bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Non-functional requirements as drivers of software architecture design
Authors:   , Ameller David
Published: October 2023

In the last decades, software engineering has become an important area of research. As researchers, we try to identify a problem, a need, or a hole in some research topic, once identified we make an effort to produce new techniques, methods, and tools that hopefully will help to improve the detected issue. In the present thesis the identified issue was the need of supporting non-functional requirements in the software architecture design where these requirements are the drivers of the architectural decision-making.
This thesis started with the idea that a relatively new software engineering discipline, model-driven development, was a good place to propose a solution for the detected issue. We envisioned how non-functional requirements can be integrated in model-driven development and how this integration will impact in the architectural design activities.
When we started to produce our techniques, methods, and tools for model-driven development we found out that there was a bigger hole in the web of knowledge than what we had initially foreseen. Much of the evidence of how non-functional requirements affect the software architecture design is hidden. This situation caused a turn in this thesis: we needed to understand architects, how they think and how they make the architectural decisions, what is the role of non-functional requirements in the architectural decision-making process, and to what extent are the non-functional requirements important in this process. All these questions needed an answer, an answer that only architects could provide. In consequence we opted to drove several empirical studies to answer these questions.
In parallel, we started to work in a way of representing this knowledge, an ontology for software architecture that integrates non-functional requirements. Using this ontology as basis, we designed a method to assist architects in the architectural decision-making process and a tool that acted as a proof of concept of both, the ontology and the method.
In summary, this thesis explores how non-functional requirements are currently integrated in the software architecture design practices, and proposes ways to improve this integration and facilitate the work of architects by providing means to assist them in the architectural decision-making process.
Căutarea, extragerea, organizarea și evaluarea informațiilor
Authors:   Romanian Academy, Sfetcu Nicolae
Published: October 2023

Informația, ca și concept, include o mare diversitate de sensuri în contexte diferite, de la cele zilnice până la cele tehnice. Conceptul de informație este strâns legat de noțiunile de restricție, comunicare, control, date, forme, educație, cunoaștere, înțelegere, stimul mental, model, percepție, și reprezentare. Informația este orice rețea care influențează formarea sau transformarea altor rețele. Știința informației se ocupă de analiza, colectarea, clasificarea, manipularea, stocarea, extragerea și diseminarea informației. Căutarea informațiilor se realizează prin crearea de sisteme pentru găsirea documentelor sau a informațiilor. Colectarea informațiilor începe atunci când un utilizator introduce o interogare în sistem. Extragerea cunoașterii din informații constă în stabilirea de cunoștințe din surse structurate (baze de date relaționale, XML) și nestructurate (text, documente, imagini). Cunoașterea care rezultă și trebuie să fie într-un format care poate fi citit și interpretat de mașină și trebuie să reprezinte cunoașterea într-un mod care să faciliteze inferența. Organizarea informațiilor implică IndexA Cartirea, clasificarea și reprezentarea documentelor pentru extragerea informațiilor, browsing și procese conexe, indiferent dacă sunt efectuate de oameni sau computere. Când oamenii caută documente, informații sau cunoștințe pentru a răspunde la sau a clarifica anumite întrebări, ar trebui să li se ofere cunoștințele care corespund celor mai bune teorii și descoperiri științifice sau academice. Procesele și sistemele pentru furnizarea unor astfel de cunoștințe dezvoltate în colectarea informațiilor și organizarea cunoașterii ar trebui să ofere documente „relevante” utilizatorilor. „Relevanța” informațiilor se poate baza pe studiile utilizatorilor, pe știința cognitivă (în „ paradigma cognitivă”), pe probleme tehnologice (în „viziunea sistemelor”), sau pe filosofia științei .Relevanța este o ipoteză, al cărei răspuns se referă la conflictul dintre diferite paradigme în domeniu.
Dopo la guerra civile. Atene nel 403 A.C.
Authors: Bearzot Cinzia
Published: October 2023

The contribution examines the different forms of reaction to the civil war implemented in Athens in 403: the emotional and political overcoming of stasis, the renunciation of vengeance and amnesty (with understandable resistance), the reconstitution of the community on the basis of common values, and the re-appropriation of keywords of contemporary political propaganda (such as homonia and soteria) in a democratic key. The success of these strategies is documented by the appreciation of non-democratic sources.
South-western Nigerian University Students’ Gender Use of Mobile Technologies for Learning
Authors:   Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria, Olasedidun Olutoye Kunle , Bola Olaniyi Oladimeji ,   Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria, Falade Ayotunde Atanda ,   Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Published: October 2023

