cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leading Edge Academic Program (LEAP): A Successful Model in Programming and Collaborative Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw
name: Gaudelius, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: Penn State University’s Learning Edge Academic Program (LEAP) has three main goals: to promote active collaborative learning on the part of students by enrolling them in two small, linked classes; to foster a better living/learning community for students entering the new environment of a large university; and to provide students with the practical skills and familiarity with the available resources necessary to succeed in that community. Specific goals that are linked to these objectives seek to enable students to engage more deeply with a body of knowledge through integrated courses and thereby achieve at higher levels, empower students to take responsibility for their own learning through active learning opportunities, encourage students to work productively as members of a team through collaborative learning opportunities, and enhance students’ ability to use library and computer resources in the service of learning. The authors share here the strategic approaches that have enabled LEAP to become a successful model. Programming, collaborative teaching and learning are some of the areas that this article will explore.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
Applying Data Mining and Google Analytics to Student Recruitment Marketing
Creators: name: Bilella, Jamieson
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: With higher education administrators facing strained budgets, summer administrators continually seek new, innovative, practical, and cost-effective means by which to efficiently manage their limited allocated resources. Applying the techniques and methodology of marketing analytics can provide summer session administrators with the ability to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and quantitatively identify which media are delivering better results, higher yield, and more conversions. These findings can then be applied when negotiating ad buys, developing a marketing plan, and allocating budgets for the right media mix. Data mining and data analysis are key tools for data-driven decision making. By applying data mining and analytical tools and techniques, administrators can be more successful in raising their enrollment or, at the very least, maximizing the impact of their marketing message and the return on investment of their marketing dollars. One key tool is Google Analytics. This article provides a practical examination of this approach, utilizing data mining techniques coupled with Google Analytics in student recruitment marketing for summer and winter sessions.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
Towards Effective and Interpretable Semantic Communications
Creators: name: Wu, Youlong
name: Shi, Yuanmin
name: Ma, Shuai
name: Jiang, Chunxiao
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Letaief, Khaled B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the exponential surge in traffic data and the pressing need for ultra-low latency in emerging intelligence applications, it is envisioned that 6G networks will demand disruptive communication technologies to foster ubiquitous intelligence and succinctness within the human society. Semantic communication, a novel paradigm, holds the promise of significantly curtailing communication overhead and latency by transmitting only task-relevant information. Despite numerous efforts in both theoretical frameworks and practical implementations of semantic communications, a substantial theory-practice gap complicates the theoretical analysis and interpretation, particularly when employing black-box machine learning techniques. This article initially delves into information-theoretic metrics such as semantic entropy, semantic distortions, and semantic communication rate to characterize the information flow in semantic communications. Subsequently, it provides a guideline for implementing semantic communications to ensure both theoretical interpretability and communication effectiveness.
description: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Network Magazine
supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Sexualised drug taking among men who have sex with men: a systematic review
Creators: name: Tomkins, Andrew
name: George, Ryan
name: Kliner, Merav
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, supplementary_material for Sexualised drug taking among men who have sex with men: a systematic review by Andrew Tomkins, Ryan George and Merav Kliner in Perspectives in Public Health
DS_10.1177_0363546518774315 – Supplemental material for Effect of Meniscocapsular and Meniscotibial Lesions in ACL-Deficient and ACL-Reconstructed Knees: A Biomechanical Study
Creators: name: DePhillipo, Nicholas N.
name: Moatshe, Gilbert
name: Brady, Alex
name: Chahla, Jorge
name: Aman, Zachary S.
name: Dornan, Grant J.
name: Nakama, Gilberto Y.
name: Engebretsen, Lars
name: LaPrade, Robert F.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0363546518774315 for Effect of Meniscocapsular and Meniscotibial Lesions in ACL-Deficient and ACL-Reconstructed Knees: A Biomechanical Study by Nicholas N. DePhillipo, Gilbert Moatshe, Alex Brady, Jorge Chahla, Zachary S. Aman, Grant J. Dornan, Gilberto Y. Nakama, Lars Engebretsen and Robert F. LaPrade in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Summer Profitability Challenge: A Compelling Case for Business Intelligence
Creators: name: Carpenter, Lindsay
name: Wykoff, Phyllis
name: Young, Cheryl D.
