nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions

Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions that underlie JIFs. Application of this straightforward protocol reveals the full extent of the skew of these distributions and the variation in citations received by published papers that is characteristic of all scientific journals. Although there are differences among journals across the spectrum of JIFs, the citation distributions overlap extensively, demonstrating that the citation performance of individual papers cannot be inferred from the JIF. We propose that this methodology be adopted by all journals as a move to greater transparency, one that should help to refocus attention on individual pieces of work and counter the inappropriate usage of JIFs during the process of research assessment.
A Future Energy Harvesting Scenario for Georgia Tech Campus Using Photovoltaic Solar Panels And Piezoelectric Materials

Renewable and clean energy has always been the widely discussed topic. According to Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) 29 states have renewable energy standards that establish requirements for increasing clean energy usage and nine states have renewable energy goals. The questions of whether renewable energy harvesting is feasible, if it is, where are the potential places that we could establish harvesting sites and how much energy these sites are able to generate will be answered. The project will mainly discuss two types of renewable energy, which are solar energy and piezo energy. Solar energy harvesting is achieved by using photovoltaic solar panels, whose major function is to transform solar energy into electricity. In this project, the location of potential solar panel site will be discussed using ArcGIS technology. A high density of LiDAR cloud point data will be used to generate a DEM of the campus with an extremely high resolution (1 foot) which will be used for solar analysis. Other factors that might affect the location of solar panels like elevation, slope of the roof, orientation, radiation amount, etc. will also be included in this project. Piezoelectric material is a newly developed material that can harvest electricity using the pressure that has been put on it. The project will focus on roadway energy harvesting, which means the piezoelectric panels will be mostly put on the roadside to create electricity using pressure from the cars. GIS model will be created to make a road electricity generation map for the future purpose of study. At last, the project will create a future campus electricity harvesting scenario based on solar and piezo method as well as give a final result of total annual electricity harvesting amount if these two methods are utilized in the future.
Social determinants of child abuse: evidence of factors associated with maternal abuse from the Egypt demographic and health survey
Venue: Journal of injury violence research

Child abuse or maltreatment is a significant global public health problem of unknown global prevalence. About 40 million children aged 0 14 years require health and social care globally. The prevalence, determinants, and trends of national or global rates of child abuse and maltreatment are largely unknown.  Data for this retrospective cross sectional study were derived from the 2005 Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey (2005 EDHS) and included 19474 women aged 15 49 years. Multivariate logistic regression analyses by stepwise regression, backward method were used to determine the independent contribution of the possible social determinants of child abuse, with the direction and magnitude of associations expressed as odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confident interval levels (95% CI)  Identified determinants of child abuse included exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) justifying wife beating, exposure to generational IPV, and such factors as younger age of the women, male sex, partners' lower education, poverty, residence in urban areas, younger children, and residence in households with 3 5 children.  Experience of IPV, mothers' justification of wife beating, and generational IPV were associated with elevated odds of child abuse. Findings indicate possible high levels of unmet child protection needs, and stress the need for professionals working with children to employ culturally sensitive methods in investigating social determinants of child abuse.
How Language Programs the Mind
Venue: Top. Cogn. Sci.

Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively more powerful being programmable. We argue that such programmability constitutes a leap in the way that organisms learn, interact, and transmit knowledge, and that what facilitates or enables this programmability is the learning and use of language. We then examine how language programs the mind and argue that it does so through the manipulation of embodied, sensorimotor representations. The role language plays in controlling mental representations offers important insights for understanding its origin and evolution.
Assessing Concept Weighting in Integer Linear Programming based Single document Summarization
Venue: DocEng

Some of the recent state of the art systems for Automatic Text Summarization rely on the concept based approach using Integer Linear Programming (ILP) mainly for multi document summarization. A study on the suitability of such an approach to single document summarization is still missing, however. This work presents an assessment of several methods of concept weighing for a concept based ILP approach on the single document summarization scenario. The unigram and bigram representations for concepts are also investigated. The experimental results obtained on the DUC 2001 2002 and the CNN corpora show that bigrams are more suitable than unigrams for the representation of concepts. Among the concept scoring methods investigated, the sentence position method presented the best performance on all evaluation corpora.
Spatial and seasonal patterns of fine scale to mesoscale upper ocean dynamics in an Eastern Boundary Current System

