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Factors affecting the heat coagulation of homogenized coffee cream
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Textpresso for Neuroscience: Searching the Full Text of Thousands of Neuroscience Research Papers
Textpresso is a text-mining system for scientific literature. Its two major features are access to the full text of research papers and the development and use of categories of biological concepts as well as categories that describe or relate objects. A search engine enables the user to search for one or a combination of these categories and/or keywords within an entire literature. Here we describe Textpresso for
Neuroscience, part of the core Neuroscience Information Framework
(NIF). The Textpresso site currently consists of 67,500 full text
papers and 131,300 abstracts. We show that using categories in
literature can make a pure keyword query more refined and meaningful.
We also show how semantic queries can be formulated with categories
only. We explain the build and content of the database and describe the
main features of the web pages and the advanced search options. We also
give detailed illustrations of the web service developed to provide
programmatic access to Textpresso. This web service is used by the NIF
interface to access Textpresso. The standalone website of Textpresso
for Neuroscience can be accessed at
http://www.textpresso.org/neuroscience
The Long Wavelength Array Software Library
The Long Wavelength Array Software Library (LSL) is a Python module that
provides a collection of utilities to analyze and export data collected at the
first station of the Long Wavelength Array, LWA1. Due to the nature of the data
format and large-N (100 inputs) challenges faced by the LWA, currently
available software packages are not suited to process the data. Using tools
provided by LSL, observers can read in the raw LWA1 data, synthesize a filter
bank, and apply incoherent de-dispersion to the data. The extensible nature of
LSL also makes it an ideal tool for building data analysis pipelines and
applying the methods to other low frequency arrays.Comment: accepted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation; 24 pages, 4
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Engage, Elicit, Experience, Explore: Applying Discovery Learning to Library Instruction - LOEX
Trends in treated drug misuse in the Midland Health Board Area 1996-2000. Occasional Paper no. 3.
This occasional paper contains information gathered by the National Drug Treatment Reporting System (NDTRS), an epidemiological database on treated drug misuse complied by the Drug Misuse Research Division (DMRD) of the Health Research Board (HRB). The data shows that between 1996 and 1999 the number of drug users presenting for treatment within the Midland Health Board (MHB) had more than doubled, from 63 clients in 1996 to 150 clients in 2000. The socio-demographic data showed that the typical client is male, in his early twenties and living in the family home. Clients were slightly older in 2000 than in 1996,with the mean age for all contacts rising from 22 years in 1996 to 24 years old in 2000. Cannabis is the main drug causing problems (67% in 2000), with opiates the drug causing second most problems (38% in the same year). In 2000 the majority (33 of 56 clients) inject their opiates, with over two thirds of IDUs having shared injecting equipment
A Reassessment of the Potential for Loss-framed Incentive Contracts to Increase Productivity: A Meta-analysis and a Real-effort Experiment
Substantial productivity increases have been reported when incentives are framed as losses rather than gains. Loss-framed contracts have also been reported to be preferred by workers. The results from our meta-analysis and real-effort experiment challenge these claims. The meta-analysis\u27 summary effect size of loss framing is a 0.16 SD increase in productivity. Whereas the summary effect size in laboratory experiments is a 0.33 SD, the summary effect size from field experiments is 0.02 SD. We detect evidence of publication biases among laboratory experiments. In a new laboratory experiment that addresses prior design weaknesses, we estimate an effect size of 0.12 SD. This result, in combination with the meta-analysis, suggests that the difference between the effect size estimates in laboratory and field experiments does not stem from the limited external validity of laboratory experiments, but may instead stem from a mix of underpowered laboratory designs and publication biases. More- over, in our experiment, most workers preferred the gain-framed contract and the increase in average productivity is only detectable in the subgroup of workers (20%) who preferred the loss-framed contracts. Based on the results from our experiment and meta-analysis, we believe that behavioral scientists should better assess preferences for loss-framed contracts and the magnitude of their effects on productivity before advocating for greater use of such contracts among private and public sector actors
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