nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Sea container terminals: New technologies and OR models

Owing to a rapid growth in world trade and a large increase in the flow of containerized goods, sea container terminals play a vital role in globe spanning supply chains. Container terminals should be able to handle large ships, with large call sizes within the shortest time possible, and at competitive rates. In response, terminal operators, shipping lines and port authorities are investing in new technologies to improve container handling and operational efficiency. Container terminals face challenging research problems that have received much attention from the academic community. The focus of this article is on highlighting recent developments in container terminals, which can be categorized into two areas: (i) innovative container terminal technologies and (ii) new OR directions and models for existing research areas. By choosing this focus, we complement existing reviews on container terminal operations.
The impact of sellers' social influence on the co creation of innovation with customers and brand awareness in online communities

This study integrates theoretical concepts adopted from social influence theory, co creation practice, and brand equity into a single model by examining the role of social comparison and social identity in co creation activities in an online community context, which is known to affect firms' brand awareness in the Business to Business (B2B) marketplace. The model was tested using a dataset gathered via an online survey of four online communities discussing Software as a Service (SaaS) related issues in LinkedIn. Empirical findings from our survey of 190 business professionals indicate that sellers' social identity and social comparison are key facilitators for developing a series of co innovation activities, and confirmed that co innovation practices make potential customers more aware of company brands. The results of this study provide new insights into effective B2B social media marketing techniques by elaborating how best to orchestrate co innovation with online communities to boost brand awareness.
An Empirical Analysis of the Quality of Corporate Financial Disclosure

IN A free enterprise system, variations in corporate disclosure practices are likely to result since corporations are managed by groups which have varying managerial philosophies and wide discretion in connection with disclosing information to the investing public. The quality of corporate disclosure influences to a great extent the quality of investment decisions made by investors. This study attempts to identify some of the characteristics of corporations in the United States which are associated with, and the probable implications of, the quality of corporate disclosure.
Understanding university faculty perceptions about innovation in teaching and technology
Venue: Br. J. Educ. Technol.

The purpose of this research is to understand faculty perceptions about innovation in teaching and technology in a college of education in a research intensive university. This study was motivated by the creation of a new initiative begun in a large college of education at a Carnegie Research Intensive university to promote innovation in teaching with the support and creative use of technology. This study used Q methodology, a mixed methods research design involving quantitative and qualitative analysis of descriptive data derived by a sorting activity. Results showed four emerging profiles about how faculty perceive innovation in teaching and technology. Faculty comprising three of these profiles shared the characteristic of valuing technology's role in teaching, though in different, nuanced ways. Faculty representing the fourth profile, in contrast, were generally cautious and skeptical of using technology for teaching. Implications of the study are discussed, including the caution not to assume that college faculty share meaning for words like 'innovation in teaching and technology. Also, the results of this study are useful to understanding theories of innovation based on faculty's perceptions of their ability to adapt to rapidly changing and ever increasing technology innovations for teaching.
The opportunities and challenges for employability related support in STEM degrees

This research explores the opportunities and challenges for incorporating employability related support into STEM (Sciences; Technology; Engineering; Mathematics) degree programmes, based in part on recent research (O'Leary, 2016a) outlining that significant variations in employability related support exist across the STEM disciplines. These issues were highlighted at a recent conference on STEM pedagogy (O'Leary, 2016b) and this paper explores them in more depth. While O'Leary (2016a) finds that Engineering and Sciences are performing relatively well on employability support matters, in comparison with Social Sciences and Humanities, there is still room for improvement across STEM programmes. The research suggest that students' employability can be enhanced through a combination of the content of the curriculum and the development of key student capabilities and characteristics. To achieve this, it is necessary to address several issues; the development of academic staff, the use of external speakers, the provision of business and management expertise, cross disciplinary approaches and the integration of professional services into the curriculum. In addition, the most effective gains from a cross Faculty viewpoint may exist in what may seem unlikely liaisons; for effective employability related support, the Sciences and Humanities think along the same lines; while Social Sciences Engineering think along another line. Therefore, improvements to the provision of such support may be better achieved by such non traditional cross Faculty partnerships. An approach based on the "3E's" is suggested: Enhanced Learning Teaching; Employer engagement; and Embedding into the Curriculum.
Review of Face Detection based on Color Image and Binary Image

digital world the major issue is authentication and identification. In authentication and identification the significant role is face detection. In real time application, face detection has become a challenging and interesting area. In last few year number of algorithm have been developed for face detection. In this paper, for different color model like RGB, YCbCr, HSI,CIELAB, are explained and different face detect method for all these color models are reviewed. In binary image method of face detection included LBP, PCA. This review have investigates all these methods with parameters like range, advantage and disadvantage.
A Review Paper on Face Detection and Recognition in Video

