cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
การวิเคราะห์จัดกลุ่มบริษัทรับสร้างบ้านตามการจัดสรรทรัพยากรการเงิน
Creators: name: นที สุริยานนท์
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: บริษัทรับสร้างบ้าน
การจัดสรรทรัพยากรทางการเงิน
การวิเคราะห์จัดกลุ่ม

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 17, 2, 129-140
Spectral properties of a 2D scalar wave equation with 1D-periodic coefficients: application to SH elastic waves
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
name: Kutsenko, A. A.
name: Shuvalov, A. L.
name: Poncelet, O.
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2013
Subjects: 1D periodic medium
Monodromy matrix
Multiplicative integral
Floquet spectrum
Elastic Waves

description: The paper provides a rigorous analysis of the dispersion spectrum of SH (shear horizontal) elastic waves in periodically stratified solids. The problem consists of an ordinary differential wave equation with periodic coefficients, which involves two free parameters w (the frequency) and k (the wavenumber in the direction orthogonal to the axis of periodicity). Solutions of this equation satisfy a quasi-periodic boundary condition which yields the Floquet parameter K. The resulting dispersion surface w(K; k) may be characterized through its cuts at constant values of K; k and w that define the passband (real K) and stopband areas, the Floquet branches and the isofrequency curves, respectively. The paper combines complementary approaches based on eigenvalue problems and on the monodromy matrix M. The pivotal object is the Lyapunov function which is generalized as a function of two variables. Its analytical properties, asymptotics and bounds are examined and an explicit form of its derivatives obtained. Attention is given to the special case of a zero-width stopband. These ingredients are used to analyze the cuts of the surface w(K; k): The derivatives of the functions w(k) at fixed K and w(K) at fixed k and of the function K(k) at fixed w are described in detail. The curves w(k) at fixed K are shown to be monotonic for real K; while they may be looped for complex K (i.e. in the stopband areas). The convexity of the closed (first) real isofrequency curve K(k) is proved thus ruling out low-frequency caustics of group velocity. The results are relevant to the broad area of applicability of ordinary differential equation for scalar waves in 1D phononic (solid or fluid) and photonic crystals.
Thematic Analysis Results (Research Paper Appendix)
Creators: name: Kemell, Kai-Kristian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering

description: This document contains the thematic analysis results for a research paper on the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) by software organizations. In the interest of space and brevity in the paper itself, this was made into an external resource instead of being directly included in the paper as an appendix. Thus, the full list of themes, subthemes, and codes resulting from the thematic analysis conducted as a part of the study are found in the tables found in this document. More information is available in the research paper itself, a link to which will be added here later once the paper is published.This document does not contain the full interview transcripts the analysis is based on. It simply contains the results of the thematic analysis (codes, subthemes, themes).
General paper details
Title: Still Just Personal Assistants? – A Multiple Case Study of Generative AI Adoption in Software Organizations
Authors: Kai-Kristian Kemell, Matti Saarikallio, Anh Nguyen-Duc, and Pekka Abrahamsson
How to analyze work productivity loss due to health problems in randomized controlled trials? A simulation study
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei (Health Economist)
name: Sun, Huiying
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background An increasing number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have measured the impact of interventions on work productivity loss. Productivity loss outcome is inflated at zero and max loss values. Our study was to compare the performance of five commonly used methods in analysis of productivity loss outcomes in RCTs. Methods We conducted a simulation study to compare Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Negative Binominal (NB), two-part models (the non-zero part following truncated NB distribution or gamma distribution) and three-part model (the middle part between zero and max values following Beta distribution). The main number of observations each arm, Nobs, that we considered were 50, 100 and 200. Baseline productivity loss was included as a covariate. Results All models performed similarly well when baseline productivity loss was set at the mean value. When baseline productivity loss was set at other values and Nobs = 50 with ≤5 subjects having max loss, two-part models performed best if the proportion of zero loss> 50% in at least one arm and otherwise, OLS performed best. When Nobs = 100 or 200, the three-part model performed best if the two arms had equal scale parameters for their productivity loss outcome distributions between zero and max values. Conclusions Our findings suggest that when treatment effect at any given values of one single covariate is of interest, the model selection depends on the sample size, the proportions of zero loss and max loss, and the scale parameter for the productivity loss outcome distribution between zero and max loss in each arm of RCTs.
The Rutgers University department(s) of economics - 1843-2022
Creators: name: Sheflin, Neil
Publisher: name: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics

description: Economics as a discipline at Rutgers began more than a century and a half ago, with the offering of the first course in Political Economy in 1843. Since then, the department emerged as a separate entity, expanded, and prospered. It has been shaped by its faculty, staff, and students, who have impacted the discipline, the University, and the world.
description: This history draws heavily on, condenses, and often quotes without attribution from, the earlier histories of Agger (1961), Alexander (1974) and Taussig (1995), as well as from old issues of the Departmental Newsletter, the memories of current and former chairs, faculty, students, and staff, and other resources – some noted at the bottom of the document. This version compresses and summarize the earlier works, puts faces to the names through the inclusion of pictures for many, and extends coverage thru 2020. It lacks the detailed statistical compilations of Dr. Agger, the detail and prose of Alexander, and the sharp wit and brilliant writing of Mike Taussig.
Effect of copper addition and solution heat treatment on the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy using formulated bio-quenchant oils
Creators: name: Adekunle AS
name: Adeleke AA
name: Ikubanni PP
name: Omoniyi PO
name: Gbadamosi TA
name: Odusote JK
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bio-quenchants
Cooling rate
Quench severity
Mechanical properties
Microstructure

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 47, 3, 297-305
Identifying misinformation on Twitter with a support vector machine
Creators: name: Supanya Aphiwongsophon
name: Prabhas Chongstitvatana
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Misinformation
Identifying misinformation
Online social network
Support vector machine

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 47, 3, 306-312
"Innovation Shift" To the Emerging Economies: Cases From IT and Heavy Industries
Creators: name: Salzman, Hal
name: Lynn, Leonard
Publisher: name: Sloan Industry Studies
Year: 2007
Subjects: International business enterprises
Developing countries
Technology
Information Technology

description: The current shift of technology development work by multinationals to the emerging economies is distinctive, as many are now observing, though less understood are the implications for innovative capacity and location. It is now high-end (rather than adaptive) development that is being carried out in countries like India, China, Brazil and Mexico. And, increasingly, multinationals from the U.S., Japan and Europe are finding themselves competing against, or working with, new technology-based companies from the emerging economies. Our study focuses on the processes and outcomes of globally distributed engineering. Field work was carried out at 67 engineering headquarters or development sites in eight countries. The firms in our study were in IT and a range of other industries, though in this paper we concentrate on the IT and heavy industries sectors. Based on our fieldwork we conclude that this new shift in the location of technology work at the top of the value chain is not only distinctive, but it is also disjunctive, not following past trajectories of offshoring. We also find that it is occurring as a matter of incremental value chain creep, rather than being guided by “strategy.” We believe current trends are inconsistent with some widely accepted postulates and prescriptions of organization and innovation theory. We find that the consequences of these trends have not been well conceptualized by managers and policy-makers.
ระบบเชิงพื้นที่และรายละเอียดโครงการศูนย์ประชุมเพื่อรองรับอุตสาหกรรมไมซ์ (MICE) ในระดับกลุ่มเมืองจุดหมายปลายทางระดับสองของภูมิภาคเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้
Creators: name: ศิวาพร กลิ่นมาลัย
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: ศูนย์ประชุม
อุตสาหกรรมไมซ์
ระบบเชิงพื้นที่
การวางผังพื้นที่
การจัดทําารายละเอียดโครงการ
กลุ่มเมืองจุดหมายปลายทางระดับสอง
เมืองไมซ์

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 17, 2, 207-222
Prevalence and correlates of intentional substance use to reduce illicit opioid use in a Canadian setting
Creators: name: Klimas, Jan
name: Mok, Wing Yin
name: Lake, Stephanie L.
name: Socias, M. Eugenia
name: DeBeck, Kora
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Wood, Evan
name: Milloy, M-J
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022