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: To strategically assess the profitability of its summer session, Miami University began an initiative known as the Summer Profitability Challenge project, focused on managing summer enrollment while measuring and containing costs. The project team included representation from across university divisions. The challenge was to bring together pieces of technologically disconnected data and report them as usable and actionable information to support administrative decisions that would increase profitability. As the project progressed, the value and substance of the powerful business intelligence methodologies allowed the team to cross seemingly insurmountable barriers. The initial challenge—detailed and innovative reporting for effective decision making in a real-time environment—was met. Further, the team debriefing following Phase I of the project revealed the value of the collaborative effort as well as best practices in alliances across university divisional divides. In this article, members of the team share this business intelligence case study, an application to a summer session revenue-sharing and profitability model with data and reporting, and the best practices and outcomes revealed by the project.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
Summer Service Learning: A Community-Based Approach
Creators: name: Donahue, Veronica
name: Huntley, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: In 2011, the Summer School at Georgetown University piloted two service-learning courses to serve the needs of a growing student population during the fall and spring, and to assess the potential for future enrollment growth in the summer term. The pretest data consisted of enrollment figures for summer service-learning courses from 2007 through 2011 and enrollment data for a single service-learning course from four academic semesters in 2010 and 2011. The data set also included a qualitative component: anonymous and confidential student interviews conducted in September and October 2011 to discover and assess the specific interests in enrolling in service learning in summer. The analyzed data clearly demonstrated that the addition of an optional service-learning component to existing classes did not deter students from enrolling; nor did it attract more students to the courses, even though the university, perhaps because of its strong Jesuit tradition, attracts a large population of students predisposed to volunteerism. However, there was one significant and unexpected finding: the qualitative data revealed that the single largest hindrance to enrollments was the absence of information about service-learning opportunities. This finding cut across all semesters, fall, spring, and summer, and was supported by data that demonstrated consistent percentages of enrollments in all three semesters for service-learning courses.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
Converting Admits into Registrants: Increasing the Yield of Visiting Students in Summer Session
Creators: name: Kokorudz, Natalie
name: Levy, Pam
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: In an effort to increase enrollment, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) employed new strategies to encourage visiting students admitted for the summer session to register in summer courses. This case study describes how UIC shifted from a passive student services approach to a more active model, which included relationship building and one-on-one communications with students in a strategy designed to improve enrollment yield among summer students.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
The Berlin Wall. A theoretical approach to the conservation of a Dissonant Heritage in continuous resignification, and its socio-legal implications.
Creators: name: Galán-Pérez, Ana
name: Magnolo, Stefano
name: Vieira, Eduarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Dissonant Cultural Heritage
Conservation and restoration
Human Rights

description: The Berlin Wall, once a symbol of oppression, is now a cultural heritage of international significance. Its demolition and reinterpretation are central to the Bernauer Strasse Memorial, highlighting its new role as a symbol of freedom and reunification. Preserving the Wall is challenging due to its historical and political significance as a testament to communist dictatorship and German division. Klausmeier and Schlusche emphasize that maintaining this "uncomfortable monument" involves preserving both its material and emotional value, integrating social sensitivities into the conservation process. The Wall's communicative capacity influences its preservation, serving as a trace of Berlin's urban landscape, a monument, a relic, a trophy, and a medium for artistic expression, like the graffiti in the East Side Gallery.

Congress Book of abstracts
Differences in the Administrative Organization of Summer Sessions: AUSS, NAASS, NCCSS, and WASSA Member Institutions
Creators: name: Kops, William J.
