cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Das FOSTER Toolkit
Creators: name: Perry, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: research data management
FOSTER
CESSDA
RDM

description: The presentation was given as part of the networking meeting Research Data Management Reloaded: Open Data and the Future of Research Data Management in the Social Sciences and Humanities that targeted research data management officers of universities, academic libraries and research institutes in German-speaking countries. The meeting involved a review of Open Data requirements and related infrastructures, e.g. in terms of best practice guidelines or data repositories, as well as of resources to assist researchers in processing Open Data, such as the FOSTER Plus Online Toolkit or the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide.The meeting was part of the FOSTER Plus Project (Facilitate Open Science Training For European Research), funded by the EU (grant numbers 612425 and 741839). It took place on April 24th and 25th, 2019, at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany. The course’s language was German. It was supported by CESSDA Training, being a follow-up event of the CESSDA’s Train- the-Trainers workshop in Ljubljana in April 2018.

 The major focus of this content driven session was on resources to do good research data management as well as to train and consult (young) researchers in doing so. In this context, the FOSTER Plus project and its FOSTER Plus Online Toolkit were introduced by Anja Perry as core sources to learn about research data management. The workshop consisted of several presentations: Introduction “Open Science und FAIR Data” http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925299 Das FOSTER Toolkit http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925327 CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide, Forschungsdatenmanagement Training Tool https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964385 Was bietet das GESIS Datenarchiv an? http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925380 Gemeinsam statt einsam, Beispiele für ein vernetztes Forschungsdatenmanagement http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925390 Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastruktur HeFDI- FDM als Landesinitiative http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925395 Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925399 CESSDA ERIC, Ein paneuropäisches Netzwerk sozialwissenschaftlicher Datenarchive http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925409
Heavy quark and gluino potentials to two loops
Creators: name: Collet, Tim
name: Steinhauser, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static potentials for systems of a heavy quark and anti-quark, two gluinos and a quark and a gluino are computed for all possible colour configurations of a $SU(N_c)$ gauge group.
description: 6 pages, v2: figure with Feynman diagrams added; typos fixed; version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
The Impact of an Eight-Month Physical Literacy Structured Recreation Program on the Motor Proficiency of Kindergarten Students
Creators: name: McCallum, Kyle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Education--Physical
subject: Recreation
subject: Human Development
subject: Physical Literacy
subject: Recreation
subject: early childhood
subject: Intentionally Designed Program
subject: Kindergarten

description: Development of gross motor skills and fundamental movement skills, are essential in the growth and development of the child. If a child does not have the proper development, nor the mastery of gross motor skills, it could hinder their growth and development, and lead to a higher rate of disengagement from activity and sport, and increase sedentary behaviour. With a larger emphasis being placed on to the recreation and education sectors to ensure children meet the minimum requirements of physical activity and create a healthier population, programs need to be effective in aiding the growth, development and mastery of these skills. The objective of the study is to determine if a specialised recreation program, designed with the intention to introduce children between the ages of 4 and 5, to multiple activities in multiple environments, aid in the development of fundamental movement skills when compared to their standard recreation counterparts. A sample of 59-59 children, completed an eight-month, recreation centre-based study. Twenty-four participants acted as the control group, and were enrolled into parent-selected activities, which would run eight-weeks in length per program. Thirty-five participants acted as the intervention group, and were enrolled into the specialised program, which swapped between four-environments. All participants were assessed at two time-points, pre- and post-program, using the Test of Gross Motor Development, 3rd Edition, and the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, 2nd Edition, which measures locomotor, object-control and balance skills. The three-way multivariate analysis of variance with one repeated measure and two confounding variables, demonstrated that all participants, regardless of program type, increased significantly from the pre-assessment measures to the post-assessment measures in all skills. The 3-way MANCOVA also demonstrated that a gender difference was apparent at both the pre-assessment measures, as well as the post-assessment measures, specifically in object-control, wherein males outperformed females. However,However, there was no significant difference when comparing group. These findings suggest that regardless of program type, child enrolment does elicit significant improvements of gross motor skill and fundamental movement skill development, over the course of an eight-month intervention.
Solitary versus Shock Wave Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions
Creators: name: Macchi, Andrea
name: Nindrayog, Amritpal Singh
name: Pegoraro, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation of nonlinear electrostatic waves, such as shock and solitons, by ultraintense laser interaction with overdense plasmas and related ion acceleration are investigated by numerical simulations. Stability of solitons and formation of shock waves is strongly dependent on the velocity distribution of ions. Monoenergetic components in ion spectra are produced by "pulsed" reflection from solitary waves. Possible relevance to recent experiments on "shock acceleration" is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Avís per a navegants: el canvi és l’única constant
Creators: name: Fèrriz, Teresa
Publisher: name: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació
Year: 2021

