cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  La costituzionalizzazione dell’emergenza in Italia
Creators: name: Trogu, Mauro
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: In many Western States where a special legislation against terrorism has been enforced, the judges have reacted by reducing the impact of those laws limiting constitutional freedoms. On the contrary, in Italy, often the judges apply such laws in an extensive way, without monitoring the respect of human rights and freedoms of individuals. This paper aims to illustrate which are and how are applied in courtrooms the main legal instruments to counter terrorism, so as to identify the most critical aspects which risk being in contrast with the constitutional order. In particular, changes of the criminal, administrative and penitentiary systems and their applications in court are analyzed.
description: Democrazia e Sicurezza – 2017, n. 1
Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, 4th Edition
Creators: name: Silowash, George J
name: Cappelli, Dawn M.
name: Moore, Andrew P
name: Trzeciak, Randall F.
name: Shimeall, Timothy
name: Flynn, Lori
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This fourth edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats provides the most current recommendations of the CERT® Program (part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute), based on an expanded database of more than 700 insider threat cases and continued research and analysis. It introduces the topic of insider threats, explains its intended audience and how this guide differs from previous editions, defines insider threats, and outlines current patterns and trends. The guide then describes 19 practices that organizations should implement across the enterprise to prevent and detect insider threats, as well as case studies of organizations that failed to do so. Each practice includes features new to this edition: challenges to implementation, quick wins and high-impact solutions for small and large organizations, and relevant security standards. This edition also focuses on six groups within an organization-human resources, legal, physical security, data owners, information technology, and software engineering-and maps the relevant groups to each practice. The appendices provide a revised list of information security best practices, a new mapping of the guide's practices to established security standards, a new breakdown of the practices by organizational group, and new checklists of activities for each practice.
Korean students' language learning strategy use in different contexts : ESL and EFL contexts
Creators: name: Choi, Ji-Young
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2005
Subjects: Korean students
Language learning strategies
English education in Korea

description: The first purpose of this study is to investigate differences in language learning strategies used by Koreans in an ESL (English as a Second Language) context – in the U.S. – to those used in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context – in Korea. The second purpose is to discover the reasons behind the different strategy use. Subjects were six students studying in undergraduate or graduate programs at the University of Texas at Austin. First, they responded to the self-report questionnaire, Oxford’s SILL (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning). Based on their responses on the SILL, forty-five minute interviews were conducted with each participant. The study found that: (1) the participants’ overall strategy use increased in the U.S., (2) the increase or decrease in strategy use in different contexts was related to the learner’s motivation, (3) their use of social and metacognitive strategies increased most in the U.S. while use of memory strategies showed the least change, (4) they knew most strategies in Korea, (5) they have realized the importance of speaking and writing in an ESL context and use strategies related to these two skills more frequently, (6) some strategies are used less in an ESL context because learners intentionally avoid them after finding them unhelpful or they do not have to try to use the strategies in different context, (7) the SILL does not reflect different contexts of different learners
A Semi-Analytical Model of Visible-Wavelength Phase Curves of Exoplanets and Applications to Kepler-7 b and Kepler-10 b
Creators: name: Hu, Renyu
name: Demory, Brice-Olivier
name: Seager, Sara
name: Lewis, Nikole
name: Showman, Adam P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kepler has detected numerous exoplanet transits by precise measurements of stellar light in a single visible-wavelength band. In addition to detection, the precise photometry provides phase curves of exoplanets, which can be used to study the dynamic processes on these planets. However, the interpretation of these observations can be complicated by the fact that visible-wavelength phase curves can represent both thermal emission and scattering from the planets. Here we present a semi-analytical model framework that can be applied to study Kepler and future visible-wavelength phase curve observations of exoplanets. The model efficiently computes reflection and thermal emission components for both rocky and gaseous planets, considering both homogeneous and inhomogeneous surfaces or atmospheres. We analyze the phase curves of the gaseous planet Kepler-7 b and the rocky planet Kepler-10 b using the model. In general, we find that a hot exoplanet's visible-wavelength phase curve having a significant phase offset can usually be explained by two classes of solutions: one class requires a thermal hot spot shifted to one side of the substellar point, and the other class requires reflective clouds concentrated on the same side of the substellar point. The two solutions would require very different Bond albedos to fit the same phase curve; atmospheric circulation models or eclipse observations at longer wavelengths can effectively rule out one class of solutions, and thus pinpoint the albedo of the planet, allowing decomposition of the reflection and the thermal emission components in the phase curve. Particularly for Kepler-7 b, reflective clouds located on the west side of the substellar point can best explain its phase curve. We further derive that the reflectivity of the clear part of the atmosphere should be less than 7% and that of the cloudy part should be greater than 80% (abridged)
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
title:  La armonización penal en materia de terrorismo como ejemplo de irracionalidad político-criminal. Referencias al caso español
Creators: name: Maraver, Noelia Corral
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: For decades the terrorist phenomenon has generated interest of the supranational bodies. Thus, we can find many treaties and conventions on combating terrorism both within the United Nations and the Council of Europe. The European Union is also involved in this struggle, which only became a real priority issue after the terrorist attacks of 11‐S 2001 in the US. However, the EU approach to terrorism is improvised and show scant regard for fundamental rights and legal guarantees. The European criminal law are changing the Member States´ criminal systems in a harsher way. In the Spanish case, the transposition has been carried out by the Laws 5/2010 and 2/2015, that are not consistent with such fundamental rights and legal guarantees.
