cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Diversität von Kleinsäugern im nördlichen Teil des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Anke
Publisher: name: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) -             Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: Kleinsäuger, Nager, Spitzmäuse, Diversität, Grasbiotope, Waldbiotope, Unteres Odertal, Nationalpark, Waschbären, small mammals, diversity

description: Im Rahmen des Forschungsvorhaben »Diversität und Ökosystemfunktion kleiner Säugetiere im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal – ein internationales Projekt« (2022–2026) hat das deutsch-polnische Forscherteam 2021–2022 erste Erkenntnisse zur Diversität von terrestrischen Kleinsäugern im nördlichen Teil des Nationalparks und Landschaftsparks (Polen) gewonnen. In diesem fünfjährigen Forschungsvorhaben werden Kleinsäuger in einer Vielfalt von Habitattypen erfasst, und die Artenvielfalt, Häufigkeiten und Habitatpräferenzen ermittelt. Ein Vergleich mit einer umfassenden Studie von 1992 über die Kleinsäugerfauna in diesem Gebiet (SCHRÖPFER & STUBBE 1996), die besonders auf den Diplomarbeiten von Susanne Keffel (Kleinsäuger der Grasflächen) und Christiane Schilling (Kleinsäuger der Waldflächen) fußte, sowie mit einer Studie von 1995 (MÄDLOW & SCHIWIETZ 1998) werden Rückschlüsse auf Veränderungen in 30 Jahren erlauben. Ziel des Vorhabens ist vor allem ein besseres Verständnis zur Verbreitung und Ökologie der Kleinsäuger zu ermöglichen. Die aktualisierten Kenntnisse können dann zum effektiven Management der Kleinsäugerpopulationen und der von ihnen abhängigen Organismen beitragen.
Interdisciplinary and physics challenges of Network Theory
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network theory has unveiled the underlying structure of complex systems such as the Internet or the biological networks in the cell. It has identified universal properties of complex networks, and the interplay between their structure and dynamics. After almost twenty years of the field, new challenges lie ahead. These challenges concern the multilayer structure of most of the networks, the formulation of a network geometry and topology, and the development of a quantum theory of networks. Making progress on these aspects of network theory can open new venues to address interdisciplinary and physics challenges including progress on brain dynamics, new insights into quantum technologies, and quantum gravity.
description: (7 pages, 4 figures)
Liberty Call at Sunset: Belonging, Ageing Masculinities and Transnational Marriage in Subic Bay, Philippines
Creators: name: Hawkins, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: For much of the twentieth century the American naval base at Subic Bay, Philippines served as a key overseas US military installation. Today, some twenty-five years after the base’s closure, thousands of American military retirees have returned to Subic. Suggesting that quotidian and intimate social relations offer a dynamic place to ground political and cultural geographic analysis, I explore transnational Filipino-American relationships and marriages in contemporary Subic. Deploying ethnographic research of Subic’s military retiree bars and conducting semi-structured interviews with American retirees, Filipina military wives, and bartenders and waitresses, I explore transnational belonging, ageing masculinities and American-Filipina marriages. Drawing on literature in cultural and feminist geography and interdisciplinary studies on gender and militarism, I turn to the highly specific social world of the American retiree bar to understand contemporary Subic as a crossroads of individual desire situated within wider networks of militarism, colonialism, globalization and gendered and racialized social relations.
The sparkling Universe: the coherent motions of cosmic voids
Creators: name: Lambas, Diego G.
name: Lares, Marcelo
name: Ceccarelli, Laura
name: Ruiz, Andrés N.
name: Paz, Dante J.
name: Maldonado, Victoria E.
name: Luparello, Heliana E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the bulk motions of cosmic voids, using a $Λ$CDM numerical simulation considering the mean velocities of the dark matter inside the void itself and that of the haloes in the surrounding shell. We find coincident values of these two measures in the range $\sim$ 300-400 km/s, not far from the expected mean peculiar velocities of groups and galaxy clusters. When analysing the distribution of the pairwise relative velocities of voids, we find a remarkable bimodal behaviour consistent with an excess of both systematically approaching and receding voids. We determine that the origin of this bimodality resides in the void large scale environment, since once voids are classified into void-in-void (R-type) or void-in-cloud (S-type), R-types are found mutually receding away, while S-types approach each other. The magnitude of these systematic relative velocities account for more than 100 km/s, reaching large coherence lengths of up to 200 h$^{-1}$ Mpc . We have used samples of voids from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS-DR7) and the peculiar velocity field inferred from linear theory, finding fully consistent results with the simulation predictions. Thus, their relative motion suggests a scenario of a sparkling Universe, with approaching and receding voids according to their local environment.
description: 6 pages, 4 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Fallopia pliocaenica Doweld 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Fallopia
Fallopia pliocaenica

