cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Virtual prediction of volumetric errors of 5-axis machine tools
Creators: name: Asgari Pirbalouti, Mohammad Javad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Numerically controlled 5-axis machine tools are highly susceptible to potential errors due to their complex geometry. The machine tools comprise prismatic and revolute joints, and errors in each joint's geometry can cause a deviation from the desired tool position and orientation, resulting in volumetric errors. These errors can significantly affect the machine's performance, precision, and operation cost. Therefore, accurately predicting volumetric errors is crucial in developing compensation strategies. This thesis presents a generalized volumetric error model for all classes of machine tools, including rotary table, spindle rotary, and hybrid types. A screw-theory-based kinematic model is employed, which can be generalized to map the axis commands into the workpiece coordinate system, defining the relative motion of the tooltip with respect to the workpiece. The error model incorporates forty one geometric errors, and the effect of different classes of machines is studied to identify the position-independent geometric errors of rotary axes. A laser interferometer is used to measure fifteen position-dependent geometric errors of linear axes, including linear positioning, straightness, and angular errors. A Ballbar system is used to measure the remaining errors in a specific rotational test involving both linear and rotational axes to record the machine’s performance in a circular motion, including the position-dependent and independent geometric errors of the rotary axes and squareness errors. As the Ballbar recorded measurements are influenced by more than one error parameter, a decoupling method is implemented to individually identify each error parameter of rotary axes. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by machining a Pyramid-shaped test part under chatter-free conditions. The machined part is measured using a coordinate measuring machine, and the results demonstrate that the prediction method is 90% accurate for three-axis machining and 75% for five-axis machining.
Gender Differences in Debunking Fake News: Truth Sandwich vs. Bottom-Loaded
Creators: name: Caspi, Orly Vinik
name: Nadeen Kherbawy
name: Hodaya Avrahami
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: this is pre-registration for "experimental psychology" course in Tel Aviv university, Israel.
Mapping stakeholder beliefs to optimise foodscapes for older adults in health and care settings
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Laura L.
name: Embling, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Stakeholder mapping survey, exploring strategies to support better food and nutrition for older adults in health & care settings
title: Bilingualism in the Canadian Federal Public Service: The Value of the Bilingualism Bonus
Creators: name: Maltais, Cathy Florence
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: This study aims to investigate if the bilingualism bonus is a motivating factor for usage or acquisition of a second official language in the Canadian federal public service and also to investigate whether the bilingualism bonus plays a role in increasing the level of bilingualism in the public service or not. This was an action research based study in which mixed methods were utilised to collect data, including a survey of public servants. The study found that the bilingualism bonus does not perform the intended role of the bonus, which is to motivate employees to use or acquire their second official language. The study also shows that the bilingualism bonus does not play a role in increasing bilingualism in the public service as a whole. In applying the expectancy theory model, it was found that the reason the bonus does not motivate employees to learn and/or use their second official language is because some of the values in the expectancy equation are nil, therefore motivation is nil.
SSHOC Project Brief To support the EC Programme and policy activities
Creators: name: Dekker, Ron
name: Capar, Martina Drascic
name: Versic, Ivana Ilijasic
name: Komljenovic, Vanja
name: Heider, Veronika
name: Kleemola, Mari
name: Bishop, Elizabeth Lea
name: Hansen, Mathilde Steinsvåg
name: Broeder, Daan
name: De Jong, Franciska
name: Eskevitch, Maria
name: Fišer, Darja
name: Degl'Innocenti, Emiliano
name: Di Meo, Carmen
name: Monachini, Monica
name: Pezzati, Luca
name: Striova, Jana
name: Larrousse, Nicolas
name: Barbot, Laure
name: Edmond, Jennifer
name: Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet
name: Fitzgerald, Rory
name: Zavala-Rojas, Diana
name: Agasøster, Bodil
name: Vasso Kalaitzi
name: Verheusen, Astrid
name: Padfield, Joseph
name: Morales, Laura
name: Franzese, Fabio
name: Muscella, Silvana
name: Willems, Marieke
name: Wright, Holly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: SSHOC Thematic cluster project [2019-2022] has built a strong and recognisable brand around a consortium of 6 well-established ESFRIs, 7 onboarded Social Science and Humanities (SSH) data communities, an SSH Open Marketplace testers’ community and an SSH Training Community actively breaking down the silos through the sharing of knowledge, tools and services with significant potential for further capacity-building as an important building block for EOSC. Through a solid and continued outreach programme it has engaged over 5000 stakeholders in 65+ events organised, with a social media community of 2200+ members, and 470 newsletter subscribers. Niche scientific communities have been supported by providing 6 additional targeted training events offering a valuable platform to support the onboarding of new communities to present themselves as well as to connect their members from all over the world. The SSHOC website acts as a main communication channel and is the gateway to its array of services including the SSH catalogue of services, connecting its 60+ official reports to each single Key Exploitable Result (KERs) actively consulted by the SSH community (i.e. the System Specification of the SSH Open Marketplace has been downloaded over 4300 times). With the release in December 2021 of the EU Data Governance Act, SSHOC pursues the regulations around the guiding principles of the act to support a Data Science ecosystem in the area of SSH.