description: Democrazia e Sicurezza – 2017, n. 1
D5.4 - First predictive nanoQSAR models integrated into NanoCommons KnowledgeBase
Creators: name: Sarimveis
name: Doganis
name: Karatzas
name: Varsou
name: Afantitis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: NanoCommons
Deliverable
QSAR
Nanomaterials
Knowledge base integration

description: This Deliverable report (D5.4) presents the services that have been developed and are available through the NanoCommons infrastructure for generating and validating nano-specific quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (nanoQSAR) models and applying the models for predicting nanomaterial (NM) end-points for new materials that have not been tested experimentally. We offer two levels of modelling services: (i) Algorithm as a Service (AaaS) which provides the technical tools to model developers for creating nanoQSAR models and deploying them in the NanoCommons Knowledge Base, or (ii) Model as a Service (MaaS) which provides ready-to-use web implementations of nanoQSAR models, that can be used by the community to validate the models or calculate end-point predictions for other NMs as long as these are within the Domain of Applicability (DoA) of the model.
Classification Schemes for the Radar Reference Window: Design and Comparisons
Creators: name: Yin, Chaoran
name: Yan, Linjie
name: Hao, Chengpeng
name: Ullo, Silvia Liberata
name: Giunta, Gaetano
name: Farina, Alfonso
name: Orlando, Danilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we address the problem of classifying data within the radar reference window in terms of statistical properties. Specifically, we partition these data into statistically homogeneous subsets by identifying possible clutter power variations with respect to the cells under test (accounting for possible range-spread targets) and/or clutter edges. To this end, we consider different situations of practical interest and formulate the classification problem as multiple hypothesis tests comprising several models for the operating scenario. Then, we solve the hypothesis testing problems by resorting to suitable approximations of the model order selection rules due to the intractable mathematics associated with the maximum likelihood estimation of some parameters. Remarkably, the classification results provided by the proposed architectures represent an advanced clutter map since, besides the estimation of the clutter parameters, they contain a clustering of the range bins in terms of homogeneous subsets. In fact, such information can drive the conventional detectors towards more reliable estimates of the clutter covariance matrix according to the position of the cells under test. The performance analysis confirms that the conceived architectures represent a viable means to recognize the scenario wherein the radar is operating at least for the considered simulation parameters.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
title: Brand polarization: conceptualisation, antecedents and outcomes
Creators: name: Osuna Ramírez, Sergio Andrés
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020

description: This thesis advances the understanding of brand polarization, a nascent concept in the marketing and branding academic literature. Brand polarization is defined as an affective phenomenon that involves passionate positive and negative feelings and offers a new analytical lens to the consumer-brand relationship knowledge. The current thesis addresses the nature, drivers and outcomes of the brand polarization phenomenon and answers three research questions. To better understand brand polarization, the theoretical development involves a systematic literature review of five related concepts (polarization in political science, polarization in social psychology, brand rivalry, brand love and brand hate) and lie foundation for the development of a new conceptual model. The empirical analysis adopts a sequential mixed-methods research design with a qualitative and a quantitative study, where data is first collected via 22 semi-structured interviews, followed by a survey of 1,238 lovers and haters of polarizing brands in three different product categories. Consistent with the RQ2 and RQ3, the qualitative study utilises semi-structured interviews to identify the key antecedents and outcomes of brand polarization, and these preliminary insights inform the dimensionality of the phenomenon and the finalised conceptual model. Survey data was used to confirm the relationships hypothesised in the conceptual model and answer the RQ2 and RQ3. The thesis findings show the multi-dimensional nature of brand polarization, which consists of brand passion, self-brand benchmarking, intra-group identification and inter-group dissociation, and offer a new reliable measurement for the phenomenon. The results also identify five drivers of brand polarization, namely brand strength, brand uniqueness, association with important issues, ideological compatibility/incompatibility and sense of community. Finally, the evidence supports the role of brand polarization in pairs of oppositional concepts including complimenting and complaining behaviours; brand loyalty and disloyalty; using pro and anti-brand merchandise; participation in a brand and anti-brand community; forgiveness and retaliation behaviours; positive and negative WoM; and defending and attacking the brand. The research offers several theoretical, methodological and managerial implications.