description: 4. Fallopia pliocaenica (Givulescu & Ţicleanu) Doweld, comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Polygonum pliocaenicum Givulescu & Ţicleanu (1978: 47) ≡ Aristolochia pliocaenica (Givulescu & Ţicleanu) Knobloch (1998: 12), nom. illeg. (Art. 53.1) non Kinkelin (in Engelhardt & Kinkelin 1908: 226).
 Type:— ROMANIA. Județul MaramureȘ, Chiuzbaia (holotype P –24750, Muzeul Național de Geologie, Institutul Geologic al României, BucureȘti, Romania, figured by Givulescu & Ţicleanu 1978: fig. 4).
 Stratigraphy:— Upper Miocene (Tortonian = Pannonian G / H).
 Status:— Leaves.
 IFPNI registration lsid:— 1070EA72-EBB9-4F00-B979-3D13EAB168D4
 Note:— Polygonum pliocaenicum Givulescu & Ţicleanu (1978: 47) was described on the basis of fossil foliage from the Upper Miocene (Pannonian G / H) of Romania. Although Dorofeev (1966: 204) earlier published “ Polygonum. pliocenicum ” (with a slightly different spelling; cfr.Art. 53.4), the Givulescu & Ţicleanu’s name is not a later homonym and illegitimate (Art. 53.4), since Dorofeev (l.c.) did not designate the holotype, so making his name as not validly published (Art. 40.1) (see IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ 01E24836-0986-4AAD-9C20-7E70C5D39620). The proposed transfer of the fossils to Aristolochia Linnaeus (1753: 960) by Knobloch (1998: 12) is not supported by leaf morphology. Moreover, according to Art. 53.1 the proposed combination, i.e. A. pliocaenica (Givulescu & Ţicleanu) Knobloch (1998: 12) is a later homonym and illegitimate name of A. pliocaenica Kinkelin (in Engelhardt & Kinkelin 1908: 226). Since P. pliocaenicum Givulescu & Ţicleanu, based on fossil foliage of Fallopia -type, belongs to the genus Fallopia, a new combination is here proposed.
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names in Fallopia, Persicarioipollis, Polygonum and Reynoutria (Polygonaceae), living and fossil, pp. 66-79 in Phytotaxa 308 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.308.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13686474
Machine Learning for Probabilistic Prediction
Creators: name: Manokhin, Valery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: conformal prediction, uncertainty quantification, classification, regression, machine learning, Bayesian, deep learning