Gender’s potential impact on the uptake of mobile learning technologies was investigated. The study sought to examine the influence of gender on attitudes and intentions toward adopting mobile technology for learning, as well as perceived utility, usability, and usefulness. The survey method was used for the investigation. A total of 1,214 respondents were chosen on purpose from 18 universities in the south-west of Nigeria, including six Federal, six State, and six Private Universities. The data were gathered using researchers’ designed questionnaire. The instrument’s dependability was determined using Cronbach Alpha to be 0.86. The first through fourth hypotheses were put to the t-test. The study’s findings showed that there was no difference between undergraduates of both sexes in terms of their attitudes (t (1, 1212) = 0.76, p = 0.45), usefulness (t (1, 1212) = 0.32, p = 0.75), perceived ease of use (t (1, 1212) = 0.86, p = 0.39) and their intention (t (1, 1212) = 0.06, p= 0.96) toward using mobile technologies for learning. The study’s conclusions show that none of the criteria (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, and intention) differed by gender. It follows that mobile technologies may have a significant impact on how students learn in Nigerian Universities. The study consequently advised against taking gender imbalance into account when implementing mobile-based learning in Nigeria.
Rehabilitation Through Dance Therapy
Authors:   Disability Rehabilitation Professional, Educationist, and Activist, New Delhi., Yadav Mudita
Published: October 2023

Rehabilitation through dance therapy represents a holistic and innovative approach that integrates movement and creative expression to enhance physical, emotional, cognitive, and social well-being. This paper explores the history, benefits, methodologies, and future potential of dance therapy in the context of rehabilitation. By examining case studies, success stories, challenges, and the integration of dance therapy with traditional rehabilitation, this research underscores the transformative power of dance in fostering recovery and well-being.
Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

A map, as of the 28th February 2015, of Chapter Three of the book I am slowly working on. Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño’s  2666  In Chapter 2, C was presented as aesthetic critique This chapter is on political critique Form/content dichotomy is false but there are still strengths of focus Summary of  2666  Text is metafictional Reference to utopia “great imperfect torrential work” Bolaño's
Some thoughts on repealing the Human Rights Act
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

The new Conservative government in the United Kingdom has promised to scrap the Human Rights Act. The rationale that they give for this centres around originalism (claiming that the HRA has been interpreted beyond its original scope) and national self-determination (the EU telling the UK government what laws it can pass). I remain worried about this.
Financing for fee-driven gold open access
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

The most well-known, although neither the most common nor the only, way of providing gold open access to research material is through article or book processing charges (APCs/BPCs). These are problematic in some disciplines where most research work is unfunded (hint: the social sciences and the humanities). It also tends to concentrate costs/risk. To clarify: it is not, in these instances, about paying to bypass quality control.
Chapter Four: Academic Fiction
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

A map, as of the 1st March 2015, of Chapter Four of the book I am slowly working on. This chapter primarily focuses on Percival Everett’s  Erasure  .  Chapter Four: Academic Fiction  First chapter on legitimation Everett's insider status Summary of  Erasure   Erasure  as metafiction Subject position of author High Theory references Disparaging towards High Theory/postmodernist approach Resorts to “common
Being called to account: tax considerations for UK-based collectively-funded open access publishers
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

That's a pretty specific title, I suspect, but as I am learning with the Open Library of Humanities, we're in uncharted territory, a place where the specifics matter.
It is never a good time to start a new journal
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

“It is never a good time to start a new journal. Even so, 1987 seems unpropitious to a remarkable degree. The academic world in general feels itself to be under attack. The Humanities in particular feel marginalized and underfunded. Outwardly querulous, inwardly riven, they sense themselves to be hopelessly at odds with a culture which has long abandoned any recognition of the value of their role.
More on fair-use of screengrabs
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

I wrote yesterday, in a grumpy state, about the restrictiveness of copyright and licensing of screenshots in academic material. Today brings happier news. The ever-excellent Laura Quilter sent me the following advice: Contrary to my expectation – and contrary to the pessimism of many of my film scholar friends – my publisher agreed! Use of screengrabs should be deemed fair use.
Publication: Co-operating for gold open access without APCs
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

The current transition to gold open access (OA) through the implementation of an author- or institution-facing charge (an article or book processing charge: APC or BPC) is based upon two key flawed assumptions that are particularly acute in the humanities disciplines.
The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

The environment surrounding open access to monographs was significantly advanced today by the release of a report commissioned by the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) that translates the government's higher education budget allocation into usable funds.
Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives?
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Some notes and early (very abstract) draft thoughts on whether Foucauldian genealogies, as redefined by Colin Koopman, can help us to address the problems of the archive in contemporary fiction studies. In  Pynchon and Philosophy  , I needed to give a succinct outline of the usual approach towards Foucault's broad body of history/philosophy.
Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

A map, as of the 22nd February 2015, of Chapter Two of the book I am slowly working on. Mimetic representation academy not only possible interaction Intertextuality can be seen as academy-like function of (self-)canonisation  Tom McCarthy's  C   University English haunts text Public persona of author as popular literary critic Synopsis of  C  Inter-textuality key to novel and its marketing Thomas Pynchon
Object Thinking, Systems Description Languages and the Future of the Book
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