Current Perspectives on Interoperability
Creators: name: Brownsword, Lisa
name: Carney, David J.
name: Fisher, David
name: Lewis, Grace A.
name: B. Craig Meyers
name: Morris, Edwin J.
name: Place, Patrick R.
name: Smith, James
name: Wrage, Lutz
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report describes current research within the software engineering community on the topic of interoperability between software systems. That research includes analyses of the different types of interoperability problems and issues and efforts to define models of interoperability that will aid in creating solutions to those problems.

The report also describes work that is currently underway at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in this area. That work originated in an independent research effort and now has grown into a separate technical initiative in the area of interoperability. The SEI initiative is currently focused on analyzing several aspects of interoperability: how it is manifest in different kinds of activities (i.e., programmatic vs. constructive vs. operational activities), the essential characteristics of interoperability, and the key principles on which solutions will depend.
title:  Tra diritti fondamentali e smart sanctions: l’interessante caso degli individui e delle società wrongfully listed
Creators: name: Candelmo, Claudia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: As per article 41 of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council may adopt sanctions to prevent States or individuals and entities from threatening international peace and security. States and regional organizations, such as the European Union, may as well adopt unilateral sanctions.
The frequent use of targeted sanctions, especially in the fight against terrorism, has caused progressive concerns of potential human rights abuses, especially violations of the principle of due process. One of the least analysed topics, in this context, is the problem of wrongfully listed individuals and entities, and their right to a fair compensation for the damage suffered. This issue has become the object of an evolutionary jurisprudence of European courts. Furthermore, the Security Council has recently adopted resolution no. 2253, which specifically analyses, for the first time, the issue of wrongfully listed individuals and entities.
description: Democrazia e Sicurezza – 2017, n. 1
Dependability Cases
Creators: name: Weinstock, Charles B.
name: Goodenough, John
name: Hudak, John J.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many large software systems display fragility or a lack of dependability caused by inattention to details at various stages of development (e.g., missing data, undocumented assumptions, lack of testing), resulting in a failure to catch errors. This technical note explains how to create a dependability case for a system that helps identify and keep track of such details. A dependability case is defined here as a structured argument providing evidence that a system meets its specified dependability requirements. The technical note describes how to structure the argument and present evidence to support it. A sample problem is presented, as well as issues raised by that problem and future goals.
Discovery Colloquium: Quality Software Development @ Internet Speed
Creators: name: Levine, Linda
name: Baskerville, Richard
name: Link, Jo Lee Loveland
name: Pries-Heje, Jan
name: Ramesh, Balasubramaniam
name: Slaughter, Sandra
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In October, 2001, the Software Engineering Institute hosted a colloquium to explore issues faced by organizations challenged with developing quality software at Internet speed and to examine the impact of Internet speed on current software-development practices. The colloquium was an element of an exploratory study being conducted by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia State University, and The IT University of Copenhagen. Team members shared their findings from a previous phase of the study in which they had investigated quality and fast-cycle Internet-software engineering in nine organizations. Members of those organizations attended the colloquium, along with others who were invited to participate based on their perceived ability to contribute to the discussion of Internet-speed development.

This report describes the activities of the colloquium and the raw data collected during group discussions and breakout sessions. It also includes a brief description of the field study done by the cross-institutional team. A preliminary analysis of the results of the colloquium is presented in the conclusion of the report.
title:  Sicurezza e libertà: margini e orizzonti di (buon) senso, con uno sguardo comparato
Creators: name: Maestri, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Security and freedom are often in conflict (this can be observed also comparing the first contractual theories of natural law, proposed by Hobbes and Locke): this happens more frequently in a multicultural society. This paper focuses on some aspects related to this conflict. First of all, positive and negative consequences of establishing or not establishing (written) rules about declaring states of emergency are analyzed.
