cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Abstractions of General Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Majeed, Sultan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is devoted to the creation of artificial decision-makers that can perform (at least) on par with the human counterparts on a domain of interest. Unlike the agents in traditional AI, the agents in artificial general intelligence (AGI) are required to replicate human intelligence in almost every domain of interest. Moreover, an AGI agent should be able to achieve this without (virtually any) further changes, retraining, or fine- tuning of the parameters. The real world is non-stationary, non-ergodic, and non-Markovian: we, humans, can neither revisit our past nor are the most recent observations sufficient statistics to perform optimally. Yet, we excel at a variety of complex tasks. Many of these tasks require long term planning. We can associate this success to our natural faculty to abstract away task-irrelevant information from our overwhelming sensory experience. We make task- specific mental models of the world without much effort. Due to this ability to abstract, we can plan on a significantly compact representation of a task without much loss of performance. Not only this, we also abstract our actions to produce high-level plans: the level of action- abstraction can be anywhere between small muscle movements to a mental notion of "doing an action". It is natural to assume that any AGI agent competing with humans (at every plausible domain) should also have these abilities to abstract its experiences and actions. This thesis is an inquiry into the existence of such abstractions which aid efficient planning for a wide range of domains. And most importantly, these abstractions come with some optimality guarantees. We use a history-based reinforcement learning (RL) setup, appropriately called general reinforcement learning (GRL), to model such general-purpose decision-makers. We show that if such GRL agents have access to appropriate abstractions then they can perform optimally in a huge set of domains. That is, we argue that GRL with abstractions, called abstraction reinforcement learning (ARL), is an appropriate framework to model and analyze AGI agents. This work uses and extends beyond a powerful class of (state-only) abstractions called extreme state abstractions (ESA). We analyze a variety of such extreme abstractions, both state-only and state-action abstractions, to formally establish the representation and convergence guarantees. We also make many minor contributions to the ARL framework along the way. Last but not least, we collect a series of ideas that lay the foundations for designing the (extreme) abstraction learning algorithms.
Algorithm for Large-Scale Global Minimization of Linearly Constrained Concave Quadratic Functions
Creators: name: Kalantari, Bahman
name: Rosen, J. Ben
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Concave minimization
Global optimization
Quadratic functions
Convex envelope

description: We first construct a "tight" parallelepiped R, containing 0 by using an arbitrary set of Q-conjugate directions and by solving 2n linear programs. We show that the convex envelope of x with respect to R is linear and obtain an explicit formula for it. We then describe a branch and bound algorithm in which the linearity of the convex envelope allows efficient lower bounding for the subproblems. For each sub problem we obtain the linear convex envelope of x over a smaller parallelepiped, R. Then, we obtain a lower bound by minimizing this convex envelope over R ' n 0 We show that the branch and bound algorithm converges to a feasible solution z e. Preliminary computational results are also presented.
ЖИНОЯТ СОДИР ЭТГАН ВОЯГА ЕТМАГАНЛАРНИ ЖАВОБГАРЛИКДАН ОЗОД ҚИЛИШ АМАЛИЁТИ
Creators: name: Исаев, Шохрух
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу мақолада Ўзбекистон Республикасида жиноят содир этган вояга етмаганларни жавобгарликдан озод қилиш амалиёти тушунчаси, турлари шартлари ва жавобгарликдан озод қилиш йўллари ҳақида сўз юритилади.
RTDS discontinues use of X
Creators: name: Donnerer, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The RTDS Group is committed to fostering inclusive narratives across all platforms. Social media is an essential part of our communications toolkit, enabling us to share knowledge, engage stakeholders, and amplify voices. As such, the social media platforms we use must adhere to high standards, prioritising transparency, inclusivity, and a safe space for diverse perspectives. 

For these reasons, the RTDS Group has decided to temporarily discontinue active use of X for its corporate communications. This decision reflects a careful assessment of X’s alignment with our values.
Global Research Shift: EU Attracts Talent Amid U.S. Science Budget Cuts
Creators: name: Agrapidis, Clio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Funding cuts in the U.S. are shifting global talent flows - EU initiatives are turning this into an advantage to attract U.S. researchers to Europe.Find out how in this article authored by RTDS communication expert Clio Agrapidis. The original article is available on the RTDS Group website: https://www.rtds-group.com/news/global-research-shift-eu-us-science/
Axiomatic analysis of programs and program schemes
Creators: name: Ostrand, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1977