The intention of this paper is to review various face detection and recognition methods, sort them into different categories and distinguish innovative trends. In this connection the face detection and recognition in video streams is the foremost significant step of information drawing out in many computer vision and image processing applications. Detecting and recognition of face in video stream in generally being a challenging problem, provides an enormous attention for recognition, classification, and activity analysis, making these later steps more efficient. Naturally, assumptions are made to constrain the detection and recognition problem in the perspective of a particular application. In this survey, investigation of many existing schemes in the literature of recent developments and general strategies of all these stages are done and limitations of the various methods and outline promising directions of research are discussed.
Fractangi: A Tangible Learning Environment for Learning about Fractions with an Interactive Number Line.

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) are frequently used to teach children abstract concepts, in science and mathematics. TUIs offer a natural and immediate form of interaction that promotes active and hands on engagement and allows for exploration and reflection. Tangible objects are representational artifacts in their essence, and they increase the representational power, which is a much needed quality in fraction teaching. By exploiting research into the external representations for learning, tangibles and embodied learning, we have designed an interactive tangible number line, named Fractangi, as a conceptual metaphor for helping students to understand and exploit fractions by acting with their hands. A pilot study was conducted in a Department of Primary Education with 65 undergraduate students in order to extract preservice teachers' views on the usability and learning effectiveness of the proposed tangible interface. Preservice teachers' views were extremely positive, in regards both to the context of usage (tangibility, gamification) and to the content of the interaction (learning interactions were considered better than traditional forms of teaching) Fractangi seems able to transform an unpopular learning topic to an enjoyable learning experience.
Insertion Des Jeunes Descolarises Dans La Medecine Traditionnelle En Cote d'Ivoire Activation Des Ressources Relationnelles Et Ideologiques Comme Strategie

This study highlights the resources mobilized by school youth for their inclusion in the activities of traditional medicine. It presents the results of a survey conducted in the district of Abidjan in 2015, with a target population of 223 actors of traditional medicine and mobilizes interactionnist strategic analysis to make sense of the phenomenon under study. Thus it is clear from this study that the school youth encountered in this activity, mostly have primary education (60.54% and to a lesser extent the secondary level (32.63% They are also, traditional medicine sellers; and mostly professional experience of at least 5 years and over (65.92% For inclusion in the traditional therapy, it appears that these have recourse to relational resources, as ideological resources or ideological productions. Thus, these resources together, are proving highly strategic for their integration into traditional therapy.
Molecular characterisation and genetic variation of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus infection in captive young Asian elephants in Thailand.
Venue: Infection, genetics and evolution journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases

Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) is emerging as a new threat for elephant conservation, since being identified as the cause of severe, often fatal, haemorrhagic disease in young Asian elephants. To describe positive cases and the molecular relatedness of virus detected in elephants in Thailand, we re examined all available of EEHV samples occurring in young elephants in Thailand between 2006 and 2014 (n=24) Results indicated 75% (18/24) of suspected cases were positive for EEHV by semi nested PCR. Further gene analysis identified these positive cases as EEHV1A (72% 13/18 cases) EEHV1B (11% 2/18) and EEHV4 (17% 3/18) This study is the first to phylogenetically analyse and provide an overview of most of the known EEHV cases that have occurred in Thailand. Positive individuals ranged in age from one to nine years, with no sex association detected, and occurred across geographical locations throughout the country. All individuals, except one, were captive born. No history of direct contact among the cases was recorded, and this together with the fact that various subtype clusters of virus were found, implied that none of the positive cases were epidemiologically related. These results concur with the hypothesis that EEHV1 is likely to be an ancient endogenous pathogen in Asian elephants. It is recommended that active surveillance and routine monitoring for EEHV should be undertaken in all elephant range countries, to gain a better understanding of the epidemiology, transmission and prevention of this disease.
Prevalence of stereotypies and its possible causes among captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Tamil Nadu, India

