cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hypodense cerebellum: look for drugs
Creators: name: Paez, Diego
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Complications
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 34 years
description: Clinical History: A 34 years old male with history of intravenous drugs consumption, is brought unconscious, pale, cyanotic, unresponsive to stimulation. Physical examination revealed miotic pupils and showed in the Glasgow Coma Scale a score of 5. A toxicology screening t... Final Diagnosis: Inhaled Heroin Intoxication
Serie de resumes sur les outils numeriques adaptes aux petits ruminants
Creators: name: Depuille, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: sheep
goats
technologies
numerique
ovins
caprins

description:  Ce rapport est une serie de resumes et d'instructions pour savoir comment utiliser les outils numeriques adaptes aux petits ruminants. Nous avons prepare 30 resumes dans l'ordre suivant:

1    Imagerie 3D 2    Aptimiz (application de travail)3    Lecteur RFID en salle de traite4    Auge peseuse et distributeur automatique de concentres5    Herbometre connecte 6    Distibuteur automatic de lait pour chevreaux7    Cameras8    Clotures connectees9    Compteur a eau connecte10    Convoyeur11    Boucle RFID Ultra Haute Frequence 12    Filiation par l'ADN13    Drone14    Poids dynamique du reservoir a lait 15    Cage de pesee automatique 16    Systeme de ventilation et capteurs d'ambiance du batiment17    FECPAC-G218    Planificateur de rations 19    Logiciel de gestion de troupeau 20    Application de gestion de troupeau21    Collier GPS 22    Lecteur RFID 23    Compteur a lait electronique24    NIRS Portable25    Compteur de cellules somatiques portable  26    Sechage en grange du foin27    Echographie de gestation  28    Clotures virtuelles 29    Autopesee - Walk over Weighing  (WoW)30    Autopesee a l'abreuvoir
Constructing a Semantic Business Process Modelling Language for the Banking Sector - An Evolutionary Dyadic Design Science Approach
Creators: name: Becker, Jörg
name: Thome, Irina
name: Weiß, Burkhard
name: Winkelmann, Axel
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The need to extensively model business processes for multiple purposes (e.g., documentation, compliance management, analysis and optimisation etc.) is of major relevance to banks. Efficiently modelling and automatically analysing business process models not only in a syntactical but also in a semantic way becomes increasingly important in order to save costs during process model construction and achieve additional value from process modelling initiatives. In this article, we introduce a domain-specific semantic business process modelling language (BPML), which supports efficient modelling and semantic analysis needs of banks. We do this by adapting an existing domain-specific BPML from the public sector and applying an evolutionary design science research approach that covers several design science cycle iterations. We triangulate and evaluate the final design science artefact (a new semantic BPML for banks) with the help of a multi-method approach using interviews, round table discussions, document analysis, literature analysis and two in-depth case studies from a specialised bank and a universal bank in the financial sector.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 1 (2010)
Multipartite entanglement detection via generalized Wigner-Yanase skew information
Creators: name: Hong, Yan
name: Xing, Yabin
name: Gao, Limin
name: Gao, Ting
name: Yan, Fengli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of multipartite entanglement in multipartite quantum systems is a fundamental and key issue in quantum information theory. In this paper, we investigate $k$-nonseparability and $k$-partite entanglement of $N$-partite quantum systems from the perspective of the generalized Wigner-Yanase skew information introduced by Yang $et$ $al$. [\href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.052401 }{Phys. Rev. A \textbf{106}, 052401 (2022)}]. More specifically, we develop two different approaches in form of inequalities to construct entanglement criteria, which are expressed in terms of the generalized Wigner-Yanase skew information. Any violation of these inequalities by a quantum state reveals its $k$-nonseparability or $k$-partite entanglement, so these inequalities present the hierarchic classifications of $k$-nonseparability or $k$-partite entanglement for all $N$-partite quantum states from $N$-nonseparability to $2$-nonseparability or from $2$-partite entanglement to $N$-partite entanglement, which are more refined than well-known ways.
 It is shown that our results reveal some $k$-nonseparability and $k$-partite entanglement that remain undetected by other methods, and these are illustrated through some examples.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
The relationship of landscape visualizations to public perceptions of sustainable forest management practices
Creators: name: Shepherd, Conal D.W.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The management of forest resources has always been important to many aspects of human society. The most prominent of these resources in terms of human consumption is wood. It is incredibly versatile, having been used for cooking and/or heating fuel, structural timbers for homes, and as pulp for paper production. Regardless of its’ end use, wood must first be harvested. This process can be a controversial one, as it affects many other resources valued by society. These generally include concerns over drinking water, fish habitat, wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities, etc. One of the most fundamental forest values to the general public is, simply, the impression made by a tree covered landscape. In many places, timber harvesting is largely perceived negatively, often associated with destruction, detrimental environmental effects, and plain old ugliness. Human alterations have tended to be dominant on the landscape, acting as a visible reminder of a ‘necessary evil’. However, this does not have to be the case. The aesthetic qualities of a forested landscape are being managed as a ‘visual resource’, alongside other previously mentioned objectives. It is important to demonstrate not only the proposed management plans and activities, but also the underlying data on which they are based. This can be a daunting task, especially given the amount of information for ecology, silviculture, wildlife management, harvesting method requirements, harvesting patterns, and especially the processes behind arriving at a given management scenario. Fortunately, as computer technology has improved, so have the means of conveying information to the general public about forest practices. Maps detailing management areas and the practices within can now be quickly and easily created to inform interested or concerned parties. One of the most powerful