I am reading a most remarkable book. I tend to read in sets of three: a novel, a work of lit crit/philosophy/history, then something about technology. This latter category includes library information science stuff, history of technology stuff and sometimes programming manuals. David West’s  Object Thinking  , published by Microsoft, is ostensibly in this last group but like nothing else.
Scalability, Sustainability, Market Responsiveness and Mandates in OA
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Academic publishers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are commercial, some are mission-driven, some are not-for-profit. This creates an interesting dynamic for a market. Not-for-profit publishers see themselves as partners of the academy, working alongside their academic colleagues to disseminate material. Indeed, some university presses are departments of universities.
What does the academic monograph market look like for a new open-access publisher?
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

I tell people, repeatedly, that publisher brand fuels a strange economic environment for scholarly communications. I also note that symbolic capital (reputation) has a direct conversion to material capital (money). Finally, I point out that the economics of books are harder than journals for new OA publishers for reasons of scale in both material and symbolic economics.
On open-access books and “double dipping”
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

In a hybrid open-access environment, “double dipping” refers to cases where a publisher sells their services to an author (author-pays open access) while simultaneously selling the end product to libraries (a subscription). Typically, in the journal world, this happens when an open-access article appears in a subscription journal (for which the author pays) but the publisher does not lower the cost of subscriptions to the journal.
How can Elsevier claim that its OA revenue stream is separate from subscriptions in a hybrid environment?
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

For an open-access advocate, it's easy to pick on Elsevier. An enormous and immensely profitable publisher, it has been, in my personal view, obstructive towards the implementation of open access. Again, in my opinion, this seems to be because it fears for its revenue stream, rather than because it cares about science. The ElsevierValentines hashtag was puerile, but fun, and demonstrated this sentiment. But these are just my opinions.
Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) reviews Open Access and the Humanities
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

At the end of 2013 and 2014 I wrote blog posts on Occam’s Corner (over at the Guardian) to list and briefly review the books I read in each of those years. I am trying to develop this practice into a good habit because it spurs me to read; and I hope it might also serve to flag up titles of interest to others.
Another copyright absurdity: using film screenshots
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Just a little anger/despair at the state of our cultural industries. The 1993 film,  Demolition Man  is 1hr 55mins in length. That means that, at 24fps, there are 165,600 frames in the film. No single one of those frames is a substitute for the film or would damage its commercial viability for Warner Bros through dissemination. Yes, yes, there’s probably an argument for fair use/dealing in an academic book.
Measure the thing you’re interested in
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

The REF (Research Excellence Framework) is a time-consuming exercise that UK universities have to go through every few years to assess and demonstrate the value of their research to the government; the way funding is allocated between universities is largely dependent on the results of the REF. The exercise is widely resented, in part because the processes of preparing and reviewing the submissions are so time-consuming.
Help us assemble all of the museum abbreviations
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

 Kaatedocus  is heading to the sidebar to help the cause. We have a new page on the sidebar – here – where we’re collecting as many museum abbreviations as possible, the idea being that you can copy and paste them into your papers to rapidly populate the ‘Museum Abbreviations’ section.
My early Christmas present: a dead corn snake
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

A friend’s daughter owned a pet corn snake, and a hamster. About a month ago, the former got into the latter’s cage — and in a reversal of the usual course of such events, sustained some nasty injuries. As snakes often do, it struggled to recover, and the wound seems to have necrotised.
Wikimedia-Salon: Welche Urheberrechtsreform bekommen wir aus Brüssel? [Update]
Authors: Steinhau Henry
Published: October 2023

Seit langem häufen sich in der Europäischen Union die Aktivitäten zu einer Urheberrechtsreform. Doch welche konkreten Änderungen EU-Kommission und EU-Parlament vorlegen oder gar verabschieden werden, ist noch nicht klar.
Transmediale-Festival untersucht den „Full Take“ unserer Daten
Authors: Djordjevic Valie
Published: October 2023

Geheimdienste, Firmen, Staaten, Individuen – alle sammeln sie Daten. „Quantified Self“, „algorithmic society“ und „full take“ sind Begriffe, mit denen das Medienfestival Transmediale die Entwicklung beschreibt. Es untersucht, wie Künstler, Theoretiker und Aktivisten damit umgehen. Zum 28. Mal findet es derzeit in Berlin statt.
Manuscript submission modelling – my comments in full
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

My full comments on the PLOS ONE manuscript submission modelling paper:

