cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating Advanced Persistent Threat 1 (APT1)
Creators: name: Shick, Deana
name: Horneman, Angela
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In February 2013, Mandiant uncovered Advanced Persistent Threat 1 (APT1)—one of China’s alleged cyber espionage groups—and provided a detailed report of APT1 operations, along with 3,000 indicators of the group’s activity since 2006. This report analyzes unclassified data sets in an attempt to understand APT1’s middle infrastructure: the system of hops, distribution points or relays, and the command and control (C2) servers that sit between APT1’s victims and main C2 servers located overseas. To build that infrastructure, APT1 chose and exploited particular organizations to obfuscate communications while remaining in plain sight. This analysis, based on data from IP addresses known to be associated with APT1 and domain names provided by Mandiant, was conducted using a combination of System for Internet Level Knowledge (SiLK) tools, Microsoft Excel, and custom Python scripts. The study detailed in this report can be replicated easily using available sources and tools. By combining key unclassified information, the authors successfully described a large, malicious network used to steal important information.
Gravitational wave detection, detector characterization, and parameter estimation using a network of interferometer detectors
Creators: name: Rogan, Aaron Matthew
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Gravitational waves

description: Although the existence of gravitational waves have been indirectly proven, the direct
description: detection of the ¯rst gravitational wave will mark a signi¯cant turning point in the under-
description: standing of gravitational waves (GW) and gravity in general. For decades there have been several narrow band bar detectors in operation but it has only been the last decade that the most promising gravitational wave detectors have begun to come online. The broad band detectors possess the ability to see a large portion of the known frequencies that are expected from theories which are physically unavailable to bar detectors. Considering that GW signals are inherently weak, inspiral signals are very promising sources for both Earth based and space based interferometer detectors due to their known waveforms. The duration that a signal is available to a given detector increases the chances of detection signi¯cantly. With several interferometer detectors currently operating across the globe and the commissioning of the ¯rst space based detector in the coming years, two of the few remaining hurdles that are covered in this dissertation are maintaining the detector sensitivity to signals and making the very ¯rst direct detection of a GW. Owning to the fact that these interferometric detectors are composed of some of the most advanced laser systems in existence, they require many monitoring tools that assist in characterizing the state of the detectors. One such tool detailed herein would be GainMon, which is a software tool that allows operators to monitor the long baseline Fabry-Perot cavities for drifts in the unity gain frequencies (UGF). Once it has been determined that the detector is in an acceptable operating state, the data that it collects must then be studied to determine if a signal is present. If the detector is incapable of recovering source parameters within a certain degree of accuracy then a detection serves as nothing more than a mathematical challenge with little science to be gained. Therefore if a signal is identi¯ed, some constraints must be placed on the results that indicate how accurately the recovered signal agrees with the actual source.
Additional file 1 of CESAR: conventional ventilatory support vs extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure
Creators: name: Peek, Giles J
name: Clemens, Felicity
name: Elbourne, Diana
name: Firmin, Richard
name: Hardy, Pollyanna
name: Hibbert, Clare
name: Killer, Hilliary
name: Mugford, Miranda
name: Thalanany, Mariamma
name: Tiruvoipati, Ravin
name: Truesdale, Ann
name: Wilson, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
Identification of quantitative trait loci linked markers and characterization of positional candidate genes for beef marbling in Wagyu x Limousin F2 crosses
Creators: name: Xiao, Qianjun
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Beef -- Quality -- Genetic aspects

description: Selection for marbling has been recognized as an important objective for the production of high quality beef worldwide. The objective of this study is to identify genes or markers that are associated with beef marbling. In experiment 1, we presented a simplified approach for screening and mapping of QTL linked markers for beef marbling using a Wagyu x Limousin F2 reference population. This simplified approach involves integration of the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) with DNA pooling and selective genotyping and comparative bioinformatics tools. AFLP analysis yielded four AFLP markers. Sequencing and in silico characterization assigned two of these AFLP markers to bovine chromosomes 13 (BTA13) and 1 (BTA1), which are orthologous to human chromosomes HSA10p11.23 and HSA21q22.2 with both regions harboring QTL for obesity-related phenotypes. Both AFLP markers showed significantly large additive genetic effects on beef marbling score (BMS). Overall, this approach is less expensive and less time consuming than current QTL mapping approaches.; In particular, this approach is suitable for screening and mapping QTL linked markers when targeting one or a few complex traits. In experiment 2, we identified one candidate gene of poly (A) polymerase associated domain containing 1 (PAPD1) associated with beef marbling. This gene is in close proximity to the human gene KIAA1462 which is orthologous to the AFLP marker located on BTA13 revealed in experiment 1. PAPD1 gene is a newly identified mitochondrial gene that encodes polymerase required for the polyadenylation and stability of mammalian mitochondrial mRNAs. Ten genetic markers were detected in the promoter and exon 1 region of PAPD1 gene. Among seven markers assayed on 246 Wagyu x Limousin F2 animals, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the promoter region were significantly associated with BMS. However, there was a significant interaction between a third SNP, which causes amino acid changes derived from coding exon 1, and each of these two promoter SNPs on BMS. In particular, the differences between double heterozygous animals and other genotypes animals were from 0.67 to 2.3 standard deviations for the trait in both cases. Our study provides evidence for a new mechanism the compound heterosis involved in extreme obesity, which warrants further examination.
