nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Test-Retest Reliability of the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale over a Two-Year Period

The Revised Self-monitoring Scale of Lennox and Wolfe was administered to 83 staff nurses in 1987 and in 1989 as part of on-going research. Test-retest correlations were: for Factor A, Ability to Modify Self-presentation, .53, for Factor B, Sensitivity to the Expressive Behavior of Others, .52, and for the Total Self-monitoring Score .55. These scores were sufficiently strong to warrant continued, but cautious use of this revised test.

Field of study: Psychology
Attitudes of local people towards conservation and alternatives to forest resources: A case study from the lower Himalayas

This paper examines the attitudes of local people living in and around the forest corridor linking the Rajaji and Corbett National Parks, northern India. Door to door surveys were carried out, and using fixed response questionnaires people were interviewed to examine their views towards conservation and proposed alternatives to the forest resources for reducing biomass demand from the forest. The study revealed that in the area the concept of conservation of forests is well supported. Nevertheless, people are extracting biomass from the corridor forest for their sustenance. The dependence of the people on the forest is due to lack of alternatives to the forest resources, inability of the people to produce alternatives from market, and in some cases it is ‘habitual’ or ‘traditional’. In a situation where forest resources will not be available, people without any alternatives to forest resources are ready to agitate against such rules. People who oppose such decisions are not always dependent on the corridor forest but are antagonistic towards the forest department and want to use this opportunity to retaliate by stealing from the forest. The former category of people are the ones for whom income generating activities would be important while the later category should be the targets of extension programs designed to establish permanent lines of dialogue with the forest department. To some extent human-animal conflict and apathetic attitude of the forest department are also responsible for antagonism of people.

Field of study: Environmental science
Waiting Times and Noise in Single Particle Transport

The waiting time distribution $w(\tau)$, i.e. the probability for a delay $\tau$ between two subsequent transition (`jumps') of particles, is a statistical tool in (quantum) transport. Using generalized Master equations for systems coupled to external particle reservoirs, one can establish relations between $w(\tau)$ and other statistical transport quantities such as the noise spectrum and the Full Counting Statistics. It turns out that $w(\tau)$ usually contains additional information on system parameters and properties such as quantum coherence, the number of internal states, or the entropy of the current channels that participate in transport.

Field of study: Physics
Factors influencing clients in the selection of offshore software outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review

Offshore software development outsourcing is a modern business strategy for developing high quality software at low cost.  The objective of this research paper is to identify and analyse factors that are important in terms of the competitiveness of vendor organisations in attracting outsourcing projects.  We performed a systematic literature review (SLR) by applying our customised search strings which were derived from our research questions. We performed all the SLR steps, such as the protocol development, initial selection, final selection, quality assessment, data extraction and data synthesis.  We have identified factors such as cost-saving, skilled human resource, appropriate infrastructure, quality of product and services, efficient outsourcing relationships management, and an organisation's track record of successful projects which are generally considered important by the outsourcing clients. Our results indicate that appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, and skilled human resource are common in three continents, namely Asia, North America and Europe. We identified appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, and quality of products and services as being common in three types of organisations (small, medium and large). We have also identified four factors-appropriate infrastructure, cost-saving, quality of products and services, and skilled human resource as being common in the two decades (1990-1999 and 2000-mid 2008).  Cost-saving should not be considered as the driving factor in the selection process of software development outsourcing vendors. Vendors should rather address other factors in order to compete in the OSDO business, such as skilled human resource, appropriate infrastructure and quality of products and services.

Field of study: Computer science, Engineering
Optimization of a gas chromatographic unit for measuring biogenic volatile organic compounds in ambient air

A new online gas chromatographic method dedicated to
biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) analysis was developed for the
measurement of a 20 BVOC gaseous mixture (isoprene; β -pinene; α -pinene; limonene; ocimene; myrcene; sabinene; Δ3 -carene; camphene; 1,8 cineole; terpinolene; linalool; α -phellandrene; nopinone; citral; α -terpinene; β -caryophyllene; p -cymene; γ -terpinene; and 2-carene) at a time
resolution of 90 min. The optimized method includes an online
Peltier-cooled thermodesorption system sample trap made of Carbopack B
coupled to a gas chromatographic system equipped with a 60 m, 0.25 mm internal diameter (i.d.)
BPX5 column. Eluent was analysed using flame ionization detection (FID). Potassium
iodide was identified as the best ozone scrubber for the 20 BVOC mixture. In
order to obtain an accurate quantification of BVOC concentrations, the
development of a reliable standard mixture was also required. 
of BVOCs was reported with a detection limit ranging from 4 ppt for α -pinene to 19 ppt for sabinene. The main source of uncertainty was the
calibration step, stressing the need for certified gaseous standards for a
wider panel of BVOCs. This new method was applied for the first time to
measure BVOCs in a pine forest during the LANDEX episode 1 field campaign
(summer 2017). All target BVOCs were detected at least once during the
campaign. The two major monoterpenes observed were β -pinene and
 α -pinene, representing 60 % of the measured terpenoid
concentration on average, while isoprene represented only 17 %. The uncertainties
determined were always below 13 % for the six major terpenes.