Animals in captivity are often confined in small barren enclosures, preventing adequate exercise, and socialization with conspecifics. Captivity is also known for depriving young individuals' association with maternal relatives by weaning away from their mothers' earlier than what their peers experience in free living populations. Such husbandry practices often lead to various welfare problems among captive animals. In India, Asian elephants are managed in captivity under various systems, for various purposes. To understand the effect of husbandry practices on the welfare of elephants, this study first time from a range country examined the prevalence of stereotypies and its possible causes among 144 captive Asian elephants managed under three captive systems Private, Hindu Temple and Forest Department in southern India. Occurrence of stereotypies and its possible influences by factors like age, sex, housing type and its size, duration of chaining and access to conspecific socialization were obtained by direct observations on each elephant and from registers maintained at each facility. Among the systems, the number of elephants with stereotypies was the highest in temple system (49% followed by private (25% and the lowest in the forest department (7% None of the elephants that born in or brought from the wild and managed only at the timber camps was stereotyped. But those transferred from the timber camps to the temple, private and zoo and from the zoo to the timber camps showed stereotypies. Consistent with the prevalence of stereotypies among the three systems, number of elephants managed only at the indoor enclosure and duration of chaining were the highest in temple followed by private and the least in forest department system. The proportion of elephants displaying stereotypies and the proportion of time spent on stereotypies decreased significantly with age, indicating a greater vulnerability of young individuals to stereotypies. Further, logistic regression on prevalence of stereotypies with demographic and welfare parameters revealed that stereotypies decreased significantly with age and free access to conspecific association until juvenile stage, indicating again the juveniles without conspecific association are more susceptible to develop stereotypies. Multiple regression on extent of stereotypies and various daily routines revealed that the extent increased significantly with daily rituals, resting, and marginally with feeding implying that prolonged daily rituals and resting promote its extent. It is argued that deprivation of association with maternal relatives and isolation from conspecifics result in the appearance of stereotypies among elephants in captivity, with younger individuals being more susceptible, perhaps the most active phase of their life being confined by chaining.
Monetary Policy Rules in Emerging Countries: Is There an Augmented Nonlinear Taylor Rule?

This paper examines the Taylor rule in five emerging economies, namely Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Thailand, and Turkey. In particular, it investigates whether monetary policy in these countries can be more accurately described by (i) an augmented rule including the exchange rate, as well as (ii) a nonlinear threshold specification (estimated using GMM) instead of a baseline linear rule. The results suggest that the reaction of monetary authorities to deviations from target of either the inflation or the output gap differs in terms of the size and/or statistical significance of the coefficients in the high and low inflation regimes in all countries. In particular, the exchange rate has an impact in the former but not in the latter regime. Overall, an augmented nonlinear Taylor rule appears to capture more accurately the behaviour of monetary authorities in these countries.
Targeting modulates audiences' brain and behavioral responses to safe sex video ads.
Venue: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience

Video ads promoting condom use are a key component of media campaigns to stem the HIV epidemic. Recent neuroimaging studies in the context of smoking cessation, point to personal relevance as one of the key variables that determine the effectiveness of public health messages. While minority men who have sex with men (MSM) are at the highest risk of HIV infection, most safe sex ads feature predominantly Caucasian actors in heterosexual scenarios. We compared brain respons of 45 African American MSM to safe sex ads that were matched (i.e. 'Targeted' to participants' sexual orientation and race, and 'Untargeted' ads that were un matched for these characteristics. Ad recall, perceived 'convincingness' and attitudes towards condom use were also assessed. We found that Targeted ads were better remembered than the Untargeted ads but perceived as equally convincing. Targeted ads engaged brain regions involved in self referential processing and memory, including the amygdala, hippocampus, temporal and medial prefrontal cortices (MPFC) and the precuneus. Connectivity between MPFC and precuneus and middle temporal gyrus was stronger when viewing Targeted ads. Our results suggest that targeting may increase cognitive processing of safe sex ads and justify further prospective studies linking brain response to media public health interventions and clinical outcomes.
Video Based Eye Tracking in Sex Research: A Systematic Literature Review
Venue: Journal of sex research

