nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Leading schools of education in the context of academic capitalism: Deans' responses to state policy changes

State education policy changes have contributed to a reduced interest in teaching and a decreased enrollment in education degree programs in North Carolina, USA. Pressure to cut budgets and generate revenue has added to a climate of academic capitalism influencing the ways in which deans lead schools of education. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to understand school of education deans' perceptions of and strategic responses to political and economic challenges. Findings demonstrate that the burdens of being a school of education dean in North Carolina are substantial and require a specific skill set to manage external pressures. Deans reported devoting more time and energy to recruitment, fundraising, program creation, and active participation in policy discussions as strategic responses to these pressures. Findings throw into stark relief the need for professional development and the importance of supportive relationships across campus to help deans hone skills and manage new pressures.
Transnational academic capitalism in the Arab Gulf: balancing global and local, and public and private, capitals

This article contributes to the emerging theoretical construct of what has been called 'transnational academic capitalism' characterised by the blurring of traditional boundaries between public, private, local, regional and international, and between market driven and critically transformative higher education visions. Here we examine how these issues are reflected in higher education policy in the Arab Gulf, asking: what kinds of capital are being constructed and traded? By and for whom? What is the relationship between higher education competition, governance and the public good? We find contradictory trends, which we see as strategic ambivalence pointing to country specific readings of similar regional markets and attempts to hedge bets between rival forms of apparent capital. The exploration offers a counterpoint to more widely cited examples, hereby helping to shape new paradigmatic 'glocalised' understandings of this field.
'World Class Local Heroes' Emerging Competitive Horizons and Transnational Academic Capitalism in Finnish Higher Education 2010 2012

This chapter introduces an analysis based on institutional profiles of higher education institutions and the two institutional case studies that were carried out in Finland as part of the CINHEKS study. The purposeful selection of the profiles and case studies was based on historical contextualization, the spectrum of higher education institutions in Finland, as well as the twin effects of a major legislative reform, carried out as the global economic crisis of 2008/09 unfolded. In terms of theory of the middle range, empirical focus was achieved via a purposeful selection based on mission emphasis, disciplinary cultures, career stage and competitive horizons. This analysis spotlights three key facets of the Finnish case particularly relevant to the CINHEKS comparative study. Specifically, the Finnish higher education systems' incorporation into neoliberal transnational academic capitalism, characterized by tensions between established tradition, at a national competitive horizon and emergent competitive horizons linked to the global division of scholarly labor. Secondly, the way in which this division of labor manifests is illustrated by a contrast on two extreme cases within Finnish higher education, featuring regional (and HEI) survival in one case, and a pragmatic foray into the global facing world of HEIs vying for globally significant profiles, reputation and outcomes. Thirdly, we focus on the resulting misrecognition of enduring features that characterize the Finnish system, as a whole, across the extremes in our case studies, as well as paradoxical change and flux that presently characterizes this system. From the outside looking in, Finland's society and education system are internationally and often uncritically valorized, on a regular basis. However, from the inside looking around, many higher education actors are of the opinion that higher education is not changing quickly enough, while others remain firmly convinced higher education is changing far too quickly. Our discussion centers on the uncertainty as to the viability of the signature features that are often cited as the basis for the quality of life in one of the last remaining strong Nordic social democracies and the role higher education system has to play. In addition, building directly on the cross case analysis of CINHEKS higher education profiles, this analysis introduces the conceptual problematization universtasis which integrates power, domain and mission in a way that allows both empirically grounded explanation building and policy analysis concerning the relationships between social reproduction and transformation in higher education within and between networked knowledge societies.
The University in the Knowledge Economy: Academic Capitalism and Its Implications for Doctoral Students in Public Administration

This article introduces the debate about the role of the university in the knowledge economy to the literature on doctoral education in public administration. An important part of this narrative is the rise of academic capitalism and the increasing tension between symbolic and commodified knowledge. A second part of this narrative is intellectual work as public work. Central to this idea of academic public work is the co producing of knowledge and the valuing of local knowledge alongside expert knowledge, thus creating the conditions for universities in the 21st century to become enclaves of democratic engagement. Democratic engagement underscores the importance of epistemological pluralism and inclusiveness. Faculty and doctoral students in public administration can benefit from an appreciation of this new context.
Upgrading smart meters as key components of integated power quality monitoring system
Venue: 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

