cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large-scale Text-to-Image Generation Models for Visual Artists' Creative Works
Creators: name: Ko, Hyung-Kwon
name: Park, Gwanmo
name: Jeon, Hyeon
name: Jo, Jaemin
name: Kim, Juho
name: Seo, Jinwook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale Text-to-image Generation Models (LTGMs) (e.g., DALL-E), self-supervised deep learning models trained on a huge dataset, have demonstrated the capacity for generating high-quality open-domain images from multi-modal input. Although they can even produce anthropomorphized versions of objects and animals, combine irrelevant concepts in reasonable ways, and give variation to any user-provided images, we witnessed such rapid technological advancement left many visual artists disoriented in leveraging LTGMs more actively in their creative works. Our goal in this work is to understand how visual artists would adopt LTGMs to support their creative works. To this end, we conducted an interview study as well as a systematic literature review of 72 system/application papers for a thorough examination. A total of 28 visual artists covering 35 distinct visual art domains acknowledged LTGMs' versatile roles with high usability to support creative works in automating the creation process (i.e., automation), expanding their ideas (i.e., exploration), and facilitating or arbitrating in communication (i.e., mediation). We conclude by providing four design guidelines that future researchers can refer to in making intelligent user interfaces using LTGMs.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Standard Systems Group (SSG) Technology Adoption Planning Workshop
Creators: name: Garcia-Miller, Suzanne
name: Nemeth-Adams, Lorraine
name: Vargas, Jan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) facilitated a two-day Technology Adoption
Planning workshop for the Standard Systems Group (SSG) Transformation Team (Vice
Director and the Directors of the 2-letter organizations) on October 27 and 28, 2003 at the
Alabama TechnaCenter in Montgomery, Alabama. Other pertinent SSG personnel, with
responsibility for partnering with the SEI on the tasks in the FY03-04 SEI/SSG work plan,
also were invited and attended.

The purpose of the workshop was to initiate the planning for phase 2 of the SSG/SEI
partnership. (Phase 1 was the “Enterprise Assessment” conducted in January 2003 and out
briefed in May 03). The workshop was focused on producing a tactical plan for
incorporating the recommended SEI technical solutions (based on SSG-expressed needs
during Phase 1) into the ongoing SSG transformation activities.
Hierarchical frequency clusters in adaptive networks of phase oscillators
Creators: name: Berner, Rico
name: Fialkowski, Jan
name: Kasatkin, Dmitry
name: Nekorkin, Vladimir
name: Yanchuk, Serhiy
name: Schöll, Eckehard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: adaptive dynamical network
subject: phase oscillators
subject: time scale separation
subject: hierarchical frequency multiclusters

description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Chaos 29, 103134 (2019) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5097835.
description: Adaptive dynamical networks appear in various real-word systems. One of the simplest phenomenological models for investigating basic properties of adaptive networks is the system of coupled phase oscillators with adaptive couplings. In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of this system. We extend recent results on the appearance of hierarchical frequency multiclusters by investigating the effect of the time scale separation. We show that the slow adaptation in comparison with the fast phase dynamics is necessary for the emergence of the multiclusters and their stability. Additionally, we study the role of double antipodal clusters, which appear to be unstable for all considered parameter values. We show that such states can be observed for a relatively long time, i.e., they are metastable. A geometrical explanation for such an effect is based on the emergence of a heteroclinic orbit.
Evidence for an abundant old population of Galactic ultra long period magnetars and implications for fast radio bursts
Creators: name: Beniamini, P.
name: Wadiasingh, Z.
name: Hare, J.
name: Rajwade, K.
name: Younes, G.