description: Axiomatic analysis extracts from the functions and predicates of a program the properties and relations upon which the correct functioning of the program is based. The analysis is done by converting the program to a program scheme and studying a correctness proof for the scheme. Information of this sort can be used to look for programs whose correctness does not depend on axioms of arithmetic which may not hold in a computer implementation. Another application is to the problem of choosing appropriate data structures for implementation of an algorithm. Several sample programs are examined, and in one case, a comparison made of the properties required for implementations of different recursive definitions of a function.
Use of data-driven methods to search electronic health records (EHRs) in aid of clinical trial recruitment
Creators: name: Shi, Wen
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: R853.C55S5
subject: Clinical trials--Data processing
subject: Medical records--Data processing
subject: Human experimentation in medicine
subject: Medical informatics

description: Recruiting participants into clinical studies is resource-intensive. However, nearly half of the trials fail to recruit enough participants, which lead to early termination or poor power of a study. Digitisation of health care records has ushered in second use of electronic health records (EHRs). One application is for participant identification and recruitment. Development of advanced analytics has also added more possibility to that end. In this thesis, an evaluation of an EHRs-based recruitment support service is presented first. Following that is a study of the contents of eligibility criteria and its availability in EHRs. A systematic review of advanced analytics applied to EHRs for recruitment purposes is reported after that. Finally, a retrospective study of identifying eligible participants for nine clinical studies from EHRs using case-based reasoning method is presented. It was found that EHRs-based recruitment service might have difficulty in identifying patients with certain symptoms and minor conditions due to lack of access to the full set of health care data. Study on eligibility criteria also corroborated that need to access primary care data and to involve advanced analytics in cohort identification in order to address different types of eligibility criteria. The review included 11 relevant papers and found that most were in-silico studies except for one interventional study. Performances could not be synthesised due to huge differences in experiment set-ups, including trial domain, number of trials used, analysis unit, outcome definition, evaluation method. A study using NLP-incorporated case-based reasoning generated good performance indicated by a relatively comprehensive set of measures. Adaptation of case-based reasoning method to EHRs for patient recruitment in SHARE showed good differentiation performances in seven projects. But it did not perform well when evaluated by information retrieval metrics. The results reflected that structured data alone cannot realise the full potential of the computable method, echoing the findings from the other studies.
Better Complexity Bounds for Cost Register Automata
Creators: name: Krebs, Andreas
name: Allender, Eric
name: McKenzie, Pierre
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Circuit Complexity
P-completeness
Cost-Register Automata

description: Cost register automata (CRAs) are one-way finite automata whose transitions have the side-effect that a register is set to the result of applying a state-dependent semiring operation to a pair of registers. Here it is shown that CRAs over the tropical semiring can simulate polynomial time computation, proving along the way that a naturally dened width-k circuit value problem over the tropical semiring is P-complete. Then the copyless variant of the CRA, requiring that semiring operations be applied to distinct registers, is shown no more powerful than NC^1 when the semiring is the integers, or strings with operations max and concat. This relates questions left open in recent work on the complexity of CRA-computable functions to long-standing class separation conjectures in complexity theory, such as NC versus P and NC^1 versus GapNC^1.
description: Resource replaces author's original
Protected-Denomination-of-Origin Cocoa Bean: Chain governance and Sustainability Performance
Creators: name: Miranda, Carlos Moreno
name: Moreno, Raúl
name: Moreno, Pablo
name: Miranda, Carlos Moreno
name: Moreno, Raúl
name: Moreno, Pablo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Socio-economic
subject: Agricultural regulation
subject: Rural farming
subject: Governance structure

description: The Protected Denominations of Origin in agricultural goods through recognized chains, have a fundamental economic role. In Ecuador, the pdo cocoa bean certification becomes a protagonist since it presents an opportunity to boost the social performance of smallholders. A substantial amount of research focused only on examining the crop performance of pdo products. However, there is a shift in the agricultural chain perspective towards more sustainable models. In this respect, social, economic, and institutional aspects are consequential and tribute to the agricultural sector development. Also, the current rise of market opportunities at the local and international levels is a driver to support them. This study aimed to analyze socio-economic and governance components to understand the pdo Cocoa Arriba (Theobroma cacao) chain sustainability performance and bring forward potential strategies. Principal Components Analysis was introduced to contribute with relevant insights. The framework applied accounts with a revision of primary and support activities. The investigation clustered pre-production, production, and post-production tiers. Also, it executed the food chain mapping and identification of chain actors. Results stated several viable long-term strategies. Examples of those strategies are the enhancement of national regulation to assist chain actors and the stimulus of young producers and associations empowerment. The main research contribution is the application of governance mechanisms to assess the chain performance comprehensively. Based on the results, our recommendation is to incorporate new indicators to analyze the environmental and institutional components profoundly.
Citizen sentinels of coralligenous protected species in the Calanques national Park
Creators: name: Dedet, Juliette
name: Barth, Laura
name: Gatti, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Coralligenous
Citizen science
Endangered species
Protected species
Vulnerable species

