cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: PROGRESSIVE STAR FORMATION IN THE YOUNG GALACTIC SUPER STAR CLUSTER NGC 3603
Creators: name: Beccari, G
name: Spezzi, L
name: De Marchi, G
name: Parseces, F
name: Young, E
name: Andersen, M
name: Panagia, N
name: Balick, B
name: Calzetti, D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 3603); stars: pre-main sequence
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/720/2/1108/
description: Early Release Science observations of the cluster NGC 3603 with the WFC3 on the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope allow us to study its recent star formation history. Our analysis focuses on stars with Hα excess emission, a robust indicator of their pre-main sequence (PMS) accreting status. The comparison with theoretical PMS isochrones shows that 2/3 of the objects with Hα excess emission have ages from 1 to 10 Myr, with a median value of 3 Myr, while a surprising 1/3 of them are older than 10 Myr. The study of the spatial distribution of these PMS stars allows us to confirm their cluster membership and to statistically separate them from field stars. This result establishes unambiguously for the first time that star formation in and around the cluster has been ongoing for at least 10-20 Myr, at an apparently increasing rate.
Angular Momentum of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Synthetic Rotational Field
Creators: name: Qu, Chunlei
name: Stringari, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By applying a position-dependent detuning to a spin-orbit-coupled Hamiltonian with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus coupling, we exploit the behavior of the angular momentum of a harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gas and discuss the distinctive role of its canonical and spin components. By developing the formalism of spinor hydrodynamics we predict the precession of the dipole oscillation caused by the synthetic rotational field, in analogy with the precession of the Foucault pendulum, the excitation of the scissors mode, following the sudden switching off of the detuning, and the occurrence of Hall-like effects. When the detuning exceeds a critical value we observe a transition from a vortex free, rigidly rotating quantum gas to a gas containing vortices with negative circulation which results in a significant reduction of the total angular momentum.
description: published version, 5 pages, 4 figures
Initiative en matière de données de recherche - Approche des trois organismes
Creators: name: Lucas, Matthew
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Présentation faite lors de la conférence Parlons du stockage des données : Une conversation de recherche, une demi-journée de discussion organisée à l'Université d'Ottawa le 19 avril 2018. Mise à jour sur les politiques de gestion des données chez les trois organismes subventionnaires.
Radiation Damage in Polarized Ammonia Solids
Creators: name: Slifer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid NH3 and ND3 provide a highly polarizable, radiation resistant source of polarized protons and deuterons and have been used extensively in high luminosity experiments investigating the spin structure of the nucleon. Over the past twenty years, the UVA polarized target group has been instrumental in producing and polarizing much of the material used in these studies, and many practical considerations have been learned in this time. In this discussion, we analyze the polarization performance of the solid ammonia targets used during the recent JLab Eg4 run. Topics include the rate of polarization decay with accumulated charge, the annealing procedure for radiation damaged targets to recover polarization, and the radiation induced change in optimum microwave frequency used to polarize the sample. We also discuss the success we have had in implementing frequency modulation of the polarizing microwave frequency.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. XIIth International Workshop on Polarized Sources, Targets and Polarimetry
Emerging Technologies for Software-Reliant Systems of Systems
Creators: name: Lewis, Grace A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report presents general computation trends and a particular set of emerging technologies to support the trends for software-reliant systems of systems (SoSs). Software-reliant SoSs now tend to be highly distributed software systems, formed from constituent software systems that are operated and managed by different organizations. These SoSs are moving from a directed management structure (in which constituent systems are integrated and built for a specific purpose) to a virtual one (in which there is no central authority or centrally agreed purpose). This shift is introducing a need for new technologies to deal with the lack of central authority or centrally agreed purpose.
Rapid Bayesian Inference of Global Network Statistics Using Random Walks
Creators: name: Kion-Crosby, Willow B.
name: Morozov, Alexandre V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel Bayesian methodology which uses random walks for rapid inference of statistical properties of undirected networks with weighted or unweighted edges. Our formalism yields high-accuracy estimates of the probability distribution of any network node-based property, and of the network size, after only a small fraction of network nodes has been explored. The Bayesian nature of our approach provides rigorous estimates of all parameter uncertainties. We demonstrate our framework on several standard examples, including random, scale-free, and small-world networks, and apply it to study epidemic spreading on a scale-free network. We also infer properties of the large-scale network formed by hyperlinks between Wikipedia pages.
