cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects (FY 2010)
Creators: name: Anderson, William
name: Andrews, Archie D.
name: Brown, Nanette
name: Cohen, Cory
name: Craig, Christopher
name: Daly, Tim
name: Niz, Dionisio De
name: Diaz-Pace, Andres
name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Fisher, David
name: Gluch, David
name: Hansen, Jeffrey
name: Jorgen  Hansson
name: Hudak, John J.
name: Lakshmanan, Karthik
name: Linger, Richard C.
name: Lipson, Howard
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Morris, Edwin J.
name: Mutlu, Onur
name: Nord, Robert
name: Ipek  Ozkaya
name: Plakosh, Daniel
name: Pleszkoch, Mark G
name: Rajkumar, Raj
name: Seibel, Joe
name: Soumya  Simanta
name: Weinstock, Charles B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) annually undertakes several independent research and development (IRAD) projects. These projects serve to (1) support feasibility studies investigating whether further work by the SEI would be of potential benefit and (2) support further exploratory work to determine whether there is sufficient value in eventually funding the feasibility study work as an SEI initiative. Projects are chosen based on their potential to mature and/or transition software engineering practices, develop information that will help in deciding whether further work is worth funding, and set new directions for SEI work. This report describes the IRAD projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2010 (October 2009 through September 2010).
Additional file 1 of To disclose, or not to disclose? Perspectives of clinical genomics professionals toward returning incidental findings from genomic research
Creators: name: AlFayyad, Isamme
name: Al-Tannir, Mohamad
name: Abu-Shaheen, Amani
name: AlGhamdi, Saleh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Study questionnaire.
Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects
Creators: name: Niz, Dionisio De
name: Eagles, Sherman
name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Goodenough, John
name: Jorgen  Hansson
name: Jones, Paul
name: Kazman, Rick
name: Klein, Mark H.
name: Insup  Lee
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Nord, Robert
name: Ipek  Ozkaya
name: Plakosh, Daniel
name: Rajkumar, Raj
name: Lui  Sha
name: Stoddard, Robert W.
name: Wallnau, Kurt C.
name: Weinstock, Charles B.
name: Wrage, Lutz
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) annually undertakes several independent research and development (IRAD) projects. These projects serve to (1) support feasibility studies investigating whether further work by the SEI would be of potential benefit and (2) support further exploratory work to determine whether there is sufficient value in eventually funding the feasibility study work as an SEI initiative. Projects are chosen based on their potential to mature and/or transition software engineering practices, develop information that will help in deciding whether further work is worth funding, and set new directions for SEI work. This report describes the IRAD projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2008 (October 2007 through September 2008).
Radiation Forces and the Abraham-Minkowski Problem
Creators: name: Brevik, Iver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have witnessed a number of beautiful experiments in radiation optics. Our purpose with this mini-review is to highlight some developments of radiation pressure physics in general, and thereafter to focus on the importance of the mentioned experiments in regard to the classic Abraham-Minkowski problem. That means, what is the "correct" expression for electromagnetic momentum density in continuous matter. In our opinion one sees relatively often that authors over-interpret the importance of their experimental findings with respect to the momentum problem. Most of these experiments are actually unable to discriminate between these energy-momentum tensors at all, since they can be easily described in terms of force expressions that are common for Abraham and Minkowski. Moreover, we emphasize the inherent ambiguity in applying formal conservation principles to the radiation field in a dielectric, the reason being that the electromagnetic field in matter is only a subsystem which has to be supplemented by the mechanical subsystem to be closed. Finally, we make some suggestions regarding the connection between macroscopic electrodynamics and the Casimir effect, suggesting that there is a limit for the magnitudes of cutoff parameters in QFT related to surface tension in ordinary hydromechanics.
