An initial experiment with the continuous gravity monitoring using the gPhone 145 to support hydrology and earthquake studies

A new statistical method for response steepest improvement is proposed. This method is based on an initial experiment performed on two-level factorial design and first-order statistical linear model with coded numerical factors and response variables. The factors for the runs of response steepest improvement are estimated from the data of initial experiment and determination of the conditional extremum. Confidence intervals are determined for those factors. The first-order polynomial response function fitted to the data of the initial experiment makes it possible to predict the response of the runs for response steepest improvement. The linear model of the response prediction, as well as the results of the estimation of the parameters of the linear model for the initial experiment and factors for the experiments of the steepest improvement of the response, are used when finding prediction response intervals in these experiments. Kknowledge of the prediction response intervals in the runs of steepest improvement of the response makes it possible to detect the results beyond their limits and to find the limiting values of the factors for which further runs of response steepest improvement become ineffective and a new initial experiment must be carried out.

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Journey to the Advisor Within: Exploring Challenge, Transformation and Evolution in Advisor Stories

Relay Journal ◽

10.37237/relay/020207 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 319-322

Author(s):

Gamze Güven-Yalçın ◽

Stephanie Lea Howard ◽

Hatice Karaaslan

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Reflective Practice ◽

Message Board ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Narrative Style ◽

The Third ◽

Visual Message ◽

Knowledge And Practice ◽

The Individual ◽

Academic Year

In the Reflective Practice column of the third issue of the Relay Journal, Yamamoto (2019) remarked on the importance of creating a platform for advisors to voice their views, feelings, and experiences, and suggested a need for more reflective narratives to be posted from different social, historical, and cultural contexts in order to provide an intimate view inside advising sessions, thereby offering a better understanding of said advising practices. The aim was to create a forum where advisors could learn from each other, and ultimately, everyone could mutually benefit from the experiences shared. To further this innovative research into Advising in Language Learning (ALL), the initial experiment by language advsiors at Kanda has been replicated in a different setting with four learning advisors from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey. The design used by the advisors at Kanda, a narrative style adopted while telling the stories, has been expanded to include a visual message board to which 20 learning advisors have contributed with their short reflective captions on their advisor selves. Additionally, the theme used by the advisors at Kanda, “the most memorable advising experience of this academic year” has been altered in our case to avoid repetition and to allow reflection on different aspects of the advising experiences. Thus, our narratives and the visual message board will examine two different themes: (1) How has advising affected you? (2) How do you define yourself as an advisor? Four narratives have elaborated on the first theme of the influence of advising knowledge and practice on the individual advisors, and the visual message board includes 20 images with reflective captions on the second theme of defining advisor identities.

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Locate your soundscape: interacting with the acoustic environment

Multimedia Tools and Applications ◽

10.1007/s11042-021-10683-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nicola Orio ◽

Berardina De Carolis ◽

Francesco Liotard

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Visual Information ◽

Mobile App ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Web Based ◽

Acoustic Environment ◽

Entire Country ◽

Interactive Map ◽

Main Components ◽

The City

AbstractAlthough overshadowed by visual information, sound plays a central role in how people perceive an environment. The effect of a landscape is enriched by its soundscape, that is, the stratification of all the acoustic sources that, often unconsciously, are heard. This paper presents a framework for archiving, browsing, and accessing soundscapes, either remotely or on-site. The framework is based on two main components: a web-based interface to upload and search the recordings of an acoustic environment, enriched by in- formation about geolocation, timing, and context of the recording; and a mobile app to browse and listen to the recordings, using an interactive map or GPS information. To populate the archive, we launched two crowdsourcing initiatives. An initial experiment examined the city of Padua’s soundscape through the participation of a group of undergraduate students. A broader experiment, which was proposed to all people in Italy, aimed at tracking how the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown was dramatically changing the soundscape of the entire country.