name: Lytle, Loy
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: This article reports on the first phase of a two-phase study. Phase 1 aimed to determine how summer sessions are organized at member institutions of the Association of University Summer Sessions (AUSS), the North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS), the North Central Conference on Summer Schools (NCCSS), and the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA), to better understand the range and diversity of responsibilities for performing essential summer session functions. Results of Phase 1 indicate that the organization of summer sessions among member institutions falls along a continuum, from centralized (most functions and services are performed by a summer session office) through hybridized (some functions/services are provided by a summer session office while others are devolved to other campus units/departments) to decentralized (most functions and services are performed by various other campus units/departments). Phase 2 will examine whether differing organizational models affect performance-based outcomes important to the success of the summer term.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
title: Fragile Balance: Human Mediums and Technical Media in Oliver Lodge's Presidential Address of 1891
title: Fragile Balance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schuettpelz, Erhard
name: Voss, Ehler
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oliver Lodge
subject: 19th Century
subject: Mediumistic Trial
subject: Science and Religion
subject: Relationship between Human Mediums and Technical Media
subject: History of Psychical Research and Parapsychology
subject: Communication
subject: Film and Media Studies
subject: History of Religion
subject: Science and Technology Studies
subject: Social and Cultural Anthropology

description: In this paper we discuss the work of the Victorian physicist and radio pioneer Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) in the context of what we call the mediumistic trial of the long 19th century. We are focusing on a short moment in the early 1890s when Lodge’s radio experiments were part of a common expansion into physical and psychical research. By rigorously applying David Bloor's heuristic "principle of symmetry", we demonstrate how Oliver Lodge lived in a world of systems-building and Empire-building that enabled him to categorize human mediums, electromagnetic entities and technical media as parts of an indeterminate but unified field of experimental settings. Though this historical moment was to become a unique tipping point in the initial convergence and later divergence of physical and psychical research, it reveals some general aspects of the mediumistic trial in the long 19th century, namely the existence of a common interface between religious and secularist positions and aspirations.
Book review of Unlocking the Gates
Creators: name: Sibley, Karen
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2013

description: Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities are Opening up Access to Their Courses by Taylor Walsh (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 7 (2013)
MSG-Chart: Multimodal Scene Graph for ChartQA
Creators: name: Dai, Yue
name: Han, Soyeon Caren
name: Liu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic Chart Question Answering (ChartQA) is challenging due to the complex distribution of chart elements with patterns of the underlying data not explicitly displayed in charts. To address this challenge, we design a joint multimodal scene graph for charts to explicitly represent the relationships between chart elements and their patterns. Our proposed multimodal scene graph includes a visual graph and a textual graph to jointly capture the structural and semantical knowledge from the chart. This graph module can be easily integrated with different vision transformers as inductive bias. Our experiments demonstrate that incorporating the proposed graph module enhances the understanding of charts' elements' structure and semantics, thereby improving performance on publicly available benchmarks, ChartQA and OpenCQA.
description: Accpeted by CIKM Short 2024
Investigating and improving student understanding of the basics of quantum computing
Creators: name: Hu, Peter
name: Li, Yangqiuting
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum information science and engineering (QISE) is a rapidly developing field that leverages the skills of experts from many disciplines to utilize the potential of quantum systems in a variety of applications. It requires talent from a wide variety of traditional fields, including physics, engineering, chemistry, and computer science, to name a few. To prepare students for such opportunities, it is important to give them a strong foundation in the basics of QISE, in which quantum computing plays a central role. In this study, we discuss the development, validation, and evaluation of a QuILT, or Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial, on the basics and applications of quantum computing. These include an overview of key quantum mechanical concepts relevant for quantum computation (including ways a quantum computer is different from a classical computer), properties of single- and multi-qubit systems, and the basics of single-qubit quantum gates. The tutorial uses guided inquiry-based teaching-learning sequences. Its development and validation involved conducting cognitive task analysis from both expert and student perspectives and using common student difficulties as a guide. The inquiry-based learning sequences in the tutorial provide scaffolding support to help students develop a functional understanding. The final version of the validated tutorial was implemented in two distinct courses offered by the physics department with slightly different student populations and broader course goals. Students' understanding was evaluated after traditional lecture-based instruction on the requisite concepts, and again after engaging with the tutorial. We analyze and discuss their improvement in performance on concepts covered in the tutorial.