Choice Disability as a target for non-medical HIV intervention
Creators: name: De Boer, Rebecca
name: Lutscher, Frithjof
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: HIV epidemic model
multigroup model
choice-disability
structural intervention
dynamical system

description: Even though medical intervention measures against HIV transmission are available, the epidemic continues to spread in several sub-Saharan African countries. Empirical studies indicate that many people are unable to implement prevention strategies because of individual factors, such as extreme poverty or lack of education, but also because or relational factors, such as gender-based violence or transactional sex. This phenomenon, known as choice disability, may be such a large obstacle in the effectiveness of medical interventions that several field trials of structural (non-medical) interventions are underway that address these issues. While dynamical-systems models are frequently used to advise management and policy around infectious diseases, they typically assume that individuals are free to make optimal choices. We derive and analyze a novel model where individuals have a certain choice status, based on which they are more or less likely to transmit or receive the infection. Choice status is affected by social interactions. When studying the model in the absence of an infectious disease, we find that structural interventions aimed at raising the status of one group can have the unintended side effect of lowering the status of another group. When combined with an epidemic model, we find that the same structural interventions can even increase the total prevalence of a disease in the population. Our model provides a framework to evaluate the possible effectiveness of structural intervention in an epidemic.
Exploiting Multi-Antennas for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Liang, Ying Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In cognitive radio (CR) networks, there are scenarios where the secondary (lower priority) users intend to communicate with each other by opportunistically utilizing the transmit spectrum originally allocated to the existing primary (higher priority) users. For such a scenario, a secondary user usually has to trade off between two conflicting goals at the same time: one is to maximize its own transmit throughput; and the other is to minimize the amount of interference it produces at each primary receiver. In this paper, we study this fundamental tradeoff from an information-theoretic perspective by characterizing the secondary user's channel capacity under both its own transmit-power constraint as well as a set of interference-power constraints each imposed at one of the primary receivers. In particular, this paper exploits multi-antennas at the secondary transmitter to effectively balance between spatial multiplexing for the secondary transmission and interference avoidance at the primary receivers. Convex optimization techniques are used to design algorithms for the optimal secondary transmit spatial spectrum that achieves the capacity of the secondary transmission. Suboptimal solutions for ease of implementation are also presented and their performances are compared with the optimal solution. Furthermore, algorithms developed for the single-channel transmission are also extended to the case of multi-channel transmission whereby the secondary user is able to achieve opportunistic spectrum sharing via transmit adaptations not only in space, but in time and frequency domains as well.
description: Extension of IEEE PIMRC 2007. 35 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on Signal Processing and Networking for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Additional file 2 of Analysis of patient flows for orthopedic procedures using small area analysis in Switzerland
Creators: name: Matter-Walstra, Klazien
name: Widmer, Marcel
name: Busato, André
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Internet Addiction and Identity: A Systematic Research Review
Creators: name: Alotaibi, Sameera
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Within the last decade, human dependency on the internet has increased in both work and leisure activities. While numerous research studies have documented how internet use has positively contributed to life and society, a small but growing body of research documents how internet misuse can lead to negative outcomes for individuals. One particularly important area of public concern is the connection between addictive internet usage and human identity. Inspired by Goffman’s theory of the presentation of self, this study aims to address the impact of excessive internet use on real-world identity and virtual-world identity. To achieve this goal, the researcher synthesized 34 studies conducted from 2008 to 2018 about the influence of internet addiction on identity construction. The results revealed that internet addiction and identity have been given increased attention by academics despite the lack of current literature in this field. Most research studies (89%) focus on young individuals aged nine to 30 years old, while less attention is given to those over 30 years old. Switching between an online and an offline identity was proven in a number of studies based on participants’ statements. Moreover, of the literature reviewed, online gaming addiction and identity studies are addressed in 30% while internet addiction and identity are addressed in 39%; this could be linked to the official recognition of an online gaming disorder in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The present study calls for scientists and psychologists to include internet addiction as a disorder in future editions of DSM alongside online gaming addiction. Keywords: Internet addiction, Online identity, Offline identity, Self-presentation, Systematic review