name: van der Horst, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two recent discoveries, namely PSR J0901-4046 and GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 (hereafter GLEAM-X J1627), have corroborated an extant population of radio-loud periodic sources with long periods (76 s and 1091 s respectively) whose emission can hardly be explained by rotation losses. We argue that GLEAM-X J1627 is a highly-magnetized object consistent with a magnetar (an ultra long period magnetar - ULPM), and demonstrate it is unlikely to be either a magnetically or a rotationally-powered white dwarf. By studying these sources together with previously detected objects, we find there are at least a handful of promising candidates for Galactic ULPMs. The detections of these objects imply a substantial number, $N \gtrsim 13000$ and $N \gtrsim 500$ for PSR J0901--4046 like and GLEAM-X J1627 like objects, respectively, within our Galaxy. These source densities, as well as cooling age limits from non-detection of thermal X-rays, Galactic offsets, timing stability and dipole spindown limits, all imply the ULPM candidates are substantially older than confirmed Galactic magnetars and that their formation channel is a common one. Their existence implies widespread survival of magnetar-like fields for several Myr, distinct from the inferred behaviour in confirmed Galactic magnetars. ULPMs may also constitute a second class of FRB progenitors which could naturally exhibit very long periodic activity windows. Finally, we show that existing radio campaigns are biased against detecting objects like these and discuss strategies for future radio and X-ray surveys to identify more such objects. We estimate that ${\cal O}(100)$ more such objects should be detected with SKA-MID and DSA-2000.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures. Published in MNRAS
A Multi-wavelength study of the M dwarf binary YY Geminorum
Creators: name: Butler, C. J.
name: Erkan, N.
name: Budding, E.
name: Doyle, J. G.
name: Foing, B.
name: Bromage, G. E.
name: Kellett, B. J.
name: Frueh, M.
name: Huovelin, J.
name: Brown, A.
name: Neff, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the results of the 1988 multi-wavelength campaign on the late-type eclipsing binary YY Geminorum. Observations include: broad-band optical and near infra-red photometry, simultaneous optical and ultraviolet (IUE) spectroscopy, X-ray (Ginga) and radio (VLA) data. From models fitted to the optical light curves, fundamental physical parameters have been determined together with evidence for transient maculations (spots) located near quadrature longitudes and intermediate latitudes. Eclipses were observed at optical, ultraviolet and radio wavelengths. Significant drops in 6cm radio emission near the phases of both primary and secondary eclipse indicate relatively compact radio emitting volumes that may lie between the binary components. IUE observations during secondary eclipse are indicative of a uniform chromosphere saturated with MgII plage-type emission and an extended volume of Ly$α$ emission. Profile fitting of high-dispersion H alpha spectra confirms the chromospheric saturation and indicates significant H$α$ opacity to heights of a few percent of the photospheric radius. There is evidence for an enhanced H alpha emission region visible near phase 0.25-0.35 which may be associated with a large spot on the primary and with two small optical flares which were also observed at other wavelengths: one in microwave radiation and the other in X-rays. For both flares, L_X/L_opt is consistent with energy release in closed magnetic structures.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 4 of The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp130
Creators: name: Müller, Stephan A.
name: Shmueli, Merav D.
name: Feng, Xiao
name: Tüshaus, Johanna
name: Schumacher, Neele
name: Clark, Ryan
name: Smith, Brad E.
name: Chi, An
name: Rose-John, Stefan
name: Kennedy, Matthew E.
name: Lichtenthaler, Stefan F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. S1. CSF proteomics of MBI-4 or vehicle-treated NHP.
Successful Product Line Development and Sustainment: A DoD Case Study
Creators: name: Cohen, Sholom
name: Dunn, Ed
name: Soule, Albert
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Engineering, Test, and Evaluation Department of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Division Newport (NUWC) has developed a software product line asset base, named RangeWare, to support test range operations. NUWC has also fielded a product line of range systems using the asset base. RangeWare provides an object services architecture to support integration of sensor and other range data for analysis and display by range equipment. After several pilot applications of RangeWare, NUWC is now taking RangeWare into a sustainment phase, expanding the coverage of the asset base in terms of object and distribution services as well as applying the assets to new systems.

This case study describes RangeWare and NUWC's product line practices to sustain and support the evolution of RangeWare. These practices include Operations, Data Collection, Metrics and Tracking, Software System Integration, Configuration Management, Tool Support, Structuring the Organization, Building a Business Case, and others. The case study also examines NUWC's lessons learned and its plans for improved process definition for RangeWare product production.
On Projection Based Operators in Lp space for Exact Similarity Search
Creators: name: Wichert, Andreas
name: Moreira, Catarina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate exact indexing for high dimensional Lp norms based on the 1-Lipschitz property and projection operators. The orthogonal projection that satisfies the 1-Lipschitz property for the Lp norm is described. The adaptive projection defined by the first principal component is introduced.
