cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
D5.6 First corona simulation tools integrated into NanoCommons KnowledgeBase
Creators: name: Kotsis
name: Lobaskin
name: Maier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: NanoCommons
Deliverable
Simulation
Protein corona
Knowledge base integration

description: This report describes integration of a corona modelling tool, based on the method developed within the SmartNanoTox project, into the NanoCommons research infrastructure knowledge base and computational platform. The main outcomes of the tool are adsorption energies for arbitrary proteins on selected NMs of different sizes, the adsorption energy heat map for various protein orientations (which provides insights into the most probable orientations for binding), and protein ranking by the binding affinity to the specified NM which may facilitate prediction of protein coronas in the future without the need for experimental inputs. Currently, the modelling is possible for selected set of NMs including gold, titanium oxide, and silica, and is now ready to be offered to users as a Transnational Access (TA) service.
Supplementary material.docx
Creators: name: Giordano, Raffaele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This document contains the results of the implementation of a modelling approach based on the integration between Social Network Analysis and Fuzzy Cognitive Map for Nature-based Solution design and implementation.
Information Assurance Curriculum and Certification: State of the Practice
Creators: name: Laswell, Barbara
name: Simmel, Derek
name: Behrens, Sandra G.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The purpose of this document is to describe the state of the practice in information assurance and security curriculum and certification. The scope is not exhaustive, but rather illustrative of the types of activity occurring today within various organizations, including government, universities and research centers, professional societies, and the business community. Although individual courses are available, there apparently is no systematic agreement on the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to formulate a curriculum for information security professionals that enjoys broad-based support across organizations. As a result of Presidential Decision Directive 63 and the charge to protect the nation's critical infrastructures, the pressure is increasing to provide some minimum level of competence for system and network administrators working in the field of information assurance. Presently, several professional organizations offer certified professional designations.

What is needed is a comprehensive framework for curriculum and certification in information assurance and security. Currently the thrust for training focuses primarily on the technologies of information infrastructures. However, long-term solutions for the protection of critical information assets will require a more comprehensive approach in which senior executives and managers, as well as technical staff, develop strong and diverse skills that allow them to advance an organization's mission in a dynamic and increasingly hostile networked environment.
Stable Xenon Nitride at High Pressures
Creators: name: Peng, Feng
name: Wang, Yanchao
name: Wang, Hui
name: Zhang, Yunwei
name: Ma, Yanming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nitrides in many ways are fascinating since they often appear as superconductors, high energy density and hard materials. Though there exist a large variety of nitrides, noble gas nitrides are long missing in nature. Pursuit of noble gas nitrides has therefore become the subject of topical interests, but remains as a great challenge since molecular nitrogen (N2, a major form of nitrogen) and noble gases are both inert systems and do not interact at normal conditions. We show through a swarm structure searching simulation that high pressure can lift the reactivity of both N2 and xenon (Xe), making chemical reaction of them possible. The resultant nitride has a peculiar stoichiometry of XeN6, possessing a high-energy-density of approximately 2.4 kJg-1, rivaling that of the modern explosives. Chemically, XeN6 is more intriguing with the appearance of chaired N6 hexagons and an emergent 12-fold Xe by acceptance of unprecedentedly 12 Xe-N weak covalent bonds. Our work opens up the possibility of achieving Xe nitrides whose formation is long sought as impossible.
description: 6pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Musical and psychomotor interventions for cognitive, sensorimotor, and cerebral decline in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (COPE): a study protocol for a multicentric randomized controlled study
Creators: name: James, CE.
name: Stucker, C.
name: Junker-Tschopp, C.
name: Fernandes, AM.
name: Revol, A.
name: Mili, ID.
name: Kliegel, M.
name: Frisoni, GB.
name: Brioschi Guevara, A.
name: Marie, D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. MRI1 measurements Measured at all 3 time points: t0: baseline; t1: 3 months; t2: 6 months.
Integrated Measurement and Analysis Framework for Software Security
Creators: name: Alberts, Christopher J.
name: Allen, Julia H.
name: Stoddard, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In today's business and operational environments, multiple organizations routinely work collaboratively to acquire, develop, deploy, and maintain technical capabilities via a set of interdependent, networked systems. Measurement in these distributed management environments can be an extremely challenging problem. The CERT Program, part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), is developing the Integrated Measurement and Analysis Framework (IMAF) to enable effective measurement in distributed environments, including acquisition programs, supply chains, and systems of systems. The IMAF defines an approach that integrates subjective and objective data from multiple sources (targeted analysis, reports, and tactical measurement) and provides decision makers with a consolidated view of current conditions. This report is the first in a series that addresses how to measure software security in complex environments. It poses several research questions and hypotheses and presents a foundational set of measurement concepts. It also describes how meaningful measures provide the information that decision makers need when they need it and in the right form. Finally, this report provides a conceptual overview of the IMAF, describes methods for qualitatively and quantitatively collecting data to inform the framework, and suggests how to use the IMAF to derive meaningful measures for analyzing software security performance.
Interdependencies of female board member appointments
Creators: name: Raddant, Matthias
name: Takahashi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: J.4