description: The CIGESMED for divers participatory science program is dedicated to the observation of coralligenous habitats. The volunteer divers collected 80 observations within the Calanques National Park, over a three-year period (2016-2018). Here we focused on the abundance and distribution of vulnerable/endangered and protected species, as well as on some natural and antropogenic pressures. Le programme de sciences participatives CIGESMED for divers est dédié à l'observation des habitats coralligènes. Les plongeurs volontaires ont collecté 80 observations au sein du Parc National des Calanques, sur une période de trois ans (2016-2018). Ici, nous nous sommes concentrés sur l'abondance et la distribution des espèces vulnérables / en danger et protégées, ainsi que sur certaines pressions naturelles et anthropiques.
Substance use and overdose risk: documenting the perspectives of formerly incarcerated persons in the Fraser East region of BC
Creators: name: McCaughran-Contreras, Celine
name: Fernando, Saranee
name: Sikora, Mike
name: Hawkins, Jennifer
name: Kniseley, Marinel
name: Snyder, Daniel
name: Long, Connie
name: Robson, James
name: Slaunwhite, Amanda
name: Salmon, Amy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background The relationship between incarceration and risk of overdose has been well-documented in the literature, but few studies document the perspectives of persons at risk of overdose who were incarcerated. This sub-inquiry aimed to understand the experiences of persons with a history of substance use and incarceration in the Fraser East region of BC and how involvement with the criminal justice system affected their drug use and perceived risk of overdose. Methods The Fraser East Overdose Response project utilized a community-based participatory action approach that included peer researchers with lived experience in all parts of the research process. This qualitative pilot study aimed to better understand individuals at risk of an unwitnessed overdose in order to prevent deaths and identify effective local responses. A snowball sampling technique was used to recruit persons aged 19 and over who used illicit drugs over the past 3 years in the Fraser East since 2016. In total, 22 participants were interviewed. Of these, 13 participants identified a history of incarceration. Interviews were analyzed using a framework analysis approach. Results The perspectives that participants shared revealed that impacts from incarceration are influenced by policies but also highly individualized. Our inquiry found three broader themes, within which were situated differing and sometimes conflicting interpretations and experiences of systemic environments: (1) incarceration was associated with harms and was perceived to increase risk of overdose following release, (2) incarceration was perceived to have limited impact on substance use and overdose risk, and (3) incarceration was associated with a perceived reduction of substance use and overdose risk. Conclusions Understanding the complexities of the perceptions of those with lived experience of substance use and incarceration is of importance to better inform interventions in this population. The existing knowledge base urgently requires further inquiry into the intersections between qualitative perspectives, environments and policies, and quantitative outcomes of overdose vís-a-vís correctional institution.
EdiCitNet online Marketplace (D6.3)
Creators: name: Reddy, Suhana E.
name: Schabel, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marketplace
Network
Impact
Communication
KPI

description: Many of the Edible City Solutions Initiatives (ECSI) supported by EdiCitNet have the potential to develop and provide more competitive products or services as well as socio-economic value. These potential scenarios include the entire ECSI Value Chain of food production, distribution and consumption as well as related services such as environmental education. Bringing ECS to global and local markets is a key element of the project’s up-scaling and knowledge transfer strategy. For this reason, EdiCitNet is developing an online Marketplace for ECSI development as an integral part of the EdiCitNet public website. The goal is to connect ECSI, entrepreneurs and interested parties at the local, regional and global level, enabling global knowledge sharing and ECSI concept replication or benefit from other products and services provided by ECSI in the local and regional context. The Marketplace is built around the opportunities demonstrated in the EdiCitNet Living Labs and beyond. It is designed as an online meeting place to initiate collaborations promoting the replication and marketing of ECS (business) models, products and services. Furthermore, the EdiCitNet Marketplace will compile features and tools that allow the support of a growing buyer/seller community of ECSI, promote a diversity of ECSI products or services, and drive sales. The main objective is to test the impact and the functionality of an ECSI Marketplace. During the project period, the results and findings of the Blended Consulting Team (BCT) and the work around the valorisation of ECSI in the project will feed the Marketplace and grow it into an independent platform that will serve as the primary trading place for ECSI in their local clusters. The pilot will be constantly updated and thus naturally lead to a stable and independent Marketplace that will survive after the project lifetime.
A quantitative measure of myelination development in infants, using MR images
Creators: name: Carmody, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2004
Subjects: Pediatric brain
White matter disease
MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging
Myelination

