cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
U.S. Army Acquisition – The Program Office Perspective
Creators: name: Keeler, Kristi L.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The U.S. Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP) is a multiyear effort to improve the way the Army acquires software-intensive systems. As part of the ASSIP, the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) examined 12 of the Army's Acquisition Category 1 programs, using a method called Bench-marking for Improvement (BFI). The purpose of conducting the BFI engagements was to define the current state of the acquisition practices across the Army, to discover best practices currently in use by Army program offices, and to identify the software challenges that extend across Army programs. As part of the BFI process, the program management office and SEI interview teams worked together to identify Department of Army best practices and shortcomings in the overall acquisition process, as well as potential solutions and recommendations. In addition, the SEI team provided each program manager with an independent view of program-level activities and made specific recommendations for improvement. A briefing provided to each program manager documented these recommendations. This report documents the results of the interviews conducted during BFI engagements. These results are of interest to Program Executive Office staffs, Program Management Office staffs, and Department of Army staffs that are involved in acquisition.
Situación de las niñas y los niños en la ciudad de Bogotá durante la pandemia por covid-19: retos y respuestas gubernamentales
Creators: name: Marriner, Karen
name: Mendoza, María Fernanda
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Covid-19 (Enfermedad) -- Aspectos socioeconómicos
subject: Colombia -- Administración pública
subject: Violencia de género -- Aspectos políticos -- Colombia
subject: Violencia de género
subject: Covid-19
subject: Políticas públicas
subject: Enfoque de género
subject: Respuesta institucional
subject: Atención a NNA

description: La llegada de la pandemia por la covid-19 y el eventual aislamiento preventivo que implicó trajeron consigo diferentes retos y riesgos para la protección de los niños y las niñas bogotanos. Aunque la tasa de contagio entre niños y jóvenes es baja, la cuarentena generó riesgos directos e indirectos en sus condiciones emocionales y económicas y en su salud. Por ejemplo, durante la pandemia se ha visto un incremento importante en los índices de violencia intrafamiliar y de la violencia sexual. Así mismo, se han identificado otros riesgos derivados de la crisis económica resultante, como el aumento de la prevalencia de desnutrición crónica y aguda, y el bajo peso al nacer, entre otros, que alteran de manera significativa el desarrollo normal de la vida de los menores de edad.
Migration of Higher Educated Graduates and the Consequences of China's 1999 Expansion of Higher Education Admission
Creators: name: Xu, Jia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: With the development of China's higher education, its scale of investment has significantly expanded. Especially since 1999, when a major reform occurred, the number of post-secondary institutions and the post-secondary admissions rate of each province has increased sharply, more than ever before. The expansion of admission to higher education since 1999 has largely changed the original state of China's higher education. My research question is, although almost all provinces in China strongly reacted to this reform, whether provinces have kept educated graduates within their province after investing physical and human capital in expanding admissions. To answer that question, I try to find the relationship between the number of post-secondary institutions, admissions, and university or college educated employees in each province by using various Chinese official databases, including, China Education Yearbook, China Labour Yearbook, National Bureau of Statistics of China. I find that across all provinces, on average, when increasing admission to higher education by one student, provinces keep one educated graduate within their province. However, the story is more complex when I look at a scatter plot relating employees with completed higher education to the province’s post-secondary admissions. In reality, China’s five richest provinces are attracting many of the new university graduates, while the other 26 provinces keep only an average of 0.57 educated employees for each new admission after the 1999 reform. So the five provinces were the winners of the reform in this sense. I begin my paper with a literature review, where I study several journal papers about the use by governments of some developing and undeveloped countries of interventions to increase enrollment rates and years of schooling. In the following section, I provide details about the background of higher education in China. Information about the definition of higher education in China and the history of Chinese higher education admission can explain why the 1999 admission expansion reform is the most important in the Chinese higher education system, and what Chinese government interventions did after the 1999 admission expansion. Finally, I explain my data sources and regression specifications and present and discuss my results. I end the paper with a brief conclusion.
