cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relationships Between CMMI and Six Sigma
Creators: name: Siviy, Jeannine M.
name: Penn, Mary Lynn
name: Harper, Erin A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Organizations that endeavor to improve their processes often find themselves juggling many approaches to achieve that improvement. To be most effective, all improvement initiatives selected should be implemented in an integrated fashion, not as layered or stovepiped efforts. This document focuses on the joint use of two popular improvement initiatives: Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and Six Sigma. Successfully implementing CMMI and Six Sigma together requires an understanding of the relationships between the two. This report contains a brief summary of each initiative and then outlines the connections between frameworks commonly used in Six Sigma and the CMMI process areas. Coupling this knowledge with a conscious strategy enables an organization to create tactical plans and specific mappings to support implementation. Example strategies and tactics that organizations have used to integrate these initiatives are also provided.
Bursting endemic bubbles in an adaptive network
Creators: name: Sherborne, N.
name: Blyuss, K. B.
name: Kiss, I. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spread of an infectious disease is known to change people's behavior, which in turn affects the spread of disease. Adaptive network models that account for both epidemic and behavior change have found oscillations, but in an extremely narrow region of the parameter space, which contrasts with intuition and available data. In this paper we propose a simple SIS epidemic model on an adaptive network with time-delayed rewiring, and show that oscillatory solutions are now present in a wide region of the parameter space. Altering the transmission or rewiring rates reveals the presence of an endemic bubble - an enclosed region of the parameter space where oscillations are observed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Warfarin versus Dabigatran: the Superior Option
Creators: name: El Balaa, Aya
name: Castonguay, Krista
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia that increases the risks of blood clots, stroke, heart failure. Oral antithrombotic and anticoagulation have been associated with the reduced formation of thrombus thus reducing the risk of AF-related stroke. Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) were developed in response to the downfalls of Warfarin. The first of which was dabigatran, an oral prodrug, and thrombin inhibitor. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review the literature comparing warfarin and dabigatran on their efficacy (rates of stoke and systemic embolism), cost-effectiveness, and safety (events of major hemorrhage). Cost-effectiveness was determined based on quality adjusted life-years (QALYs). Methodology: Medline (Ovid) was used as a database with the search terms: stroke, warfarin, dabigatran, and AF. Limited to English, full text, published from 1999-2016 six articles were then reviewed for their use in this abstract. Two fundamental studies were not revealed by the original search, but was sourced by all articles chosen and was therefore included. Eight articles were used. Results: Dabigatran is prescribed in a 110 mg dose (D110) or a 150 mg dose (D150) twice daily. It was found that D110 had similar efficacy to warfarin but improved safety rates. D150 had decreased rates of stroke and systemic embolism compared to warfarin, but similar rates of major hemorrhage. In addition, Dabigatran safety may differ between sexes, Thirdly, NOACs are more expensive but more cost-effective than warfarin based on QALYs. D150 cost less than D110 per improvement in QALYs. Conclusion: Both doses of dabigatran were found to be non-inferior to warfarin for safety and efficacy rates. D150 was superior in regards to efficacy rates. D110 was superior in regards to safety. D150 was superior to D110 and warfarin in cost-effectiveness. Future exploration into a tailored dose of Dabigatran and sex-differences will prove beneficial.
Producing superfluid circulation states using phase imprinting
Creators: name: Kumar, Avinash
name: Dubessy, Romain
name: Badr, Thomas
name: De Rossi, Camilla
name: de Herve, Mathieu De Goër
name: Longchambon, Laurent
name: Perrin, Hélène
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to prepare states of given quantized circulation in annular Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) confined in a ring trap using the method of phase imprinting without relying on a two-photon angular momentum transfer. The desired phase profile is imprinted on the atomic wave function using a short light pulse with a tailored intensity pattern generated with a Spatial Light Modulator. We demonstrate the realization of 'helicoidal' intensity profiles suitable for this purpose. Due to the diffraction limit, the theoretical steplike intensity profile is not achievable in practice. We investigate the effect of imprinting an intensity profile smoothed by a finite optical resolution onto the annular BEC with a numerical simulation of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. This allows us to optimize the intensity pattern for a given target circulation to compensate for the limited resolution.