tools now available is software which enables near photo-realistic renderings of proposed harvesting blocks. The technologies involved in creating these visualisations are fairly complex, and largely outside the context of this paper. However, those that are relevant will be explained briefly, with references provided for further information. Regardless, the end result is part of a system which allows feedback, evaluation, and modification to harvesting areas within visually sensitive areas, before a single physical change to the landscape is made. In this way, the general public can be included in the management process to an extent, and a more favourable perception of forest practices can begin to be created. The focus of this paper is largely on developments within North America, as much of the timber harvesting land base is publically held. The land base of many other countries is largely privately owned, however, and so little direct public involvement tends to occur. As with nearly everything, there are associated benefits, and drawbacks/limitations which will also be discussed.
title: Redox regulation and reversible methionine oxidation in the mitochondria
Creators: name: Geldon, Stefan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: Mitochondria are double membrane bound organelles required for cellular respiration via the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS) that results in the generation of ATP. The OXPHOS system involves the use of an electron transport chain (ETC) comprised of several mitochondrial inner membrane embedded enzyme complexes (termed complexes I-V in mammals). The mitochondria contains its own genome, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that encodes the essential subunits of these complexes while the accompanying structural and assembly factors are cytosolically translated and imported into the mitochondria. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated inside the mitochondria at the ETC due to electron leakage at the complexes which results in the partial reduction of oxygen. An accumulation of ROS results in oxidative stress (OS) which can result in damage to nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins. Methionine residues in proteins are particularly susceptible to ROS modifications leading to the generation of methionine sulfoxidated groups which are harmful to proteins causing them to unfold and rendering them dysfunctional. Therefore, the reduction of these adducts by enzymes termed methionine sulfoxide reductases (Mxr) is essential to maintaining proteins in their native functional conformation. In this thesis the mitochondrial targeted yeast methionine sulfoxide reductase enzyme (Mxr2) was studied. We discovered using radiolabelled protein import experiments that Mxr2 is targeted to the mitochondria and becomes dually localised to both the intermembrane space (IMS) and matrix compartments. In addition, we found that the presence of the Tom20 import receptor and the major IMS oxidative folding protein, Mia40, were required for efficient import. Studies involving knockout Mxr2 yeast cells revealed that the absence of Mxr2 resulted in a growth defect when cells were oxidatively stressed alongside alterations in respiratory capacity and metabolic substrate utilisation. Lastly the import and complex assembly of the small Tim chaperone Tim10 was demonstrated to be altered in the absence of Mxr2 using BN PAGE analysis as was the formation of respiratory supercomplexes. The second part of the thesis focused on the complex IV assembly factor 8 (COA8). Mutations in this protein have been implicated with complex IV deficiencies and mitochondrial encephalopathy phenotypes. Here we investigated how COA8 can be oxidatively regulated at several conserved cysteines residues to alter the import capacity of this matrix targeted protein.
A Framework for Clarifying Service-Oriented Notions - How to Position Different Approaches
Creators: name: Terlouw, Linda I.
name: Dietz, Jan L.G.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Definitions on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Service-oriented Design (SoD) are often not clear or even contradictory, which makes it hard to compare the various methodologies. We apply the Generic System Development Process (GSDP), a conceptual framework for developing systems of any kind, and specialise it for service-orientation. Using the resulting Service-Oriented Development Process, we position seven state-of-the art methodologies for service-orientation based on two criteria. One is the coverage of the system development process. The other criterion is the depth in which each of the development phases are dealt with.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 1 (2010)
In search of standards for forest carbon offset projects in BC : a review of Georgian and Californian state standards
Creators: name: Iverson, Chad
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Forests represent both, one of the strongest drivers of, and solutions to, the rapid shift in the earth’s climate. Integrating the use of forests as a cost effective solution into emerging global carbon markets however has proven extremely difficult. The incentive for companies to utilize carbon credits as a means to offset emissions is heavily dependent upon the credibility of the project that created it. The difficulty proving the credibility of forest projects is largely due to the inherent variation associated with forest environments. British Columbia’s pine beetle epidemic provides an extreme example of just how quickly vast carbon sinks can suddenly become sources. As such, the creation of standards to ensure the security of carbon sequestered by forest projects has proven to be instrumental in encouraging their acceptance into the market. British Columbia has recognized that its forests play an integral role in its contribution to the global carbon cycle. As a result, heavy consideration is being made as to how this resource may be integrated as a source of carbon offsets for its own Cap-and-Trade market. This will mean establishing specific standards for forest projects in a BC context. This report reviews two regional standards from the states of Georgia and California, which could be applied as templates for a set of BC specific protocols for forest carbon sequestration projects. It is intended that through a comparison and analysis of these standards that potential problems faced in applying similar standards here will be identified.
เครื่องมือบริหารพอร์ตสินเชื่อเกษตรกรชาวนา ของสถาบันการเงินภาคการเกษตรไทย: การแลกได้แลกเสียระหว่างการเข้าถึงแหล่งเงินทุนกับประสิทธิภาพการดำเนินงาน
Creators: name: สงกรานต์ สมบุญ
name: พลพัธน์ โครตจรัส
name: สรศาสตร์ สุขเจริญสิน
Publisher: name: โรงพิมพ์มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2559
Subjects: พอร์ตสินเชื่อเกษตรกรชาวนา,ชาวนารายย่อย,ผลตอบแทนต่อส่วนทุนหลังปรับค่าความเสี่ยง,ค่าความเสี่ยงที่คาดว่าจะเกิดข้ึน