Cobalt: A GPU-based correlator and beamformer for LOFAR
Creators: name: Broekema, P. Chris
name: Mol, J. Jan David
name: Nijboer, Ronald
name: van Amesfoort, Alexander S.
name: Brentjens, Michiel A.
name: Loose, G. Marcel
name: Klijn, Wouter F. A.
name: Romein, John W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For low-frequency radio astronomy, software correlation and beamforming on general purpose hardware is a viable alternative to custom designed hardware. LOFAR, a new-generation radio telescope centered in the Netherlands with international stations in Germany, France, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and the UK, has successfully used software real-time processors based on IBM Blue Gene technology since 2004. Since then, developments in technology have allowed us to build a system based on commercial off-the-shelf components that combines the same capabilities with lower operational cost. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a GPU-based correlator and beamformer with the same capabilities as the Blue Gene based systems. We focus on the design approach taken, and show the challenges faced in selecting an appropriate system. The design, implementation and verification of the software system shows the value of a modern test-driven development approach. Operational experience, based on three years of operations, demonstrates that a general purpose system is a good alternative to the previous supercomputer-based system or custom-designed hardware.
Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future
Creators: name: Steigerwald, Emma
name: Ramírez-Castañeda, Valeria
name: Brandt, Débora Y C
name: Báldi, András
name: Shapiro, Julie Teresa
name: Bowker, Lynne
name: Tarvin, Rebecca D
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: artificial intelligence
multilingualism
neural networks
plain language
scientific communication

description: Having a central scientific language remains crucial for advancing and globally sharing science. Nevertheless, maintaining one dominant language also creates barriers to accessing scientific careers and knowledge. From an interdisciplinary perspective, we describe how, when, and why to make scientific literature more readily available in multiple languages through the practice of translation. We broadly review the advantages and limitations of neural machine translation systems and propose that translation can serve as both a short- and a long-term solution for making science more resilient, accessible, globally representative, and impactful beyond the academy. We outline actions that individuals and institutions can take to support multilingual science and scientists, including structural changes that encourage and value translating scientific literature. In the long term, improvements to machine translation technologies and collective efforts to change academic norms can transform a monolingual scientific hub into a multilingual scientific network. Translations are available in the supplemental material.
Dark Matter Signals at the LHC from a 3HDM
Creators: name: Cordero, A.
name: Hernandez-Sanchez, J.
name: Keus, V.
name: King, S. F.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Rojas, D.
name: Sokolowska, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse new signals of Dark Matter (DM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where only one doublet acquires a Vacuum Expectation Value (VEV), preserving a parity $Z_2$. The other two doublets are \textit{inert} and do not develop a VEV, leading to a {\it dark scalar sector} controlled by $Z_2$, with the lightest CP-even dark scalar $H_1$ being the DM candidate. This leads to the loop induced decay of the next-to-lightest scalar, $H_2 \to H_1 f \bar f$ ($f=u,d,c,s,b,e,μ,τ$), mediated by both dark CP-odd and charged scalars. This is a smoking-gun signal of the 3HDM since it is not allowed in the 2HDM with one inert doublet and is expected to be important when $H_2$ and $H_1$ are close in mass. In practice, this signature can be observed in the cascade decay of the SM-like Higgs boson, $h\to H_1 H_2\to H_1 H_1 f \bar f$ into two DM particles and di-leptons/di-jets, where $h$ is produced from either gluon-gluon Fusion (ggF) or Vector Boson Fusion (VBF). However, this signal competes with the tree-level channel $q\bar q\to H_1H_1Z^*\to H_1H_1f \bar f$. We devise some benchmarks, compliant with collider, DM and cosmological data, for which the interplay between these modes is discussed. In particular, we show that the resulting detector signature, $\Et\; f \bar f$, with invariant mass of $ f \bar f$ much smaller than $m_Z$, can potentially be extracted already during Run 2 and 3. For example, the $H_2\to H_1γ^*$ and $γ^*\to e^+e^-$ case will give a spectacular QED mono-shower signal.