description: 10 pages, no figures, minor changes. Matches published version
The Role of Internationally supported Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in Transboundary Water Conflicts: An examination of three case studies
Creators: name: Couves, Eric
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: The Nile River Basin, the Indus River Basin and the Mekong River Basin are all case studies of transboundary water conflict between states. In all these cases there are existing political mechanisms that, with the support of key international actors such as international organizations and foreign countries, contribute to water cooperation. The goal of this paper is to use a liberal institutionalist framework to summarise and assess the respective success of these political mechanisms, and the role of certain key international actors. This assessment will be done to enable recommendations to improve these mechanisms and develop an understanding of the role of certain international actors in their development and function. The results of this paper show that the institutional design of the political mechanisms active in these case studies are key to their effectiveness. The Nile and Mekong basin mechanisms for example do not have substantive conflict resolution processes. The Indus River’s mechanism does have such a process and has had historic success in encouraging water cooperation between the two rivals of India and Pakistan. Notably, the World Bank was central to the design and function of the Indus River mechanism this can potentially be a key example towards improving the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms. To summarise the recommendations, using a liberal institutionalist framework this paper shows that political mechanisms such as regional cooperation institutions can assist it mitigating power politics and steering water conflicts towards cooperation. Certain international actors have historically been important to the function and evolution of these types of cooperative mechanisms and should continue this role. With international support and renewed institutional design these mechanisms can steer water conflicts towards cooperation even in an era of growing water scarcity and environmental insecurity.
Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in Chiral "QCD"
Creators: name: Bolognesi, Stefano
name: Konishi, Kenichi
name: Shifman, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory with massless chiral fermions in a complex representation of the gauge group. The main emphasis is on the so-called hybrid psi-chi-eta model. The possible patterns of realization of the continuous chiral flavor symmetry are discussed. We argue that the chiral symmetry is broken in conjunction with a dynamical Higgsing of the gauge group (complete or partial) by bi-fermion condensates. As a result a color-flavor locked symmetry is preserved. The 't Hooft anomaly matching proceeds via saturation of triangles by massless composite fermions or, in a mixed mode, i.e., also by the "weakly" coupled fermions associated with dynamical Abelianization, supplemented by a number of Nambu-Goldstone mesons. Gauge-singlet condensates are of the multifermion type and, though it cannot be excluded, the chiral symmetry realization via such gauge invariant condensates is more contrived (requires a number of four-fermion condensates simultaneously and, even so, problems remain), and less plausible. We conclude that in the model at hand, chiral flavor symmetry implies dynamical Higgsing by bifermion condensates.
description: Latex 19 pages, 1 figure
The galaxy environment in GAMA G3C groups using the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3
Creators: name: Costa-Duarte, M. V.
name: Viola, M.
name: Molino, A.
name: Kuijken, K.
name: Sodré, L.
name: Bilicki, M.
name: Brouwer, M. M.
name: Buddelmeijer, H.
name: Getman, F.
name: Grado, A.
name: de Jong, J. T. A.
name: Kleijn, G. V.
name: Napolitano, N.
name: Puddu, E.
name: Radovich, M.
name: Vakili, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to investigate the galaxy environment in GAMA Galaxy Groups Catalogue (G3C) using a volume-limited galaxy sample from the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3. The k-Nearest Neighbour technique is adapted to take into account the probability density functions (PDFs) of photometric redshifts in our calculations. This algorithm was tested on simulated KiDS tiles, showing its capability of recovering the relation between galaxy colour, luminosity and local environment. The characterization of the galaxy environment in G3C groups shows systematically steeper density contrasts for more massive groups. The red galaxy fraction gradients in these groups is evident for most of group mass bins. The density contrast of red galaxies is systematically higher at group centers when compared to blue galaxy ones. In addition, distinct group center definitions are used to show that our results are insensitive to center definitions. These results confirm the galaxy evolution scenario which environmental mechanisms are responsible for a slow quenching process as galaxies fall into groups and clusters, resulting in a smooth observed colour gradients in galaxy systems.
description: 14 pages, Accepted to MNRAS
Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects
Creators: name: Bass, Len
name: Clements, Paul C
name: Niz, Dionisio De
name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Hansen, Jeffrey
name: Jorgen  Hansson
name: Hissam, Scott
name: Ivers, James
name: Klein, Mark H.
name: Lakshmanan, Karthik
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Plakosh, Daniel
name: Rajkumar, Raj
name: Rush, Kristopher
name: Waits, Cal
name: Wallnau, Kurt
name: Wrage, Lutz
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) annually undertakes several independent research and development (IRAD) projects. These projects serve to (1) support feasibility studies investigating whether further work by the SEI would be of potential benefit and (2) support further exploratory work to determine whether there is sufficient value in eventually funding the feasibility study work as an SEI initiative. Projects are chosen based on their potential to mature and/or transition software engineering practices, develop information that will help in deciding whether further work is worth funding, and set new directions for SEI work. This report describes the IRAD projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2009 (October 2008 through September 2009).
