cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stellar wind in state transitions of high-mass X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Čechura, Jan
name: Hadrava, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We have developed a new code for the three-dimensional time-dependent raditation hydrodynamic simulation of the stellar wind in interacting binaries to improve models of accretion in high-mass X-ray binaries and to quantitatively clarify the observed variability of these objects. We used the code to test the influence of various parameters on the structure and properties of circumstellar matter. Methods: Our code takes into account acceleration of the wind due to the Roche effective potential, Coriolis force, gas pressure, and (CAK-) radiative pressure in the lines and continuum of the supergiant radiation field that is modulated by its gravity darkening and by the photo-ionization caused by X-ray radiation from the compact companion. The parameters of Cygnus X-1 were used to test the properties of our model. Results: Both two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations show that the Coriolis force substantially influences the mass loss and consequently the accretion rate onto the compact companion. The gravitational field of the compact companion focuses the stellar wind, which leads to the formation of a curved cone-like gaseous tail behind the companion. The changes of X-ray photo-ionization of the wind material during X-ray spectral-state transitions significantly influence the wind structure and offer an explanation of the variability of Cygnus X-1 in optical observations (the H$α$ emission).
Deriving Architectural Tactics: A Step Toward Methodical Architectural Design
Creators: name: Bachmann, Felix
name: Bass, Len
name: Klein, Mark H.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This is one of several reports that provide the current status on the work being done by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to understand the relationship between quality requirements and architectural design. The ultimate objective of this work is to provide analysis-based guidance to designers so that the quality attributes of generated designs are more predictable and better understood.

Currently, four distinct problems must be solved to achieve that objective: (1) the precise specification of quality attribute requirements, (2) the enumeration of architectural decisions that can be used to achieve desired quality attribute requirements, (3) a means of coupling one quality attribute requirement to the relevant architectural decisions, and (4) a means of composing the relevant architectural decisions into a design. Embodying the solutions to these four problems into a design method that is sensitive to business priorities is an additional problem. This report deals with the third problem—coupling one quality attribute requirement to architectural decisions that achieve it.

This report provides initial evidence that there is, in fact, a systematic relationship between general scenarios, concrete scenarios, architectural tactics, and design fragments. It examines, in detail, two concrete scenarios—one for performance and one for modifiability—and describes how to move from each scenario, through tactics, to design fragments that satisfy the scenario.
MPEC 2023-O101 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 July 28)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Directory of Industry and University Collaborations with a Focus on Software Engineering Education and Training, Version 6
Creators: name: Beckman, Kathy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This directory describes 24 formal collaborative efforts to promote software engineering education and training activities among industry organizations (including government) and universities in the United States, Canada, and Australia. These collaborations vary in their organizational structure and types of services offered. All attempt to bridge the gap between industry needs and academic software engineering education and training offerings. Readers can use this directory to find collaborations that match their software engineering education and training needs and that are located within their geographic area.
The Internal Spyware Pitch Video of the Ministry of Public Security in PRC
Creators: name: Pachankis, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: I was asked to edit this internal pitch video of the Ministry of Public Security of PRC in 2014. This trace of evidence can be associated with the former Interpol chief Meng, Hongwei's disappearance and persecution by the current dictatorial power. All the project files were archived and presented herein.
On estimation of the diagonal elements of a sparse precision matrix
Creators: name: Balmand, Samuel
name: Dalalyan, Arnak S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present several estimators of the diagonal elements of the inverse of the covariance matrix, called precision matrix, of a sample of iid random vectors. The focus is on high dimensional vectors having a sparse precision matrix. It is now well understood that when the underlying distribution is Gaussian, the columns of the precision matrix can be estimated independently form one another by solving linear regression problems under sparsity constraints. This approach leads to a computationally efficient strategy for estimating the precision matrix that starts by estimating the regression vectors, then estimates the diagonal entries of the precision matrix and, in a final step, combines these estimators for getting estimators of the off-diagonal entries. While the step of estimating the regression vector has been intensively studied over the past decade, the problem of deriving statistically accurate estimators of the diagonal entries has received much less attention. The goal of the present paper is to fill this gap by presenting four estimators---that seem the most natural ones---of the diagonal entries of the precision matrix and then performing a comprehensive empirical evaluation of these estimators. The estimators under consideration are the residual variance, the relaxed maximum likelihood, the symmetry-enforced maximum likelihood and the penalized maximum likelihood. We show, both theoretically and empirically, that when the aforementioned regression vectors are estimated without error, the symmetry-enforced maximum likelihood estimator has the smallest estimation error. However, in a more realistic setting when the regression vector is estimated by a sparsity-favoring computationally efficient method, the qualities of the estimators become relatively comparable with a slight advantage for the residual variance estimator.
description: Companion R package at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DESP/index.html
CORRELATIONS AMONG INDICATORS IN DETERMINING PERFORMANCE-BASED BONUS (PBB)- EXPLORING THE DIVISION OF CAGAYAN DE ORO PERSPECTIVE.pdf
Creators: name: Pañares, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Sociology of education