description: 39 pages
spub-ri-2017-0122-File006 – Supplemental material for Inequalities in smoking and obesity in Europe predicted to 2050: Findings from the EConDA project
Creators: name: Pérez-Ferrer, Carolina
name: Abbygail Jaccard
name: Knuchel-Takano, Andre
name: Retat, Lise
name: Brown, Martin
name: Kriaucioniene, Vilma
name: Webber, Laura
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, spub-ri-2017-0122-File006 for Inequalities in smoking and obesity in Europe predicted to 2050: Findings from the EConDA project by Carolina Pérez-Ferrer Abbygail Jaccard, Andre Knuchel-Takano, Lise Retat, Martin Brown, Vilma Kriaucioniene and Laura Webber in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
TEAdapter: Supply abundant guidance for controllable text-to-music generation
Creators: name: Zou, Jialing
name: Mei, Jiahao
name: Nan, Xudong
name: Li, Jinghua
name: Dong, Daoguo
name: He, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Although current text-guided music generation technology can cope with simple creative scenarios, achieving fine-grained control over individual text-modality conditions remains challenging as user demands become more intricate. Accordingly, we introduce the TEAcher Adapter (TEAdapter), a compact plugin designed to guide the generation process with diverse control information provided by users. In addition, we explore the controllable generation of extended music by leveraging TEAdapter control groups trained on data of distinct structural functionalities. In general, we consider controls over global, elemental, and structural levels. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed TEAdapter enables multiple precise controls and ensures high-quality music generation. Our module is also lightweight and transferable to any diffusion model architecture. Available code and demos will be found soon at https://github.com/Ashley1101/TEAdapter.
description: Accepted by ICME'24: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
title: Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self
title: Self-Writing Machines
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kassung, Christian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Heidegger
subject: technology
subject: occult
subject: media
subject: history of science
subject: history of technology
subject: epistemology
subject: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
subject: Other Film and Media Studies

description: In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism. Contrary to scientific knowledge systems, in spiritualism the unforeseen, the singular, and the disturbance is what counts as, and produces, significance. That is the reason why alter-concepts such as spiritualism, esotericism, or occultism are not typically recognized as innovative agencies in the history of knowledge. Hence, what is needed to raise the question of a non-hegemonic knowledge production is a symmetrical approach in the history of technology.
Supplementary material 3
Creators: name: Reader, Rebecca C
name: Barton, Bruce A
name: Abelson, Amanda L
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Feline blood donor sedation study follow-up owner questionnaire
Discovery of novel macrolide antibiotics via ribosome-templated click chemistry

Creators: name: Daher, Samer Sami
name: Glassfold, Ian
name: Teijaro, Christiana
name: Andrade, Rodrigo B.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: This work addresses a new methodology derived from In Situ Click Chemistry. A macrolide azide fragment is implemented with various alkyne fragments via 70S ribosome to develop various analogs of Solithromycin, which is a ketolide in phase 3 clinical trial. The significance of this project lies in establishing a small library of analogs that were biologically evaluated by dissociation constants and minimum inhibitory concentration. To conclude, five potential analogs turn to be more or equal in potency compared to Solithromycin.
MSJ765649_supplementary_tables – Supplemental material for Balance worsening associated with nabiximols in multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Castelli, Letizia
name: Prosperini, Luca
name: Pozzilli, Carlo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, MSJ765649_supplementary_tables for Balance worsening associated with nabiximols in multiple sclerosis by Letizia Castelli, Luca Prosperini and Carlo Pozzilli in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Supplemental material - Moral Identity Predicts the Development of Presence of Meaning During Emerging Adulthood
Creators: name: Hyemin Han
name: Indrawati Liauw
name: Kuntz, Ashley Floyd
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material for Moral Identity Predicts the Development of Presence of Meaning During Emerging Adulthood by Hyemin Han, Indrawati Liauw, and Ashley Floyd Kuntz in Emerging Adulthood
Appendices A-C -Supplemental material for Place attachment and tourist engagement of major visitor attractions in Lisbon
Creators: name: Loureiro, Sandra Maria Correia
name: Sarmento, Eduardo Moraes
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental material, Appendices A-C for Place attachment and tourist engagement of major visitor attractions in Lisbon by Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro and Eduardo Moraes Sarmento in Tourism and Hospitality Research
Summer Film Festivals for Kids: Building Fond Memories and Brand Identity
Creators: name: Chismar, William G.
