cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using Economic Considerations to Choose Among Architecture Design Alternatives
Creators: name: Jayatirtha  Asundi
name: Kazman, Rick
name: Klein, Mark H.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The software architecture forms an essential part of a complex software-intensive system. Architecture design decision-making involves addressing tradeoffs due to the presence of economic constraints. The problem is to develop a process that helps a designer choose amongst architectural options, during both initial design and its subsequent periods of upgrade, while being constrained to finite resources. To address this need for better decision-making, we have developed a method for performing economic modeling of software systems, centered on an analysis of their architecture. We call this method the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM). The CBAM incorporates the costs and benefits of architectural design decisions and provides an effective means of making such decisions. The CBAM provides a structured integrated assessment of the technical and economic issues and architectural decisions. The CBAM utilizes techniques in decision analysis, optimization, and statistics to help software architects characterize their uncertainty and choose a subset of changes that should be implemented from a larger set of alternatives. We also report on the application of this method to a real world case study.
Two-loop mass splittings in electroweak multiplets: winos and minimal dark matter
Creators: name: McKay, James
name: Scott, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radiatively-induced splitting of masses in electroweak multiplets is relevant for both collider phenomenology and dark matter. Precision two-loop corrections of $\mathcal{O}$(MeV) to the triplet mass splitting in the wino limit of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can affect particle lifetimes by up to $40\%$. We improve on previous two-loop self-energy calculations for the wino model by obtaining consistent input parameters to the calculation via two-loop renormalisation-group running, and including the effect of finite light quark masses. We also present the first two-loop calculation of the mass splitting in an electroweak fermionic quintuplet, corresponding to the viable form of minimal dark matter (MDM). We place significant constraints on the lifetimes of the charged and doubly-charged fermions in this model. We find that the two-loop mass splittings in the MDM quintuplet are not constant in the large-mass limit, as might naively be expected from the triplet calculation. This is due to the influence of the additional heavy fermions in loop corrections to the gauge boson propagators.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures, 2 Tables
¿Es posible realizar análisis sociales con fundamento en responsabilidades jurídicas? Un análisis sobre el conflicto armado interno y la paz negociada en Colombia fundado en los principios y las instituciones del Derecho Internacional Humanitario.
Creators: name: Vela-Orbegozo, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Derecho Internacional Humanitario
subject: Violación de los derechos humanos
subject: Crímenes de guerra
subject: Derechos humanos y derecho humanitario
subject: Conflictos armados internos
subject: Naciones Unidas

description: Las instituciones del derecho internacional, fundadas en valores e ideales e incorporados mediante compromisos internacionales, contribuyen a una comprensión de la guerra y de sus transformaciones como expresiones violentas de las dinámicas internas y de las dinámicas globales asociadas al proceso de configuración y reconfiguración del Estado colombiano. En efecto, esa narrativa se enriquece cuando considera la responsabilidad jurídica de todos los actores armados y de los instigadores o financiadores de la guerra por las violaciones de los derechos humanos, por las infracciones al derecho humanitario y por la comision de alguno de los crímenes que le dan competencia a la nueva Corte Penal Internacional. En el mismo sentido, cuando quiera que un país desee alcanzar un cese de las hostilidades mediante una paz negociada -como ahora intenta Colombia-, los analistas pueden recurrir a los paradigmas propios de la justicia de transición que ha promovido Naciones Unidas en su larga experiencia en las operaciones de paz para explicar con profundidad, entre otras cosas, que la construcción de la paz tras la guerra solo es posible si hace una consideración especial de los derechos de las víctimas y si propicia el derecho a la verdad histórica como único camino para la reconciliación social.