Then the role of the concepts of “margin” (as a border or as a margin of appreciation) and “common sense” is investigated, taking into consideration some different national experiences (state of emergency not provided by Italian Constitution, rules about declaring states of emergency and banning political parties associated with terrorism in Spain). Particular  attention is paid to conflicts between security and freedom about the use of cultural and religious symbols, like Muslim veils and the burqini, the swimming costume worn by some Muslim women and substantially banned (July‐August 2016) by some French mayors, but then the Conseil d’Etat suspended the ban. The last part of the paper tries to suggest a way to overcome fear of foreigners – even in these bloody periods because of many terrorist attacks – through a correct intercultural
and dialogic approach, in order to avoid serious misunderstandings.
description: Democrazia e Sicurezza – 2017, n. 1
Beyond the Black Box: A Case Study in C to Java Conversion and Product Extensibility
Creators: name: Pisey  Huy
name: Lewis, Grace A.
name: Ming-Sun  Liu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This case study describes the experience of converting and enhancing NDBS 1.0 (Netscape Database Keystore), a programmatic library to extract private keys and digital certificates from a Netscape database written in C and Java. The result of this work is NDBS 2.0, a 100% Java version of NDBS 1.0 designed to support other keystores easily. NDBS 2.0 also includes write and delete capabilities, features that were not present in NDBS 1.0. The case study describes the experience of the conversion and development process, difficulties, and lessons learned.
Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI), Version 1.1--Staged Representation
Creators: name: CMMI Product Team
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models have evolved the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) concept, established by the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM), to a new level that enables the continued growth and expansion of the CMM concept to multiple disciplines. Like the SW-CMM, EIA/IS 731, IPD-CMM, SA-CMM, and other process improvement models, CMMI models are tools that help organizations improve their processes. This CMMI model is designed to help organizations improve their product and service development, acquisition, and maintenance processes. Concepts covered by this model include systems engineering, software engineering, integrated product and process development, and supplier sourcing as well as traditional CMM concepts such as process management and project management. Each CMMI model is designed to be used in concert with other CMMI models, making it easier for organizations to pursue enterprise-wide process improvement at their own pace. This CMMI model has a staged representation, which focuses on measuring process improvement using maturity levels. Maturity levels apply to process-improvement achievement across the organizational unit using the model.
Reconsidering the Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction of the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Creators: name: Kalangi Rodrigo
name: Manamendra-Arachchi, Kelum
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Continuous genus Acavus and Oligospira occupation along with uninterrupted horizontal pervasive of Canarium sp. (‘kekuna’ nut) have proven that temperatures in the lowland rain forests have not changed by at least 5 °C over the last 50,000 years.
Case Study: Model-Based Analysis of the Mission Data System Reference Architecture
Creators: name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Gluch, David
name: Woodham, Kurt
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report documents the results of applying the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) to the Mission Data System (MDS) architecture. The work described in this case study is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) research project "Model-Based Software Assurance with the SAE Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL)." The report includes discussion of modeling and analyzing the MDS reference architecture and its instantiation for specific platforms. In particular, it focuses on modeling aspects of state-based system behavior in MDS for quantitative analysis. Three different types of state-based system models are considered: closed loop control, goal-oriented mission plan execution, and fault tolerance through mission replanning. This report demonstrates modeling and analysis of the MDS reference architecture as well as instantiations of the reference architecture for a specific mission system.
Agora – Framework for Decentralized Communities
Creators: name: Krejčiřík, Matěj
name: Štěpán Sukdol
name: Dugong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Decentralization
Reputation
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Agora framework
Bitcoin

description: One gives an overview of Agora - the decentralized reputation system based on Bitcoin protocol. Among possible applications an improvement for scholarly communication is previewed. Firstly, philosophical background is introduced. Then Agora as a framework is described - it aims to provide transparent, decentralized and reliable framework for creation of reputation models. The framework can host multiple communities and offers a set of rules that the communities can toggle on/off, configure or change as needed. This allows creation of contextual reputation models bound with the communities. Verification via cryptographic handshake during physical meetings prevents sybil attack through "bot farms" and "man in the middle attack".
title: Losing a Private Sphere? A Glance on the User Perspective on Privacy in Connected Cars
Creators: name: Walter, Jonas
name: Abendroth, Bettina
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2023

description: Connectivity is one of the major prerequisites of automated driving. Enabled by numerous connected sensors, new cars offer new functionalities, provide higher security levels and promise to enhance the comfort of travelling. However, by connecting a vehicle with its environment, the car becomes more transparent. The integration of the car into a smart grid seems to conflict with the users’ expectation of their car as a private retreat, thus reducing the acceptance and usage adoption of connected cars. This article aims at helping developers and engineers to consider the user’s expectations when designing a connected car. Furthermore, this article reviews and compares recent international surveys on user’s privacy with our own results on the user’s attitude towards connected vehicular services.