description: 1, 34, วารสารเศรษฐศาสตร์ธรรมศาสตร์
A detailed literature review of red alder management in mixedwoods stands
Creators: name: Laing, Chris
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This literature review is a synthesis of recent publications and developments regarding the growing acceptance and potential of Alnus rubra (Bong) commonly called red alder. The project summarized some of the concerns and benefits of including red alder in coastal forest mixedwood management strategies. Some of the concerns include overtopping of conifers and competition for light. Some benefits include increases to site productivity, biodiversity, forest health and diversification of the coastal forest industry. It also examined past and current industry and government policies towards alder in mixedwood management and recent changes in some of these policies including the just released “Hardwood Management in the Coast Forest Region” policy paper. There is now recognition of the importance of alder management and there is a framework in place for patch mixedwood management in coastal BC. But before intimate mixedwood strategies are accepted and used operationally, further research and trials are required. There needs to be a better understanding of both the competetitive and beneficial effects of red alder in mixture with conifers for complex forests to in order to assist forest managers in making sustainable management decisions.
Protected Fermionic Zero Modes in Periodic Gauge Fields
Creators: name: Phong, Vo Tien
name: Mele, Eugene J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that macroscopically-normalizable zero-energy wavefunctions of spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field are spin-polarized and exactly calculable with degeneracy equaling the number of flux quanta linking the whole system. Extending this argument to massless Dirac fermions subjected to magnetic fields that have \textit{zero} net flux but are doubly periodic in real space, we show that there exist \textit{only two} Bloch-normalizable zero-energy eigenstates, one for each spin flavor. This result is immediately relevant to graphene multilayer systems subjected to doubly-periodic strain fields, which at low energies, enter the Hamiltonian as periodic pseudo-gauge vector potentials. Furthermore, we explore various related settings including nonlinearly-dispersing band structure models and systems with singly-periodic magnetic fields.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure. Comments are very appreciated!
Business Process Decomposition - An Approach Based on the Principle of Separation of Concerns
Creators: name: Caetano, Artur
name: Silva, António Rito
name: Tribolet, José
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The functional decomposition of a business process breaks it down into progressively less granular activities. Decomposition contributes to the modular design of a system, the reuse of its parts and to its overall comprehensibility. But achieving these qualities requires a business process to be decomposed consistently, which implies it is always split into an identical set of activities according to a specific purpose, regardless of the modeller’s and modelling context. This paper describes an application of the principle of role-based separation of concerns to consistently decompose a business process into its constituent atomic activities, thus separating its distinct features and minimising behaviour overlap. An activity is abstracted as a collaboration between role types that are played by entities. The decomposition method successively separates the overlapping roles until an activity is specified as a collaboration of an orthogonal set of role types. The method facilitates the consistent decomposition of a business process and the identification of its atomic activities. The relevance of the method is assessed through a number of scenarios according to the guidelines of design science research.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 1 (2010)
title: Detailed Report of Multigrade Workshop & Evaluation Summary
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education
subject: Educational Administration and Supervision
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