description: The institutions of international law, founded on values and ideals and incorporated through international commitments, contribute to an understanding of war and its transformations as violent expressions of internal dynamics and global dynamics associated with the process of configuration and reconfiguration of the Colombian State. Indeed, this narrative is enriched when it considers the legal responsibility of all the armed actors and the instigators or financiers of the war for violations of human rights, for violations of humanitarian law and for the commission of any of the crimes that give jurisdiction to the new International Criminal Court. In the same sense, whenever a country wants to achieve a cessation of hostilities through a negotiated peace -as Colombia is now trying-, analysts can resort to the paradigms of transitional justice that the United Nations has promoted in its long experience. in peace operations to explain in depth, among other things, that the construction of peace after the war is only possible if it makes special consideration of the rights of the victims and if it promotes the right to historical truth as the only way to social reconciliation.
title: Эксплуатация морских месторождений нефти и газа
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2025

description: В учебном пособии дан краткий анализ морских месторождений, рассматривается подготовка к их освоению, разработке и эксплуатации. В издании анализируется техника и технология бурения морских скважин, сбор и подготовка скважинной продукции на море, а также способы транспортировки скважинной продукции. Также освещаются вопросы охраны окружающей среды на морских месторождениях. Издание предназначено для бакалавров и магистрантов, обучающихся по специальности «Нефтегазовое дело» и изучающих дисциплину «Эксплуатация морских месторождений нефти и газа».
Toward Stronger Robustness of Network Controllability: A Snapback Network Model
Creators: name: Lou, Yang
name: Wang, Lin
name: Chen, Guanrong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A new complex network model, called q-snapback network, is introduced. Basic topological characteristics of the network, such as degree distribution, average path length, clustering coefficient and Pearson correlation coefficient, are evaluated. The typical 4-motifs of the network are simulated. The robustness of both state and structural controllabilities of the network against targeted and random node- and edge-removal attacks, with comparisons to the multiplex congruence network and the generic scale-free network, are presented. It is shown that the q-snapback network has the strongest robustness of controllabilities due to its advantageous inherent structure with many chain- and loop-motifs.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
De la victimisation à la résilience : L’intervention du TS en milieu pédiatrique hospitalier intervenant auprès de familles aux prises avec des situations de violence familiale
Creators: name: Colas, Johanne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: La violence familiale à l’égard des enfants mérite notre attention. D’ailleurs, les recherches démontrent son impact à long terme sur les familles, les enfants et les générations futures. Ce mémoire tente donc de dresser un portrait de la problématique de la violence familiale à l’égard des enfants en mettant de l’avant les plus récentes recherches de l’Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) et l’incidence canadienne et québécoise des signalements de cas de violence et de négligence envers les enfants (ECI). Nous y retrouvons un recensement des écrits sur les enjeux de l’identité professionnelle du travailleur social (TS) en milieu hospitalier et de protection, le système patriarcal du système de protection, la notion de partage de pouvoir ainsi que l’importance de travailler en collaboration. À l’aide de l’approche auto-ethnographique, je me propose de mettre en avant le rôle du travailleur social en milieu hospitalier de la division de la clinique de protection des enfants et de la jeunesse dans le but d’amener une autoréflexion et des pistes de renouvellement de son intervention auprès des familles vivant de la violence familiale. Mots clés : Travail social en milieu hospitalier, protection de la jeunesse, violence familiale, protection de l’enfance, intervention du travailleur social Note : Dans ce mémoire, le masculin englobe les deux genres et est utilisé pour alléger le texte.
Using Earned Value Management (EVM) in Spiral Development
Creators: name: Brownsword, Lisa
name: Smith, James
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Earned Value Management (EVM) helps managers to plan, monitor, and control the development and evolution of custom developed software-intensive systems. EVM assumes a waterfall development model. However, to meet the demands for today's complex, dynamic systems, certain trends have emerged. First, projects no longer develop all components of a system as custom components. Instead, projects use pre-existing, off-the-shelf packages, components, or entire systems, potentially with custom components. A second trend is a realization that often requirements are not known in detail at the start of a project and must evolve efficiently in response to changing needs and technology. A further trend (often in response to the first two trends) is the move to other development models, such as spiral or iterative development processes. Spiral development processes can better support 1) the required discovery of what users want and 2) negotiation to reconcile what engineers can quickly and reasonably assemble from pre-existing and custom components. While projects have applied EVM to spiral development projects, the results have not been uniformly satisfying. This report explores the fundamental challenges in using EVM with spiral development processes and proposes adaptations to some EVM principles to render it more suitable for today's software-intensive systems.