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In-line monitoring of Li-ion battery electrode porosity and areal loading using active thermal scanning - modeling and initial experiment

Journal of Power Sources ◽

10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.07.084 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 375 ◽

pp. 138-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Przemyslaw Rupnowski ◽

Michael Ulsh ◽

Bhushan Sopori ◽

Brian G. Green ◽

David L. Wood ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Li Ion Battery ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Battery Electrode ◽

Li Ion

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Molecular Fingerprinting of Indian Medicinal Tree Sara Asoca using RAPD Markers

Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia ◽

10.13005/bbra/2874 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 701-705

Author(s):

Shailendra Singh Yadav ◽

Ashwini A. Waoo

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Genomic Dna ◽

Rapd Markers ◽

Conservation Strategies ◽

Molecular Fingerprinting ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Medicinal Tree ◽

Average Percentage ◽

Saraca Asoca ◽

Polymorphic Bands

Saraca asoca is an important medicinal tree facing a serious problem of reduction from its instinctivetenancy in India.Before formulation of conservation strategies for geographical protection of S. asoca genotypes available in India, it is necessary to characterize them. In the current study, the RAPD markers have been utilized effectively for categorization of S. asoca collected from 15 diverse sites of India. An initial experiment on the amplification suitability of genomic DNA samples of four S. asoca was done with 35RAPD primers. Among them only twenty sixproved their efficiency in two times repeat amplification.Total 146 bands were amplified and out of these 97 bands were found to be polymorphic. The average numbers of total band was 5.61 while average numbers of polymorphic bands was 3.73. The numbers of bands produced per primer ranged from 3 (OPE-15) to 8 (RUF205). Among all studied markers the highest percentage (100%) of polymorphism was demonstrated by only one marker (OPE-06). The lowest percent of polymorphicm (20%) was demonstrated by marker RUF211. The average percentage of polymorphism was 66.44%. Cluster analysis grouped all the S. asoca genotypes under study into two groups. Grouping of genotypes according to their sites of collection demonstrates higher similarity among or between them. The results obtained in the current study may help to formulate conservation strategies for the conservation of S. asoca genotypes.

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What’s Worth Talking About? Information Theory Reveals How Children Balance Informativeness and Ease of Production

Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0956797617699848 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (7) ◽

pp. 954-966 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Colin Bannard ◽

Marla Rosner ◽

Danielle Matthews

Keyword(s):

Information Theory ◽

Information Content ◽

Low Frequency ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Information Theoretic ◽

Information Theoretic Measures

Of all the things a person could say in a given situation, what determines what is worth saying? Greenfield’s principle of informativeness states that right from the onset of language, humans selectively comment on whatever they find unexpected. In this article, we quantify this tendency using information-theoretic measures and report on a study in which we tested the counterintuitive prediction that children will produce words that have a low frequency given the context, because these will be most informative. Using corpora of child-directed speech, we identified adjectives that varied in how informative (i.e., unexpected) they were given the noun they modified. In an initial experiment ( N = 31) and in a replication ( N = 13), 3-year-olds heard an experimenter use these adjectives to describe pictures. The children’s task was then to describe the pictures to another person. As the information content of the experimenter’s adjective increased, so did children’s tendency to comment on the feature that adjective had encoded. Furthermore, our analyses suggest that children balance informativeness with a competing drive to ease production.

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ON A KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF MOBILE LASER SCANNING POINT CLOUDS

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-343-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol XLII-4 ◽

pp. 343-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Lemmens

Keyword(s):

Point Cloud ◽

Laser Scanning ◽

Decision Rules ◽

Point Clouds ◽

Bench Mark ◽

Automated Classification ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Data Set ◽

Knowledge Based

Abstract. A knowledge-based system exploits the knowledge, which a human expert uses for completing a complex task, through a database containing decision rules, and an inference engine. Already in the early nineties knowledge-based systems have been proposed for automated image classification. Lack of success faded out initial interest and enthusiasm, the same fate neural networks struck at that time. Today the latter enjoy a steady revival. This paper aims at demonstrating that a knowledge-based approach to automated classification of mobile laser scanning point clouds has promising prospects. An initial experiment exploiting only two features, height and reflectance value, resulted in an overall accuracy of 79% for the Paris-rue-Madame point cloud bench mark data set.

