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REPS Center Data Management Plan
No full text69A3552348323The Research and Education for Promoting Safety (REPS) Tier 1 University Transportation Center will combine cutting-edge research from different fields, especially civil engineering and computer science, to improve transportation safety and address infrastructure, traffic operations, and cybersecurity challenges. While traditional engineering approaches to safety have significantly reduced fatalities, injuries, property damage, and other negative impacts on transportation infrastructure, safety remains a significant threat to people in the United States and across the globe. Enhanced multidisciplinary collaboration between key fields could improve the current approach to safety and lead to even greater gains in transportation safety. By integrating the strengths of engineering, computer science, and other disciplines, REPS will develop innovative solutions to transportation safety challenges
Determinants of Private Afforestation in the Republic of Ireland
No full textThis paper employs a panel regression analysis using county-level data to quantify the relative importance of competing forestry and agricultural policy incentives in explaining trends in private afforestation in Ireland. It concludes that an increase in the level of up front payments to planters is the most cost efficient way of increasing planting levels. The introduction of the Irish agri-environment programme REPS has contributed to a significant decline in the level of forestry planting and offset the recent increases in the level of forestry grants and premia. Several policy reforms to encourage forestry planting in Ireland are proposed, including greater integration of forestry with the REPS scheme and increasing the value of the initial payment which farmers receive.
The extent of farmer participation in the rural environment protection scheme – what habitats are actually being protected?
No full textThis paper modelled the participation decision of Irish farmers in an agri-environmental scheme. It also uses the sub sample of farmers in the National Farm Survey actively participating in the scheme in 2007 to model the various biodiversity options undertaken as a function of farmer demographic characteristics, farm characteristic and habitat variables. The results of the analysis demonstrate that younger, married farmers with larger farms are more likely to participate in REPS and that the voluntary aspect of REPS can mean that not all habitat types are equally likely to be covered by the scheme. Farmers with internationally important habitats on their farm, like intact peatlands or semi-natural grasslands are more likely to participate in REPS. However, there is evidence to suggest that these farmers are choosing to participate in REPS because they view their land as having low economic value rather than having high ecological value. Farmers with water or wetland and forest are less likely to participate in REPS, which indicates that some important ecosystems may not be included in the scheme. The 1 biodiversity options undertaken by the farmers are found to facilitate the management of the system of farming on the holing rather than the type of habitats on the land.Environmental Economics and Policy,
Episode 12: Power and Resistance in Holocaust Music: Dr. Tamara Reps Freeman
No full textIn this episode, Dr. Tamara Reps Freeman--an ethnomusicologist specializing in Holocaust music and Holocaust music education--visits from Montclair State University in New Jersey to tell us how she got into this field, who her prized viola belonged to, and what she learned from Holocaust survivors that inspired her work. She plays for us a couple of songs (which began as poems) that were performed and/or written in the camps
Desigualdad y democracia : políticas públicas e innovación social : actas oficiales del V Congreso de la Red Española de Política Social (REPS)
No full textActes del congrés celebrat al Palau Macaya, Obra Social La Caixa. Barcelona, 5 i 6 de febrer de 2015Los congresos que la Red Española de Política Social (REPS) organiza desde 1990 se han convertido, posiblemente, en el principal foro de debate científico en torno al presente y futuro del Estado de bienestar en España. Las actas del último encuentro, celebrado en Barcelona el año pasado, son buena prueba de ello, con más de 150 trabajos, entre ponencias, comunicaciones y pósteres. Junto con esta elevada participación, cabe señalar la amplia variedad de temas abordados, que, de hecho, cubren prácticamente todos los ejes y destinatarios de las actuales políticas sociales en Europa occidental. Esta área geográfica es objeto de la mayoría de los estudios presentados -en muchos casos, realizados con perspectiva comparada-, pero se ha recogido también un puñado de investigaciones con enfoque latinoamericano -entre ellas, la ponencia que abre el volumen-, que vienen a recordar lo mucho que se puede aprender en ambos lados del Atlántico sobre los procesos de construcción y deconstrucción del Estado de bienestar en otras latitudes. Como indica Margarita León, directora del congreso, en el encuentro se analizaron las desigualdades emergentes y se reflexionó sobre hasta qué punto, de qué manera y con qué resultados desempeñan las políticas públicas su deber de garantizar la cohesión social. La sostenibilidad financiera, la innovación estratégica y la gobernanza territorial aparecieron como importantes desafíos del sistema de protección social