On 27 January 2015 at 23:05, Chris Woolston  wrote: Yep I remember. Sure why not? Thanks for the compliment :) Salinas S, Munch SB (2015) Where Should I Send It? Optimizing the Submission Decision Process. PLoS ONE 10(1): e0115451. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115451 A worthy choice.
Further exciting developments in the field of non-sauropod epipophyses
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Many thanks for the various people who chipped in, both in comments on the last post and in this thread on twitter, where I asked a bunch of pterosaur experts for their thoughts on epipophyses in pterosaurs. I now know more than I previously knew about epipophyses outside of Sauropoda — and especially outside Dinosauria. I’ll try to credit everyone who contributed.
Cyclopropanation: the mechanism of the Simmons–Smith reaction.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

These posts contain the computed potential energy surfaces for a fair few “text-book” reactions. Here I chart the course of the cyclopropanation of alkenes using the Simmons-Smith reagent,[cite]10.1021/ja01552a080[/cite] as prepared from di-iodomethane using zinc metal insertion into a C-I bond. Two reactions it can be compared with are the epoxidation of ethene using a peracid and dichlorocyclopropanation.
Chiroptical spectroscopy of the natural product Steganone.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Steganone is an unusual natural product, known for about 40 years now. The assignment of its absolute configurations makes for an interesting, on occasion rather confusing, and perhaps not entirely atypical story. I will start with the modern accepted stereochemical structure of this molecule, which comes in the form of two separately isolable atropisomers.
The Medical Journal of Australia vs Elsevier
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

While Mike’s been off having fun at the Royal Society, this has been happening: Lots of feathers flying right now over the situation at the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). The short, short version is that AMPCo, the company that publishes MJA, made plans to outsource production of the journal, and apparently some sub-editing and administrative functions as well, to Elsevier.
Zallinger’s “Age of Reptiles” mural at the Yale Peabody Museum
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

In 2012, Matt and I spent a week in New York, mostly working at the AMNH on “  Apatosaurus  ”  minimus  and a few other specimens that caught our eye.
You can predict how rabbits run by looking at their skulls (using this one weird trick!)
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Meet some of my new friends: (A)  Brachylagus idahoensis  , (B)  Lepus capensis  , (C)  Poelagus marjorita  , (D)  Pronolagus crassicaudatus  , (E)  Lepus americanus  , (F)  Oryctolagus cuniculus  , (G)  Nesolagus timminsi  , (H)  Bunolagus monticularis  , and (I)  Romerolagus diazi  . Kraatz et al. (2015: fig.
The epipophyses of Qijianglong and other sauropods
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

 Introduction and Background  An epipophysis in a neural arch of a juvenile  Apatosaurus  , CM 555. From this post. I have three goals with this post: To document the range of variation in epipophyses in the cervical vertebrae of sauropods.
Here comes VAMP, a new open-access journal of vertebrate palaeontology
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Just launched: a new open-access journal of vertebrate paleontology, brought to you by the University of Alberta, Canada! It’s called VAMP (Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology), and it charges no APC. Here’s a illustration from one of the two articles in its first issue. Holmes (2014:fig 12A). Synsacrum and pelvis of  Chasmosaurus belli  (ROM 843) in dorsal view.
How many water molecules does it take to ionise HI?
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Why is this post orphaned from the previous? In order to have the opportunity of noting that treating iodine computationally can be a little different from the procedures used for F, Cl and Br. As the nuclear charge increases proceeding down the periodic table, the inner electron shells start becoming relativistic.
Wikimedia-Salon diskutiert Grundeinkommen und die Krise des Urheberrechts
Authors: Steinhau Henry
Published: October 2023

Was würde ein Grundeinkommen für kreative Arbeitet bedeuten? So lautet eine der Ausgangsfragen einer Veranstaltung, die im Rahmen der Reihe „ABC des freien Wissens“ am kommenden Donnerstag, dem 26. März, bei Wikimedia in Berlin stattfindet.
The mechanism of borohydride reductions. Part 1: ethanal.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Sodium borohydride is the tamer cousin of lithium aluminium hydride (LAH). It is used in aqueous solution to

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reduce aldehydes and ketones, but it leaves acids, amides and esters alone. Here I start an exploration of why it is such a different reducing agent. Initially, I am using Li, not Na (X=Li), to enable a more or less equal comparison with LAH, with water molecules to solvate rather than ether (n=2,3,5) and R set to Me.
Tutorial 4b: Saurischian vertebral laminae and fossae redux, by Adam Marsh
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

[Hi folks, Matt here. I’m just popping in to introduce this guest post by Adam Marsh (UT Austin page, LinkedIn, ResearchGate). Adam is a PhD student at UT Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, currently working for a semester as a Visiting Student Researcher at my old stomping ground, Berkeley’s UCMP.  Adam’s been working at Petrified Forest National Park in the summers and most of his research is on the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
“PeerJ can’t possibly last because the numbers don’t add up.”
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

I had an email out of the blue this morning, from someone I’d not previously corresponded with, asking me an important question about PeerJ. I thought it was worth sharing the question, and its answer, more generally.
Wiley are charging for access to thousands of articles that should be free
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

