kei
name: Huang, Lujun
name: Zhang, Haoyang
name: Gould, Stephen
name: Neshev, Dragomir N.
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key concept underlying the specific functionalities of metasurfaces, i.e. arrays of subwavelength nanoparticles, is the use of constituent components to shape the wavefront of the light, on-demand. Metasurfaces are versatile and novel platforms to manipulate the scattering, colour, phase or the intensity of the light. Currently, one of the typical approaches for designing a metasurface is to optimize one or two variables, among a vast number of fixed parameters, such as various materials' properties and coupling effects, as well as the geometrical parameters. Ideally, it would require a multi-dimensional space optimization through direct numerical simulations. Recently, an alternative approach became quite popular allowing to reduce the computational cost significantly based on a deep-learning-assisted method. In this paper, we utilize a deep-learning approach for obtaining high-quality factor (high-Q) resonances with desired characteristics, such as linewidth, amplitude and spectral position. We exploit such high-Q resonances for the enhanced light-matter interaction in nonlinear optical metasurfaces and optomechanical vibrations, simultaneously. We demonstrate that optimized metasurfaces lead up to 400+ folds enhancement of the third harmonic generation (THG); at the same time, they also contribute to 100+ folds enhancement in optomechanical vibrations. This approach can be further used to realize structures with unconventional scattering responses.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Bangladeshi Cultural Center: for the Bangladeshi Population Living in New York City
Creators: name: Afrin, Sabrina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: The twentieth-century brought a rapidly increasing global mobility and is causing a de-territorial effect on the world. The borders of countries are becoming more fluid. The bounds of cultures that were based on nationality, have become blurred, contested, open-ended, and unstable. These frequently modified cultural boundaries have created multiple cultural diasporic groups. A diaspora is a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world. Globalism, with its elusive cultural identity, leads to a seemingly unified world culture and the once static sense of nation-state-based cultural identity is now mobile. This mobility and replacement of our locations destabilize our traditional sense of identity that traditionally has been deeply rooted in a sense of nation-state. As a reaction and resistance to the global forces, “localism,” or “nativism,” have simultaneously increased. Thus, the cultural diaspora can be understood as a journey through multiple magnitudes of cultural boundaries.
This thesis reviews cultural identity with an emphasis on cultures that are undergoing a diasporic condition. I specifically emphasize notions of the nationality of a selected diasporic group of Bangladeshi people living in New York City over the past few decades. The vehicle of the research is the study of their current cultural identification, considering the varied struggles of this group in their new host land. After assembling and acquiring a holistic understanding of the current condition (economic, social, and political) of this group, a set of appropriate programs will be proposed to be incorporated into the design for a cultural center. The primary goals of this project are to encourage the socio-cultural, economic, and educational enhancement of Bangladeshi people living in New York City. The project will also raise a sense of unity among the diasporic group and enable a better understanding of cultural interchange.
The Gender Agenda: leveraging Non-Binary insight in government census data
Creators: name: O'Brien, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Non Binary
subject: LGBT
subject: Census
subject: Australia
subject: Social Justice/standards
subject: Gender Equity
subject: Gender Identity
subject: Gender-Nonconforming Persons
subject: Gender-Affirming Care

description: File 1: A3 (Blog) -A datastory written for my Curtin University course in Library and Information Studies, critiquing the Australian Bureau of Statistics approach to collecting data on Non-Binary Australians. The ABS data is compared with data from within the LGBT community to show the disparity in granularity of the government data. Other LGBT reports and experiecnes are cited to illustrate the real-world harms being misclassified or ommitted from government data can do to Non-Binary people.

File 2: Gender experience by state and territory- The main spreadsheet used from the Australian Bureau of statistics to construct the data story.

File 3: Age structure of LGBTI+ people 16 years and over- The supplementary spreadhsheet used from the Australian Bureau of statistics to provide a clear throughline of how the data story arrived at its dis-aggregated data totals.

File 4: LGBTI Populations data set- The full uncleaned data set of the Australian Bureau of Statistics data gathered for their LGBT estimates.

File 5: LGBTIQA Mental Health and Wellbeing- The Drummond Street Services and Victorian Department of Health report that provides the community level counter data by which the ABS data is measured.

File 6: TSD Assess 3 Visualisations- The analysed, cleaned and visualised form of the above data that was prepared for this data story.

For a full explanation of how each source was used to arrive at the conclusions in the data story Methodology) please consult File 1 (A3 Blog) beginning from the section titled 'Data Analysis'.
Additional file 2 of Effects of platelet-rich fibrin on osteogenic differentiation of Schneiderian membrane derived mesenchymal stem cells and bone formation in maxillary sinus
Creators: name: Wang, Jia
name: Sun, Yue
name: Liu, Yiping
name: Yu, Jize
name: Sun, Xiaolin
name: Wang, Lin
name: Zhou, Yanmin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary File.