description: Background. While preliminary evidence has begun to document intentional use of one substance to reduce the use of another, the phenomenon of drug substitution among people who use illicit opioids remains understudied. Therefore, we sought to estimate the prevalence and correlates of intentional substance use to reduce illicit opioid use among persons who use drugs (PWUD). Methods. We analysed data from three prospective cohorts of PWUD in Vancouver, Canada, using multivariable generalized estimating equations (GEE). Results. Between June 2012 and June 2016, 1527 participants were recruited and contributed 4991 interviews. Of those, 336 (22%) illicit opioid-using participants self-reported substitution to reduce illicit opioid use at least once during study period contributing 467 (9.4%) interviews. Among those interviews, substances substituted for opioids were alcohol (15 participants, 3.2%), stimulants (235, 50.3%), cannabis (129, 27.6%), benzodiazepines (21, 4.5%), and others (20, 4.3%). In multivariable GEE model adjusted for socio-demographic factors, reporting substitution to reduce illicit opioid use was positively associated with greater likelihood of daily cannabis use (Adjusted Odds Ratio = 1.56, 95% Confidence Interval: 1.24–1.96]. Conclusions. While daily cannabis use was associated with reporting opioid substitution attempts, additional study is needed to examine potential of cannabis/cannabinoids to reduce illicit opioid use.
PhD completion: An evidence-based guide for students, supervisors and universities
Creators: name: Bednall, Timothy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many students enrol in a Master or PhD postgraduate research degree, but few complete them. From 2010-2016, 437,030 domestic and international students enrolled in postgraduate research programs in Australian public universities. Only 65,101 completed within the same six year period. This discrepancy does not necessarily mean postgraduate research students “failed” their degree. Common reasons not completing a degree include changes of career goals, work-family conflicts, poor health or financial strain. Alternatively, some students remain enrolled in their degree for long periods without making significant progress. Even so, the discrepancy is large enough for universities to be concerned. Nobody wants a student to suffer through years of hard work and frustration without achieving their goal.
PlanetP: Infrastructure Support for P2P Information Sharing
Creators: name: Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Francisco
name: Peery, Christopher
name: Nguyen, Thu
name: Martin, Richard P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001

description: Storage technology trends are providing massive storage in extremely small packages while declining computing costs are resulting in a rising number of devices per person. The confluence of these trends are presenting a new, critical challenge to storage and file system designers: how to enable users to effectively manage, use, and share huge amounts of data stored across a multitude of devices. In this paper, we present a novel middleware storage system, PlanetP, which is designed from first principles as a peer-to-peer (P2P), semantically indexed storage layer. PlanetP makes two novel design choices to meet the above challenge. First, PlanetP concentrates on content-based querying for information retrieval and assumes that the unit of storage is a snippet of XML, allowing it to index arbitrary data for search and retrieval, regardless of the applications used to create and manipulate the data. Second, PlanetP adopts a P2P approach, avoiding centralization of storage and indexing. This makes PlanetP particularly suitable for information sharing among ad hoc groups of users, each of which may have to manage data distributed across multiple devices. PlanetP is targeted for groups of up to 1000 users; results from studying communities of 100-200 peers running on a cluster of PCs indicates that PlanetP should scale well to the 1000-member threshold. Finally, we describe BreezeFS, a semantic file system that we have implemented to validate PlanetP’s utility.
title: Projected changes in persistent extreme summer weather events
title: the role of quasi-resonant amplification
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mann, Michael E.
name: Rahmstorf, Stefan
name: Kornhuber, Kai
name: Steinman, Byron A.
name: Miller, Sonya K.
name: Petri, Stefan
name: Coumou, Dim
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Persistent episodes of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere summer have been associated with high-amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves, with zonal wave numbers 6 to 8 resulting from the phenomenon of quasi-resonant amplification (QRA). A fingerprint for the occurrence of QRA can be defined in terms of the zonally averaged surface temperature field. Examining state-of-the-art [Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5)] climate model projections, we find that QRA events are likely to increase by similar to 50% this century under business-as-usual carbon emissions, but there is considerable variation among climate models. Some predict a near tripling of QRA events by the end of the century, while others predict a potential decrease. Models with amplified Arctic warming yield the most pronounced increase in QRA events. The projections are strongly dependent on assumptions regarding the nature of changes in radiative forcing associated with anthropogenic aerosols over the next century. One implication of our findings is that a reduction in midlatitude aerosol loading could actually lead to Arctic de-amplification this century, ameliorating potential increases in persistent extreme weather events.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 994
The resistance of cortical bone tissue to failure under cyclic loading is reduced with alendronate
Creators: name: Geissler, Joseph R.
name: Bajaj, Devendra
name: Allen, Matthew R.
name: Burr, David B.
name: Fritton, J. Christopher
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2015
Subjects: Antiresorptives
Atypical fracture
Fractures
Bone remodeling
Osteocytes
Osteoporosis