title: Assessing road construction effects on turbidity in adjacent water bodies using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2
Creators: name: Ghorbani Mooselu, Mehrdad
name: Nikoo, Mohammad Reza
name: Liltved, Helge
name: Bjørkenes, Marianne Simonsen
name: Elnashar, Abdelrazek
name: Shojaeezadeh, Shahab Aldin
name: Weber, Tobias Karl David
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: remote sensing
subject: optical imagery
subject: spatio-temporal analysis
subject: atmospheric correction
subject: water quality
subject: road construction
classificationCode: 500
subject: 500
classificationCode: 600
subject: 600
classificationCode: Fernerkundung
subject: Fernerkundung
classificationCode: Wassergüte
subject: Wassergüte
classificationCode: Straßenbau
subject: Straßenbau

description:
Road construction significantly affects water resources by introducing contaminants, fragmenting habitats, and degrading water quality. This study examines the use of Remote Sensing (RS) data of Sentinel-1 (S1) and Senitnel-2 (S2) in Google Earth Engine (GEE) to do spatio-temporal analysis of turbidity in adjacent water bodies during the construction and operation of the E18 Arendal-Tvedestrand highway in southeastern Norway from 2017 to 2021. S1 radiometric data helped delineate water extents, while S2-Top of Atmosphere (TOA) multispectral data, corrected using the Modified Atmospheric correction for INland waters (MAIN), used to estimate turbidity levels. To ensure a comprehensive time series of RS data, we utilized S2-TOA data corrected with the MAIN algorithm rather than S2-Bottom Of Atmosphere (BOA) data. We validated the MAIN algorithm's accuracy against GLORIA (Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Interventions and Drivers) observations of surface water reflectance in lakes, globally. Subsequently, the corrected S2 data is used to calculate turbidity using the Novoa and Nechad retrieval algorithms and compared with GLORIA turbidity observations. Findings indicate that the MAIN algorithm adequately estimates water-leaving surface reflectance (Pearson correlation > 0.7 for wavelengths between 490 and 705 nm) and turbidity (Pearson correlation > 0.6 for both algorithms), determining Nechad as the more effective algorithm. In this regard, we used S2 corrected images with MIAN to estimate turbidity in the study area and evaluated with local gauge data and observational reports. Results indicate that the proposed framework effectively captures trends and patterns of turbidity variation in the study area. Findings verify that road construction can increase turbidity in adjacent water bodies and emphasis the employing RS data in cloud platforms like GEE can provide insights for effective long-term water quality management strategies during construction and operation phases.
Kelvin-Mach wake in a two-dimensional Fermi sea
Creators: name: Kolomeisky, Eugene B.
name: Straley, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dispersion law for plasma oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas in the hydrodynamic approximation interpolates between $Ω\propto \sqrt{q}$ and $Ω\propto q$ dependences as the wave vector $q$ increases. As a result, downstream of a charged impurity in the presence of a uniform supersonic electric current flow, a wake pattern of induced charge density and potential is formed whose geometry is controlled by the Mach number $M$. For $1\sqrt{2}$. These wakes also trail an external charge traveling supersonically a fixed distance away from the electron gas.
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures, minor changes, version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Retos de las autoridades ambientales de Colombia y su relación con la seguridad humana
Creators: name: Mondragón Gómez, Lilian Rocío
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Delitos ecológicos - Colombia
subject: Seguridad económica
subject: Responsabilidad de daños a,bientales
subject: Seguridad
subject: Recursos naturales estratégicos
subject: Amenazas
subject: Delitos
subject: Autoridad ambiental
subject: Estado

description: Tras la aprobación del informe del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) sobre democracia en 1994, los Estados reconocen siete dimensiones de la Seguridad Humana así: Seguridad económica, Seguridad alimentaria, Seguridad de la salud, Seguridad personal, Seguridad de la comunidad, Seguridad política, Seguridad ambiental esta última es un eje transversal a las otras 6 dimensiones dado que sin un ambiente sano y sostenible no se puede garantizar la vida de las personas y a su vez conlleva a tener consecuencias sobre la estabilidad de los Estados, es así que el presente artículo busca resaltar el rol de las Autoridades Ambientales (AA) y los reto que se deben enfrentar en cuanto algunas de las amenazas, problemas y desafíos que atenta contra el ambiente y la Seguridad Humana.
description: After the approval of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report on democracy in 1994, the States established seven dimensions of Human Security: Economic Security, Food Security, Health Security, Personal Security, Community Security, Political Security, Environmental Security. This last one is a cross axis to the other 6 dimensions, which without a healthy and sustainable environment cannot guarantee people’s lifes. This in turn leads to have consequences on the stability of States, so that this article seeks to highlight the role of Environmental Authorities (AA) and the challenges that must be faced in terms of some of the threats, problems and challenges that attempt against the environment and human security.