Collective Efficacy and Women’s Political Participation in Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Esenaliev, Damir
name: Hager, Anselm
name: Hensel, Lukas
name: Elnura Kazakbaeva
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This is pre-analysis plan for a sub-study of the Metaketa V initiative.
Me, myself and I - Self Prioritization and the Influence of Emotion
Creators: name: Mauritz, Merle
name: Baess, Pamela
name: Neugebauer, Xenia
name: Wille, Mia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Velten
subject: mood
subject: association labels
subject: mood induction
subject: selfprioritization

description: The experimental task of this Experiment is similar to that of Sui et al. (2016), which showed that moods modulate the self-prioritization effect measured with a label–shape matching task. We will use the Velten mood induction procedure (Velten, 1968) to induct three different mood states: neutral and positive or negative. The participants are going to read a list of emotional statements while listening to emotional music for 10 minutes. Each participant runs through the neutral condition executing the label-shape matching task as a baseline, followed by either the positive or negative condition with the same label-shape matching task again. In the middle of the task there is a refreshment of the mood induction by listening to a short version of the music again. In the task participants are instructed to associate three identity labels (“Ich”, “Freund”/”Freundin”, “Fremder”/”Fremde”) to three geometric shapes (circle, square, triangle). The pairing of the labels and shapes are counterbalanced across participants. At the beginning of the label–shape matching task, correct pairings of the labels and shapes are presented on the computer for the participants to learn. In each trial the task for the participant is to decide whether the following label-shape-pairs match the previously learned.
Drawing 2A1
Creators: name: Lewis, Martin
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2023

description: I was invited to undertake a drawing for the Society of Artistic Research annual conference – Unconditional Love. It was performed as an element of Care + Attend, curated by Emma Cocker and Joanne Lee for the conference at Chelsea College of Arts, London.The .pdf file is the programme for the conference. Shared here with permission, © University of the Arts London, all rights reserved.
Who does (really) participate in intergroup conflict? Study 2
Creators: name: Columbus, Simon
name: Zettler, Ingo
name: Böhm, Robert
name: Thielmann, Isabel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: intergroup conflict
subject: honesty-humility
subject: dark factor of personality
subject: ipd-md

description: Individuals differ in their propensity to participate in intergroup conflict and in particular, in their willingness to harm members of out-groups. We test whether the Dark Factor of Personality (D) and HEXACO dimensions, in particular Honesty-Humility, predict weakly and strongly parochial cooperation in the intergroup prisoner's dilemma-maximising differences (IPD-MD) game.
Unified mechanistic identification of cutting force coefficients
Creators: name: Mammadov, Bahram
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The prediction of cutting forces is essential to plan machining operations without unstable vibrations, tool breakage, excessive tool deflections, and spindle overloads. Tool geometry, tool-workpiece engagement area, and material-dependent cutting force coefficients are required to model the cutting forces. This thesis presents a generalized mechanistic model to identify the friction and normal force coefficients between the chip and the rake face of the tool. The cutting force coefficients depend on the material’s shear yield stress, the friction coefficient between the workpiece and tool materials, the shear angle, local rake and oblique angles, cutting speed and chip thickness when machining isotropic metal alloys. They also depend on the flank wear, the direction and density of fibres, and the fibre-matrix layout for Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composite materials. A generalized method that allows estimating the cutting force coefficients from milling and drilling tests is proposed in the thesis. The cutting force coefficients are estimated by modelling forces with differential elements as a function of the fibre angle, tool geometry, and process parameters using least squares. The distributed forces are superposed in the measured directions. In addition to tooth passing frequency, the cutting forces are considered periodic due to fibre direction and density, which is handled by modelling the cutting force coefficients by a mean and fundamental component governed by the fibre-cutting angle relative to the cutting speed. The effect of the tool wear is considered for CFRP drilling operations. The model has been extended to include the dependency of force coefficients on the normal rake angle when machining isotropic metal alloys. The proposed general mechanistic model is experimentally validated in the milling and drilling of unidirectional CFRP composite and Aluminium Al7050-T7451 materials. It is shown that the identified cutting force coefficients can be used to predict forces in any machining operation, as demonstrated in ball end milling and drilling tests. The model allows rapid but sufficiently accurate identification of cutting force coefficients for isotropic and anisotropic materials.