El derecho del empleador a terminar los contratos de trabajo sin justa causa y sus límites
Creators: name: Alfaro Castillo, Boris David
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Derecho laboral
subject: Contratos de trabajo
subject: Empleo - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Abuso del derecho
subject: Estabilidad laboral absoluta
subject: Estabilidad laboral relativa
subject: Condición resolutoria tácita, indemnización

description: En Colombia ha imperado la estabilidad laboral relativa como criterio para defender el derecho del empleador a terminar sin justa causa contrato de trabajo, pagando por ello al trabajador, una indemnización tarifada legalmente llamada a resarcir los daños patrimoniales daño emergente y lucro cesante. Sin embargo, se han generado discusiones asociadas al derecho al trabajo, enfocadas todas en imponer límites al empleador para terminar el contrato de trabajo, persiguiendo que la terminación del mismo sea producto únicamente de la comprobación de justas causas atribuibles al trabajador o causas legales que extingan objetivamente el vínculo. El escrito defiende el derecho del empleador a terminar el contrato de trabajo, resaltando la importancia salvaguardar la estabilidad en el empleo en términos razonables, esto es, evitando el abuso del derecho por parte del empleador y promoviendo una indemnización que represente montos sustanciales que disuadan al empleador.
description: In Colombia, relative job stability has prevailed as a criterion to defend the right of the employer to terminate the employment agreement without just cause, paying to the employee for it, a legally priced compensation called to compensate for patrimonial damages, consequential damages and lost profits. However, discussions associated with the right to work have been generated, all focused on imposing limits on the employer to terminate the employment agreement, seeking that its termination be the product solely of the verification of just causes attributable to the employee or the verification of legal causes that extinguish objectively the labor agreement. This letter defends the employer's right to terminate the employment agreement, highlighting the importance of safeguarding employment stability in reasonable terms, that is, avoiding abuse of the right by the employer and promoting compensations that represents substantial amounts that deter the employer.
Results of a Workshop on Research in Incident Handling
Creators: name: Longstaff, Thomas A
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This document contains the results of the first CERT Invitational Workshop on Research in Incident Handling, held at the Software Engineering Institute in November 992. The workshop was convened to address a wide spectrum of computer, network, and information security topics from the perspective of incident handling, both in the present and in the future. The intent was to bring together researchers, incident handling specialists, users, system administrators, and managers to encourage an exchange of information and experience. Specifically, it was intended to identify lucrative areas for research and development in improving the practice of incident handling and in applying the experience- and information-base that the CERT Coordination Center has amassed during its existence.
Results in Relating Quality Attributes to Acquisition Strategies
Creators: name: Brownsword, Lisa
name: Albert, Cecilia
name: Carney, David J.
name: Place, Patrick R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the acquisition of a software-intensive system, the relationship between the software architecture and the acquisition strategy is typically not specifically examined. The first phase of our research discovered an initial set of failure patterns that result when these two entities become misaligned. Programs with these failure patterns experienced reduced operational capabilities and effectiveness, cost overruns, and significant schedule slips. In other words, these programs resulted in systems failing to satisfy stakeholder needs. This report describes the conceptual foundations for our project and summarizes the first phase as context for the second phase, which is the major thrust of this report. The current research has centered on demonstrating the existence and utility of acquisition-related quality attributes, embodied in a program’s business goals, which then drive the shape of the acquisition strategy. This is comparable to the relationship between mission goals, software-related quality attributes, and the software architecture. This report describes the approach used in phase two to generate 75 acquisition-related quality attribute scenarios based on data derived from more than 23 large government programs spanning business, logistics, command and control, and satellite domains.