Bounds on graviton mass using weak lensing and SZ effect in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Rana, Akshay
name: Jain, Deepak
name: Mahajan, Shobhit
name: Mukherjee, Amitabha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In General Relativity (GR), the graviton is massless. However, a common feature in several theoretical alternatives of GR is a non-zero mass for the graviton. These theories can be described as massive gravity theories. Despite many theoretical complexities in these theories, on phenomenological grounds, the implications of massive gravity have been widely used to put bounds on graviton mass. One of the generic implications of giving a mass to the graviton is that the gravitational potential will follow a Yukawa-like fall off. We use this feature of massive gravity theories to probe the mass of graviton by using the largest gravitationally bound objects, namely galaxy clusters. In this work, we use the mass estimates of galaxy clusters measured at various cosmologically defined radial distances measured via weak lensing (WL) and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We also use the model independent values of Hubble parameter $H(z)$ smoothed by a non-parametric method, Gaussian process. Within $1σ$ confidence region, we obtain the mass of graviton $m_g < 5.9 \times 10^{-30}$ eV with the corresponding Compton length scale $λ_g > 6.82$ Mpc from weak lensing and $m_g < 8.31 \times 10^{-30}$ eV with $λ_g > 5.012$ Mpc from SZ effect. This analysis improves the upper bound on graviton mass obtained earlier from galaxy clusters.
description: 9 Pages, 3 Figures, 2 Tables, Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
U.S. Army Acquisition – The Program Executive Officer Perspective
Creators: name: Blanchette, Stephen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The U.S. Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP) is a multi-year effort to improve the way the Army acquires software-intensive systems. As part of the ASSIP, the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute interviewed the Army's Program Executive Officers (PEOs) to get their perspectives on the state of Army acquisition of software-intensive systems. The PEOs are senior acquisition professionals with a wealth of experience in Army acquisition and the attempts to improve it in the past. This report documents the results of the PEO interviews. The PEOs identified shortcomings and some interesting potential solutions in various aspects of the acquisition function, including skills and training, policy, the acquisition organization, metrics, process, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and facilities and tools.
title: 01_1892
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Lost Science? Giving Authors of At-Risk Articles a Second Chance
Creators: name: Hatherill, Jeanette
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: preprint servers
open peer review
at-risk articles
deceptive publishers

description: Poster presented at the FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, October 15th to 17th, 2019. Current research on “predatory” publishing largely neglects to address the question of what to do with research that has been published in these venues. These articles exist outside of discovery and preservation networks, leaving them at risk of disappearing permanently should the publisher cease its activities. This poster proposes that opportunities offered by preprint servers and open peer review could be leveraged to recover and reintegrate these “at risk articles” into the scholarly record. By reframing the discourse around “predatory” publishing and taking advantage of open infrastructures, the scholarly community can reduce the risk of losing potentially valuable research.
External Periodic Driving of Large Systems of Globally Coupled Phase Oscillators
Creators: name: Antonsen, T. M.
name: Faghih, R. T.
name: Girvan, M.
name: Ott, E.
name: Platig, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large systems of coupled oscillators subjected to a periodic external drive occur in many situations in physics and biology. Here the simple, paradigmatic case of equal-strength, all-to-all sine-coupling of phase oscillators subject to a sinusoidal external drive is considered. The stationary states and their stability are determined. Using the stability information and numerical experiments, parameter space phase diagrams showing when different types of system behavior apply are constructed, and the bifurcations marking transitions between different types of behavior are delineated. The analysis is supported by results of direct numerical simulation of an ensemble of oscillators.
ЖИНОЯТЧИЛИК ТАБИАТИНИ ТУШУНИШДА БИОЛОГИК ВА ИЖТИМОИЙ ОМИЛЛАРНИНГ ЎЗАРО НИСБАТИ: НАЗАРИЙ-МЕТОДОЛОГИК ТАҲЛИЛ
Creators: name: Турсунов, Хамидулло
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Мақолада жиноятчилик табиатини тушунишга оид турли назарий ёндашувлар таҳлил қилинган. Ломброзо назариясидан бошлаб то замонавий криминологик қарашларгача бўлган илмий концепциялар ўрганилган. Биологик ва ижтимоий омилларнинг жиноий хулқ-атвор шаклланишидаги ўрни ва аҳамияти очиб берилган. Жиноятчиликка қарши курашда комплекс ёндашувнинг зарурлиги асосланган.