description: Mai se m’havia fet tan evident això com aquells primers anys que vaig començar a treballar a i per a Internet a les darreries de 1999. La “divulgació del coneixement” començava tímidament a desenvolupar-se amb les “noves tecnologies” (així en dèiem aleshores), però molt poca gent hi confiava i en sabíem ben poc. Cinc anys més tard, em trobava al Fòrum Barcelona 2004 on encara ens qüestionàvem la necessitat d’impulsar un format virtual paral·lel a l’exposició Veus. Sort en vaig tenir aleshores de la UOC i d’un grup de recerca sobre museografia virtual pioner en el seu moment, Museia, amb qui vaig poder realitzar un format digital de Veus, on hi havia més intenció que traça.
description: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació, 2021: Núm.: 71
Enhancing the Patient-Provider Relationship in the Provision of Prenatal Care to Women with Low Income
Creators: name: THOMPSON, CARMEN
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: Prenatal care
subject: Low income
subject: Patient-provider relationship
subject: Action research

description: Prenatal care is valuable for women who are at risk of poor birth outcomes due to psychosocial vulnerabilities, including poverty. It is, however, well established that women with low income receive less prenatal care than women of higher socioeconomic status. The patient-provider relationship is an aspect of quality care that mediates the relationship between service provision and equitable care for socially vulnerable populations. There is a dearth of literature that examines how provider characteristics influence the use of prenatal care or interventions to improve access by improving the quality of patient-provider relationships. This gap persists, despite evidence that difficulties in interactions between providers and patient with low income are a barrier to care. This research employed pragmatic action research to engage patients and providers of a community health clinic in articulating practices to enhance relationships between women with low income and prenatal care providers. Pragmatic AR is a cyclical process of data collection and analysis designed to address a community concern and in which knowledge is expressed, analyzed, and tested by participants. The research aims were threefold: (1) to identify critical events in relationships between women with low income and prenatal care providers; (2) to have patients develop vignettes depicting critical events in prenatal care encounters and discussion points to facilitate dialogue about these; (3) to have health care providers and patients use the vignettes and discussion points to identify and evaluate practices to improve the quality of patient-provider relationships. The patient generated vignettes illustrated difficulties associated with judgment and patient involvement with Child and Family Services (CFS). Participant generated management strategies centered on practices for the delivery of non-judgmental care, assessing and communicating about risk, preparing patients for possible CFS involvement, and improving continuity of care. Development of strategies for management of critical events in relationships between patients and provider is a first step towards addressing inequitable access to services and health outcomes. Use of pragmatic AR, which incorporated strategies for patient engagement, has resulted in the development of strategies that are relevant to patients and providers, increasing the uptake of findings.
Quantitative MRFM characterization of the autonomous and forced dynamics in a spin transfer nano-oscillator
Creators: name: Hamadeh, A.
name: De Loubens, Grégoire
name: Naletov, V. V.
name: Grollier, J.
name: Ulysse, Ch.
name: Cros, V.
name: Klein, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM), the power emitted by a spin transfer nano-oscillator consisting of a normally magnetized Py$|$Cu$|$Py circular nanopillar is measured both in the autonomous and forced regimes. From the power behavior in the subcritical region of the autonomous dynamics, one obtains a quantitative measurement of the threshold current and of the noise level. Their field dependence directly yields both the spin torque efficiency acting on the thin layer and the nature of the mode which first auto-oscillates: the lowest energy, spatially most uniform spin-wave mode. From the MRFM behavior in the forced dynamics, it is then demonstrated that in order to phase-lock this auto-oscillating mode, the external source must have the same spatial symmetry as the mode profile, i.e., a uniform microwave field must be used rather than a microwave current flowing through the nanopillar.
Enhancing magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the Fe70Pd30 magnetic shape memory alloy by adding Cu
Creators: name: Kauffmann-Weiss, Sandra
name: Hamann, Sven
name: Gruner, Markus Ernst
name: Schultz, Ludwig
name: Ludwig, Alfred
name: Fähler, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strained epitaxial growth provides the opportunity to understand the dependence of intrinsic and extrinsic properties of functional materials at frozen intermediate stages of a phase transformation. In this study, a combination of thin film experiments and first-principles calculations yields the binding energy and magnetic properties of tetragonal Fe70Pd30-xCux ferromagnetic shape memory thin films with x = 0, 3, 7 and structures ranging from bcc to beyond fcc (1.071.41 the samples undergo structural relaxations through adaptive nanotwinning. For all tetragonal structures, we observe a significant increase of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant K1, which reaches a maximum of K1=-2.4*10^5 Jm^-3 at room temperature around c/a_bct=1.33 and is thus even larger than for binary Fe70Pd30 and the prototype Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory system. Since K1 represents the driving force for variant reorientation in magnetic shape memory systems, we conclude that Fe-Pd-Cu alloys offer a promising route towards microactuators applications with significantly improved work output.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
The first decade of building a family-friendly Hungary
Creators: name: Fűrész, Tünde
name: Molnár, Balázs
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2022