description: The objective of this study was to measure myelination of frontal lobe changes in infants and young children. Twenty-four cases of infants and children (age range 12–121 months) were evaluated by a quantitative assessment of T2-weighted MR image features. Reliable quantitative changes between white and gray matter correlated with developmental age in a group of children with no neurological findings. Myelination appears to be an increasing exponential function with the greatest rate of change occurring over the first 3 years of life. The quantitative changes observed were in accordance with previous qualitative judgments of myelination development. Children with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) showed delays in achieving levels of myelination when compared to normal children and adjusted for chronological age. The quantitative measure of myelination development may prove to be useful in assessing the stages of development and helpful in the quantitative descriptions of white matter disorders such as PVL.
GitHub y Google Colaboratory para el desarrollo, la comunicación y gestión de prácticas en los laboratorios de informática
Creators: name: Aransay, Jesús
name: Casado-García, Ángela
name: Domínguez, César
name: García-Domínguez, Manuel
name: Jónathan Heras
name: Inés, Adrián
name: Gadea Mata
name: Pérez, Beatriz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Prácticas informáticas, programación, comunicación, herramientas online, Git, GitHub, Google Colaboratory

description: Material Suplementario
Culicada nipponii
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Culicada
Culicada nipponii

description: Subspecies nipponii
Subspecies nipponii was described from a single “perfect ♀ ” from Karnizana, Japan [Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture]. Theobald (1907) wrote: “proboscis with scattered golden scales, with black apex, palpi mottled.” “Abdomen with the basal segment testaceous, with a median patch of creamy scales and rather short pale golden hairs; the second and third segments with basal uniform creamy bands; on the fourth, fifth and sixth the bands spread out laterally, forming marked lateral areas; the sixth and seventh have yellow apical scales, and the second to the fifth have median pale scales which form a broken median line; venter pale scaled.” A distinguishing character is the median pale abdominal scales.
Reinert (1973) did a comprehensive study of vexans vexans and vexans nipponii as part of a study of the subgenus Aedimorphus in Southeast Asia. He treated vexans vexans as a single variable worldwide species. He characterized subspecies nipponii in the adult female as follows: “Abdomen with terga III, IV each with an incomplete apical median longitudinal white stripe which may or may not connect with basal bands; lower subspiracular scale patch connects, or nearly so, with postspiracular scale patch.” In the pupa, the two were very similar but could be separated from other related species by having the “Ventral posterior margin of II [tergum II] with spicules mesally.” In the larval stage, he contrasted vexans vexans in Southeast Asia with subspecies nipponii by the presence of a granulose frontoclypeus in the former not present in the latter. This granularity is rarely seen in the rest of the range, sensu Reinert (1973), of the putative subspecies vexans. To us, it could also indicate a separate species in Southeast Asia.
Tanaka et al. (1979) stated that only vexans nipponii occurs in Japan, Korea and the eastern Palearctic, and thus they did not provide a complete comparison of it and vexans vexans. As described by Theobald (1907) and Reinert (1973), Tanaka distinguished nipponii by noting that “Subspecies nipponii is chiefly characterized by the presence of pale median patches on the anterior abdominal terga of the adults.” The larva of subspecies nipponii is like the larva of typical vexans but setae 5–7-C are distinctly aciculate, as are setae 1,3,5-VIII.
Because of its Palearctic distribution and distinct morphological characters, we believe subspecies nipponii should be afforded species status: Aedes (Aedimorphus) nipponii (Theobald, 1907). Synonyms: None. Aedes nipponii needs to be added in the list of Aedes species recognized in the Encyclopedia of Life.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
“Pale Lager and Double Carp Fries, Please”. The McDonaldization of the Culinary Culture in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Zelený, Jiří
name: Plzáková, Lucie
name: Hán, Jan
name: Kašpar, Jan
name: Zelený, Jiří
name: Plzáková, Lucie
name: Hán, Jan
name: Kašpar, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Christmas traditions
subject: Fish restaurants
subject: Globalized food
subject: Glocalization in gastronomy
subject: National identity