Orbital angular momentum due to modes interference
Creators: name: Rondon, Irving
name: Soto-Eguibar, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present generalized expressions to calculate the orbital angular momentum for invariant beams using scalars potentials. The solutions can be separated into transversal electric TE, transversal magnetic TM and transversal electromagnetic TE/TM polarization modes. We show that the superposition of non-paraxial vectorial beams with axial symmetry can provide a well defined orbital angular momentum and that the modes superposition affects the angular momentum flux density. The results are illustrated and analyzed for Bessel beams.
description: Pag 11, Figs 8
TSP Symposium 2013 Proceedings
Creators: name: Cardona, Sergio
name: Faria, João Pascoal
name: Grazioli, Fernanda
name: Henriques, Pedro
name: McHale, James
name: Moreno, Silvana
name: Nichols, William R.
name: Pérez, Leticia
name: Raza, Mushtaq
name: Rincón, Rafael
name: Vallespir, Diego
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 2013 TSP Symposium was organized by the Software Engineering Institute and took place September 16–19 in Dallas, Texas. The goal of the TSP Symposium is to bring together practitioners and academics who share a common passion to change the world of software engineering for the better through disciplined practice. The conference theme was “When Software Really Matters,” which explored the idea that when product quality is critical, high-quality practices are the best way to achieve it. In keeping with that theme, the community contributed a variety of technical papers describing their experiences and research using the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) and Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM). This report contains the four papers selected by the TSP Symposium Technical Program Committee. The topics include demonstrating the impact of the PSP on software quality and effort by eliminating the programming learning effect, analyzing student performance during the introduction of the PSP using an empirical cross-course comparison, incorporating PSP practices into introductory programming courses, and analyzing factors affecting productivity performance in PSP training.
Anti-triplet charmed baryon decays with SU(3) Flavor Symmetry
Creators: name: Geng, C. Q.
name: Hsiao, Y. K.
name: Liu, Chia-Wei
name: Tsai, Tien-Hsueh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decays of the anti-triplet charmed baryon state $(Ξ_c^0,Ξ_c^+,Λ_c^+)$ based on the $SU(3)$ flavor symmetry. In particular, after predicting ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^0\to Ξ^-π^+)=(15.7 \pm 0.7)\times 10^{-3}$ and ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^+\toΞ^-π^+π^+)=(14.7\pm 8.4)\times 10^{-3}$, we extract that ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^0\toΛK^-π^+,ΛK^+K^-,Ξ^- e^+ν_e)=(16.8\pm 2.3,0.45\pm 0.11,48.7\pm 17.4)\times 10^{-3}$ and ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^+\to p K_s^0 K_s^0,Σ^+ K^-π^+,Ξ^0π^+π^0,Ξ^0 e^+ν_e)=(1.3\pm 0.8,13.8\pm 8.0,33.8\pm 21.9,33.8^{+21.9}_{-22.6})\times 10^{-3}$. We also find that ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^0\to Ξ^{0} η,Ξ^{0} η')=(1.7 ^{+ 1.0 }_{- 1.7 },8.6 ^{+ 11.0 }_{-\;\,6.3 })\times 10^{-3}$, ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^0\to Λ^{0} η,Λ^{0} η')=(1.6 ^{+ 1.2 }_{- 0.8 },9.4 ^{+ 11.6 }_{-\;\,6.8 })\times 10^{-4}$ and ${\cal B}(Ξ_c^+\to Σ^{+} η,Σ^{+} η')=(28.4 ^{+ 8.2 }_{- 6.9 },13.2 ^{+ 24.0 }_{- 11.9 })\times 10^{-4}$. These $Ξ_c$ decays with the branching ratios of $O(10^{-4}-10^{-3})$ are clearly promising to be observed by the BESIII and LHCb experiments.
description: 12 pages, no figure, revised version accepted by PRD
SPEECH IMPLICATION AND ITS TYPES IN FAIRY TALES
Creators: name: Kamalova, Nigora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In fairy tales, implicatures are used to convey deep meaning, moral lessons, and cultural values. These implicatures can be divided into several broad types, each with its own specific characteristic There are two types of conversation implicature: generalized implicature and differentiated speech implicature, which require participants to understand the meaning of the implicature. Generalized Conversational Implications: These are essentially conversational implications that are understood in most contexts without requiring specialized knowledge.
