nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Development and integration of a new electrical and computer engineering program

This article reports on the development of a new Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) combined degree program, and a corresponding department at a traditionally liberal arts public university. There are many aspects discussed in this writing — from high-level choices to the resources needed for such an endeavor. A new program requires many steps to achieve its approval, its successful integration in the academic infrastructure of the institution, the design of its curriculum, the hiring of faculty, the design of facilities, the institutional support in the form of resources, and the recruitment and retention of students.
Quality of life during rehabilitation: Rectal cancer patient and partner experiences with altered bowel function.

In 2010, the American Cancer Society has estimated rectal cancer affects over 39,670 adult patients in the United States. Five-year disease-free survival for rectal cancer patients with stage II/III disease ranges from 60-70%. Current gaps exist regarding long-term effects after treatment including altered bowel function and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) concerns from rectal cancer patient and partners' perspectives both individually and together during rehabilitation and as cancer survivors. The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe the experiences of adult rectal cancer patients and their partners during rehabilitation from cancer treatment, including long- term effects; (2) examine health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) issues for rectal cancer patients and their partners including well-being and coping during their rehabilitation and as survivors.



A qualitative descriptive study for a planned sample of 20 adult rectal cancer patients, stage II/III, and their partners from an academic health science hospital and cancer center has been conducted. Twelve patients and their partners have currently completed face to face semi-structured interviews. Patient participants were at least 6 months to 5 years post treatment. Qualitative descriptive design used purposive sampling to obtain broad information on rectal cancer patients' and partners' perspectives for content analysis.



Preliminary findings have revealed unexpected difficulties; chronic bowel function alterations; symptom unpredictability; nutrition intolerances; patient/partner adjustments; social concerns in going places, reactions by friends, work and financial strains; and, acceptance in living with it or chronic life changes as survivors. Partners acknowledged their own needs for information and support to assist their spouse or significant other. Further rich, thick descriptions will be presented in presentation of findings for 20 patient and partner responses.



Survivorship follow-up regarding these concerns should be emphasized for rectal cancer patients and their partners to formalize interventions for study to enhance HR-QOL well-being. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

Writers have created fictions of social perfection at least since Plato s "Republic. "Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intellectual history a name when he called his contribution to it "Utopia, "Greek for "no" "place."With each subsequent author cognizant of his predecessors and subject to altered real-world conditions which suggest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, no place changed. The fourteen essays presented in this book critically assess man s fascination with and seeking for no place. In discussing these central fictions, the contributors see no place from diverse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what no place means today. While it may be true that no place has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary actors through a costume dance no place else but here. from the PrefaceThe contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J. Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, William Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, and James W. Bittner."
Constructing Social Problems

There is no adequate definition of social problems within sociology, and there is not and never has been a sociology of social problems. That observation is the point of departure of this book. The authors aim to provide such a definition and to prepare the ground for the empirical study of social problems. They are aware that their objective will strike many fellow sociologists as ambitious, perhaps even arrogant. Their work challenges sociologists who have, over a period of fifty years, written treatises on social problems, produced textbooks cataloguing the nature, distribution, and causes of these problems, and taught many sociology courses. It is only natural that the authors' work will be viewed as controversial in light of the large literature which has established a "sociology of" a wide range of social problems-the sociology of race relations, prostitution, poverty, crime, mental illness, and so forth. In the 1970s when the authors were preparing for a seminar on the sociology of social problems, their review of the "literature" revealed the absence of any systematic, coherent statement of theory or method in the study of social problems. For many years the subject was listed and offered by university departments of sociology as a "service course" to present undergraduates with what they should know about the various "social pathologies" that exist in their society. This conception of social problems for several decades has been reflected in the substance and quality of the literature dominated by textbooks. In Constructing Social Problems, the authors propose that social problems be conceived as the claims-making activities of individuals or groups regarding social conditions they consider unjust, immoral, or harmful and that should be addressed. This perspective, as the authors have formulated it, conceives of social problems as a process of interaction that produces social problems as social facts in society. The authors further propose that this process and the social facts it produces are the data to be researched for the sociology of social problems. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with the discipline of sociology, especially its current theoretical development and growth.
SPA plant factory system construction for Technical College's engineering education