description: This study mainly focused on the correlation among indicators in determining Performance-Based Bonus and teachers’ attitudes toward job satisfaction. This study was conducted among three hundred sixty-three (363) teacher participants in the Division of Cagayan de Oro City for the school year 2017-2018 through purposive sampling. This study used an adapted survey questionnaire. The statistical software SPSS, along with Excel 2016, was used to analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistics were applied to explain the structure and characteristics of the sample data using PBB Ratings and Job Satisfaction Survey. Pearson product-moment r correlation and ANOVA were used to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that the correlations among PBB indicators for the last three years, NAT score and liquidation have strong positive correlations while dropout rate score indicates moderate positive correlation. While the relationship between job satisfaction and PBB ratings among teachers revealed that job satisfaction in terms of security, job responsibilities, and community attachments/linkages have a negative correlation with PBB ratings. Whereas, job satisfaction in terms of work environment has a positive correlation with PBB. However, the data have not shown a significant relationship between all job satisfaction categories towards PBB ratings. It is then recommended that the Division office must conduct training on the policy guidelines on the PBB to heighten the awareness of public accountability, transparency, and its contribution to the accomplishment of their department's overall targets and commitments.
Region segmentation for sparse decompositions: better brain parcellations from rest fMRI
Creators: name: Abraham, Alexandre
name: Dohmatob, Elvis
name: Thirion, Bertrand
name: Samaras, Dimitris
name: Varoquaux, Gael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Functional Magnetic Resonance Images acquired during resting-state provide information about the functional organization of the brain through measuring correlations between brain areas. Independent components analysis is the reference approach to estimate spatial components from weakly structured data such as brain signal time courses; each of these components may be referred to as a brain network and the whole set of components can be conceptualized as a brain functional atlas. Recently, new methods using a sparsity prior have emerged to deal with low signal-to-noise ratio data. However, even when using sophisticated priors, the results may not be very sparse and most often do not separate the spatial components into brain regions. This work presents post-processing techniques that automatically sparsify brain maps and separate regions properly using geometric operations, and compares these techniques according to faithfulness to data and stability metrics. In particular, among threshold-based approaches, hysteresis thresholding and random walker segmentation, the latter improves significantly the stability of both dense and sparse models.
Lateralism – The Globalization of US Hegemony after World War II
Creators: name: Cao, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Globalization
Cold War
Clash of Civilizations
Reform and Opening