TSP Symposium 2012 Proceedings
Creators: name: Nichols, William R.
name: Tasistro, Álvaro
name: Vallespir, Diego
name: Faria, João Pascoal
name: Raza, Mushtaq
name: Henriques, Pedro Castro
name: Duarte, César
name: Fallon, Elias
name: Gazlay, Lee
name: Kusakabe, Shigeru
name: Omori, Yoichi
name: Keijiro  Araki
name: Grazioli, Fernanda
name: Moreno, Silvana
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 2012 TSP Symposium was organized by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and took place September 18-20 in St. Petersburg, FL. The goal of the TSP Symposium is to bring together practitioners and academics who share a common passion to change the world of software engineering for the better through disciplined practice. The conference theme was "Delivering Agility with Discipline." In keeping with that theme, the community contributed a variety of technical papers describing their experiences and research using the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). This report contains the six papers selected by the TSP Symposium Technical Program Committee. The topics include analysis of performance data from PSP, project performance outcomes in developing design systems, and extending the PSP to evaluate the effectiveness of formal methods.
PATHOGENETIC SUBSTANTIATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY PERIODONTAL DISEASES IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT PATHOLOGY
Creators: name: Saidova, Mukhlisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article analyzes the pathogenetic mechanisms linking inflammatory periodontal diseases and gastrointestinal tract disorders. The influence of microbiome imbalance, cytokine dysregulation, and systemic inflammation on periodontal tissues is discussed. Particular attention is given to the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in this patient category. The rationale for using local NSAID formulations (gels, applications, mouth rinses) as a promising approach to reducing inflammation and minimizing gastrointestinal side effects is provided. The prospects of combination therapy involving gastroprotectors, probiotics, and herbal components are highlighted.
Measurement of the cross section for isolated-photon plus jet production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt s=13$ TeV using the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of isolated-photon production in association with a jet in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are studied with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb$^{-1}$. Photons are required to have transverse energies above 125 GeV. Jets are identified using the anti-$k_t$ algorithm with radius parameter $R=0.4$ and required to have transverse momenta above 100 GeV. Measurements of isolated-photon plus jet cross sections are presented as functions of the leading-photon transverse energy, the leading-jet transverse momentum, the azimuthal angular separation between the photon and the jet, the photon-jet invariant mass and the scattering angle in the photon-jet centre-of-mass system. Tree-level plus parton-shower predictions from SHERPA and PYTHIA as well as next-to-leading-order QCD predictions from JETPHOX and SHERPA are compared to the measurements.
description: 40 pages in total, author list starting page 24, 5 figures, 1 table, published in Physics Letters B, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-01/
Monte Carlo simulations of muCF processes kinetics in deuterium gas
Creators: name: Adamczak, Andrzej
name: faifman, Mark P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The muon-catalyzed-fusion processes in D$_2$ gas for various temperatures and densities have been studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, the role of the resonant and nonresonant $ddμ$ formation and differences between the neutron time spectra from the ortho-D$_2$ and para-D$_2$ targets at low temperatures have been investigated.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures
A path to AI
Creators: name: Dronic, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To build a safe system that would replicate and perhaps transcend human-level intelligence, three basic modules: objective, agent, and perception are proposed for development. The objective module would ensure that the system acts in humanity's interest, not against it. It would have two components: a network of machine learning agents to address the problem of value alignment and a distributed ledger to propose a mechanism to mitigate the existential threat. The agent module would further develop the Dyna concept and benefit from a treatise in sociology to build the missing link of artificial general intelligence - a world simulator. The perception module would estimate the state of the world and benefit from existing machine learning algorithms enhanced by a new paradigm in hardware design - a quantum computer. This paper describes a way in which such a system could be built, analyzing the current state of the art and providing alternative directions for research rather than concrete, industry-ready solutions.