description: There is no single member state in the European Union where the number of births would reach the replacement level. Hungary herself is facing severe demographic challenges as the country’s population is declining since 1981. The Hungarian government decided to address these demographic challenges and committed herself to building a country based on a comprehensive family policy, by mainstreaming and prioritising family issues since 2010. Therefore, family has been anchored in the newly drafted Fundamental Law of the country as the basic building block of society. Hungarian family policy provides a real option for parents, mothers in particular. They might stay at home with a baby for 3 years and receive extensive maternity benefits, or may just as well decide to return to the labour market, which is assisted by a network of quality public nurseries and several financial incentives. The overarching family policy that has been created and implemented by the government in close cooperation with family organizations, Academia and Churches shows encouraging results in the last decade. The total fertility rate increased by 24%, marriages nearly doubled, the rate of abortions and divorces decreased by 41% from 2010 to 2020 (Eurostat, Fertility indicators). In parallel, the female employment rate has grown significantly by almost 13%. The rate of children born within wedlock is increasing again contrary to European trends. According to the recently published Human Fertility Database study of the Max Planck Institute, the only European Union country was Hungary where despite the Corona pandemic more babies were born in 2020 than in 2016-2019, proving that with extensive family policies, it is possible to counteract negative demographic tendencies in times of the Pandemic. A wide-ranging family taxation system reaches all parents raising children, the government is assisting family home creation and renovation in a generous manner. Several overarching measures aim at the better reconciliation of work and family life. The well-being and financial situation of families has constantly been raised. The most important factor nevertheless when creating a family-friendly country is concerning the perceived image of families in society. Hungary is constantly working for the elevation of the social standing of parenthood, in particular motherhood and childrearing in the last decade.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 7: The first decade of building a family-friendly Hungary
Shear Dispersion in Double-Porosity Systems
Creators: name: Dejam, Morteza
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Solute transport
subject: Double-porosity
subject: Advection-diffusion
subject: Coupled system
subject: Dispersion
subject: Breakthrough
subject: Mass storage
subject: Pressure-driven flow
subject: Electro-osmotic flow
subject: Roughness

description: In this study, shear dispersion in double-porosity systems has been investigated. The major focus of this study is determination of dispersion coefficients through development of mathematical models for solute transport in a variety of coupled double-porosity systems by imposing an accurate boundary condition at the interface between a porous medium and a conduit. Theoretical determination of shear dispersions presented in this thesis can be categorized as shear dispersions in: i) a fracture with porous walls, ii) a capillary tube with a porous wall, iii) a rough-walled fracture, iv) a channel with porous walls under the combined effects of pressure-driven and electro-osmotic flows, and v) a capillary tube with a porous wall under the combined effects of pressure-driven and electro-osmotic flows. For determination of the dispersion coefficients, first, a two-dimensional coupled solute transport model is introduced where the interaction between a porous medium and a conduit is handled by imposing the continuity of concentrations and mass fluxes at the interface instead of applying a source/sink term in the governing equations. Second, the Reynolds decomposition technique is used to develop a reduced one-dimensional model for advective-dispersive transport in a conduit with equivalent transport coefficients such as the dispersion coefficient and the effective advection term. Third, the Laplace transform method combined with the Fourier inversion technique is applied to solve the one-dimensional problems and obtain the concentrations in the porous medium and the conduit as well as mass storage in the porous medium. The developed models with the coupled dispersion coefficients serve as new tools to characterize solute transport in double-porosity systems and also can be used for implementation in the existing simulators for better predictions. The developed models for the shear dispersion find applications in solute transport through fractured rocks, fluid flow in hydraulically fractured shale reservoirs, separation of emulsions in microchannel-membrane systems, and electrically assisted chemical species transport in porous microfluidic networks.
Elampus Spinola 1806
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Elampus