Normal stresses, contraction, and stiffening in sheared elastic networks
Creators: name: Baumgarten, Karsten
name: Tighe, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When elastic solids are sheared, a nonlinear effect named after Poynting gives rise to normal stresses or changes in volume. We provide a novel relation between the Poynting effect and the microscopic Grüneisen parameter, which quantifies how stretching shifts vibrational modes. By applying this relation to random spring networks, a minimal model for, e.g., biopolymer gels and solid foams, we find that networks contract or develop tension because they vibrate faster when stretched. The amplitude of the Poynting effect is sensitive to the network's linear elastic moduli, which can be tuned via its preparation protocol and connectivity. Finally, we show that the Poynting effect can be used to predict the finite strain scale where the material stiffens under shear.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Relating the Team Software Process (TSP) to the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM)
Creators: name: Noopur  Davis
name: McHale, James
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Organizations using the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) to guide their software process improvement efforts often struggle with implementation details. The Team Software Process (TSP) was designed to implement effective, high-maturity processes for project teams. The TSP contains a framework as well as a set of processes, procedures, guidelines, and tools for project teams to use in the production of high-quality software on time and on budget. Since the SW-CMM describes what an organization at a high level of process maturity should be doing, and the TSP describes how high-maturity processes are implemented for project teams, the question arises: If all projects in an organization were using the TSP, would the organization exhibit the characteristics of high process maturity, as described in the SW-CMM? To help answer this question, we performed an analysis of the degree to which the SW-CMM is addressed by the TSP. Each key practice described in the SW-CMM was classified as having an organizational or project scope, or both. Then each practice was examined to determine how it was addressed by the TSP. The results presented in this report show that the TSP implements a majority of the key practices of the SW-CMM.
Relating Business Goals to Architecturally Significant Requirements for Software Systems
Creators: name: Clements, Paul
name: Bass, Len
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The primary purpose of the architecture for a software-reliant system is to satisfy the driving behavioral and quality attribute requirements. Quality attribute requirements tend to be poorly captured and poorly represented in requirements specifications, which focus on functionality. It is often up to the architect‘s own initiative to capture the actual quality attribute requirements for a system under development. Quality attributes come about because of the business goals behind the system being developed. Business goals drive the conception, creation, and evolution of software-reliant systems. This report examines business goals from the point of view of the software architect. It presents a wide survey of business goal categories from the business literature and uses that survey to produce a classification of business goals. It introduces the concept of goal-subject (the person or entity who owns the business goal) and goal-object (the person or entity that the goal is intended to benefit). Those concepts are essential to the structure of a business goal scenario—a systematic way to elicit and express business goals. Using the concept of a business goal scenario drives the Pedigreed Attribute eLicitation Method (PALM), developed by the authors for eliciting architecturally significant business goals. The report illustrates how to use architecturally significant business goals to produce a set of derived quality attribute requirements that can then be vetted and elaborated with the appropriate goal-subject(s) and goal-object(s). This approach has been vetted in two workshops and the method piloted in an industrial setting.
Micromagnetics of anti-skyrmions in ultrathin films
Creators: name: Camosi, Lorenzo
name: Rougemaille, Nicolas
name: Fruchart, Olivier
name: Vogel, Jan
name: Rohart, Stanislas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined analytical and numerical micromagnetic study of the equilibrium energy, size and shape of anti-skyrmionic magnetic configurations. Anti-skyrmions can be stabilized when the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction has opposite signs along two orthogonal in-plane directions, breaking the magnetic circular symmetry. We compare the equilibrium energy, size and shape of anti-skyrmions and skyrmions that are stabilized respectively in environments with anisotropic and isotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, but with the same strength of the magnetic interactions.When the dipolar interactions are neglected the skyrmion and the anti-skyrmion have the same energy, shape and size in their respective environment. However, when dipolar interactions are considered, the energy of the anti-skyrmion is strongly reduced and its equilibrium size increased with respect to the skyrmion. While the skyrmion configuration shows homochiral Néel magnetization rotations, anti-skyrmions show partly Néel and partly Bloch rotations. The latter do not produce magnetic charges and thus cost less dipolar energy. Both magnetic configurations are stable when the magnetic energies almost cancel each other, which means that a small variation of one parameter can drastically change their configuration, size and energy.