Experimental realisations of the fractional Schrödinger equation in the temporal domain
Creators: name: Liu, Shilong
name: Zhang, Yingwen
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Karimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: The fractional Schrödinger equation (FSE) — a natural extension of the standard Schrödinger equation — is the basis of fractional quantum mechanics. It can be obtained by replacing the kinetic-energy operator with a fractional derivative. Here, we report the experimental realisation of an optical FSE for femtosecond laser pulses in the temporal domain. Programmable holograms and the single-shot measurement technique are respectively used to emulate a Lévy waveguide and to reconstruct the amplitude and phase of the pulses. Varying the Lévy index of the FSE and the initial pulse, the temporal dynamics is observed in diverse forms, including solitary, splitting and merging pulses, double Airy modes, and “rain-like” multi-pulse patterns. Furthermore, the transmission of input pulses carrying a fractional phase exhibits a “fractional-phase protection” effect through a regular (non-fractional) material. The experimentally generated fractional time-domain pulses offer the potential for designing optical signal-processing schemes.
Rashba-Dresselhaus Effect in Inorganic/Organic Lead Iodide Perovskite Interfaces
Creators: name: Myung, Chang Woo
name: Javaid, Saqib
name: Kim, Kwang S.
name: Lee, Geunsik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the imperative importance in solar-cell efficiency, the intriguing phenomena at the interface between perovskite solar-cell and adjacent carrier transfer layers are hardly uncovered. Here we show that PbI$_2$/AI-terminated lead-iodide-perovskite (APbI$_3$; A=Cs$^+$/ methylammonium(MA)) interfaced with the charge transport medium of graphene or TiO2 exhibits the sizable/robust Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) effect using density-functional-theory and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations above cubic-phase temperature. At the PbI$_2$-terminated graphene/CsPbI3(001) interface, ferroelectric distortion towards graphene facilitates an inversion breaking field. At the MAI-terminated TiO$_2$/MAPbI$_3$(001) interface, the enrooted alignment of MA$^+$ towards TiO$_2$ by short-strong hydrogen-bonding and the concomitant PbI$_3$ distortion preserve the RD interactions even above 330 K. The robust RD effect at the interface even at high temperatures, unlike in bulk, changes the direct-type band to the indirect to suppress recombination of electron and hole, thereby letting these accumulated carriers overcome the potential barrier between perovskite and charge transfer materials, which promotes the solar-cell efficiency.
description: 4 figures, 1 table
Pretrained Neural Network Models for Samarth 2019 study - TensorFlow format
Creators: name: Samarth, Ganesh
Publisher: name: Durham University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering
subject: Convolutional Neural Network
subject: fire detection

description: In this work we explore different Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures and their variants for non-temporal binary fire detection and localization in video or still imagery. We consider the performance of experimentally defined, reduced complexity deep CNN architectures for this task and evaluate the effects of different optimization and normalization techniques applied to different CNN architectures (spanning the Inception, ResNet and EfficientNet architectural concepts). Contrary to contemporary trends in the field, our work illustrates a maximum overall accuracy of 0.96 for full frame binary fire detection and 0.94 for superpixel localization using an experimentally defined reduced CNN architecture based on the concept of InceptionV4. We notably achieve a lower false positive rate of 0.06 compared to prior work in the field presenting an efficient, robust and real-time solution for fire region detection. | Cited in: Experimental Exploration of Compact Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Non-temporal Real-time Fire Detection (G. Samarth, N. Bhowmik, T.P. Breckon), In Proc. Int. Conf. on Machine Learning Applications, IEEE, 2019. | This file contains supporting materials in the form of the pre-trained network models used in the study.
Responding to Intrusions
Creators: name: Klaus-Peter  Kossakowski
name: Allen, Julia H.
name: Alberts, Christopher J.
name: Cohen, Cory F.
name: Ford, Gary
name: Fraser, Barbara
name: Hayes, Eric
name: Kochmar, John R.
name: Konda, Suresh
name: Wilson, William R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: These practices are intended primarily for system and network administrators, managers of information systems, and security personnel responsible for networked information resources. These practices are applicable to your organization if your networked systems infrastructure includes host systems providing services to multiple users (file servers, timesharing systems, database servers, Internet servers, etc.) local-area or wide-area networks direct connections, gateways, or modem access to and from external networks, such as the Internet We recommend that you read all of the practices in this module before taking any action. To successfully implement the practices, it is important that you understand the overall context and relationships among them. For instance, once you read the practices in the Handle category, it is easier to understand the Practices in the Prepare category (see the Summary of recommended practices table). If you are dealing with an intrusion, you may want to skip the first two preparatory practices and move immediately to Practice 3, Analyze all information necessary to characterize an intrusion. Once you have completed your response and recovery process, we recommend that you review and implement the preparatory practices.