description: This is a preliminary search and research of world order and global politics. It is history-based and examines the concept of globalization as a result of causes. The prevailing hegemonic power of United States is constituted of physical presence of troops, financial power, and most importantly, predominance in lateralized power in governance bodies around the world. Time is never linear per se in concept or in discoveries, sovereignty as so. The preeminence of space entities and discoveries of planet management is changing the modality of border management and territorial groupings. The entities of the knowing and the consistent devising of apparatus and distribution continues altering globalized political entities. The exacerbating move on deployment of U.S. Space Command and militant service over Starcom has again like the Cold War compacting regional stability. This paper digs into the phenomenon. The paper is written in Simplified Chinese as the Romanized language, and the linguistics of the language was altered by conceptualization in the paper to defy on content mining and political extrapolation for autocratic uses.
description: {"references": ["Cox, Rober W. et al. (1997). The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25303-6", "Gill, Stephen et al. (1997). Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25555-9", "Spence, Jonathan D. (1991). The Search for Modern China. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.", "Menzies, Gavin. (2004). 1421, The Year China Discovered America. Perennial.", "Liu, James T.C. and Tu, Wei-ming. (1970). Traditional China. Prentice-Hall, Inc.", "Alderman, Ellen and Kennedy, Caroline. (2002). In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. Perennial.", "Alter, Peter. (1994). Nationalism (Second Edition). Hodder Education Publishers.", "Calhoun, Craig and Derluguian, Georgi. (2011). The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism. New York University Press. DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814772805.001.0001", "Singer, Peter. (2002). One World: The Ethics of Globalization. Yale University Press.", "Obama, Barack. (2008). US-China Policy Under an Obama Administration. China Brief Exclusive.", "FBI records. World War II. The Vault. URL: https://vault.fbi.gov/world-war-ii"]}
Theory of microwave single-photon detection using an impedance-matched $Λ$ system
Creators: name: Koshino, Kazuki
name: Inomata, Kunihiro
name: Lin, Zhirong
name: Nakamura, Yasunobu
name: Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By properly driving a qubit-resonator system in the strong dispersive regime, we implement an "impedance-matched" $Λ$ system in the dressed states, where a resonant single photon deterministically induces a Raman transition and excites the qubit. Combining this effect and a fast dispersive readout of the qubit, we realize a detector of itinerant microwave photons. We theoretically analyze the single-photon response of the $Λ$ system and evaluate its performance as a detector. We achieve a high detection efficiency close to unity without relying on precise temporal control of the input pulse shape and under a conservative estimate of the system parameters. The detector can also be reset quickly by applying microwave pulses, which allows a short dead time and a high repetition rate.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Competency Lifecycle Roadmap: Toward Performance Readiness
Creators: name: Behrens, Sandra
name: Alberts, Christopher J.
name: Ruefle, Robin M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Workforce effectiveness relies on two critical characteristics: competence and readiness. This technical note describes the Competency Lifecycle Roadmap (CLR), a preliminary roadmap for understanding and building workforce readiness, developed by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Development and Training team at the CERT® Program, part of Carnegie Mellon® University's Software Engineering Institute. This note provides an early look at the roadmap, highlights some of its uses to date, and discusses potential next steps in its development and transition.
Algebraically rigid simplicial complexes and graphs
Creators: name: Altmann, Klaus
name: Bigdeli, Mina
name: Herzog, Juergen
name: Lu, Dancheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 13D10, 13C13, Secondary 05E40