description: This article explores attitudes of hospitality stakeholders (HSs) and consumers towards fish gastronomy in the Czech Republic with an emphasis on traditional recipes and the impact of globalization. For the exploration of HSs’ attitudes, qualitative investigation via in-depth semi-standardized interviews was employed with 19 fish restaurant HSs. The abstraction, appearance of ideal types of HSs, and integration with four aspects of Ritzer’s McDonaldization theory were done. For the exploration of consumers’ attitudes, sensory evaluation of seven fish dishes with 1698 participants was used. Lastly, a focus group was conducted with regular fish food consumers. Three ideal types of HS named progressive innovators, taste defenders, and occasional traditionalists appeared. For all of them, aspects of McDonaldization were obvious, meaning shift towards rationalization in Czech fish culinary culture and possible dilution of the original identity. As the main reasons for deauthentication of Czech fish gastronomy, a high laboriousness of traditional fish dishes causing high time consumption for restaurant staff, and the inclusion of bones in most of the traditional Czech fish dishes as the main barrier for consumers were identified. Paradoxically, consumers preferred traditional dishes more, showing a discrepancy between the attitudes of consumers and HSs. This result drew attention to the need for marketing research on the part of HSs. When already prepared dishes were presented, consumers preferred to choose more time-consuming fish dishes with more input ingredients. In the restaurant, consumers more often choose bone-free dishes. On the other hand, in households, consumers prefer the cheaper purchase of whole fish with bones. Ways of defense against food globalization were outlined: promotion of traditional fish dishes not contradicting the McDonaldization aspects, supporting food with strong national traditions, and the usage of glocalization when the skills, specificity, or original ingredients are sustained despite globalization.
Is respondents’ inattention in online surveys a major issue for research?
Creators: name: Vecchio, Riccardo
name: Caso, Gerarda
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Borrello, Massimiliano
name: Vecchio, Riccardo
name: Caso, Gerarda
name: Cembalo, Luigi
name: Borrello, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Self-report survey data
subject: Attention checks
subject: Careless responding
subject: Screener questions

description: Participant attentiveness may represent a major concern for all researchers using online self-report survey data, as findings from non-diligent participants add noise and can significantly decrease results reliability. Therefore, attention checks have become a popular method in survey design across social sciences to capture careless or insufficient-effort of respondents, thus increasing quality of samples and the internal validity of the research. The aim of this note is to offer an overview and categorization of the different techniques adopted to flag inattentive respondents and present the potential drawbacks of not considering the issue in social sciences research.
Model Generation from Physical Principles: A Progress Report
Creators: name: Ling, Ringo
name: Steinberg, Louis
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: This paper describes a framework and a system for generating mathematical models (i.e. sets of equations) for analyzing physical systems. The models are derived from physical principles and include not only models based on algebraic and ordinary differential equations (i.e. lumped" models), but also those based on partial differential equations (i.e. distributed" models). We are motivated by the need for analysis models to be used in designing artifacts and focus on the domain of thermal manufacturing. Our framework involves three sequential subtasks: identify regions of interest on the artifact, determine and identify the relevant physical processes, transform the set of individual processes into equations and carry out mathematical simplification. We take the view that understanding the task of model generation is fundamental to our future research on approximate modeling in design.
Research Directions in Power and Energy Conservation for Clusters
Creators: name: Bianchini, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Data centers, hosting centers, and Internet companies typically rely on large clusters of computers to interface with users and store data. The computational, networking, and cooling infrastructures of these organizations consume significant amounts of power and energy. Research on power and energy conservation for these systems can have several benefits. In this paper, we motivate this research direction, point out a few of the related issues and challenges, overview the small body of previous work, and suggest several specific research avenues that are being addressed in the Rutgers DARK Laboratory
Supplementary Information for "Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the K/Pg mass extinction" from Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
Creators: name: MacLaren, Jamie A.
name: Bennion, Rebecca F.
name: Bardet, Nathalie
name: Fischer, Valentin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary information and supporting figures and tables, including: specimen list; insitutional abbreviations; functional ratio calculations; species coverage following threshold; supplementary figures; supplementary tables; supplementary references; reference R code.
Exploring compact reinforcement-learning representations with linear regression
Creators: name: Walsh, Thomas
name: Szita, István
name: Littman, Michael
name: Diuk, Carlos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009