Power quality is one of the important challenges for the smart distribution grids. It is not possible to know the state of power quality in the network without appropriate measurements or monitoring. As an answer to need for power quality monitoring in smart distribution grids, this paper further develops the Integrated Power Quality Monitoring System (IPQMS) IPQMS integrates power quality data from all the measurement devices available in the smart distribution grids: power quality monitors, portable power quality analyzers, smart meters, protection relays, fault locators etc. Smart meters are the key sensors in smart distribution grids and should be used as indicators of power quality disturbances in IPQMS. The complementary use of power quality monitors and smart meters in IPQMS should enable the analysis of the propagation of power quality disturbances throughout the distribution network. Current state of the art smart meters have certain capabilities regarding the monitoring of some power quality parameters. The necessary upgrades to the state of the art smart meters regarding their power quality monitoring capabilities are discussed in this paper in the context of their role in IPQMS. This paper elaborates in detail one new concept of operation and process algorithms for IPQMS, with special emphasis on smart meters. This paper also presents experimental results of integrated power quality monitoring using power quality monitors, state of the art smart meters and protection relays. The presented experimental results prove that with integrated power quality monitoring, distribution system operators can get a complete information about power quality in their networks.
An energy and power quality monitoring system of a power distribution
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM)

Quality of electricity, i.e. Power Quality is taking a major concern from researchers as well as utilities considering the immediate and long term impacts that it engenders especially on economy. Researchers, engineers, scientific community and even manufacturers have deeply thought about techniques and methodologies to monitor the Power Quality aspects and attributes. In this respect, we present in this paper an Energy and Power Quality Monitoring System that is able of evaluating PQ disturbances as well as the waveform quality of a smart power distribution via the calculation of Power Quality attributes mainly: the Total Harmonic Distortion voltage and current, as well as harmonics spectrum determination and power factor evaluation. The system is then experimentally validated on a laboratory test bed to determine and quantify the impacts of Induction Motor disturbances on the grid power supply.
A low power real time air quality monitoring system using LPWAN based on LoRa
Venue: 2016 13th IEEE International Conference on Solid State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT)

This paper presents a low power real time air quality monitoring system based on the LoRa Wireless Communication technology. The proposed system can be laid out in a large number in the monitoring area to form sensor network. The system integrates a single chip microcontroller, several air pollution sensors (NO2, SO2, O3, CO, PM1, PM10, PM2.5) LongRange (LoRa) Modem, a solar PV battery part and graphical user interface (GUI) As communication module LoRa sends the data to the central monitoring unit and then the data would be saved in the could. The range tests at an outdoor area show that LoRa is able to reach to approximately 2Km. The TX power is only about 110mA which is lower compared with other used wireless technology. An easy to use GUI was designed in the system. Based on LoRa technology, GUI, and Solar PV battery part the system has several progressive features such as low cost, long distance, high coverage, long device battery life, easy to operate.
Steady state thermal gradient induced by pulsed laser excitation in a ferromagnetic layer

In all optical pump probe experiments on ferromagnetic layers, the determination of the temperature under the pump laser spot is crucial for a quantitative modeling of the magnetization dynamics. We present here a method to quantify this thermal gradient, exemplified on a (Ga, Mn)(As, P) ferromagnetic semiconductor layer on a GaAs substrate. To estimate the local steady state temperature, we use the coercive field as a thermometer. The probe records the hysteresis cycle spatially across the hot spot, using the magnetic linear birefringence/dichroism of the sample. Our results are analyzed using the heat diffusion equation with two fitting parameters, the thermal conductivity of the layer/substrate sample and the thermal resistance between the substrate and the thermostat. This opens the way to a quantitative modeling of laser pulse triggered magnetization dynamics in the presence of transient temperature effects.
Robust Pedestrian Classification Based on Hierarchical Kernel Sparse Representation
Venue: Sensors