description: We call a simplicial complex algebraically rigid if its Stanley-Reisner ring admits no nontrivial infinitesimal deformations, and call it inseparable if does not allow any deformation to other simplicial complexes. Algebraically rigid simplicial complexes are inseparable. In this paper we study inseparability and rigidity of Stanley-Reisner rings, and apply the general theory to letterplace ideals as well as to edge ideals of graphs. Classes of algebraically rigid simplicial complexes and graphs are identified.
description: 25 pages to be appeared on JPAA
Concepts of Concurrent Programming
Creators: name: Bustard, David W.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A concurrent program is one defining actions that may be performed simultaneously. This module discusses the nature of such programs and provides an overview of the means by which they may be constructed and executed. Emphasis is given to the terminology used in this field and the underlying concepts involved.
Tools for Landscape Analysis of Optimisation Problems in Procedural Content Generation for Games
Creators: name: Volz, Vanessa
name: Naujoks, Boris
name: Kerschke, Pascal
name: Tusar, Tea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The term Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to the (semi-)automatic generation of game content by algorithmic means, and its methods are becoming increasingly popular in game-oriented research and industry. A special class of these methods, which is commonly known as search-based PCG, treats the given task as an optimisation problem. Such problems are predominantly tackled by evolutionary algorithms. We will demonstrate in this paper that obtaining more information about the defined optimisation problem can substantially improve our understanding of how to approach the generation of content. To do so, we present and discuss three efficient analysis tools, namely diagonal walks, the estimation of high-level properties, as well as problem similarity measures. We discuss the purpose of each of the considered methods in the context of PCG and provide guidelines for the interpretation of the results received. This way we aim to provide methods for the comparison of PCG approaches and eventually, increase the quality and practicality of generated content in industry.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Applied Soft Computing
Exclusive breastfeeding and the protective effect on diabetes mellitus: integrative review.
Creators: name: Aparecida Silva Lopes, Jéssica
name: Santos Terra, Larissa
name: Wagner Peres, Shenia
name: Gomes Gonçalves, Tatiane
name: Freitas, Patrícia Scotini
name: Ribeiro, Patrícia Mônica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Breast milk, as it is considered a complete food, is exclusively recommended up to the 6th month of life and supplemented up to 2 years of age (SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE PEDIATRIA, 2020). Among the many benefits of breastfeeding, its possible relationship with the prevention of the development of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM 1) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM 2) stands out (PRENTICE, 2022). Bearing in mind the possible relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and DM prevention, there is a need to develop studies that can prove this agenda. Thus, this study will seek to investigate whether the pactice of exclusive breastfeeding protects the child from DM. GOAL:To analyze the evidence available in the literature on the relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and DM. METHOD: The study will be an Integrative Review (IR) of the literature that aims to analyze the available evidence on the subject investigated and synthesize the results found. This IR will be carried out based on the six steps according to Mendes, Silveira and Galvão (2008).
Definition and Measurement of Complexity in the Context of Safety
Creators: name: Sheard, Sarah
name: Konrad, Michael D.
name: Weinstock, Charles B.
name: Nichols, William R.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report describes research to define complexity measures for avionics systems to help the FAA identify when systems are too complex to assure their safety.
The project selected a measure of complexity related to the number of ways that an avionics system error (fault) could propagate from element to element. Since each potential propagation requires another sub-argument in the safety case, the number of arguments should be linear with certification effort. Thus, the ability to show system safety through the certification process depends on this kind of system complexity.
Our results include a formula for calculating the “error-propagation complexity” from system designs and its results for small and medium systems. We tested it on a second design for each system and on a larger design from a NASA report.
The complexity measurement must be matched to available review time to determine if a system is “too complex to assure safety.” Review times for small cases were extrapolated to larger ones, assuming that a typical system includes small, medium, and large designs. Since many numbers and their relationships are speculative, the boundary of systems “too complex to assure safety” should be treated very cautiously. Finally, future research areas are discussed.
IOT and Embedded System based VEHICLE Control in National Highways
Creators: name: subramaniam, ganapathy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Electric vehicle users are constantly looking for new improvements that further improve efficiency, safety and ease of use. H. Simplicity and enjoyment in operating such vehicles. Computing and communication technologies have helped facilitate and justify these trends. Given the phenomenon of the massive prevalence of computing microsystems as embedded components in modern automobiles, we cannot help but recognize the safety and reliability issues of the operation of such microsystems. Hmm. Here, we provide a brief historical overview of the development of automotive embedded computing, discussing the complexity of automotive computing, exposure of I/O to benign and malicious user actions, standardization of automotive computing networks, and their implications. Analyze release-related issues. Networks for the Internet, that is, H. The problem of networking these networks. Furthermore, we present a unique model of the malicious attack surface that electric vehicles can present at different levels of the abstraction hierarchy
Lateralism – The Globalization of US Hegemony after World War II
Creators: name: Pachankis, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Globalization
Cold War
Clash of Civilizations
Reform and Opening