Vulnerability assessment for juvenile sockeye salmon using biological indicators
Creators: name: Andersen, Alicia M. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Pacific sockeye salmon populations have been declining since the 1980s. Various life stages have been identified to impact these declines, but the early marine phase is particularly important. Juvenile salmon growth and condition during this phase is critical to their success in evading predators and surviving their first marine winter. Therefore, environmental factors that limit foraging success have been identified as potential causes for salmon declines, such as ocean temperature, prey quantity and quality. The purpose of this study was to 1) determine if temperature and zooplankton biomass explain seasonal and annual variation of salmon growth and condition metrics (RNA:DNA, essential fatty acids (EFAs), Fulton’s K) and 2) develop a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (CCVA) framework for salmon during their early marine phase incorporating environmental factors identified through expert judgement and biological indicators. Juvenile sockeye salmon were collected from the Discovery Islands, British Columbia from 2015-2020 during their marine outmigration from May-July, and temperature and zooplankton biomass were collected from the central and northern Strait of Georgia from April-July, along the outmigration route. A distinct seasonal pattern emerged of salmon with better condition (higher K and EFAs) migrating at the end of the season, and salmon with poorer condition migrating at the beginning. Analyses determined that temperature was positively associated with RNA:DNA (GLM, p < 0.05), but negatively associated with EFAs and K (GLM, p < 0.05). Zooplankton biomass was also associated with RNA:DNA, EFAs, and K (GLM, p < 0.05), but the directionality depended on the zooplankton group. I also developed a CCVA framework for juvenile salmon incorporating environmental factors elicited from experts. These environmental factors included temperature, prey availability (biomass, quality, size, phenological match / mismatch), predators, and parasites / disease (e.g., sea lice). The biological indicators identified by the previous models included condition metrics RNA:DNA, EFAs, and length-weight residuals. I applied this framework to Fraser River sockeye salmon from 2015-2020. The CCVA predicted that all six years had relatively low vulnerability. This thesis provides insight into factors impacting salmon and develops a novel approach to determine salmon vulnerability which could be used to predict future salmon returns.
Additional file 15 of Pressure support and positive end-expiratory pressure versus T-piece during spontaneous breathing trial in difficult weaning from mechanical ventilation: study protocol for the SBT-ICU study
Creators: name: Mezidi, Mehdi
name: Yonis, Hodane
name: Chauvelot, Louis
name: Danjou, William
name: Dhelft, François
name: Bazzani, Alwin
name: Girard, Mehdi
name: Bitker, Laurent
name: Richard, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 15.
Additional file 1 of A reappraisal of the phylogeny and historical biogeography of Sparganium (Typhaceae) using complete chloroplast genomes
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiaoyu
name: Belyakov, Eugeny A.
name: Lapirov, Alexander G.
name: Zhao, Yixuan
name: Freeland, Joanna
name: Xu, Xinwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Alignment of chloroplast genomes of Sparganium species. The chloroplast genome of Typha latifolia was used as a reference.
SAMPL7/8 Host-Guest Challenges
Creators: name: Amezcua, Martin
name: El Khoury, Lea
name: Mobley, David L.
name: Setiadi, Jeff
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: SAMPL
blind challenges
host-guest binding
computational chemistry
absolute binding free energy
cucurbituril
cyclodextrin
octa acid

description: Slides and talk by Martin Amezcua (graduate student in Mobley Lab) at the 16th German Conference on Cheminformatics and SAMPL Workshop that took place on Nov. 4, 2020. The talk provides a recap of the SAMPL7 host-guest challenge results and a preliminary analysis of the "Drugs of Abuse" component of the SAMPL8 host-guest challenge.
title: Numerical Simulations of THz Photoconductive Antenna
Creators: name: Abu Bakar Sajak, Aznida
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Terahertz (THz) (0.1 – 10 THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum spans the frequency range between the mid-infrared and the millimetre range. THz technology has generated a lot of interest recently due to its potential applications as a tomographic imaging and material spectroscopic characterization technique in a wide range of industry sectors including aerospace industry, wood products industry, the pharmaceutical industry, art conservation and semiconductor industry. There have been significant advances in the development of THz sources and detectors. The radiated THz power from these devices, however, is very low, and they are very inefficient. Hence, there are still a lot of continued interests in developing more powerful and compact THz sources as this will enable new applications of this electromagnetic spectrum. In this thesis, a novel photoconductive antenna with an embedded electrode structure had been proposed. Formulated equations had been used with COMSOL Multiphysics software package for the proposed THz photoconductive antenna analysis. Simulation results indicate that the proposed THz antenna can store two times more effective electric energy than the conventional photoconductive antenna. These results suggest higher THz power could potentially be obtained using the proposed structure. The proposed model also exhibits almost double the value of current when the substrate material mobility is doubled. Based on the appraised parameters of the proposed model, the best dimension of a THz photoconductive antenna had been recommended to be constructed.