La lutte contre le financement du terrorisme
Creators: name: Trapolino, Juliana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse à la lutte contre le financement du terrorisme au Canada. Il répond à la question de savoir si le gouvernement du Canada fait une utilisation optimale de ses outils domestiques dans le cadre de son régime de Lutte contre le Blanchiment d’Argent et Financement des Activités Terroristes (LBA/FAT). Après une introduction sur le cadre international, une section explicative des acteurs impliqués dans le financement du terrorisme et ses différentes formes, suivie d’un passage en revue des outils domestiques canadiens et des organismes internationaux impliqués dans la lutte contre le financement du terrorisme, ce travail aboutit sur une analyse des failles du système canadien. Il formule également des recommandations qui permettraient au Canada de tirer un meilleur profit de ses outils domestiques et de renforcer ses capacités en termes de renseignements financiers. Cette recherche s’appuie sur une revue de littérature sur le financement du terrorisme ainsi que sur les recommandations et les divers rapports du Groupe Action Financière, du Fonds monétaire international, du Wolfsberg Group et de la Chambre des Communes.
D3.3 - Report on data collection campaigns
Creators: name: Gorrini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The following document is ‘Deliverable 3.3 Report on data collection campaigns’ in the framework of the project titled ‘Revealing fair and actionable knowledge from data to support women’s inclusion in transport systems’ (Acronym: DIAMOND; Grant Agreement No 824326). The document describes the data collection campaigns executed within ‘Work Package 3 –Data collection’ (from M9-July 2019 to M25-November 2020), focusing on each Use Case: Use Case I: Public Transport Infrastructures (Railways); Use Case II: (Emotion in) Autonomous Passenger Car; Use Case III: Vehicle (Bike) Sharing Fleet Management; Use Case IV: Employment of Women in Rail Industry and Freight/CSR Protocols. Data collection campaigns have been based on the methodological approach of the DIAMOND project already presented in Deliverable 3.1 and Deliverable 3.21. This relies on the Fairness Characteristics identified through Thematic Analysis and on a series of interdisciplinary tools. A series of heterogeneous and disaggregated information have been gathered through the executed data collection campaigns and classified in three main categories: Thematic Analysis: Literature review (all Use Cases); Focus group discussions (all Use Cases) Semi-structured interviews (all Use Cases). Service and Employers’ Provision Data: Structured data (Use Cases I, III and IV); Observations (Use Cases I, II and III); Users and Employees’ Satisfaction Index questionnaires (all Use Cases); Social media data (Use Cases I, II and III). Users and Employees’ Perception Data: Dynamic Argumentative Delphi survey questionnaires (all Use Cases). Deliverable 3.3 is aimed at planning data collection and reporting the executed data collection campaigns with reference to timing and means deployed, results on user engagement level, surveys obtained and data from Web and other sources. Within the objectives of ‘Work Package 4 – Interdisciplinary model creation’, the collected Service and Employers’ Database will be analysed through Factor and Regression Analysis and Bayesian Network techniques, while the Users and Employees Perception Database is going to be analysed using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach.
Expressions for optical scalars and deflection angle at second order in terms of curvature scalars
Creators: name: Crisnejo, Gabriel
name: Gallo, Emanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present formal expressions for the optical scalars in terms of the curvature scalars in the weak gravitational lensing regime at second order in perturbations of a flat background without mentioning the extension of the lens or their shape. Also, by considering the thin lens approximation for static and axially symmetric configurations we obtain an expression for the second-order deflection angle which generalizes our previous result presented in [Phys.Rev.D 83:083007 (2011)]. As applications of these formulas we compute the optical scalars for some known family of metrics and we recover expressions for the deflection angle. In contrast to other works in the subject, our formalism allows a straightforward identification of how the different components of the curvature tensor contribute to the optical scalars and deflection angle. We also discuss in what sense the Schwarzschild solution can be thought as a true thin lens at second order.