Combining Architecture-Centric Engineering with the Team Software Process
Creators: name: Nord, Robert
name: McHale, James
name: Bachmann, Felix
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report contains a description of an architecture-centric life-cycle model that uses the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's architecture-centric engineering (ACE) methods embedded in a Team Software Process (TSP) framework and our experience in piloting the approach in an actual development effort. Combining ACE and TSP provides an iterative approach for delivering quality systems on time and within budget. TSP provides the infrastructure in estimation, planning, measurement, and project management. ACE provides the means for designing, evaluating, and implementing a system so that it will satisfy its business and quality goals. Bringing these approaches together results in something that is much more than the sum of the parts. The combined approach offers help to organizations to set an architecture/developer team in motion using mature, disciplined engineering practices that produce quality software quickly.
Asymptotic Behaviors of Solutions to quasilinear elliptic Equations with critical Sobolev growth and Hardy potential
Creators: name: Xiang, Chang-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60 35B33

description: Optimal estimates on the asymptotic behaviors of weak solutions both at the origin and at the infinity are obtained to the following quasilinear elliptic equations \[-Δ_{p}u-\fracμ{|x|^{p}}|u|^{p-2}u=Q(x)|u|^{\frac{Np}{N-p}-2}u,\quad\,x\in \mathbb{R}^{N},\] where $1
Additional file 2 of Combined metabolic activators improve cognitive functions in Alzheimer’s disease patients: a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase-II trial
Creators: name: Yulug, Burak
name: Altay, Ozlem
name: Li, Xiangyu
name: Hanoglu, Lutfu
name: Cankaya, Seyda
name: Lam, Simon
name: Velioglu, Halil Aziz
name: Yang, Hong
name: Coskun, Ebru
name: Idil, Ezgi
name: Nogaylar, Rahim
name: Ozsimsek, Ahmet
name: Bayram, Cemil
name: Bolat, Ismail
name: Oner, Sena
name: Tozlu, Ozlem Ozdemir
name: Arslan, Mehmet Enes
name: Hacimuftuoglu, Ahmet
name: Yildirim, Serkan
name: Arif, Muhammad
name: Shoaie, Saeed
name: Zhang, Cheng
name: Nielsen, Jens
name: Turkez, Hasan
name: Borén, Jan
name: Uhlén, Mathias
name: Mardinoglu, Adil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Appendix.
Investigation of usage of INTERNET OF THINGS and its CHALLENGES in Human Society
Creators: name: subramaniam, ganapathy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) implies the interconnection of people, devices, equipment and even wildlife. With the spread of IoT, society has become more complex, and we are facing new challenges that threaten social stability. From a human-centric perspective, the question is how his IoT concept will affect organized societies. We assume that government agencies have institutionalized obligations to prevent security breaches within their jurisdictions and to ensure the security of sensitive applications such as national infrastructure, security services, and finance. In this article, we observe the predictable challenges for national administration from the order and political balance of IoT. IoT information input and time consumption inherently influence decision-making; the ubiquitous infrastructure environment magnifies state legal and national security concerns; connectivity brings the concept of conflict into social life; I found to introduce The results show that in order to maintain social stability, states need to take precautionary measures in terms of creating the educational, legal and technological conditions for the new phase of technological change. increase
Marine Image Analysis Handbook for RootPainter
Creators: name: Clark, Hannah Poppy
name: Smith, Abraham George
name: De Clippele, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Marine image analysis
Machine learning

description: This handbook details use of the open-source and user friendly machine learning tool, RootPainter, for analysis of marine image data. This tool can be used to extract area measurements for a given species without requiring pre-processing of images.

Originally compiled for use in an interactive workshop, the handbook takes you through installation of the tool and the training process on a practise dataset identifying Primnoa resedaeformis. It also contains advice for using the tool on your own data.