The physical forcing of the ocean surface includes a variety of energetic processes, ranging from internal wave (IW) to submesoscale and mesoscale, associated with characteristic horizontal scales. While the description of mesoscale ocean dynamics has greatly benefited from the availability of satellite data, observations of finer scale patterns remain scarce. Recent studies showed that the vertical displacements of the oxycline depth, which separates the well mixed oxygenated surface layer from the less oxygenated deeper ocean, estimated by acoustics, provide a robust proxy of isopycnal displacements over a wide range of horizontal scales. Using a high resolution and wide range acoustic data set in the Northern Humboldt Current System (NHCS) off Peru, the spatial and temporal patterns of fine scale tomesoscale upper ocean dynamics are investigated. The spectral content of oxycline/pycnocline profiles presents patterns characteristic of turbulent flows, from the mesoscale to the fine scale, and an energization at the IW scale (2 km 200 m) On the basis of a typology performed on 35,000 structures we characterized six classes of physical structures according to their shape and scale range. The analysis reveals the existence of distinct features for the fine scale range below similar to 2 3 km, and clearly indicates the existence of intense IW and submesoscale activity over the entire NHCS region. Structures at scales smaller than 2 km were more numerous and energetic in spring than in summer. Their spatiotemporal variability supports the interpretation that these processes likely relate to IW generation by interactions between tidal flows, stratification and the continental slope. Given the impact of the physical forcing on the biogeochemical and ecological dynamics in EBUS, these processes should be further considered in future ecosystem studies based on observations and models. The intensification of upper ocean stratification resulting from climate change makes such high resolution analyses even more critical.
Gesture Based Interactive Audio Guide on Tactile Reliefs
Venue: ASSETS

For blind and visually impaired people, tactile reliefs offer many benefits over the more classic raised line drawings or tactile diagrams, as depth, 3D shape and surface textures are directly perceivable. However, without proper guidance some reliefs are still difficult to explore autonomously. In this work, we present a gesture controlled interactive audio guide (IAG) based on recent low cost depth cameras that operates directly on relief surfaces. The interactively explorable, location dependent verbal descriptions promise rapid tactile accessibility to 2.5D spatial information in a home or education setting, to on line resources, or as a kiosk installation at public places. We present a working prototype, discuss design decisions and present the results of two evaluation sessions with a total of 20 visually impaired test users.
Las teorias implicitas de ensenanza y aprendizaje de profesores de primaria y sus practicas docentes

El proposito de este estudio fue identificar las representaciones implicitas que han construido docentes de educacion primaria sobre los procesos de ensenanza y aprendizaje y como filtran sus practicas educativas y las significaciones que hacen del enfoque de competencias. Se investigaron las teorias implicitas de una muestra de 54 profesores, a traves de una adaptacion del cuestionario de dilemas disenado por Pozo. De la muestra se eligieron dos docentes con perfil constructivista, dos con interconstructivo y dos con interdirecto; las profesoras seleccionadas fueron entrevistadas, observadas en clase e interrogadas por medio de la tecnica de recuerdo estimulado. La mayoria asume una postura constructivista (68% y ninguna adopta una sola teoria sino una configuracion de las tres, y estos perfiles permean la significacion que las profesoras construyen sobre el enfoque competencial
Online Learning, Multimedia, and Emotions

Online learning and multimedia (OLaM) is the use of software programs to instruct students in content and skills and to facilitate learning in and out of the traditional classroom setting. OLaM is prevalent in most American school settings and is often used with little regard for the emotional effect on children and the related academic outcomes. It may be delivered via a desktop or laptop computer, mobile phone, tablet, or even via a dedicated hardware platform such as an XBox or PlayStation. The emotional state of the student can directly affect both attitude and performance in school. The emotional state of students is often marginalized as unworthy of consideration in mainstream educational settings. In addition, the design of OLaM has an effect on cognitive load and, by extension, academic growth. This chapter includes a discussion of the emotional state and attitudinal changes students undergo, when using OLaM. The work of Richard Mayer in the area of cognitive load and multimedia learning is discussed, along with the author's research with Grade 3 students in New York State. Other studies related to the impact of emotions on learning and technology use are discussed as background. The chapter thus includes theory as well as research, to present conclusions regarding the effect of OLaM, and considerations for educators when making instructional decisions for schools. The role of the student's emotional state when using OLaM, and in response to OLaM, is a key consideration.
Assessment of NASA airborne laser altimetry data using ground based GPS data near Summit Station, Greenland