description: From May 18 to 21st, the international workshop of the project "learning initiatives for Rural Education" (LIRE) took place at Lamentin Hotel in Saly/Somone, Mbour, Senegal. The Workshop was organized by the Ministry of Pre-school, elementary, and Middle Schools of Senegal in collaboration with The World bank, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The LIRE project was financed through the World Bank-administered Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP). Since August 2007, the project has been working with teachers, head teachers, inspectors and local education partners and administrative officials on training, materials development, monitoring tools and community advocacy around multi-grade pedagogy. The approach has been collaborative, working with all levels of education stakeholders in Senegal and the Gambia, in partnership with the in-country and US-based LIRE Team. The objectives of the workshop were to share the pedagogy tools, notably the teacher's guide and the trainer manual, developed by the LIRE project for Senegal and the Gambia and o discuss the multigrade education policies and strategies in participating countries for the workshop.
Application of Enterprise Models for Engineering Enterprise Transformation
Creators: name: Aier, Stephan
name: Gleichauf, Bettina
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Enterprise models constitute a valuable basis for enterprise transformation because they usually represent a widely accepted image of an enterprise. Practitioners often put a lot of effort in the creation and maintenance of such models that therefore represent a significant investment. However, so far the information contained in enterprise models is to a large extend ‘dateless’ which means it is hardly used to describe the transformation itself consistently. Therefore we propose a method to systematically derive an enterprise transformation model based on existing models representing enterprise structures at different points in time. The result of the method application is a set of project outlines derived from enterprise models. In order to generalise our approach to a multiperiod transformation model capable of coping with dynamic changes and plan deviations we propose a respective conceptual system. Our research artefact (the method) is finally demonstrated in a case study.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 1 (2010)
Management of British Columbia’s forests in response to climate change
Creators: name: Sawden, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Climate change is an undeniable global event. Widely believed to be caused by human activities that release greenhouse gases, this change in climate will occur over a very short period of time when it is compared to natural climate variations. The effect the change will have on environments is somewhat unknown and any predictions are best guess scenarios. In British Columbia the mountain pine beetle has destroyed millions of pine trees but the infestation is not yet done. This may be one of the early symptoms of global warming on the British Columbia environment. Climate change will warm temperatures in BC and increase the annual precipitation. These warmer temperatures allow for longer growing seasons and in many cases, more favorable growing conditions. Studies on Sitka Spruce have found increases in volume growth by as much as 20% and growth in the boreal has been found to increase with higher CO2 levels and warmer temperatures. Climate change does not have to mean beetle epidemics and dying ecosystems. With proactive management British Columbia may actually find benefits in a warming climate.
A User-Driven SOA for Financial Market Data Analysis
Creators: name: Guabtni, Adnene
name: Kundisch, Dennis
name: Rabhi, Fethi A.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: This paper is concerned with an environment, referred to as Ad-hoc DAta Grid Environment (ADAGE), which facilitates the analysis of large financial datasets by expert end-users. The paper focuses on the design of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that makes it possible to define re-usable and interoperable software components as web services to manipulate entities of an underlying event-based data model. Such a model allows for a coherent representation of market activities as events, e.g., high-frequency market data like trade prices and quotes, and a subsequent analysis. The paper also describes an implementation of a user-driven composition tool based on the SOA which allows domain experts to conveniently compose services to execute individualised processes. The approach is illustrated on a case study about analysing the price setting behaviour of issuers in the market for structured products.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 2 (2010)
Supplementary document for Solid-state biased coherent detection of ultra-broadband terahertz pulses generated in a spintronic emitter for high repetition rate, low pulse energy lasers - 6121080.pdf
Creators: name: Suter, Tim
name: Abreu, Elsa
name: Tomasino, Alessandro
name: Savoini, Matteo
name: Morandotti, Roberto
name: Johnson, Steven
name: Houver, Sarah
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
How to Preserve Agility in Service Oriented Architectures - An Explorative Analysis
Creators: name: Aier, Stephan
name: Schelp, Joachim
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Although companies introduced enterprise application integration (EAI) a couple of years ago, the complexity of corporate application landscapes is ever increasing. The current wave of technology being introduced into these application landscapes are service oriented architectures (SOA). Not unlike EAI before the introduction of these technologies is associated with re-use of software components and reaping cost cutting potentials. But when looking at the still increasing complexity of application landscapes following the introduction of SOA, the re-use and cost cutting arguments lead to disappointment. However, SOA offers a great potential to increase corporate agility. In order to gain and preserve corporate agility it is necessary to explicitly manage enterprise architecture. This paper discusses the problems of re-use and cost cutting expectations in SOA and contrasts them with the potentials related to make sustainable contributions to corporate agility. Structures, processes, and instruments to realise these potentials are discussed with reference to a literature review as well as to selected case studies.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 2 (2010)
Domain Level Specification of Parameterisable Business Components
Creators: name: Ackermann, Jörg
name: Turowski, Klaus