description: Prediction is the key objective of many machine learning applications. Accurate, reliable and robust predictions are essential for optimal and fair decisions by downstream components of artificial intelligence systems, especially in high-stakes applications, such as personalised health, self-driving cars, finance, new drug development, forecasting of election outcomes and pandemics. Many modern machine learning algorithms output overconfident predictions, resulting in incorrect decisions and technology acceptance issues. Classical calibration methods rely on artificial assumptions and often result in overfitting, whilst modern calibration methods attempt to solve calibration issues by modifying components of black-box deep learning systems. While this provides a partial solution, such modifications do not provide mathematical guarantees of prediction validity and are intrusive, complex, and costly to implement. This thesis introduces novel methods for producing well-calibrated probabilistic predictions for machine learning classification and regression problems. A new method for multi-class classification problems is developed and compared to traditional calibration approaches. In the regression setting, the thesis develops novel methods for probabilistic regression to derive predictive distribution functions that are valid under a nonparametric IID assumption in terms of guaranteed coverage and contain more information when compared to classical conformal prediction methods whilst improving computational efficiency. Experimental studies of the methods introduced in this thesis demonstrate advantages with regard to state-of-the-art. The main advantage of split conformal predictive systems is their guaranteed validity, whilst cross-conformal predictive systems enjoy higher predictive efficiency and empirical validity in the absence of excess randomisation.
Highly Parallel Acoustic Assembly of Microparticles into Well-Ordered Colloidal Crystallites
Creators: name: Owens, Crystal E.
name: Shields, C. Wyatt
name: Cruz, Daniela F.
name: Charbonneau, Patrick
name: Lopez, Gabriel P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The precise arrangement of microscopic objects is critical to the development of functional materials and ornately patterned surfaces. Here, we present an acoustics-based method for the rapid arrangement of microscopic particles into organized and programmable architectures, which are periodically spaced within a square assembly chamber. This macroscale device employs two-dimensional bulk acoustic standing waves to propel particles along the base of the chamber toward pressure nodes or antinodes, depending on the acoustic contrast factor of the particle, and is capable of simultaneously creating thousands of size-limited, isotropic and anisotropic assemblies within minutes. We pair experiments with Brownian dynamics simulations to model the migration kinetics and assembly patterns of spherical microparticles. We use these insights to predict and subsequently validate the onset of buckling of the assemblies into three-dimensional clusters by experiments upon increasing the acoustic pressure amplitude and the particle concentration. The simulations are also used to inform our experiments for the assembly of non-spherical particles, which are then recovered via fluid evaporation and directly inspected by electron microscopy. This method for assembly of particles offers several notable advantages over other approaches (e.g., magnetics, electrokinetics and optical tweezing) including simplicity, speed and scalability and can also be used in concert with other such approaches for enhancing the types of assemblies achievable.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Validation of an Automated Distribution Center in the Food and Beverage Industry
Creators: name: Cannonero, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Warehouses are important components of most supply chains. In terms of cost, they rep resent approximately 20 per cent of total logistics costs and they are critical to meet customer service requirements. To increase efficiency, utilization of space and minimization of wastes, many companies are trying to automate their processes. E80 is an Italian owned company specialized in the development of automated and integrated intralogistics solutions for manu facturers of consumer goods operating in the beverage, food, tissue and other sectors, in 1992 the company anticipated the concept of Industry 4.0: the Smart Factory, sustainable, intercon nected and safe. The scope of the project is to validate the design of a warehouse automation solution applied to an E80 customer’s plant using E80 designed discrete event simulation soft ware package called SmartDesigner, supported by FlexSim. The warehouse analysed in this project is located in Atlanta and it is owned by PepsiCo, leader company in the food & bever age industry. This project focused on the first part of the implementation of the new system. An ”As Is” analysis was performed to understand the current state. This analysis gave a first evaluation of the entity of the flows within the warehouse. Once this preliminary analysis was done, a flow diagram was proposed. This was the input for the main part of the project: the simulation of the ”To Be” system. The main output of the simulation will be to evaluate the design of the newly automated system through the use of discrete event simulation anticipating and solving possible issues that might arise in the implementation phase
Superconducting Spintronics
Creators: name: Linder, Jacob
name: Robinson, Jason W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a complete synergy between superconducting and magnetic orders turns out to be possible through the creation of spin-triplet Cooper pairs, which are generated at carefully engineered superconductor interfaces with ferromagnetic materials. Currently, there is intense activity focused on identifying materials combinations that merge superconductivity and spintronics to enhance device functionality and performance. The results look promising: it has been shown, for example, that superconducting order can greatly enhance central effects in spintronics such as spin injection and magnetoresistance. Here, we review the experimental and theoretical advances in this field and provide an outlook for upcoming challenges in superconducting spintronics.
description: Review article published in Nature Physics
Taking Linguistics: Does an Introductory Linguistics Class Result in Increased Social Emotional Competency?
Creators: name: Rustad, Kate
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The present study was conducted to investigate changes in dialectal tolerance and/or social emotional competencies of Linguistics 101 students through the duration of a semester. Students from Linguistics 101 were surveyed twice during Spring 2018, along with students from a control class outside of Linguistics. A third class based in variationist theory was also surveyed. Six speaker clips of various dialects (Valley Girl, AAE, NNS, and SAE) were played for participants in a verbal-guise task, to be rated on politeness, level of education, sociability, kindness, and professionalism. Participants were asked to rate themselves according to the five core competencies of social emotional learning: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Minor differences appeared in relation to social emotional competencies when comparing linguistics students to a control group. Dialect tolerance ratings showed minor differences, but not enough to suggest that an introductory linguistics course can change inherent biases.
Modified Brans-Dicke cosmology with matter-scalar field interaction
Creators: name: Kofinas, Georgios
name: Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the cosmological implications of an extended Brans-Dicke theory presented recently, in which there is an energy exchange between the scalar field and ordinary matter, determined by the theory. A new mass scale is generated in the theory which modifies the Friedmann equations with field-dependent corrected kinetic terms. In a radiation universe the general solutions are found and there are branches with complete removal of the initial singularity, while at the same time a transient accelerating period can occur within deceleration. Entropy production is also possible in the early universe. In the dust era, late-times acceleration has been found numerically in agreement with the correct behaviour of the density parameters and the dark energy equation of state, while the gravitational constant has only a slight variation over a large redshift interval in agreement with observational bounds.
description: Minor changes
Persicaria dorofeevii Arbuzova 2006
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Persicaria
Persicaria dorofeevii