description: The version appearing in JHEP
Additional file 1 of The devil is in the details: trends in avoidable hospitalization rates by geography in British Columbia, 1990–2000
Creators: name: Cloutier-Fisher, Denise
name: Penning, Margaret J
name: Zheng, Chi
name: Druyts, Eric-Bené F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
The english microcurriculum : local cultural representations
Creators: name: Sáchica Peláez, Danilo
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Aprendizaje - Educación
subject: Personal docente - Enseñanza
subject: Evaluación curricular
subject: Microcurriculum analysis
subject: Cultural representations in education
subject: Teaching materials evaluation

description: Esta investigación cualitativa analiza un microcurrículo escolar basado en el Currículo Sugerido de inglés en cuanto a sus representaciones culturales locales, así como su material de enseñanza de apoyo, el libro de texto English, please! Fast track. Los participantes de esta investigación fueron dos estudiantes, cuatro docentes de inglés, un coordinador académico y un asesor pedagógico del British Council en un colegio público de Bogotá. La recolección de datos se realizó mediante entrevistas a profundidad y una matriz de análisis del documento del currículo y los módulos seleccionados del libro de texto. Los hallazgos revelaron que el microcurrículo presenta falencias, como información limitada sobre sus bases teóricas, componentes culturales y objetivos de evaluación y didáctica. Además, el material de apoyo no complementa de manera adecuada, careciendo de representaciones culturales locales y elementos culturales enriquecedores. Concluyendo, el microcurrículo no desarrolla la competencia intercultural crítica, y su diseño curricular no incorpora la voz de los estudiantes, lo que genera un distanciamiento entre ellos y el microcurrículo, sin reflejar su contexto cultural.
description: This qualitative research examines a school microcurriculum based on the Suggested English Curriculum in terms of local cultural representations and its supporting teaching materials, the textbook English, please! Fast track. The participants in this study included 2 students, 4 English teachers, 1 academic coordinator, and a pedagogical advisor from the British Council in a public school in Bogotá. Data collection was conducted through two instruments: in-depth interviews and an analysis matrix of the curriculum document and selected textbook modules. Findings revealed several deficiencies in the microcurriculum, including limited information within the document regarding its theoretical foundations, cultural components, representation of the students' local context, and clear objectives for evaluation and didactics. Additionally, the findings indicated that the supporting teaching material (textbook) is not an ideal complement, as it lacks visibility of local cultural representations and fails to incorporate cultural elements that enhance the texts. Moreover, it was concluded that the microcurriculum falls short in developing critical intercultural competence, the curriculum design methodology is inefficient since students are unvoiced, resulting in a detachment between them and the microcurriculum, and that both the curriculum and supporting teaching material do not reflect the students' cultural context.
LANGUAGE POLICY IN SRI LANKA CRITICAL JUNCTURES AND RESISTANCE FACTORS PREVENTING SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION
Creators: name: Wyss, Corinne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Language rights have played a central role in the struggle for power and resources between the Sinhalese-Buddhist and the Tamil-Hindu and Tamil-Muslim communities in postcolonial Sri Lanka. The detrimental Sinhala Only Act that disregarded Tamil and consecrated Sinhala as the only national and official language of the country in 1956, exacerbated ethnic differences around language and has been identified as one of the root causes of the civil war that lasted almost three decades. The path that Sri Lanka took in making and adopting its language policy since independence is strewn with pivotal moments and critical junctures which exert an enduring influence on the country’s language policy direction. While both Sinhala and Tamil are now constitutionally enshrined as national and official languages of the country, historical, institutional and political resistance factors still undermine the successful implementation of Sri Lanka’s language policy and thus the effective building of post-war reconciliation. The changes needed at the institutional and political levels to address the shortcomings and failures of language policy implementation prove to be difficult to achieve, due to lack of political will, fears of fragmentation of territorial integrity and fears of undermining the Sinhalese-Buddhist hegemony. Keywords: Sri Lanka, independence, postcolonial language policy, ethnic outbidding, reconciliation
Bigness of the tangent bundle of a Fano threefold with Picard number two
Creators: name: Kim, Hosung
name: Kim, Jeong-Seop
name: Lee, Yongnam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J45, 14J30, 14E30

description: In this paper, we study the positivity property of the tangent bundle $T_X$ of a Fano threefold $X$ with Picard number 2. We determine the bigness of the tangent bundle of the whole 36 deformation types. Our result shows that $T_X$ is big if and only if $(-K_X)^3\ge 34$. As a corollary, we prove that the tangent bundle is not big when $X$ has a standard conic bundle structure with non-empty discriminant. Our main methods are to produce irreducible effective divisors on $\mathbb{P}(T_X)$ constructed from the total dual VMRT associated to a family of rational curves. Additionally, we present some criteria to determine the bigness of $T_X$.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures. Final version to appear in Nagoya Mathematical Journal
Introduction to the Mission Thread Workshop
Creators: name: Gagliardi, Michael J.