description: We investigate the networks of Japanese corporate boards and its influence on the appointments of female board members. We find that corporate boards with women show homophily with respect to gender. The corresponding firms often have above average profitability. We also find that new appointments of women are more likely at boards which observe female board members at other firms to which they are tied by either ownership relations or corporate board interlocks.
Motivic integration and the birational invariance of BCOV invariants
Creators: name: Fu, Lie
name: Zhang, Yeping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J32, 58J52, 14E18, 14J33, 14J17, 32Q25

description: Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri, and Vafa constructed a real-valued invariant for Calabi--Yau manifolds, which is now called the BCOV torsion. Based on it, a metric-independent invariant, called the BCOV invariant, was constructed by Fang--Lu--Yoshikawa and Eriksson--Freixas i Montplet--Mourougane. The BCOV invariant is conjecturally related to the Gromov--Witten theory via mirror symmetry. Based upon the previous work of the second author, we prove the conjecture that birational Calabi--Yau manifolds have the same BCOV invariant. We also extend the construction of the BCOV invariant to Calabi--Yau varieties with Kawamata log terminal singularities and prove its birational invariance for Calabi--Yau varieties with canonical singularities. We provide an interpretation of our construction using the theory of motivic integration.
description: Final version to appear in Selecta Mathematica
Phonon-pump XUV-photoemission-probe in graphene: evidence for non-adiabatic heating of Dirac carriers by lattice deformation
Creators: name: Gierz, Isabella
name: Mitrano, Matteo
name: Bromberger, Hubertus
name: Cacho, Cephise
name: Chapman, Richard
name: Springate, Emma
name: Link, Stefan
name: Starke, Ulrich
name: Sachs, Burkhard
name: Eckstein, Martin
name: Wehling, Tim O.
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail I.
name: Lichtenstein, Alexander
name: Cavalleri, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We modulate the atomic structure of bilayer graphene by driving its lattice at resonance with the in-plane E1u lattice vibration at 6.3um. Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) with extreme ultra-violet (XUV) pulses, we measure the response of the Dirac electrons near the K-point. We observe that lattice modulation causes anomalous carrier dynamics, with the Dirac electrons reaching lower peak temperatures and relaxing at faster rate compared to when the excitation is applied away from the phonon resonance or in monolayer samples. Frozen phonon calculations predict dramatic band structure changes when the E1u vibration is driven, which we use to explain the anomalous dynamics observed in the experiment.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Next generation impact on family business sustainability: CSR, family-centred goals and founder values
Creators: name: Obasan, Olufemi
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite extensive studies on family business sustainability, there have been limited empirical studies on the involvement and commitment of the next generation towards family business sustainability. This study seeks to fill this gap by unpacking the role of the next generation in family business sustainability, exploring the micro foundations through which they can shape and influence the family businesses, through CSR involvement, family-centred goals, and founders’ values. This study adopts a qualitative, multiple case-study design. It selected ten family firms from six industries, with different levels of next generation involvement. Following a pilot study, two rounds of data collection were carried out between 2019 and 2020, constituting 23 participants in 31 interviews which generated 2,105 minutes of data. The participants included three first generation founders, 19 second/third generation directors, and 1 non-family director. This thesis consists of three papers. The first study draws on the socio-emotional wealth (SEW) theory, investigating the involvement of the next generation in CSR activities and how this involvement affects next-generation towards sustainability in family business. The second paper examines the role of the next generations in shaping family-centred goals, explaining how and why they influence family-centred financial and nonfinancial goals towards building sustainable family business. The third study analyses how founder values and personalities, as key family resources, influence the commitment of the next generations towards family business sustainability. Taken together, the findings provide theoretical insights into the influence of the next generation in building sustainable family businesses. By developing three novel next-generation-oriented theorical models, the studies contribute to the SEW theory, Sustainable Family Business Theory (SFBT) and the literature on family business goals.
Two results on entropy, chaos, and independence in symbolic dynamics
Creators: name: Falniowski, Fryderyk
name: Kulczycki, Marcin
name: Kwietniak, Dominik
name: Li, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10, 37B40, 37B20