SPA (Speaking Plant Approach) is a comparatively modern cultivation method which grows plant according to their biological information. The SPA plant factory system has suitable elements for use in engineering education. In this paper, a new education trial in KTC (Kanazawa Technical College, a private technical college in Japan) through graduate study of the SPA plant factory system construction is introduced. The system includes five significant educational elements for engineers. They are: measurement, analysis, control, circuits, and algorithms. The importance of interdisciplinary education is also present since the system combines engineering and agriculture. The study program consists of five steps; researching literature and previous studies, system and algorithm design, hardware and software design, system construction, and system operation. The program was evaluated from the view point of CDIO and student feedback. The study contents satisfy the Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate elements of CDIO. The students have identified advantages to this type of interdisciplinary program, such as an interest to investigating other study fields, the novelty of combining life sciences and engineering, and the awareness of trial and error. From the survey, it was concluded that the trial is effective for engineering education.
Leveraging the DoD M&S Education Project for specialized Army M&S education

This paper describes our efforts to develop, deliver, and sustain two specialized courses, developed by faculty from Systems Engineering Department at the Naval Postgraduate School as part of a larger DoD M&S Education Project, on the topic of simulation for active Army and civilians. First, the "Advanced Simulation Course," sponsored by the Simulation Proponent Division, office of the Army Modeling & Simulation Directorate, provides a non-technical M&S perspective that covers the significant M&S issues and M&S activities throughout the Acquisition Life Cycle. The second course is "M&S in Engineering Product Design and Development." This course is intended for engineers at the Army Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) and focuses on the role of M&S in the product development process. Students complete this course with a thorough understanding of the overall capabilities of M&S in supporting their product design from within the construct of an appropriate process that allows for problem formulation, analysis, and interpretation.
Topographical art and historical geography: amateur English representations of Ligurian landscape in the early nineteenth century

This paper assesses the value of amateur topographical art for historical geographers and landscape historians. It examines the work of two amateur artists, Elizabeth Fanshawe and William Strangways, made in Liguria, northwest Italy, to assess the value of topographical art for understanding past landscapes. The identification and examination of the views takes advantage of a multidisciplinary approach which involves the use of historical cartography, oral history, written documents and field surveys. Three detailed case studies are used which provide insights into the landscape perception of early nineteenth-century foreign tourists and the cultural context in which they were produced. The determination of precise location allows rapidly sketched drawings to be understood and interrogated at the places they depicted. We argue that by grounding the drawings in this way we can add value both to the interpretation of the drawing itself and our understanding of the place it represents.
Bridging the academia-industry gap in software engineering: A client-oriented open source

Too often, computer science programs offer a software engineering course that emphasizes concepts, principles, and practical techniques, but fails to engage students in real-world software experiences. The authors have developed an approach to teaching undergraduate software engineering courses that integrates client-oriented project development and open source development practice. They call this approach the Client-Oriented Open Source Software (CO-FOSS) model. The advantages of this approach are that students are involved directly with a client, nonprofits gain a useful software application, and the project is available as open source for other students or organizations to extend and adapt. This chapter describes the motivation, elaborates the approach, and presents the results in substantial detail. The process is agile and the development framework is transferrable to other one-semester software engineering courses in a wide range of institutions.
Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics

Preface 1.  Rossellini's Resistance 3.  The National Language, Dialect, and the Southern Question 4. De Sica's and Zavattini's Neopopulism 5. Between the Vital Crises 6. Annus Mirabilis 7. Antonioni's Psychoanalysis of the "Boom" 8. New Wave Neorealism: Pasolini, Olmi, Rosi 9.
Against France: An American Novelistic Fantasy