Mobile application "Sets & Reps"
No full textKvalifikācijas darba “Mobīlā lietotne "Sets & Reps"“ ietvaros ir izveidota lietotne "Sets & Reps", kura nodrošina iespēju izveidot savu treniņa plānu, pierakstīt treniņā paveikto, un kalendārā aplūkot visus savus paveiktos treniņus. Lietotne ir izveidota ar starpplatformas programmatūras izstrādes rīku Flutter. Datu glabāšanu nodrošina Google Firebase serviss.As the core part of the qualification paper “Mobile application "Sets & Reps"“ a mobile application "Sets & Reps" was created, which provides the opportunity to create your own workout plan, write down what you have done during the workout and view all your completed workouts in the calendar. The app is built with the cross-platform development tool Flutter. Data storage is provided by the Google Firebase service
Problem Solving and Functional Fixedness: A Comparison Between Eco-Reps and Non Eco-Reps
No full textA quasi experiment was conducted to examine functional fixedness and creative problem solving. The purpose of this research was to attempt to identify differences in cognitive ability between recyclers and non recyclers. This researcher investigated whether recycling group affiliation or priming for functional fixedness would affect task performance among college students. A tower building activity was developed for this study to determine if members of a college recycling group, the Eco-Reps, would complete a problem solving activity faster than non Eco-Reps. Some participants in each group were primed for functional fixedness. This researcher hypothesized that Eco-Reps would complete the task faster than non Eco-Reps. A second hypothesis was that participants primed for functional fixedness would complete the task slower than participants who were not primed for functional fixedness. A 2x2 factorial design was used to examine Eco-Rep group affiliation and priming for functional fixedness. The results of a two-factor ANOVA calculation revealed a statistically significant main effect for task completion time between participants primed and not primed for functional fixedness. The times were faster for the not primed for functional fixedness group. The ANOVA did not reveal differences in task completion times between Eco-Reps and non Eco-Reps and the interaction was also not significant. Some results of this study imply that those who participate in a university recycling program may not be more readily able to utilize objects in atypical manners. The results of this study may be valuable to organizations with members who wish to increase recycling by encouraging individuals to reuse disposable objects in atypical ways. These results also indicate that specific training related to reusing disposable items as a form of recycling is necessary to decrease functional fixedness which could increase recycling behaviors
REPS-1 expression and function.
No full text<p>(A) The <i>reps-1</i> locus. The deletion in the <i>tm2156</i> strain is also shown. (B) Protein lysates from wild-type and a transgenic line carrying a translational fusion of the <i>reps-1</i> gene with GFP (<i>reps-1p::REPS-1::GFP</i>) were probed with indicated antibodies. (C) Images (epifluorescence) of hermaphrodites carrying the <i>reps-1p::REPS-1::GFP</i> transgene. Anterior is to the left, ventral down. NR: nerve ring, INT: intestine, ESC: excretory system, V: vulva, NC: nerve cord, M: muscle cell. The asterisks indicate nerve commissures. Bars: 100 µm in a, 20 µm in b, 10 µm in c and d. (D) Aldicarb test on strains carrying mutations in EH proteins. Synchronized young adult animals were plated onto NGM plates containing 0.5 mM aldicarb and assayed after the indicated times for movement. The number of animals responding to a light touch with a platinum wire is reported. Results are the average of three independent experiments, each performed on 60 animals/strain. Note that the curves for N2 and <i>rme-</i>1 worms overlap almost completely. P values are indicated in the table.</p
TSL: A System for Generating Abstract Interpreters and its Application to Machine-Code Analysis
No full textThis paper describes the design and implementation of a system, called TSL (for "Transformer Specification Language"), that provides a systematic solution to the problem of creating retargetable tools for analyzing machine code. TSL is a tool generator--i.e., a meta-tool--that automatically creates different abstract interpreters for machine-code instruction sets. The most challenging technical issue that we faced in designing TSL was how to automate the generation of the set of abstract transformers for a given abstract interpretaton of a given instruction set. From a description of the concrete operational semantics of an instruction set, together with the datatypes and operations that define an abstract domain, TSL automatically creates the set of abstract transformers for the instructions of the instruction set. TSL advances the state of the art in program analysis because it provides two dimensions of parameterizability: (i) a given analysis component can be retargeted to different instruction sets; (ii) multiple analysis components can be created automatically from a single specification of the concrete operational semantics of the language to be analyzed. TSL is an abstract-transformer-generator generator. The paper describes the principles behind TSL, and discusses how one uses TSL to develop different abstract interpreters
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