description: We survey the connections between entropy, chaos, and independence in topological dynamics. We present extensions of two classical results placing the following notions in the context of symbolic dynamics: 1. Equivalence of positive entropy and the existence of a large (in terms of asymptotic and Shnirelman densities) set of combinatorial independence for shift spaces. 2. Existence of a mixing shift space with a dense set of periodic points with topological entropy zero and without ergodic measure with full support, nor any distributionally chaotic pair. Our proofs are new and yield conclusions stronger than what was known before.
description: Comments are welcome! This preprint contains results from arXiv:1401.5969v2
On the ineffectiveness of constant rotation in the primitive equations and their symmetry analysis
Creators: name: Cardoso-Bihlo, Elsa Dos Santos
name: Popovych, Roman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76M60 (Primary) 76U60 86A10 35A30 35B06 35C05 (Secondary)

description: Modern weather and climate prediction models are based on a system of nonlinear partial differential equations called the primitive equations. Lie symmetries of the primitive equations with zero external heating rate are computed and the structure of its maximal Lie invariance algebra, which is infinite-dimensional, is studied. The maximal Lie invariance algebra for the case of a nonzero constant Coriolis parameter is mapped to the case of vanishing Coriolis force. The same mapping allows one to transform the constantly rotating primitive equations to the equations in a resting reference frame. This mapping is used to obtain exact solutions for the rotating case from exact solutions for the nonrotating equations. Another important result of the paper is the computation of the complete point symmetry group of the primitive equations using the algebraic method.
description: 19 pages, extended version
ISTAR Evaluation
Creators: name: Graham, Mark H.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ISTAR is an integrated project support environment produced by Imperial Software Technology, Ltd. This evaluation of ISTAR is intended for software technologists considering the adoption of an integrated project support environment. Researchers and others interested in environments and evaluation methods will also benefit from this report.
title: Neue Ansätze zur Beurteilung der Fahrsimulatorvalidität
Creators: name: Abendroth, Bettina
name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Maul, Daniel
name: Maul, Stefan
name: Bruder, Ralph
Publisher: name: ergonomia Verlag
Year: 2023

description: Wie ein Literaturüberblick zeigt, beschränken sich die bisher durchgeführten Studien meist auf Kennwerte der Fahrzeugstabilisierung wie z. B. die Standardabweichung der Querposition auf dem Fahrstreifen. Um den Katalog der bestehenden Kennwerte zu erweitern werden das Stufenmodell der menschlichen Informationsverarbeitung von Wickens und Hollands (2000) sowie die Drei-Ebenen-Hierarchie der Fahrzeugführung nach Donges (1982) herangezogen. Beide stellen das Fahrerverhalten im gesamten Wirkungsgefüge Fahrer-Fahrzeug-Umwelt dar und bieten so einen Ansatz systematisch nach neuen Angriffspunkten für eine Validierung zu suchen. Anhand dieser Systematik werden exemplarisch Kenngrößen ausgewählt und anhand von Daten aus Feld- und Fahrsimulatorversuchen evaluiert (z. B. Blickbewegungsanalyse).
Additional file 1 of Comparative gene retention analysis in barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat pangenome lines reveals factors affecting gene retention following gene duplication
Creators: name: Jia, Yong
name: Xu, Mingrui
name: Hu, Haifei
name: Chapman, Brett
name: Watt, Calum
name: Buerte, B.
name: Han, Ning
name: Zhu, Muyuan
name: Bian, Hongwu
name: Li, Chengdao
name: Zeng, Zhanghui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Simplified model of the vitamin E biosynthesis pathway in barley. Table S1. 62 HPT homologous genes in 22 Poales species. Table S2. Amino acid sequence similarity comparison of HvHPT1 and HvHPT2 with other monocot HPTs. Table S3. Genotyping results of HPT2 in 113 bread wheat accessions. Table S4. The content of tocochromanol isomers in T1 leaves and T2 grains of transgenic lines. Table S5. Conserved elements in the promoter of HvHPT1 and HvHPT2. Table S6. Primers for sequence amplification and genotyping.
State Estimation for the Individual and the Population in Mean Field Control with Application to Demand Dispatch
Creators: name: Chen, Yue
name: Bušić, Ana
name: Meyn, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E20, 62M05, 93E10, 68W15