Additional file 3 of A reappraisal of the phylogeny and historical biogeography of Sparganium (Typhaceae) using complete chloroplast genomes
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiaoyu
name: Belyakov, Eugeny A.
name: Lapirov, Alexander G.
name: Zhao, Yixuan
name: Freeland, Joanna
name: Xu, Xinwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Pictures of Sparganium species.
Deep reinforcement learning : an analytical tool to design and maintain environmentally benign pavement infrastructure
Creators: name: Kazemeini, Ali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Pavement life cycle assessments (LCAs) enable decision-makers to evaluate the environmental impact of alternative maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction strategies. This thesis explores the viability of deep reinforcement learning (DRL), a framework that enables agents to learn optimal actions within a given situation, to identify environmentally benign pavement management strategies. More specifically, this dissertation utilizes proximal-policy optimization (PPO), a subtype of DRL algorithms, to identify a management strategy that minimizes the expected global warming impact of a pavement facility over its lifecycle. Through an urban Interstate case study, this thesis shows that the proposed PPO algorithm identifies management strategies that are anticipated to reduce the expected global warming impact of a pavement facility over its planning horizon by 16 percent relative to traditional practice. Furthermore, the PPO algorithm is able to identify this management strategy in only 25 learning iterations, which is in stark comparison to Q-learning, a common reinforcement learning algorithm, that requires 70,000 learning iterations. The results of this thesis highlight the viability of DRL to integrate within complex LCA models to determine environmentally sustainable pavement management strategies.
Unequal age-based household carbon footprint in China
Creators: name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
name: Cui, Yalei
name: Zhang, Zengkai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Controlling household consumption is an essential means to achieve carbon neutrality in China, and population ageing has an important impact on its structure. Since older people exhibit different consumption patterns than younger people, an increase in the proportion of aged people affects overall consumption patterns. This paper adopts an input–output model to reflect the heterogeneity in the consumption structure and household carbon footprint of different age groups, followed by a simulation of the future household carbon footprint. The results find that in China, the total household carbon footprint shows an inverted U-shape with age, with the lowest total carbon footprint coming from aged households (age of household head 65 and above) and the highest total carbon footprint from middle-aged households (age of household head 45–54). The average household carbon footprint decreases with age, with aged households remaining the lowest. Aged households, however, have the highest share of the direct carbon footprint. Interestingly, urban households of all ages have a higher carbon footprint than rural households, with the largest difference being among aged households. The projection results show that based on demographic changes, although the average household carbon footprint of elderly households in China is low, as the number of elderly households increases, the total carbon footprint of elderly households will be sizable and need to be taken seriously. Key policy insightsThe total carbon footprint of elderly households will become more significant and sizable as the number of elderly households increases.Urban life is more carbon-intensive, and China’s urbanization is leading to an increase in the carbon footprint.Aged households require more attention in future climate policies.Targeted, consumption-based climate policies are necessary for carbon reduction in China and will have relevance in other countries with similar consumption structure and demographic trends, e.g. with ageing or rapidly urbanizing populations. The total carbon footprint of elderly households will become more significant and sizable as the number of elderly households increases. Urban life is more carbon-intensive, and China’s urbanization is leading to an increase in the carbon footprint. Aged households require more attention in future climate policies. Targeted, consumption-based climate policies are necessary for carbon reduction in China and will have relevance in other countries with similar consumption structure and demographic trends, e.g. with ageing or rapidly urbanizing populations.
Libro de actas del I Foro de Generación de Igualdad en Investigación de la Universidad de Granada
Creators: name: Vílchez, Vera Ferrón
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: igualdad
género
investigación académica
mujeres

description: Esta publicación es el libro de actas del I Foro “Generación de Igualdad en Investigación”. Este foro pretende mostrar la ciencia de alta calidad realizada por mujeres en la Universidad de Granada, proporcionando así una plataforma para que las graduadas e investigadoras de la Universidad de Granada puedan DAR A CONOCER sus trabajos de investigación.