description: This is a preliminary search and research of world order and global politics. It is history-based and examines the concept of globalization as a result of causes. The prevailing hegemonic power of United States is constituted of physical presence of troops, financial power, and most importantly, predominance in lateralized power in governance bodies around the world. Time is never linear per se in concept or in discoveries, sovereignty as so. The preeminence of space entities and discoveries of planet management is changing the modality of border management and territorial groupings. The entities of the knowing and the consistent devising of apparatus and distribution continues altering globalized political entities. The exacerbating move on deployment of U.S. Space Command and militant service over Starcom has again like the Cold War compacting regional stability. This paper digs into the phenomenon. The paper is written in Simplified Chinese as the Romanized language, and the linguistics of the language was altered by conceptualization in the paper to defy on content mining and political extrapolation for autocratic uses.
description: Supplementary disclosures prerecorded as the 2022 The Science of Consciousness is included in the data.
description: {"references": ["Cox, Rober W. et al. (1997). The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25303-6", "Gill, Stephen et al. (1997). Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25555-9", "Spence, Jonathan D. (1991). The Search for Modern China. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.", "Menzies, Gavin. (2004). 1421, The Year China Discovered America. Perennial.", "Liu, James T.C. and Tu, Wei-ming. (1970). Traditional China. Prentice-Hall, Inc.", "Alderman, Ellen and Kennedy, Caroline. (2002). In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. Perennial.", "Alter, Peter. (1994). Nationalism (Second Edition). Hodder Education Publishers.", "Calhoun, Craig and Derluguian, Georgi. (2011). The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism. New York University Press. DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814772805.001.0001", "Singer, Peter. (2002). One World: The Ethics of Globalization. Yale University Press.", "Obama, Barack. (2008). US-China Policy Under an Obama Administration. China Brief Exclusive.", "FBI records. World War II. The Vault. URL: https://vault.fbi.gov/world-war-ii"]}
Additional file 1 of Training curriculum in minimally invasive emergency digestive surgery: 2022 WSES position paper
Creators: name: de’Angelis, Nicola
name: Marchegiani, Francesco
name: Schena, Carlo Alberto
name: Khan, Jim
name: Agnoletti, Vanni
name: Ansaloni, Luca
name: Barría Rodríguez, Ana Gabriela
name: Bianchi, Paolo Pietro
name: Biffl, Walter
name: Bravi, Francesca
name: Ceccarelli, Graziano
name: Ceresoli, Marco
name: Chiara, Osvaldo
name: Chirica, Mircea
name: Cobianchi, Lorenzo
name: Coccolini, Federico
name: Coimbra, Raul
name: Cotsoglou, Christian
name: D’Hondt, Mathieu
name: Damaskos, Dimitris
name: De Simone, Belinda
name: Di Saverio, Salomone
name: Diana, Michele
name: Espin‐Basany, Eloy
name: Fichtner‐Feigl, Stefan
name: Fugazzola, Paola
name: Gavriilidis, Paschalis
name: Gronnier, Caroline
name: Kashuk, Jeffry
name: Kirkpatrick, Andrew W.
name: Ammendola, Michele
name: Kouwenhoven, Ewout A.
name: Laurent, Alexis
name: Leppaniemi, Ari
name: Lesurtel, Mickaël
name: Memeo, Riccardo
name: Milone, Marco
name: Moore, Ernest
name: Pararas, Nikolaos
name: Peitzmann, Andrew
name: Pessaux, Patrick
name: Picetti, Edoardo
name: Pikoulis, Manos
name: Pisano, Michele
name: Ris, Frederic
name: Robison, Tyler
name: Sartelli, Massimo
name: Shelat, Vishal G.
name: Spinoglio, Giuseppe
name: Sugrue, Michael
name: Tan, Edward
name: Van Eetvelde, Ellen
name: Kluger, Yoram
name: Weber, Dieter
name: Catena, Fausto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file1 (DOCX 25 KB)
Deploying TSP on a National Scale: An Experience Report from Pilot Projects in Mexico
Creators: name: Nichols, William R.
name: Salazar, Rafael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this report is to communicate status, progress, lessons learned, and next steps for the Mexican Team Software Process (TSP) Initiative, a collaboration between the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey), sponsored by the Mexican Ministry of Economy through Prosoft (the Program for the Software Industry Development). The initiative seeks to improve the standing of the Mexican software industry through the process and performance improvement benefits of the SEI's Team Software Process. We will discuss the results through Phase I and some early results from Phase II; performance results to date are compared to TSP and industry benchmarks.
Probing X-ray Absorption and Optical Extinction in the Interstellar Medium Using Chandra Observations of Supernova Remnants
Creators: name: Foight, Dillon
name: Guver, Tolga
name: Ozel, Feryal
name: Slane, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of interstellar X-ray extinction using the extensive Chandra supernova remnant archive and use our results to refine the empirical relation between the hydrogen column density and optical extinction. In our analysis, we make use of the large, uniform data sample to assess various systematic uncertainties in the measurement of the interstellar X-ray absorption. Specifically, we address systematic uncertainties that originate from (i) the emission models used to fit supernova remnant spectra, (ii) the spatial variations within individual remnants, (iii) the physical conditions of the remnant such as composition, temperature, and non-equilibrium regions, and (iv) the model used for the absorption of X-rays in the interstellar medium. Using a Bayesian framework to quantify these systematic uncertainties, and combining the resulting hydrogen column density measurements with the measurements of optical extinction toward the same remnants, we find the empirical relation NH = (2.87+/-0.12) x 10^21 AV cm^(-2), which is significantly higher than the previous measurements.
Designing for Incentives: Better Information Sharing for Better Software Engineering
Creators: name: Klein, Mark
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Parkes, David C.
name: Wallnau, Kurt
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software-reliant systems permeate all aspects of modern society.
The resulting interconnectedness and associated
complexity has resulted in a proliferation of diverse stakeholders with conflicting goals.
Thus, contemporary software engineering is plagued by
incentive conflicts,
in settling on design features, allocating resources during the development
of products, and allocating computational resources at runtime. In this
position paper, we describe some of these problems and outline a
research agenda in bridging to the economic theory of mechanism
design, which seeks to align incentives in multi-agent systems
with private information and conflicting goals. The ultimate goal
is to advance a  principled
methodology for the design of incentive-compatible approaches
to manage the dynamic
processes of software
engineering.
The Optical Aurorae of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
Creators: name: de Kleer, Katherine
name: Milby, Zachariah
name: Schmidt, Carl
name: Camarca, Maria