description: This paper concerns state estimation problems in a mean field control setting. In a finite population model, the goal is to estimate the joint distribution of the population state and the state of a typical individual. The observation equations are a noisy measurement of the population. The general results are applied to demand dispatch for regulation of the power grid, based on randomized local control algorithms. In prior work by the authors it has been shown that local control can be carefully designed so that the aggregate of loads behaves as a controllable resource with accuracy matching or exceeding traditional sources of frequency regulation. The operational cost is nearly zero in many cases. The information exchange between grid and load is minimal, but it is assumed in the overall control architecture that the aggregate power consumption of loads is available to the grid operator. It is shown that the Kalman filter can be constructed to reduce these communication requirements,
description: To appear, IEEE Trans. Auto. Control. Preliminary version appeared in the 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015
Interactions Among Techniques Addressing Quality Attributes
Creators: name: Hernan R. Eguiluz
name: Barbacci, Mario
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is very little published work on how techniques that promote different architectural qualities interact with each other. When developing a software system, software architects need to understand the relationships among these techniques. For example, if a system is compromised, architects must consider questions such as whether it makes sense to apply damage confinement to achieve dependability, while at the same time shutting down components to promote security. To help answer such questions, this report provides matrices in which various techniques for promoting different architectural qualities are analyzed relative to each other. Four architectural qualities were analyzed: performance, security, modifiability, and dependability. The techniques that promote each one were selected and categorized as promotion, detection, or correction. For each category, matrices are presented that provide a detailed description of why a particular interaction is positive, negative, or neutral, or cannot be determined without assessing a concrete system.
Glow-in-the-dark globular clusters: modelling their multiwavelength lanterns
Creators: name: Venter, C.
name: Buesching, I.
name: Kopp, A.
name: Clapson, A. -C.
name: de Jager, O. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Globular clusters (GCs) are astronomical tapestries embroidered with an abundance of exotic stellar-type objects. Their high age promises a rich harvest of evolved stellar products, while the deep potential wells and high mass densities at their centres probably facilitate the formation of multiple-member stellar systems via increased stellar encounter rates. The ubiquity of low-mass X-ray binaries, thought to be the progenitors of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), explain the large number of observed GC radio pulsars and X-ray counterparts. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) recently unveiled the first gamma-ray GC pulsar (PSR J1823-3021A). The first observations of GCs in the GeV and TeV bands furthermore created much excitement, and in view of the above, it seems natural to explain these high-energy lanterns by investigating an MSP origin. An MSP population is expected to radiate several pulsed spectral components in the radio through gamma-ray wavebands, in addition to being sources of relativistic particles. The latter may interact with background photons in the clusters producing TeV excesses, while they may also radiate synchrotron photons as they traverse the cluster magnetic field. We present multiwavelength modelling results for Terzan 5. We also briefly discuss some alternative interpretations for the observed GC gamma-ray signals.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of SAIP2012
Introduction to the Security Engineering Risk Analysis (SERA) Framework
Creators: name: Alberts, Christopher J
name: Woody, Carol
