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    CMP855918_Appendix – Supplemental material for Non-violent resistance and the quality of democracy

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    Supplemental material, CMP855918_Appendix for Non-violent resistance and the quality of democracy by Felix S Bethke and Jonathan Pinckney in Conflict Management and Peace Science</p

    Replication_files – Supplemental material for Non-violent resistance and the quality of democracy

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    Supplemental material, Replication_files for Non-violent resistance and the quality of democracy by Felix S Bethke and Jonathan Pinckney in Conflict Management and Peace Science</p

    Disaggregation and classification of residential water events from high-resolution smart water meter data using unsupervised machine learning methods

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    The residential sector accounts for a significant amount of water consumption in the United States. Understanding this water consumption behavior provides opportunity for water savings, which are important for sustaining freshwater resources. This study analyzed 1-second resolution smart water meter data from a 4-person household over the course of one year. The smart meter data were disaggregated using derivative signals of the influent water flow rate at the water main entrance to the home to identify start and end times of water events. k-means clustering, an unsupervised machine learning method, then categorized these water events based on information collected from the appliance end-uses. The use of unsupervised learning substantially reduces the training data requirements and lowers the barrier of implementation for the model. Peak demand times for each day were determined and water use profiles were analyzed to identify seasonal, weekly, and daily trends. These results provide insight into opportunities to reduce water consumption within the household, including the reduction of water consumption during peak demand hours. The widespread implementation of this type of smart water metering and disaggregation system could provide opportunity to improve water conservation and efficiency on a larger scale and reduce stress on local infrastructure systems and water resources.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-08-25 without embargo termsThe student, Gabrielle Bethke, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 11:49.The student, Gabrielle Bethke, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 12:24.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-15 at 13:25.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15349 on 2020-08-25 at 17:14:20Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T21:58:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BETHKE-THESIS-2020.pdf: 1268860 bytes, checksum: acf61606bc68d84c793af972c68d71a7 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4213 bytes, checksum: 4697abef225c7a10f12dd7ea384b6c3c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-05-1

    World Summary of αs (2015)

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    This is a preliminary update of the measurements of αs and the determination of the world average value of αs (M2Z) presented in the 2013/2014 edition of the Review of Particle Properties [1]

    Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)

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    This study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Measurement of parton shower observables with OPAL

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    A study of QCD coherence is presented based on a sample of about 397,000 e+e- hadronic annihilation events collected at √s = 91 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP. The study is based on four recently proposed observables that are sensitive to coherence effects in the perturbative regime. The measurement of these observables is presented, along with a comparison with the predictions of different parton shower models. The models include both conventional parton shower models and dipole antenna models. Different ordering variables are used to investigate their influence on the predictions

    Author&apos;s address:

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    Can archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar&apos;s ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar&apos;s ideas through reading a formal text description (i.e., invisible author format). For the invisible author, native language speakers scored significantly higher than the non-native language speakers on a corresponding exam question (i.e., a cognitive measure), generated more words on the exam question (i.e., a motivational measure), and mentioned the author&apos;s name more often in answering the exam question (i.e., an affective measure). For the visible author, the groups did not differ on any of these measures. These findings provide evidence for the idea that making the author visible through audiovisual TV interviews can eliminate the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers. 3 Universities around the world serve students who are non-native speakers of th
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