Survivability Analysis Framework
Creators: name: Ellison, Robert J.
name: Woody, Carol C.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Complexity and change are pervasive in the operational environments of today's organizations. Organizational and technological components that must work together may be created, managed, and maintained by different entities around the globe. The ability of these independently developed pieces to effectively work together after they are built and integrated is uncertain and problematic. The way technology is applied by people to address an operational need must also be understood. Survivability of the organization depends on the capabilities of the people, actions, and technology that compose the operational process to work together to achieve operational effectiveness. A team of Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) software engineers built the Survivability Analysis Framework (SAF) to examine the elements of an operational process and evaluate the survivability and effectiveness of the linkage among roles, dependencies, constraints, and risks to achieve critical operational capabilities. The SAF and the benefits achieved in its pilot use are described in this report.
Additional file 6 of The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp130
Creators: name: Müller, Stephan A.
name: Shmueli, Merav D.
name: Feng, Xiao
name: Tüshaus, Johanna
name: Schumacher, Neele
name: Clark, Ryan
name: Smith, Brad E.
name: Chi, An
name: Rose-John, Stefan
name: Kennedy, Matthew E.
name: Lichtenthaler, Stefan F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Fig. S3. Pharmacokinetics and -dynamics of NHP treated with verubecestat.
The Watts New? Collection: Columns by the SEI’s Watts Humphrey
Creators: name: Watts S. Humphrey
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since June 1998, Watts Humphrey took readers of news@sei and its predecessor SEI Interactive on a process-improvement journey, step by step, in his column Watts New. The column explored the problem of setting impossible dates for project completion, planning as a team using TSP, the importance of removing software defects, applying discipline to software development, approaching managers about a process improvement effort, and making a persuasive case for implementing it. After 10 years, Watts is taking a well-deserved retirement from writing the quarterly column. But you can still enjoy vintage Watts New columns, including all of the above topics, in the (news@sei archives) or in the Watts New Collection.
Wireless Emergency Alerts: Trust Model Simulations
Creators: name: Morrow, Timothy
name: Stoddard, Robert W.
name: Elm, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trust is a key factor in the effectiveness of the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) service. Alert originators must trust WEA to deliver alerts to the public in an accurate and timely manner. Members of the public must also trust the WEA service before they will act on the alerts that they receive. This research aimed to develop a trust model to enable the Federal Emergency Management Agency to maximize the effectiveness of WEA and provide guidance for alert originators that would support them in using WEA in a manner that maximizes public safety. This report overviews the public trust model and the alert originator trust model. The research method included Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) to model trust in WEA because they enable reasoning about and modeling of uncertainty. The report details the procedures used to run simulations on the trust models. For each trust model, single-factor, multifactor, random-input, and special-case simulations were run on each factor and group of factors investigated. The analysis of the simulations had two goals: to identify those simulations that predicted the highest levels of trust and those simulations that predicted the lowest levels of trust. This report includes the results for each trust model.
Inflationary and phase-transitional primordial magnetic fields in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Mtchedlidze, Salome
name: Domínguez-Fernández, Paola
name: Du, Xiaolong
name: Schmidt, Wolfram
name: Brandenburg, Axel
name: Niemeyer, Jens
name: Kahniashvili, Tina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are possible candidates for explaining the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Two competing scenarios of primordial magnetogenesis have been discussed in the literature: inflationary and phase-transitional. We study the amplification of both large- and small-scale correlated magnetic fields, corresponding to inflation- and phase transition-generated PMFs, in a massive galaxy cluster. We employ high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations to resolve the turbulent motions in the intracluster medium. We find that the turbulent amplification is more efficient for the large-scale inflationary models, while the phase transition-generated seed fields show moderate growth. The differences between the models are imprinted on the spectral characteristics of the field (such as the amplitude and the shape of the magnetic power spectrum) and therefore on the final correlation length. We find a one order of magnitude difference between the final strengths of the inflation- and phase transition-generated magnetic fields, and a factor of 1.5 difference between their final coherence scales. Thus, the final configuration of the magnetic field retains information about the PMF generation scenarios. Our findings have implications for future extragalactic Faraday rotation surveys with the possibility of distinguishing between different magnetogenesis scenarios.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures, comments welcome
Supporting the Use of CERT® Secure Coding Standards in DoD Acquisitions
Creators: name: Morrow, Timothy
name: Seacord, Robert
name: Bergey, John K.