description: Published as Physical Review B 97, 134404 (2018)
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0853
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0853, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0853, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 2 of Hospice utilization during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chen, Tzeng-Ji
name: Lin, Ming-Hwai
name: Chou, Li-Fang
name: Hwang, Shinn-Jang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Céramique
Amphores attiques
Amphores attiques du Peintre de Bellorophon
Creators: name: SAM
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2016

description: Provenance: Vari
description: date: 600
Quasi-monoenergetic Laser-Plasma Positron Accelerator using Particle-Shower Plasma-Wave interactions
Creators: name: Sahai, Aakash A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An all-optical centimeter-scale laser-plasma positron accelerator is modeled to produce quasi-monoenergetic beams with tunable ultra-relativistic energies. A new principle elucidated here describes the trapping of divergent positrons that are part of a laser-driven electromagnetic shower with a large energy spread and their acceleration into a quasi-monoenergetic positron beam in a laser-driven plasma wave. Proof of this principle using analysis and Particle-In-Cell simulations demonstrates that, under limits defined here, existing lasers can accelerate hundreds of MeV pC quasi-monoenergetic positron bunches. By providing an affordable alternative to kilometer-scale radio-frequency accelerators, this compact positron accelerator opens up new avenues of research.
description: submitted to Physical Review Letters, January 2018
Regional Use of Social Networking Tools
Creators: name: Meeuf, Kate
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social networking services (SNSs) empower users to communicate, connect, and engage with others across the Internet. These tools have exploded in use worldwide. This paper explores the regional use of these tools to determine if participation with a subset of SNSs can be applied to identify a user’s country of origin. A better understanding of regional SNS behavior provides a more comprehensive profile of country-specific users, supporting computer network defense (CND) efforts and computer network attacks (CNA) attribution. The conclusions are as follows: Existing open source reporting yields an understanding of the market penetration of social networking tools for various regions and countries. Preferences for social networking tools have become somewhat universal. Irrespective of location, users are gravitating towards the same tools. The native social networking services of countries in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe have remained relevant. These tools can be leveraged as discriminators to resolve a user’s location. Reporting provided evidence to suggest that mobile devices influence SNS selection and promote social networking adoption. Cultural factors provide insights into the regional usage of social networking tools, but additional research and quantitative analysis are required to add fidelity to the employment of cultural indicators in deriving a user’s country of origin. Which social networking tools are used is only part of the equation when resolving a user’s location. Other variables should be incorporated to create an informed assessment of the social media output’s geographic origin.
On the ecological significance of pollen color: a case study in American trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
Creators: name: Austen, Emily J
name: Lin, Shang-Yao
name: Forrest, Jessica R K
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Asclera ruficollis
UV-B radiation
anthocyanin
citizen science
fruit set
plant-pollinator interaction
pollen tube
pollen-feeding beetle
polymorphism
spring ephemeral
Animals
Color
Flowers
Pollen
Trout
United States
Lilium

description: Evolutionary ecologists seek to explain the processes that maintain variation within populations. In plants, petal color variation can affect pollinator visitation, environmental tolerance, and herbivore deterrence. Variation in sexual organs may similarly affect plant performance. Within-population variation in pollen color, as occurs in the eastern North American spring ephemeral Erythronium americanum, provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the maintenance of variation in this trait. Although the red/yellow pollen-color polymorphism of E. americanum is widely recognized, it has been poorly documented. Our goals were thus (1) to determine the geographic distribution of the color morphs and (2) to test the effects of pollen color on components of pollen performance. Data provided by citizen scientists indicated that populations range from monomorphic red, to polymorphic, to monomorphic yellow, but there was no detectable geographic pattern in morph distribution, suggesting morph occurrence cannot be explained by a broad-scale ecological cline. In field experiments, we found no effect of pollen color on the probability of predation by the pollen-feeding beetle Asclera ruficollis, on the ability of pollen to tolerate UV-B radiation, or on siring success (as measured by the fruit set of hand-pollinated flowers). Pollinators, however, exhibited site-specific pollen-color preferences, suggesting they may act as agents of selection on this trait, and, depending on the constancy of their preferences, could contribute to the maintenance of variation. Collectively, our results eliminate some hypothesized ecological effects of pollen color in E. americanum, and identify effects of pollen color on pollinator attraction as a promising direction for future investigation.