Incremental Computation with Names
Creators: name: Hammer, Matthew A.
name: Dunfield, Jana
name: Headley, Kyle
name: Labich, Nicholas
name: Foster, Jeffrey S.
name: Hicks, Michael
name: Van Horn, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.1; D.3.3; F.3.2

description: Over the past thirty years, there has been significant progress in developing general-purpose, language-based approaches to incremental computation, which aims to efficiently update the result of a computation when an input is changed. A key design challenge in such approaches is how to provide efficient incremental support for a broad range of programs. In this paper, we argue that first-class names are a critical linguistic feature for efficient incremental computation. Names identify computations to be reused across differing runs of a program, and making them first class gives programmers a high level of control over reuse. We demonstrate the benefits of names by presenting NOMINAL ADAPTON, an ML-like language for incremental computation with names. We describe how to use NOMINAL ADAPTON to efficiently incrementalize several standard programming patterns -- including maps, folds, and unfolds -- and show how to build efficient, incremental probabilistic trees and tries. Since NOMINAL ADAPTON's implementation is subtle, we formalize it as a core calculus and prove it is from-scratch consistent, meaning it always produces the same answer as simply re-running the computation. Finally, we demonstrate that NOMINAL ADAPTON can provide large speedups over both from-scratch computation and ADAPTON, a previous state-of-the-art incremental computation system.
description: OOPSLA '15, October 25-30, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Conformance Criteria for the SAME Approach to Binding Ada Programs to SQL
Creators: name: Moore, James W.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The structured query language (SQL) Ada Module Extensions (SAME) form a method for the design and construction of Ada database applications. The method is explained in a companion document: "Guidelines for the Use of the SAME." In order to enable the method to be referenced in requests for proposals (RFPs) and development contracts, there must be some method to determine if a given software design and implementation conform to the SAME guidelines. Such conformance criteria are contained in this report.
Generalised form factor dark matter in the Sun
Creators: name: Vincent, Aaron C.
name: Serenelli, Aldo
name: Scott, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of energy transport in the Sun by asymmetric dark matter with momentum and velocity-dependent interactions, with an eye to solving the decade-old Solar Abundance Problem. We study effective theories where the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section goes as $v_{\rm rel}^{2n}$ and $q^{2n}$ with $n = -1, 0, 1 $ or $2$, where $v_{\rm rel}$ is the dark matter-nucleon relative velocity and $q$ is the momentum exchanged in the collision. Such cross-sections can arise generically as leading terms from the most basic nonstandard DM-quark operators. We employ a high-precision solar simulation code to study the impact on solar neutrino rates, the sound speed profile, convective zone depth, surface helium abundance and small frequency separations. We find that the majority of models that improve agreement with the observed sound speed profile and depth of the convection zone also reduce neutrino fluxes beyond the level that can be reasonably accommodated by measurement and theory errors. However, a few specific points in parameter space yield a significant overall improvement. A 3-5 GeV DM particle with $σ_{SI} \propto q^2$ is particularly appealing, yielding more than a $6σ$ improvement with respect to standard solar models, while being allowed by direct detection and collider limits. We provide full analytical capture expressions for $q$- and $v_{\rm rel}$-dependent scattering, as well as complete likelihood tables for all models.
description: 45 pages, 18 figures. v2 matches published version; see http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06502 for update
Marine Image Analysis Handbook for RootPainter
Creators: name: Clark, Hannah Poppy
name: Smith, Abraham George
name: De Clippele, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Marine image analysis
Machine learning

description: This handbook details use of the open-source and user friendly machine learning tool, RootPainter, for analysis of marine image data. This tool can be used to extract area measurements for a given species without requiring pre-processing of images. Originally compiled for use in an interactive workshop, the handbook takes you through installation of the tool and the training process on a practise dataset identifying Primnoa resedaeformis. It also contains advice for using the tool on your own data.