name: Miller, Philip
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The United States Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly depends on networked software systems. One result of this dependency is an increase in attacks on both military and non-military systems as attackers look to exploit software vulnerabilities. Program acquisition offices are emphasizing information assurance to address various threats. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) created the Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in response to DoD Directive 8500.IE, which establishes policies and assigns responsibilities for achieving DoD information assurance. That STIG provides guidance for information assurance and security throughout a program’s lifecycle, and it is specified as a requirement for DoD-developed, -architected, and -administered applications and systems that are connected to DoD networks.
The Quantum Sweeper Effect
Creators: name: Groessing, Gerhard
name: Fussy, Siegfried
name: Pascasio, Johannes Mesa
name: Schwabl, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that during stochastic beam attenuation in double slit experiments, there appear unexpected new effects for transmission factors below $a\lesssim10^{-4}$, which can eventually be observed with the aid of weak measurement techniques. These are denoted as quantum sweeper effects, which are characterized by the bunching together of low counting rate particles within very narrow spatial domains. We employ a "superclassical" modeling procedure which we have previously shown to produce predictions identical with those of standard quantum theory. Thus it is demonstrated that in reaching down to ever weaker channel intensities, the nonlinear nature of the probability density currents becomes ever more important. We finally show that the resulting unexpected effects nevertheless implicitly also exist in standard quantum mechanics.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures; Invited talk at the Seventh International Workshop DICE2014, Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 15--19, 2014
Additional file 5 of The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp130
Creators: name: Müller, Stephan A.
name: Shmueli, Merav D.
name: Feng, Xiao
name: Tüshaus, Johanna
name: Schumacher, Neele
name: Clark, Ryan
name: Smith, Brad E.
name: Chi, An
name: Rose-John, Stefan
name: Kennedy, Matthew E.
name: Lichtenthaler, Stefan F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Fig. S2. Extended plots for NHP CSF proteomics in response to MBI-4 and verubecestat.
الآليات الإرشادية الحديثة الموجهة للأفراد ذوي المشكلات النفسية (الإرشاد الممركز حول الحل نموذجا)
Creators: name: Mhamel, Imad Eddine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 520303
subject: Counselling psychology

description: نسعى من خلال هذه الورقة إلى تناول على هذا النوع من الأساليب الإرشادية والعلاجية المعاصرة، وذلك بهدف تقديم لمحة عن النشأة والأسس والفنيات وطبيعة العلاقة الإرشادية وطبيعة العملاء، والمشكلات التي يتناولها، بهدف تنوير الأخصائيين في الميدان بمضامينه.
Team Software Process (TSP) Coach Certification Guidebook
Creators: name: Chick, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This guidebook explains the process required to become an SEI-Certified Team Software Process (TSP) Associate Coach, SEI-Certified TSP Coach, or SEI-Certified TSP Mentor Coach. It describes the entry requirements, certification process steps, and performance evaluation components that must be satisfied.

Please refer to the Team Software Process (TSP) Coach Mentoring Program Guidebook, Version 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2013-SR-024) for a comprehensive description of the mentorship component of the certification process. Mentorship is one of the key requirements that must be met in order to become an SEI-Certified TSP Coach. Mentoring also plays a role in the certification process for SEI-Certified TSP Associate Coaches and SEI-Certified TSP Mentor Coaches.
Supplementary document for Two Dimensional Individually Addressable Electrowetting Lens Array - 6562128.pdf
Creators: name: Gilinksy, Samuel
name: Zohrabi, Mo
name: Lim, Wei Yang
name: Supekar, Omkar
name: Bright, Victor
name: Gopinath, Juliet
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental doc
Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes
Creators: name: Walton, Gwendolyn H.
name: Longstaff, Thomas A.
name: Linger, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the current state of practice, analysis of the security attributes of software systems is typically carried out through subjective evaluations by security experts who accumulate system knowledge in bits and pieces from architectures, specifications, designs, code, and tests. In contrast, this report describes foundations for a new computational security attributes (CSA) technology. This innovative approach provides precise computational methods for defining and analyzing security attributes based solely on the data and transformations of data found within programs. CSA permits security attributes to be evaluated through automatable analysis of the functional behavior of programs. The technology can support specification of security attributes of systems before they are built; specification and evaluation of security attributes of acquired software; verification of the as-built security attributes of systems; and real-time evaluation of security attributes during system operation.