Field of study: Environmental science
Reinforcement contingencies maintaining collateral responding under a DRL schedule.

Two-key conjunctive schedules were studied with one key (food key) under a differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate 20-sec schedule, while the consequences of responding on another key (collateral key) were varied. When food depended not only upon a food-key interresponse time in excess of 20 sec, but also upon the occurrence of one or more collateral-key responses during the food-key interresponse time, the rate of collateral-key responding was low and food-key interresponse times rarely exceeded 20 sec. When collateral-key responses could produce a discriminative stimulus correlated with the availability of food under the DRL schedule, the discriminative stimulus functioned as a conditioned reinforcer to maintain higher rates of collateral-key responding, and the spacing of food-key responses increased. If the occurrence of the discriminative stimulus was independent of collateral-key responses, the rate of collateral-key responding was again low, but the spacing of food-key responses was still controlled by the discriminative stimulus. Both the conditioned reinforcer and the explicit reinforcement contingency could maintain collateral-key responding, but the adventitious correlation between collateral-key responses and the delivery of food could not maintain very much collateral-key responding. The pattern of responding on the food-key was determined to a much greater extent by the correlation between the discriminative stimulus and the delivery of food than by the pattern of responding on the collateral key.

Field of study: Biology, Psychology
On the Position and the Function of the Adult Higher Education in the Universities in the New Century in Comfortable Society and Study-oriented Society

The Party's Sixteenth Congress puts out that to build up a study-oriented society is one of the main aims to construct a comfortable society. In order to achieve the aim of the comfortable society and the set up the study-oriented society by the end of year of 2020 it is necessary to enhance the development of the adult education in the universities. The one of the most important ways is to develop the lifelong education, quality education, opening education and reforming education.

Field of study: Education
Optimization of physical parameters for lipase production from Arthrobacter sp. BGCC#490.

The physical parameters for the production of thermostable, alkaline lipase from Arthrobacter sp. BGCC# 490 were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM), employing face centered central composite design (FCCCD). The design was employed by selecting pH, temperature and incubation period as the model factors and to achieve maximum yield, interaction of these factors was studied by RSM. A second-order quadratic model and response surface method showed that the optimum conditions for lipase production (pH 10.0, temperature 40 degrees C and incubation period 48 h) resulted in 1.6-fold increase in lipase production (13.75 EUml(-1)), as compared to the initial level (8.6 EUml(-1)) after 48 h of incubation, whereas its value predicted by the quadratic model was 12.8 EUml(-1). Lipase showed stability in the pH range 8-10 and temperature range 40-60 degrees C, with maximum activity at pH 9.0 and temperature 50 degrees C. Lipase activity was enhanced in the presence of K+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions, but inhibited by Hg2+ ions. The enzyme exhibited high activity in the presence of acetone, isopropanol and ethanol, but was unaffected by methanol. These properties suggest that the lipase may find potential applications in the detergent industry. The present work also demonstrated the feasibility of using experimental design tools to optimize physical parameters for lipase production by an indigenous Arthrobacter sp.

Field of study: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Al films as buffer layers for high-temperature superconducting thin films on amorphous substrates

We have prepared c-axis oriented YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-y/ (YBCO) thin films on amorphous substrates, such as SiO/sub 2/ and soda potassium glass, by using Al(111) buffer layer. Before preparation of YBCO film, Al surface was oxidized at a substrate temperature of 590/spl deg/C under (O/sub 2/+O/sub 3/;8%) atmosphere of 1 mTorr. This AlO/sub x/ was in an amorphous state according to X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) measurements. YBCO films were formed on amorphous substrates with the AlO/sub x//Al layer using an ArF excimer laser deposition technique. The vacuum pressure and substrate temperature during deposition were typically 1 mTorr and 590/spl deg/C, respectively. XRD measurements indicate that all the YBCO films were predominantly oriented with the c-axis normal to the substrate surface. These results show that the AlO/sub x/ plays a role of buffer and seed layer which has periodic potential of atomic order corresponding to Al(111) plane. Critical temperature T/sub c(zero)/ of the c-axis oriented YBCO film on AlO/sub x//Al/glass substrate was 75 K. This technique can be applied to other oxide material such as ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials and is very useful for applications.