MOESM7 of Reduced H3K27me3 leads to abnormal Hox gene expression in neural tube defects
Creators: name: Yu, Juan
name: Wang, Lei
name: Pei, Pei
name: Li, Xue
name: Wu, Jianxin
name: Qiu, Zhiyong
name: Zhang, Juan
name: Ao, Ruifang
name: Wang, Shan
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Xie, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. Suz12 and Ezh2 decreased in RA-induced mouse NTDs and ESCs. A. RNA-seq analysis showed Suz12 expression in cranial neural tissue of RA-induced mouse NTDs embryos from E8.5 to E10.5. B. RNA-seq analysis showed Ezh2 expression in cranial neural tissue of RA-induced mouse NTDs embryos from E8.5 to E10.5. C. Ezh2 level in cranial neural tissue of RA-induced mouse NTDs was measured by RT-qPCR and Western blotting. Actb and Gapdh were used as a loading control respectively. Data are shown as the mean (SD; n= 4). *P < 0.05. D. Ezh2 level in mouse ESCs treated with RA was measured by RT-qPCR and Western blotting. Actb and Gapdh were used as loading control respectively. Data are shown as the mean (SD; n= 3). *P < 0.05. E. Relative protein expression of H3K27me3 after overexpression of Suz12 in RA-induced F9 cells. Data are shown as the mean (SD; n= 3). Different letters represent the difference had statistic significance, P < 0.05.
Reengineering: An Engineering Problem
Creators: name: Feiler, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper discusses a plan that addresses how the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) may assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in reengineering its large software-intensive systems. This plan is based on a view of reengineering as an engineering problem to improve the cost-effective evolution of large software-intensive systems. This view of reengineering, which takes the whole software engineering process into account, fosters a growth path by leveraging promising emerging software engineering technologies. Reengineering also builds on the industry's improvement in its ability to manage the software engineering process, an accomplishment of SEI work in the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and its key process areas.
La Glorieta de las y los desaparecidos: patrimonio complejo y contestado de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Creators: name: Chávez Aguayo, Marco Antonio
name: Ramírez Silva, Eduardo Daniel
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Patrimonio cultural - Guadalajara (México)
subject: Manifestaciones culturales - Guadalajara (México)
subject: Monumentos conmemorativos - Guadalajara (México)
subject: Cultura compartida
subject: Patrimonio cultural complejo
subject: Patrimonio cultural contestado
subject: Feminicidios
subject: Desapariciones forzadas
subject: Monumentos

description: En Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, el Monumento a los Niños Héroes, dedicado a los héroes que lucharon en 1852 contra la intervención de Estados Unidos, ha sido resignificado y renombrado de manera no oficial como La Glorieta de Las y Los Desaparecidos. Esto se debe a que la población comenzó a reunirse ahí para denunciar las desapariciones de hombres y mujeres en la región, las cuales las autoridades no han podido resolver ni explicar. La sospecha apunta a grupos criminales del narcotráfico y la complicidad o inacción de diferentes niveles de gobierno. El monumento se ha convertido en un símbolo de protesta y reclamo social, donde los familiares y amigos de las víctimas colocan pancartas con los nombres, fotos e información de las personas desaparecidas. Este uso social extrainstitucional del patrimonio cultural se analiza en el contexto latinoamericano empleando los conceptos de difficult heritage y contested heritage. La apropiación del monumento por parte de la población busca visibilizar y denunciar la situación de las personas desaparecidas en México y la falta de acción de las autoridades para resolver esta problemática.
description: In Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, the Monumento a los Niños Héroes, dedicated to the heroes who fought in 1852 against the United States intervention, has been reinterpreted and unofficially renamed as “La Glorieta de Las y Los Desaparecidos", due to the population began to gather there to denounce the disappearances of men and women in the region, which authorities have been unable to resolve or explain. The suspicion points to criminal drug trafficking groups and the complicity or inaction of different levels of government. The monument has become a symbol of protest and social demand, where relatives and friends of the victims place signs with the names, photos, and information of the missing persons. This extrainstitutional social use of cultural heritage is analyzed in the Latin American context employing the concepts of difficult heritage and contested heritage. The appropriation of the monument by the population seeks to make visible and denounce the situation of disappeared persons in Mexico and the lack of action by the authorities to solve this problem.