Embedded System Architecture Analysis Using SAE AADL
Creators: name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Gluch, David
name: Hudak, John J.
name: Lewis, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emerging Society of Automotive Engineers Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) standard is an architecture modeling language for real-time, fault-tolerant, scalable, embedded, multiprocessor systems. It enables the development and predictable integration of highly evolvable systems as well as analysis of existing systems. It supports early and repeated analyses of a system's architecture with respect to performance-critical properties through an extendable notation, a tool framework, and precisely defined semantics. This report discusses the role and benefits of using the AADL in the process of analyzing an existing avionics system. The AADL is used to describe architecture patterns in the system being analyzed and to identify potentially systemic issues in the system. Findings related to timing, scheduling, and fault tolerance and the benefits of the use of the AADL are examined. The report also highlights the benefits of working with architecture abstractions that are reflected in the AADL notation, in particular the separation of architecture design decisions from implementation decisions. Such a lightweight architecture analysis is typically followed by a full-scale AADL model of the system with required and actual timing, performance, and reliability figures, and its analysis to determine whether the requirements are met.
Additional file 3 of Analysis of patient flows for orthopedic procedures using small area analysis in Switzerland
Creators: name: Matter-Walstra, Klazien
name: Widmer, Marcel
name: Busato, André
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
SU(3) Polyakov linear-sigma model: Magnetic properties of QCD matter in thermal and dense medium
Creators: name: Tawfik, Abdel Nasser
name: Diab, Abdel Magied
name: Hussein, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear-sigma model, in which information about confining gluons is included through the Polyakov-loop potential (PLSM), is considered in order to perform a systematic study for various magnetic properties of QCD matter under extreme conditions of high temperatures and densities and finite magnetic field strengths. The introduction of magnetic field to the PLSM Lagrangian requires suitable utilization of Landau quantization, modification in the dispersion relations, and momentum-space dimension-reduction. We observed that increasing the magnetic field leads to filling-up lower Landau levels first and decreasing the number of occupied levels. We conclude that the population of Landau levels is most sensitive to the magnetic field and to the quark charges. The influences of finite magnetic field on the temperature dependence of chiral and deconfinement order-parameter(s) are studied. We present estimations for the magnetization, the magnetic susceptibility, the permeability and the catalysis properties of QCD matter as functions of temperature. The dependences of the resulting freezeout parameters, temperatures and baryon chemical potentials on the corresponding magnetic field strengths have been analyzed, as well. These calculations are compared with recent lattice QCD simulations, whenever available. We conclude that the QCD matter seems to have paramagnetic property at temperatures greater than the critical one. There is an evidence for weak diamagnetic property at low temperatures. Last but not least, we observe that the magnetic catalysis is inverse, namely the critical temperatures decrease with increasing the magnetic field.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures
Effect of Reduction of Pollutant Emissions on the Productivity Performance of Regional Canadian Pulp and Paper Industries
Creators: name: Yang, Shiqi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: In our study, the prod uclivily performance of the Canadian pul p and paper industry is compared with respect to the choice of measurement for desirable output, the length of lime period and with or without pollutant outputs. Input distance function can easily incorporate the non-marketable outputs of biological oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS) on a quantity basis. This environmentally sensitive approach provides better producti vi ty performance for all regions, indicating the need for adjusting the conventional approach lhal ignores the poll utant outputs. The results abo indicate that indulitrial technological progress is different in different regions due lo variations in regional industry output and technology. Key words: input distance function, productivity performance, technical change, efficiency, pollutant outputs, pollutant abatement, waler effluent, pulp and paper industry.
Eliminative Argumentation: A Basis for Arguing Confidence in System Properties
Creators: name: Goodenough, John
name: Weinstock, Charles B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Assurance cases provide a structured method of explaining why a system has some desired property, for example, that the system is safe. But there is no agreed approach for explaining what degree of confidence one should have in the conclusions of such a case. This report defines a new concept, eliminative argumentation, that provides a philosophically grounded basis for assessing how much confidence one should have in an assurance case argument. This report will be of interest mainly to those familiar with assurance case concepts and who want to know why one argument rather than another provides more confidence in a claim. The report is also potentially of value to those interested more generally in argumentation theory.