$μ$-Symmetry breaking: an algebraic approach to finding mean fields of quantum many-body systems
Creators: name: Higashikawa, Sho
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most fundamental problems in quantum many-body systems is the identification of a mean field in spontaneous symmetry breaking which is usually made in a heuristic manner. We propose a systematic method of finding a mean field based on the Lie algebra and the dynamical symmetry by introducing a class of symmetry broken phases which we call $μ$-symmetry breaking. We show that for $μ$-symmetry breaking the quadratic part of an effective Lagrangian of Nambu-Goldstone modes can be block-diagonalized and that homotopy groups of topological excitations can be calculated systematically.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure
Towards Structural Reconstruction from X-Ray Spectra
Creators: name: Vladyka, Anton
name: Sahle, Christoph J.
name: Niskanen, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a statistical analysis of Ge K-edge X-ray emission spectra simulated for amorphous GeO$_2$ at elevated pressures. We find that employing machine learning approaches we can reliably predict the statistical moments of the K$β''$ and K$β_2$ peaks in the spectrum from the Coulomb matrix descriptor with a training set of $\sim 10^4$ samples. Spectral-significance-guided dimensionality reduction techniques allow us to construct an approximate inverse mapping from spectral moments to pseudo-Coulomb matrices. When applying this to the moments of the ensemble-mean spectrum, we obtain distances from the active site that match closely to those of the ensemble mean and which moreover reproduce the pressure-induced coordination change in amorphous GeO$_2$. With this approach utilizing emulator-based component analysis, we are able to filter out the artificially complete structural information available from simulated snapshots, and quantitatively analyse structural changes that can be inferred from the changes in the K$β$ emission spectrum alone.
Capital Risks and Capital Adequacy of Commercial Banks in Kenya
Creators: name: Fredrick Ambale Mugwang'a
name: Dr. Fredrick Kogilo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study aimed at identifying whether capital risks was among the most important factors that determine Capital Adequacy of Commercial Banks in Kenya for the period 2009 – 2013 using Multiple Linear Regression Analysis and the Correlation Coefficient (Pearson Correlation). The target population comprised all registered commercial banks in Kenya in a five year period 2009 to 2013. Secondary data was used from Nairobi Securities Exchange for listed banks and management of banks that are not listed. Following the financial crisis of the 2007-2009, stringent regulatory measures, such as higher capital requirements have become more prominent as a move towards having stable and more competitive banking sector. Banks play a critical role in the allocation of society’s limited savings among the most productive investments, and they facilitate the efficient allocation of the risks of those investments. The study showed that there existed a significant relationship between capital adequacy and capital risk.  Since the P-value of the F-test is less than alpha, the overall conclusion of the study was that there is a significant relationship between Capital Risks and Capital Adequacy. On this basis of the findings the study recommends that report of financial statements and data should include rules and basis on which capital adequacy measurement is based, which will lead to raising banking and finance   awareness that will enhance banks competitive positions with regional and international banks
The Critical Success Factor Method: Establishing a Foundation for Enterprise Security Management
Creators: name: Caralli, Richard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Every organization has a mission that describes why it exists (its purpose) and where it intends to go (its direction). The mission reflects the organization's unique values and vision. Achieving the mission takes the participation and skill of the entire organization. The goals and objectives of every staff member must be aimed toward the mission. However, achieving goals and objectives is not enough. The organization must perform well in key areas on a consistent basis to achieve the mission. These key areas—unique to the organization and the industry in which it competes—can be defined as the organization's critical success factors.

The critical success factor method is a means for identifying these important elements of success. It was originally developed to align information technology planning with the strategic direction of an organization. However, in research and fieldwork undertaken by members of the Survivable Enterprise Management (SEM) team at the Software Engineering Institute, it has shown promise in helping organizations guide, direct, and prioritize their activities for developing security strategies and managing security across their enterprises. This report describes the critical success factor method and presents the SEM team's theories and experience in applying it to enterprise security management.