description: This paper presents a new algorithm for online linear regression whose efficiency guarantees satisfy the requirements of the KWIK (Knows What It Knows) framework. The algorithm improves on the computational and storage complexity bounds of the current state-of-the-art procedure in this setting. We explore several applications of this algorithm for learning compact reinforcement-learning representations. We show that KWIK linear regression can be used to learn the reward function of a factored MDP and the probabilities of action outcomes in Stochastic STRIPS and Object Oriented MDPs, none of which have been proven to be efficiently learnable in the RL setting before. We also combine KWIK linear regression with other KWIK learners to learn larger portions of these models, including experiments on learning factored MDP transition and reward functions together.
Building capacity for implementation—the KT Challenge
Creators: name: Black, Agnes
name: Steinberg, Marla
name: Chisholm, Amanda
name: Coldwell, Kristi
name: Hoens, Alison
name: Koh, Jiak C.
name: LeBlanc, Allana
name: Mackay, Martha
name: Salmon, Amy
name: Snow, M. Elizabeth
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background The KT Challenge program supports health care professionals to effectively implement evidence-based practices. Unlike other knowledge translation (KT) programs, this program is grounded in capacity building, focuses on health care professionals (HCPs), and uses a multi-component intervention. This study presents the evaluation of the KT Challenge program to assess the impact on uptake, KT capacity, and practice change. Methods The evaluation used a mixed-methods retrospective pre-post design involving surveys and review of documents such as teams’ final reports. Online surveys collecting both quantitative and qualitative data were deployed at four time points (after both workshops, 6 months into implementation, and at the end of the 2-year funded projects) to measure KT capacity (knowledge, skills, and confidence) and impact on practice change. Qualitative data was analyzed using a general inductive approach and quantitative data was analyzed using non-parametric statistics. Results Participants reported statistically significant increases in knowledge and confidence across both workshops, at the 6-month mark of their projects, and at the end of their projects. In addition, at the 6-month check-in, practitioners reported statistically significant improvements in their ability to implement practice changes. In the first cohort of the program, of the teams who were able to complete their projects, half were able to show demonstrable practice changes. Conclusions The KT Challenge was successful in improving the capacity of HCPs to implement evidence-based practice changes and has begun to show demonstrable improvements in a number of practice areas. The program is relevant to a variety of HCPs working in diverse practice settings and is relatively inexpensive to implement. Like all practice improvement programs in health care settings, a number of challenges emerged stemming from the high turnover of staff and the limited capacity of some practitioners to take on anything beyond direct patient care. Efforts to address these challenges have been added to subsequent cohorts of the program and ongoing evaluation will examine if they are successful. The KT Challenge program has continued to garner great interest among practitioners, even in the midst of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, and shows promise for organizations looking for better ways to mobilize knowledge to improve patient care and empower staff. This study contributes to the implementation science literature by providing a description and evaluation of a new model for embedding KT practice skills in health care settings.
Reconciling Encapsulation and Dynamic Dispatch via Accessory Functions
Creators: name: Flynn, C. Benjamin
name: Wonnacott, David
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1999

description: Many object-oriented languages allow encapsulation of data. We identify a conflict between data encapsulation and dynamic dispatch, and propose that it be resolved via the addition of ``accessory functions''. We discuss the implementation of accessory functions for C++, and show that this system extends naturally to allow multiple dispatch in C++.
Trade Relationships in the European Pork Value Chain: A Network Analysis
Creators: name: Barberis, Eduardo
name: Freddi, Daniela
name: Giammetti, Raffaele
name: Polidori, Paolo
name: Teobaldelli, Désirée
name: Viganò, Elena
name: Barberis, Eduardo
name: Freddi, Daniela
name: Giammetti, Raffaele
name: Polidori, Paolo
name: Teobaldelli, Désirée
name: Viganò, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Pig sector
subject: European Union
subject: Commercial exchanges
subject: Network analysis

description: This article aims to analyse the European pig sector and its transformations (e.g. vertical integration and phase specialization). In particular, we will both explore the specialization and territorial concentration of pig production, and the significant changes which have taken place in the trade among European Union countries. Using the network analysis (betweenness centrality, node strength and community detection) applied to Eurostat and fao datasets on production and trade in the period 2000-2016, we will show the emergence of national players and international connections that lead to a larger continental market. Finally, this evidence will be used in the discussion and conclusion to raise wider concerning the working of agrifood value chains, in terms of social, economic and environmental sustainability, as well as regulation. This calls for more interdisciplinary analyses of value chains.
Adjointability of densely defined closed operators and the Magajna-Schweizer Theorem
Creators: name: Frank, Michael
name: Sharifi, Kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46L08, 47L60