Direct measurement of neutrons induced in lead by cosmic muons at a shallow underground site
Creators: name: Du, Qiang
name: Abt, Iris
name: Empl, Anton
name: Gooch, Chris
name: Kneissl, Raphael
name: LIN, Shin Ted
name: Majorovits, Bela
name: Palermo, Matteo
name: Schulz, Oliver
name: Wang, Li
name: YUE, Qian
name: Zsigmond, Anna Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron production in lead by cosmic muons has been studied with a Gadolinium doped liquid scintillator detector. The detector was installed next to the Muon-Induced Neutron Indirect Detection EXperiment (MINIDEX), permanently located in the Tübingen shallow underground laboratory where the mean muon energy is approximately 7 GeV. The MINIDEX plastic scintillators were used to tag muons; the neutrons were detected through neutron capture and neutron-induced nuclear recoil signals in the liquid scintillator detector. Results on the rates of observed neutron captures and nuclear recoils are presented and compared to predictions from GEANT4-9.6 and GEANT4-10.3. The predicted rates are significantly too low for both versions of GEANT4. For neutron capture events, the observation exceeds the predictions by factors of $ 1.65\,\pm\,0.02\,\textrm{(stat.)}\,\pm\,0.07\,\textrm{(syst.)} $ and $ 2.58\,\pm\,0.03\,\textrm{(stat.)}\,\pm\,0.11\,\textrm{(syst.)} $ for GEANT4-9.6 and GEANT4-10.3, respectively. For neutron nuclear recoil events, which require neutron energies above approximately 5 MeV, the factors are even larger, $ 2.22\,\pm\,0.05\,\textrm{(stat.)}\,\pm\,0.25\,\textrm{(syst.)} $ and $ 3.76\,\pm\,0.09\,\textrm{(stat.)}\,\pm\,0.41\,\textrm{(syst.)} $, respectively. Also presented is the first statistically significant measurement of the spectrum of neutrons induced by cosmic muons in lead between 5 and 40 MeV. It was obtained by unfolding the nuclear recoil spectrum. The observed neutron spectrum is harder than predicted by GEANT4. An investigation of the distribution of the time difference between muon tags and nuclear recoil signals confirms the validity of the unfolding procedure and shows that GEANT4 cannot properly describe the time distribution of nuclear recoil events. In general, the description of the data is worse for GEANT4-10.3 than for GEANT4-9.6.
description: 29 pages, 22 figures, 4 tables
Designing for Faculty: IR Customization and Outreach in Response to Funder Mandates
Creators: name: Hatherill, Jeanette
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: DSpace JSPUI
OR2016

description: This session presented at OR2016 in Dublin, Ireland demonstrates customizations made to the University of Ottawa's DSpace JSPUI 4.3 instance in order to streamline self-deposit workflows. It also presents a custom statistics module with Altmetric integration.
Eliciting and Analyzing Quality Requirements: Management Influences on Software Quality Requirements
Creators: name: Woody, Carol C.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Early in the literature review for the Independent Research and Development Project for Eliciting and Analyzing Quality Requirements, the potential conflict of quality efforts (perceived as time consuming) with organizational management direction (driven by time-to-market and cost considerations) was identified. Quality attributes are influenced by the selection and development of components that make up a system, as well as the development environment in which the system is created. A variety of information sources, including conferences, workshops, pilot projects, and technical assessments, was tapped to identify specific management barriers to the adoption of improved elicitation approaches and appropriate organizational behaviors that facilitated the use of improved mechanisms for the elicitation and analysis of quality requirements. This report documents the ways in which the organizational and project management environment for system development can support or reject improved quality requirements elicitation mechanisms. In addition, this report identifies specific activities as promoting improved quality requirements elicitation when they are embedded into the system development life-cycle structure.
Looking After Children in Ontario: Good Parenting Good Outcomes Ontario Provincial Report (Year 13)
Creators: name: Miller, Meagan
name: Flynn, Robert J.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: child welfare
looking after children
children
child development
outcome monitoring

description: This report is designed for use by child welfare organizations as a performance measurement system.The Assessment and Action Record (AAR) outcome data available in this report should assist child welfare organizations in the development of an internal evaluation program. The AAR findings are intended to help supervisors, program managers, executive directors and board members within child welfare organizations monitor children’s outcomes on a regular basis by comparing children’s and youths’ developmental progress with intended goals. A second intended use of the AAR is to inform decision-makers as to possible means of improving the quality and relevance of services on an ongoing basis. This report is also designed to provide policy-makers with accurate, up-to-date knowledge of system-wide outcomes thereby fulfilling an accountability function and a guiding function in identifying policies and practices that promote continuous improvements in child welfare.