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Combining software components from different vendors to customer-individual business application systems requires sophisticated techniques to specify the components. If a component can be parameterised, its parameterisation properties must be included in the specification. That is the topic of an ongoing research project. This paper discusses how parameterisation issues can be specified on domain level – that is how to describe parameterisable business terms and business tasks as well as parameterisation effects for a functional expert.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 2 (2010)
Model-driven Derivation of BPMN Workflow Schemata from SOM Business Process Models
Creators: name: Pütz, Corinna
name: Sinz, Elmar J.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has emerged as one of the dominant graphical modelling languages for processes in recent years. Its usage is both for conceptual workflow modelling and for specification of executable workflow schemata. Nevertheless BPMN seems to be less suitable for modelling of business processes. Business process models describe production and delivery as well as control of goods and services according to the goals of an enterprise (task level). These characteristics are not covered explicitly by BPMN. In contrast, workflow schemata specify solution procedures for the execution of business tasks (actor level). In this paper a two-stage modelling approach is proposed in order to overcome the semantic gap between business process models and workflow schemata: In a first step a business process model according to the Semantic Object Model (SOM) is created and stepwise refined. In a second step a BPMN workflow schema is derived from an adequately refined business process model according to a metamodel-based schema transformation. The modelling approach is illustrated using the case study of an online auction house.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 2 (2010)
The influence of microsite characteristics on whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) germination and early survival
Creators: name: Whitney, Charlotte K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Whitebark pine, a hardy high-elevation species distributed throughout northwestern North America, is a keystone species for alpine ecosystems for its seeds, a food source for many wildlife species. It defines the community structure of alpine ecosystems, moderates the harsh climate, and increases ecosystem stability. As it is threatened by many factors, including climate change, facilitated migration may be needed to ensure the species’ survival. Outplanting will rely upon knowledge of the specific environmental microsite characteristics that may support successful germination and survival of the species. A common garden experiment to test emergence rates according to variable site conditions was conducted across northern BC. Seed was collected from 7 source populations, stratified for 4 months, and planted in 8 common garden provenance trials distributed across northern British Columbia. Within-site conditions at the microsite level, including soil type, depth, vegetation influence, and topography, were assessed and related to seedling emergence. Convex microsites were positively related to emergence at a coastal, damp site. Surrounding vegetation with lower height seemed to support higher emergence. Organic soils were related to higher emergence rates at that same site. Microsites with shallow soils also had higher emergence rates. Seed source quality, such as seed maturity and development, as well as stratification techniques, may have a greater effect on the germination and first-year survival of whitebark pine seedlings. If facilitated migration supports whitebark pine growth at increasing latitudes, as climate change scenarios suggest may be necessary for species survival, these results may be used for successful outplanting.
Business Process Extensibility
Creators: name: Balko, Sören
name: Ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M.
name: Barros, Alistair
name: La Rosa, Marcello
name: Adams, Michael
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Vendors provide reference process models as consolidated, off-the-shelf solutions to capture best practices in a given industry domain. Customers can then adapt these models to suit their specific requirements. Traditional process flexibility approaches facilitate this operation, but do not fully address it as they do not sufficiently take controlled change guided by vendors’ reference models into account. This tension between the customer’s freedom of adapting reference models, and the ability to incorporate with relatively low effort vendor-initiated reference model changes, thus needs to be carefully balanced. This paper introduces process extensibility as a new paradigm for customising reference processes and managing their evolution over time. Process extensibility mandates a clear recognition of the different responsibilities and interests of reference model vendors and consumers, and is concerned with keeping the effort of customer-side reference model adaptations low while allowing sufficient room for model change.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 3 (2010)
Higher-order propagation of chaos in $L^2$ for interacting diffusions
Creators: name: Hess-Childs, Elias
name: Rowan, Keefer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study diffusions with bounded pairwise interaction. We show for the first time propagation of chaos on arbitrary time horizons in a stronger $L^2$-based distance, as opposed to the usual Wasserstein or relative entropy distances. The estimate is based on iterating inequalities derived from the BBGKY hierarchy and does not follow directly from bounds on the full $N$-particle density. This argument gives the optimal rate in $N$, showing the distance between the $j$-particle marginal density and the tensor product of the mean-field limit is $O(N^{-1})$. We use cluster expansions to give perturbative higher-order corrections to the mean-field limit. For an arbitrary order $i$, these provide ``low-dimensional'' approximations to the $j$-particle marginal density with error $O(N^{-(i+1)})$.
description: 61 pages, 2 figures. This version extends results to R^d, removes qualitative assumptions on initial data, and fixes minor typos
Pattern Specification and Matching in Conceptual Models - A Generic Approach Based on Set Operations
Creators: name: Delfmann, Patrick
name: Herwig, Sebastian
name: Lis, Łukasz
name: Stein, Armin
name: Tent, Katrin
name: Becker, Jörg