description: 5. Genus Elampus Spinola, 1806
Elampus Spinola 1806: 10. Type species: Chrysis panzeri Fabricius, 1804 [= Elampus panzeri (Fabricius, 1804)], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 437. Ellampus Agassiz 1846: 136. Unjustified emendation of Elampus Spinola, 1806.
Notozus Förster 1853: 351. Type species: Notozus frivaldszkyi Förster, 1853 [= Elampus spina (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1806)],by subsequent designation of Ashmead 1902: 228. Synonymized by Huber & Pengelly (1978).
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Chemical abundance analysis of the Open Clusters Berkeley 32, NGC 752, Hyades and Praesepe
Creators: name: Carrera, R.
name: Pancino, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Open clusters are ideal test particles to study the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc. However the existing high-resolution abundance determinations, not only of [Fe/H], but also of other key elements, is largely insufficient at the moment. Aims. To increase the number of Galactic open clusters with high quality abundance determinations, and to gather all the literature determinations published so far. Methods. Using high-resolution (R~30000), high-quality (S/N$>60 per pixel), we obtained spectra for twelve stars in four open clusters with the fiber spectrograph FOCES, at the 2.2 Calar Alto Telescope in Spain. We use the classical equivalent widths analysis to obtain accurate abundances of sixteen elements: Al, Ba, Ca, Co, Cr, Fe, La, Mg, Na, Nd, Ni, Sc, Si, Ti, V, Y. Oxygen abundances have been derived through spectral synthesis of the 6300 A forbidden line. Results. We provide the first determination of abundance ratios other than Fe for NGC 752 giants, and ratios in agreement with the literature for the Hyades, Praesepe and Be 32. We use a compilation of literature data to study Galactic trends of [Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe] with Galactocentric radius, age, and height above the Galactic plane. We find no significant trends, but some indication for a flattening of [Fe/H] at large Rgc, and for younger ages in the inner disc. We also found a possible decrease of [Fe/H] with |z| in the outer disc, and a weak increase of [alpha/Fe] with Rgc.
description: 21 pages, Accepted for publication in A&A, Updated Table 12
Margaret Thatcher, British public opinion and German reunification, 1989–90
Creators: name: Smedley, Stuart
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Using opinion poll data collected for the United States Information Agency, the European Commission and various media organisations, this article analyses British public opinion towards German reunification in 1989 and 1990. Contrasting the public’s views with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s hostile approach towards German unity, it demonstrates that the British public were largely supportive of the principle of German reunification. Nevertheless, there was uncertainty about reunification’s consequences. Furthermore, significant generational differences existed, with Britons who experienced life during periods of war in the first half of the twentieth century expressing greater concern about the prospect of a united Germany.
Anhelo de abundancia y competencia paterna
Creators: name: Randle, José María
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2022