Efficient edge-skeleton computation for polytopes defined by oracles
Creators: name: Emiris, Ioannis Z.
name: Fisikopoulos, Vissarion
name: Gärtner, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52-XX, 14Qxx

description: In general dimension, there is no known total polynomial algorithm for either convex hull or vertex enumeration, i.e. an algorithm whose complexity depends polynomially on the input and output sizes. It is thus important to identify problems (and polytope representations) for which total polynomial-time algorithms can be obtained. We offer the first total polynomial-time algorithm for computing the edge-skeleton (including vertex enumeration) of a polytope given by an optimization or separation oracle, where we are also given a superset of its edge directions. We also offer a space-efficient variant of our algorithm by employing reverse search. All complexity bounds refer to the (oracle) Turing machine model. There is a number of polytope classes naturally defined by oracles; for some of them neither vertex nor facet representation is obvious. We consider two main applications, where we obtain (weakly) total polynomial-time algorithms: Signed Minkowski sums of convex polytopes, where polytopes can be subtracted provided the signed sum is a convex polytope, and computation of secondary, resultant, and discriminant polytopes. Further applications include convex combinatorial optimization and convex integer programming, where we offer a new approach, thus removing the complexity's exponential dependence in the dimension.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 7 of The Alzheimer’s disease-linked protease BACE1 modulates neuronal IL-6 signaling through shedding of the receptor gp130
Creators: name: Müller, Stephan A.
name: Shmueli, Merav D.
name: Feng, Xiao
name: Tüshaus, Johanna
name: Schumacher, Neele
name: Clark, Ryan
name: Smith, Brad E.
name: Chi, An
name: Rose-John, Stefan
name: Kennedy, Matthew E.
name: Lichtenthaler, Stefan F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Fig. S4. Full Western blots of sSEZ6 in human CSF after BACE inhibition.
Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice
Creators: name: Jones, Lawrence G.
name: Soule, Albert L.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many organizations report dramatic benefits from the adoption of software product line practice. Organizations that have established software engineering process discipline are better poised to succeed with product lines. While we acknowledge that there are different paths to successful process discipline, in this technical note, we concentrate on approaches based on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models. We describe practices that are most crucial to product line success. While some of these relate directly to the CMMI models process areas, others are uniquely important to product lines.

In this technical note, we first present fundamental concepts of software product lines. We then describe important product line practices as they have been documented in A Framework for Software Product Line Practice (framework). We next present an overview of the CMMI models, followed by a description of the general relationships between the framework and CMMI models. We amplify this comparison with a detailed example showing the relationship between configuration management practices in CMMI and in the framework. We conclude by describing the ways in which organizations can build upon their process improvement efforts to achieve success with product lines and realize additional benefits through the use of both technologies.
Equation of state of superfluid neutron matter with low-momentum interactions
Creators: name: Palaniappan, Viswanathan
name: Ramanan, S.