name: Brandman, Ann
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: A summer film festival for kids provides a great opportunity to serve your local community, bring families on campus, and raise your school’s image as visitor friendly. Because a festival generates significant media attention, it can also be a valuable tool for marketing other summer programs. While curating a film festival can be time-consuming and expensive, it does not have to be. Economical to organize and market, the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival presented each summer by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is nationally recognized and enthusiastically supported by the media. Films with varied themes from different cultures are chosen to appeal to audiences in age-appropriate groupings and are shown free of charge. Nearly 9,000 children and adults have attended the festival, which has brought multigenerational family members to the campus, many for the first time. Now in its eighth year, it has created valuable partnerships and contacts with local business, community, and media organizations. This paper discusses the festival and its value in community service and as a marketing tool, and how to develop a KIDS FIRST! Film Festival at other institutions.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)
Supplementary_Material_-_Review_2 – Supplemental material for The Etiology of Risk in Sexual Offenders: A Preliminary Model
Creators: name: Brouillette-Alarie, Sébastien
name: Proulx, Jean
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Material_-_Review_2 for The Etiology of Risk in Sexual Offenders: A Preliminary Model by Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie and Jean Proulx in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
Implementing a Successful Winter Session
Creators: name: Harkness, Sarah
name: Laves, Elizabeth
name: McClure, Bill
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: As higher education institutions strategize opportunities to improve student access to courses, increase student retention, enhance pathways to graduation, provide additional compensation for faculty, and add new institutional revenue streams, implementing a winter session should be a primary consideration. A well planned and implemented winter session will benefit students, faculty, and the institution, and can be added to the institutional academic calendar with very little operational cost. The goal is to create a winter session that is the best fit with the institution’s strategic needs and policies. Utilizing three case studies, this article gives insight into how to plan, implement, and maintain a successful winter session.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)
Supplemental material for Changes in hemodynamic classification over time are common in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension: insights from the PHAROS cohort
Creators: name: Lammi, Matthew R.
name: Saketkoo, Lesley Ann
name: Gordon, Jessica K.
name: Steen, Virginia D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, for Changes in hemodynamic classification over time are common in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension: insights from the PHAROS cohort by Matthew R. Lammi, Lesley Ann Saketkoo, Jessica K. Gordon and Virginia D. Steen in Pulmonary Circulation
Unleash the Beast: Promoting Summer Sessions Using Guerrilla Marketing
Creators: name: Huntley, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: Despite record summer enrollments in 2011 and 2012, Georgetown Summer School anticipated a drop in enrollments in summer 2013 because of both external and internal challenges. The usual marketing strategies utilized precious financial and personnel resources. For 2013, the Summer School staff and marketing team sought new and creative marketing strategies that would connect directly with prospective students at a low financial cost. For the Summer School, a guerrilla marketing approach was implemented that embraced technology and social media as well as pop culture. This marketing approach was a refreshing addition to our strategies and garnered attention from students in a new way. The overall financial cost of the guerrilla-marketing approach was just 6% of the total marketing budget. Enrollments increased in undergraduate language institutes as well as among specific student segments. The guerrilla approach used in 2013 is being used today, which highlights its sustainability.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)
It Takes an Institutional Village: Strategies to Enhance Summer Through Institutional Buy-In
Creators: name: Kline, Jeanie
name: Leggat, Barbara
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: Many institutions have undergone enrollment declines in recent summers, and administrators are looking at (a) reasons for the declines and (b) ways to rebound and continue growing summer enrollments (and revenues). This paper is designed to “create the future” by providing successful ideas and models for colleagues who wish to establish greater buy-in from members of their institutions and, ultimately, to increase summer revenue streams. Practices related to organizational culture and its influence on effective buy-in strategies are covered, including institutional ideologies, assumptions, values, and other defining attributes. The authors describe successful strategies, such as the development of a summer task force and networking with primary stakeholders on campus, which have served to enhance summer offerings and experiences on their respective campuses. Both public and private 4-year institutions are represented between the authors. Key takeaways will include identification of important constituent groups and recognition of other “summer” players; in addition, task force composition, strategies, and outcomes will be covered. It takes a village—and possibly an entire institution.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)