description: 6 pages
Gluino-mediated electroweak penguin with flavor-violating trilinear couplings
Creators: name: Endo, Motoi
name: Goto, Toru
name: Kitahara, Teppei
name: Mishima, Satoshi
name: Ueda, Daiki
name: Yamamoto, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In light of a discrepancy of the direct $CP$ violation in $K\toππ$ decays, $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon_K$, we investigate gluino contributions to the electroweak penguin, where flavor violations are induced by squark trilinear couplings. Top-Yukawa contributions to $ΔS = 2$ observables are taken into account, and vacuum stability conditions are evaluated in detail. It is found that this scenario can explain the discrepancy of $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon_K$ for the squark mass smaller than 5.6 TeV. We also show that the gluino contributions can amplify $\mathcal{B}(K \to πν\overlineν)$, $\mathcal{B}(K_S \to μ^+ μ^-)_{\rm eff}$ and $ΔA_{\rm CP}(b\to sγ)$. Such large effects could be measured in future experiments.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures; references added, version published in JHEP
Online Model-Free Controller for Flexible Wing Aircraft: a Policy Iteration-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach
Creators: name: Abouheaf, Mohammed
name: Gueaieb, Wail
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Flexible wing aircraft
Optimal control
Reinforcement learning
Policy iteration
Adaptive critics

description: The aerodynamic model of flexible wing aircraft is highly nonlinear with continuously time-varying dynamics under kinematic constraints. The nonlinearities stem from the aerodynamic forces and continuous deformations in the flexible wing. In spite of the various experimental attempts and theoretical setups that were made to model these dynamics, an accurate formulation was not achieved. The control paradigms of the aircraft are concerned with the electro-mechanical coupling between the pilot and the wing. It is challenging to design a flight controller for such aircraft while complying with these constraints. In this paper, innovative machine learning technique is employed to design a robust online model-free control scheme for flexible wing aircraft. The controller maintains internal asymptotic stability for the aircraft in real-time using selected set of measurements or states in uncertain dynamical environment. It intelligently incorporates the varying dynamics, geometric parameters, and physical constraints of the aircraft into optimal control strategies. The adaptive learning structure employs a policy iteration approach, taking advantage of Bellman optimality principles, to converge to an optimal control solution for the problem. Artificial neural networks are adopted to implement the adaptive learning algorithm in real-time without prior knowledge of the aerodynamic model of the aircraft. The control scheme is generalized and shown to function effectively for different pilot/wing control mechanisms. It also demonstrated its ability to overcome the undesired stability problems caused by coupling the pilot’s dynamics with the flexible wing’s frame of motion.
TSP Performance and Capability Evaluation (PACE): Customer Guide
Creators: name: Nichols, William R.
name: Kasunic, Mark
name: Chick, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Team Software Process (TSP) Performance and Capability Evaluation (PACE) process provides an objective way to evaluate software development organizations using data collected during TSP projects. This guide describes the evaluation process and lists the steps organizations and programs must complete to earn a TSP-PACE certification. It also describes how data gathered during the evaluation is used to generate a five-dimensional profile summarizing the results of the evaluation.
Generalized massive optimal data compression
Creators: name: Alsing, Justin
name: Wandelt, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data compression has become one of the cornerstones of modern astronomical data analysis, with the vast majority of analyses compressing large raw datasets down to a manageable number of informative summaries. In this paper we provide a general procedure for optimally compressing $N$ data down to $n$ summary statistics, where $n$ is equal to the number of parameters of interest. We show that compression to the score function -- the gradient of the log-likelihood with respect to the parameters -- yields $n$ compressed statistics that are optimal in the sense that they preserve the Fisher information content of the data. Our method generalizes earlier work on linear Karhunen-Loéve compression for Gaussian data whilst recovering both lossless linear compression and quadratic estimation as special cases when they are optimal. We give a unified treatment that also includes the general non-Gaussian case as long as mild regularity conditions are satisfied, producing optimal non-linear summary statistics when appropriate. As a worked example, we derive explicitly the $n$ optimal compressed statistics for Gaussian data in the general case where both the mean and covariance depend on the parameters.
description: 5 pages; updated to MNRAS Letters accepted version (3 Apr 2018)
Navigating Cultural Assimilation and Religious Continuity: The Hindu Diaspora in America and Its Impact on Second-Generation Hindu Americans
Creators: name: Dangi, Govind
name: Singh, Avdhesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Hindu diaspora in the United States has undergone a multifaceted journey of cultural assimilation while striving to preserve its religious and cultural heritage. Since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, there has been a significant influx of Hindu immigrants, particularly professionals in sectors such as technology, medicine, and academia. Institutional structures, including temples and cultural organizations, have facilitated the retention of religious practices and the transmission of cultural values. However, these processes have evolved, especially for second-generation Hindu Americans, who face the challenge of balancing dual identities in a multicultural, yet predominantly secular, society. This paper examines the role of community spaces, intergenerational dynamics, and the adaptation of Hinduism to American life, with a focus on how Hindu Americans maintain their religious traditions while integrating into U.S. society. Additionally, it explores how second-generation Hindu Americans navigate the pressures of cultural assimilation and religious continuity, ultimately shaping their unique hybrid identities. The analysis draws upon theoretical frameworks from diaspora studies, transnationalism, and identity formation.