name: Urban, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we calculate the ground state energy of pure neutron matter using the renormalization group based low-momentum effective interaction $V_{\text{low-}k}$ in Bogoliubov many-body perturbation theory (BMBPT), which is a perturbative expansion around the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) ground state. In order to capture the low-density behavior of neutron matter, it turns out to be better to use a density dependent cutoff in the $V_{\text{low-}k}$ interaction. Perturbative corrections to the HFB energy up to third order are included. We find that at low densities corresponding to the inner crust of neutron stars, the HFB state that includes pairing is a better starting point for perturbation expansion. It is observed that including the higher order perturbative corrections, the cutoff dependence of the ground state energy is reduced.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. MBPT results with discussions and references added
Mortalidade materna associada à COVID-19 segundo cor da pele: revisão integrativa da literatura
Creators: name: Gonçalves dos Santos, Gustavo
name: Azevedo Gomes-Sponholz, Flávia
name: Lima Cordeiro da Silva, Anderson
name: da Silva Nascimento, Edson
name: Henrique de Andrade, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420401
subject: Clinical midwifery
classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health
classificationCode: 420202
subject: Disease surveillance

description: Trata de uma revisão integrativa da literatura vinculada a uma Tese de Doutorado junto ao Programa de Pós-graduação Enfermagem em Saúde Pública da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo, nesse atual momento optou-se por registrar como registro de metadados pois a revisão integrativa da literatura está em processo de execução
Standards-Based Automated Remediation: A Remediation Manager Reference Implementation
Creators: name: Chaki, Sagar
name: Creel, Rita C
name: Davenport, Jeff
name: Kinney, Mike
name: McCormick, Benjamin
name: Popeck, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report describes the Software Engineering Institute's work in calendar year 2010 for the National Security Agency Computer Network Defense Research and Technology Program Management Office to develop standards for remediation of vulnerabilities and compliance issues on Department of Defense (DoD) networked systems. The overall goals are to assist in the development of remediation standards, demonstrate the functionality DoD would like in a remediation manager, and increase efficiency and effectiveness of remediation by automating the remediation process. The 2010 Remediation Manager reference implementation demonstrates the following potential applications of remediation and other security automation standards: (1) Ingest scan findings in Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) format, extracting host compliance issues (in Common Configuration Enumeration [CCE] format) and vulnerabilities (in Common Vulnerability Enumerations [CVE] format). (2) Map CCE and CVE to remediation actions (in Common Remediation Enumeration [CRE] format). (3) Build remediation tasks in Remediation Tasking Language (RTL), based on CRE. (4) Transmit remediation tasks to a Remediation Tool on a host system. (5) Receive remediation task execution status, in RTL Results Format, from the Remediation Tool. This report identifies capabilities considered for future versions of the reference implementation and the operational system as well as challenges for future work.
A spin-wave logic gate based on a width-modulated dynamic magnonic crystal
Creators: name: Nikitin, Andrey A.
name: Ustinov, Alexey B.
name: Semenov, Alexander A.
name: Chumak, Andrii V.
name: Serga, Alexander A.
name: Vasyuchka, Vitaliy I.
name: Lähderanta, Erkki
name: Kalinikos, Boris A.
name: Hillebrands, Burkard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electric current controlled spin-wave logic gate based on a width-modulated dynamic magnonic crystal is realized. The device utilizes a spin-wave waveguide fabricated from a single-crystal Yttrium Iron Garnet film and two conducting wires attached to the film surface. Application of electric currents to the wires provides a means for dynamic control of the effective geometry of the waveguide and results in a suppression of the magnonic band gap. The performance of the magnonic crystal as an AND logic gate is demonstrated.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The Personal Software Process (PSP)
Creators: name: Watts S. Humphrey
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Personal Software Process (PSP) provides engineers with a disciplined personal framework for doing software work. The PSP process consists of a set of methods, forms, and scripts that show software engineers how to plan, measure, and manage their work. It is introduced with a textbook and a course that are designed for both industrial and academic use. The PSP is designed for use with any programming language or design methodology and it can be used for most aspects of software work, including writing requirements, running tests, defining processes, and repairing defects. When engineers use the PSP, the recommended process goal is to produce zero-defect products on schedule and within planned costs. When used with the Team Software Process (TSP), the PSP has been effective in helping engineers achieve these objectives.

This report describes in detail what the PSP is and how it works. Starting with a brief discussion of the relationship of the PSP to general quality principles, the report describes how the PSP was developed, its principles, and its methods. Next is a summary of the PSP courses, the strategy used for teaching the PSP, selected data on PSP experience, PSP adoption in university curricula, and the status of PSP introduction into industry. The report concludes with comments on likely future trends involving the PSP.
Topics in Interoperability: Infrastructure Replacement in a System of Systems
Creators: name: Carney, David J.
name: Smith, James
name: Place, Patrick R.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This technical note examines the Common Operations System (COS), a large aggregation of independently developed systems, and the risks posed to it by an infrastructure upgrade. Many large organizations involved in various critical government roles depend on the COS for planning their business operations. When such a large number of applications rely on a complex infrastructure, an attempt to upgrade raises many interoperability issues. The risks involved, and their observed mitigations, are examined in several areas: system interfaces, organizational responsibilities, requirements and functionality, developing an integration process, and testing.