Supplemental material for Periodic Fluctuation of Perceived Duration
Creators: name: Shima, Shuhei
name: Murai, Yuki
name: Yuasa, Kenichi
name: Hashimoto, Yuki
name: Yotsumoto, Yuko
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material for Periodic Fluctuation of Perceived Duration by Shuhei Shima, Yuki Murai, Kenichi Yuasa, Yuki Hashimoto and Yuko Yotsumoto in i-Perception
title: Facts and Photographs: Visualizing the Invisible with Spirit and Thought Photography
title: Facts and Photographs
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Medeiros, Margarida
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: spirit photography
subject: positivism
subject: fact
subject: indexicality
subject: objectivity
subject: Epistemology
subject: Photography
subject: Visual Studies

description: Photography has been related to a positivist aim since its beginning and its genealogy is generally drawn from the realism of the camera obscura. But when it comes to the sort of photographs usually called “spirit photography” and “fluid and thought photography”, classic theorists like Barthes, Rosalind Krauss and Tom Gunning tend to relate this practice with the magic and the ‘uncanny’ reception that occurred at its very beginnings. In this paper I will point out that the main question is to question the possibility of a “spiritualist document”, and, in this sense, we will connect this issue to the enlargement of the very notion of scientific “fact” as was being worked out by philosophers like William James and Frederick Myers inside and outside the spiritualist movement. We will try to underline the intense relationship between this kind of documents of the supernatural and the changes we can observe that were claiming for an enlargement of philosophical thought that could accept phenomena which were challenging rational argument.
Differences in Summer Session Administrative Structures: Assessment of Potential Effect on Performance Outcomes
Creators: name: Lytle, Loy
name: Kops, William J.
name: Seaman, Christopher
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: This is the second paper drawn from a two-phase study aimed at (1) determining how summer sessions are organized and administered at AUSS, NAASS, NCCSS, and WASSA member institutions to better understand the range and diversity of essential summer session functions performed and (2) examining whether these administrative/organizational differences affect performance-based outcomes important to the success of the summer term. The first phase of the study (Kops & Lytle, 2013) reported that the organization and administration of summer session functions—assessed by a 38-item survey returned by 115 member institutions—fell along a centralized/decentralized continuum characterized as highly centralized (all or most functions performed by a single summer session office), hybridized (some functions performed by a summer sessions office while others are devolved to campus units/departments), or decentralized (most functions performed by campus units/departments other than summer session). This paper reports on the total 134 member institutions that completed the 38-item survey. As well, it reports on the findings of an outcomes questionnaire sent to all survey respondents to explore the possible extent to which differences in summer session organizational structures affected selected student-based (unduplicated headcount and credit hours) and finance-based (tuition revenue and instruction-related expenses incurred in teaching courses) performance outcomes in the summer 2012 term. The 38-item survey instrument proved sensitive to how functions important for the summer term are managed and performed at the colleges and universities participating in the study. Although the organizational structure of summer sessions varied significantly among survey respondents, with private institutions somewhat more centralized than publicly funded ones, the results of the outcomes questionnaire indicated that the organizational structure had no significant effect on student-based or finance-based performance outcomes.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)
Relevance Filtering for Embedding-based Retrieval
Creators: name: Rossi, Nicholas
name: Lin, Juexin
name: Liu, Feng
name: Yang, Zhen
name: Lee, Tony
name: Magnani, Alessandro
name: Liao, Ciya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: In embedding-based retrieval, Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search enables efficient retrieval of similar items from large-scale datasets. While maximizing recall of relevant items is usually the goal of retrieval systems, a low precision may lead to a poor search experience. Unlike lexical retrieval, which inherently limits the size of the retrieved set through keyword matching, dense retrieval via ANN search has no natural cutoff. Moreover, the cosine similarity scores of embedding vectors are often optimized via contrastive or ranking losses, which make them difficult to interpret. Consequently, relying on top-K or cosine-similarity cutoff is often insufficient to filter out irrelevant results effectively. This issue is prominent in product search, where the number of relevant products is often small. This paper introduces a novel relevance filtering component (called "Cosine Adapter") for embedding-based retrieval to address this challenge. Our approach maps raw cosine similarity scores to interpretable scores using a query-dependent mapping function. We then apply a global threshold on the mapped scores to filter out irrelevant results. We are able to significantly increase the precision of the retrieved set, at the expense of a small loss of recall. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through experiments on both public MS MARCO dataset and internal Walmart product search data. Furthermore, online A/B testing on the Walmart site validates the practical value of our approach in real-world e-commerce settings.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, CIKM 2024