description: Bisphosphonates are the most prescribed preventative treatment for osteoporosis. However, their long-term use has recently been associated with atypical fractures of cortical bone in patients who present with low-energy induced breaks of unclear pathophysiology. The effects of bisphosphonates on the mechanical properties of cortical bone have been exclusively studied under simple, monotonic, quasi-static loading. This study examined the cyclic fatigue properties of bisphosphonate-treated cortical bone at a level in which tissue damage initiates and is accumulated prior to frank fracture in low-energy situations. Physiologically relevant, dynamic, 4-point bending applied to beams (1.5 mm × 0.5 mm × 10 mm) machined from dog rib (n=12/group) demonstrated mechanical failure and micro-architectural features that were dependent on drug dose (3 groups: 0, 0.2, 1.0mg/kg/day; alendronate [ALN] for 3 years) with cortical bone tissue elastic modulus (initial cycles of loading) reduced by 21% (p<0.001) and fatigue life (number of cycles to failure) reduced in a stress-life approach by greater than 3-fold with ALN1.0 (p<0.05). While not affecting the number of osteons, ALN treatment reduced other features associated with bone remodeling, such as the size of osteons (-14%; ALN1.0: 10.5±1.8, VEH: 12.2±1.6, ×10(3) μm2; p<0.01) and the density of osteocyte lacunae (-20%; ALN1.0: 11.4±3.3, VEH: 14.3±3.6, ×10(2) #/mm2; p<0.05). Furthermore, the osteocyte lacunar density was directly proportional to initial elastic modulus when the groups were pooled (R=0.54, p<0.01). These findings suggest that the structural components normally contributing to healthy cortical bone tissue are altered by high-dose ALN treatment and contribute to reduced mechanical properties under cyclic loading conditions.
Abstraction and Decomposition in Hillclimbing Design Optimization
Creators: name: Ellman, Thomas
name: Schwabacher, Mark
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: The performance of hillclimbing design optimization can be improved by abstraction and decomposition of the design space. Methods for automatically finding and exploiting such abstractions and decompositions are presented in this paper. A technique called Operator Importance Analysis" finds useful abstractions. It does so by determining which of a given set of operators are the most important for a given class of design problems. Hillclimbing search runs faster when performed using this smaller set of operators. A technique called Operator Interaction Analysis" finds useful decompositions. It does so by measuring the pairwise interaction between operators. It uses such measurements to form an ordered partition of the operator set. This partition can then be used in a hierarchic" hillclimbing algorithm which runs faster than ordinary hillclimbing with an unstructured operator set. We have implemented both techniques and tested them in the domain of racing yacht hull design. Our experimental results show that these two methods can produce substantial speedups with little or no loss in quality of the resulting designs.
Book Review:Happy City เปลี่ยนโฉมชีวิตด้วยการออกแบบเมือง(Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design)
Creators: name: Santirak Prasertsuk
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Book Review:Happy City เปลี่ยนโฉมชีวิตด้วยการออกแบบเมือง(Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design)

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 17, 2, 223-226
Incomplete role exit and the alimony reform movement
Creators: name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Alimony
Family policy

description: This analysis explores men’s role exit process from being married to divorced in the context of the alimony reform movement in the United States. Those considering potential role exit may face governmental policies that either support or oppose them in making these personal changes. In this case, mostly men want to leave their husband roles behind but legally-imposed alimony, in their view, unfairly binds them to their former spouses. This analysis uses 182 narratives to map out how major collective action frames—based upon the highly valued, masculine concept of autonomy—are generated in this social movement. Overall, this research demonstrates the importance of both considering the operation of governmental policies in producing successful or incomplete role exit for individuals, and how these same individuals can respond using collective action frames drawn from privileged notions of masculinity as they aim for significant life change.
Exploring the antimicrobial potential of Myxobacteria
Creators: name: Arakal, Benita S.
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320799
subject: Medical microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Myxobacteria, with their intricate life cycles and potent antimicrobial properties, are showing great promise as alternatives to traditional antibiotics. This study focuses on their potential as therapeutic agents by isolating them from soil, characterisation, antimicrobial activity and biocompatibility. As antibiotic resistance increases, myxobacteria provide a promising solution with their diverse antimicrobial compounds and predatory behaviour, which can inhibit bacterial growth and biofilm formation.
This study isolated and characterized myxobacteria from soil samples in South Wales, identifying 18 Myxococcus and 14 Corallococcus strains through 16S rRNA sequencing. These strains exhibited potent antimicrobial activity by preying on pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Citrobacter freundii, demonstrating their predatory potential. Further evaluation of their predatory activities on prey biofilms by performing biofilm inhibition and biofilm disruption assays confirmed the ability of myxobacterial isolates to prevent biofilm formation and disruption of formed biofilms. These isolates were also shown to effectively reduce bioburden in a mixed-species biofilm using an in vitro continuous wound-flow model, amplifying their activity against bacterial biofilms.
A novel strain, Corallococcus senghenyddensis, was also discovered and exhibited notable antifungal activity against Candida albicans and Candida glabrata.