Several years before the recent French-American diplomatic squabble, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, arguably America’s two greatest novelists, wrote major works of a markedly anti-French tenor. Indeed, both Ravelstein and The Human Stain, with their disparate griefs against the French, share a remarkably similar plot: against a back-drop of Gallic treachery, a courageously conservative academic, condemned to death by his sexual excesses, asks, before dying, a novelist friend to write the story of his life. Framed by a consideration of an idiosyncratic work of American sculpture that appears to depict the sexual servicing of Abraham Lincoln and an evocation of the career of William Bullitt, Freud’s collaborator on a study of Woodrow Wilson and America’s ambassador to Paris during the fall of France, this essay offers a reading of both novels and raises the question of American sanctimony and the price France may be expected to pay for it.
A Comparison of Merged versus Non-merged Business Establishments in Britain: What Can we Learn from the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey?

The paper compares the structural characteristics, market conditions, organizational features, strategic behaviour and performance of merged versus unmerged private business establishments in the UK. The results are based on the analysis of the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The following conclusions are reached: merged establishments tend to be rather old, of small to medium size, more likely to involve manufacturing than services business, and to be part of conglomerate businesses. They are more likely to have an international market and to operate in oligopolistic markets. Nonetheless, they are perceived to operate in competitive conditions just as much as non-merged establishments. The merged manufacturing establishments are more likely to have been involved in restructuring strategies and to have cut jobs and achieved productivity gains. More merged establishments declare a below-average financial performance.
The Objective Indefiniteness Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The common-sense view of reality is expressed logically in Boolean subset logic (each element is either definitely in or not in a subset, i.e., either definitely has or does not have a property). But quantum mechanics does not agree with this "properties all the way down" picture of micro-reality. Are there other coherent alternative views of reality? A logic of partitions, dual to the Boolean logic of subsets (partitions are dual to subsets), was recently developed, and it immediately yields a logical version of information theory. In view of the subset-partition duality, partition logic is the alternative logic that abstractly describes an alternative view of micro-reality. When this mathematics of partitions is "lifted" to vector spaces, then it yields the mathematics of quantum mechanics. Thus the vision of micro-reality suggested by partition logic seems to match that described by quantum mechanics. The key concept explicated by partition logic is the old idea of "objective indefiniteness" (emphasized by Shimony). Thus partition logic, logical information theory, and the lifting program provide the "back story" so that the old idea then yields the objective indefiniteness interpretation of quantum mechanics.
URBAN HOUSING IN BARBADOS, WEST INDIES

Thinking concerning Third World housing has changed considerably over the past 20 years. The focus of this paper is urban housing in Barbados, where the evolution of the self-help vernacular architectural system during the early colonial era involved the combination of West African and southern English folk house types. It was the plantation-dominated land tenure system which, in combination with the local vernacular, gave rise to a distinctive form of movable chattel housing. Insecurity of tenure has served to impose a strict upper limit on the housing improvement efforts of a population long since convinced of the virtues of progressive self-help, of the sort advocated by J. F. C. Turner and other housing commentators. The present-day geographical and social outcomes of these historical forces are witnessed by marked variations in urban housing quality in Barbados, a feature illustrated by results drawn from the first ever comprehensive socio-geographical analysis of housing conditions in the Bridgetown metropolitan
Visitor and Firm Taxes Versus Environmental Options in a Dynamical Context

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the effects on economic agents’ behavior deriving from the introduction of financial activities aimed to environmental protection. The environmental protection mechanism we study should permit exchange of financial activities among citizens, firms, and Public Administration. Such a particular “financial market” is regulated by the Public Administration, but mainly fuelled by the interest of two classes of involved agents: firms and dwelling citizens. We assume that the adoption process of financial decisions is described by a two-population evolutionary game and we study the basic features of the resulting dynamics.
The US, the USSR and the Berlin crises: Perceptions and motivations