description: 16 pages. Title changed, references added, matches version in press in PRD
title: ADCO, Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493) (11 H 1166), f. 00101
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1166). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1166), f. 00101, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Colombia y el combate a la elusión fiscal frente a los estándares de la OCDE
Creators: name: Sánchez Vargas, Rodrigo Ernesto
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Derecho fiscal
subject: Política comercial internacional
subject: Desarrollo económico y social
subject: Elusión fiscal
subject: Abuso en materia tributaria
subject: Acciones del plan BEPS
subject: La OCDE

description: El propósito de la presente investigación es dar cuenta de los avances que se han realizado Colombia en la lucha contra la elusión fiscal, entendida como fraude a la ley, teniendo como base las Acciones del proyecto del Plan contra La Erosión de la Base Impositiva y el Traslado de Beneficios (BEPS) de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE).
description: The purpose of this research is to account for the progress that Colombia has made in the fight against tax evasion, understood as fraud against the law, based on the actions of the project of the Plan against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The arms trade and the euro changeover in 2002
Creators: name: Gilbert Gagné, Jessica
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: This paper examines the relationship between the adoption of the euro currency notes in 2002 and its effect on the arms trade market. Using data from the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT) for 54 countries, this research uses an ordinary least square regression method to measure this relationship. We also create an import index to measure the degree of proximity of the 54 countries with the 12 euro-currency countries. Results show that undeniably, countries with more ties to euro currency countries saw their arms trade increase before the introduction of the euro.
Using Defined Processes as a Context for Resilience Measures
Creators: name: Allen, Julia H.
name: Curtis, Pamela D
name: Gates, Linda Parker
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The CERT® Resilient Enterprise Management (REM) team is researching operational resilience and the organizational processes that support it. This technical note, which builds on two previous reports, describes how implementation-level processes can provide the necessary context for identifying and defining measures of operational resilience. The team's first report, Measuring Operational Resilience Using the CERT® Resilience Management Model (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-030), defined high-level objectives for an operational resilience management system, demonstrated how to derive meaningful measures from those objectives, and presented a template for defining resilience measures. The team's second report, Measures for Managing Operational Resilience (CMU/SEI-2011-TR-019), suggested strategic measures for managing operational resilience and provided candidate measures for the 26 process areas of the CERT® Resilience Management Model, Version 1.1 (CERT®-RMM). While CERT-RMM defines the commonly used or best practices for operational resilience-what an organization should do-organization-specific processes must be defined at the implementation level to describe how to perform those practices. Organizations can then identify and define measures within the context of their specific processes and procedures. Organizations can use the measures to evaluate process performance and operational resilience and identify opportunities for improvement. This technical note provides examples and templates for defining processes and procedures and for defining related assets and measures.
MOESM1 of High-throughput sequencing of CD4+ T cell repertoire reveals disease-specific signatures in IgG4-related disease
Creators: name: Wang, Liwen
name: Zhang, Panpan
name: Li, Jieqiong
name: Lu, Hui
name: Peng, Linyi
name: Ling, Jing
name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Zeng, Xiaofeng
name: Zhao, Yan
name: Zhang, Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. : Supplementary methods.
Conceptual Evolution of the Digital Divide: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Acharya, Bhanu Bhakta
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: digital divide
conceptual evolution
skills and usage gaps
socio-cultural disparity
systematic literature review

description: Throughout the last twenty years the digital divide – a multi-dimensional concept – has evolved in a manner that takes account of various technological, socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural considerations. The objective of this study is to access recent conceptualizations of the term and to identify emerging considerations. In this paper I employ Okoli and Schabram’s (Okoli, Schabram, 2010) systematic literature review framework as a basis for examining 21 digital divide focused scholarly articles that were selected from 118 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2010 and 2015. The findings suggest that scholarly literature published in this domain during the last five years has identified user attitudes towards technology, motivations for use of technology, and socio-cultural backgrounds as factors influencing the notion of the digital divide. Despite the lack of a widely agreed upon definition of the digital divide, recent conceptualizations appear to be moving away from the traditional emphasis on technological and economic gaps. The central theme of the selected articles is that without addressing long existing socio-economic and socio-cultural inequalities, which are real and deep divides, bridging the technological gaps might not end the real issue of digital divide.
Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems
Creators: name: Hissam, Scott
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Wallnau, Kurt C.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today, software engineering is concerned less with individual programs than with large-scale networks of interacting programs. For large-scale networks, engineering problems emerge that go well beyond functional correctness (the purview of programming) and encompass equally crucial nonfunctional qualities such as security, performance, availability, and fault tolerance. A pivotal challenge, then, is to provide techniques to routinely construct systems that have predictable nonfunctional quality. These techniques impose constraints on the problem being solved and on the form solutions can take. This technical note shows how smart constraints can be embedded in software infrastructure, so that systems conforming to those constraints are predictable by construction.
Bayesian inverse problems with unknown operators
Creators: name: Trabs, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62G05, 62G08, 62G20

description: We consider the Bayesian approach to linear inverse problems when the underlying operator depends on an unknown parameter. Allowing for finite dimensional as well as infinite dimensional parameters, the theory covers several models with different levels of uncertainty in the operator. Using product priors, we prove contraction rates for the posterior distribution which coincide with the optimal convergence rates up to logarithmic factors. In order to adapt to the unknown smoothness, an empirical Bayes procedure is constructed based on Lepski's method. The procedure is illustrated in numerical examples.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
El régimen sancionatorio adecuado para combatir la colusión y proteger la libre competencia
Creators: name: Padrón García, Sally Alejandra
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Libre competencia
subject: Recursos administrativos
subject: Sector público
subject: Colusión
subject: Delito
subject: Falta administrativa
subject: Libre competencia
subject: Régimen sancionatorio

description: La coexistencia de diversos grupos empresariales que compiten por el mercado implica un deber protección y garantía de la libre competencia. Sin embargo, las condiciones óptimas de participación en el mercado se ven truncadas por las prácticas restrictivas de la competencia, entre las cuales se destaca la colusión. Por las consecuencias negativas de la colusión, en Colombia se han desarrollado leyes antimonopolio y políticas de libre competencia cuya finalidad es investigar, procesar, sancionar y prevenir dicha conducta. No obstante, en el país existen dos regímenes para la sanción de la colusión, por un lado, el régimen administrativo sancionatorio que se encuentra en cabeza de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio y por otro lado en el régimen penal encontramos que la conducta se encuentra tipificada como delito, en el artículo 410-A del Código Penal. En este sentido, este análisis pretende determinar el régimen más adecuado en Colombia para combatir la colusión y proteger la libre competencia económica, partiendo de la efectividad de cada uno de ellos.
description: The coexistence of different business groups competing for the market implies a duty to protect and guarantee free competition. However, the optimal conditions for market participation are truncated by practices that restrict competition, among which collusion stands out. Due to the negative consequences of collusion, Colombia has developed antitrust laws and free competition policies aimed at investigating, prosecuting, sanctioning, and preventing such conduct. However, in the country there are two regimes that apply to sanctions related with collusion. Firstly, the administrative sanctioning regime, which is controlled by the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce. Secondly, in the criminal regime, we find that the conduct is typified as a crime, in article 410-A of the Penal Code. In this sense, this analysis aimed to determine which is the most appropriate regime in Colombia to combat collusion and protect free economic competition, based on the effectiveness of each one of the existing regimes.