description: In this notes unbounded regular operators on Hilbert $C^*$-modules over arbitrary $C^*$-algebras are discussed. A densely defined operator $t$ possesses an adjoint operator if the graph of $t$ is an orthogonal summand. Moreover, for a densely defined operator $t$ the graph of $t$ is orthogonally complemented and the range of $P_FP_{G(t)^\bot}$ is dense in its biorthogonal complement if and only if $t$ is regular. For a given $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal A$ any densely defined $\mathcal A$-linear closed operator $t$ between Hilbert $C^*$-modules is regular, if and only if any densely defined $\mathcal A$-linear closed operator $t$ between Hilbert $C^*$-modules admits a densely defined adjoint operator, if and only if $\mathcal A$ is a $C^*$-algebra of compact operators. Some further characterizations of closed and regular modular operators are obtained.
 Changes 1: Improved results, corrected misprints, added references. Accepted by J. Operator Theory, August 2007 / Changes 2: Filled gap in the proof of Thm. 3.1, changes in the formulations of Cor. 3.2 and Thm. 3.4, updated references and address of the second author.
description: 13 pages
Detecting deadlocks in the Ada accept...do and select constructs
Creators: name: Masticola, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: We describe the representation of Ada programs containing the select and accept-do constructs, for use in safe and accurate static detection of deadlock in polynomial time. We describe a sync hypergraph program representation, which encompasses remote procedures including synchronization, conditional entries and entry calls, and else clauses and timeouts. We present a corresponding execution model for the sync hypergraph abstraction of Ada programs, and give constraints on valid deadlock cycles based on this execution model. We give full details of a deadlock detection algorithm, including lattice frameworks for deadlock cycle detection and proof of worst-case polynomial time bounds for convergence. As an intermediate step, we compute an approximate "can't happen together" (CHT) relation between rendezvous statements. This CHT relation has applications in other areas, notably in detection of unexecutable statements and in intertask data flow analysis.
ECSI Business Model Analysis & Typology (D6.6)
Creators: name: Bischof, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Business Model
Edible City Solution Initiative
Organisational Value System
Continuity
Growth

description: How can the business models of Edible City Solution Initiatives (ECSI) be understood to support their continuity and upscaling? This is the guiding question the present Deliverable (D6.6) seeks to answer through the analysis and typology of ECSI business models, including the derivation of strategies for continuity and growth per type. D6.6 is informed by previous work done in D6.5 on the Triple Layered Business Model Canvas (TLBMC). It is part of the action plan of the EdiCitNet Business Consulting Team (D6.4). It connects questions of ECSI scaling and growth raised in D3.3 (forthcoming) with a new analytical tool for ECSI business model analysis. We found that commercial value creation and capture does not play a major role for many ECSI within EdiCitNet, and that the TLBMC (cf. D6.5) does not offer a useful tool for ECSI business model analysis precisely because it implies commercialisation as primary way of value creation and capture. Yet, like any type of organisation, all ECSI follow a basic mechanism of value creation and capture. The present Deliverable builds on that basic mechanism and develops the Organisational Value System (OVS) to be able to analyse the variety of value creation and capture mechanisms that ECSI follow – including, but not restricted to, commercialisation (cf. D6.3 and D6.4). OVS-based analyses and a typology of various ECSI are presented, including strategies for continuity and growth per type. Three archetypes are distinguished: • Commercial Type • Social Type • Nature-Based Type Further, four mixed types are distinguished: • Commercial-Social Type • Social-Nature-based Type • Nature-based-Commercial Type • Social-Commercial-Nature-based Type. For each type, a business model analysis with a case example and strategies for continuity and growth are presented. The proposed typology, strategies for continuity and growth, and the potential applications of the OVS are discussed. The report concludes with ten lessons learnt from the interplay of science and practice that brought the OVS into being.
Applicability of Incremental Iterative Algorithms
Creators: name: Ryder, Barbara G.
name: Paull, Marvin C.
name: Marlowe, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1985

description: In computer science there has been much interest in iteration as a procedure for obtaining the solution of a system of equations. The applicability of iteration does not depend strongly on the form or properties of the system of equations. Its use ranges from solution of numerical equations to data-flow analysis. Also the problem of finding incremental algorithms which adjust a solution to a small change in parameters has received much attention recently and is of particular importance for large problems such as arise in data-flow analysis. In this paper we show that one cannot always continue iterating from a previous solution after even a small change in parameters; we give conditions under which it is legitimate to do so. This result follows a brief discussion of iteration in general. We consider finding a fixed point, X, by iteration of a monotonic function, W, on a partially ordered set Q. This differs somewhat from previous developments in that, beyond monotonicity, W is no further constrained, Q need not be a semi-lattice, and X need not be reachable by a finite number of iterations.
Complexity of Regular Functions
Creators: name: Allender, Eric
name: Mertz, Ian
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computational complexity
Transducers
Weighted automata