In vivo biocompatibility testing showed that the myxobacterial isolates displayed low in vitro and in vivo cytotoxicity and minimal inflammatory responses, indicating their potential for safe therapeutics.
MyxoPortal, a specialized genomic database, was also developed to support myxobacterial genomics. This resource revealed the underexplored antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in myxobacteria, with in silico analyses identifying several antibiofilm and antibacterial AMPs. Notable peptides like Coral_AMP411 and Myxo_mac104 showed significant efficacy against E. coli and S. aureus biofilms.
In conclusion, myxobacteria have essential characteristics for alternative therapies, including potent antimicrobial activity, safety, and promising genomic features. Further research should prioritize clinical trials to evaluate myxobacteria-based treatments for chronic infections and wound care.
Additional file 1 of Simulation-based procedure training (SBPT) in rarely performed procedures: a blueprint for theory-informed design considerations
Creators: name: Gent, David
name: Kainth, Ranjev
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Arithmetic circuit classes over Z m
Creators: name: Allender, Eric
name: Goodwillie, Asa
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Complexity Theory
Arithmetic Circuits
Computer Theory

description: We continue the study of the complexity classes VP(Zm) and ΛP(Zm) which was initiated in [AGM15]. We distinguish between " strict " and " lax " versions of these classes and prove some new equalities and inclusions between these arithmetic circuit classes and various subclasses of ACC 1 .
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : rabotage de l'intérieur
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Additional file 1 of Coding joint: kappa-deleting recombination excision circle ratio and B cell activating factor level: predicting juvenile dermatomyositis rituximab response, a proof-of-concept study
Creators: name: Ochfeld, Elisa
name: Hans, Victoria
name: Marin, Wil
name: Ahsan, Najah
name: Morgan, Gabrielle
name: Pachman, Lauren M.
name: Khojah, Amer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Demographic data and CJ:KREC ratio from healthy children.
Development of sustainable geopolymer concrete activated by boron compounds
Creators: name: Bagheri, Ali
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, a new type of eco-friendly construction material so-called boroaluminosilicate geopolymer concrete is developed and investigated. The production of Ordinary Portland Cement emits huge amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and consumes abundant natural resources. However, Geopolymers are newly developed construction materials that not only are less harmful to the environment but also possess competitive characteristics to the conventional concrete. In this thesis, certain industrial by-product, fly ash and iron-making slag for instance, are utilised to develop boroaluminosilicate geopolymer using boron-based activator. The product is more eco-friendly and sustainable.
Static detection of deadlocks in polynomial time
Creators: name: Masticola, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1993

description: Parallel and distributed programming languages often include explicit synchronization primitives, such as rendezvous and semaphores. Such programs are subject to synchronization anomalies; the program behaves incorrectly because it has a faulty synchronization structure. A deadlock is an anomaly in which some subset of the active tasks of the program mutually wait on each other to advance; thus, the program cannot complete execution. In static anomaly detection, the source code of a program is automatically analyzed to determine if the program can ever exhibit a specific anomaly. Static anomaly detection has the unique advantage that it can certify programs to be free of the tested anomaly; dynamic testing cannot generally do this. Though exact static detection of deadlocks is NP-hard [Taylor, 1983], many researchers have tried to detect deadlock by exhaustive enumeration of synchronization states, using Petri nets or other program representations. In practice, programs often have large enough state spaces to render this approach impractical. Our approach, rather, is to make an approximate analysis of the program in time polynomial in the size of the source code. Our approximation is safe: if we certify a program free of deadlock, it will never deadlock. We do this using iterative flow analysis techniques to detect (but not enumerate) "deadlock cycles" in the program's control and synchronization structure. We identify four constraints on deadlock cycles which we use to prune invalid cycles, thus avoiding false alarms. One pruning method uses a "can't happen together" relation between statements; we show how such information can be found, and how it may be of value in other analyses. We have implemented our analysis for the rendezvous synchronization of the Ada language, and have tested it on over 100 programs obtained from government and industrial sources. We demonstrate that our technique is quite accurate compared to exhaustive state generation; few false alarms are seen in practice. Our technique is also well behaved in execution time, running faster than the exhaustive technique for all programs except those with the simplest state spaces. To demonstrate the generality of our methods, we show preliminary algorithms for detecting deadlock in two very different synchronization paradigms: binary semaphores, and the dynamic, pointer-based process control of Concurrent C.
title: The Soft Touch of International Financial Regulation: Status, Flaws and Future
Creators: name: O’Shaughnessy, Niall
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2021