name: Wood, William
name: Morrow, Timothy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Department of Defense programs, a system of systems (SoS) is integrated to accomplish a number of missions that involve cooperation among individual systems. Understanding the activities conducted within each system and how they interoperate to accomplish the missions of the SoS is of vital importance. A mission thread is a sequence of end-to-end activities and events, given as a series of steps, that accomplish the execution of one or more capabilities that the SoS supports. However, listing the steps and describing them do not reveal all the important concerns associated with cooperation among the systems to accomplish the mission; understanding the architectural and engineering considerations associated with each mission thread is also essential. The Mission Thread Workshop (MTW) is a facilitated, stakeholder-centric workshop whose purpose is to elicit and refine end-to-end quality attribute, capability, and engineering considerations for SoS mission threads. This report introduces the MTW, describes the three phases of an MTW, and explains the steps of each phase in detail. It also describes the benefits that a program can expect from conducting an MTW, which include identifying quality attributes and architectural challenges but also reach beyond these goals to expose gaps in capability, functionality, documentation, and engineering.
Improving protein interactions prediction using machine learning and visual analytics
Creators: name: Singhal, Mudita
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Machine Learning

description: The response of biological systems to external stimuli is ruled by their cellular
description: interaction networks. This makes the problem of inferring cellular interaction networks
description: essential to decipher the basic operational principles of biological systems. Knowing
description: which proteins exist in a certain organism or cell type and how these proteins interact
description: with each other are necessary for the understanding of biological processes at the whole
description: cell level. The determination of the protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks has been
description: the subject of extensive research and it has been shown that domain-domain interactions
description: (DDIs) are good indicators of possible protein interactions, and can more accurately
description: predict protein interactions than comparing full-length protein sequences. Despite the
description: development of reasonably successful methods there is definite scope for improvement.
description: This thesis is aimed at developing machine learning based computational
description: techniques that utilize domain information in the proteins to predict PPI networks. This
description: research aims to make four major contributions to the field of PPIs. The first two are the
description: development of two new PPI prediction algorithms, DomainGA and DomainSVM.
description: DomainGA is a genetic algorithm based multi-parameter optimization method which
description: quantifies DDIs and uses them to predict PPI. The second method, DomainSVM utilizes
description: the DDI scores obtained from DomainGA in a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based
description: learning system to improve PPIs prediction by overcoming the limitations of DomainGA.
description: These two methods can be used as a two-step filtering process to validate experimentally
description: detected PPI. The third contribution is score assignment to DDIs which is proven to be
description: discriminatory between positive and negative PPI. Finally the fourth contribution is a
description: visual analytic environment called CABIN (Collective Analysis of Biological Interaction
description: Networks) which provides a one-of-its-kind tool to analyze, compare and integrate
description: multiple predicted networks obtained from public data sources and/or inference
description: algorithms such as DomainGA and DomainSVM. The predicted interactions
description: accompanied by a confidence score and an exploratory visualization environment shall
description: help researchers validate experimental observations and/or make an informed decision
description: while generating hypothesis and models for designing new experiments.
Additional file 2 of The devil is in the details: trends in avoidable hospitalization rates by geography in British Columbia, 1990–2000
Creators: name: Cloutier-Fisher, Denise
name: Penning, Margaret J
name: Zheng, Chi
name: Druyts, Eric-Bené F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
A tale of two Bethe ansätze
Creators: name: Lima-Santos, Antonio
name: Nepomechie, Rafael I.
name: Pimenta, Rodrigo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the construction of the eigenvectors of the single and double-row transfer matrices associated with the Zamolodchikov-Fateev model, within the algebraic Bethe ansatz method. The left and right eigenvectors are constructed using two different methods: the fusion technique and Tarasov's construction. A simple explicit relation between the eigenvectors from the two Bethe ansätze is obtained. As a consequence, we obtain the Slavnov formula for the scalar product between on-shell and off-shell Tarasov-Bethe vectors.