name: Brown, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tenuous atmospheres of the Galilean satellites are sourced from their surfaces and produced by a combination of plasma-surface interactions and thermal processes. Though thin, these atmospheres can be studied via their auroral emissions, and most work to date has focused on their aurora at UV wavelengths. Here we present the first detections of Ganymede's and Callisto's optical aurorae, as well detections of new optical auroral lines at Europa, based on observations of the targets over ten Jupiter eclipses from 1998 to 2021 with Keck/HIRES. We present measurements of OI emission at 6300/6364, 5577, 7774, and 8446 A and place upper limits on hydrogen at 6563 A. These constitute the first detections of emissions at 7774 and 8446 A at a planetary body other than Earth. The simultaneous measurement of multiple emission lines provides robust constraints on atmospheric composition. We find that the eclipse atmospheres of Europa and Ganymede are composed predominantly of O2 with average column densities of (4.1 \pm 0.1) x 10^{14} cm^{-2} and (4.7 \pm 0.1) x 10^{14} cm^{-2}, respectively. We find weak evidence for H2O in Europa's bulk atmosphere at an H2O/O2 ratio of $\sim$0.25, and place only an upper limit on H2O in Ganymede's bulk atmosphere, corresponding to H2O/O2 < 0.6. The column density of O2 derived for Callisto is (4.0 \pm 0.9 x 10^{15} cm^{-2} for an assumed electron density of 0.15 cm^{-3}, but electron properties at Callisto's orbit are very poorly constrained.
description: Published in Planetary Science Journal
Geometric uncertainty relation for quantum ensembles
Creators: name: Heydari, Hoshang
name: Andersson, Ole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrical structures of quantum mechanics provide us with new insightful results about the nature of quantum theory. In this work we consider mixed quantum states represented by finite rank density operators. We review our geometrical framework that provide the space of density operators with Riemannian and symplectic structures, and we derive a geometric uncertainty relation for observables acting on mixed quantum states. We also give an example that visualizes the geometric uncertainty relation for spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, contribution to QFQI, accepted for publication in Physica Scripta
Additional file 1 of Draft genome of Raoultella planticola, a high lead resistance bacterium from industrial wastewater
Creators: name: Elarabi, Nagwa I.
name: Halema, Asmaa A.
name: Abdelhadi, Abdelhadi A.
name: Henawy, Ahmed R.
name: Samir, Omar
name: Abdelhaleem, Heba A. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The physicochemical analysis and heavy metal concentrations of the collected samples. Table S2. Morphological, microscopic and biochemical characteristics of the six bacterial isolates. Table S3. Analysis of R. planticola FACU3 resistome using the RGI tool. Figure S1. The MIC and MTC. A: for the different three collection locations and B: for the thirty selected lead resistant isolates.
Political climate and regional well-being in Turkey
Creators: name: Karahasan, Burhan Can
name: Pinar, Mehmet
name: Deniz, Pinar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Politicians can use social and economic policies on clientelist grounds neglecting the efficiency and equity concerns of public policy. While incumbents might reward and punish voters based on party-specific fundamentals, the role of political ideologies and fragmentation is mostly neglected. For societies such as Turkey, where the ideological stance is mixed and the level of fragmentation is varying, the regional political climate has implications for regional well-being beyond the borders of political parties. Our findings for the post-2000s validate that regions that are ideologically closer to the right and the incumbent party (Justice and Development Party – AKP) attain higher well-being, while the opposite is true for ideologically polarized regions and regions closer to left-wing ideologies. The results are robust to the endogeneity of political climate and various model specifications.
The role of territory in grassroots party-building: insights from Argentina
Creators: name: Halvorsen, Sam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Through what processes does territory facilitate the formation and growth of a grassroots party organization? Despite an extensive literature into why parties favour a territorial model of activist organization, much less is known about how territory facilitates grassroots party-building. The paper addresses this question by drawing on qualitative research with a centre-left Argentine party named Nuevo Encuentro (NE), focusing on the period of its growth in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA) between 2011 and 2017. NE is a typical case study of a party that sought to establish itself and grow via the build-up of a territorial organization. Bridging across, and extending, literatures on party organization and the geographies of activism, the paper argues that territory facilitates grassroots party-building through three interrelated processes. First, territory facilitates the recruitment of party activists by providing a relational context for building shared political subjectivities. Second, the territoriality of the branch as a site of political organization provides social proximity that nurtures the building of new bonds and strong-tie relations. Third, following recruitment, territory supports that reproduction of party activism through place-based attachment and emotional ties. These interrelated processes are considered through an analysis of three NE branches in CABA.
Distributed Object Technology With CORBA and Java: Key Concepts and Implications
Creators: name: Wallnau, Kurt C.
name: Weiderman, Nelson W.
name: Northrop, Linda
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this report is to analyze the potential impact of distributed object technology (DOT) on software engineering practice. The analysis culminates with the conclusion that the technology will have a significant influence on both the design and reengineering of information systems and the processes used to build them. We see a profound impact and fundamental change in both technical thinking and practice as a result of the related technologies we group together as DOT.
Strong Coupling Expansion of the Entanglement Entropy of Yang-Mills Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Dai, Shou-Huang
name: Pang, Jin-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel prescription for calculating the entanglement entropy of the $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills gauge theories on the lattice under the strong coupling expansion in powers of $β=2N/g^{2}$, where $g$ is the coupling constant. Using the replica method, our Lagrangian formalism maintains gauge invariance on the lattice. At $O(β^{2})$ and $O(β^{3})$, the entanglement entropy is solely contributed by the central plaquettes enclosing the conical singularity of the $n$-sheeted Riemann surface. The area law emerges naturally to the highest order $O(β^{3})$ of our calculation. The leading $O(β)$ term is negative, which could in principle be canceled by taking into account the "cosmological constant" living in interface of the two entangled subregions. This unknown cosmological constant resembles the ambiguity of edge modes in the Hamiltonian formalism. We further speculate this unknown cosmological constant can show up in the entanglement entropy of scalar and spinor field theories as well. Furthermore, it could play the role of a counterterm to absorb the ultraviolet divergence of entanglement entropy and make entanglement entropy a finite physical quantity.
description: 21pp, 3 figures
FDO Conference 2022: FAIR Research Objects for realizing Open Science with RELIANCE EOSC project - snapshot
Creators: Elisa Trasatti
Anne Fouilloux
Federica Foglini
Publisher: name: Simula Research Laboratory
Year: 2022