description: La función paterna está signada por el anhelo de abundancia, para sí y para sus hijos, pero de no orientarlo hacia el don, puede ser el principio de un modelo educativo defectuoso. Las competencias paternas serán la clave, que ayudarán a reconducir a todo padre en la búsqueda de la felicidad filial y satisfacción personal. En este trabajo nos proponemos, en primer lugar, delimitar la importancia de la felicidad de plenitud y el anhelo de abundancia; en segundo lugar, describir el contexto cultural en el que los padres deben ejercer su paternidad; y, en tercer lugar, revalorizar la misión de todo padre de ser don y testimonio para con sus hijos, dando significatividad a la función paterna, descubriendo su intimidad y practicando la virtud, causas de la satisfacción del anhelo de abundancia paterno.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 7: The first decade of building a family-friendly Hungary
Symplectic involutions of K3 surfaces act trivially on CH_0
Creators: name: Voisin, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Symplectic involutions of a K3 surface are those involutions which leave the holomorphic 2-form invariant. We show, as predicted by Bloch's conjecture, that they act trivially on the CH_0 group of the K3 surface. This was recently proved by Huybrechts and Kemeny for one of the three types of symplectic involutions.
MicrobiomeExperiment and the emerging R ecosystem for microbiome research
Creators: name: Ernst, Felix G.M.
name: Shetty, Sudarshan A
name: Ruizhu Huang
name: Domenick J Braccia
name: Bravo, Hector Corrada
name: Lahti, Leo M
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Here, we motivate and present an updated workflow for multiomic and metagenomic data analysis in R. We highlight the usefulness of the TreeSummarizedExperiment package and the Microbiome Analysis (mia) package, which is currently under development. Our goal is to reduce overlapping efforts, improve interoperability and ensure the long-term sustainability of microbiome research in R and Bioconductor. This pipeline is under active development and we would greatly appreciate any contribution or feedback from the community.
Dressed Fermions, Modular Transformations and Bosonization in the Compactified Schwinger Model
Creators: name: Fanuel, Michaël
name: Govaerts, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The celebrated exactly solvable "Schwinger" model, namely massless two-dimensional QED, is revisited. The solution presented here emphasizes the non- perturbative relevance of the topological sector through large gauge transformations whose role is made manifest by compactifying space into a circle. Eventually the well-known non-perturbative features and solution of the model are recovered in the massless case. However the fermion mass term is shown to play a subtle role in order to achieve a physical quantization that accounts for gauge invariance under both small and large gauge symmetries. Quantization of the system follows Dirac's approach in an explicitly gauge invariant way that avoids any gauge fixing procedure.
description: 28 pages
La política de familia en los últimos 10 años: una visión global desde Europa
Creators: name: Zárate Rivero, Belén
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2022

description: Este estudio se basa en una revisión sistemática de la literatura sobre Políticas de Familia de los últimos diez años. Nos ha permitido conocer los aspectos de la política de familia que han centrado la atención de la doctrina en los últimos 10 años, los enfoques desde los que se han abordado estas políticas, los cambios de prioridad en algunas funciones de la familia y las tendencias de futuro que se vislumbran en la política de familia en Europa.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 7: The first decade of building a family-friendly Hungary
The Luck Objection
Creators: name: Cooper, Gordon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Philosophy of
subject: Libertarian Freedom

description: Libertarians propose that if agents are to act freely they must have alternative possibilities open to them and control over which possibility becomes actual. To secure alternative possibilities, libertarians must accept that our free actions are undetermined events. Proponents of the “luck objection” to libertarianism argue that undetermined events are not the sorts of things over which agents can have control. In what follows, I defend the luck objection against three of the more promising libertarian rejoinders.
title: Fire Fighting and Sustainable Accomplishment of Near Surface Coal Seam Fires
Creators: name: Barth, Uli
name: Cai, Zhongyong,
name: Knobloch, Andreas
name: Korten, Alexander A.
name: Krietsch, Arne
name: Kus, Jolanta
name: Liu, Xiaochen
name: Rüter, Horst
name: Schlömer, Stefan
name: Schmidt, Martin
name: Suhendra, S
name: Vasterling, Margarete
name: Wu, Jianjun
name: Wündrich, Thomas
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2020

description: Funding Information: The project on which this publication is based received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of the P.R. China, under reference numbers FKZ 0330490 and 2007DFA90500, respectively.
openCost in der Praxis: Kostentransparenz in wissenschaftlichen Infrastrukturen am Beispiel von DESY
Creators: name: Stein, Lisa-Marie
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: Fokusgruppe "Kostenkontrolle" - open access network, open access network/virtuell, 30 Nov 2023
Admissible and Restrained Revision
Creators: name: Booth, R.
name: Meyer, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As partial justification of their framework for iterated belief revision Darwiche and Pearl convincingly argued against Boutiliers natural revision and provided a prototypical revision operator that fits into their scheme. We show that the Darwiche-Pearl arguments lead naturally to the acceptance of a smaller class of operators which we refer to as admissible. Admissible revision ensures that the penultimate input is not ignored completely, thereby eliminating natural revision, but includes the Darwiche-Pearl operator, Nayaks lexicographic revision operator, and a newly introduced operator called restrained revision. We demonstrate that restrained revision is the most conservative of admissible revision operators, effecting as few changes as possible, while lexicographic revision is the least conservative, and point out that restrained revision can also be viewed as a composite operator, consisting of natural revision preceded by an application of a "backwards revision" operator previously studied by Papini. Finally, we propose the establishment of a principled approach for choosing an appropriate revision operator in different contexts and discuss future work.
Ontario Dental Hygienists’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Professional Development
Creators: name: Eckenswiller, Susan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Dental Hygiene
subject: Professional Development
subject: Quality Assurance