[Update 5.30PM 2015-03-26: Wiley have now ‘freed’ the wrongly-paywalled articles in response to this. It doesn’t change the fact that these articles were wrongly on sale for 2 months and 26 days.
Our thoughts on Elsevier’s newly announced, as-yet-untitled, PLOS ONE clone
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

*yawn*
How many water molecules does it take to ionise HF and HBr?
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

No doubt answers to the question posed in the previous post are already being obtained by experiment. Just in case that does not emerge in the next day or so, I offer a prediction here. The methodology is the same as before, and I have not tried to look for new isomeric forms compared with the structures found with HCl.
Chemistry in the early 1960s: a reminiscence.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

I started chemistry with a boxed set in 1962. In those days they contained serious amounts of chemicals, but I very soon ran out of most of them. Two discoveries turned what might have been a typical discarded christmas present into a lifelong career and hobby. The first was 60 Stoke Newington High Street in north London, the home of Albert N. Beck, Chemist (or his son;
A better model for the mechanism of Lithal (LAH) reduction of cinnamaldehyde?
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Previously on this blog: modelling the reduction of cinnamaldehyde using one molecule of lithal shows easy reduction of the carbonyl but a high barrier at the next stage, the reduction of the double bond.
Ionizing yet more ultra-strong acids with water molecules.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

This might be seen as cranking a handle by producing yet more examples of acids ionised by a small number of water molecules. I justify it (probably only to myself) as an exercise in how a scientist might approach a problem, and how it linearly develops with time, not necessarily in the directions first envisaged.
Fine-tuning a (hydrogen) bond into symmetry.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Sometimes you come across a bond in chemistry that just shouts at you. This happened to me in 1989[cite]10.1039/C39890001722[/cite] with the molecule shown below. Here is its story and, 26 years later, how I responded. To start at the beginning, there was a problem with the measured

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H NMR spectrum; specifically (Y=H, Z=O) there are supposedly 16 protons, but only 15 could be located. What had happened to the 16th?
Richard Poynder on the need for transparency in publishing
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

[This is a guest-post by  Richard Poynder  , a long-time observer and analyst of academic publishing now perhaps best known for the very detailed posts on his  Open and Shut  blog. It was originally part of a much longer post on that blog, the introduction to an interview with the publisher MDPI.
Springer caught red-handed selling access to an Open Access article
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

Today, the author of a paid-for, ‘hybrid’ open access article published in 2009, found that it was wrongly on sale at a Springer website: https://twitter.com/zentree/status/592547039474421760 FWIW it’s still freely available at the original publisher website here.
The Titanic was sunk by an Apatosaurus cervical
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

According to Rare Historical Photos from the 1860s to the 1960s, this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic: photo of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, taken the morning of April 15, 1912 from board of the ship “Prinz Adalbert”, before knowing the Titanic had sunk. The smear of red paint along the base of the berg (bottom right) prompted the chief steward to take the picture.
The demographics of a blog readership – updated
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

About two years ago, I posted on the distribution of readership of this blog. The passage of time has increased this from 144 to 176 countries. There are apparently between 189-196 such, so not quite yet complete coverage! Of course, it is the nature of the beast that whilst we can track countries, very little else is known about such readerships.
Copyright from the lens of reality
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

This post is a response to  Copyright from the lens of a lawyer (and poet)  , posted a couple of days ago by Elsevier’s General Counsel, Mark Seeley. Yes, I am a slave to SIWOTI syndrome. No, I shouldn’t be wasting my time responding to this. Yes, I ought to be working on that exciting new manuscript that we SV-POW!er Rangers have up and running.
ORCID identifiers galore!
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Egon has reminded us that adoption of ORCID (Open researcher and collaborator ID) is gaining apace. It is a mechanism to disambiguate (a Wikipedia term!) contributions in the researcher community and to also remove much of the anonymity (where that is undesirable) that often lurks in social media sites.
Mechanism of the Lithal (LAH) reduction of cinnamaldehyde.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

The reduction of cinnamaldehyde by lithium aluminium hydride (LAH) was reported in a classic series of experiments[cite]10.1021/ja01197a060[/cite],[cite]10.1021/ja01202a082[/cite],[cite]10.1021/ja01190a082[/cite] dating from 1947-8. The reaction was first introduced into the organic chemistry laboratories here at Imperial College decades ago, vanished for a short period, and has recently been reintroduced again.