description: 6. Persicaria dorofeevii Arbuzova (2006: 21).
 Type:— RUSSIAN FEDERATION. Bashkortostan, Staro-Barjatino (holotype, BIN 23/1- K 582 (LE), figured by Arbuzova 2006: pl. 95, fig. 1).
 –“ Polygonum pliocenicum ” in Dorofeev (1966: 204, pl. 2, figs 43–47; text-fig. 3: 12), nom. inval. (Art. 40.1).
 –“ Polygonum pliocenicum ” in Dorofeev ex Velichkevich & Zastawniak (2003: 176), nom. inval. (Arts. 40.6–7), non Polygonum pliocaenicum Givulescu & Ţicleanu (1978: 47).
 Stratigraphy:— Pliocene.
 Status:— Fruits.
 IFPNI registration lsid:— 5959EE2F-E452-4B7A-8E07-3FFFFEDC5B2C
 Note:— The fossil-species P. pliocenicum Dorofeev (1966: 204), based on the fruits from the Pliocene sediments of the European part of Russia (Bashkortostan), was not validly published since no holotype was indicated (Art. 40.1) (see IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ 01E24836-0986-4AAD-9C20-7E70C5D39620). Later Velichkevich & Zastawniak (2003: 176) designated ‘lectotype’ for the specimen previously figured by Dorofeev (1966: pl. 2, fig. 45), but, though providing required description in English, they failed to provide the name of obligatory repository of the designated type of species (Art. 40.6). As a result, “ Polygonum pliocenicum “ Dorofeev (l.c.) was not validated by Velichkevich & Zastawniak (l.c.). Nevertheless, after establishing of the validly published Polygonum pliocaenicum Givulescu & Ţicleanu (1978: 47), on the basis of fossil foliage from the Upper Miocene (Pannonian G / H) of Romania (see discussion above under Fallopia pliocaenica comb. nov.), the validation of the fossil fruit species with the same epithet from the Urals would be in any way a later homonym (illegitimate name). The correct species name for the fossil fruits currently known as “ Polygonum pliocenicum Dorofeev ”, which is still widely but not correctly accepted in palaeobotanical and geological literature on European palaeofloras as validly published in 1966 (see Mai & Walther 1988, von Bülow & Mai 1992, Velichkevich & Zastawniak (l.c.), Irace & al. 2015), is Persicaria dorofeevii Arbuzova (2006: 21) (see IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ 5959EE2F-E452-4B7A-8E07-3FFFFEDC5B2C).
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names in Fallopia, Persicarioipollis, Polygonum and Reynoutria (Polygonaceae), living and fossil, pp. 66-79 in Phytotaxa 308 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.308.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13686474
Strategic investment of embodied energy during the architectural planning process
Creators: name: Hildebrand, Linda
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2014

description: Background and motivation Building industry impacts natural cycles and has potential for optimization. While impairment on nature reached a new dimension already some three centuries ago the building industry started to realize the dependency in the second half of the 20th century. With LCA method all life cycle phases can be monitored and the environmental impact of each can be quantified. The energy consuming and emission generating components in the building context can be distinguished in the groups transport, operation and material. An architect deals with the operational energy and the building substance. With nearly zero (not renewable) energy for operation an ecological building is defined by the building substance. Evaluation of the building substance While the building structure accounts for the highest share of embodied energy and GWP, the facade offers high potential for optimisation. This potential is even higher when considering a long (50-100 years) usage life span; the building structure remains while the (non load-bearing) facade is object to exchange cycles. Findings and their integration into the architectural planning process The city is a depot for resources and we (it involves a variety of professions) need to learn how to organize it. Modularity, light construction, the use of renewable materials and mono materials are also interesting fields which are looked at from a different point of view. They are relevant for all building elements. Although they are not initially invented to reduce the ecological impact of the built environment, they show potential to do so. The facade is the essential parameter for the resource-efficiency of a building as it is exchanged and binds relevant amounts of material. Impact can be made within this element due to its high variation in construction and materialization. The material cycles need to become smaller and the gaps – landfill or downcycling need to be closed. The use of resources will increasingly develop impact on architecture and by that resource efficiency is a successor of energy efficiency.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2014): Strategic investment of embodied energy during the architectural planning process
OLONITE PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION METHOD AND THE THEORY OF SETS: THE RELEVANCIES WITHIN
Creators: name: OLONITE, Oluyemi Ayodele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proportional Allocation Method, Olonite Diagram, OD, OPAM, Theory of Sets, Statistics, Olonite Proportional Allocation Method, Bowler's Proportional Allocation Method, Olonite Sampling Technique, OST