Field of study: Physics
Investigation of the products of carbothermal reduction of yttrium oxide by the hydrolysis method

La carboreduction de Y 2 O 3 est etudiee a relativement basse temperature. A 1 600°C, on obtient YC 2 en equilibre avec 20% de la phase Y 2 OC. Presence de traces d'hydrocarbures en C 3 et de petites quantites de CH 4

Field of study: Chemistry
Social Structures in Five East Midland Villages

S ocial and economic historians have long pondered with F. W. Maitland the question of 'how best to garner the great mass of information contained in the manorial rolls'. No less attractive to other disciplines would be Maitland's recommendation for the students of legal history: 'In the first place it would be well to pick out a few selected manors, to select them because they have unusually complete and continuous records, and then to print those records in full.' 1 But the limited resources of the medievalist that precluded this 'first' approach in the late nineteenth century are no more adequate to the task today. A glance through serial publications 2 reveals that the compromise of Maitland, to print selections from these records, has remained the main method of scholarly production. Indeed, over the past generation there has even been a falling off in this regard. In a recent study 3 based upon court rolls the present writer was able to isolate more clearly the hereditary nature of customary tenancy and the 'regular' features of village mobility. While such features of village life are not unknown to the historian, there did emerge the fascinating possibility of organized research into the life of the villager who has hitherto remained the anonymous, voiceless object of studies in medieval society. Once the court roll is approached as more than a haphazard collection of evidence, and rather as an institution that recorded the work now done by a half-dozen social agencies, the court roll becomes potentially the greatest source for information upon medieval social life. For the greater part of this life was lived in villages, and village court rolls for medieval England are extant by the thousands. If the scores of volumes required to print the court rolls from merely one group of manors precludes Maitland's first approach, the vast amount of data in these volumes does attract the methods increasingly employed by the social scientist in the twentieth century. For these data approximate in magnitude resource material now more usual to the social survey. The following study is a survey intended to illustrate the data available in manorial court rolls and at least one method for the extraction of this material. For this survey there has been chosen the very detailed rolls of Ramsey villages for a six-decade period from the time these rolls became

Field of study: Economics, History
[Detoxication of poisoning by 11 metals by quinamic acid].

Quinamic acid, bis-(3-carboxy-5-N-dicarboxymethyl-aminomethyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolinyl-8)-5,8-dimethyl-6,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid is a new chelating agent first synthesized in this Institute. Quinamic acid iv 500 mg/kg markedly reduced the mortality of acute ip poisoning of ZnSO4,NiCl2,CdCl2, and UO2(N03)2 in mice(P<0.01). After ip uranyl nitrate (400 microg U/rat) following im quinamic acid 100 mg/rat, there was also an enhanced excretion of uranium in urine. The urinary U amounted to 49%±16% of the administered dose, whereas only 26%±8% in the control in 48 h. Within 2 weeks, treated rats showed less toxic reactions and renal damages than the control rats.The activity of urinary catalase in treated rats was significantly lower than that in controls.

Field of study: Biology, Chemistry, Medicine
Measurement of the gain and refraction effects in a solid state laser.

The gain and propagation constants, characterizing a lenslike medium, are calculated on the basis of some experimental results on the parameters which determine the Gaussian beam in its fundamental mode. The experiments were carried out with a ruby and a glass neodymium laser. The amplification and refraction effects are more important in the ruby as they are in the neodymium case. If the length of the optical cavity s large with respect to the length of the rod amplifier, an apparent change is observed in the characteristic parameters of the lenslike medium.

Field of study: Physics
The Political Economy of Poverty: Institutional and Technological Dimensions

The latecomer to the poverty problem is apt to conclude that poverty is a phenomenon of recent occurrence and discovery. Not over a decade ago we were being told that we were in a new era. Danger came not from too little but from superfluity, as one critic asserted.' The industrial economy had made goods so plentiful that we lived in a period of mass culture. The time was rapidly approaching when we would all be on one plane of living. Individual differences, tastes and standards would be reduced to one mass level. Already one could not tell the difference between the executive in his Brooks Brothers suit and the working man in his mass-produced imitation. The Cadillac in which the executive arrived at the office could hardly be differentiated from the Chevrolet in which the worker arrived at the plant.2 Although Professor Galbraith's The Affluent Society challenged this point of view, the book, because of its unfortunate title, was interpreted by those who run while reading as giving an economic authentication to the superfluity argument. In a sense, it did. In order to effectively contrast the shabbiness of the post office with the glitter of the night club, Galbraith did give many readers the impression that private expenditure was now for superfluities. This was undoubtedly an unanticipated effect of The Affluent Society. Other readers, perhaps slower but more perceptive, got from the book a different message. Thus, in a most peculiar sense Galbraith's The Affluent Society may be looked upon as the last shot fired in the superfluity argument and at the same time the opening shot in the war on poverty. The economic complacency of the 1950s has given way before a flood of articles and books pointing to some or all aspects of poverty in the American economy. It is doubtful that we have had such an outpouring of literature on the matter of poverty in the midst of plenty since the era of the "muckrakers."' The economic neophyte, whose counter-