Gobernanza para proveer un hogar planetario seguro para la vida humana y no humana
Creators: name: Gómez Lee, Martha Isabel
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bienes públicos
subject: Cambios climáticos
subject: Diversidad biológica
subject: Bien común
subject: Antropoceno
subject: Límites planetarios
subject: Bienes públicos globales
subject: Bien común de la humanidad
subject: Economía rosquilla
subject: Planeta
subject: Gobernanza

description: La humanidad tiene el planeta Tierra como su hogar. En tanto que el género humano es la parte consciente de los seres vivos que habitan el planeta, es su responsabilidad proveer un planeta apto para la vida, como un bien común de la humanidad. El propósito de esta investigación es analizar la actual emergencia planetaria como un problema de provisión de bienes públicos globales o trasnacionales. Sin embargo, este desafío urgente requiere una transformación que garantice la protección del planeta por medio de un desarrollo sostenible e integral, por lo tanto, proveer un hogar planetario seguro para la vida humana y no humana es un problema de provisión de un bien común de la humanidad. En lo político hay que reformar a las Naciones Unidas para superar el dilema del prisionero y la paradoja de la soberanía en la gobernanza global. En lo económico hay que pasar del hombre económico racional como núcleo de la teoría económica ortodoxa al Homo economicus como una persona en comunidad. En lo filosófico, el ser humano debe desarrollar su capacidad de biofilia, de tal forma que la humanidad pueda encontrar la armonía en la simbiosis entre el planeta Tierra y el género humano, parte consciente de la naturaleza, que tiene la tierra como su hogar.
description: Humanity has planet Earth as its home. While mankind is the conscious part of the living beings that inhabit the planet, it is its responsibility to provide a planet fit for life, as a common good of humanity. The purpose of this research is to analyze the current planetary emergency as a problem of provision of global or transnational public goods. However, this urgent challenge requires a transformation that guarantees the protection of the planet through sustainable and integral development, therefore, providing a safe planetary home for human and non-human life is a problem of providing a common good of humanity. Politically, the United Nations must be reformed to overcome the prisoner's dilemma and the paradox of sovereignty in global governance. In economics, we must move from rational economic man as the core of orthodox economic theory to Homo economicus as a person in community. Philosophically, the human being must develop his capacity for biophilia, so that humanity can find harmony in the symbiosis between planet Earth and the human race, a conscious part of nature, which has the earth as its home.
Quantum optical memory protocols in atomic ensembles
Creators: name: Chanelière, Thierry
name: Hétet, Gabriel
name: Sangouard, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review a series of quantum memory protocols designed to store the quantum information carried by light into atomic ensembles. In particular, we show how a simple semiclassical formalism allows to gain insight into various memory protocols and to highlight strong analogies between them. These analogies naturally lead to a classification of light storage protocols into two categories, namely photon echo and slow-light memories. We focus on the storage and retrieval dynamics as a key step to map the optical information into the atomic excitation. We finally review various criteria adapted for both continuous variables and photon-counting measurement techniques to certify the quantum nature of these memory protocols.
title: ADCO, Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00064
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00064, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00064, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Political Feasibility of Korean-Japanese Cooperation in Global Electric Vehicle Supply Chains
Creators: name: Desjardins, Jeremy
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Shifting patterns in economic internationalisation are transforming the value proposition of global supply chains. The Republic of Korea and Japan, in theory, are particularly well positioned to gain from shifting patterns in international trade, with strong economic policy and fundamentals, globally competitive and internationally-oriented firms, and warm relationships with the current hegemons, the United States and China. Conventional international relations theory, whether realist or liberal, suggest that the two nations make for ideal partners for fruitful economic integration. However, against all expectations, Korean-Japanese diplomacy has seen a perplexingly enduring unravelling in recent years, as unresolved historical grudges permeate every aspect of their relationship. This report aims to demonstrate that while Korea and Japan’ are theoretically well placed to benefit from shifting geopolitical and economic trends, they would further benefit from reversing years of antagonistic foreign policy and bilateral protectionist attitudes. The paradigm shift that is the electrification push of the automotive industry, which has to this point been largely propelled by East Asian lithium-ion battery technology and manufacturing, could be the opportunity that brings about a reversal in Korea and Japan’s antagonistic bilateral trade policy.