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Searching for patterns in conceptual models is useful for a number of purposes, for example revealing syntactical errors, model comparison, and identification of business process improvement potentials. In this contribution, we introduce a formal approach for the specification and matching of structural patterns in conceptual models. Unlike existing approaches, we do not focus on a certain application problem or a specific modelling language. Instead, our approach is generic making it applicable for any pattern matching purpose and most conceptual modelling languages. In order to build sets representing structural model patterns, we define formal operations based on set theory, which can be applied to arbitrary models represented by sets. The basic sets represent the model elements, which in turn originate from the modelling language specification’s instances. Besides a conceptual and formal specification of our approach, we present particular application examples and a prototypical modelling tool showing its general applicability.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 3 (2010)
The Feasibility of a Wood Pellet Plant Using Alternate Sources of Wood Fibre
Creators: name: Blom, Garrett
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This Thesis will evaluate the feasibility of building and operating a pellet plant in interior British Columbia. This thesis will examine the economic demand for wood pellets in different regions of the world. It will also identify the current Canadian supply and production of wood pellets. The thesis considers the capital costs associated with the building of a pellet plant as well as the machine capital costs. The variable costs associated with a pellet plant are examined in this thesis, with an emphasis on the costs associated with obtaining different wood fibre sources. Transportation and drying costs are also taken into consideration with regards to variable costs. In the analysis of data five different scenarios are calculated to identify the feasibility of using different fibre sources to operate a pellet plant. Recommendations based from these scenarios demonstrate the feasibility of operating and building a pellet plant in interior British Columbia.
Supplementary document for Calculations of adsorption-dependent refractive indices of metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing applications - 6121091.pdf
Creators: name: Salehifar, Nahideh
name: Holtmann, Peter
name: Prakash, Abhishek
name: Soleimani, Homayoon
name: Gerald, Rex
name: Huang, Jie
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Calculation results of various MOF/gas systems
Algorithm-Oriented Qubit Mapping for Variational Quantum Algorithms
Creators: name: Ji, Yanjun
name: Chen, Xi
name: Polian, Ilia
name: Ban, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum algorithms implemented on near-term devices require qubit mapping due to noise and limited qubit connectivity. In this paper we propose a strategy called algorithm-oriented qubit mapping (AOQMAP) that aims to bridge the gap between exact and scalable mapping methods by utilizing the inherent structure of algorithms. While exact methods provide optimal solutions, they become intractable for large circuits. Scalable methods, like SWAP networks, offer fast solutions but lack optimality. AOQMAP bridges this gap by leveraging algorithmic features and their association with specific device substructures to achieve depth-optimal and scalable solutions. The proposed strategy follows a two stage approach. First, it maps circuits to subtopologies to meet connectivity constraints. Second, it identifies the optimal qubits for execution using a cost function and performs postselection among execution results across subtopologies. Notably, AOQMAP provides both scalable and optimal solutions for variational quantum algorithms with fully connected two qubit interactions on common subtopologies including linear, T-, and H-shaped, minimizing circuit depth. Benchmarking experiments conducted on IBM quantum devices demonstrate significant reductions in gate count and circuit depth compared to Qiskit, Tket, and SWAP network. Specifically, AOQMAP achieves up to an 82% reduction in circuit depth and an average 138% increase in success probability. This scalable and algorithm-specific approach holds the potential to optimize a wider range of quantum algorithms.
Towards a Methodology for Flexible Process Specification
Creators: name: Kannengiesser, Udo
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: This paper proposes the foundations of a methodology for specifying process flexibility based on a viewv of processes as design objects. It is represented using the function-behaviour-structure (FBS) ontology of designing. The paper shows how the FBS ontology allows extending and generalising recent work on flexibility in engineering design, and how it allows applying this work to processes. The resulting framework provides a comprehensive account of process flexibility that subsumes existing approaches. Finally, the paper presents a method for flexible process specification, illustrated using examples of a property valuation process in the Australian lending industry.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 3 (2010)
The Proviado Access Control Model for Business Process Monitoring Components
Creators: name: Reichert, Manfred
name: Bassil, Sarita
name: Bobrik, Ralph
name: Bauer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Integrated process support is highly desirable in environments where data related to a particular business process are scattered over distributed, heterogeneous information systems. A business process monitoring component is a much-needed module in order to provide an integrated view on all these process data. Regarding process visualisation and process data integration, access control (AC) issues are very important but also quite complex to be addressed. A major problem arises from the fact that the involved information systems are usually based on heterogeneous AC components. For several reasons, the only feasible way to tackle the problem of AC at the process monitoring level is to define access rights for the process monitoring component, hence getting rid of the burden to map access rights from the information system level. This paper presents the Proviado process visualisation framework and discusses requirements for AC in process monitoring, which we derived from our case studies in the automotive domain. It then presents alternative approaches for AC: the view-based and the object-based approach. The latter is retained, and a core AC model is proposed for the definition of access rights that meet the derived requirements. AC mechanisms provided within the core model are key ingredients for the definition of model extensions.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 5, No 3 (2010)
title: RSE SEE 9 - Book of Abstracts
title: 9th Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry - South-East Europe
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Grgur, Branimir
name: Pašti, Igor
name: Dekanski, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: Serbian Chemical Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Electrochemistry
subject: Hydrogen energy
subject: Energy Storage
subject: Electrocatalysis
subject: Corrosion
subject: Bioelectrochemistry