description: The H2020 Reliance project delivers a suite of innovative and interconnected services that extend European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)’s capabilities to support the management of the research lifecycle within Earth Science Communities and Copernicus Users. The project has delivered 3 complementary  technologies: Research Objects (ROs), Data Cubes and AI-based Text Mining.
RoHub is a Research Object management platform that implements these 3 technologies and enables researchers to collaboratively manage, share and preserve their research work.

RoHub implements the full RO model and paradigm: resources associated to a particular research work are aggregated into a single FAIR digital object, and metadata relevant for understanding and interpreting the content is represented as semantic metadata that are user and machine readable.

In our presentation at the 1st international FAIR Digital Object Conference, we will showcase different types of ROs for the 3 Earth Science communities represented in Reliance to highlight how the scientists in our respective disciplines changed their working methodology towards Open Science.
Fear of COVID-19 during confinement in Mauritius: a survey-based study
Creators: name: Goorah, Smita
name: Cheeneebash, Jayrani
name: Gopaul, Ashvin
name: Ramchurn, Satish
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
Fear
Mental health
Pandemic
Mauritius

description: Fear has been a common response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic throughout the world. In Mauritius, the outbreak of COVID-19 has been an exceptional occurrence requiring stringent confinement of the population. In this study we have explored people’s reactions to COVID-19 during confinement, with emphasis on fear and the impact of news on the level of fear. The questionnaire has been used for this study.
A Multicultural Retrospective on Endogenous Chinese Sino-Centric Civilizational Becoming
Creators: name: Pachankis, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Globalization
Cold War
Clash of Civilizations
Reform and Opening