Search Strategy Development
Creators: name: Steinberg, Julia
name: Littell, Julia H.
name: Young, Sarah
name: Munk-Olsen, Trine
name: Pigott, Terri
name: Biggs, Antonia
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023

description: Search strategy development documentation for "Abortion and patients' mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis"
Additional file 3 of Hospice utilization during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chen, Tzeng-Ji
name: Lin, Ming-Hwai
name: Chou, Li-Fang
name: Hwang, Shinn-Jang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
Tejido de sabiduría y conocimiento de la mujer y el hombre nasa. Fortalecimiento del “tejido” dentro del Resguardo Indígena de Tumbichucue – Cauca
Creators: name: Díaz Cunacué, Yury Marcela
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pueblo - Indígenas
subject: Espiritualidad - Historia
subject: Educación indígena - Aspectos sociales
subject: Tejido del hombre y la mujer nasa
subject: Teñido
subject: Sentido y Simbología
subject: Espiritualidad

description: En este documento se evidenciarán los principales hallazgos en el proceso investigativo dentro de la comunidad de Tumbichucue sobre las entrañas de Tierradentro Cauca. Es un espacio en donde compartiré la importancia del tejido que representa el ser mujer y el hombre desde el ÜUS DXIJUY YAHTXCXHA ÜMNA1, mujer tejedora, dadora de semillas de vida, cuidadora y, sobre todo, ser la mujer y el hombre que trasmiten los conocimientos desde la tulpa2 y el Tul3. Así mismo, el teñido de lana, un proceso para abstraer los colores naturales, tejer las diferentes simbologías propias que permite a la mujer nasa plasmar esa gran diversidad de colores que encontramos en nuestra UMA KIWE - madre tierra. Es de resaltar que dentro del tejido investigativo se tuvo en cuenta la espiritualidad orientado por el sabedor espiritual, el andar del tiempo y el espacio desde la implementación de la educación propia que busca enraizar desde el origen y espiritualidad ancestral.
description: This document will show the main findings of the research process within the community of Tumbichucue on the bowels of Tierradentro Cauca. It is a space where I will share the importance of weaving that represents being a woman and a man from the ÜUS DXIJUY YAHTXCXHA ÜMNA, a woman who weaves, givers seeds of life, caretakers and, above all, is the woman and man who transmit knowledge from the tulpa and the tul. Likewise, wool dyeing, a process to abstract natural colors, weave the different symbologies that allow the Nasa woman to capture that great diversity of colors that we find in our UMA KIWE - mother earth. It should be noted that within the research fabric, spirituality was taken into account guided by the spiritual knower, the passage of time and space from the implementation of one's own education that seeks to root from the origin and ancestral spirituality.
EFFECTIVENESS OF TALENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AT THE FREE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Creators: name: TEBOHO MKHUMA
name: WILFRED ISIOMA UKPERE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Talent Management, Organisational Sustainability, Public Health Sector, Free State Department of Health.

description: Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought attention to the vital role of effective talent management in organisational sustainability. Talent management strategies enable organisations to optimize talent retention, cultivate organisational capabilities, and maintain a competitive edge. However, most South African public institutions face talent management challenges. A review of current literature reveals a scarcity of research on talent management practices within the South African public health sector. Hence, to close the gap, this study explored the effectiveness of talent management strategies within the Free State provincial department of health. This qualitative study utilized purposive sampling to recruit fourteen employees from Tokollo and Mafube hospitals, representing various organisational levels. Additionally, the study used semi-structured interviews (n=13 face-to-face, n=1 virtual) to gather in-depth data on the effectiveness of talent management strategies. The findings reveal a mixed landscape of effectiveness. Notably, employee benefits and rewards, and training and development emerged as effective strategies. On the other hand, participants exhibited polarized views on performance management's effectiveness (n=6 positive, n=6 negative). Conversely, the study found workforce planning and staffing, succession planning, staff recognition policy, and the retention policy as ineffective talent management strategies. These results offer insightful information for healthcare organisations seeking to optimize talent management practices. Hence, the findings will contribute to the creation of evidence-based talent management strategies for improved organisational performance and sustainability.