name: Dorofee, Audrey J.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software is a growing component of modern business- and mission-critical systems. As organizations become more dependent on software, security-related risks to their organizational missions are also increasing. Traditional security-engineering approaches rely on addressing security risks during the operation and maintenance of software-reliant systems. However, the costs required to control security risks increase significantly when organizations wait until systems are deployed to address those risks. It is more cost effective to address software security risks as early in the lifecycle as possible. As a result, researchers from the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) have started investigating early lifecycle security risk analysis (i.e., during requirements, architecture, and design). This report introduces the Security Engineering Risk Analysis (SERA) Framework, a model-based approach for analyzing complex security risks in software-reliant systems and systems of systems early in the lifecycle. The framework integrates system and software engineering with operational security by requiring engineers to analyze operational security risks as software-reliant systems are acquired and developed. Initial research activities have focused on specifying security requirements for these systems. This report describes the SERA Framework and provides examples of pilot results.
Monstrous M-theory
Creators: name: Marrani, Alessio
name: Rios, Michael
name: Chester, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In $26+1$ space-time dimensions, we introduce a gravity theory whose massless spectrum can be acted upon by the Monster group when reduced to $25+1$ dimensions. This theory generalizes M-theory in many respects and we name it Monstrous M-theory, or M$^{2}$-theory. Upon Kaluza-Klein reduction to $25+1$ dimensions, the M$^{2}$-theory spectrum irreducibly splits as $\mathbf{1}\oplus\mathbf{196,883}$, where $\mathbf{1}$ is identified with the dilaton, and $\mathbf{196,883}$ is the dimension of the smallest non-trivial representation of the Monster. This provides a field theory explanation of the lowest instance of the Monstrous Moonshine, and it clarifies the definition of the Monster as the automorphism group of the Griess algebra, by showing that such an algebra is not merely a sum of unrelated spaces, but descends from massless states for M$^{2}$-theory, which includes Horowitz and Susskind's bosonic M-theory as a subsector. Further evidence is provided by the decomposition of the coefficients of the partition function of Witten's extremal Monster SCFT in terms of representations of $SO_{24}$, the massless little group in $25+1$; the purely bosonic nature of the involved $SO_{24}$-representations may be traced back to the unique feature of $24$ dimensions, which allow for a non-trivial generalization of the triality holding in $8$ dimensions. Last but not least, a certain subsector of M$^{2}$-theory, when coupled to a Rarita-Schwinger massless field in $26+1$, exhibits the same number of bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom; we cannot help but conjecture the existence of a would-be $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity theory in $26+1$ space-time dimensions.
description: 20 pages, 0 figures; v2 : 30 pages, 0 figures, Abstract updated, Secs. II and VII added, Sec. VIII expanded, Refs. added
Indexing arbitrary-length $k$-mers in sequencing reads
Creators: name: Kowalski, Tomasz
name: Grabowski, Szymon
name: Deorowicz, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We propose a lightweight data structure for indexing and querying collections of NGS reads data in main memory. The data structure supports the interface proposed in the pioneering work by Philippe et al. for counting and locating $k$-mers in sequencing reads. Our solution, PgSA (pseudogenome suffix array), based on finding overlapping reads, is competitive to the existing algorithms in the space use, query times, or both. The main applications of our index include variant calling, error correction and analysis of reads from RNA-seq experiments.
Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic (MAID) Evaluation Criteria, Version 1.0
Creators: name: Software Engineering Measurement And Analysis (SEMA) Group
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is developing the Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic (MAID) method. MAID is a criterion-based evaluation method that facilitates the examination and evaluation of data quality issues linked to how the organization implements measurement and analysis practices.