Quantifying the Expansion of an Invasive Plant Species, Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum), in Environmental and Geographic Space Over the Past 130 Years
Creators: name: Foster, Sharla
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Species distribution models
subject: Equilibrium
subject: Invasive species
subject: Vincetoxicum rossicum
subject: Maxent
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Invasive plant species are an increasing global threat to native biodiversity. Effective management depends on accurate predictions of their spread. However, modelling the geographic distribution of invasive species, particularly with methods like correlative species distribution models (SDMs), is challenging. SDMs operate under the assumption that species are in equilibrium with their environment (i.e., they occur in all suitable environments); this assumption is more likely to be violated for a species that is still in the process of colonizing suitable environments. SDMs also assume that environmental constraints are the most important factors determining a species' distribution. However, these assumptions are not commonly assessed, and when violated can have consequences for model reliability. I investigated SDM performance and equilibrium in the invasive Vincetoxicum rossicum vine in northeastern North America. Vincetoxicum rossicum has a long, detailed history of occurrence records in its invaded range, which enabled me to observe trends in equilibrium and model performance over a relatively long time scale. I tested the hypotheses that: 1) invasive species approach equilibrium in environmental and geographic space over time; 2) SDM performance will increase as V. rossicum approaches environmental equilibrium; and 3) range expansion in the early stages of an invasion is primarily a function of dispersal rather than environmental constraints, while the reverse is true in later stages. I found that V. rossicum has reached equilibrium in environmental space, but is still expanding its geographic range. SDM performance was poor in the first 30 years following introduction, but then improved as V. rossicum approached environmental equilibrium. SDMs were outperformed by spatial dispersal models in the earliest time period, however, the reverse was true for all subsequent time periods. Overall, these results suggest that V. rossicum’s distribution is becoming more stable and more predictable over time and that models built using the most recent data for this species, will be the most transferable across time and space. Additionally, my findings highlight the need for researchers modelling invasive species’ distributions to consider the inherent assumptions, biases, and unique features related to SDMs and SDMs of invasive species.
Uncovering cynicism in medical training: a qualitative analysis of medical online discussion forums
Creators: name: Doja, Asif
name: Peng, Jenny
name: Clarkin, Chantalle
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Objective The development of cynicism in medicine, defined as a decline in empathy and emotional neutralisation during medical training, is a significant concern for medical educators. We sought to use online medical student discussion groups to provide insight into how cynicism in medicine is perceived, the consequences of cynicism on medical trainee development and potential links between the hidden curriculum and cynicism. Setting Online analysis of discussion topics in Premed101 (Canadian) and Student Doctor Network (American) forums. Participants 511 posts from seven discussion topics were analysed using NVivo 11. Participants in the forums included medical students, residents and practising physicians. Methods Inductive content analysis was used to develop a data-driven coding scheme that evolved throughout the analysis. Measures were taken to ensure the trustworthiness of findings, including duplicate independent coding of a sub-sample of posts and the maintenance of an audit trail. Results Medical students, residents and practising physicians participating in the discussion forums engaged in discourse about cynicism and highlighted themes of the hidden curriculum resulting in cynicism. These included the progression of cynicism over the course of medical training as a coping mechanism; the development of challenging work environments due to factors such as limited support, hierarchical demands and long work hours; and the challenge of initiating change due to the tolerance of unprofessionalism and the highly stressful nature of medicine. Conclusion Our unique study of North American medical discussion posts demonstrates that cynicism develops progressively and is compounded by conflicts between the hidden and formal curriculum. Online discussion groups are a novel resource to provide insight into the culture of medical training.