description: 28 pages; v2: 30 pages, added proof of (4.40) and (5.39), minor changes to match the published version
Effect of a thin optical Kerr medium on a Laguerre-Gaussian beam and the applications
Creators: name: Zhang, Weiya
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Gaussian beams

description: Using a generalized Gaussian beam decomposition method we determine the propaga-
description: tion of a Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam after it has passed through a thin nonlinear optical Kerr medium. The orbital angular momentum per photon of the beam is found to be conserved while the component beams change. We apply our theory to using LG10
description: beams to measure the nonlinear refractive index coefficient of the medium with high sensitivity, such as the Z-scan and I-scan techniques, and to a new optical limiting geometry. We test the validity of the theory and demonstrate the applications experimentally using a dye-doped polymer, disperse red 1 (DR1) doped poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) (DR1/PMMA). In order to do that, we investigate the mechanisms of the nonlinear refractive index change in DR1/PMMA (trans-cis-trans photoisomerization and photoreorientation) by a three-state model and a holographic volume index gratings recording experiment, and determine the conditions under which DR1/PMMA acts as an optical Kerr medium.
On fixed point sets of distinguished collections for groups of parabolic characteristic
Creators: name: Maginnis, John
name: Onofrei, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20J05, 20D08, 20C34, 51E25, 55P91

description: We determine the nature of the fixed point sets of groups of order p, acting on complexes of distinguished p-subgroups (those p-subgroups containing p-central elements in their centers). The case when G has parabolic characteristic p is analyzed in detail.
description: 15 pages
UNSC Reform in a Post-Cold War Era: Eliminating the Power of Veto
Creators: name: Granja, Aracelly Denise
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: The culmination of the Cold War period marked significant changes in the international system. The division of power shifted from the influence of a bipolar world in which the Soviet Union and United States were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, to the development of what is now dually classified as a unipolar and/or multipolar world, in which democracy has flourished. The new world order has also signaled the rise in power of several mid-level countries, not to mention the emergence of numerous new developing nations. As a result, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has also seen various changes, from a more prominent human rights and peacekeeping agenda to a greater inclination for member state cooperation. However, aside from these changes there has also been increased criticism as to the effectiveness and legitimacy of the institution. These critics, particularly in the form of UN members, have called for the UNSC to be reformed. They argue that the UNSC needs to be more reflective of the twenty-first century, more representative of its heavily increased members and overall more transparent throughout its decision-making process. This call for change has sparked several reform proposals, from increasing the number of permanent members who sit on the Council, to once again merely increasing the size of the Council’s non-permanent membership, to the more controversial option of eliminating the power of veto. Although there is a general consensus among UN members that reform of the Council is necessary, there has been a longstanding debate as to what this reform should entail and how it will be implemented in order to maximize UNSC efficiency. In response to this dispute this paper will argue that if the objective of restructuring the Council is enhancing both its effectiveness and legitimacy, then the most viable option for reform is the elimination of the power of veto held by its five permanent members (P-5).
A multi-isotope $0\nu2β$ bolometric experiment
Creators: name: Giuliani, A.
name: Danevich, F. A.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are valuable arguments to perform neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu2β$) decay experiments with several nuclei: the uncertainty of nuclear-matrix-ele\-ment calculations; the possibility to test these calculations by using the ratio of the measured lifetimes; the unpredictability of possible breakthroughs in the detection technique; the difficulty to foresee background in $0\nu2β$ decay searches; the limited amount of isotopically enriched materials. We propose therefore approaches to estimate the Majorana neutrino mass by combining experimental data collected with different $0\nu2β$ decay candidates. In particular, we apply our methods to a next-generation experiment based on scintillating and Cherenkov-radiation bolometers. Current results indicate that this technology can effectively study up to four different isotopes simultaneously ($^{82}$Se, $^{100}$Mo, $^{116}$Cd and $^{130}$Te), embedded in detectors which share the same concepts and environment. We show that the combined information on the Majorana neutrino mass extracted from a multi-candidate bolometric experiment is competitive with that achievable with a single isotope, once that the cryogenic experimental volume is fixed. The remarkable conceptual and technical advantages of a multi-isotope investigation are discussed. This approach can be naturally applied to the proposed CUPID project, follow-up of the CUORE experiment that is currently taking data in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory.