Clustering-friendly Representation Learning for Enhancing Salient Features
Creators: name: Oshima, Toshiyuki
name: Takagi, Kentaro
name: Nakata, Kouta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, representation learning with contrastive learning algorithms has been successfully applied to challenging unlabeled datasets. However, these methods are unable to distinguish important features from unimportant ones under simply unsupervised settings, and definitions of importance vary according to the type of downstream task or analysis goal, such as the identification of objects or backgrounds. In this paper, we focus on unsupervised image clustering as the downstream task and propose a representation learning method that enhances features critical to the clustering task. We extend a clustering-friendly contrastive learning method and incorporate a contrastive analysis approach, which utilizes a reference dataset to separate important features from unimportant ones, into the design of loss functions. Conducting an experimental evaluation of image clustering for three datasets with characteristic backgrounds, we show that for all datasets, our method achieves higher clustering scores compared with conventional contrastive analysis and deep clustering methods.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2024)
A Method of Rapidly Deriving Late-type Contact Binary Parameters and Its Application in the Catalina Sky Survey
Creators: name: Wang, JinLiang
name: Ding, Xu
name: Li, JiaJia
name: Xiong, JianPing
name: Cheng, Qiyuan
name: Ji, KaiFan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the continuous development of large optical surveys, a large number of light curves of late-type contact binary systems (CBs) have been released. Deriving parameters for CBs using the the WD program and the PHOEBE program poses a challenge. Therefore, this study developed a method for rapidly deriving light curves based on the Neural Networks (NN) model combined with the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm (NNHMC). The neural network was employed to establish the mapping relationship between the parameters and the pregenerated light curves by the PHOEBE program, and the HMC algorithm was used to obtain the posterior distribution of the parameters. The NNHMC method was applied to a large contact binary sample from the Catalina Sky Survey, and a total of 19,104 late-type contact binary parameters were derived. Among them, 5172 have an inclination greater than 70 deg and a temperature difference less than 400 K. The obtained results were compared with the previous studies for 30 CBs, and there was an essentially consistent goodness-of-fit (R2) distribution between them. The NNHMC method possesses the capability to simultaneously derive parameters for a vast number of targets. Furthermore, it can provide an extremely efficient tool for rapid derivation of parameters in future sky surveys involving large samples of CBs.
The TRAPUM Large Magellanic Cloud pulsar survey with MeerKAT I: Survey setup and first seven pulsar discoveries
Creators: name: Prayag, V.
name: Levin, L.
name: Geyer, M.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Carli, E.
name: Barr, E. D.
name: Breton, R. P.
name: Buchner, S.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Krishnan, V. Venkatraman
name: Venter, C.
name: Behrend, J.
name: Chen, W.
name: Horn, D. M.
name: Padmanabh, P. V.
name: Ridolfi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) presents a unique environment for pulsar population studies due to its distinct star formation characteristics and proximity to the Milky Way. As part of the TRAPUM (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) Large Survey Project, we are using the core array of the MeerKAT radio telescope (MeerKAT) to conduct a targeted search of the LMC for radio pulsars at L-band frequencies, 856-1712$\,$MHz. The excellent sensitivity of MeerKAT, coupled with a 2-hour integration time, makes the survey 3 times more sensitive than previous LMC radio pulsar surveys. We report the results from the initial four survey pointings which has resulted in the discovery of seven new radio pulsars, increasing the LMC radio pulsar population by 30 per cent. The pulse periods of these new pulsars range from 278 to 1690$\,$ms, and the highest dispersion measure is 254.20$\,$pc$\,$cm$^{-3}$. We searched for, but did not find any significant pulsed radio emission in a beam centred on the SN$\,$1987A remnant, establishing an upper limit of 6.3$\,μ$Jy on its minimum flux density at 1400$\,$MHz.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
title: The Ghostularity
title: The Ghostularity
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sconce, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: occult
subject: new media
subject: digital media
subject: superstition
subject: digital humanities
subject: Other Film and Media Studies

description: What will be the fate of ME in the realm of digital ME-ness?