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„Bei Bedarf erledigt die Arbeit die Regelstruktur“: Was man über die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen erfährt, wenn man nach Creative Commons fragt
Authors: Spielkamp Matthias
Published: October 2023

Am 18. Februar bat Simon Weiß, für die Piratenfraktion im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus, den Senat um Auskunft dazu, wie er den Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe „Creative Commons in der ARD“ bewertet. Bei aller Klage über mangelnde Staatsferne der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten hat der Senat dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) zwar nichts zu sagen, geantwortet hat er dennoch.
A 5-high straight flush of water-ionised acids?
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

I do not play poker,‡ and so I had to look up a 5-4-3-2-1(A), which Wikipedia informs me is a 5-high straight flush, also apparently known as a steel wheel. In previous posts  I have suggested acids which can be ionised by (probably) 5, 4, 3 or  1 discrete water molecules in the gas phase;
Defensive use of the tail in monitors – and also sauropods?
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Murphy and Mitchell (1974: fig. 1) One thing that I’ve never understood is why some people are skeptical about sauropods using their tails defensively, when lizards do this all the time.
Page View Spikes on Research Articles
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

For those that know me as a biologist it might perhaps surprise you to know that my most cited publication so far is on Open Access and Altmetrics (published in April 2013, 25 cites and counting…) — nothing to do with biology per se! So I took great interest in this new publication: Wang, X., Liu, C., Mao, W., and Fang, Z. 2015. The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention.
Roadside dinos of Yermo, California
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

A couple of weekends ago, London and I went camping and stargazing at Afton Canyon, a nice dark spot about 40 miles east of Barstow. On the way home, we took the exit off I-15 at Ghost Town Road, initially because we wanted to visit the old Calico Ghost Town. But then we saw big metal dinosaurs south of the highway, and that’s how we came to Peggy Sue’s Diner and in particular the Diner-saur Park.
What have you done with Aquilops!?
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Awesome things, that’s what. In a previous post I asked people to make cool things with  Aquilops  . And you have. In spades. Here’s a compilation of the best things so far. First, a blast from the past. As far as I know, the first life restoration of  Aquilops  was actually this sketch by Mike Keesey, which he executed while sitting in the audience for Andy Farke’s talk on our not-yet-named ceratopsian at SVP 2013.
How many water molecules does it take to ionise HCN/HNC? An NCI exploration.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

HCN is a weak acid (pKa +9.2, weaker than

e.g.

HF), although it does have an isomer, isocyanic acid or HNC (pka < +9.2 ?) which is simultaneously stronger and less stable. I conclude my halide acid series by investigating how many water molecules (in gas phase clusters) are required for ionisation of this “

pseudo-halogen

” acid.
A permanent home for the SVP’s Aetogate documents
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly seven years since the “resolution”, if you want to call it that, of Aetogate, the aetosaur plagiarism-and-claim-jumping scandal. I was contacted privately today by someone wanting to know if I had copies of the SVP’s documents published in response to this. I didn’t — and the documents are hard to find since they have been moved at least twice from their original addresses on the SVP site.
Ionizing ultra-strong acids with water molecules.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

My previous posts have covered the ionization by a small number of discrete water molecules of the series of halogen acids, ranging from HI (the strongest, pKa -10)

via

HF (weaker, pKa 3.1) to the pseudo-halogen HCN (the weakest, pKa 9.2). Here I try out some even stronger acids to see what the least number of water molecule needed to ionize these might be. Firstly what must surely be the ultimate acid
How-open-is-it?
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

The title of this post refers to the site http://howopenisit.org/  which is in effect a license scraper for journal articles. In the past 2-3 years in the UK, we have been able to make use of grants to our university to pay publishers to convert our publications into Open Access (also called GOLD). I thought I might check out a few of my recent publications to see what http://howopenisit.org/ makes of them.
Newton’s forward interpolation method for solving nonlinear algebraic equation
Authors: Ide Nasr Al Din
Published: October 2023

As we know, the interpolation is one of the most basic and most useful numerical techniques in Mathematics. Newton’s forward interpolation method is one of most important of these methods. Its most important task in numerical analysis to find roots of nonlinear equations, several methods already exist to find roots. But in this paper, we introduce the interpolation technique for this purpose. The proposed method derived from the newton forward interpolation method and we compared the results with another existing method (Bisection Method (BM), Regula-Falsi Method (RFM), Secant Method (SM), Newton Raphson Method (NRM)) and the method proposed by J. Sanaullah (SJM). It’s observed that the proposed method has fast convergence but it has same order of convergence of the method (SJM). Maple software is used to solve problems by different methods.
BRICS, World Bank and IMF Quest to Promote Economic Development of Countries
Authors: Mugarura Norman
Published: October 2023