Reeducation to Expand the Software Engineering Workforce: Successful Industry/University Collaborations
Creators: name: Ellis, Heidi J.
name: Moreno, Ana
name: Mead, Nancy R.
name: Seidman, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software produced worldwide is growing at a phenomenal rate as software is used in such diverse products as automobiles, homes, and airplanes. In addition, the increasingly global business climate and expanding emphasis on distributed computing has accelerated the need for business software. However, there is currently an inadequate number of software engineers to produce and maintain software to meet this demand. One possible solution to correcting this shortfall is reeducating existing non-software engineering employees to become software engineers. For the past two years, the Industry/University (I/U) subgroup of the Working Group on Software Engineering Education and Training has been investigating active collaborations between companies and universities in which non-software professionals and practitioners who lack formal software education are reeducated to become software engineers. This paper reports on the I/U subgroup's findings by describing their approach to the investigation, the factors involved in successful collaboration construction and execution, and alumni views of the knowledge and skills transferred by the collaboration.
Exhibits of Truth and Reconciliation: Creating Empathetic Spaces for Indigenous Narratives in Canada
Creators: name: Pilon, Marylene
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
colonial trauma
indigenous
Canada

description: This essay examines what the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has achieved and failed to accomplish between 2009 and 2015. The TRC’s exhibits are testaments to the ongoing colonial traumatization among Indigenous peoples in Canada expressed through survivor statements in non-conventional forms of art in a space that has been historically biased against them. I study the importance and value of a sample of exhibits produced as a result of the Commission to argue that ongoing and systemic racism persists in 2020 and Canada needs broader participation in reconciliation forums. This project is an effort towards shifting post-colonial public dispositions that lack awareness of pervasive colonization-trauma or empathetic indignation.
HIRDES - The High-Resolution Double-Echelle Spectrograph for the World Space Observatory Ultraviolet (WSO/UV)
Creators: name: Werner, K.
name: Barnstedt, J.
name: Gringel, W.
name: Kappelmann, N.
name: Becker-Ross, H.
name: Florek, S.
name: Graue, R.
name: Kampf, D.
name: Reutlinger, A.
name: Neumann, C.
name: Shustov, B.
name: Moisheev, A.
name: Skripunov, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The World Space Observatory Ultraviolet (WSO/UV) is a multi-national project grown out of the needs of the astronomical community to have future access to the UV range. WSO/UV consists of a single UV telescope with a primary mirror of 1.7m diameter feeding the UV spectrometer and UV imagers. The spectrometer comprises three different spectrographs, two high-resolution echelle spectrographs (the High-Resolution Double-Echelle Spectrograph, HIRDES) and a low-dispersion long-slit instrument. Within HIRDES the 102-310nm spectral band is split to feed two echelle spectrographs covering the UV range 174-310nm and the vacuum-UV range 102-176nm with high spectral resolution (R>50,000). The technical concept is based on the heritage of two previous ORFEUS SPAS missions. The phase-B1 development activities are described in this paper considering performance aspects, design drivers, related trade-offs (mechanical concepts, material selection etc.) and a critical functional and environmental test verification approach. The current state of other WSO/UV scientific instruments (imagers) is also described.
description: Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research
Dynamical phase transitions at finite temperature from fidelity and interferometric Loschmidt echo induced metrics
Creators: name: Mera, Bruno
name: Vlachou, Chrysoula
name: Paunković, Nikola
name: Vieira, Vítor R.