description: This version reflects changes made after EPJC referees' comments
Capacités parentales et violence conjugale : Une analyse du discours des experts psychosociaux et psycholégaux en matière de garde d’enfant et de droit d’accès
Creators: name: Vincent, Alexandra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Ce mémoire s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche dirigé par le Professeur Simon Lapierre portant sur le traitement des situations de violence conjugale dans les expertises psychosociales et psycholégales en matière de garde d’enfant et de droits d’accès au Québec. Il vise plus spécifiquement à mieux comprendre comment les expert.e.s psychosociaux et psycholégaux mobilisent le concept de capacité parentale dans leur analyse des familles où il y a présence de violence conjugale. Pour ce faire, une analyse documentaire de quinze rapports d’expertise produits entre 2010 et 2018 a été réalisée en recourant à l’analyse féministe critique du discours (feminist critical discourse analysis). Il ressort de cette recherche que, dans la majorité des rapports, la violence conjugale est soit niée, minimisée ou n’est pas prise en considération et que l’analyse de la situation de l’enfant ne tient pas en compte de son vécu de violence conjugale. De plus, cette recherche démontre que l’accès de l’enfant à ses deux parents et l’importance du père dans la vie de l’enfant sont des principes souvent mobilisés par les expert.e.s en tant que besoins de l’enfant, et que l’évaluation des capacités parentales repose principalement sur des principes associés au parent amical. Finalement, ce mémoire met en lumière l’occultation de la violence à laquelle participent les discours présents dans les rapports d’expertise. Il démontre la pertinence de questionner l’adéquation de la coparentalité dans les situations de violence conjugale et propose que les expert.e.s peinent à évaluer le meilleur intérêt de l’enfant, favorisant plutôt les droits parentaux, plus spécifiquement les droits des pères. Dans une perspective de changement social, ce mémoire termine avec quelques implications pour la pratique, à la croisée du droit et des sciences sociales.
Introduction to Software Process Improvement
Creators: name: Watts S. Humphrey
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While software now pervades most facets of modern life, its historical problems have not been solved. This report explains why some of these problems have been so difficult for organizations to address and the actions required to address them. It describes the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) software process maturity model, how this model can be used to guide software organizations in process improvement, and the various assessment and evaluation methods that use this model. The report concludes with a discussion of improvement experience and some comments on future directions for this work.
Drawing a map of invasion biology based on a network of hypotheses
Creators: name: Enders, Martin
name: Hütt, Marc‐Thorsten
name: Jeschke, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: biological invasions
subject: concepts
subject: defining invasion hypotheses
subject: hypothesis network
subject: invasive alien species
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Invasion biology is a thriving ecological research field, and confusingly many hypotheses, concepts, and ideas about biological invasions populate today's literature. Moreover, some of these hypotheses are very similar, whereas others contradict each other. It is not clear whether in such a situation a plausible global relational structure—or map—of these hypotheses emerges in the minds of the involved researchers and, if so, how this map can be reliably reconstructed from the expertise of individuals. Here, we report results of an online survey with 357 experts on invasion biology and several reconstructions of such a map. Using the distance information between hypotheses provided in the survey, the resulting network is essentially random. This finding implies that invasion biologists currently do not have a joint vision how invasion hypotheses are related to each other. However, the pattern of pairwise familiarities between the hypotheses in the survey yields joint‐mentions networks with highly non‐random features. These networks allow us to assign conceptual roles to many of the hypotheses in the field on purely topological grounds. Such hypothesis networks can help everyone interested in research fields to understand their conceptual structure. They can serve as maps of research fields.
title: Corporate control and corporate wrongdoing
title: a cross-national analysis of the relationship
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Chen, Chung-Wen
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Business Ethics

description: This study examines the relationships between forms of firm controls and corporate wrongdoing, which include tax evasion and bribery, and the moderating effects of national factors, which contain cultural values and social institutions, on the above relationships. Agency theory is used to investigate the relationship between manager-controlled firms and corporate wrongdoing and the relationship between shareholder-controlled firms and organizational deviance. Deterrence theory is used to examine the relationship between family-controlled firms and corporate wrongdoing and the relationship between foreign-controlled firms and organizational deviance. Anomie theory is used to examine the moderating effect of country-level factors. Two data sets, WBES and PICS, were analyzed using hierarchical linear model. WBES contains 3,731 firms from 29 countries and PICS includes 14,041 companies from 19 nations. Results indicate substantial support for manager-controlled firms, government-controlled firms, family-controlled firms, and foreign-controlled firms. Four cultural variables (i.e., performance orientation, future orientation, in-group collectivism, and power distance) and two social institutions (i.e., the economy and political constraints) show significant moderating effects on different forms of firm control. This research offers insights that are salient to governments and policy-makers to prevent corporate deviance, and to researchers interested in understanding the drivers of firm characteristics and national factors in corporate wrongdoing.