Additional file 4 of Analysis of patient flows for orthopedic procedures using small area analysis in Switzerland
Creators: name: Matter-Walstra, Klazien
name: Widmer, Marcel
name: Busato, André
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 4
Las reservas naturales fluviales como estrategia de conservación ambiental
Creators: name: Jurado, Jorge
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cuencas hidrográficas - Aspectos jurídicos - Colombia
subject: Conservación del medio ambiente - Aspectos jurídicos - Colombia
subject: Parques naturales - Aspectos jurídicos - Colombia
subject: Biodiversidad
subject: Conservación ambiental
subject: Protección duradera
subject: Reservas naturales fluviales
subject: Ríos de flujo libre

description: Los ríos son esenciales en el desarrollo de las comunidades pues ofrecen múltiples servicios ecosistémicos que van más allá del recurso hídrico, motivo por el cual, el presente trabajo de investigación a través de una metodología teórico deductiva, aborda el estudio de los esquemas de protección duradera de los ríos de caudal libre, teniendo como objetivo principal para tales efectos, el desarrollo de una definición propia para la figura de las reservas naturales fluviales (RNF), por medio de la cual se podría alcanzar una protección integral de los ríos, de la biodiversidad que en ellos habita, la conservación de los demás ecosistemas relacionados y la generación de beneficios sociales. Como soporte del anterior ejercicio se realiza inicialmente una revisión de los fundamentos internacionales de este tipo de figuras y se estudian algunos ejemplos de esquemas de protección que podrían considerarse RNF. Así, una conclusión general permite asegurar que, si bien en el mundo existen múltiples mecanismos de protección de los ríos y además hay claros fundamentos para realizarlo, este tipo de ecosistemas requiere un entendimiento integral de sus servicios y beneficios para que los tomadores de decisiones determinen implementar en ellos esquemas de protección a largo plazo, cuyo éxito depende en gran parte de la vinculación de las comunidades.
description: Rivers are essential for the development of communities because they offer multiple ecosystem services that go beyond water resources. This is the reason why this paper addresses the study of durable protection schemes of free-flowing rivers through a deductive theoretical methodology. The main objective of this paper is to develop a definition of a Freshwater Protected Area (FEPA), which is a framework to achieve an integral protection of rivers, the biodiversity that inhabits them, conservation of other related ecosystems, and generation of social benefits. Supporting the previous exercise, this paper initially carries o ut a review of the international foundations of this type of figure. This paper also studies some examples of protection schemes that could be considered as a FEPA. A general conclusion of this paper is that, although there are multiple river protection mechanisms in the world and there are clear grounds for protecting them, this type of ecosystem requires a comprehensive understanding of its services and benefits. This will enable decision makers to implement long-term protection schemes, while their success will depend largely on the engagement of relevant communities.
Artificial flat band systems: from lattice models to experiments
Creators: name: Leykam, Daniel
name: Andreanov, Alexei
name: Flach, Sergej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation, arising from either internal symmetries or fine-tuned coupling. These flat bands display remarkable strongly-interacting phases of matter. Originally considered as a theoretical convenience useful for obtaining exact analytical solutions of ferromagnetism, flat bands have now been observed in a variety of settings, ranging from electronic systems to ultracold atomic gases and photonic devices. Here we review the design and implementation of flat bands and chart future directions of this exciting field.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Adv. Phys.: X
Modelos sostenibles de museos e instituciones culturales en el mundo
Creators: name: Barrios Pulido, Sandra Milena
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019

description: Objetivos generales: Adquirir una perspectiva amplia de casos que fomentan el pensamiento creativo y la búsqueda de estrategias de sostenibilidad que evidencien otras vías posibles para abordar los paradigmas construidos alrededor de los modelos de funcionamiento para los museos e instituciones culturales. Objetivos específicos: Comprender estrategias de sostenibilidad a partir de estudios de caso. Utilizar dichas estrategias como base teórica y práctica para la comprensión crítica de modelos sostenibles para instituciones culturales. Formar un criterio alrededor de diferentes tipos de instituciones a cargo de patrimonio cultural. Comprender aspectos teóricos sobre la estructura normativa, organizacional, roles, procesos, metas, objetivos, misión y visión, entre otros, frente a condiciones de flexibilidad, creatividad e innovación que exigen las buenas prácticas en museos e instituciones culturales.
description: Este módulo explora las distintas estrategias de sostenibilidad que se han implementado en museos e instituciones culturales en diversas partes del mundo, señalando su correspondencia con el contexto cultural, normativo, económico y social respectivo.