description: Olonite Proportional Allocation Method (OPAM) is a method used to allocate sample to strata based on the strata variances and similar sampling in the strata. An Olonite allocation scheme
 provides the most precision for estimating a population mean given a fixed total sample. it can be used to select sample from Organizations, Countries, States that has scattered branches. It was developed as a solution to the short comings of the Bowler’s Proportional Allocation Method. The OPAM advocates for the use of the Olonite Sampling Technique (OST) to sample from each stratum of a strata. In this case, the strata can be seen an Organization, State, Country, etc while
 the stratum represents departments, Cities, States respectively, etc. OPAM asserts that the higher the population, the higher the sample should be per branch, departments, etc, this will give an average equal representation for each stratum to be considered and selected. The Olonite
 Proportional Allocation Method helps to reduce time wastage while trying to appropriate a perfect set i.e. Organizations having the same no of departments and staff. Olonite Allocation is always
 the best proportional allocation method (since Olonite Allocation is optimal).
description: Oluyemi Ayodele OLONITE
Performance Assessment Strategies
Creators: name: Turrin, Michela
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2014

description: Using engineering performance evaluations to explore design alternatives during the conceptual phase of architectural design helps to understand the relationships between form and performance; and is crucial for developing well-performing final designs. Computer aided conceptual design has the potential to aid the design team in discovering and highlighting these relationships; especially by means of procedural and parametric geometry to support the generation of geometric design, and building performance simulation tools to support performance assessments. However, current tools and methods for computer aided conceptual design in architecture do not explicitly reveal nor allow for backtracking the relationships between performance and geometry of the design. They currently support post-engineering, rather than the early design decisions and the design exploration process. Focusing on large roofs, this research aims at developing a computational design approach to support designers in performance driven explorations. The approach is meant to facilitate the multidisciplinary integration and the learning process of the designer; and not to constrain the process in precompiled procedures or in hard engineering formulations, nor to automatize it by delegating the design creativity to computational procedures. PAS (Performance Assessment Strategies) as a method is the main output of the research. It consists of a framework including guidelines and an extensible library of procedures for parametric modelling. It is structured on three parts. Pre-PAS provides guidelines for a design strategy-definition, toward the parameterization process. Model-PAS provides guidelines, procedures and scripts for building the parametric models. Explore-PAS supports the solutions-assessment based on numeric evaluations and performance simulations, until the identification of a suitable design solution. PAS has been developed based on action research. Several case studies have focused on each step of PAS and on their interrelationships. The relations between the knowledge available in pre-PAS and the challenges of the solution space exploration in explore-PAS have been highlighted. In order to facilitate the explore-PAS phase in case of large solution spaces, the support of genetic algorithms has been investigated and the exiting method ParaGen has been further implemented. Final case studies have focused on the potentials of ParaGen to identify well performing solutions; to extract knowledge during explore-PAS; and to allow interventions of the designer as an alternative to generations driven solely by coded criteria. Both the use of PAS and its recommended future developments are addressed in the thesis.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2014): Performance Assessment Strategies
The linear-noise approximation and the chemical master equation exactly agree up to second-order moments for a class of chemical systems
Creators: name: Grima, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the linear-noise approximation (LNA) exactly agrees with the chemical master equation, up to second-order moments, for chemical systems composed of zero and first-order reactions. Here we show that this is also a property of the LNA for a subset of chemical systems with second-order reactions. This agreement is independent of the number of interacting molecules.
An Analysis of the NCAA Appeals Process and the New "Abuse of Discretion" Standard for Appealing a Penalty
Creators: name: Tyler, Breen Farley
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: This study examined LSDBi data for Division I Institutions who appealed NCAA investigations initiated between 2008 and 2013. Seventeen appealed investigations were compared with fifty one investigations that did not result in appeal. Appeals upheld by the NCAA were compared against those overturned in any way. This study furthers research conducted by Wong, Skillman and Deubert (2009) which reviewed twenty one public reports of appealed NCAA investigations between 2001 and 2008. This study advances the field because prior to 2008 an institution needed to show that penalties were excessive and inappropriate to successfully appeal. The current standard requires proving that penalties are excessive such that it constitutes an abuse of discretion. The NCAA defines four ways to prove this: the ruling was clearly contrary to the evidence; the individual or school did not actually break NCAA rules; there was a procedural error; or the penalty was excessive (NCAA Manual 2011-2012, p.405).
OLONITE TWO-THIRD-POINT-FIVE RULE (OLONITE 2/3.5 RULE)
Creators: name: OLONITE, Oluyemi Ayodele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Olonite Sampling Technique, OST, Taro Yamane Sampling Method, Olonite Rule, Olonite 2/3.5 Rule, O2/3.5R