Health technology as commons: trustable, affordable, adaptable
Creators: name: Balli, Fabio
name: Matringe, Mathilde
name: le Couedic, Clement
name: Schull, Jon
name: Gautam, Shikshya
name: Jandard, Patrick
name: Kellner, Emmanuel
name: Anastasaki, Afroditi
name: Serada, Katerina
name: Brahmachari, Samir K
name: Winter, Lukas
name: Lonchampt, Pierre
name: Schoeller, Felix
name: Krishnakumar, Anirudh
name: Greshake, Bastian
name: Lhoste, Kevin
name: Parot, Christophe
name: Jeanmaire, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: health for all
open hardware for health
open-source medical supply
community-based healtcare
free/libre software for health
adhesion to treatment
scientific integrity
medical expenditure
open science
open access commons
co-creation
mutual care
3d-printing
wearables
health data collection

description: 6 in 10 humans still have no access to care, or do not adhere to it, despite rising investments. Alcohol-based hand rub and WikiMed illustrate how creating freely reproducible equipment and software with communities can: save millions of lives, increase integrity, cut costs by 90%. Cooperation-driven care is the only way to realize the 2030 agenda in time: health for everyone. We presente nine alternatives to the dominant proprietary excluding innovation model, to drive development towards a responsible, solidar society. We also discuss ageing, public policies, quality systems, and cryptocurrencies. Français — Español: pronto — Português: em breve — русский: скоро — 中文:即将 — हिंदी: जल्द ही — বাঙালি: শীঘ্রই — العربية: قريبا
At-home virtual mental health crisis support: A scoping review
Creators: name: Svenne, Sasha
name: Ulrich, Rachel
name: Hensel, Jennifer
name: Lemoine, Jocelyne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Counseling
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychiatry
subject: crisis care
subject: telehealth
subject: virtual

description: This scoping review aims to identify, summarize, and synthesize literature on at-home virtual care for mental health crisis assessment and treatment, across the spectrum of acute crisis to post-crisis care (defined as up to 6 months post-acute crisis).
Technologies de santé en communs : fiables, abordables, adaptables
Creators: name: Balli, Fabio
name: Matringe, Mathilde
name: le Couedic, Clement
name: Schull, Jon
name: Gautam, Shikshya
name: Jandard, Patrick
name: Kellner, Emmanuel
name: Anastasaki, Afroditi
name: Serada, Katerina
name: Brahmachari, Samir K
name: Winter, Lukas
name: Lonchampt, Pierre
name: Schoeller, Felix
name: Krishnakumar, Anirudh
name: Greshake, Bastian
name: Lhoste, Kevin
name: Parot, Christophe
name: Jeanmaire, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: santé pour tous
matériel ouvert en santé
équipement médical open-source
soins de santé communautaires
logiciel libre en santé
adhésion au traitement
intégrité scientifique
dépenses médicales
science ouverte
communs en accès ouvert
co-création
soins mutuels
impression 3D
objets connectés
collecte de données en santé

description: 6 humains sur 10 n'ont pas accès ou n'adhèrent pas aux soins, malgré les investissements. Le désinfectant pour les mains et WikiMed illustrent que la création avec les communautés d'équipements et logiciels librement reproductibles peut : sauver des millions de vies, accroître l'intégrité, réduire les coûts de 90%. Coopérer est le seul moyen de réaliser à temps l'agenda 2030 : la santé pour tou·te·s. Nous présentons neuf alternatives à l'innovation exclusive, pour une société responsable et solidaire. Nous discutons aussi de vieillissement, politiques publiques, systèmes qualité, cryptomonnaies. English — Español: pronto — Português: em breve — русский: скоро — 中文:即将 — हिंदी: जल्द ही — বাঙালি: শীঘ্রই — العربية: قريبا
Exploration on the synergy between discourse and neural summarizers
Creators: name: Xiao, Wen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Automatic Text Summarization is the challenging NLP task of summarizing some source input text - a single document, a cluster of multiple related documents, or conversations - into a shorter text, covering the main points succinctly. Since the 1950s, researchers have been exploring with some success both extractive solutions - simply picking salient sentences from the source, and abstractive ones - directly generating the summary word by word. Before the neural revolution, summarizers relied on explicit linguistic properties of the input, including lexical, syntactic and discourse information, but their performance was rather poor. With the development of powerful machine learning and the availability of large-scale datasets, neural models have delivered considerable gains in performance regarding both automatic evaluation metrics and human evaluation. Nevertheless, they still suffer from difficulties in understanding the long input document(s), and the generated summaries often contain factual inconsistencies and hallucinations, namely the content not existing in, or even contradicting the source document. One promising solution that we explore in this thesis is to inject linguistic knowledge into the neural models as a guidance. In particular, we focus on discourse, which reflects how the text is aggregated as a coherent document with specific central focus and fluent topical transport. While in the past decades, discourse has been shown to be helpful in non-neural summarizers, here we investigate the synergy between discourse and neural summarizers, with a special focus on the discourse structure (both explicit structures and RST structures) and the entities of the document(s). Specifically, we propose a series of methods to inject discourse information into neural summarizers regarding both the document understanding and summary generation steps, covering both extractive and abstractive methods. A large set of experimental results indicate that our methods effectively improve not only the summarizers overall performance, but also their efficiency, generality, and factualness. Conversely, by evaluating the discourse trees induced by neural summarizers on several human-annotated discourse tree datasets, we show that such summarizers do capture discourse structural information implicitly.