Revisiting the analogue of the Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem in Brans-Dicke gravity
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
name: Hammad, Faycal
name: Cardini, Adriana M.
name: Gobeil, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the explicit form of the general static, spherically symmetric, and asymptotically flat solution of vacuum Brans-Dicke gravity in the Jordan frame, assuming that the Brans-Dicke scalar field has no singularities or zeros (except possibly for a central singularity). This general solution is conformal to the Fisher-Wyman geometry of Einstein theory and its nature depends on a scalar charge parameter. Apart from the Schwarzschild black hole, only wormhole throats and central naked singularities are possible
description: Discussion expanded and made more precise, credit given to previous references missed in the first version of this preprint, bibliography expanded and updated, and a slight title change. Matches version accepted in Phys. Rev. D
Using CMMI to Improve Earned Value Management
Creators: name: Solomon, Paul
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For organizations using Earned Value Management (EVM) or that plan to implement EVM during Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) implementation, this technical note provides guidance for cost-effective process improvement and appraisal. Mapping and comparison tables between CMMI and the U.S. national standard on EVM are provided. These tables can be used to identify practices within CMMI that are not included in the EVM standard but, if added to an organization's processes, will strengthen adherence to EVM principles. The tables also can be used to develop instruments that will provide evidence to an appraisal team to enable it to quickly verify and validate specific practices based upon effective implementation of EVM. Furthermore, information such as glossary components, typical work products, and examples are included in this technical note to aid those using CMMI for process improvement. For organizations using technical performance measurement, a primary base measure for earned value, additional guidance and information is provided. Finally, additional references and an EVM glossary are provided.
Testing Cosmology with Cosmic Sound Waves
Creators: name: Corasaniti, Pier Stefano
name: Melchiorri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WMAP observations have accurately determined the position of the first two peaks and dips in the CMB temperature power spectrum. These encode information on the ratio of the distance to the last scattering surface to the sound horizon at decoupling. However pre-recombination processes can contaminate this distance information. In order to assess the amplitude of these effects we use the WMAP data and evaluate the relative differences of the CMB peaks and dips multipoles. We find that the position of the first peak is largely displaced with the respect to the expected position of the sound horizon scale at decoupling. In contrast the relative spacings of the higher extrema are statistically consistent with those expected from perfect harmonic oscillations. This provides evidence for a scale dependent phase shift of the CMB oscillations which is caused by gravitational driving forces affecting the propagation of sound waves before recombination. By accounting for these effects we have performed a MCMC likelihood analysis to constrain in combination with recent BAO data a constant dark energy equation w. For a flat universe we find at 95% upper limit w
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. Additional discussion, matches PRD accepted version
Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Enforce Architecture
Creators: name: Merson, Paulo F.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using aspect-oriented programming (AOP), software developers can define customized compile-time error or warning messages that are issued when the code contains join points that match specified pointcuts. These customized messages are generated by compile-time declarations, which are an extremely simple but powerful AOP mechanism. Declarations that look for nonvalid interactions between modules can be used for architecture enforcement. Coding policies, best practices, design patterns, and code-naming conventions can also be enforced. Compile-time declarations operate as an additional verification in the build process, but they do not affect the compiled application and can be turned on and off at any time. That feature makes this approach an automated and nondisruptive solution for architecture enforcement and a risk-free first step towards AOP adoption.
Use of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) in the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems
Creators: name: Bergey, John K.
name: Fisher, Matthew
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software architecture is critical to the quality of a software-intensive system. For an acquisition organization, such as the Department of Defense (DoD), the ability to evaluate software architectures early in an acquisition can have a favorable impact on the delivered system. This technical note discusses the role of software architecture evaluations in a system acquisition and describes the contractual elements that are needed to accommodate architecture evaluations in an acquisition. The note then provides an example of contractual language that incorporates the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) as a software architecture evaluation method in a system acquisition.
title: 02_1192
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/
Use of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) in Source Selection of Software-Intensive Systems
Creators: name: Bergey, John K.
name: Fisher, Matthew
name: Jones, Lawrence G.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software architecture is critical to the quality of a software-intensive system. For an acquisition organization, such as the Department of Defense (DoD), the ability to evaluate software architectures as early as possible in an acquisition can have a favorable impact on the delivered system. This technical note explains the role of software architecture evaluation in a source selection and describes the contractual elements that are needed to support its use. The note then briefly describes the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and provides an example that shows how to apply this method in a source selection. The example includes sample contractual language that an acquirer can adapt to meet specific acquisition needs.