Surface defects in E-string compactifications and the van Diejen model
Creators: name: Nazzal, Belal
name: Razamat, Shlomo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the supersymmetric index of four dimensional theories obtained by compactifications of the six dimensional E string theory on a Riemann surface. In particular we derive the difference operator introducing certain class of surface defects to the index computation. The difference operator turns out to be, up to a constant shift, an analytic difference operator discussed by van Diejen.
description: 20 pages, three figures; v.2 minor clarifications
A 3D Automated Classification Scheme for the TAUVEX data pipeline
Creators: name: Bora, Archana
name: Gupta, Ranjan
name: Singh, Harinder P.
name: Murthy, Jayant
name: Mohan, Rekhesh
name: Duorah, Kalpana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to develop a pipeline for automated classification of stars to be observed by the TAUVEX ultraviolet space Telescope, we employ an artificial neural network (ANN) technique for classifying stars by using synthetic spectra in the UV region from 1250Åto 3220Åas the training set and International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) low resolution spectra as the test set. Both the data sets have been pre-processed to mimic the observations of the TAUVEX ultraviolet imager. We have successfully classified 229 stars from the IUE low resolution catalog to within 3-4 spectral sub-class using two different simulated training spectra, the TAUVEX spectra of 286 spectral types and UVBLUE spectra of 277 spectral types. Further, we have also been able to obtain the colour excess (i.e. E(B-V) in magnitude units) or the interstellar reddening for those IUE spectra which have known reddening to an accuracy of better than 0.1 magnitudes. It has been shown that even with the limitation of data from just photometric bands, ANNs have not only classified the stars, but also provided satisfactory estimates for interstellar extinction. The ANN based classification scheme has been successfully tested on the simulated TAUVEX data pipeline. It is expected that the same technique can be employed for data validation in the ultraviolet from the virtual observatories. Finally, the interstellar extinction estimated by applying the ANNs on the TAUVEX data base would provide an extensive extinction map for our galaxy and which could in turn be modeled for the dust distribution in the galaxy.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS; High resolution figures available from the authors on request
Manejo y transferencia de información personal entre la Agencia para la Reincorporación y el Departamento de Planeación en el marco del estado de emergencia : un estudio de caso
Creators: name: Molina Guerrero, Maria Paola
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poder legislativo
subject: Asistencia económica
subject: Sentencias - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Transferencia de información personal
subject: Protección de datos personales
subject: Habeas data
subject: Principios -de finalidad legalidad seguridad
subject: Estado de emergencia social y económica

description: Es una revisión del marco legal en materia de habeas data. en especial, los principios de finalidad. legalidad y seguridad, la expedición de sendos decretos legislativos que ordenaban la asignación de ayudas económicas a la población en proceso de reintegración y reincorporación, y las condiciones para concretar estos pagos (la prohibición de recibir un doble pago por concepto de ayudas económicas). La obligación de cumplir este mandato, y de atender adecuadamente la población objeto por parte de la ARN, hacía indispensable el intercambio de información personal (de carácter sensible) entre ARN y DNP en una situación de excepción y de urgencia, y sin que mediara convenio interadministrativo que lo facilitase. A partir de recrear el marco regulatorio, de realizar entrevistas con sujetos clave, se cuenta de cómo se superaron las dificultades jurídicas que imponía como el principio de finalidad (según el cual la información personal solo se puede utilizar para las finalidades específicas que justificaron su recolección). Y también de cómo se superaron las dificultades técnicas, que imponía el principio de seguridad, dado además el carácter sensible de la información personal de las personas que decidieron acogerse a las políticas de reincorporación y normalización.