Vision based pedestrian detection has become an active topic in computer vision and autonomous vehicles. It aims at detecting pedestrians appearing ahead of the vehicle using a camera so that autonomous vehicles can assess the danger and take action. Due to varied illumination and appearance, complex background and occlusion pedestrian detection in outdoor environments is a difficult problem. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical feature extraction and weighted kernel sparse representation model for pedestrian classification. Initially, hierarchical feature extraction based on a CENTRIST descriptor is used to capture discriminative structures. A max pooling operation is used to enhance the invariance of varying appearance. Then, a kernel sparse representation model is proposed to fully exploit the discrimination information embedded in the hierarchical local features, and a Gaussian weight function as the measure to effectively handle the occlusion in pedestrian images. Extensive experiments are conducted on benchmark databases, including INRIA, Daimler, an artificially generated dataset and a real occluded dataset, demonstrating the more robust performance of the proposed method compared to state of the art pedestrian classification methods.
Hajj 2016: Under the shadow of global Zika spread.
Venue: American journal of infection control

a Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY b State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY c Department of Pediatrics, King Abdullah Specialized Children Hospital, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia d Ministry of Health College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Reconsidering Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood

This paper looks back at the findings reported in Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Parenthood, a decade after its publication in light of recent research. Increasingly, the most methodologically sophisticated research has minimized the "causal impact" of early childbearing on later life events consistent with the findings of the Baltimore Study. I argue in the paper that we must see early childbearing primarily as a marker rather than a cause of economic disadvantage. As such, reducing early childbearing will have a minimal impact on the lives of highly disadvantaged teens unless those teens use the delay in childbearing to improve their education and labor market prospects.
Exposing the "Shadow Side" Female Female Competition in Jane Austen's Emma

Many critics have examined the shifting nature of female friendship in Jane Austen's Emma from cultural and historical angles. However, a comprehensive scientific analysis of femalefemale alliance and competition in the novel remains incomplete. The Literary Darwinist approach considers the motivations of fictional characters from an evolutionary perspective, focusing primarily on human cognition and behaviors linked to reproductive success, social control, and survival. While overt physical displays of male competition are conspicuous in the actions of the human species and those of their closest primate relatives, female aggression is often brandished psychologically and indirectly, which makes for a much more precarious study. In this paper, cultural criticism and evolutionary psychology work together to unravel the most complicated and arcane layers of intrasexual competition between women in Emma. Ultimately, this dual interpretation of the novel steers readers towards a deeper understanding of Emma Woodhouse's imperiled friendships, and by extension, their own. Jane Austen; Literary Darwinism; evolutionary psychology; mate selection; female female competition
SystemC link: Parallel SystemC simulation using time decoupled segments
Venue: 2016 Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE)

Virtual platforms have become essential tools in the design process of modern embedded systems. Their accessibility and early availability make them ideal tools for design space exploration and debugging of target specific software. However, due to increasing platform complexity and the need to simulate more and more processors simultaneously, performance of virtual platforms degrades rapidly. This work presents SystemC Link, a segment based parallel simulation framework for SystemC simulators. It achieves high simulation performance by using a parallel and time decoupled simulation approach. Furthermore, it offers a virtual sequential environment for each simulation segment. This enables use of legacy models by allowing operation on global state without risking race conditions during parallel simulation. The approach is evaluated in a variety of scenarios, including a contemporary multi core platform based on the OpenRISC architecture running Linux. For this benchmark, a 3.2x higher simulation performance was achieved with  Link compared to standard SystemC on a regular workstation PC.
Karl Marx: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals, Verlag Otto Meissner: Hamburg 1867, 784 S. (Im Folgenden zitiert nach der vierten, von Engels bearbeiteten Ausgabe in: MEW, Bd. 23, Berlin/Ost 1986)

Zusammen mit dem 1852 erschienenen 18. Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte stellt der erste Band des Kapitals das sozialwissenschaftliche Hauptwerk von Karl Marx (1818 1883) dar. Auch wenn in der Geschichte der verschiedenen Marxismen andere Texte entscheidend waren, wird der Name Marx heute primar mit der im Kapital entfalteten Analyse und Kritik der kapitalistischen Vergesellschaftungsform identifiziert.
Physical Activity and Exercise Interventions in the Workplace Impacting Work Outcomes: A Stakeholder Centered Best Evidence Synthesis of Systematic Reviews
Venue: The international journal of occupational and environmental medicine