description: In its 9th edition, the RSE-SEE conference continues to highlight the pivotal role of electrochemistry as a fundamental and applied discipline driving progress in modern society, particularly in Southeastern Europe. The conference will delve into diverse areas where electrochemistry plays an indispensable role, including renewable energy sources, energy storage devices, medical applications, biochemistry, agriculture, and analytics. Traditional topics like catalysis, synthesis, corrosion, and corrosion protection will also receive due attention.

The conference's comprehensive scope encompasses various aspects of electrochemistry, such as:

Electrochemistry at Interfaces: Exploring Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Methodological Aspects.

Electrochemistry of New Functional Materials: Focusing on Conducting Polymers and Composites.

Electrochemical Energy Storage: Discussing Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Supercapacitors.

Electrochemistry for Environmental Applications: Addressing Sustainable Solutions.

Analytical Electrochemistry: Focusing on Sensors and Biosensors.

Electrocatalysis: Exploring New Non-Noble Metal Catalysts.

Nanoscale Electrochemistry: Investigating the Electrochemical Processes at Nanoscale.

Organic and Bioelectrochemistry: Unraveling the Intricacies of Organic and Biological Systems.

Stability of Electrochemical Systems: Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention, especially in Nuclear Power Plants.

Electrodeposition and Electroplating: Understanding the Electrochemical Deposition Processes.