Field of study: Economics
Representations of quiver Hecke algebras via Lyndon bases

A new class of algebras has been introduced by Khovanov and Lauda and independently by Rouquier. These algebras categorify one-half of the Quantum group associated to arbitrary Cartan data. In this paper, we use the combinatorics of Lyndon words to construct the irreducible representations of those algebras associated to Cartan data of finite type. This completes the classification of simple modules for the quiver Hecke algebra initiated by Kleshchev and Ram.

Field of study: Mathematics
Satisfação com a imagem corporal em acadêmicos ingressantes em cursos de educação física

Objetivou-se investigar a satisfacao com a imagem corporal e os fatores associados em academicos ingressantes em cursos de Educacao Fisica. Participaram 149 academicos (88 rapazes e 61 mocas) ingressantes em cursos de Educacao Fisica de uma universidade publica de Florianopolis/SC. Foram coletadas informacoes sociodemograficas (sexo, idade, estado civil e nivel economico), antropometricas (massa corporal e estatura) e relacionadas a imagem corporal (escala de silhuetas). Observou-se elevada proporcao de academicos insatisfeitos com a imagem corporal (79,2%), havendo maior insatisfacao pelo excesso de peso (53,0%). Os rapazes apontaram as silhuetas 4 e 5 como ideais (78,4%), enquanto as mocas preferiram as silhuetas 3 e 4 (75,4%). As mocas e os academicos com excesso de peso apresentaram, respectivamente, tres e 14 vezes mais chances de insatisfacao pelo excesso de peso quando comparados aos rapazes e eutroficos. A maioria dos academicos mostrou-se insatisfeita com a imagem corporal, havendo associacao com sexo e status do peso.

Field of study: Education
Heterologous expression of pentalenene synthase (PSS) from Streptomyces UC5319 in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.

For the first time, the pentalenene synthase (PSS) gene from Streptomyces UC5319 was expressed in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous, a native producer of astaxanthin. For the expression of the gene and the concurrent knock out of the native crtE or crtYB genes, two new vectors were engineered and used for the transformation of the wild-type strain of X. dendrorhous. The transformations resulted in white colonies, showing a complete shutdown of the carotenoid production. Furthermore, an additional vector was constructed for the insertion of the PSS gene in the rDNA of the yeast. All the mutant strains produce the sesquiterpene pentalenene and show no difference in growth when compared to the wild-type strain. In this report, we demonstrate that X. dendrorhous is a suitable host for the expression of heterologous terpene cyclases and for the production of foreign terpene compounds.

Field of study: Biology, Engineering
On some results on the stability of Markov operators

We formulate a criterion for the existence of an invariant measure for a Feller semigroup defined on a metric space with the e-property for bounded continuous functions and use it to prove the asymptotic stability of a semigroup satisfying a lower bound condition. Our results complement those of A. Lasota and J. A. Yorke in proper metric spaces and of T. Szarek in Polish spaces.

Field of study: Mathematics
Julian Bowsher and Pat Miller .The Rose and the Globe — Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark: Excavations 1988–91. MOLA Monograph 48. London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2009. xvi + 276 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. £26. ISBN: 978–1–901992–85–4.


Field of study: History
Mining Social Media Data for Analyzing Students Learning Experience

Social networking allows to create and connect to user produced content. Social networks like Fb or Facebook .Com, Twitter and so on Students everyday discussion in social media focused in their educational experience, mind-set, and bother about the learning procedure. Data from a great un- instrumented conditions or systems can present incredibly much valuable information to analyses student problem. Evaluating data from such a social networking can be challenging process. The situation of students activities| reveal from social mass media sited need human examination or Interaction. It offers attention on student's discussions on social media to find out problem and troubles within their educational practices. This newspaper proposes a workbox to set up both qualitative investigation and large-scale data mining system. First a sample is usually obtained from student and after that qualitative analysis conducted in that sample which is usually associated to engineering student's educational life. So just| posts related to executive student is collected. After that classification algorithm is put on make more accurate consequence it is going to perform filtering.  Computers and education, Education,

Field of study: Engineering