ELUCID V. Lighting dark matter halos with galaxies
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Zhang, Youcai
name: Wang, Huiyuan
name: Liu, Chengze
name: Lu, Tianhuan
name: Li, Shijie
name: Shi, Feng
name: Jing, Y. P.
name: Mo, H. J.
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Kang, Xi
name: Cui, Weiguang
name: Guo, Hong
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Lim, S. H.
name: Lu, Yi
name: Luo, Wentao
name: Wei, Chengliang
name: Yang, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent study, using the distribution of galaxies in the north galactic pole of SDSS DR7 region enclosed in a 500$\mpch$ box, we carried out our ELUCID simulation (Wang et al. 2016, ELUCID III). Here we {\it light} the dark matter halos and subhalos in the reconstructed region in the simulation with galaxies in the SDSS observations using a novel {\it neighborhood} abundance matching method. Before we make use of thus established galaxy-subhalo connections in the ELUCID simulation to evaluate galaxy formation models, we set out to explore the reliability of such a link. For this purpose, we focus on the following a few aspects of galaxies: (1) the central-subhalo luminosity and mass relations; (2) the satellite fraction of galaxies; (3) the conditional luminosity function (CLF) and conditional stellar mass function (CSMF) of galaxies; and (4) the cross correlation functions between galaxies and the dark matter particles, most of which are measured separately for all, red and blue galaxy populations. We find that our neighborhood abundance matching method accurately reproduces the central-subhalo relations, satellite fraction, the CLFs and CSMFs and the biases of galaxies. These features ensure that thus established galaxy-subhalo connections will be very useful in constraining galaxy formation processes. And we provide some suggestions on the three levels of using the galaxy-subhalo pairs for galaxy formation constraints. The galaxy-subhalo links and the subhalo merger trees in the SDSS DR7 region extracted from our ELUCID simulation are available upon request.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, ApJ accepted
Responsibility and Intervening Acts: What “Maybin” an Overbroad Approach to Causation
Creators: name: Skolnik, Terry
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Causation
intervening act
novus actus interveniens

description: Oftentimes, a criminal action resulting in the victim’s death is clearly attributable to the accused. In many cases, we can easily say that the accused “caused” the victim’s death. Causation, however, becomes particularly complicated when some type of intervening act occurs between the accused’s initial conduct and the victim’s death, creating speculation about whether it is fair to morally blame the accused for the ensuing result. The Supreme Court of Canada’s relatively recent decision R v Maybin marks a significant attempt to clarify notions related to causation in the criminal law. Although the Court refused to alter conventional principles related to the law of causation, or create a new test to verify when it has been established, it provided two analytical tools which can be used in order to see when it is fair to morally blame the accused for the victim’s death despite an intervening act’s occurrence. As will be seen, although these analytical tools of “reasonable foreseeability” and “independent acts” serve to simplify the law of causation, there are important problems with how each tool has been conceptualized. This article highlights these important shortfalls, and ultimately, questions to what extent these developments in the law of causation affect current conceptions of mens rea. Souvent, une action criminelle entraînant la mort de la victime est clairement imputable à l’accusé. Dans de nombreux cas, il est facile de conclure que l’accusé a « causé » la mort de la victime. Toutefois, le lien de causalité devient particulièrement complexe lorsqu’un acte intermédiaire se produit entre la conduite initiale de l’accusé et la mort de la victime, ce qui crée des conjectures à savoir s’il est juste de blâmer moralement l’accusé pour le résultat qui a suivi. La Cour suprême du Canada, dans sa décision relativement récente dans l’affaire R v Maybin, tente de clarifier les notions liées à la causalité en droit pénal. Bien que la Cour ait refusé de modifier les principes classiques liés au lien de causalité, ou de créer un nouveau test afin de répertorier les situations dans lesquelles il peut être établi, la Cour a fourni deux outils analytiques qui peuvent être utilisés afin de déterminer quand il est juste de blâmer moralement l’accusé pour la mort de la victime, malgré l’occurrence d’un acte intermédiaire. Comme on le verra, même si ces outils d’analyse de la « prévisibilité raisonnable » et des « actes indépendants » servent à simplifier la théorie de la causalité, la manière dont ces outils ont été conçus pose de sérieux problèmes. Cet article met en lumière ces lacunes importantes, et ultimement, questionne dans quelle mesure ces développements de la théorie de la causalité ont une incidence sur les conceptions contemporaines de la mens rea.