The prevention of work disability is beneficial to employees and employers, and mitigates unnecessary societal costs associated with social welfare. Many service providers and employers have initiated workplace interventions designed to reduce unnecessary work disability.  To conduct a best evidence synthesis of systematic reviews on workplace interventions that address physical activities or exercise and their impact on workplace absence, work productivity or financial outcomes.  Using a participatory research approach, academics and stakeholders identified inclusion and exclusion criteria, built an abstraction table, evaluated systematic review quality and relevance, and interpreted the combined findings. A minimum of two scientists participated in a methodological review of the literature followed by a consensus process.  Stakeholders and researchers participated as a collaborative team. 3363 unique records were identified, 115 full text articles and 46 systematic reviews were included, 18 assessed the impact of physical fitness or exercise interventions. 11 focused on general workers rather than workers who were absent from work at baseline; 16 of the reviews assessed work absence, 4 assessed productivity and 6 assessed financial impacts.  The strongest evidence supports the use of short, simple exercise or fitness programs for both workers at work and those absent from work at baseline. For workers at work, simple exercise programs (1 2 modal components) appear to provide similar benefits to those using more complex multimodal interventions. For workers off work with subacute low back pain, there is evidence that some complex exercise programs may be more effective than simple exercise interventions, especially if they involve workplace stakeholder engagement, communication and coordination with employers and other stakeholders. The development and utilization of standardized definitions, methods and measures and blinded evaluation would improve research quality and strengthen stakeholder centered guidance.
The Moderating Effect of Health Improving Workplace Environment on Promoting Physical Activity in White Collar Employees: A Multi Site Longitudinal Study Using Multi Level Structural Equation Modeling
Venue: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

This longitudinal study aimed to investigate the moderating effect of health improving workplace environment on relationships between physical activity, self efficacy, and psychological distress.  Data were collected from 16 worksites and 129 employees at two time points. Health improving workplace environment was measured using the Japanese version of the Environmental Assessment Tool. Physical activity, self efficacy, and psychological distress were also measured. Multi level structural equation modeling was used to investigate the moderating effect of health improving workplace environment on relationships between psychological distress, self efficacy, and physical activity.  Psychological distress was negatively associated with physical activity via low self efficacy. Physical activity was negatively related to psychological distress. Physical activity/fitness facilities in the work environment exaggerated the positive relationship between self efficacy and physical activity.  Physical activity/fitness facilities in the workplace may promote employees' physical activity.
Translingual creativities: a sociolinguistic case study of English lexical borrowings in Mandarin from perspectives of language contact

English lexical borrowing in Mandarin is a long established academic area of research that has attracted considerable scholarly attention. This article is focused on further emerging linguistic mechanisms whereby English lexical borrowings are adapted into Mandarin, especially in the current age of the Internet and ever intensified globalization in which Mandarin comes into more intense contact with English. The article adopts a translingual orientation to examine these emerging linguistic mechanisms whereby English lexical borrowings are adapted and manipulated by the participants of the Taisha Super Forum, a Chinese Internet forum which serves as a platform for Chinese students aiming to study abroad to exchange information about higher education in overseas universities. The current study identifies and looks into the origin and meanings to create hybrid loans and Pinyin alphabetism. Globalization in effect profoundly changes the perspectives about languages in contact, whilst sociolinguistics with translingual perspectives deepens to look into English Mandarin in contact in the spread and globalization of language, especially languages deemed 'global languages' and where contact comes not from more isolated encounters to a situation where contact is on a much more translingual integrated and seamless basis to reflect the new cultural meaning and identity of the sampled young people.
Tef, khat, and community resilience a mixed methods examination of smallholder adoption of sustainable intensification practices.

Sandy Rikoon ABSTRACT Climate induced rain variability, extensification into marginal lands, an inability to penetrate the agricultural knowledge information system (AKIS) and limited access to credit all hinder Ethiopian farmers' ability to be effective producers, which consequently reduces their ability to achieve food security (Dar and Twomlow 2007; Davis et al. 2012; Hounkonnou et al. 2012; Rosell and Homer 2007) Currently, the Government of Ethiopia, in an effort to improve food security and provide essential agricultural on farm educational services, has greatly expanded its extension program. This expansion is intended to promote access to the AKIS in the hopes that farmers will achieve food security through sustainable (cereal) intensification with the implementation of new technologies and improved management practices. This is critical to greater food availability and improved access which to this point has been universally unrealized in Ethiopia (Feed the Future 2013; ATA 2013; FAO 2003) However, to date, despite the expansion of extension services, adoption rates of new technologies and improved management practices remain low. Understanding how farmers come to the decision to adopt or not adopt a particular technology or management practice is essential to successfully changing behaviors around agricultural production.