El Covid-19 como evento eximente de responsabilidad en los contratos de concesiones viales de cuarta generación en Colombia
Creators: name: Díaz Rueda, Diana Marcela
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Contratos
subject: Administración pública
subject: Procedimiento administrativo
subject: Fuerza mayor o caso fortuito
subject: Hecho del príncipe
subject: Teoría de la imprevisión
subject: Contratos de concesión
subject: Evento eximente de responsabilidad
subject: Pandemia

description: Con la declaración del COVID-19 como pandemia por parte de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el Gobierno Nacional adoptó una serie de medidas encaminadas a contener y mitigar los efectos de la enfermedad, dentro de las cuales se destacan cuarentenas, toques de queda y suspensiones en el cobro de peajes de los proyectos a cargo de la Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura. El presente trabajo tiene como objeto analizar si el COVID-19 constituye un evento eximente de responsabilidad que exonere a los contratistas del cumplimiento de sus obligaciones contractuales, para lo que se estudian instituciones como: a) la fuerza mayor o caso fortuito, b.) la teoría de la imprevisión y c.) el hecho del príncipe y se examinan los impactos negativos de las medidas ordenadas por el gobierno en los contratos de cuarta generación de concesiones viales. Finalmente, se estudia el manejo que la República del Perú dio a la pandemia en el marco de los contratos de concesión y los aportes de esta experiencia para el caso colombiano.
description: Due to the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the National Government adopted measures aimed to contain and mitigate the effects of the disease, among them, quarantines, curfews and suspensions in the toll collection of the projects in charge of the National Infrastructure Agency stand out. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether COVID-19 constitutes an exoneration of liability event that releases contractors from the fulfillment of their contractual obligations; in this sense, institutions such as: a.) force majeure, b.) the unforeseeability theory and c.) mandatory acts of government (fait du prince), as well as the negative impacts of the measures ordered by the government in the fourth generation of road concession contracts are studied. Finally, the management that the Republic of Peru gave to the pandemic under the concession agreements and the contributions of this experience to the Colombian case are also studied.
The Chinese Hukou System & its Impacts on Healthcare for Rural-to-Urban Migrants A Case Study of Tuberculosis Treatment Access in Urban Centres
Creators: name: Samuels, Samantha
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: China’s current healthcare system is rooted in the Hukou system, which is the household registration system based on an individual’s place of birth. The Hukou system served as a form of migration management for the Chinese government since 1958, specifically by helping to separate the agricultural and industrial sectors to facilitate the objectives of the socialist planned economy. Furthermore, this period of economic liberalization also resulted in the reform of the Chinese Hukou system. This new era prompted waves of migration from the rural countryside to urban centres in the hopes of prosperity and a path out of poverty. However, the legacy of the Hukou system still maintained the spatial hierarchy between urban residents and rural migrants, resulting in inequality and marginalization for rural-to-urban migrants, specifically regarding social benefits, such as equal healthcare access. Today, while those with rural Hukou living in cities receive medical care, the quality, efficacy, and cost of obtaining it are unequal between rural migrants and urban residents. This paper will explore the Hukou system’s legacy and its implications on China’s healthcare system. In doing so, it will aim to answer how the Hukou system, despite reform, impacts rural-to-urban migrant healthcare access; how migrant healthcare access compares to accessibility for those with urban Hukou, and furthermore; how this spatial inequality created by the Hukou system infringes on migrants’ right to the city by creating barriers to obtaining equal, reliable, and affordable healthcare. The research employs the use of a literature review, manual literary coding techniques, the application of Critical Urban Theory, the selection of tuberculosis as a case study to examine the variance in healthcare accessibility between rural migrants and urban residents. This will demonstrate that migrants do not have equal healthcare access due to their Hukou status, and therefore an unequal right to the city.
Trustworthy Refinement Through Intrusion-Aware Design (TRIAD)
Creators: name: Ellison, Robert J.
name: Moore, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High confidence in a system's survivability requires an accurate understanding of the system's threat environment and the impact of that environment on system operations. Unfortunately, existing development methods for secure and survivable information systems often employ a patchwork approach in which the focus is on deciding which popular security components to integrate rather than making a rational assessment of how to address the attacks that are likely to compromise the overall mission. This report proposes an intrusion-aware design model called trustworthy refinement through intrusion-aware design (TRIAD). TRIAD helps information system decision makers formulate and maintain a coherent, justifiable, and affordable survivability strategy that addresses mission-compromising threats for their organization. TRIAD also helps in evaluating and maintaining an information system design in terms of its ability to implement a survivability strategy. This report demonstrates the application of TRIAD to the refinement of a survivability strategy for a business that sells products over the Internet. TRIAD provides a solid foundation for the further refinement, experimentation, and validation of an approach to exploit knowledge of intruder behavior to improve system architecture design and operations. Ultimately, with effective tool support and evidence of its efficacy, TRIAD will be integrated with more comprehensive life-cycle models for the development and maintenance of high-confidence systems.