Berlin has been a central issue in the postwar dispute between East and West. Often it has been the site of political tensions that brought the Soviet bloc and the West to the brink of open combat. Its geographical location, unique political status, and dramatic division have made Berlin an important symbol in the struggle for the control of Germany and central Europe. Berlin's present role in international politics is noticeably muted. Yet its political status remains essentially unchanged. It remains sharply divided between the East and West even after the past decade's concessions from both sides. Its geographical location is now no less important strategically or politically.
Interactive Reference Region Based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Through Decomposition

Many evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMOs) methodologies have been proposed and shown a great potential in approximating the entire Pareto front. While in real world, what decision makers (DMs) want is one or several solutions to satisfy their requirements. It has become a hot problem that dynamically using preference information provided by DMs during the optimization process guides the search of EMO algorithms. An interactive reference region-based evolutionary algorithm through decomposition is proposed, denoted as RR-MOEA/D in this paper, which focuses the search on the desire of DMs to save computational resources. MOEA/D, as a well-known multi-objective optimization algorithm, is used as a basic framework here. In MOEA/D, by dealing with the sub-problems in the preference region and ignoring uninterested ones, the solutions obtained can converge to the regions which the DM prefers on the Pareto front and the computational complexity can be saved to a great extent. At each interaction, a humanized and simple interactive condition is adopted so that the reference region can be changed in a very intuitive way if the DM is unsatisfied the results in the interactive process. A rapid interaction is designed and a set of rough solutions can be obtained quickly whenever the preference information is changed. The proposed algorithm is tested on several benchmark problems and the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can take full use of preference information and successfully converge to the reference region due to its reasonable and simple interaction mechanism.
P02.108. Effects of integrative medicine on pain and anxiety for inpatient orthopedic patients

Data were obtained from the electronic health record (EHR) for selected orthopedic inpatient admissions during 2010. Four orthopedic populations were identified by APR-DRG categories: 1) hip replacement, 2) knee replacement, 3) back surgery, and 4) medical back pain. Receipt of IM therapies was the treatment of interest. Primary outcomes were change in patient reported pain and anxiety. Patients rated pain and anxiety levels before and after IM treatments using a self-report intensity scale (0 to 10), with higher scores indicating higher levels of pain and anxiety. Chi-square tests were used to test for significant differences in the percentage of patients who received specific IM therapies. Significant differences in mean pain and anxiety score changes were evaluated using paired t-tests.
Reflections on an Operating System Design

The main features of a general purpose multiaccess operating system developed for the CDC 6400 at Berkeley are presented, and its good and bad points are discussed as they appear in retrospect. Distinctive features of the design were the use of capabilities for protection, and the organization of the system into a sequence of layers, each building on the facilities provided by earlier ones and protecting itself from the malfunctions of later ones. There were serious problems in maintaining the protection between layers when levels were added to the memory hierarchy; these problems are discussed and a new solution is described.
An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2000-2004)

This paper presents the findings of a five-year study of the top scholars and institutions in the Systems and Software Engineering field, as measured by the quantity of papers published in the journals of the field in 2000-2004. The top scholar is Hai Zhuge of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the top institution is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. This paper is part of an ongoing study, conducted annually, that identifies the top 15 scholars and institutions in the most recent five-year period.
Exploring exotic superfluidity of polarized ultracold fermions in optical lattices

Superfluidity with imbalanced populations of harmonically trapped ultracold fermions in a two-dimensional optical lattice is investigated by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The intriguing richness of patterns between competing ferromagnetic and superfluid phases for different filling densities has been revealed. At low density, the main experimental features could be reproduced, especially the bimodal distribution of ferromagnetism. The superfluid-pairing gap oscillates radially, demonstrating the realization of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. In the high-density regime, another type of FFLO state with gap oscillation along the angular direction shows up and the accompanying ferromagnetic order modulates accordingly. The square lattice like FFLO state may appear at the intermediate densities. Moreover, we suggest other experimental proposals of observing the unique FFLO features straightforwardly.