Additional file 1 of "They all work...when you stick to them": A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals
Creators: name: Thomas, Samantha L
name: Hyde, Jim
name: Karunaratne, Asuntha
name: Kausman, Rick
name: Komesaroff, Paul A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: table one. Participant characteristics. (DOC 23 KB)
title: Programme SHCC, cycle 6, Modernité, 25 novembre 2009-9 juin 2010
Creators: name: Gauthier, Christophe
name: Kerlan, Anne
name: Vezyroglou, Dimitri
name: Séminaire Histoire Culturelle Du Cinéma
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Relation: http://purl.org/poi/crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr/cocoon-be1150fc-313f-4bd9-9150-fc313f6bd9d3
Grundlagenuntersuchungen zum Einsatzverhalten von diamantimprägnierten Werkzeugen beim Kernbohren von hochfestem Beton
Creators: name: Kansteiner, Michael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Diamant
subject: Kernbohren
subject: Diamantimprägniert
subject: Beton
subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Diamant
subject: Bohrkrone
subject: Diamantwerkzeug
subject: Beton
subject: Bohren

description: Für die trennende Bearbeitung von Beton und Stahlbeton werden in großem Umfang diamantimprägnierte Schleifwerkzeuge eingesetzt. Die spezifische Herausforderung stellt dabei das Verbundverhalten aus sprödhartem Beton und zähelastischem Stahl dar. Nur wenige veröffentlichte Arbeiten beschäftigen sich mit der Erforschung der trennenden Bearbeitung des umfangreich eingesetzten Konstruktionswerkstoffs Stahlbeton. Mit dieser Arbeit soll ein Beitrag zur Verbesserung des Prozessverständnisses für das Diamantkernbohren von hochfestem Stahlbeton geleistet werden. Seit einigen Jahren ist die wirtschaftliche Herstellung diamantimprägnierter Schleifwerkzeuge in größeren Stückzahlen möglich, die eine definierte Positionierung der Diamantkörner im Werkzeugvolumen aufweisen. Durch die Positionierung kann eine deutliche Leistungssteigerung erzielt werden. Da hierbei die Diamantkornanzahl reduziert wird, gewinnen in der Folge die Diamantkorneigenschaften, wie z. B. die Form, an Bedeutung für das Einsatzverhalten des Werkzeugs. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt daher in der Identifizierung des Einflusses der Diamantkornform auf den Bearbeitungsprozess. Hierzu werden anstatt vereinzelter Diamantkörner Diamantwerkzeuge mit definierter Spitzenform eingesetzt, durch die eine höhere Reproduzierbarkeit gegeben ist. Die Versuche umfassen die Aspekte „Materialtrennung“, „Einfluss der Einzelphasen“ und „Verschleißverhalten“. Auf Grundlage der Versuche ist ein signifikanter Einfluss der Form festzustellen. Dabei weisen die getesteten Formen hinsichtlich der verschiedenen Aspekte unterschiedliche Vor- und Nachteile auf. So zeigt sich, dass hinsichtlich einer energetisch günstigen trennenden Bearbeitung von Stahl oder Beton unterschiedliche Kornformen zu wählen sind. Dagegen stellt sich eine verrundete Kornform unabhängig vom Material als unvorteilhaft dar. Neben der Identifizierung des Einflusses der Diamantkornform erfolgen des Weiteren Einsegment- und Kernbohrversuche zur Ermittlung anwendungsbezogener Erkenntnisse. Im Rahmen dieser Versuche wird eine gute Übertragbarkeit qualitativer Größen von Einsegmentversuchen auf Kernbohrversuche deutlich. Sowohl durch die Eingsegment- als auch die Kernbohrversuche lassen sich die materialspezifischen Einflüsse auf den Bearbeitungsprozess bestätigen. Zudem kann anhand der Einsegment-, aber auch der Einkornritzversuche dargestellt werden, dass eine materialabhängige minimal erforderliche Anzahl von Diamantkörnern bzw. Höhe der Diamantkonzentration notwendig ist.
description: Schriftenreihe des ISF;102
Introducing the CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework: Improving the Security and Sustainability Processes
Creators: name: Caralli, Richard
name: Stevens, James F.
name: Wallen, Charles F.
name: White, David W.
name: Wilson, William R.