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Profile of HBV Integration in the Plasma DNA of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients

Current Genomics ◽

10.2174/1389202919666181002144336 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 61-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Weiyang Li ◽

Xiaofang Cui ◽

Qing Huo ◽

Yanwei Qi ◽

Yuhui Sun ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽

Next Generation Sequencing ◽

Hepatitis B ◽

Direct Evidence ◽

Plasma Samples ◽

Plasma Dna ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Integration Sites ◽

Significant Enrichment ◽

Generation Sequencing

Background: Hepatitis B Viral (HBV) infection is one of the major causes of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). Mounting evidence had provided that the HBV integration might be a critical contributor of HCC carcinogenesis. Objective and Methods: To explore the profile of HBV integration in the plasma DNA, the method of next-generation sequencing, HBV capture and bioinformatics had been employed to screen for HBV integration sites in the plasma samples. Results: In the initial experiment, a total of 87 breakpoints were detected in the 20 plasma samples. The distribution of breakpoints showed that there was significant enrichment of breakpoints in the region of intron. Furthermore, the HBV breakpoints were prone to occur in the region of X protein (1,700-2,000bp) in the plasma samples. The pathway analysis had revealed that the HBV integrations sites were specifically enriched in the cancer pathway. Conclusion: Altogether, our results had provided direct evidence for the HBV integration in plasma DNA, and they might be potentially useful for future HCC prognosis and diagnosis.

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An Objective Method of Assessing a Stress Syndrome Related to Achievement Motivation

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1964.19.1.183 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 183-197 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Warren Thiesen ◽

Ronald H. Forgus ◽

Fred E. Spaner

Keyword(s):

Heart Rate ◽

Achievement Motivation ◽

Heart Rate Response ◽

Test Procedure ◽

Objective Method ◽

Psychosomatic Disorders ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Induced Stress ◽

Stress Syndrome ◽

Speed And Accuracy

An approach to the definition and assessment of a stress syndrome related to achievement motivation is described. Because of the importance it has assumed in some recent psychosomatic hypotheses and because of its broader implications for personality theory and research, a relatively simple and objective means of measuring the intensity of stress referable to this syndrome seemed necessary. Toward this end a standard psychophysiological test procedure was devised. The method yields objective measures of degree and duration of heart-rate elevation in response to tasks emphasizing speed and accuracy pressures. An initial experiment demonstrated the validity of some theoretical constructs underlying the procedure. A retest study demonstrated its replicability and its potential for measuring adaptation to stress. The results indicate that the sustained heart-rate response, as utilized in this procedure, is a sensitive and convenient measure of stress associated with achievement motivation. It is suggested that the test battery and methodology described may be useful in research concerning striving-induced stress and its role in psychosomatic disorders.

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The Effect of Geographic Distance on Earnings Management Decisions

Behavioral Research in Accounting ◽

10.2308/bria-2021-003 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew J. Hayes ◽

Michael J. Mowchan

Keyword(s):

Earnings Management ◽

Geographic Distance ◽

Management Styles ◽

Experimental Setting ◽

Management Decisions ◽

Initial Experiment ◽

Country Factors ◽

Acceptable Method ◽

Distant Location ◽

Willingness To Use

Prior research has found evidence that country factors and management styles influence earnings management decisions in various geographic locations. Extending this research, we utilize an experimental setting to isolate the effect of geographic distance on the willingness to manage earnings in a near/distant location. In an initial experiment, we find less acceptable earnings management methods generate greater concerns about the method (ethicality and riskiness) leading to less willingness to manage earnings. Yet, greater geographic distance between the decisionmaker and reporting location attenuates these concerns, resulting in increased willingness to use a less acceptable method. In contrast, individuals are willing to use a more acceptable method to manage earnings regardless of geographic distance. These findings are consistent with construal level theory (CLT) and are corroborated in a second experiment where we find that greater geographic distance reduces managers’ focus on the means of earnings management, thereby reducing concerns about the method.

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