Although eye tracking has been used for decades, it has gained popularity in the area of sex research only recently. The aim of this article is to examine the potential merits of eye tracking for this field. We present a systematic review of the current use of video based eye tracking technology in this area, evaluate the findings, and identify future research opportunities. A total of 34 relevant studies published between 2006 and 2014 were identified for inclusion by means of online databases and other methods. We grouped them into three main areas of research: body perception and attractiveness, forensic research, and sexual orientation. Despite the methodological and theoretical differences across the studies, eye tracking has been shown to be a promising tool for sex research. The article suggests there is much potential for further studies to employ this technique because it is noninvasive and yet still allows for the assessment of both conscious and unconscious perceptional processes. Furthermore, eye tracking can be implemented in investigations of various theoretical backgrounds, ranging from biology to the social sciences.
Comparing the effectiveness of a crowdsourced video and a social marketing video in promoting condom use among Chinese men who have sex with men: a study protocol
Venue: BMJ Open

Crowdsourcing has been used to spur innovation and increase community engagement in public health programmes. Crowdsourcing is the process of giving individual tasks to a large group, often involving open contests and enabled through multisectoral partnerships. Here we describe one crowdsourced video intervention in which a video promoting condom use is produced through an open contest. The aim of this study is to determine whether a crowdsourced intervention is as effective as a social marketing intervention in promoting condom use among high risk men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender male to female (TG) in China.  We evaluate videos developed by crowdsourcing and social marketing. The crowdsourcing contest involved an open call for videos. Entries were judged on capacity to promote condom use, to be shareable or 'go viral' and to give value to the individual. 1170 participants will be recruited for the randomised controlled trial. Participants need to be MSM age 16 and over who have had condomless anal sex in the last 3 months. Recruitment will be through an online banner ad on a popular MSM web page and other social media platforms. After completing an initial survey, participants will be randomly assigned to view either the social marketing video or the crowdsourcing video. Follow up surveys will be completed at 3 weeks and 3 months after initial intervention to evaluate condomless sex and related secondary outcomes. Secondary outcomes include condom social norms, condom negotiation, condom self efficacy, HIV/syphilis testing, frequency of sex acts and incremental cost. Ethics and dissemination Approval was obtained from the ethical review boards of the Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, UNC and UCSF. The results of this trial will be made available through publication in peer reviewed journals.
Developing a Video Based eHealth Intervention for HIV Positive Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Venue: JMIR research protocols

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) accounted for 67% of new US human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in 2012; however, less than 40% of HIV positive GBMSM are virally suppressed. Preventing transmission from virally unsuppressed men who have condomless anal sex (CAS) with serodiscordant partners is a public health imperative. New HIV infections in GBMSM are attributed in part to online access to sex partners; therefore, low cost eHealth interventions are a unique opportunity to reach men where they meet partners.  To describe the protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating whether video based messaging delivered online may lead to reductions in serodiscordant CAS and increased HIV disclosure.  Sex Positive! is a two arm, phase III, video based randomized controlled trial delivered online to GBMSM living with HIV. Participants in the intervention arm receive 10 video vignettes grounded in social learning and social cognitive theories that are designed to elicit critical thinking around issues of HIV transmission and disclosure. Participants in the attention control arm receive 10 video vignettes that focus on healthy living. All videos are optimized for mobile viewing. The study protocol includes five online assessments conducted over a 1 year period among 1500 US white, black, or Hispanic/Latino GBMSM living with HIV who report suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence or a detectable viral load in the past 12 months and recent CAS (past 6 months) with HIV negative or unknown status male partners. Compared to the control arm, we hypothesize that men who watch the intervention videos will report at 12 month follow up significantly fewer serodiscordant CAS partners, increased HIV disclosure, and improved social cognition (eg, condom use self efficacy, perceived responsibility)  Participant recruitment began in June 2015 and ended in December 2015.  This protocol describes the underlying theoretical framework and measures, study design, recruitment challenges, and antifraud measures for an online, video based randomized controlled trial that has the potential to decrease HIV transmission risk behaviors among HIV positive GBMSM who struggle with ART adherence. The Sex Positive! intervention allows for participation through multiple Internet based mediums and has the potential to reach and engage a broader population of HIV positive GBMSM who are virally unsuppressed. ClinicalTrial ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02023580; https:/clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02023580 (Archived by WebCite at http:/www.webcitation.org/6iHzA8wRG)