Acknowledgement Entity Recognition In Cord-19 Papers, Jian Wu, Pei Wang, Xin Wei, Sarah Rajtmajer, C. Lee Giles, Christopher Griffin

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Acknowledgements are ubiquitous in scholarly papers. Existing acknowledgement entity recognition methods assume all named entities are acknowledged. Here, we examine the nuances between acknowledged and named entities by analyzing sentence structure. We develop an acknowledgement extraction system, AckExtract based on open-source text mining software and evaluate our method using manually labeled data. AckExtract uses the PDF of a scholarly paper as input and outputs acknowledgement entities. Results show an overall performance of F₁=0.92. We built a supplementary database by linking CORD-19 papers with acknowledgement entities extracted by AckExtract including persons and organizations and find that only up to …

Opening Books And The National Corpus Of Graduate Research, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox, Jian Wu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Virginia Tech University Libraries, in collaboration with Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science and Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science, request $505,214 in grant funding for a 3-year project, the goal of which is to bring computational access to book-length documents, demonstrating that with Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). The project is motivated by the following library and community needs. (1) Despite huge volumes of book-length documents in digital libraries, there is a lack of models offering effective and efficient computational access to these long documents. (2) Nationwide open access services for ETDs generally function at the metadata level. …

A Heuristic Baseline Method For Metadata Extraction From Scanned Electronic Theses And Dissertations, Muntabir H. Choudhury, Jian Wu, William A. Ingam, Edward A. Fox

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Extracting metadata from scholarly papers is an important text mining problem. Widely used open-source tools such as GROBID are designed for born-digital scholarly papers but often fail for scanned documents, such as Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). Here we present a preliminary baseline work with a heuristic model to extract metadata from the cover pages of scanned ETDs. The process started with converting scanned pages into images and then text files by applying OCR tools. Then a series of carefully designed regular expressions for each field is applied, capturing patterns for seven metadata fields: titles, authors, years, degrees, academic programs, …

Sail: Saliency-Driven Injection Of Aria Landmarks, Ali Selman Aydin, Shirin Feiz, Vikas Ashok, Iv Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Navigating webpages with screen readers is a challenge even with recent improvements in screen reader technologies and the increased adoption of web standards for accessibility, namely ARIA. ARIA landmarks, an important aspect of ARIA, lets screen reader users access different sections of the webpage quickly, by enabling them to skip over blocks of irrelevant or redundant content. However, these landmarks are sporadically and inconsistently used by web developers, and in many cases, even absent in numerous web pages. Therefore, we propose SaIL, a scalable approach that automatically detects the important sections of a web page, and then injects ARIA landmarks …

Rotate-And-Press: A Non-Visual Alternative To Point-And-Click, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok, I. V. Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Most computer applications manifest visually rich and dense graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that are primarily tailored for an easy-and-efficient sighted interaction using a combination of two default input modalities, namely the keyboard and the mouse/touchpad. However, blind screen-reader users predominantly rely only on keyboard, and therefore struggle to interact with these applications, since it is both arduous and tedious to perform the visual 'point-and-click' tasks such as accessing the various application commands/features using just keyboard shortcuts supported by screen readers.

In this paper, we investigate the suitability of a 'rotate-and-press' input modality as an effective non-visual substitute for the visual …

Of Love And Exploitation, Karina Elizabeth Vázquez

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

As Roma’s main character, Cleo symbolizes the simultaneous feminization and racialization of domestic service.

Incorporating Intellectual Freedom And Information Literacy Into Programming, Meagan Albright, Ashley J. Brown

Staff Publications

Raising awareness of intellectual freedom and information literacy is important, and not just during Banned Books Week. Just like sneaking healthy food into a kid’s meal, these techniques for incorporating these topics will enrich the work you already do as a librarian without disrupting your programming routine.