Ergodicity breaking and particle spreading in noisy heterogeneous diffusion processes
Creators: name: Cherstvy, Andrey G.
name: Metzler, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study noisy heterogeneous diffusion processes with a position dependent diffusivity of the form $D(x)\sim D_0|x|^α$ in the presence of annealed and quenched disorder of the environment, corresponding to an effective variation of the exponent $α$ in time and space. In the case of annealed disorder, for which effectively $α=α(t)$ we show how the long time scaling of the ensemble mean squared displacement (MSD) and the amplitude variation of individual realizations of the time averaged MSD are affected by the disorder strength. For the case of quenched disorder, the long time behavior becomes effectively Brownian after a number of jumps between the domains of a stratified medium. In the latter situation the averages are taken over both an ensemble of particles and different realizations of the disorder. As physical observables we analyze in detail the ensemble and time averaged MSDs, the ergodicity breaking parameter, and higher order moments of the time averages.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX
Detrimental effects of disorder in two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductors
Creators: name: Mashkoori, Mahdi
name: Parhizgar, Fariborz
name: Rachel, Stephan
name: Black-Schaffer, Annica M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The robustness against local perturbations, as long as the symmetry of the system is preserved, is a distinctive feature of topological quantum states. Magnetic impurities and defects break time-reversal invariance and, consequently, time-reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductors are fragile against this type of disorder. Non-magnetic impurities, however, preserve time-reversal symmetry and one naively expects a TRI topological superconductor to persist in the presence of non-magnetic impurities. In this work, we study the effect of non-magnetic disorder on a TRI topological superconductor with extended $s$-wave pairing, which can be engineered at the interface of an Fe-based superconductor and a strongly spin-orbit coupled Rashba layer. We model two different types of non-magnetic random disorder and analyze both the bulk density of states and edge state spectrum. Contrary to naive expectations, we find that the disorder strongly affects the topological phase by closing the energy gap, while trivial superconducting phases remain stable and fully gapped. The disorder phase diagram reveals a strong expansion of a nodal phase with increasing disorder. We further show the decay of the helical Majorana edge states in the topological phase and how they eventually disappear with increasing disorder. These results alter our understanding of effects of impurities and disorder on TRI topological phases and may help explain the difficulty of experimental observation of TRI topological superconductors.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Discrete solitons and vortices on two-dimensional lattices of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric couplers
Creators: name: Chen, Zhaopin
name: Liu, Jingfeng
name: Fu, Shenhe
name: Li, Yongyao
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a 2D network built of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimers with on-site cubic nonlinearity, the gain and loss elements of the dimers being linked by parallel square-shaped lattices. The system may be realized as a set of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dual-core waveguides embedded into a photonic crystal. The system supports $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric and antisymmetric fundamental solitons (FSs) and on-site-centered solitary vortices (OnVs). Stability of these discrete solitons is the central topic of the consideration. Their stability regions in the underlying parameter space are identified through the computation of stability eigenvalues, and verified by direct simulations. Symmetric FSs represent the system's ground state, being stable at lowest values of the power, while anti-symmetric FSs and OnVs are stable at higher powers. Symmetric OnVs, which are also stable at lower powers, are remarkably robust modes: on the contrary to other PT-symmetric states, unstable OnVs do not blow up, but spontaneously rebuild themselves into stable FSs.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, and 1 table. Optics Express (focus issue on Nonlinear Photonics), in press
Variability in Software Product Lines
Creators: name: Bachmann, Felix
name: Clements, Paul C
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Product line engineering is a widely used approach for the efficient development of whole portfolios of software products. The basis of the approach is that products are built from a core asset base, a collection of artifacts that have been designed specifically for use across the portfolio. To account for differences among the software products, some adaptations of the core assets are usually required. These adaptations should be planned before development and made easy for the product developers to use without jeopardizing existing properties of the core assets.

In a product line with a large number of products and core assets, as well as requirements to make fine-grained adjustments, managing variability can become problematic very quickly. Mismanagement may result in adding unnecessary variability, implementing variation mechanisms more than once, selecting incompatible or awkward variation mechanisms, and missing required variations. As the product line grows and evolves, the need for variability increases, and managing the variability grows increasingly difficult.

This report describes the concepts needed when creating core assets with included variability. These concepts provide guidelines to core asset creators on how to model the variability explicitly, so it is handled consistently throughout the product line and managing the variability becomes feasible.