A series of NASA airborne lidars have been used in support of satellite laser altimetry missions. These airborne laser altimeters have been deployed for satellite instrument development, for spaceborne data validation, and to bridge the data gap between satellite missions. We used data from ground based Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys of an 11 km long track near Summit Station, Greenland, to assess the surface elevation bias and measurement precision of three airborne laser altimeters including the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) and the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL) Ground based GPS data from the monthly ground based traverses, which commenced in 2006, allowed for the assessment of nine airborne lidar surveys associated with ATM and LVIS between 2007 and 2016. Surface elevation biases for these altimeters over the flat, ice sheet interior are less than 0.12 m, while assessments of measurement precision are 0.09 m or better. Ground based GPS positions determined both with and without differential post processing techniques provided internally consistent solutions. Results from the analyses of ground based and airborne data provide validation strategy guidance for the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat 2) elevation and elevation change data products.
Prospects of the ICESat 2 laser altimetry mission for savanna ecosystem structural studies based on airborne simulation data

The next planned spaceborne lidar mission is the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat 2) which will use the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) sensor, a photon counting technique. To pre validate the capability of this mission for studying three dimensional vegetation structure in savannas, we assessed the potential of the measurement approach to estimate canopy height in an oak savanna landscape. We used data from the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL) an airborne photon counting lidar sensor developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. ATLAS like data was generated using the MATLAS simulator, which adjusts MABEL data's detected number of signal and noise photons to that expected from the ATLAS instrument. Transects flown over the Tejon ranch conservancy in Kern County, California, USA were used for this work. For each transect we chose to use data from the near infrared channel that had the highest number of photons. We segmented each transect into 50 m, 25 m and 14 m long blocks and aggregated the photons in each block into a histogram based on their elevation values. We then used an automated algorithm to identify cut off points where the cumulative density of photons from the highest elevation indicates the presence of the canopy top and likewise where such cumulative density from the lowest elevation indicates the mean terrain elevation. MABEL derived height metrics were moderately correlated to discrete return lidar (DRL) derived height metrics r 2 and RMSE values ranging from 0.60 to 0.73 and 2.9 m to 4.4 m respectively) but MATLAS simulation resulted in more modest correlations with DRL indices r 2 ranging from 0.5 to 0.64 and RMSE from 3.6 m to 4.6 m) Simulations also indicated that the expected number of signal photons from ATLAS will be substantially lower, a situation that reduces canopy height estimation precision especially in areas of low density vegetation cover. On the basis of the simulated data, there is reason to believe that the ability of ICESat 2 to estimate height in savannas will be comparable to the original ICESat mission although the respective sensors have different measurement principles.
Recent advances in understanding idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Venue: F1000Research

Despite major research efforts leading to the recent approval of pirfenidone and nintedanib, the dismal prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains unchanged. The elaboration of international diagnostic criteria and disease stratification models based on clinical, physiological, radiological, and histopathological features has improved the accuracy of IPF diagnosis and prediction of mortality risk. Nevertheless, given the marked heterogeneity in clinical phenotype and the considerable overlap of IPF with other fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) about 10% of cases of pulmonary fibrosis remain unclassifiable. Moreover, currently available tools fail to detect early IPF, predict the highly variable course of the disease, and assess response to antifibrotic drugs. Recent advances in understanding the multiple interrelated pathogenic pathways underlying IPF have identified various molecular phenotypes resulting from complex interactions among genetic, epigenetic, transcriptional, post transcriptional, metabolic, and environmental factors. These different disease endotypes appear to confer variable susceptibility to the condition, differing risks of rapid progression, and, possibly, altered responses to therapy. The development and validation of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers are necessary to enable a more precise and earlier diagnosis of IPF and to improve prediction of future disease behaviour. The availability of approved antifibrotic therapies together with potential new drugs currently under evaluation also highlights the need for biomarkers able to predict and assess treatment responsiveness, thereby allowing individualised treatment based on risk of progression and drug response. This approach of disease stratification and personalised medicine is already used in the routine management of many cancers and provides a potential road map for guiding clinical care in IPF.
Recent Advances in Defining the Genetic Basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Venue: Annual review of genomics and human genetics

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis and exhibits genetic overlap with other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Although predominant associations with the HLA DRB1 locus have been known for decades, recent data have revealed additional insight into the likely causative variants within HLA DRB1 as well as within other HLA loci that contribute to disease risk. In addition, more than 100 common variants in non HLA loci have been implicated in disease susceptibility. Genetic factors are involved not only in the development of RA, but also with various disease subphenotypes, including production and circulating levels of autoantibodies and joint destruction. The major current challenge is to integrate these new data into a precise understanding of disease pathogenesis, including the critical cell types and molecular networks involved as well as interactions with environmental factors. We predict that delineating the functional effects of genetic variants is likely to drive new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the disease.
A Study of Key Success Factors of Service Enterprises in China

