Rice University Research Repository


The Rice Research Repository (R-3) provides access to research produced at Rice University, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, research center publications, datasets, and academic journals. Managed by Fondren Library, R-3 is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, follows best practices for preservation, and provides DOIs to facilitate citation. Woodson Research Center collections, including Rice Images and Documents and the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice, have moved here.



 

Recent Submissions

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Research Data Services and Center for Research Computing Needs Assessment
(Rice University, 2024-03-25) Barber, Catherine R.; Spiro, Lisa; Cragin, Melissa; Smith, Sean; The Center for Research Computing; Fondren Library Research Data Services
This needs assessment involved surveying the Rice University research community to determine key areas of current and projected need related to data and research computing. The results will be used to inform services and support provided by Fondren Library, Research Data Services, and the Center for Research Computing. Although the results of the needs assessment may not generalize outside of Rice, we also hope to learn about the opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between the library and research computing and to share those insights with the greater research community. Data were collected through an online survey administered to all faculty, research staff, and graduate students at Rice.
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Shakespeare Passages Recommendation System
(Rice University) Mulligan, John; Center for Research Computing
This repository holds the code for an intertextual recommendation system that links passages in the Shakespearean dramatic corpus (as digitized by Folger) to one another based entirely on scholarly citations/quotations (as identified by JSTOR Labs in their collection of digitized works, and made available in what was called their Matchmaker API).
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Campus variation in grade retention and course failure rates after attending summer school in HISD
(Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2024) Thrash, Courtney; Pham, Annie; Hood, Stacey
This brief examines summer school retention and course failure rates at schools throughout the district to determine which schools have higher rates relative to other schools in the district. It also looks at what characteristics are associated with a student being retained after summer school and failing a course in summer school.
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Investigating Equity in Art Course Taking Across HISD High Schools
(Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2024) Freeman, Daniel Mackin; Bowen, Daniel H.
This study assesses the extent to which national trends in inequitable arts learning opportunity (in terms of secondary school course offerings and enrollment) occur in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
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Action of the Mazur pattern up to topological concordance
(arXiv, 2024) Manchester, Alex
In the '80s, Freedman showed that the Whitehead doubling operator acts trivally up to topological concordance. On the other hand, Akbulut showed that the Whitehead doubling operator acts nontrivially up to smooth concordance. The Mazur pattern is a natural candidate for a satellite operator which acts by the identity up to topological concordance but not up to smooth concordance. Recently there has been a resurgence of study of the action of the Mazur pattern up to concordance in the smooth and topological categories. Examples showing that the Mazur pattern does not act by the identity up to smooth concordance have been given by Cochran--Franklin--Hedden--Horn and Collins. In this paper, we give evidence that the Mazur pattern acts by the identity up to topological concordance. In particular, we show that two satellite operators $P_{K_0,\eta_0}$ and $P_{K_1,\eta_1}$ with $\eta_0$ and $\eta_1$ freely homotopic have the same action on the topological concordance group modulo the subgroup of $(1)$-solvable knots, which gives evidence that they act in the same way up to topological concordance. In particular, the Mazur pattern and the identity operator are related in this way, and so this is evidence for the topological side of the analogy to the Whitehead doubling operator. We give additional evidence that they have the same action on the full topological concordance group by showing that up to topological concordance they cannot be distinguished by Casson-Gordon invariants or metabelian $\rho$-invariants.