description: The importance of maintaining professional competency through professional development as a quality assurance requirement has been an area of interest in healthcare disciplines, including dental hygiene. With the goal of continuing competence in mind, and as a corollary of that, ensuring public safety and satisfaction, it was important to understand the effectiveness of professional development from the practitioners’ perspective. This study investigated the experiences of dental hygienists in Ontario with mandatory professional development and subsequent impacts that included resultant changes in professional practice; motivators for engagement; perceptions of effectiveness; perceptions of capabilities to transfer skills into practice; along with needs, preferences, and perceived barriers. The literature that informed this study included quality assurance, professional development models, adult learning principles, motivation and learning concepts, and social cognitive theory. This mixed methods study used an explanatory sequential design in which 476 participants completed online questionnaire to gain information regarding trends in engagement in professional development; and in a second phase, 30 participants were interviewed to include their perceptions of the effectiveness of professional development; levels of self-efficacy in applying new knowledge into the process of adopting new skills into practice; and participants’ needs, preferences, and motivations for seeking out professional development, along with any associated barriers they encountered. Analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data sets resulted in the emergence of five themes: (a) the multifaceted nature of inquiry, (b) the nature of dental hygiene knowledge, (c) collaboration, (d) unintentional effects of mandated PD, and (e) enhancing dental hygiene knowledge. This study underscored the importance of collaboration and informal professional development activities (such as peer coaching) through the stages of knowledge creation, mobilization, contextualization, and the process of transferring new skills into practice. Based on the results of this study, The Model for Differentiated Professional Development for Enhancing Dental Hygiene Knowledge was developed to address the unique learning needs for dental hygienists during the phases of their careers, the need for collaboration and informal professional development activities, and to address barriers to accessing professional development. This study will be of interest to healthcare regulatory bodies, professional associations, professional development providers, and dental hygienists.
Adsorption of rare-gas atoms on Cu(111) and Pb(111) surfaces by van der Waals-corrected Density Functional Theory
Creators: name: Silvestrelli, Pier Luigi
name: Ambrosetti, Alberto
name: Grubisiĉ, Sonja
name: Ancilotto, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DFT/vdW-WF method, recently developed to include the Van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory (DFT) using the Maximally Localized Wannier functions, is applied to the study of the adsorption of rare-gas atoms (Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) on the Cu(111) and Pb(111) surfaces, at three high-symmetry sites. We evaluate the equilibrium binding energies and distances, and the induced work-function changes and dipole moments. We find that, for Ne, Ar, and Kr on the Cu(111) surface the different adsorption configurations are characterized by very similar binding energies, while the favored adsorption site for Xe on Cu(111) is on top of a Cu atom, in agreement with previous theoretical calculations and experimental findings, and in common with other close-packed metal surfaces. Instead, the favored site is always the hollow one on the Pb(111) surface, which therefore represents an interesting system where the investigation of high-coordination sites is possible. Moreover, the Pb(111) substrate is subject, upon rare-gas adsorption, to a significantly smaller change in the work function (and to a correspondingly smaller induced dipole moment) than Cu(111). The role of the chosen reference DFT functional and of different Van der Waals corrections, and their dependence on different rare-gas adatoms, are also discussed.
The design process : designing information technology for the public sphere
Creators: name: Gillette, Eileen Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The public sphere represents dynamic spaces in our cities and communities that attract mass users and that promote information sharing in multifaceted yet mutually beneficial ways, often through the use of information technology (IT). Gauging the effectiveness of current IT for the public realm raises key questions on how designers interpret, approach and create information technologies for public spaces. In this thesis, I explored different aspects of the design process in the public realm, specifically The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in Vancouver, Canada. I investigated such questions as: What are the design goals of creating such a system? Who is involved? What are the challenges and opportunities? In order to better understand the thinking, practices and vision of people involved in the design process, this thesis conducted an in-depth case study of the Museum of Anthropology Collections Access Terminal and Digital Catalogue System (MOA CAT). The MOA CAT system is a new, interactive information kiosk and public access system designed for museum visitors to search, retrieve and explore the museum’s collection. The methodology used in this thesis was a case study in which I interviewed participants involved in the design of the MOA CAT and reviewed documentation that spanned a decade of planning, building, and implementing the technology at the MOA. The purpose of this research was to understand the design process through the lens of the interdisciplinary team consisting of Information Manager, Designer, Project Manager, Communication Manager, Exhibit Designer and Museum Collection Manager. The findings emphasize that the design goals of the MOA CAT were to engage users, encourage exploration of information, and provide resources through an accessible information system. The design process observed in this case study of MOA demonstrated that design in the public and organizational spheres is an ongoing and fluid process driven by group collaboration and the formation and execution of key design goals, goals that ultimately encouraged meaningful interactions and exploration of a public space.
Insomnia Symptoms, Affective Response to Exercise, and Exercise Adherence among Patients Enrolled in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Rouleau, Codie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Clinical
subject: Insomnia
subject: cardiac rehabilitation
subject: affective response to exercise
subject: adherence