Factors associated with research productivity in higher education institutions in Africa: a systematic review
Creators: name: Uwizeye, Dieudonne
name: Karimi, Florah
name: Thiong’o, Caroline
name: Syonguvi, Jackline
name: Ochieng, Vollan
name: Kiroro, Francis
name: Gateri, Alex
name: Khisa, Anne
name: Wao, Hesborn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: PRISMA CHECKLIST__

description: We are conducted a systematic literature review to determine the factors that contribute to research productivity in HEIs in Africa to inform the directions of improving the research landscape within the African region. The purpose of this study is twofold: 1) to determine the factors associated with research productivity in higher education institutions in Africa; and, 2) to identify what motivates researchers working in HEIs in Africa to do research.
title: Investigating the postseismic deformation of strike-slip earthquakes on the Tibetan Plateau
Creators: name: Feng, Minxuan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: InSAR is a useful technique to detect large-scale surface deformation from space. To place constraints on the rheological structure of the lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau, two strike-slip earthquakes have been investigated. One is the Mw 7.6 Manyi earthquake, which occurred in the north-central Tibetan Plateau. The other is the Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, which happened that on the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. My InSAR data cover 12 years following the Manyi earthquake, much longer than previous researchers’ dataset. I test three viscoelastic models (Maxwell, Standard linear solids, and Burgers body) and one afterslip model. The viscoelastic models cannot match the observed temporal–spatial deformation patterns. The distributions of deformation in the viscoelastic models extend into the far field and the residuals tend to increase, which are inconsistent with the data. The afterslip model has the lowest misfit and explains the temporal and spatial pattern of the observed deformation with decent result. A combined model that considers the effects of both afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation has also been tested. In this combined model, the viscoelastic relaxation that occurs with an elastic layer of thickness of 30 km over a half-space place, produce an estimate for viscosity of 5 × 1019 Pa s for this area. Therefore, either the afterslip model or the combined model can be used to explain the 12 years postseismic deformation of Manyi earthquake. The long time series of the Manyi earthquake enable us to distinguish between afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation. The seismogenic fault of the Jiuzhaigou earthquake was previously unidentified and no surface rupture is found after the earthquake. I first determined the fault geometry and calculated coseismic slip model. The slip model indicates a left-lateral strike-slip pattern, which is consistent with focal mechanisms were determined by different agencies. There is no visible postseismic deformation signal of the fault, which means the surface deformation generated by fault creeping is smaller than the noise of our observation method over that period. Therefore, I try to find the lower bound of the viscosity for this area. My preferred minimum possible viscosity of the underlying half-space is ∼6 × 1017 Pa s. Together with previous geodetic studies, the viscosities obtained from central Tibet show at least one order of magnitude difference with the viscosities obtained from the eastern Tibet. The heterogeneity indicates the rheology has a relatively large spatial change through the whole Plateau. The viscoelastic model always been proposed to explain long-term postseismic deformation and afterslip is used to explain the short-term deformation or localised deformation. Sometimes, the viscoelastic deformation signal is invisible in the moderate earthquakes as the stress is not large enough to generate observable deformation.
Strengthening decision-making capacity in the Spanish Health System through living evidence: An innovative framework
Creators: name: Reyes, María Ximena Rojas
name: Gómez, Luis Mª Sánchez
name: Ibargoyen-Roteta, Nora
name: Rada, Gabriel
name: De Val, María Soledad Isern
name: Galnares-Cordero, Lorea
name: Urrutia, Gerard
name: Benguria, Gaizka
name: Francy Cantor
name: Poloni, Daniel
name: Benavent, Patricia Gavín
name: Gutierrez, Iñaki
name: Rispau, Ariadna Auladell
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Health Information Technology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: LE-IHD
subject: building capacity
subject: health decision-making
subject: knowledge transfer
subject: living evidence

description: Presentation: The Strengthening decision-making capacity in the Spanish Health System through living evidence: An innovative framework is a project proposed under the Living Evidence to Inform Hath Decisions Program, which follows the Horizon 2020 Data Management Plan (DMP) guidance and requirements for projects that produce, collect or process research data.