name: Young, Lisa R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As security issues dominate news headlines and affect our daily lives, organizations need to improve their ability to protect and sustain their business-critical assets, people, information, technology, and facilities using human and financial resources efficiently and effectively. Traditional activities such as security and business continuity must not only be effective at achieving these goals but also must offer the organization increased capabilities for managing and controlling operational resiliency. Unfortunately, organizations often manage these activities in a reactive posture fraught with stove-piped organizational structures and poorly defined and measured goals. The result: potentially less-than-adequate operational resiliency to support business objectives. But organizations can vastly improve operational resiliency by viewing it as an engineering-based process that can be defined, managed, measured, and improved. This view ensures collaboration between security and business continuity activities toward common goals and considers the role of supporting activities such as governance, asset and risk management, and financial control. This report introduces the CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework as a foundational model that describes the essential processes for managing operational resiliency, provides a structure from which an organization can begin process improvement of its security and business continuity efforts, and catalyzes the formation of a community from which further definition of this emerging discipline can evolve.
Litigios climáticos : una mirada global con perspectiva nacional
Creators: name: Cuéllar Muñoz, Hernán
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Calidad ambiental
subject: Litigios, procesos, etc
subject: Colombia - Clima - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Litigio
subject: Cambio climático
subject: Ordenamiento jurídico
subject: Derechos

description: El artículo contiene un análisis del concepto de litigio climático, así como de los principales litigios climáticos en el mundo, a raíz de su aumento en los últimos años, atravesando por casos originados en Europa como fuente transcendental de investigación, los Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica hasta llegar a las experiencias nacionales, que permitirán conocer cuáles han sido las reglas jurídicas adoptadas por los diferentes operadores judiciales, la justificación de cada uno de ellos y si es posible o no señalar la existencia de un marco de referencia para iniciar este tipo de litigios en los diferentes ordenamientos jurídicos.
description: The article contains an analysis of the concept of climate litigation, as well as of the main climate disputes in the world, following its increase in recent years, going through cases originating in Europe as a transcendental source of research, the United States and Latin America to national experiences, which will make it possible to learn about the legal rules adopted by the different judicial operators, the justification for each of them and whether or not it is possible to indicate the existence of a frame of reference for initiating such disputes in different legal systems.
Enhance communication security in wireless ad hoc networks through multipath routing
Creators: name: Zhao, Li
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Ad hoc networks (Computer networks) -- Security measures

description: The specific characteristics of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) make cooperation
description: among all nodes and secure transmission important issues in its research. A number of research
description: studies using single path or multipath transmission to safeguard communication against
description: intermediate node misbehavior have been conducted. In this dissertation, we propose and
description: evaluate a novel secure scheme, MultipAth Routing Single- path transmission (MARS), to secure
description: data transmission in ad hoc networks. The MARS scheme is proposed from the cross-layer
description: perspective. Multipath routing, single path data transmission, and end-to-end feedback
description: mechanism are combined to provide better network performance and more comprehensive
description: protection against misbehavior on data formed by individual or colluding misbehaving nodes.
description: The MARS scheme, its enhancement E-MARS, the secure transmission protocol TWOACK, and
description: the DSR protocol are evaluated by means of simulation under various adverse scenarios. The
description: simulation results show that the MARS and E-MARS provide considerable protection to ad hoc
description: networks at the expense of moderate overhead. In a network with 20% misbehaving nodes, the
description: MARS and E-MARS have up to 45% higher data receive rate than the DSR under individual
description: misbehavior. The data receive rates of MARS and E-MARS are higher up to 50% and 28%
description: respectively under individual or colluded misbehavior with 40% misbehaving nodes in the
description: network.
description: To compare our protocols with multipath secure schemes, we also assess the impact of
description: interactions between MAC-layer protocols and data forwarding along network-layer paths on
description: multipath data transmission over multihop IEEE 802.11 MAC-based wireless networks. The
description: frame service time at source in 802.11 MAC-based multipath data transmission system under
description: unsaturated conditions is studied. Analytical models have been developed for two packet
description: generation schemes (round robin and batch) with Poisson frame arrival process. Moreover, an
description: analytical model is used to investigate the throughput of multipath transmission system in
description: 802.11-based multihop wireless networks. Two methods have been developed to estimate the
description: impact of cross-layer interactions on the frame service time in such a system. Two bounds of the
description: system throughput are obtained based on these estimation methods. These models are validated
description: by means of simulation under various scenarios.
Additional file 2 of "They all work...when you stick to them": A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals
Creators: name: Thomas, Samantha L
name: Hyde, Jim
name: Karunaratne, Asuntha
name: Kausman, Rick
name: Komesaroff, Paul A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: diet paper box one. Participant narratives. (DOC 26 KB)