Finite-key analysis on the 1-decoy state QKD protocol
Creators: name: Rusca, Davide
name: Boaron, Alberto
name: Grünenfelder, Fadri
name: Martin, Anthony
name: Zbinden, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown that in the asymptotic case of infinite-key length the 2-decoy state QKD protocol outperforms the 1-decoy state protocol. Here, we present a finite-key analysis of the 1-decoy method. Interestingly, we find that for practical block sizes of up to $10^8$ bits, the 1-decoy protocol achieves for almost all experimental settings higher secret key rates than the 2-decoy protocol. Since using only one decoy is also easier to implement, we conclude that it is the best choice for practical QKD.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, Paper
Additional file 1 of Managerial attitude to the implementation of quality management systems in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals
Creators: name: Buciuniene, Ilona
name: Malciankina, Sonata
name: Lydeka, Zigmas
name: Kazlauskaite, Ruta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 1: Survey questionnaire items. (DOC 32 KB)
Emergence of the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation from dark matter-baryon interactions
Creators: name: Famaey, Benoit
name: Khoury, Justin
name: Penco, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed tightness of the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation (MDAR) poses a fine-tuning challenge to current models of galaxy formation. We propose that this relation could arise from collisional interactions between baryons and dark matter (DM) particles, without the need for modification of gravity or ad hoc feedback processes. We assume that these interactions satisfy the following three conditions: (i) the relaxation time of DM particles is comparable to the dynamical time in disk galaxies; (ii) DM exchanges energy with baryons due to elastic collisions; (iii) the product between the baryon-DM cross section and the typical energy exchanged in a collision is inversely proportional to the DM number density. We present an example of a particle physics model that gives a DM-baryon cross section with the desired density and velocity dependence. Direct detection constraints require our DM particles to be either very light ($m << m_b$) or very heavy ($m >> m_b$), corresponding respectively to heating and cooling of DM by baryons. In both cases, our mechanism applies and an equilibrium configuration can in principle be reached. Here, we focus on the heavy DM/cooling case as it is technically simpler. Under these assumptions, we find that rotationally-supported disk galaxies could naturally settle to equilibrium configurations satisfying a MDAR at all radii without invoking finely tuned feedback processes. We also discuss issues related to the small scale clumpiness of baryons, as well as predictions for pressure-supported systems. We argue in particular that galaxy clusters do not follow the MDAR despite being DM-dominated because they have not reached their equilibrium configuration. Finally, we revisit existing phenomenological, astrophysical and cosmological constraints on baryon-DM interactions in light of the unusual density dependence of the cross section.
description: 64 pages, 8 figures, matches the published version
THE STUDY OF AGROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL IN THE APPLICATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF NON-TILLAGE PLOWING
Creators: name: Jollibekov, B.
name: Genjebaeva, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates the agrochemical properties of soil under non-tillage plowing technology, a farming practice gaining popularity for its potential to enhance soil health and sustainability. Non-tillage plowing minimizes soil disturbance, thereby preserving soil structure and organic matter while improving moisture retention and reducing erosion. The research was conducted in various agricultural fields utilizing non-tillage methods, where soil samples were collected and analyzed for pH levels, nutrient content (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium), and organic matter content. Results indicate significant improvements in soil agrochemical properties compared to traditional tillage practices, highlighting the positive impact of non-tillage on nutrient availability and soil fertility. This paper discusses the implications of these findings for agricultural practices and provides recommendations for farmers and policymakers seeking to adopt sustainable farming methods. The study underscores the need for further research to explore the long-term benefits of non-tillage plowing in diverse agricultural contexts.
Resource Allocation in Dynamic Environments
Creators: name: Hansen, Jeffrey
name: Hissam, Scott
name: B. Craig Meyers
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
name: Plakosh, Daniel
name: Seibel, Joe
name: Wrage, Lutz
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This technical report examines two challenges related to resource allocation that can negatively affect system operation in a dynamic environment, where warfighter needs for resources, resource availability, environmental effects, and mission conditions can change from moment to moment. The first challenge occurs when warfighters overstate their individual needs of a shared resource, leading to inefficient allocation. Overstatement may bring local optimization; however, it can cause global inefficiencies that result in a detriment to overall mission success. This challenge is addressed by using computational mechanism design, more specifically, the dynamic Vickrey-Clark-Groves allocation mechanism. The second challenge involves resource availability that may change frequently. Such is the case in a wireless mesh network where routes and bandwidth may vary over even small intervals of time. In such a case, an adaptive quality of service (AQoS) approach is used, and the available resource is allocated using the Dynamic QoS-based Resource Allocation Model (D-Q-RAM). Computational mechanism design is used to allocate sensors, and the AQoS approach allocates the available network bandwidth in a way consistent with the sensor allocation, providing an approach for dealing with resource allocation and adaptation in a dynamic environment. Initial experimental results of applying the approach are reported.