description: Olonite 2/3.5 Rule (O2/3.5R) is a selection rule employed to reduce the stress of researchers who are to sample a large population while maintaining the optimal selection from the large population. Using a three sampling/selection techniques, the result showed that the Olonite 2/3.5 Rule gives a more flexible result for researchers as seen in table 1. The rule provides the most precision for estimating a population as it supports the 1/2 and 2.3 rule. Olonite Rule is always the best rule when a population is large and a researcher must sample the required size taking into consideration, the optimum sampling size which should be half of the total population and a little bit above. The rule states: “the closer a sample size to its total population, the more reliance the result”. The rule is recommended to be used all over institutions and world. It is time to appreciate the Olonite 2/3.5 Rule in Academics and for sampling purposes.
description: Oluyemi Ayodele OLONITE
Sharp thresholds for Ramsey properties of strictly balanced nearly bipartite graphs
Creators: name: Schacht, Mathias
name: Schulenburg, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C80 (primary), 05D10 (secondary)

description: For a given graph $F$ we consider the family of (finite) graphs $G$ with the Ramsey property for $F$, that is the set of such graphs $G$ with the property that every two-colouring of the edges of $G$ yields a monochromatic copy of $F$. For $F$ being a triangle Friedgut, Rödl, Ruciński, and Tetali (2004) established the sharp threshold for the Ramsey property in random graphs. We obtained a simpler proof of this result which extends to a more general class of graphs $F$ including all cycles. The proof is based on Friedgut's criteria (1999) for sharp thresholds, and on the recently developed container method for independent sets in hypergraphs by Saxton and Thomason, and Balogh, Morris and Samotij. The proof builds on some recent work of Friedgut et al. who established a similar result for van der Waerden's theorem.
description: 40 pages, second version addresses changes arising from the referee reports
The effect of menstrual cycle and submaximal exercise on acute body composition estimates from bioelectrical impedance
Creators: name: Moody, Shoshanna Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in percent body fat (BF%) estimates through bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) before and after moderate intensity exercise during the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle. Ten healthy eumenorrheic female subjects performed 45 min of exercise during the follicular phase and during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle. BIA estimates of BF% and total body water were examined immediately before exercise and 30 minutes after the end of exercise, without fluid replacement. The results indicated no significant effects of exercise (p = 0.170) or menstrual phase (p = 0.688) on BF%. These results suggest that neither menstrual cycle nor acute exercise needs to be considered when using BIA to estimate BF% in moderately exercising women.
Topological Forcing Semantics with Settling
Creators: name: Lubarsky, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03F50, 03E70, 03C90