description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 11, no. 1, page 59-87
description: The 2008 global financial crisis focused attention on the relationship between the behaviour of international financial institutions and the rules they follow. Many banks in the US and Europe failed, in part, due to their inability to absorb the fallout of the US mortgage market collapse. If international financial institutions could not protect themselves from the cycles of the market, how come regulators were unable to do so either? The most relevant instrument of international financial regulation for understanding the 2008 crisis is the Basel Accords, the rules that specify how much capital a bank should always hold in reserve. However, these rules are ‘soft law’ and so, non-binding. It is a myth of course that soft law is the only way to regulate international finance, as many scholars argue. Despite numerous rounds of reform, the Basel Accords have always been inadequate. The purpose of this paper is to account for the flaws of the Basel Accords and the role that soft law plays in creating those flaws. This paper also analyses the competing theories behind the rise of soft law within financial regulation and the ‘political economy’ explanation is endorsed. The final section of the paper discusses the future of financial regulation and soft law, as well as highlighting innovations from outside the hard/soft law dichotomy and outside the Global North. This paper concludes by stating that the theory behind soft law does not play out in practice within finance and that it remains in place because it suits the interests of large institutions and powerful states. At the same time, a return to Bretton Woods or a new World Financial Organization is problematic and, as such, we must look beyond the hard/soft law debate and embrace the work of the Global South and East.
Genetic Algorithms with Variant Particle Swarm Optimization Based Mutation for Generic Controller Placement in Software-Defined Networks
Creators: name: Liao, Lingxia
name: Leung, Victor Chung Ming, 1955-
name: Li, Zhi
name: Chao, Han-Chieh
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: To enable learning-based network management and optimization, the 5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology and Internet of Things systems usually involve software-defined networking (SDN) architecture and multiple SDN controllers to efficiently collect the big volume of runtime statistics, define network-wide policies, and enforce the policies over the whole network. To better plan the placement of controllers over SDN systems, this article proposes a generic controller placement problem (GCP) that considers the organization and placement of controllers as well as the switch attachment to optimize the delay between controllers and switches, the delay among controllers, and the load imbalance among controllers. To solve this problem without losing generality, a novel multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) with a mutation based on a variant Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed. This PSO chooses a global best position for a particle according to a pre-computed global best position set to lead the mutation of the particle. It successfully handles multiple conflicting objectives, fits the scenario of mutation, and can apply in many other flavors of MOGAs. Evaluations over 12 real Internet service provider networks show the effectiveness of our MOGA in reducing convergence time and improving the diversity and accuracy of the Pareto frontiers. The proposed approaches in formulating and solving the GCP in this article are general and can be applied in many other optimization problems with minor modifications.
From Theory to Practice in Road Safety Policy: Understanding Risk versus Mobility
Creators: name: Noland, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Transport safety
Risk compensation
Generalized cost
Safety behavior
Safety analysis

description: This paper reviews theoretical issues surrounding transport safety modeling and the implications for road safety policy. The behavioral mechanisms that affect transport safety are typically not considered in safety modeling. These issues are discussed in the context of trade-offs between risk-taking, as perceived by travelers, and other mobility objectives and the attributes associated with them. This is an extension of other theoretical frameworks, such as risk compensation, and attempts to integrate some of the previous frameworks developed over the years. Various examples of behavioral adaptation to specific policies are discussed and linked to the framework. These issues are then discussed in the context of improvements to empirical work in this area and the linkage of theoretical frameworks to crash modeling, in particular the estimation and use of Crash Modification Factors. Conclusions suggest that there are many deficiencies in practice, from estimation of models to choice of effective policies. Progress is being made on the former, while the publication of practical guidance seems to have substantial lags in knowledge.
title: Превентивные методы консервации в Российской национальной библиотеке
Creators: name: Великова, Т. Д.
name: Мамаева, Н. Ю.
name: Хосид, Е. Г.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Представлены превентивные методы консервации документов, используемые в Российской национальной библиотеке: контроль и поддержание светового, температурно-влажностного и санитарно-гигиенического режимов хранения, фазовая консервация документов, инкапсулирование листового материала. Основные мероприятия направлены в первую очередь на профилактику биоповреждений библиотечного фонда.