The term “BRICS” represents a group of five emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa, which started in 2009. These economies have caught the attention of literally everyone--international financial law practitioners, political scientists, countries, international organizations and other stakeholders. The emergency of a unified geopolitical bloc, started to reframe international financial outlook with a new set of new ideas and values. include reforming the global financial and economic architecture, strengthening the principles and standards of international law in many sectors of their economies. The paper highlights prospects and challenges that lie ahead of BRICS countries to fully realize their mandate and to co-exist with the World bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The World Bank and IMF have supported economic development of countries since their inception, I however do not see any harm posed by the introduction of more capital from BRICS, it should be received with both hands. There are looming prospects for expansion of BRICS, countries like Argentina, UAE, Mexico, Algeria and Saudi Arabia have indicated their desire to jump on BRICS bandwagon, the current Russian-Ukraine war remains a big challenge, not least that it has threatened to suck in all BRICS members into this war. The paper finds that as global dynamic challenges continue to mutate, nothing should preclude countries from working together to find lasting solutions to their common challenges. Some BRICs Nations are also beleaguered with high levels of corruption in public offices, they will need to seriously address this challenge, if they are to offer a robust development agenda for emerging markets to supplant the Bretton Wood Institutions. This paper was written, guided by three specific objectives: (i) Examine the rationale for launching the BRICS development initiatives and potential conflict with the World Bank and IMF. (ii) Discuss the mandate of the World Bank and IMF in fostering economic development especially developing countries. (iii) Explore potential areas of conflict between the Bretton Wood Institutions and BRICS to co-exist in their varied development mandates towards member countries. The paper has established that while nothing precludes BRICS offering alternative funding mechanisms to their members, they will need time to fully realize their objectives. Establishment of the BRICS signifies that its high time the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have adopted desired reforms, if they are to remain influential today.
Implementation of Biological Diversity Conservation Treaties in China
Authors: Charlotte Kabaseke
Published: October 2023

Biological Diversity, among its very diverse advantages, has been pointed out as key for achieving environmental sustainability. It has however been noted that biological diversity across the globe is being depleted. The international community responded by developing several international treaties for biological diversity conservation, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Ramsar Convention. China is very rich in biological diversity and is party to the Conventions. In addition, China has in place several laws as well as protected areas to ensure the conservation of biological diversity. This notwithstanding, China still faces biological diversity depletion. This has been attributed to among other factors, overpopulation and industrialization. This article therefore seeks to critically analyze the efficacy of the CBD and Ramsar Conventions is ensuring Biological Diversity Conservation. The paper further analyses the extent to which China has achieved its obligations under the conventions. The paper concludes that the treaties, whereas a very good development, have some weakness. In addition, whereas China has done well in meeting its obligations under the treaties, it still faces some challenges. The article among others recommends that China should embrace public participation in ensuring biological diversity conservation. In achieving its objectives, the article adopts the doctrinal method of research.
Pengembangan Aplikasi Voice For Blind sebagai Media Pembelajaran bagi Penderita Tuna Netra di SLB Negeri Pembina Tingkat Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan
Authors: Aidah Fajria Adha  , Muh. Yusuf Mappeasse  , Hasrul Bakri
Published: October 2023

Tujuan penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menghasilkan aplikasi media pembelajaran berbasis Android pada SLB Negeri Pembina Tingkat Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan serta mengetahui tanggapan guru dan peserta didik tuna netra terhadap aplikasi media pembelajaran yang dihasilkan. Penelitian ini termasuk jenis penelitian Research and Development (R&D) dan menggunakan model pengembangan ADDIE. Penelitian dilaksanakan di SLB Negeri Pembina Tingkat Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan.Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode wawancara, dokumentasi dan angket. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan pada penelitian ini berasal dari faktor dan sub faktor ISO 25010. Metode analisis data penelitian menggunakan metode deskriptif. Hasil pengujian kualitas perangkat lunak menunjukkan hasil yang baik berdasarkan 4 aspek karakteristik dalam ISO 25010 yakni: functional suitability, usability, reliability, dan portability. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian pada SLB Negeri Pembina Tingkat Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan, tanggapan guru dan peserta didik tuna netra terhadap aplikasi media pembelajaran ini yaitu sangat baik karena dapat mempermudah proses belajar mengajar antara guru dan peserta didik tuna netra dengan fitur pada aplikasi yang mudah dipahami.
Pemanfaatan Media Daring Pada Pembelajaran PAI di Masa Pandemi Covid 19
Authors: Irwansyah Suwahyu  , Amri Rahman
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran secara umum pelaksanaan pembelajaran daring pada mata kuliah PAI di Universitas Negeri Makassar. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dimana penelitian ini mengambil data melalui wawancara dengan beberapa informan yang merupakan dosen PAI. Hasil wawancara kemudian dijabarkan sebagai jawaban dari penelitian. Dimana hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa selama masa pandemi covid 19, pembelajaran PAI dilakukan secara daring. Pemanfaatan media pembelajaran daring seperti LMS SYAM OK, Google Classroom, Whatsapp, Zoom Meeting, Google Meet, Youtube sangatlah membantu terlaksananya pembelajaran secara daring ini. Dalam penggunaannya, media pembelajaran daring ini digunakan secara bervariasi agar dapat memaksimalkan proses penyampaian pesan kepada mahasiswa. Dan juga untuk menunjang peningkatan kompetensi yang ingin dicapai dari mahasiswa setelah pembelajaran ini berakhir.
Hubungan Efikasi Diri dengan Kesiapan Kerja pada Mahasiswa Yang Sedang Mempersiapkan Skripsi
Authors: Sarti Rahayu  , Harifuddin  , Firdaus  , Syamsurijal  , Al Imran
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) efikasi diri mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM, (2) kesiapan kerja mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM, (3) hubungan efikasi diri dengan kesiapan kerja pada mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian korelasional yang bersifat deskriptif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa skala efikasi diri dan kesiapan kerja. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis statistik deskriptif dan analisis statistik inferensial. Penelitian menunjukkan: (1) tingkat efikasi diri pada mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM berada pada kategori sedang, (2) tingkat kesiapan kerja pada mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM berada pada kategori tinggi, (3) terdapat hubungan yang signifikan dan positif antara efikasi diri dengan kesiapan kerja pada mahasiswa yang sedang mempersiapkan skripsi di Jurusan Teknik Informatika dan Komputer UNM.
Pengembangan E-Commerce Jasa Pengecekan Plagiasi, Parafrase dan Translator
Authors: Dyah Darma Andayani  , Edi Suhardi Rahman  , Virgo Utama Brillian
Published: October 2023