Fully frustrated Josephson junction ladders with Mobius boundary conditions as topologically protected qubits
Creators: name: Cristofano, Gerardo
name: Marotta, Vincenzo
name: Naddeo, Adele
name: Niccoli, Giuliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to realize a ``protected'' qubit by using a fully frustrated Josephson Junction ladder (JJL) with Mobius boundary conditions. Such a system has been recently studied within a twisted conformal field theory (CFT) approach (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000) 1679; Nucl. Phys. B 641 (2002) 547) and shown to develop the phenomenon of flux fractionalization (Eur. Phys. J. B 49 (2006) 83). The relevance of a ``closed'' geometry has been fully exploited in relating the topological properties of the ground state of the system to the presence of half flux quanta and the emergence of a topological order has been predicted (JSTAT (2005) P03006). In this letter the stability and transformation properties of the ground states under adiabatic magnetic flux change are analyzed and the deep consequences on the realization of a solid state qubit, protected from decoherence, are presented.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, in print in Phys. Lett. A
El ejercicio de la palabra en la gente de hacha : un encuentro en fricción entre la diversidad biocultural y el desarrollo sostenible en la media Amazonía colombiana
Creators: name: Rojas Másmela, Nicolás
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Amazonas
subject: Territorio nacional
subject: Etnología
subject: Andoque
subject: Diversidad biocultural
subject: Ecología política
subject: Amazonía
subject: Fricciones interculturales

description: A través de una etnografía desarrollada entre Bogotá y el Resguardo de Aduche en la Media Amazonía colombiana, esta tesis de antropología aborda el conflicto sociecológico entre Visión Amazonía y el pueblo Andoque entre 2017 y 2020. Se exploran, siguiendo las fricciones interculturales del conflicto (Tsing A, 2011), las largas conexiones globales y las redes de actores asociados a través de la ecología política. Esto permite poner en controversia el modelo ambientalista global de desarrollo sostenible que se busca implementar en territorio amazónico colombiano a través de Visión Amazonía, como un modelo que no dialoga con las epistemologías locales. Por eso, en el último capítulo de la tesis se hace una descripción de la diversidad biocultural andoque y se reivindica su epistemología local que relaciona de manera interdependiente los bailes rituales, la Palabra y el manejo de la naturaleza para el cuidado de su territorio y de la selva amazónica. Se trata de una conversación entre el manejo andoque del mundo a través de su mitología y los nuevos modelos de desarrollo ambientalista que aporta a la conceptualización de las nuevas formas de ocupación climática, así como también a la reivindicación de la diversidad biocultural local.
description: Through an ethnography developed between Bogotá and the Aduche Resguardo in the Colombian Mid-Amazon, this anthropology thesis addresses the sociecological conflict between Visión Amazonía and the Andoque people between 2017 and 2020. It explores, following the intercultural frictions in the conflict (Tsing A, 2011), the long global connections and associated actor networks, through political ecology. This allows to put in controversy the global environmentalist model of sustainable development that is sought to be implemented in Colombian Amazonian territory through Visión Amazonía, as a model that does not dialogue with local epistemologies. For this reason, the last chapter of the thesis describes the biocultural diversity of the Andoque indigenous people and vindicates their local epistemology, showing the interdependence between ritual dances, the “Palabra” and the management of nature for the care of their territory and the Amazon rainforest. It is a conversation between the Andoque management of the world through their mythology and the new models of environmentalist development, that contributes to the conceptualization of the new forms of climatic occupation, as well as to the vindication of the local biocultural diversity.