description: Insomnia symptoms (e.g., difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep) are common in cardiac patients and contribute to impaired mood, concentration, and motivation. The purpose of this study was to assess whether insomnia symptoms relate to unpleasant affect during exercise and poor exercise adherence. The Insomnia Severity Index was administered to 349 patients in 12 week exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. Affect was measured in 57 patients with the Physical Activity Affect Scale, 5 minutes before and 15 minutes after onset of moderate intensity exercise. Exercise adherence (attendance, ∆ functional capacity, weekly exercise duration, dropout) was ascertained by chart review. Greater insomnia severity was associated with shorter weekly exercise duration but not with other adherence measures. Affective improvement during exercise was associated with greater insomnia severity, but not with adherence. Insomnia symptoms do not appear to interfere with objectively measured exercise adherence, and exercise might support affect regulation in cardiac patients with insomnia.
Capacity and Operational Performance Optimization under External Constraints with Uncertainty
Creators: name: Sabzevar, Nikoo
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Industrial
subject: Engineering--Operations Research

description: This thesis presents novel models to investigate the significant impacts of globalization, demand uncertainty, competition, and external emissions regulations on firms' profitability, operational performance, and decision-making processes. The models relax common simplifying assumptions (i.e., deterministic lead-times, exogenous emissions permit price) to better represent real market characteristics and applications. Specifically, these models are developed in the context of maritime shipments of fuels, such as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), to supply global energy markets. The transport capacity investment problem is studied in terms of a mixed integer nonlinear model to maximize a single firm's profit. Using a proposed heuristic algorithm, the model determines the optimal number and size of tankers to deliver a single product under demand uncertainty. The model incorporates economies of scale, lost sales penalties, and the possibility of leasing extra capacity. Results show that tanker size and capacity utilization decrease if demand uncertainty increases. Moreover, tanker sizes are found to decrease as economies of scale decrease. This model is extended to a duopoly setting under competition constrained by the cap-and-trade policy. It is treated as a nonlinear Cournot game and solved analytically to maximize firms' individual profits by determining their optimal production volumes. Furthermore, it provides a set of cap-and-trade policy characteristics (i.e., market cap, cap allocation rate, permit price) leading to the maximum total profit and increasing the trading possibility. Moreover, individual bounds on the ranges of these characteristics are determined within which trading occurs. This model is modified for the carbon tax policy and is further extended to an oligopoly natural gas (NG) market to satisfy price-sensitive NG demand in the Chinese power sector. The supplied NG volume replaces a fraction of the coal consumption for electricity generation to investigate the economic and environmental implications of replacing coal with imported NG in its life cycle through an integrated Cournot game and life cycle assessment approach. The model is able to find a carbon price range under various sources of uncertainty involved in the market at which the import of NG to generate electricity is economically preferred compared to the coal-dominant Chinese power mix outlook.
Was bietet das GESIS Datenarchiv an?
Creators: name: Perry, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data archive
GESIS

description: The presentation was given as part of the networking meeting Research Data Management Reloaded: Open Data and the Future of Research Data Management in the Social Sciences and Humanities that targeted research data management officers of universities, academic libraries and research institutes in German-speaking countries. The meeting involved a review of Open Data requirements and related infrastructures, e.g. in terms of best practice guidelines or data repositories, as well as of resources to assist researchers in processing Open Data, such as the FOSTER Plus Online Toolkit or the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide.The meeting was part of the FOSTER Plus Project (Facilitate Open Science Training For European Research), funded by the EU (grant numbers 612425 and 741839). It took place on April 24th and 25th, 2019, at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany. The course’s language was German. It was supported by CESSDA Training, being a follow-up event of the CESSDA’s Train- the-Trainers workshop in Ljubljana in April 2018.