Ключевые слова: превентивная консервация, библиотека, режим хранения, инкапсулирование.
title: The Evolution of the Prohibition of Genocide: From Natural Law Enthusiasm to Lackadaisical Judicial Perfunctoriness – And Back Again?
Creators: name: Klaus, Julia
Publisher: name: Institute for International and European Law, University of Göttingen
Year: 2021

description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 11, no. 1, page 89-143
description: International legal scholarship and practice have reached a point where it is undisputed that the prohibition of genocide has the status of jus cogens and entails erga omnes obligations. It is, however, astonishing how little academic focus has been dedicated to the normative development leading to this extraordinary rank. In a legal regime with as little hierarchical structure as public international law, examining the birth process of such a norm promises considerable insights into normative formation in general and may inform jurisprudential theories on the nature of international law. This article illustrates the evolution of the prohibition of genocide by outlining the way to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention and the later interpretations of the norm. It traces the origin of the genocide prohibition to naturalistic ideas of overarching laws of humanity in international law and follows its development into the early 21st century. An analysis of international jurisprudence reveals that, after the jus cogens status of the prohibition of genocide and its erga omnes dimension had been settled, international judges handled the norm in a surprisingly lackadaisical and perfunctory manner. The very recent ICJ order on provisional measures in the Myanmar Genocide case potentially marks a return towards a deeper focus on moral facts determining the prohibition that point to naturalistic theories persisting, notwithstanding the positivistic mainstream approaches to international law. The article contributes to a more accurate picture of and greater academic interest in these naturalistic undercurrents.
Unified Structure and Content Search for Personal Information Management Systems
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Marian, Amelie
name: Nguyen, Thu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009

description: The amount of data that users are storing and accessing in personal information systems is growing massively. At the same time, the organization of this data is becoming more heterogeneous, with data spread across different organizational domains such as emails, music databases, and photo albums, some of which are structured by applications rather than users. Powerful search tools are needed to help users locate data in these rapidly expanding yet fragmented data sets. In this paper, we present a novel fuzzy search approach that considers approximate matches to structure and content query conditions. Our approach includes a scoring framework for computing unified relevance scores for potential answers. Critically, our framework uses unified data and query processing models so that structure conditions can be approximately matched by content inside files and vice versa. Our model also unifies external structure (directories) with internal structure (e.g., XML structure), allowing users to specify integrated queries that are matched to a single unified data domain. We propose indexes and algorithms for efficient query processing. Finally, we empirically evaluate our approach using a real data set. We show that our unified fuzzy search approach can leverage structure information to significantly improve search accuracy, yet is robust to mistakes in query conditions.
Additional file 1 of Association between annual change in FEV1 and comorbidities or impulse oscillometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Sugawara, Hiroyuki
name: Saito, Atsushi
name: Yokoyama, Saori
name: Tsunematsu, Kazunori
name: Chiba, Hirofumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file1: Table S1. Odds ratio for COPD patients with and without decline in FEV1 using the logistic regression analysis. *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01. Table S2. Comparison of single- or multiple-inhaler therapy for COPD (single, double or triple therapy) at baseline between groups based on IOS values. *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01 (Pearson's chi-squared test).
User Behavior and Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access in Digital Libraries
Creators: name: Gäde, Maria
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: CLIR
subject: MLIA
subject: user study
subject: Log file analysis
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: While the importance of multilingual access to information systems is undoubted, few truly operational systems exist and can serve as examples. This dissertation addresses the issue of what the user expectations and the consequences for system development are in a multilingual information environment. It starts with a general overview over the aspects of multilingual access in digital libraries. Building on previous experiences, the study focuses on a combination of log file analysis and an usability test on user needs and desired features for multilingual access based on a functional digital library with multilingual requirements (Europeana). I present the Europeana Clickstream Logger, which logs and gathers extended information on user behavior, and show first examples of the data collection possibilities. The outcome of the analysis is a description of user requirements. The dissertation concludes with the development of a possible approach for the design of multilingual information systems.
Exploring the use of social media to mobilise pseudo-bystanders to support victims of corruption
Creators: name: Wang, Pei Yi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Perpetrators of criminal acts can abuse their power to cover up their crime – this is one manifestation of corruption. As a result, the suffering experienced by victims can be extensive. In recent times, victims are able to expose such corrupt behaviour and seek help from others through social media. This study explored how social media can be used as a powerful vehicle to mobilise “pseudo-bystanders” to support victims of corruption. The findings inform how collective action can be encouraged, showing how victims can influence passive witnesses to become active supporters/warriors. The findings also contribute methodologically to qualitative netnographic research.
Using Aspect Graphs to Control the Recovery and Tracking of Deformable Models
Creators: name: Dickinson, Sven J.
name: Metaxas, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: Active or deformable models have emerged as a popular modeling paradigm in computer vision. These models have the flexibility to adapt themselves to the image data, o ering the potential for both generic object recognition and non-rigid object tracking. Because these active models are underconstrained, however, deformable shape recovery often requires manual segmentation or good model initialization, while active contour trackers have been able to track only an object's translation in the image. In this paper, we report our current progress in using a part-based aspect graph representation of an object [14] to provide the missing constraints on data-driven deformable model recovery and tracking processes.
title: Кольский залив и нефть: биота, карты уязвимости, загрязнение
Creators: name: Шавыкин (под ред.), А. А.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Показана роль Кольского залива и морского порта Мурманск как крупнейшего на российском арктическом побережье транспортного узла. Описаны гидрология, биота (фито- и зообентос, орнитофауна), особо значимые участки и антропогенное загрязнение Кольского залива. Представлены результаты исследований по изменению свойств нефти после ее разлива в море. Дан обзор методов построения карт чувствительности и уязвимости прибрежно-морских зон от нефти. Ядром монографии является разработанная в ММБИ методика построения карт уязвимости и построенные по ней сезонные разномасштабные карты уязвимости акватории Кольского залива от нефти. Представлен принципиально новый подход к оценке параметров уязвимости ­биоты и расчету интегральной уязвимости акватории от воздействия нефти. Приведены карты чувствительности берегов залива по индексу ESI. Содержится информация о результатах спутникового мониторинга Кольского залива и готовности сил и средств к потенциально возможным разливам нефти в заливе. Монография ориентирована на то, чтобы обсудить со специалистами различные методики построения карт чувствительности / уязвимости прибрежно-морских зон от нефти, в том числе и методику ММБИ, изложенную в данной работе.
title: Parteiauftrag: Städtepartnerschaft. Kommunalpartnerschaften zwischen Polen und der DDR und ihre Transformation nach 1989
title: Partyjne zlecenie: partnerstwo miast. Partnerstwa komunalne między Polską a NRD i ich transformacja po 1989 roku
Creators: name: Pieper, Markus
Publisher: name: Zentrum Für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Year: 2020