Coopers Rock State Forest: How To Address Operations Cost And Shortfalls, Sullivan Wilcox Moore

Capstones and Honors Theses

Public lands provide opportunities for recreation and an escape from urban life. Coopers Rock State Forest in West Virginia features scenic views, hiking and biking trails, and other opportunities to get out and enjoy nature. However, despite increases in visitation, Coopers Rock operates under a deficit and faces backlogs of maintenance. Thus, this research attempts to estimate a value of Coopers Rock to visitors using the travel cost method and evaluates several fee-based policies through which Coopers Rock could capitalize on this visitation. Our results suggest that there are a range of values to visitors of visiting Coopers Rock State …

Does Public Ownership Of Utilities Matter For Local Government Water Policies?, George C. Homsy, Mildred E. Warner

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

What differentiates local governments that implement water policies on equity and the environment? Analyzing a 2015 survey of 1,897 U.S. municipalities, we find municipalities that own their water utilities more likely have policies to protect low-income residents from disconnection and to implement water resource management. Respondents from 8% of municipalities report protecting residents from disconnection. State economic regulation of publicly owned utilities and Democrat-majority municipal governments are positively associated with policies protecting low-income households from shutoffs but bear no association with resource management. Public ownership of utilities and state economic regulation may play a role in meeting water policy goals.

Volume 37 - Full Volume, Nfa Journal

National Forensic Journal

No abstract provided.

Balancing Multi-Level Politics In Local Environmental Policy Choices, Luke Fowler, Geoffrey Rabinowitz

Public Policy and Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

Although local governments are well poised to address complex environmental policy problems, balancing local and supra-local politics is a key obstacle to overcome. The authors argue that when making policy choices, local policymakers balance local and supra-local influences by exploiting uncertainty in policy goals and associated target populations. Using probit models and survey data of city and county agencies, the authors examine how local and supra-local politics influence local policy choices. Four scenarios are identified: (a) pollution prevention and regional cooperation initiatives affected by local politics, (b) outreach initiatives affected by supra-local politics, (c) transportation alternative initiatives affected by both …

Albina Zone, Lisa K. Bates

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Story Summary:
In near future Portland, the police have been abolished, but what else is needed for real liberation? A gifted young woman and her mother struggle to communicate across a rift of unspoken history.

Foreword to Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Memories of Abolition Day

There are times when our lived reality feels stranger than science fiction - a viral pandemic, an economic crisis, global conflicts on multiple frontlines, the rise of white supremacist racism, a wave of state violence against Black bodies, the fiery uprisings across the nation, and militarized guards deployed in response… It was the Red Summer …

Nebraska School Violence Prevention Toolkit For K-12 School Threat Assessment Teams, Tarik Abdel-Monem, Denise Bulling

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

Introduction

This toolkit provides guidance for school threat assessment teams to encourage the reporting of concerning behavior that may threaten safety and security of schools. Part I (“Reporting School Violence Before it Happens”) provides an overview of the importance of reporting school violence, and outlines specific barriers to reporting among youth, school staff, and parents/guardians. Part II (“Developing and Implementing a Reporting Process”) provides guidance on important features of a reporting process for potential or actual violence and other safety concerns. Part III (“Special Considerations”) discusses three particular problems affecting school youth: suicide, bullying/cyberbullying, and dating- related violence and abusive …

A Brief History To The Future Of Open Access, Margaret Mering, Casey D. Hoeve

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

There are many challenges when attempting to understand the current open access environment, and the frameworks and best practices that are driving the movement forward. Collection development and scholarly communications have become a partnership of blurred lines, as paid subscriptions must be managed in parallel with open access content. Given the rapid pace of change, the coverage of the past 20 years of open access is the most relevant to grasp present conditions and the trajectory of the future of open access initiatives. Within that time frame, important milestones, advocacy groups, open access models, and sprouting enterprises will illustrate what …

Chapter 5: Exploring The Mind Of The Interviewer: Findings From Research With Interviewers To Improve The Survey Process Appendix 5, Robin Kaplan, Erica Yu

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Appendix 5A Interview Protocol

Appendix 5B Vignettes

Chapter 4: How To Conduct Effective Interviewer Training: A Meta-Analysis And Systematic Review Appendix 4, Jessica Daikeler, Michael Bosnjak

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Appendix 4A Appendix Table A4A.1: Overview of the literature on interviewer tasks addressed in interviewer training experiments

Appendix 4B The meta-analytical process

Appendix 4C Random effects model and meta regression summary statistics

Appendix 4D List of missing studies in the paper

References

Chapter 9: Why Do Interviewers Vary In Achieving Interview Privacy And Does Privacy Matter? Appendix 9, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Julie A. De Jong, Yasmin A. Altwaijri