name: Viyuela, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study finite-temperature Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions (DQPTs) by means of the fidelity and the interferometric Loschmidt Echo (LE) induced metrics. We analyse the associated dynamical susceptibilities (Riemannian metrics), and derive analytic expressions for the case of two-band Hamiltonians. At zero temperature the two quantities are identical, nevertheless, at finite temperatures they behave very differently. Using the fidelity LE, the zero temperature DQPTs are gradually washed away with temperature, while the interferometric counterpart exhibits finite-temperature Phase Transitions (PTs). We analyse the physical differences between the two finite-temperature LE generalisations, and argue that, while the interferometric one is more sensitive and can therefore provide more information when applied to genuine quantum (microscopic) systems, when analysing many-body macroscopic systems, the fidelity-based counterpart is a more suitable quantity to study. Finally, we apply the previous results to two representative models of topological insulators in 1D and 2D.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Die subjektive Sichtweise von Müttern auf Mutter-Kind-Interaktionen Eine qualitative Studie im Beratungssetting der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung
Creators: name: Allemann, Ramona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Heilpädagogische Früherziehung
Frühförderung
Masterarbeit

description: Im Verlauf der letzten Jahre wurden die Bedeutung und Auswirkungen einer stabilen sowie siche-ren Bindung zu einer Bezugsperson immer deutlicher. Feinfühlige und kompetente Bezugsperso-nen konnten wissenschaftlich eindeutig als psychosoziale Schutzfaktoren für die kindliche Entwick-lung nachgewiesen werden. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik Mutter-Kind-Interaktionen und demnach der subjektiven Sichtweise der Mütter auf solche Interaktionen ist im Bereich der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung unumgänglich. Die Förderung von elterlichen Kompetenzen ist eine bedeutende Massnahme im Bereich der Prävention sowie Intervention von gefährdeten oder entwicklungsauffälligen Kindern. Im Rahmen von sieben Interviews mit Müttern, war das Ziel die-ser Masterarbeit anhand von kriteriengestützten Inhaltsanalysen ihre subjektive Sichtweise zu Mut-ter-Kind-Interaktionen zu ergründen. Mit Hilfe des Datenanalysenprogramms MAXQDA werden die Interviews anhand von Kodierleitfäden einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse unterzogen. Die deduktiv erarbeiteten Kodierleitfäden basieren auf den drei Perspektiven der interaktiven Kompetenz des Kindes, der interaktiven Kompetenz der Mutter und der Interaktion Mutter-Kind gesamt. Ausge-hend von der Fragestellung wird untersucht welche Schwerpunkte über alle drei Perspektiven bei der Betrachtung einer unbekannten Mutter-Kind-Interaktion, von diesen Müttern beschrieben wer-den. Es wird analysiert, welche Codes unter welchem Fokus von diesen Müttern bei der Betrach-tung manifestiert werden. Ebenfalls wird die Beschreibung der Mütter von weiteren Aspekten im Zusammenhang mit Mutter-Kind-Interaktionen ins Zentrum dieser Masterarbeit gestellt. Diese Ka-tegorien werden anhand des Datenmaterials induktiv abgeleitet. Entlang der Ergebnisse der jewei-ligen Schwerpunkte konnten vier verschiedene Interpretationstypen hinsichtlich der Gewichtung der Perspektiven eruiert werden. Es wird anschliessend erläutert, inwiefern diese Ergebnisse das Beratungssetting der Heilpädagogischen Früherziehung beeinflussen können und welche weiteren Forschungsfragen sich in diesem Zusammenhang ergeben.
The Association Between Oral Health Status and Myocardial Infarction: A Structured Literature Review
Creators: name: Branigan, Travis
name: Winch, Nicole
name: Zukowski, Andrea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Heart failure, often as a result of myocardial infarction (MI), has become a significant health issue for thousands of Canadians. Interventions to reduce the risk of MI would lessen the burden of heart disease and heart failure. Though unconventional, oral health is one of numerous risk factors for MI that has yet to be fully explored. OBJECTIVE: Through a structured literature review, the present study investigates the association between oral health status and MI among adults. METHODS: Three electronic databases were searched (Medline, Embase, CINAHL) for English-language papers published in peer-reviewed journals after January 1, 2007. The search included studies that assessed oral health status and reported on MI as the outcome measure in adults. This review considered the following study designs: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, and cohort studies. RESULTS:   The initial literature search generated 350 results. The application of inclusion and exclusion criteria yielded six cohort studies and one meta-analysis. Five of the studies reported a correlation between poor oral health and a higher risk of MI. Two studies failed to find a significant positive association between the two variables. CONCLUSION: An association between oral health status and MI was identified in this review. Therefore, preventative oral health interventions could reduce the population burden of MI and subsequent HF. However, this review recommends further investigation of the direction of the relationship.
Diseño de producto de turismo rural en el municipio de Chivatá, Boyacá
Creators: name: Ahumada Tovar, Diego Felipe
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Turismo ecológico
subject: Turismo - Administración
subject: Cultura
subject: Turismo rural
subject: Senderismo
subject: Producto turístico rural
subject: Chivatá
subject: Boyacá

description: El trabajo de grado que se presenta a continuación tiene como propósito plantear una propuesta de diseño de producto de turismo rural en el municipio de Chivatá, Boyacá, como alternativa para valorar y preservar las tradiciones del campesino. Para llevar a cabo este estudio, se planteó una metodología de investigación de carácter cualitativo y cuantitativo con el fin de recolectar y analizar la información en dicho municipio y así identificar sus atributos turísticos. Para esto, se tomó como base, no solo la metodología para la elaboración de inventario de atractivos turísticos del Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia (MINcm, sino los datos provenientes del Manual de Planificación de Productos Turísticos del Ministerio de Comercio Exterior Y Turismo (MINCETUR) de Perú con el fin de diseñar y estructurar el prototipo del producto turístico rural llamado: "Reminiscencias campesinas", el cual pretende que los turistas evidencien, valoren y disfruten el entorno natural campestre, al igual que las tradiciones del campesino en la vereda de Siatoca, Chivatá, Boyacá, Colombia.