Electrochemical Instrumentation: Exploring Combined Techniques for Comprehensive Analysis.
CubeSat Testing Table for USI's UNITE team
Creators: name: Hoffman, Sarah
name: Lockard, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018

description: This project is centered on designing and building a testing table suited for a small
satellite, classified as a CubeSat. The satellite is being constructed by another group of students
at the University of Southern Indiana. The testing table is made to have variable rotational speed
and a tilting component; this is done in order to fully access all sides of the satellite while testing
is conducted on the solar cells, which are attached to the outer shell of the CubeSat. Testing of
the CubeSat must be completed before it is handed off for launch this coming fall. Before
constructing the table with both the rotational and tilting components, a prototype table was
constructed with just the rotational components. The testing table is designed to fit inside USFs
laminar flow hood due to the sensitive electronic devices of the CubeSat. The final design of the
testing table uses a DC motor to control rotation, and a linear electric actuator to cause tilt. Both
systems are ran off of an electronics platform called Arduino.
An Overview of the Wood Pellet Industry: “A British Columbia Perspective”
Creators: name: Scott, Will
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The following is an overview of the wood pellet industry. It will examine key aspects of the industry, both positive and negative. The report starts with an overview of the current energy consumption levels looking at the different sources of energy, and what role renewable energy plays. The several types of renewable energy are discussed and biomass energy is then defined. Wood pellets are labeled as a specific type of biomass energy, and the report moves to further explain wood pellets in full. An introduction to what wood pellets are, is presented beginning with a brief description of the products’ properties. The North American standards for wood pellets are explained moving to a full description of the production process. The report then looks at two major markets for wood pellets. The potential for the U.S. market is examined starting with the residential heating sector and the role pellet stoves plays there. The potential for the industrial energy sector is then reviewed, specifically the potential for using wood pellets with coal to create energy. The second major market looked at is the European Union. Factors contributing to the success of pellets in the European market are explained as well as production potential, and the significance to the Canadian pellet industry. The Canadian wood pellet industry is further examined, and the report specifically looks at the industry in British Columbia. Current economic conditions in BC’s forest industry are discussed and specific examples are given of how wood pellets are changing the industry. Potential barriers to the success of the pellet industry in Canada and BC are brought to attention, and the report is then closed with concluding remarks.
Locally Resonant Metagrating by Elastic Impedance Modulation
Creators: name: Cao, Liyun
name: Wan, Sheng
name: Assouar, Badreddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical and acoustic metagratings have addressed the limitations of low-efficiency wave manipulation and high-complexity fabrication of metamaterials and metasurfaces. In this research, we introduce the concept of elastic metagrating and present the theoretical and experimental demonstration of locally resonant elastic metagrating (LREM). Remarkably, the LREM, with dimensions two orders of magnitude smaller than the relevant wavelength, overcomes the size limitations of conventional metagratings and offers a unique design paradigm for highly efficient wave manipulation with an extremely compact structure in elastic wave systems. Based on a distinctive elastic impedance engineering with hybridization of intrinsic evanescent waves, the proposed LREM achieves wide-angle perfect absorption. This tackles a fundamental challenge faced by all elastic metastructures designed for wave manipulation, which consists in the unavoidable vibration modes in finite structures hindering their implementations in real-world applications.
Transfer systems for rank two elementary Abelian groups: characteristic functions and matchstick games
Creators: name: Bao, Linus
name: Hazel, Christy
name: Karkos, Tia
name: Kessler, Alice
name: Nicolas, Austin
name: Ormsby, Kyle
name: Park, Jeremie
name: Schleff, Cait
name: Tilton, Scotty
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that Hill's characteristic function $χ$ for transfer systems on a lattice $P$ surjects onto interior operators for $P$. Moreover, the fibers of $χ$ have unique maxima which are exactly the saturated transfer systems. In order to apply this theorem in examples relevant to equivariant homotopy theory, we develop the theory of saturated transfer systems on modular lattices, ultimately producing a ``matchstick game'' that puts saturated transfer systems in bijection with certain structured subsets of covering relations. After an interlude developing a recursion for transfer systems on certain combinations of bounded posets, we apply these results to determine the full lattice of transfer systems for rank two elementary Abelian groups.
description: 25 pages, comments welcome!
What they think and what they know: attitudes and awareness towards sexual reproductive health in contemporary Tehran
Creators: name: Eizadyar, Nasrin
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Nasrin Eizadyar shows the results from two studies assessing sexual and reproductive health knowledge among men and women in Teheran and exploring associations between sexual attitudes and age, gender, education, marital status and religion. Almost 800 people were involved in the studies. MSF identified a growing need for disseminating evidence-based sexual knowledge to diminish misconceptions among all age groups and improving sexual and reproductive health training to both genders within the educational curriculum.