ALMA observations of alpha Centauri: First detection of main-sequence stars at 3mm wavelength
Creators: name: Liseau, R.
name: Vlemmings, W.
name: Bayo, A.
name: Bertone, E.
name: Black, J. H.
name: del Burgo, C.
name: Chavez, M.
name: Danchi, W.
name: De la Luz, V.
name: Eiroa, C.
name: Ertel, S.
name: Fridlund, M. C. W.
name: Justtanont, K.
name: Krivov, A.
name: Marshall, J. P.
name: Mora, A.
name: Montesinos, B.
name: Nyman, L. -A.
name: Olofsson, G.
name: Sanz-Forcada, J.
name: Thebault, P.
name: White, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and those of other stars constitute an active field of research. By studying stellar chromospheres one aims at identifying the relevant physical processes. Defining the permittable extent of the parameter space can also serve as a template for the Sun-as-a-star. Earlier observations with Herschel and APEX have revealed the temperature minimum of alpha Cen, but these were unable to spatially resolve the binary into individual components. With the data reported here, we aim at remedying this shortcoming. Furthermore, these earlier data were limited to the wavelength region between 100 and 870mu. In the present context, we intend to extend the spectral mapping to longer wavelengths, where the contrast between stellar photospheric and chromospheric emission becomes increasingly evident. ALMA is particularly suited to point sources, such as unresolved stars. ALMA provides the means to achieve our objectives with both its high sensitivity of the collecting area for the detection of weak signals and the high spatial resolving power of its adaptable interferometer for imaging close multiple stars. This is the first detection of main-sequence stars at a wavelength of 3mm. Furthermore, the individual components of the binary alpha CenAB are clearly detected and spatially well resolved at all ALMA wavelengths. The high S/N of these data permit accurate determination of their relative flux ratios. The previously obtained flux ratio of 0.44, which was based on measurements in the optical and at 70mu, is consistent with the present ALMA results, albeit with a large error bar. Given the distinct difference in their cyclic activity, the similarity of their submm SEDs appears surprising.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Letter to Astronomy and Astrophysics
La displacement driven Double-exchange like mediation in Titanium $d_{xy}$ ferromagnetism at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$
Creators: name: Odkhuu, Dorj
name: Rhim, S. H.
name: Shin, Dongbin
name: Park, Noejung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The epitaxial atomistic interfaces of two insulating oxides, LaAlO$_3$ (LAO)/SrTiO$_3$ (STO), have attracted great interest owing to rich emergent phenomena \cite{hwang12:nmat,coey13:mrs,ohtomo04:} such as interface metallicity \cite{ohtomo04:,nakagawa06:}, thickness dependent insulator-metal transition \cite{huijben06:nmat}, superconductivity \cite{N.Reyren08312007}, ferromagnetism \cite{brinkman.07:natmat}, and even their coexistence \cite{bert11:nphys,li11:nphys,dikin11:prl}. However, the physics origin of ferromagnetic ordering in the $n$-type LAO/STO interface is in debate. Here we propose that the polar distortion of La atom can ignite the ferromagnetism at the interface even without oxygen vacancy. The induced hybridization between La $d_{z^2}$ and O $p_{x,y}$ states can mediate double-exchange like interaction between Ti $d_{xy}$ electrons. We further suggest that the structural and electrical modification of the outermost surface of LAO or switching the polarization direction of ferroelectric overlayers on LAO/STO can promote such La displacement.
Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals
Creators: name: Sio, Weng Hong
name: Giustino, Feliciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polaron is the archetypal example of a quasiparticle emerging from the interaction between fermionic and bosonic fields in quantum field theory. In crystalline solids, polarons are formed when electrons and holes become dressed by the quanta of lattice vibrations. While experimental signatures of polarons in bulk three-dimensional materials abound, only rarely have polarons been observed in two-dimensional atomic crystals. Here, we shed light on this asymmetry by developing a quantitative ab initio theory of polarons in atomically-thin crystals. Using this conceptual framework, we unravel the real-space structure of the recently-observed hole polaron in hexagonal boron nitride, we discover an unexpected critical condition for the existence of polarons in two-dimensional crystals, and we establish the key materials descriptors and the universal laws that underpin polaron physics in two dimensions.
description: 37 pages, 15 figures
CMM-Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement (CBA IPI): Method Description
Creators: name: Dunaway, Donna K.
name: Masters, Stephen M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This document is a high-level overview of the CMM-Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement (CBA IPI) V1.1 assessment method. It provides a brief history of SEI appraisal methods, as well as establishing appraisals in the context of the IDEAL approach to software process improvement. CBA IPI is a diagnostics, enables, and encourages an organization's commitment to process improvement. The method helps an organization gain insight into its software development capability by identifying strengths and weaknesses of its current processes related to the Capability Maturity Model for Software V1.1. The method focuses on identifying software improvements that are organization's business goals and current maturity level. Brief descriptions of the method activities, roles, and responsibilities are provided. In addition, guidelines are provided for establishing resource requirements for conducting a CBA IPI. The SEI Appraiser Program is discussed, detailing the requirements for persons qualified to lead CBA IPIs.