 Anja Perry presented important products and services of the GESIS data archive, from the archiving of data to the documentation. Useful information on individual usage packages and costs is provided. The workshop consisted of several presentations: Introduction “Open Science und FAIR Data” http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925299 Das FOSTER Toolkit http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925327 CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide: Forschungsdatenmanagement Training Tool https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964385 Was bietet das GESIS Datenarchiv an? http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925380 Gemeinsam statt einsam: Beispiele für ein vernetztes Forschungsdatenmanagement http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925390 Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastruktur HeFDI- FDM als Landesinitiative http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925395 Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925399 CESSDA ERIC: Ein paneuropäisches Netzwerk sozialwissenschaftlicher Datenarchive http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925409
Semiparametrically efficient inference based on signed ranks in symmetric independent component models
Creators: name: Ilmonen, Pauliina
name: Paindaveine, Davy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider semiparametric location-scatter models for which the $p$-variate observation is obtained as $X=ΛZ+μ$, where $μ$ is a $p$-vector, $Λ$ is a full-rank $p\times p$ matrix and the (unobserved) random $p$-vector $Z$ has marginals that are centered and mutually independent but are otherwise unspecified. As in blind source separation and independent component analysis (ICA), the parameter of interest throughout the paper is $Λ$. On the basis of $n$ i.i.d. copies of $X$, we develop, under a symmetry assumption on $Z$, signed-rank one-sample testing and estimation procedures for $Λ$. We exploit the uniform local and asymptotic normality (ULAN) of the model to define signed-rank procedures that are semiparametrically efficient under correctly specified densities. Yet, as is usual in rank-based inference, the proposed procedures remain valid (correct asymptotic size under the null, for hypothesis testing, and root-$n$ consistency, for point estimation) under a very broad range of densities. We derive the asymptotic properties of the proposed procedures and investigate their finite-sample behavior through simulations.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS906 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Deliverable D7.2 Interim Impact Assessment Report
Creators: name: Schaefer, Teresa
name: Kieslinger, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EU-Citizen.Science, Citizen Science, Evaluation, Impact Assessment

description: This deliverable is based on Task 7.2 & 7.3, and presents the interim impact assessment report. It discusses the evaluation activities of the project until year 2 and illustrates an analysis of the corresponding results. It also includes an assessment of the EU-Citizen.Science platform, the impact on involved institutions and countries as well as an overall progress report. The evaluation matrix provides an overview of KPIs collected from the different work packages and a summary of main lessons learned concerning the immediate and short term outcomes of the project.
description: Contributors: all Consortium Partners
Understanding the Role of Farnesylation During the Cross-talk Between Brassinosteroids and Abscisic Acid Responses
Creators: name: Liang, Siyu
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Plant Physiology
subject: farnesylation
subject: brassinosteroids
subject: Abscisic Acid

description: Protein farnesylation is a post-translational modification involving the addition of a 15-carbon farnesyl isoprenoid to the carboxy terminus of select proteins. Although the roles of this lipid modification are clear in both fungal and animal signaling, many of the mechanistic functions of farnesylation in plant signaling are still unknown. In this study, I show that CYP85A2, the cytochrome P450 enzyme that performs the last step in brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis (conversion of castasterone to brassinolide (BL)), must be farnesylated to function in Arabidopsis. Loss of either CYP85A2 or CYP85A2 farnesylation results in reduced BL accumulation and increased plant responsiveness to the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) and overall drought tolerance. Further characterization of cyp85a2-2 mutants, suggested that lack of BL resulted in enhanced constitutive ABA signaling independent of ABA biosynthesis, indicating a role for BL in suppressing ABA signaling. I further showed through epistatic analysis that the farnesyltransferase, ERA1, also plays a role downstream of BZR1, the BR-induced transcription factor, in mediating the skotomorphogenic (dark response during seedling development) response. This study has unveiled previously unknown links between farnesylation and brassinosteroid biosynthesis that could lead to new strategies to maintain crop yield under challenging climatic conditions.