This document presents the set of criteria used during a MAID evaluation. The criteria serve as a checklist for an evaluator to use to rate the quality of an organization's measurement and analysis practices and the quality of the measurement information that results from the implementation of those practices.

The evaluation itself is carried out by a team following the MAID method. The MAID method is described briefly in this document. A full description of the method will be published in a separate document in 2010.
Measures for Managing Operational Resilience
Creators: name: Allen, Julia H.
name: Curtis, Pamela D.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: How resilient is my organization? Have our processes made us more resilient? Members of the CERT Resilient Enterprise Management (REM) team are conducting research to address these and other related questions. The team's first report, Measuring Operational Resilience Using the CERT Resilience Management Model, defined high-level objectives for managing an operational resilience management (ORM) system, demonstrated how to derive meaningful measures from those objectives, and presented a template for defining resilience measures, along with example measures. In this report, REM team members suggest a set of top ten strategic measures for managing operational resilience. These measures derive from high-level objectives of the ORM system defined in the CERT Resilience Management Model, Version 1.1 (CERT-RMM). The report also provides measures for each of the 26 process areas of CERT-RMM, as well as a set of global measures that apply to all process areas. This report thus serves as an addendum to CERT-RMM Version 1.1. Since CERT-RMM practices map to bodies of knowledge and codes of practice such as ITIL, COBIT, ISO2700x, BS25999, and PCI DSS, the measures may be useful for measuring security, business continuity, and IT operations management processes, either as part of adoption of CERT-RMM or independent of it.
Geometry of planar surfaces and exceptional fillings
Creators: name: Hoffman, Neil R.
name: Purcell, Jessica S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50, 57M27