A Critical Perspective on Ecological "Risk" and "Protective" Factors for Youth Suicide in Canada
Creators: name: Hagen, Melissa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Suicide is the second leading cause of death in youth aged 15 to 24 years old in Canada and the magnitude of the problem is of growing concern worldwide. Despite the recognition of this phenomenon as the result of the dynamic interplay between individual, psychological, social, cultural, environmental, and many other factors, current trends in the literature are largely centred on individual “risk” factors. Not only does this individualize and pathologize the problem of suicide, but it also fails to take into account contexts of resilience among youth. In the current research, an ecological framework is adopted to critically analyze the “risk” and “protective” factors for youth suicide, examine the interactive and additive processes across factors, and outline the implications of these findings for research, prevention, and intervention initiatives. A deductive thematic analysis was performed on the data presented in the 21 documents that were retained. The results illustrated that at the ontosystem level, mental health problems and prior suicide attempts should not be overlooked; at the microsystem level, social support and the lack thereof are the most relevant factors; at the mesosystem and exosystem levels, further research is warranted; and at the macrosystem level, ideologies and beliefs, socioeconomic status, Indigenous culture, and systems of oppression each play a role in youth suicide in Canada. Also shown is how the many factors interact both within and across the ecological systems of the youth. Finally, several points drawn from the results of the analysis are discussed, their implications for social work research and intervention are underlined, and recommendations for future research are put forth. Keywords: youth, suicide, suicide-related behaviours, risk, resilience, ecological factors, ecological systems theory, Canada
Use of Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs) in Source Selection for a DoD System Acquisition: A Case Study
Creators: name: Bergey, John K.
name: Wood, William
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The architecture of a software-intensive system is critical to its quality. For an acquisition organization within the Department of Defense (DoD), evaluating architectures as early as possible in an acquisition can have a favorable impact on the delivered system. This technical note is a case study of how a DoD organization used architecture analysis and evaluation in a major system acquisition, early on, to reduce program risk. The case study begins by describing the system, the motivation for including architecture evaluation in the acquisition, and the Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) approach. Following this is a brief description of the system acquisition strategy. The case study then describes the set of events (and supporting artifacts) that were required to incorporate QAW architecture analysis and evaluation in the acquisition strategy. In addition, it describes the relationship of these events and artifacts to the source-selection process. Concluding the case study is a description of the accomplishments and lessons learned, along with sample sections from the request for proposal (RFP). These sections provide additional insight into the contractual language that was used to implement the architecture analysis and evaluation approach.
The Oil Price and Aggregate Economic Activity: Evidence from Canada
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenjing
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, Canada has become one of the largest oil exporters in the world. As a result, how the volatility of oil price links to the growth of Canadian economy has received more and more attention. In this paper, the transmission of linear and non-linear oil price shocks to the Canadian macroeconomy is evaluated in the light of the existing research results and the specific situation of Canada. This paper investigates the impact of oil price fluctuations on real GDP and other economic variables in Canada, using multivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) linear and nonlinear models. Both models consist of real oil price and real GDP as two major variables of interest as well as intermediate variables such as real effective exchange rate (REER), real wage, inflation, and short and long-term interest rates. The result of this paper suggests that the oil price has significant effects on many real economic variables, especially real GDP, REER and inflation. Furthermore, in the non-linear model, evidence shows that a drop in oil prices has a greater impact on real GDP than the rise in oil prices. In the short term, rise in oil prices has a positive effect on the economy. While in the long-run, the effect turns to be permanently negative.