description: Am Beispiel der seit 1959 bestehenden Städtepartnerschaft Dresden – Breslau (Wrocław) wird die Geschichte der kommunalen Zusammenarbeit zwischen der DDR und der Volksrepublik Polen anschaulich und umfassend dargestellt. Trotz aller Ideologisierung und Instrumentalisierung öffneten die sozialistischen Partnerschaften immer auch Räume für persönliche Kontakte zwischen Deutschen und Polen – vor allem in Zeiten geschlossener Grenzen. Ein Ausblick auf die Jahre seit der Systemtransformation zeigt Kontinuitäten und Brüche der Partnerschaften.
description: Na przykładzie istniejącego od 1959 roku partnerstwa miast Drezna i Wrocławia autor plastycznie i obszernie przedstawia historię współpracy komunalnej między NRD a PRL. Mimo całej ideologizacji i instrumentalizacji socjalistyczne partnerstwa tworzyły jednak również pewną przestrzeń dla osobistych kontaktów między Polakami a Niemcami – przede wszystkim w czasach zamkniętych granic. Spojrzenie na okres od transformacji ustrojowej pokazuje przykłady ciągłości partnerstw i jej zrywania.
Multi-hop Dynamic Geographic Routing
Creators: name: Navas, Julio C.
name: Imieliński, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: Geographic Routing is a new process for routing data packets through an internetwork of computers. Our process distinguishes itself from the current routing technology by using arbitrary geographical regions (denoted by longitude and latitude) instead of logical computer addresses as the criteria to route a packet. The purpose of this new technology is to extend the capabilities of the current IP internetwork by adding a new geographic message protocol to the current IP suite of protocols (which currently consists of UDP and TCP). This geographic protocol is many-tomany and connectionless This is an enabling technology. This technology would be used by the application programmers and not by the common end- user. We provide an Application Programming Interface (API) that a programmer would use to interface with the geographic routing protocol in order to send and receive messages. The system is designed to give the user as much flexibility as possible in designating the destination geographical region. Ideally, the user would interact with a graphical user interface that would contain a geographic map of the desired destination area. The user would then draw a bounded polygon around the targeted region and designate a message to send to that region. The application would then translate that polygon from the screen coordinates to geographic coordinates, which use longitude and latitude, and then utilize the API to send the message to those coordinates. The geographic routing system would now transport the message from geographic-router to geographicrouter in a multi-hop fashion until the networks in the destination area are reached. At this point, the routers will broadcast or multicast the message to everyone within the target area. Currently, we are in the process of evaluating a prototype implementation and setting up an experimental network capable of routing the geographic messages. This network would be deployed in stages: first throughout the Computer Science Department, then the Rutgers University network, and, finally, to participating universities and government/military facilities. This is currently a DARPA-sponsored Integrated Technology Demonstration (ITD) within the GloMo I (Global Mobile Information Systems) program.