This paper reports a study of the key success factors of what have been recognized as successful service enterprises in China, each considered representative of its respective industry. The grounded theory approach was used to analyze information collected from these enterprises, resulting in the identification of the attributes shared by these enterprises: customer oriented service, service management, service innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Based on these attributes, a survey was conducted to verify the relationships among these attributes and important outcomes, namely customer satisfaction, perceived service quality, and enterprise reputation. The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the four attributes have positive impacts on service outcomes. The findings are of far reaching importance in view of the vast potential service markets in China.
ANALISIS KELEMBAGAAN PEMASARAN MANGGIS DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP PENDAPATAN USAHATANI MANGGIS DI KELOMPOK TANI SARI PUSPA DESA PUSPAHIANG KABUPATEN TASIKMALAYA

Manggis merupakan salah satu komoditas buah papan atas Indonesia selain salak dan mangga. Pada tahun 2013, nilai ekspor berada di 5.734.000,00 dan meningkat, maka kenaikan tingkat konsumsi. produksi yang berada di pusat berlokasi di Tasikmalaya, khususnya oleh Kelompok Tani Sari Puspa, yang merupakan salah satu aliansi petani manggis yang kebetulan menderita kerugian dari sistem reguler pemasaran (Panen biasa) membeli di muka (ijon) dan membeli (tebasan) Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi faktor faktor yang mempengaruhi interaksi antara petani dan pengumpul, selanjutnya untuk mengukur kualifikasi usaha tani manggis oleh Kelompok Tani Sari Puspa dibandingkan dengan tiga sistem yang berbeda dari pemasaran kelembagaan. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan mengikuti mode analisis data: (1) teknik ilustrasi tulang ikan untuk mempelajari faktor faktor yang mempengaruhi transaksi antara petani dan pengumpul, (2) analisis pendapatan usahatani untuk mengukur pendapatan petani dengan tiga sistem pemasaran kelembagaan yang berbeda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor faktor yang mempengaruhi transaksi petani dan pengumpul dalam sistem pemasaran institusional harga, kepercayaan, kebutuhan, panjang langganan, organisasi dan modal menjual. Tingkat komparatif tiga sistem pemasaran umur tanaman manggis lebih dari 25 tahun adalah Rp. 141.755.423,28 /Ha untuk sistem pemasaran reguler (Panen biasa) Rp 31.984.750 Ha untuk membeli di muka (ijon) dan Rp. 38.244.365,38 Ha untuk membeli (tebasan) R /C Ratio menunjukkan nilai lebih dari satu, menunjukkan bahwa semua sistem yang tepat untuk diterapkan.
Morfogenesis Eksplan Keping Biji dari Tiga Klon Manggis (Garcinia mangostana L. Pada Tiga Jenis Media Dasar

Sistem regenerasi manggis secara in vitro merupakan metode alternatif yang mendukung upaya produksi benih secara masal dan pemuliaan tanaman manggis secara bioteknologi. Dalam kultur in vitro, jenis klon dan media dasar sangat menentukan pertumbuhan biakan manggis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari respons in vitro (morfogenesis) tiga klon manggis yang dikulturkan pada tiga jenis media dasar. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Laboratorium Kultur Jaringan, Balai Besar Penelitian dan Pengembangan Bioteknologi dan Sumberdaya Genetik Pertanian (BB Biogen) dari bulan Januari sampai Agustus 2013. Percobaan disusun secara faktorial dalam lingkungan rancangan acak lengkap. Faktor pertama yaitu eksplan yang berasal dari tiga klon manggis (Leuwiliang, Wanayasa, dan Puspahiang) Faktor kedua adalah tiga jenis media dasar (MS, WPM, dan B5) Setiap media diperkaya dengan gula 30 g/l, phytagel 2,5 g/l, glutamin 300 mg/l, dan 6 benzyldenine (BA) 5 mg/l. Setiap perlakuan terdiri atas 25 ulangan (botol) Dalam setiap botol terdapat tiga irisan melintang biji manggis yang berasal dari satu biji. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat interaksi antara jenis klon dengan jenis media dasar untuk peubah jumlah tunas, tinggi tanaman, jumlah daun/tunas, dan jumlah daun total. Terdapat interaksi antara jenis klon dengan jenis media dasar, yaitu untuk peubah jumlah nodul. Menariknya, penggunaan media MS menyebabkan jumlah tunas, jumlah daun total, dan jumlah nodul yang terbanyak. Tinggi tunas tertinggi diperoleh dari penggunaan media WPM dan B5. Selain itu, morfogenesis klon Wanayasa dan Puspahiang lebih baik daripada klon Leuwiliang