description: The research, based on a good faith, investigated the endogenous Chinese Sino-Centric Civilizational Becoming. It is post-positivist with justifications made on the use of nuclear weapon in World War II in defense of the NASA Deep Space Network. The cultural linguistic analysis aimed to bridge the gaps on the power political & realpolitik projections of globalization in the Sino-Centric paradigm & modality of the structural-realist regime, and it is based on contemporary notions of diplomacy. Contemporary globalization is largely shaped by the predominant position and strength of the United States, and the concept of globalization is cast upon the polity and social aspects of P.R. China after Reform and Opening. Globalization, though substantially varied in a modern scene, is not without historical and cultural roots. The future holds anew, whereas newly arisen pieces of knowledge and information shed new light on the past, the blood and violence of the political progress on the Chinese soil. This paper digs into the interactive aspect of the Chinese civilization with Western Civilization, and an empirical understanding on the evolvement of the country / nation to the recent shaping, with implication of which might change the dynamic ofthe Asian area after the global power politics whereof after World War II.
First Responders Guide to Computer Forensics
Creators: name: Nolan, Richard A.
name: O'Sullivan, Colin J.
name: Branson, Jake
name: Waits, Cal
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This handbook is for technical staff members charged with administering and securing information systems and networks. It targets a critical training gap in the fields of information security, computer forensics, and incident response: performing basic forensic data collection. The first module describes cyber laws and their impact on incident response. The second module builds understanding of file systems and outlines a best practice methodology for creating a trusted first responder tool kit for investigating potential incidents. The third module reviews some best practices, techniques, and tools for collecting volatile data from live Windows and Linux systems. It also explains the importance of collecting volatile data before it is lost or changed. The fourth module reviews techniques for capturing persistent data in a forensically sound manner and describes the location of common persistent data types. Each module ends with a summary and a set of review questions to help clarify understanding.

This handbook was developed as part of a larger project. The incorporated slides are from the five day hands-on course Forensics Guide to Incident Response for Technical Staff developed at the SEI. The focus is on providing system and network administrators with methodologies, tools, and procedures for applying fundamental computer forensics when collecting data on both a live and a powered off machine. A live machine is a machine that is currently running and could be connected to the network. The target audience includes system and network administrators, law enforcement, and any information security practitioners who may find themselves in the role of first responder. The handbook should help the target audience to

    * understand the essential laws that govern their actions

    * understand key data types residing on live machines

    * evaluate and create a trusted set of tools for the collection of data

    * collect, preserve, and protect data from live and powered off machines

    * learn methodologies for collecting information that are forensically sound (i.e., able to withstand the scrutiny of the courts)
Quantum Measurement of Broadband Nonclassical Light Fields
Creators: name: Grünwald, P.
name: Vasylyev, D.
name: Häggblad, J.
name: Vogel, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the measurement of quantum correlation functions, the quantum statistical properties of spectral measurements are studied for broadband radiation fields. The spectral filtering of light before its detection is compared with the direct detection followed by the spectral analysis of the recorded photocurrents. As an example, the squeezing spectra of the atomic resonance fluorescence are studied for both types of filtering procedures. The conditions for which the detection of the nonclassical signatures of the radiation is possible are analyzed. For the considered example, photocurrent filtering appears to be the superior option to detect nonclassicality, due to the vacuum-noise effects in the optical filtering.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Formulation of a Production Strategy for a Software Product Line
Creators: name: Chastek, Gary J.
name: Donohoe, Patrick
name: McGregor, John D.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software product lines are of strategic importance to the organizations that adopt them, affecting both an organization's position in an existing market and its ability to react to new and changing markets. An organization's production system (i.e., how it builds its products) is also of strategic importance, directly affecting, for example, that organization's ability to deliver new products quickly (i.e., its time to market).

The production strategy for a software product line is the high-level description of how the production system realizes both the core assets and products. The production strategy is derived from the organization's business strategy and is intended to coordinate the actions of the core asset and product developers. The strategy describes how the product line practices should be employed so that the product line organization will achieve its production goals. This technical note describes a technique, which is based on well-known procedures for defining and evaluating a business strategy, for formulating the production strategy of a production system. An example of strategy creation is provided.