description: This research study aims to present a proposal of a rural tourist product in Chivatá, Boyacá, as an alternative to value and preserve the peasant traditions. Therefore, this document states a mixed research methodology that contains a qualitative and quantitative approach in arder to organize and analyze the gathered information, and then identify its tourist traits. This academic work is based on both a methodology to elaborate an inventory of tourist attractions by the HMinisterio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia (MINCIT)", and the data provided by the "Manual de Planificación de Productos Turísticos del Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR)" from Perú with the purpose to design and structure the rural tourist product prototype named: "Peasant Reminiscences" which pretends that tourists live, value and enjoy the peasants natural country side environment together with their traditions in the "vereda de Siatoca, Chivatá, Boyacá, Colombia".
From Spinning Primaries to Permutation Orbifolds
Creators: name: Koch, Robert de Mello
name: Rabambi, Phumudzo
name: Van Zyl, Hendrik J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic study of primary operators in the conformal field theory of a free Weyl fermion. Using SO(4,2) characters we develop counting formulas for primaries constructed using a fixed number of fermion fields. By specializing to particular classes of primaries, we derive very explicit formulas for the generating functions for the number of primaries in these classes. We present a duality map between primary operators in the fermion field theory and polynomial functions. This allows us to construct the primaries that were counted. Next we show that these classes of primary fields correspond to polynomial functions on certain permutation orbifolds. These orbifolds have palindromic Hilbert series.
description: v2: matches published version
Observational Window Functions in Planet Transit Searches
Creators: name: von Braun, Kaspar
name: Ciardi, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Window functions describe, as a function of orbital period, the probability that an existing planetary transit is detectable in one's data for a given observing strategy. We show the dependence of this probability upon several strategy and astrophysical parameters, such as length of observing run, observing cadence, length of night, and transit duration. The ability to detect a transit is directly related to the intrinsic noise of the observations. In our simulations of the window function, we explicitly address non-correlated (gaussian or white) noise and correlated (red) noise and discuss how these two different noise components affect window functions in different manners.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 249th IAU Meeting: "Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics" (Suzhou, China); added referee's comments
Recommendations from the AIA/SEI Workshop on Research Advances Required for Real-Time Software Systems in the 1990s
Creators: name: Sweet, William
name: Gagliardi, Michael J.
name: Klein, Mark H.
name: Little, Reed
name: Scoy, Roger Van
name: Veltre, Robert
name: Weinstock, Charles B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the Software Engineering Institute sponsored a workshop to facilitate clear communication between the implementors of future software-critical large systems and the professionals who sponsor or perform software-related research. The workshop was held at the SEI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 13-14, 1989. At the workshop, a representative group of designers of major upcoming software systems discussed among themselves and with representatives of the research community the areas of software system technology that require research advances to successfully implement these systems. The results of the discussions are summarized in this report.
Near-Horizon Extremal Geometries: Coadjoint Orbits and Quantization
Creators: name: Javadinezhad, R.
name: Oblak, B.
name: Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NHEG algebra is an extension of Virasoro introduced in [arXiv:1503.07861]; it describes the symplectic symmetries of $(n+4)$-dimensional Near Horizon Extremal Geometries with $SL(2,R)\times U(1)^{n+1}$ isometry. In this work we construct the NHEG group and classify the (coadjoint) orbits of its action on phase space. As we show, the group consists of maps from an $n$-torus to the Virasoro group, so its orbits are bundles of standard Virasoro coadjoint orbits over $T^n$. We also describe the unitary representations that are expected to follow from the quantization of these orbits, and display their characters. Along the way we show that the NHEG algebra can be built from u(1) currents using a twisted Sugawara construction.
description: 22 pages, one figure. v2: Title expanded, various minor clarifications added. Published in JHEP