description: It was realized early on that topologies can model constructive systems, as the open sets form a Heyting algebra. After the development of forcing, in the form of Boolean-valued models, it became clear that, just as over ZF any Boolean-valued model also satisfies ZF, so do Heyting-valued models satisfy IZF, which stands for Intuitionistic ZF, the most direct constructive re-working of the ZF axioms. In this paper, we return to topologies, and introduce a variant model, along with a correspondingly revised forcing or satisfaction relation. The purpose is to prove independence results related to weakenings of the Power Set axiom. The original motivation is earlier work, based on the set of reals, which shows that Exponentiation, in the context of CZF minus Subset Collection, does not suffice to prove that the Dedekind reals form a set. The current semantics is the generalization of that model from R to an arbitrary topological space. It is investigated which set-theoretic principles hold in such models in general. In addition, natural properties of the underlying topological space are shown to imply the validity of stronger such principles.
Sex-Specific Interaction Between Cortisol and Striato-Limbic Responses to Psychosocial Stress
Creators: name: Henze, Gina-Isabelle
name: Konzok, Julian
name: Kreuzpointner, Ludwig
name: Bärtl, Christoph
name: Giglberger, Marina
name: Peter, Hannah
name: Streit, Fabian
name: Kudielka, Brigitte M.
name: Kirsch, Peter
name: Wüst, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Hippocampus, Amygdala, Ncl. Caudatus, Ncl. Accumbens, Thalamus, fMRI
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Although women and men differ in psychological and endocrine stress responses as well as prevalence rates of stress-related disorders, knowledge on sex differences regarding stress regulation in the brain is scarce.Therefore, we performed an in-depth analysis of data from 67 healthy participants (31 women, taking oral contraceptives), who were exposed to the ScanSTRESS paradigm in an fMRI study. Changes in cortisol, affect, heart rate, and neural activation in response to psychosocial stress were examined in women and men as well as potential sex-specific interactions between stress response domains.Stress exposure led to significant cortisol increases with men exhibiting higher levels than women. Dependent on sex, cortisol elevations were differently associated with stress-related responses in striato-limbic structures: Higher increases were associated with activations in men but with deactivations in women. Regarding affect or heart rate responses, no sex differences emerged.Although women and men differ in their overall stress reactivity, our findings do not support the idea of distinct neural networks as base of this difference. Instead, we found differential stress reactions for women and men in identical structures. We propose considering quantitative predictors like sex-specific cortisol increases when exploring neural response differences of women and men.
How do Social Policies Affect Fertility Rates? A Case Study of Germany and Sweden
Creators: name: Lenart, Brittany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The decline in fertility rates has the possibility to affect the entire world in a negative way, but especially Europe. One of the areas in which countries seek to change the trend is in the development and use of family and work reconciliation policies. Specifically, this thesis will analyze German and Swedish policies starting from 1960 to present day. The purpose of this is to track the changes in policies over time and how those changes influence the fertility rate. Patterns in government are then used to show shifts within each country and how those shifts produce policies that are unusual for either welfare state.
Doping-Enhanced Antiferromagnetism in Ca1-xLaxFeAs2
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Shinji
name: Mabuchi, Tomosuke
name: Maeda, Satoki
name: Adachi, Tomoki
name: Mizukami, Tasuku
name: Kudo, Kazutaka
name: Nohara, Minoru
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In iron pnictides, high temperature superconductivity emerges after suppressing antiferromagnetism by doping. Here we show that antiferromagnetism in Ca$_{1-x}$La$_x$FeAs$_2$ is robust against and even enhanced by doping. Using $^{75}$As-nuclear magnetic resonance and nuclear quadrupole resonance techniques, we find that an antiferromagnetic order occurs below the Néel temperature $T_{\rm N}$ = 62 K at a high doping concentration ($x$ = 0.15) where superconductivity sets in at the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ = 35 K. Unexpectedly, $T_{\rm N}$ is enhanced with increasing doping, rising up to $T_{\rm N}$ = 70 K at $x$ = 0.24. The obtained phase diagram of this new system enriches the physics of iron-based high-$T_{\rm c}$ superconductors.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
The identification and evaluation of likely high-dose electrophysiology (EP) procedures at a large teaching hospital
Creators: name: Taylor, James Bradford
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Fluoroscopy-guided procedures utilizing x-rays may expose patients to radiation doses above the threshold for observable radiation-induced effects. Total fluoroscopy time is often available and serves as an indicator of skin dose. We conducted a retrospective review of fluoroscopy times for 225 procedures and identified ablations and biventricular (BIV) device implants as likely high-dose procedures, with mean fluoroscopy times of 62+48 minutes and 51+28 minutes, respectively. To determine which variables best describe dose, we measured skin dose for thirty subjects using radiochromic dosimetry film and found mean doses of 133+94 rad and 164+176 rad for ablation and BIV procedures, respectively. We correlated dose to fluoroscopy time, weight, body mass index (BMI), the weight and time product, and the BMI and time product, and found the latter two correlate best with r-2 values of 0.41 and 0.36, respectively. Overweight patients appear to be at the greatest risk of receiving high skin doses.
Taller: Inducción a las patentes en el Perú 2022
Creators: name: Rivas, Jorge Luis Hilario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Patente
CATI
INVESTIGACIÓN
INNOVACIÓN
TECNOLOGÍA
ESTADO DE LA TÉCNICA

description: Los objetivos de la conferencia son: 1.Entender la importancia de las patentes de las universidades en el Perú, 2.Entender que es propiedad intelectual, 3.Entender como ser parte del cuerpo de investigadores en el Perú, 4.Entender que es una patente, una invención y tipos de patentes, 5.Explicar los procedimientos de patentar en Perú, y 6. Proponer estrategias para lograr patentes en la universidad
Conversational agents and their longitudinal affordances on communication and interaction
Creators: name: Doering, Aaron
name: Veletsianos, George
name: Yerasimou, Theano
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Human-computer interaction
Educational technology