Elements of a Usability Reasoning Framework
Creators: name: Jinhee  Lee
name: Bass, Len
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This technical note brings together two different threads of work: (1) investigating the relationship between usability and software architecture that has generated a number of usability scenarios with implications for software architecture and (2) developing an architecture design assistant, Architecture Expert (ArchE). One key element of ArchE is that quality attribute knowledge can be encapsulated into reasoning frameworks, and a Carnegie Mellon University Master of Software Engineering project team has developed an ArchE reasoning language (ARL) with which to specify the actions of reasoning frameworks within ArchE. This note describes an ARL implementation of two usability scenarios: (1) displaying progress feedback and (2) allowing cancel. These implementations begin to provide ArchE with the ability to reason about aspects of usability that have software architecture implications.
A Low-Cost Robust Distributed Linearly Constrained Beamformer for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks with Arbitrary Topology
Creators: name: Koutrouvelis, Andreas I.
name: Sherson, Thomas W.
name: Heusdens, Richard
name: Hendriks, Richard C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new robust distributed linearly constrained beamformer which utilizes a set of linear equality constraints to reduce the cross power spectral density matrix to a block-diagonal form. The proposed beamformer has a convenient objective function for use in arbitrary distributed network topologies while having identical performance to a centralized implementation. Moreover, the new optimization problem is robust to relative acoustic transfer function (RATF) estimation errors and to target activity detection (TAD) errors. Two variants of the proposed beamformer are presented and evaluated in the context of multi-microphone speech enhancement in a wireless acoustic sensor network, and are compared with other state-of-the-art distributed beamformers in terms of communication costs and robustness to RATF estimation errors and TAD errors.
title: Paratexte (1)_Physiologie du goût
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Paratexte
description: ID_PARA_00661
Static exteriors for nonstatic braneworld stars
Creators: name: de Leon, J. Ponce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study possible static non-Schwarzschild exteriors for nonstatic spherically symmetric stars in a Randall $&$ Sundrum type II braneworld scenario. Thus, the vacuum region outside the surface of a star is assumed to be a static solution to the equation $^{(4)}R = 0$, where $^{(4)}R $ is the scalar curvature of the 4-dimensional Ricci tensor with spherical symmetry. Firstly, we show that for nonstatic spheres the standard matching conditions are much more restrictive than for static ones; they lead to a specific requirement on the vacuum region outside of a nonstatic star, that is absent in the case of static stars. Secondly, without making any assumption about the bulk, or the material medium inside the star, we prove the following theorem on the brane: for {\it any} nonstatic spherical star, without rotation, there are only two possible static exteriors; these are the Schwarzschild and the "Reissner-Nordstr{ö}m-like" exteriors. This is quite distinct from the case of stars in hydrostatic equilibrium which admit a much larger family of non-Schwarzschild static exteriors.
description: Some Editorial changes and references added to the boundary conditions section. Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Elaboration on an Integrated Architecture and Requirement Practice: Prototyping with Quality Attribute Focus
Creators: name: Bellomo, Stephany
name: Nord, Robert
name: Ipek  Ozkaya
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This experience report builds on an earlier study in which we interviewed eight project teams that were using iterative incremental lifecycles. In the study, we captured the practices the teams felt contributed to rapid delivery. We identified a mix of Agile and architecture practices that teams apply to rapidly field software and minimize disruption and delay. In this paper, we elaborate one practice from the study, prototyping with quality attribute focus. We compared two experiences in prototyping focused on quality attribute considerations applied on Scrum projects. We observe through interviews that feature development and prototyping practice spans multiple levels: feature development/sprint, release planning, and portfolio planning. We also observe other factors including rapid trade-off analysis, flexible architecture, and adoption of a set of enabling prototyping guidelines. The analysis of the observations sheds light on several aspects of the practice that enable the team to respond quickly and efficiently when prototype feedback suggests architectural change.