This DMP describes both the principles and the strategies that will be carried out to collect the necessary information for the fulfillment of the study objectives. This plan also includes a first approach to the free access publications of the products that will be generated as part of the project.
The Living Evidence to Inform Health Decisions Program, is part of the Extension of Open Research Data (ORD) Pilot program running by the European Commission. The ORD pilot aims to improve and maximize access to and re-use of research data generated by Horizon 2020 projects and takes into account the need to balance openness and protection of scientific information, commercialization and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), privacy concerns, security as well as data management and preservation questions.
The ORD applies primarily to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Other data can also be provided by the beneficiaries on a voluntary basis, as stated in their Data Management Plans.
Following this principles, this document briefly presents the study protocol for the project “Strengthening decision-making capacity in the Spanish Health System through living evidence: An innovative framework” that allows understanding the origin of the data and their purpose for meeting the study objectives, and the first version of the DMP that has been developed as part of the study development.
Preregistration of three experiments to test the proposition that information avoidance is a substitutable mechanism of self-protection
Creators: name: Meese, William
name: Howell, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Defensiveness
subject: Information Avoidance

description: Our previous correlational work has indicated that people who are predisposed to information avoidance who do not actively decide to avoid are more likely to derogate the feedback they receive (Meese et al., in prep). This work suggests that the need to that would have been fulfilled by information avoidance is later satisfied by another defensive behavior: feedback derogation. Consistent with Abraham Tesser’s theoretical perspective that mechanisms of self-protection are substitutable (Tesser et al., 1996), we propose three experimental studies to test the proposition that information avoidance is a substitutable mechanism of self-protection.
Trans liberation beyond comparison : the influence of metahistorical thinking on imaginations of bodily modification
Creators: name: Siegal, Beck
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the political and intellectual context of Hayden White’s theory of metahistory. I situate metahistory as developing parallel to identity politics and postmodernist frameworks, particularly in their application to theorizations of trans and queer liberation. Despite White’s wide-reaching and long-lasting reception, he is rarely considered in light of the socio-politics of the 1970s. I read him alongside the rethinking of marginalized identity in academia which was necessitated by the mass liberation movements of the 1960s and foreshadowed the economic crises of the 80s. This thesis contends that White’s criticism of “radical historiography” renaturalizes liberalism as non-ideological and ahistorical. By analyzing White, I aim to show the ideological meaning of comparative historical thinking even as it understands itself to be non-ideological, and I advocate for a non-comparative historicism in analyzing oppression. Extending this analysis, this thesis reveals the dominance of a transhistorical mode of analyzing oppression across schools, including in popular currents in feminism, queer theory, trans theory, and identity politics. These trends which reject objective knowledge and historical truth in favor of subjective historicity join White in renegotiating the familiar territory of liberal universalism into the language of social justice. To develop this analysis, I foreground two contemporary science fiction texts: Jeanette Winterson’s FranKissStein and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. I read the politics of queer liberation and bodily modification as they appear in each of these fictions. Ultimately, this thesis is a materialist interpretation of the imaginations of gender-based liberation in contemporary SF, which I see as abiding to a transhistorical mode co-emergent with that which White develops in his Metahistory.
مستقبل مهنة المكتبات والمعلومات في بيئة الحوسبة السحابية المتطلبات والتحديات
Creators: name: زكريا،محمود شريف احمد
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: الحوسبه المحاسبيه | المكتبات السحابيه | النظم الاليه المعتمده على الحوسبه | الاعاره الالكترونيه | الكتب الالكترونيه | Cloud computing | cloud libraries | computerized systems based on computing | e-lending

description: تعد المكتبات السحابية أو المكتبات المعتمدة على الخدمات السحابية واحدة من النماذج الناجمة عن توظيف خدمات الحوسبة السحابية في المكتبات في ضوء تطبيقات الجيل الثاني للشبكة العنكبوتية. وتقوم فكرتها ببساطة على إمكانية إتاحة مختلف أشكال أوعية المعلومات من خلال موقع المكتبة، مع السماح للمستفيد بمشاركة المصادر، كما لو كان موقع المكتبة موقعاً مجتمعياً، وذلك توسلاً بأحد النماذج الجاهزة التي توفرها الحوسبة السحابية. وتحاول هذه الدراسة أن تكشف اللثام عن مستقبل مهنة المكتبات والمعلومات في ظل الحوسبة السحابية، فتهتم بمناقشة أهمية التحول إلى الحول السحابية في بيئة المكتبات، وماهية خدمات المعلومات المحتمل تقديمها من قبل المكتبات في بيئة السحاب، ومتطلبات التحول إلى الحلول السحابية والتحديات المرتبطة بذلك الشأن.