AcousAF: Acoustic Sensing-Based Atrial Fibrillation Detection System for Mobile Phones
Creators: name: Liu, Xuanyu
name: Liu, Haoxian
name: Li, Jiao
name: Yang, Zongqi
name: Huang, Yi
name: Zhang, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by irregular electrical impulses originating in the atria, which can lead to severe complications and even death. Due to the intermittent nature of the AF, early and timely monitoring of AF is critical for patients to prevent further exacerbation of the condition. Although ambulatory ECG Holter monitors provide accurate monitoring, the high cost of these devices hinders their wider adoption. Current mobile-based AF detection systems offer a portable solution. However, these systems have various applicability issues, such as being easily affected by environmental factors and requiring significant user effort. To overcome the above limitations, we present AcousAF, a novel AF detection system based on acoustic sensors of smartphones. Particularly, we explore the potential of pulse wave acquisition from the wrist using smartphone speakers and microphones. In addition, we propose a well-designed framework comprised of pulse wave probing, pulse wave extraction, and AF detection to ensure accurate and reliable AF detection. We collect data from 20 participants utilizing our custom data collection application on the smartphone. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the high performance of our system, with 92.8% accuracy, 86.9% precision, 87.4% recall, and 87.1% F1 Score.
description: Accepted for publication in Companion of the 2024 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp Companion '24)
A Comprehensive System Architecture using Field Programmable Gate Arrays Technology, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and Edge Computing for Emergency Response in Smart Cities
Creators: name: Assoul, Mahamat Abdel Aziz
name: Tahir, Abakar Mahamat
name: Mahmoud, Taibi
name: Mdemaya, Garrik Brel Jagho
name: Ndadji, Milliam Maxime Zekeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Efficient emergency response systems are crucial for smart cities. But their implementation is highly challenging, particularly in regions like Chad where infrastructural constraints are prevalent. The urgency for optimized response times and resource allocation in emergency scenarios is magnified in these contexts, yet existing solutions often assume robust infrastructure and uninterrupted connectivity, which is not always available. Most of the time, they are based on system architectures pre-designed for other purposes. This paper addresses these critical challenges by proposing a comprehensive system architecture that integrates Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Dijkstra's algorithm, and Edge Computing. The objective is to enhance emergency response through accelerated route planning and resource allocation, addressing gaps left by traditional cloud-based systems. Methodologically, key characteristics of the desired system are identified, then its components are described and their integration is explained; the system leverages FPGA-based computations and a distributed implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm to compute the shortest paths rapidly, while Edge Computing ensures decentralized and resilient processing. A theoretical analysis highlights promising improvements in response times and resource management. The proposed system architecture not only enhances emergency response efficiency but is also adaptable to infrastructural constraints of Chadian-like environments.
Supporting Transfer Students Through a Summer Transfer Transition Program
Creators: name: Miller, Rachel Nottingham
name: Durham, Andre
Publisher: name: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education
Year: 2015

description: As the number of transfer students increases, institutions are seeking ways to facilitate the transition for these students. Unlike new first-year students, transfer students have made the adjustment to college life and have proven their ability to be successful in an academic setting. These students do, however, have special needs as they adjust to their new environment.
The present project poses two questions in this regard: “In what ways did transfer students already utilize summer session?” and “In what ways can we create summer session programming to meet transfer students’ needs?” Current and recently graduated transfer students at the University of Virginia were polled to pursue the answers to these questions. Additionally, the instructors of the classes with the largest numbers of transfer students were asked to participate in an effort to further specify unique characteristics of the transfer population at the university.
description: Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, Vol 8 (2014)