description: We give complexity bounds for various classes of functions computed by cost register automata.
description: 9th International Conference, LATA 2015, Nice, France, March 2-6, 2015
MSG: A Computer System for Automated Modeling of Heat Transfer
Creators: name: Ling, Sui-ky Ringo
name: Steinberg, Louis
name: Jaluria, Yogesh
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: The task of modeling, i.e. of creating a set of equations that can be used to predict the behavior of a physical object, is a key step in engineering analysis. This paper describes a computer system, MSG, for generating mathematical models to analyze physical systems involving heat transfer behavior. MSG is motivated by the need for modeling in an automated design process. The models are sets of equations which may include algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. MSG uses the strong domain theory to guide model construction in three sequential tasks: identify regions of interests on an object, determine relevant heat transfer and energy storage processes, and transform these processes into equations. The decisions in these tasks are guided by estimates of variation in temperature and material property, and the relative strengths of heat transfer processes.
Experiments in UNIX command prediction
Creators: name: Davison, Brian D.
name: Hirsh, Haym
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: A good use interface is central to the success of most products. Our research is concerned with improving an interface by making it adaptive - changing over time as it learns more about the user. In this paper, we consider the task of modifying a UNIX shell to learn to predict the next command executed as one sample adaptive user interface. To this end, we have collected command histories (some extensive) from 77 people, and have calculated the predictive accuracy for each of five methods over this dataset. The algorithm with the highest performance produces an average online predictive accuracy of up to 38%.
Strict essential extensions of C*-algebras and Hilbert C*-modules
Creators: name: Frank, Michael
name: Pavlov, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L08: 46L05

description: In the present paper we develop both ideas of D. Bakić and B. Gulja{š} and the categorical approach to multipliers from E.C. Lance's book and publications of the second author, for the introduction and study of left multipliers of Hilbert $C^*$-modules. Some properties and, in particular, the property of maximality among all strictly essential extensions of a Hilbert $C^*$-module for left multipliers are proved. Also relations between left essential and left strictly essential extensions in different contexts are obtained. Left essential and left strictly essential extensions of matrix algebras are considered. In the final paragraph the topological approach to the left multiplier theory of Hilbert $C^*$-modules is worked out.
description: 12 pages
Canthydrus flavus
Creators: name: Hendrich, Lars
name: Balke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Noteridae
Canthydrus
Canthydrus flavus

description: Canthydrus flavus (Motschulsky, 1855)
 Hydrocanthus flavus Motschulsky, 1855: 83 (part).
 Canthydrus fulvescens Régimbart, 1889: 149.
 Canthydrus flavus (Motschulsky) - Yano et al., 1983a: 16; Wewalka, 1992: 804, and references therein.
 Material examined. – 5 specimens – Central catchment area - 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest, Transect “G”, 17 Jun.1992, NS 22, coll. K. L. Yeo (ZRC). Other areas - 4 ex., Lorong Banir stream, 10 Jun.1994, NS 157 E, coll. K. C. Queck et al. (ZRC).
 Distribution. – China, Indonesia [Sumatra, Java], Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam (Wewalka, 1992). Singapore!
  Ecology. – Canthydrus flavus  inhabits shallow, muddy waters of open or semi-shaded swamps, the edge of permanent artificial water bodies such as paddy fields (Yano et al., 1983a), and slow-flowing irrigation ditches. The habitat must be rich in rotten leaves and submerged plants. The species is also attracted to light.
description: Published as part of Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, pp. 97-145 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
title: The tourism in Greece: a sociological perspective and review
Creators: name: Menegaki, Angeliki
name: Agiomirgianakis, George
name: Arvanitaki, Eirini
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2021

description: This paper discusses the tourism sector in Greece from a sociological perspective. More specifically, it attempts to paint an elaborate picture of the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors that influence the tourism sector in Greece. It does so, by focusing on the distribution of tourism activity and hotel accommodation in the country, the tourist overnight stays and the contribution of the tourism sector to the country’s economy. The impact of tourism in the labour market as well as the ills and potentials that characterise it, are also examined.
description: tourismos, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2019)