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Appendix 9A

Table A9A.1 Description and univariate distribution of measures used in models

Appendix 9B

Table A9B.1 Random Intercept Two Level Logistic Regression Model Predicting Third-party Presence during the Interview

Chapter 8: Examining The Utility Of Interviewer Observations On The Survey Response Process. Appendix 8, Brady T. West, Ting Yan, Frauke Kreuter, Michael Josten, Heather Schroeder

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Appendix 8A Additional Evaluation of Derived NSFG Classes

Figure A8A.1

Figure A8A.2

Table A8A.1

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Appendix 8B Additional Details on ESS Items

Chapter 6: Behavior Change Techniques For Reducing Interviewer Contributions To Total Survey Error Appendix 6, Brad Edwards, Hanyu Sun, Ryan Hubbard

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Appendix 6A Medical Expenditure Panel Survey key statistics for prescribed medicines for those 65 and older in the U.S.

Appendix 6B CAPI screenshots

Appendix 6C Westat’s CARI code screenshots

Appendix 6D Coding scheme

Appendix 6E Flowchart of CARI rapid feedback process

Appendix 6F Multilevel multinomial logistic regression models

Appendix 6G Multilevel multinomial logistic regression models with interviewer experience

Appendix 6H Alert frequency

Chapter 10: Unintended Interviewer Bias In A Community-Based Participatory Research Randomized Control Trial Among American Indian Youth Appendix 10, Patrick Habecker, Jerreed Ivanich

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Appendix 10A Analysis of Internalizing and Externalizing Subscales

Table A10A.1: Linear Mixed-Effects Models Predicting Subscales of Internalizing Behavior

Table A10A.2: Linear Mixed-Effects Models Predicting Subscales of Externalizing Behavior

Chapter 14: Explaining Interviewer Effects On Survey Unit Nonresponse: A Cross-Survey Analysis. Appendix 14, Daniela Ackermann-Piek, Julie M. Korbmacher, Ulrich Krieger

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Appendix 14A Questionnaire for the Interviewer Survey

Table A14A.1 Original German Version and English Translation of the Questionnaire for the GIP 2012, PIAAC, GIP 2014, and SHARE Interviewer Surveys

Appendix 14A: Descriptive Statistics: The Interviewers of the GIP 2012, PIAAC, GIP 2014, and SHARE

Table A14B.1 Descriptive Statistics for Interviewer’s Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Work Experience, and Working Hours per Week, Separate by Survey

Table A14B.1 Cronbach´s Alpha for Indicators on Interviewer Characteristics, all Surveys Combined and Separate by Survey

Table A14B.2 Interviewer Survey: Factor Matrix for Items About Reasons for Working as an Interviewer, Including Variances

Table A14B.3 Interviewer Survey: Factor …

Chapter 18: Response Times As An Indicator Of Data Quality: Associations With Question, Interviewer, And Respondent Characteristics In A Health Survey Of Diverse Respondents. Appendix 18, Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dorothy Farrar Edwards

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Appendix 18A Description of individual question characteristics and hypotheses for their relationship with RTs

Appendix 18B Description of established tools for evaluating questions and hypotheses for their relationship with RTs

Appendix 18C Sample Description

Table 18.C1. Number of completed interviews by respondents’ race/ethnicity and sample

Appendix 18D Additional Tables

Appendix 18E References

Chapter 17: Exploring The Antecedents And Consequences Of Interviewer Reading Speed (Irs) At The Question Level. Appendix 17, Allyson L. Holbrook, Timothy P. Johnson, Evgenia Kapousouz, Young Ik Cho

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Figure A17.A.1: Manipulation of Question Characteristics (Example Questions Shown)

Figure A17.A.2: Response Latency Validity Options Provided to Interviewers after Each Question where Response Latencies were Measured

Figure A17.A.3: Interviewer Behavior Codes Used to Identify Question Latency Problems

Appendix 17.B: Measurement of Response and Question Latencies Table A17.B.1: Validity of Response Latency Measurement
Table A17.B.2: Validity of Question Latency Measurement
References
Appendix 17.C: Questions in CAPI Survey for which Response Latencies were Measured

Chapter 16: Investigating The Use Of Nurse Paradata In Understanding Nonresponse To Biological Data Collection. Appendix 16, Fiona Pashazadeh, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug

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Appendix 16A: Descriptive statistics for available call records