description: In this study, we investigate the effects of conversational agents on communication and interaction when used to assist participants in developing an online portfolio. Data from 52 participants were gathered and analyzed through questionnaires, written reflections, transcripts of student-agent interactions, and focus groups. Data revealed that participants communicated with the agents on issues ranging from portfolio development to popular culture. Although participants did not view the agents as particularly helpful in completing class activities, they did use them as social companions throughout the four-week study. Implications of the findings for future design and research include: (a) learner-developed conversational agents, (b) improved “intelligence” with which agents deliver content-based knowledge, and (c) further developed virtual characters that can meet users’ humanistic and utilitarian expectations.
The Common European Asylum System and the 2015 European refugee crisis
Creators: name: Patrascu, Georgia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis approaches the topic of migration and asylum seeking within the European Union and analyzes the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). Through the use of the theory of intergovernmentalism it argues how CEAS was created and how states were able to bargain in order to cede control over irregular migrants to the European Union. Then by using the theory of securitization, it is argued that migration became securitized which lead Member States to reclaim power over migration and asylum seeking. It will argue that the European Union’s response to the large increase in irregular migration into EU territory in 2015 shows the limits of the European institutional framework in the asylum policy. While there is much cooperation within the European Union, when faced with security issues, of which migration and asylum are a part, Member States are reticent of giving up sovereignty.
Aspetti legali degli open data: la guida definitiva
Creators: name: Aliprandi, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dati, open data, dati aperti, open government, data science, data governance, data protection, privacy, trattamento dati, creative commons, public domain, open licensing, copyleft, copyright, proprietà intellettuale, intellectual property, GDPR

description: Aspetti legali degli open data: la guida definitiva. Un’introduzione semplice e chiara su copyright, privacy, licenze e normativa di riferimento. Documento realizzato da Simone Aliprandi per l’associazione onData nell’ambito della campagna #datibenecomune (versione 1.0 – maggio 2022). [Una versione html (navigabile e aggiornata) di questo documento è disponibile su https://ondata.github.io/aspetti-legali-opendata/.]
Quantum Query as a State Decomposition
Creators: name: Grillo, S. A.
name: Marquezino, F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Quantum Query Model is a framework that allows us to express most known quantum algorithms. Algorithms represented by this model consist on a set of unitary operators acting over a finite Hilbert space, and a final measurement step consisting on a set of projectors. In this work, we prove that the application of these unitary operators before the measurement step is equivalent to decomposing a unit vector into a sum of vectors and then inverting some of their relative phases. We also prove that the vectors of that sum must fulfill a list of properties and we call such vectors a Block Set. If we define the measurement step for the Block Set Formulation similarly to the Quantum Query Model, then we prove that both formulations give the same Gram matrix of output states, although the Block Set Formulation allows a much more explicit form. Therefore, the Block Set reformulation of the Quantum Query Model gives us an alternative interpretation on how quantum algorithms works. Finally, we apply our approach to the analysis and complexity of quantum exact algorithms.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures. In this version, we changed title, corrected typos, and added a new lower-bound result (Sec. 6)
Complex Zoning Patterns and Rare Earth Element Variations Across Titanite Crystals from the Half Dome Granodiorite, Central Sierra Nevada, California
Creators: name: Bauer, Janelle
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geochemistry
subject: Petrology

description: Titanite is a common accessory phase in igneous rocks and is particularly abundant in the Half Dome Granodiorite of Yosemite National Park, California. Holding a large proportion of trace elements, such as rare earth elements, makes titanite an important phase because of the influence of temperature, pressure, oxygen fugacity, and liquid composition on trace-element partitioning. Equilibrium crystallization and fractional crystallization have been used to explain the distribution of elements in titanite. However, backscattered electron images of titanite reveal complex zoning patterns that correlate with rare earth element concentrations. Transects across the centers of titanite crystals further emphasize the fluctuating chemistry of titanite and its complex crystallization. The geochemical and textural evidence from titanite show that simple fractional crystallization models cannot explain the distribution of rare earth elements throughout the crystals.
Applications of deliberate practice approaches in the health care field: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Hudson
name: de Souza, Lucimar
name: de Bakker, Gabriela
name: de Souza Menezes, Ana
name: da Silva, Rodrigo
name: Campos, Juliana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Methods
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: Medical Education
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Adult and Continuing Education
subject: Interprofessional Education
subject: Competency-Based Education
subject: Deliberate Practice
subject: Health Education
subject: Professional Education
subject: Professional Retraining
subject: Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice

description: Scoping review protocol on applications of deliberate practice approaches in the health care field