Honestidad en contextos labores : una aproximación desde la economía experimental y del comportamiento
Creators: name: Diaz Castilla, Sara Daniela
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Regulación del comercio
subject: Cambio de empleo
subject: Economia - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Deshonestidad
subject: Economía experimental y del comportamiento
subject: Entornos laborales

description: Este documento representa un intento de aplicar una metodología experimental con el propósito de comparar los niveles de deshonestidad en un contexto laboral con los niveles en otros ambientes no laborales. Para lograr este objetivo, se adaptó el diseño experimental propuesto por Fischbacher y Föllmi-Heusi (2013) para observar el comportamiento de los empleados de una empresa y contrastarlo con el de los usuarios de esa misma empresa. Aunque este tipo de diseño experimental no permite discernir los comportamientos deshonestos a nivel individual, proporciona información sobre el comportamiento deshonesto a nivel de grupos.
description: This study represents an effort to employ an experimental methodology to compare levels of dishonesty within a workplace setting to those in other non-labor environments. To accomplish this goal, I adapted the experimental design put forth by Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013) to observe the conduct of both company employees and clients. While this design does not allow for the identification of individual dishonest behaviors, it provides insights into dishonest behavior at the group level.
Underage Brides and Grooms’ Education
Creators: name: Dessy, Sylvain
name: Diarra, Setou
name: Pongou, Roland
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: underage marriage
male education
Nigeria
patriarchal norms

description: Public intervention addressing the issue of underage marriage emphasizes policies such as girls' education and enforcement of age-of-consent laws as promising avenues for ending this harmful practice. It has been argued, however, that such policies will work better in societies where they are supported by men. Yet, there is no study analyzing the role of males' characteristics in relation to early marriage. This paper examines the causal effect of a male's education on the likelihood that he marries an underage girl. Using micro-level data from Nigeria in combination with plausible instrumental variables that address potential endogeneity issues, we find that having more years of schooling significantly reduces the probability of marrying an underage girl. Importantly, we show that this negative relationship is not a mere mechanical effect reflecting the endogeneity between schooling and marriage-timing decisions. Moreover, we find that this relationship is weaker in communities where norms that cast women in submissive roles are stronger. We develop a model that explains this causal effect as resulting from the complementarity between father's and mother's education in the production of child quality.
Kondo Resonance in the Presence of Spin-Polarized Currents
Creators: name: Qi, Yunong
name: Zhu, Jian-Xin
name: Zhang, Shufeng
name: Ting, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an improved method of the equation of motion approach to study the Kondo problem in spin-dependent non-equilibrium conditions. We find that the previously introduced additional renormalization for non-equilibrium Kondo effects is not required when we use a proper decoupling scheme. Our improved formulation is then applied to address the spin-split Kondo peaks when a spin current injects into a Kondo system.
description: 4+ pages, 4 eps figures
Didáctica de la pronunciación en la clase de ELE
Creators: name: Hincapie, Diana Alejandra
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2020

description: Objetivos generales: Conocer el sistema fónico del español y su tratamiento didáctico para poder abordar la pronunciación de manera eficaz en la clase de ELE. Objetivos específicos: * Reconocer el papel de la pronunciación y del profesor de ELE en los procesos de enseñanza- aprendizaje de la lengua. *Conocer el funcionamiento de los sonidos vocálicos del español y su tratamiento didáctico en el aula de ELE. *Conocer el funcionamiento de los sonidos consonánticos del español y su tratamiento didáctico en el aula de ELE. *Comprender el funcionamiento del acento y la entonación del español para así tener un tratamiento didáctico adecuado de la prosodia del español.
description: El conocimiento del sistema fónico del español es una herramienta clave para el profesor de ELE, y más aún su tratamiento didáctico. Por años, la pronunciación ha sido relegada a ejercicios de repetición o a apartados o anexos en los textos de ELE; más aún con el surgimiento del enfoque comunicativo, la corrección ha quedado de lado para dar paso a la fluidez, deformando así la importancia de la pronunciación en el aprendizaje de una lengua.
A simple and efficient model for mesoscale solidification simulation of globular grain structures
Creators: name: Vernède, Stéphane
name: Rappaz, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple model for the solidification of globular grains in metallic alloys is presented. Based on the Voronoi diagram of the nuclei centers, it accounts for the curvature of the grains near triple junctions. The predictions of this model are close to those of more refined approaches such as the phase field method, but with a computation cost decreased by several orders of magnitude. Therefore, this model is ideally suited for granular simulations linking the behavior of individual grains to macroscopic properties of the material.