 Cloud-based libraries or cloud-based libraries are one of the models of cloud computing in libraries in light of the second-generation applications of the Web. Its idea is simply to make available various forms of information vessels through the library's website, allowing the user to share resources, as if the library's site were a community site, by appealing to one of the ready-made models provided by cloud computing. The study explores the future of the library and information profession under cloud computing, and discusses the importance of switching to cloud solutions in the library environment, the potential information services provided by libraries in the cloud environment, and the requirements for transition to cloud solutions and associated challenges.
MPEC 2023-J132 : 2023 JT1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 JT1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: COMPLEX ACTION METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS (CAMES): AN EXPERIMENTAL ACTION RESEARCH INQUIRY INTO COMMUNICATIVE ACTION AND QUANTUM MECHANICS FOR ACTION RESEARCH FIELD STUDIES IN ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT
Creators: name: Cames, O
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Current action research methodologies bias observations severely and render quantification models of subjective data uncertain. Thus, this research thesis aims to design a scientifically rigorous action-science methodology process that establishes a subject-bias-free method for communication in an organisational context. This investigation aims to apply scientific rigour to this issue and to verify the general applicability of mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics to address organisational venture that includes a “wicked problem” (Stubbart, 1987, quoted in Pearson and Clair, 1998, p. 62) of how to communicate and collaborate appropriately. The subjective data collection and quantification models of this thesis build on the quantitative formalism of quantum mechanics and qualitative formalism of the theory of communicative action. Mathematical and ontological formalism combine into a novel research strategy with planned instrumentation for action research field studies summarised under the term ‘Complex Action Methodology for Enterprise Systems’ (CAMES). The outcome is a process to understand the behavioural action of organisational members. This process is not technical, and neither does it involve a machine or apparatus. The process is primarily mathematical and requires that participants act under a new identity, a virtual identity. Similarly, the data analysis does not require a specific machine, technology or an apparatus. A spreadsheet calculator will primarily be sufficient for low entry. Data collection occurs in one block with an average duration time of 10 minutes in a virtual location. The practice can, therefore, use this thesis’ procedures for bias-free quantification of subjective data and prediction of an individual’s future behaviour with certainty. Prediction of an individual’s future behaviour with certainty provides to the organizational practice what organisational practice lacks but urgently requires. The certainty that claimed findings of behaviour in organisational context requires to intervene and steer. Certainty and justification for planned intervening and steering initiatives secure funding.
Mystic mountains and sacred caves : re-examining Minoan extra-urban sanctuaries
Creators: name: Sauvé, Isabelle Tonia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the functions and social organization of the Minoan Neopalatial peak and cave sanctuaries. Despite the large body of scholarship on this subject, there is much deliberation concerning the differences in architecture, the functions, and the social organization of both types of sanctuaries. Many scholars believe that the peak and cave sanctuaries were used for a range of ritual activities, where male and female worshippers were segregated in different spaces. While previous studies have only taken an aggregated approach to extra-urban sanctuaries, this study analyzes individual sites to provide a more a detailed and holistic approach to these types of sites. This study also positions itself in current gender scholarship in the field, challenging previous assumptions made about gender in the Minoan world. Instead, I use an inclusive feminist framework to approach gender in a more nuanced way. Using socio-spatial analysis, I examine the sanctuaries of Petsophas, Juktas, and Psychro to understand the architectural and social distinctions between the two types of sanctuaries and how they relate to differences in function. I also attempt to identify the groups of people using these two types of sanctuaries and determine whether they differ according to gender. Socio-spatial analysis is a useful tool to examine how the built environment can influence social behavior. Architecture can encode meanings that communicate social information to its users. This includes information about whether a space is private or public, high or low status, and male or female. The artifact assemblages found within architectural remains also provide insights into the activities taking place in certain spaces as well as the social identities of those performing the activities. The analysis of the architectural remains and artifact distributions of Petsophas, Juktas, and Psychro demonstrate that while the architecture between peak and cave sanctuaries differs, they were used for the same ritual functions including votive depositing, pouring of libations, and ritual sacrifice or feasting. This study also demonstrates that the sanctuaries were not gender segregated, but rather that male and female worshippers participated together in ritual.