Collaborative Participant Notes from the 2019 ETD Symposium at Purdue University on May 23, 2019

This collaborative notes document was shared and edited in real-time by participants of the Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) on May 23, 2019, at Purdue University

Taking the Plunge: Requiring the ETD

It made sense for Caltech, the California Institute of Technology (a private, technically focused, U.S. university, http://www.caltech.edu), to go electronic when it comes to theses. It took, however, more than three years: From March 1999 when Prof. Ed Fox of the Virginia Technical University spoke at Caltech to July 2002 when ETDs became required for all PhD candidates. How was it done and what are the lessons learned

ORCIDs in the ETD submission process

Poster presented at Open Repositories 2016 in Dublin, IrelandIn early spring of 2015 the University of Texas at Austin added an option for graduate students to claim and add an ORCID to their ETD submission. At the time, we weren’t prepared to publicize the option but we want to make it available for anyone to use. We intended to provide education and outreach at some point in the future. In the summer of 2015, library staff noticed that many submissions were coming through Vireo with an ORCID included. An initial look at the data revealed approximately 29% of students had chosen to include an ORCID. This was quite a surprise, so in an effort to better understand how many students were choosing this option, we decided to investigate the use of ORCID for all 2015 submissions. A complete assessment of ORCID will be done once all the December 2015 submissions are finished being processed in late February. We intend to look at total numbers, numbers by department, and by degree level (masters vs doctoral). We will present our findings along with plans for integration of ORCID with our DSpace repository, and a discussion of marketing efforts to increase the use of ORCID.UT Librarie

Generalized Emphatic Temporal Difference Learning: Bias-Variance Analysis

We consider the off-policy evaluation problem in Markov decision processes with function approximation. We propose a generalization of the recently introduced \emph{emphatic temporal differences} (ETD) algorithm \citep{SuttonMW15}, which encompasses the original ETD($\lambda$), as well as several other off-policy evaluation algorithms as special cases. We call this framework \ETD, where our introduced parameter $\beta$ controls the decay rate of an importance-sampling term. We study conditions under which the projected fixed-point equation underlying \ETD\ involves a contraction operator, allowing us to present the first asymptotic error bounds (bias) for \ETD. Our results show that the original ETD algorithm always involves a contraction operator, and its bias is bounded. Moreover, by controlling $\beta$, our proposed generalization allows trading-off bias for variance reduction, thereby achieving a lower total error.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.0341

Effector-triggered defence against apoplastic fungal pathogens

Copyright 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). hR gene-mediated host resistance against apoplastic fungal pathogens is not adequately explained by the terms pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) or effector-triggered immunity (ETI). Therefore, it is proposed that this type of resistance is termed ‘effector-triggered defence’ (ETD). Unlike PTI and ETI, ETD is mediated by R genes encoding cell surface-localised receptor-like proteins (RLPs) that engage the receptor-like kinase SOBIR1. In contrast to this extracellular recognition, ETI is initiated by intracellular detection of pathogen effectors. ETI is usually associated with fast, hypersensitive host cell death, whereas ETD often triggers host cell death only after an elapsed period of endophytic pathogen growth. In this opinion, we focus on ETD responses against foliar fungal pathogens of cropsPeer reviewe

ETD Submission Agreement

Submission agreement a student agrees to in order to upload their thesis or dissertation to ScholarWorks@Georgia State University. THIS VERSION IS SUPERSEDED BY THE JULY 2018 VERSIO