Pada saat ini di zaman teknologi dan informasi mengalami kemajuan yang sangat pesat dan dampak berkelanjutan dari globalisasi yang semakin dirasakan, digitalisasi dianggap sebagai sebuah keniscayaan yang akan datang cepat atau lambat di dalam berbagai lini bidang kehidupan. Hal tersebut berbanding lurus dengan semakin maraknya penggunaan media elektronik dalam hal ini internet dan pemanfaatan sistem serta basis data khususnya dalam aspek pendidikan dengan segala kepraktisan dan kemudahan yang ditawarkan. Namun fenomena tersebut tidak serta merta menjawab secara serentak kebutuhan di masyarakat terkhusus pada pemenuhan kebutuhan perihal pemeriksaan plagiarisme, parafrase dan penerjemahan yang jasanya masih ditawarkan lewat media sosial atau memanfaatkan e-commerce mainstream yang justru punya focus pada transaksi barang semata. Hal itu tentu menimbulkan keraguan baik dari sisi keamanan, kredibilitas dan kepercayaan pada para calon pelanggan, selain itu memanfaatkan e-commerce ­lain baik sebagai perantara promosi dan atau dengan mengakali sistem transaksinya adalah sebuah perbuatan ilegal dan melanggar syarat dan ketentuan e-commerce­ yang bersangkutan. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian dan pengembangan (R&D) yang bertujuan untuk menghasilkan sistem E-Commerce Jasa Pengecekan Plagiasi, Parafrase dan Translator pada CV. Catur Semesta Solusi. Model pengembangan yang digunakan adalah prototyping dan menggunakan pengujian standar kualitas    ISO/IEC 25010 dengan pengujian aspek yakni functional suitability, usability, reliability, performance efficiency, portability, compatibility, security dan maintainability. Data dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan metode studi literatur, dokumentasi dan angket.
Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Pemeriksaan Proses Kemajuan Site PT. Lutungan Indoutama
Authors: Yahya Muhammad , Sugeng A. Karim  , Aditya Dwi Gunawan
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini adalah penelitian dan pengembangan (R&D) yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui hasil pengembangan, pengujian menggunakan ISO/IEC 25010. Penelitian ini menggunakan model pengembangan Waterfall terdiri dari lima langkah kerja yaitu menganalisis kebutuhan, melakukan desain, melakukan pengkodean, pengujian dan pemeliharaan. Sistem yang dikembangkan divalidasi oleh dua orang ahli sistem. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan wawancara, angket atau kuesioner dan dokumentasi. Pengolahan data menggunkan teknik analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Hasil pengujian pengembangan sistem membuktikan bahwa sistem informasi pembangunan site telah memenuhi pengujian instrumen oleh validator ahli sistem, dan telah memenuhi standar pengujian ISO/IEC 25010 dengan hasil pengujian aspek functionality suitability dengan kategori “Sangat Layak”. Aspek performance efficiency dengan kriteria “Baik” untuk tautan https://app.lutindo.com/ dan kriteria “Sangat Baik” untuk tautan https://check.lutindo.com/. Aspek usability dengan kategori “Sangat Baik”. Aspek security diperoleh tingkat keamanan level 1 berada pada kriteria low level dengan keterangan “Cukup” untuk tautan https://app.lutindo.com/ dan tingkat keamanan level 2 berada pada kriteria medium level dengan keterangan “Buruk” untuk tautan https://check.lutindo.com/. Aspek reliability pencapaian telah memenuhi standar pengujian Telcordia. Aspek maintainability telah memenuhi tiga standar pengujian Land. Aspek compatibility diperoleh interpretasi “Sangat Layak”. Aspek portability berada pada kategori “Sangat Baik”.