description: If a hyperbolic 3-manifold admits an exceptional Dehn filling, then the length of the slope of that Dehn filling is known to be at most six. However, the bound of six appears to be sharp only in the toroidal case. In this paper, we investigate slope lengths of other exceptional fillings. We construct hyperbolic 3-manifolds that have the longest known slopes for reducible fillings. As an intermediate step, we show that the problem of finding the longest such slope is equivalent to a problem on the maximal density horoball packings of planar surfaces, which should be of independent interest. We also discuss lengths of slopes of other exceptional Dehn fillings, and prove that six is not realized by a slope corresponding to a small Seifert fibered space filling.
description: 18 page, 5 figures, 1 table. V3: Changes to section 2: Theorem 2.1 and its proof have been modified to correct an issue with the previous version. Additional minor changes to exposition. V4: Changes to section 2 to avoid coverings. Proof of Theorem 2.6 is now more direct. Additional wording changes
Learning in proteinoids. Supplementary materials. from Learning in ensembles of proteinoid microspheres
Creators: name: Mougkogiannis, Panagiotis
name: Adamatzky, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Biology

description: Proteinoids are thermal proteins which form microspheres in water in the presence of salt. Ensembles of proteinoid microspheres exhibit passive nonlinear electrical properties and active neuron-like spiking of electrical potential. We propose that various neuromorphic computing architectures can be prototyped from the proteinoid microspheres. A key feature of a neuromorphic system is a learning. Through the use of optical and resistance measurements, we study mechanisms of learning in ensembles of proteinoid microspheres. We analyse 16 types of proteinoids study their intrinsic morphology and electrical properties. We demonstrate that proteinoids can learn, memorize and habituate, making them a promising candidate for novel computing.
Riposte: An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users
Creators: name: Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry
name: Boneh, Dan
name: Mazières, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents Riposte, a new system for anonymous broadcast messaging. Riposte is the first such system, to our knowledge, that simultaneously protects against traffic-analysis attacks, prevents anonymous denial-of-service by malicious clients, and scales to million-user anonymity sets. To achieve these properties, Riposte makes novel use of techniques used in systems for private information retrieval and secure multi-party computation. For latency-tolerant workloads with many more readers than writers (e.g. Twitter, Wikileaks), we demonstrate that a three-server Riposte cluster can build an anonymity set of 2,895,216 users in 32 hours.
description: This is an extended and corrected version of a paper published at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015 ("Oakland 2015")
Introduction to the Serpent User Interface Management System
Creators: name: Bass, Len
name: Hardy, Erik
name: Hoyt, Kurt
name: M. Reed Little
name: Seacord, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Serpent is an example of the class of systems known as a User Interface Management System. It uses the X Window System to interact with the end user, and is useful both as a portion of a production system and as a separate prototyping tool. Serpent supports the development and execution of the user interface of a system. It provides an editor with which to specify the user interface and a runtime system that communicates with the application to get the data to display. The system then uses the specification previously output from the editor to decide how to display that data. This report provides a technical overview of Serpent, its components, the module used in specifying the user interface, and the editor used in constructing the user interface.
Machine learning classification of non-Markovian noise disturbing quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Martina, Stefano
name: Gherardini, Stefano
name: Caruso, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper machine learning and artificial neural network models are proposed for the classification of external noise sources affecting a given quantum dynamics. For this purpose, we train and then validate support vector machine, multi-layer perceptron and recurrent neural network models with different complexity and accuracy, to solve supervised binary classification problems. As a result, we demonstrate the high efficacy of such tools in classifying noisy quantum dynamics using simulated data sets from different realizations of the quantum system dynamics. In addition, we show that for a successful classification one just needs to measure, in a sequence of discrete time instants, the probabilities that the analysed quantum system is in one of the allowed positions or energy configurations. Albeit the training of machine learning models is here performed on synthetic data, our approach is expected to find application in experimental schemes, as e.g. for the noise benchmarking of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables; v3: Changed title and improved presentation of the results
Development of a Vertex Finding Algorithm using Recurrent Neural Network
Creators: name: Goto, Kiichi
name: Suehara, Taikan
name: Yoshioka, Tamaki
name: Kurata, Masakazu
name: Nagahara, Hajime
name: Nakashima, Yuta
name: Takemura, Noriko
name: Iwasaki, Masako
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning is a rapidly-evolving technology with possibility to significantly improve physics reach of collider experiments. In this study we developed a novel algorithm of vertex finding for future lepton colliders such as the International Linear Collider. We deploy two networks; one is simple fully-connected layers to look for vertex seeds from track pairs, and the other is a customized Recurrent Neural Network with an attention mechanism and an encoder-decoder structure to associate tracks to the vertex seeds. The performance of the vertex finder is compared with the standard ILC reconstruction algorithm.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Lecture Notes on Software Process Improvement
Creators: name: Werth, Laurie
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software process improvement is not usually covered in standard software engineering textbooks. However, because it is a topic of great interest to the software industry, both faculty and students should be familiar with it. The goal of this package is to provide the basis for an introductory 30 to 60 minute lecture on the software process and its improvement.
Average Lorentz Self-Force From Electric Field Lines
Creators: name: Aashish, Sandeep
name: Haque, Asrarul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the derivation of electromagnetic fields of a charged particle moving with a constant acceleration [1] to a variable acceleration (piecewise constants) over a small finite time interval using Coulomb's law, relativistic transformations of electromagnetic fields and Thomson's construction [2]. We derive the average Lorentz self-force for a charged particle in arbitrary non-relativistic motion via averaging the fields at retarded time.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
title: ‘The Gael Will Come Again’: Reconstruction of a Gaelic world in the work of Neil M. Gunn and Hugh MacDiarmid
Creators: name: Paterson, Fiona E.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hugh MacDiarmid, Neil Gunn, scottish literature, gaelic, scottish renaissance, poetry, modernism, celtic twilight, highlands, culture.