Figure A16A.1 Histograms of wave 2 nurse visit call length by call status with outlier of 691 minutes removed from the ‘any interviewing done’ category

Figure A16A.2 Histograms of wave 3 nurse visit call length by call status with outlier of 464 minutes removed from the ‘any interviewing done’ category

Figure A16A.3 Bar chart of total number of calls per household at UKHLS wave 2 nurse visit

Figure A16A.4 Bar chart of total number of calls per household at UKHLS wave 3 nurse visit

Figure A16A.5 Histogram of total nurse visit time …

Chapter 22: A Comparison Of Different Approaches To Examining Whether Interviewer Effects Tend To Vary Across Different Subgroups Of Respondents. Appendix 22a, Geert Loosveldt, Celine Wuyts

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Table A22A.1 Substantive Questions about Climate Change and Energy (Module D) and Welfare Attitudes (Module E) Included in the Analysis

Syntax

Chapter 21: Modeling Interviewer Effects In The National Health Interview Survey. Appendix 21, James Dahlhamer, Aaron Maitland, Benjamin Zablotsky, Carla Zelaya

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Supplemental Table A21.1 Questions, Question Characteristics, and Intra-Interviewer Correlations (IIC)

Table A21.2 Descriptive Statistics for Respondent and Case Characteristics Included in Multi-Level Models

Table A21.3 Descriptive Statistics for County Measures Included in Multi-Level Models

Table A21.4 Descriptive Statistics for Interviewer Characteristics Included in Multi-Level Models

Table A21.5 Mock Dataset Structure Depicting Questions, Interviewer Groups, and IICs

Chapter 20: What Do Interviewers Learn? Changes In Interview Length And Interviewer Behaviors Over The Field Period. Appendix 20, Kristen M. Olson, Jolene Smyth

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Appendix 20A Full Model Coefficients and Standard Errors Predicting Count of Questions with Individual Interviewer Behaviors, Two-level Multilevel Poisson Models with Number of Questions Asked as Exposure Variable, WLT1 and WLT2

Analytic strategyTable A20A.1 Coefficients and Standard Errors from Multilevel Poisson Regression Models Predicting Number of Questions with Exact Question Reading with Total Number of Questions Asked to Each Respondent as an Exposure Variable, WLT1 and WLT2

Table A20A.2 Coefficients and Standard Errors from Multilevel Poisson Regression Models Predicting Number of Questions with Nondirective Probes with Total Number of Questions Asked to Each Respondent as an Exposure Variable, WLT1 and …

Population And Harvest Dynamics Of Midcontinent Sandhill Cranes, Aaron T. Pearse, Glen A. Sargeant, Gary L. Krapu, David A. Brandt

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) inhabiting the midcontinent of North America have been hunted since the 1960s under management goals of maintaining abundance, retaining geographic distribution, and maximizing sustainable harvest. Some biologists have raised concerns regarding harvest sustainability because sandhill cranes have lower reproductive rates than other game birds. We summarized demographic information in an age‐structured matrix model to better understand population dynamics and harvest. Population indices and recovered harvest since the early 1980s suggest midcontinent sandhill cranes have experienced an average long‐term annual growth of 0.9%; meanwhile, harvest has increased 1.8% annually. Adult survival and recruitment rates estimated from field …

Hong Kong Identity At The Crossroads Of Localism And Global Finance Capital, Micky Lee

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Works

Hong Kong protestors fight for a local citizen identity that is anchored in physical places and limited by time. They adopted symbols that draw on public memory and vandalized those of mainland Chinese hegemony. However, these local symbols are embedded with, layered over, and enabled by global capitalism fueled by Chinese finance capital. The sense of urgency and immediacy felt by protestors also reinforce the anticipated short-term market returns of Chinese hi-tech companies listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Finding justice for Hong Kong protestors requires an examination of finance capital that flows through global cities.

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2020, Michelle X. Bui, Chris Mcdaniels, Jacqueline Bazea-Rubio, Curtis Kizer-Pugh, Eman Alasadi, Ahmed Gure, Helen Hernandez, Archit Jaiswal, Dallas Johnson, Ephrem Kejela, Heather Lake, Charlene Mandimutsira, Paola A. Puentes, Anthony Sajik Ruiz, Richard D. Schargel, Thao-My Tran, Omar Yanouri

McNair Scholars Research Journal-Archive

No abstract provided.