CMMI for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering, Version 1.1, Staged Representation (CMMI-SE/SW, V1.1, Staged)
Creators: name: CMMI Product Team
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models have evolved the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) concept, established by the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM), to a new level that enables the continued growth and expansion of the CMM concept to multiple disciplines. Like the SW-CMM, EIA/IS 731, IPD-CMM, and other process improvement models, CMMI models are tools that help organizations improve their processes. This CMMI model is designed to help organizations improve their product and service development, acquisition, and maintenance processes. Concepts covered by this model include systems engineering and software engineering as well as traditional CMM concepts such as process management and project management. Each CMMI model is designed to be used in concert with other CMMI models, making it easier for organizations to pursue enterprise-wide process improvement at their own pace. This CMMI model has a staged representation, which focuses on measuring process improvement using maturity levels. Maturity levels apply to process-improvement achievement across the organizational unit using the model.
Torus fixed points in Schubert varieties and normalized median Genocchi numbers
Creators: name: Fang, Xin
name: Fourier, Ghislain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a new proof for the fact that the number of torus fixed points for the degenerated flag variety is equal to the normalized median Genocchi number, using the identification with a certain Schubert variety. We further study the torus fixed points for the symplectic degenerated flag variety and develop a combinatorial model, symplectic Dellac configurations, so parametrize them. The number of these symplectic fixed points is conjectured to be the median Euler number.
description: title changed, 12 pages, to appear in S\'eminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire
Warburg Manebit! Dürer ▪ Rembrandt ▪ Manet. Progetto per una mostra
Creators: name: Seminario Mnemosyne
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aby Warburg
Mnemosyne Atlas
Warburg Manebit
Durer
Rembrandt
Manet
Exhibition

description: We publish here an overview of the project of “Warburg Manebit!”. The exhibition that was held on 24 and 27 February 2023 in the Ghiacciaia and in the Rector’s corridor at the Università Iuav di Venezia. Six of the 63 panels of the last version of Warburg’s Bilderatlas (1929) were shown: Dürer (panel 58); Rembrandt (panels 70, 71, 72 and 73); Manet (panel 55). For each panel, a worktable was presented with books and materials as tools for their composition. By focusing on these three artists, “Warburg Manebit!” respositioned Warburg beyond his typical chronological and geographical boundaries. The exposition redefined the conventional approach to the Mnemosyne Atlas: Instead of treating it as an artistic object, the Atlas appeared as a “machine à penser” a transformative intellectual tool.
Elastohydrodynamic Origins of Flagellar Beat Transitions in Sperm
Creators: name: VEERARAGAVAN, SHIBANI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological physics

description: Sperm propel themselves by beating their ‘tails’ or flagella, exhibiting complex beating patterns that are driven internally by a biological engine. These beating patterns are also affected by environmental factors such as viscosity of the surrounding fluid. It is currently thought that changes in the beating pattern must be a result of the biochemical regulation of the internal engine. Using a combination of mathematical modelling and experimental data analysis, this study has instead shown that beat-pattern changes can be achieved through purely physical mechanisms. This sheds light on the yet-unknown mechanisms that give rise to flagellar beating patterns in sperm.
Investigation of using Android Phones and Open source tools for Forensic Applications
Creators: name: subramaniam, ganapathy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: In recent years, the Android operating system installed on many smartphones, tablets and other devices has taken the market by storm. After this success, the need to recover and analyze data from the Android operating system became an important part of mobile forensics. As a result, many commercial and open source mobile forensic tools have become available to forensic investigators. The theme of this white paper is to introduce free, open-source tools and explain how to forensically recover data from Android-based devices
Concepts on Measuring the Benefits of Software Process Improvement
Creators: name: Rozum, James
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The software community initially became aware of process improvement from the works of Deming, Juran, and Crosby. The current awareness and activity regarding software process improvement was sparked by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) with the release of its original software process maturity model. Following the advice of the SEI, many software organizations initiated software process improvement efforts to improve the quality of their products by improving the processes that produce those products. The question that many managers are continually asking today, though, is: How much has my organization benefited from the changes we have made? Unfortunately, many organizations did not include a method of measuring those benefits in their improvement activities. This report describes some concepts that organizations can tailor and build upon to develop a method for determining the benefits they have received from their software process improvement activities.