description: Neil Gunn and Hugh MacDiarmid are popularly linked with regards to the Scottish Literary Renaissance, the nation’s contribution to international modernism, in which they were integral figures. Beyond that, they are broadly considered to have followed different creative paths, Gunn deemed the ‘Highland novelist’ and MacDiarmid the extremist political poet. This thesis presents the argument that whilst their methods and priorities often differed dramatically, the reconstruction of a Gaelic world - the ‘Gaelic Idea’ - was a focus in which the writers shared a similar degree of commitment and similar priorities. Both writers tackled the question of Scottish identity on a local and national level. An integral feature of this task was the issue of reclaiming Gaelic identity in a manner which was suitable for modernity and yet respectfully preserved its ancient and classical values. The term ‘Gaelic’, applied to the collective identity of the Highlands and Islands, is defined not only by the historic and continued use of the Gaelic language but by the region’s distinct social and economic structures, relationship with nature, and cultural heritage. This is summed up in the word ‘dùthchas’, a concept coined by Gaelic scholars and one to which this thesis will return. Gunn and MacDiarmid’s focus on Gaeldom in the 1920s and 30s followed the romanticisation of the Gael in the Celtic Twilight and precedes the Gaelic Renaissance of the 1960s and 70s, their work therefore acting as an integral stepping stone in the revitalization of Scotland’s Gaelic culture and its representation in literature in the twentieth century. Taking into consideration the themes considered most important by Gunn and MacDiarmid to the Gaelic experience, the thesis conducts a thorough overview of their treatment of the Gaelic world. Chapter One’s focus is on ‘people’ – the construction of individual, community and regional identity – Chapter Two on ‘land’ – its symbolism in the texts, the materialist economics it stands for, and the specific place of the archipelago within the Gaelic world – and Chapter Three on ‘culture’ – including reclamation of traditional or ‘lost’ cultures in the form of language, literature and music. Although the focus is primarily on close analysis of their creative work in the 1930s, relevant non-fiction has been included in the investigation so as to provide biographical evidence of the expansion of their consciousness of and involvement in this world, the reality which compliments their constructions.
Sublinear-Time Decremental Algorithms for Single-Source Reachability and Shortest Paths on Directed Graphs
Creators: name: Henzinger, Monika
name: Krinninger, Sebastian
name: Nanongkai, Danupon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider dynamic algorithms for maintaining Single-Source Reachability (SSR) and approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) on $n$-node $m$-edge directed graphs under edge deletions (decremental algorithms). The previous fastest algorithm for SSR and SSSP goes back three decades to Even and Shiloach [JACM 1981]; it has $ O(1) $ query time and $ O (mn) $ total update time (i.e., linear amortized update time if all edges are deleted). This algorithm serves as a building block for several other dynamic algorithms. The question whether its total update time can be improved is a major, long standing, open problem. In this paper, we answer this question affirmatively. We obtain a randomized algorithm with an expected total update time of $ O(\min (m^{7/6} n^{2/3 + o(1)}, m^{3/4} n^{5/4 + o(1)}) ) = O (m n^{9/10 + o(1)}) $ for SSR and $(1+ε)$-approximate SSSP if the edge weights are integers from $ 1 $ to $ W \leq 2^{\log^c{n}} $ and $ ε\geq 1 / \log^c{n} $ for some constant $ c $. We also extend our algorithm to achieve roughly the same running time for Strongly Connected Components (SCC), improving the algorithm of Roditty and Zwick [FOCS 2002]. Our algorithm is most efficient for sparse and dense graphs. When $ m = Θ(n) $ its running time is $ O (n^{1 + 5/6 + o(1)}) $ and when $ m = Θ(n^2) $ its running time is $ O (n^{2 + 3/4 + o(1)}) $. For SSR we also obtain an algorithm that is faster for dense graphs and has a total update time of $ O ( m^{2/3} n^{4/3 + o(1)} + m^{3/7} n^{12/7 + o(1)}) $ which is $ O (n^{2 + 2/3}) $ when $ m = Θ(n^2) $. All our algorithms have constant query time in the worst case and are correct with high probability against an oblivious adversary.
description: Preliminary versions of this paper were presented at the 46th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2014) and the 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2015)
Lessons Learned Applying Commercial Off-the-Shelf Products
Creators: name: Brownsword, Lisa
name: Place, Patrick R.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While the lure of easy system construction from pre-existing building blocks that snap into place is appealing, current reality reveals a less than ideal picture, particularly for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components. Examining the similarities and differences of organizations that have applied COTS and the successes and failures of those organizations has enabled the COTS-Based Systems (CBS) Initiative at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to identify a number of significant capabilities that an organization must have to succeed with a COTS-based approach. This case study of the Manufacturing Resource Planning II program is part of a series of case studies that seek to identify important acquisition, business, and engineering issues surrounding the use of COTS-based systems and thus derive available solutions, where possible.
Lessons Learned from a Large, Multi-Segment, Software-Intensive System
Creators: name: Foreman, John T.
name: Lapham, Mary Ann
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The SEI supported a large, multi-segment, software-intensive system program for six years. During this time, the SEI team observed technical, organizational, and management situations that affected the overall execution of the program. This paper records some of the observations and describes suggested (and, in some cases, implemented) solutions—for both historical purposes and for their potential benefit to future programs.
Orientals as free weak $ω$-categories
Creators: name: Maehara, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18N30, 18N40, 18N50, 18N65

description: The orientals are the free strict $ω$-categories on the simplices introduced by Street. The aim of this paper is to show that they are also the free weak $ω$-categories on the same generating data. More precisely, we exhibit the Street nerves of the orientals as fibrant replacements of the simplices in Verity's model structure for complicial sets.
description: v2: 24 pages. Major revision. Published version
D5.7 First tools for MIE prediction integrated into NanoCommons KnowledgeBase
Creators: name: Zhernovkov
name: Kholodenko
name: Lobaskin
name: Himly
name: Lynch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: NanoCommons
Deliverable
Molecular Initiating Events
Predictive tool
Knowledge base integration

description: In this document, we describe a tool for prediction of molecular Initiating events (MIE) which are the first step in the adverse outcome pathway (AOP) representation of toxicity induced by chemicals including nanomaterials. The tool, which was developed based on extensive research to define AOPs undertaken within the SmartNanoTox project, identifies three MIEs: MIE1. Disruption of lung surfactant functionality MIE2. Lysosomal destabilization MIE3. Oxidation of cell membrane