Visibility or Impact? International Efforts to Defend LGBTQI+ Rights in Africa
Creators: name: Brown, Stephen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sexual orientation
gender identity and expression
foreign aid
LGBTQI+ rights
Africa
human rights

description: Most struggles for LGBTQI+ rights play out at the national level. However, the question of sexual and gender minorities’ rights periodically appears as a point of friction in international relations as well. This article analyses the question of international efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in countries of the Global South, with a particular focus on Western countries’ endeavours in Africa. Combining policy analysis, critique and recommendations, it asks how and when international actors should and should not intervene. It recognizes that motives for intervening can be problematic and the means often counterproductive, especially when exhibiting neo-imperialist tendencies and constituting ad hoc reactions to events in the media. Countering essentialist arguments about ‘authentic’ African culture and values, influenced by religious beliefs, is also a significant challenge. I argue that more fruitful efforts should instead be centred on local rights defenders’ perspectives and supporting their priorities and initiatives, based on concerted, long-term, principled strategies. International actors, however, are reluctant to adopt such approaches because of a desire for short-term visible action, even if less effective or not effective at all. This conundrum is a fundamental problem in the area of foreign aid writ large, as greater impact often requires less visibility on the part of international actors, but donor countries want domestic and international recognition of their efforts. The article distils key lessons learnt and principles for action that have emerged over the past 15 to 20 years, brought together in one place for the first time. It aims to stimulate discussions among practitioners and academics. It should be of particular interest to human rights practitioners, especially those who are involved or contemplating getting involved in defending the rights of sexual and gender minorities internationally.
Die Hofschule Konzept eines schulbegleitenden Stütz- und Förderangebots für Kinder mit herausfordernden Verhaltensweisen unter Einbezug von Erlebnispädagogik und tiergestützter Therapie
Creators: name: Muther, Angela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Tiergestützte Therapie
Erlebnispädagogik
Verhaltensstörung
Kind
Masterarbeit

description: Die Integration von Kindern mit Verhaltensauffälligkeiten wird als sehr anspruchsvoll und herausfordernd beschrieben und löst bei vielen Lehrpersonen Ängste aus. Damit diese anspruchsvolle Integration gelingt, benötigt die Regelschule zusätzliche interne Ressourcen sowie externe Unterstützung. Das Konzept der Hofschule zeigt eine Möglichkeit, wie Primarschulkinder, ihre Eltern und Lehrpersonen in herausfordernden Schul- und Lebenssituationen durch ein schulbegleitendes externes Stütz- und Förderangebot entlastet und gestärkt werden können. Die Hofschule versteht sich als Teil der Schule, bietet jedoch ein alternatives Setting auf dem Bauernhof mit Einbezug von Erlebnispädagogik und tiergestützter Therapie. Die Kinder bleiben in ihre Stammklasse integriert. Der Settingwechsel an ein bis zwei Halbtagen pro Woche ermöglicht ihnen, an einem sicheren Ort ihr oftmals tiefes Selbstwertgefühl aufzubauen und neue Ressourcen zu entdecken. Die Kinder gewinnen Sicherheit und Vertrauen in sich und ihre Umwelt zurück und die Bereitschaft für Verhaltensänderungen wächst. Das Ziel der Hofschule ist eine für alle Beteiligten erfolgreiche Integration von Kindern mit herausfordernden Verhaltensweisen in die Regelschule.
Resource Allocation in Distributed Mixed-Criticality Cyber-Physical Systems
Creators: name: Lakshmanan, Karthik
name: Niz, Dionisio De
name: Ragunathan (Raj)  Rajkumar
name: Moreno, Gabriel A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale distributed cyber-physical systems will have many sensors/actuators (each with local micro-controllers), and a distributed communication/computing backbone with multiple processors. Many cyber-physical applications will be safety critical and in many cases unexpected workload spikes are likely to occur due to unpredictable changes in the physical environment. In the face of such overload scenarios, the desirable property in such systems is that the most critical applications continue to meet their deadlines. In this paper, we capture this mixed-criticality property by developing a formal overload-resilience metric called ductility. The generality of ductility enables it to evaluate any scheduling algorithm from the perspective of mixed-criticality cyber-physical systems. In distributed cyber-physical systems, this ductility is the result of both the task-to-processor packing (a.k.a bin packing) and the uniprocessor scheduling algorithms used. In this paper, we present a ductility-maximization packing algorithm to complement our previous work on mixed-criticality uniprocessor scheduling [6]. Our packing algorithm, known as Compress-on-Overload Packing (COP) is a criticality-aware greedy bin-packing algorithm that maximizes the tolerance of high-criticality tasks to overloads. We compare the ductility of COP against the Worst-Fit Decreasing (WFD) bin-packing heuristic used traditionally for load balancing in distributed systems, and show that the performance of COP dominates WFD in the average case and can reach close to five times better ductility when resources are limited. Finally, we illustrate the practical use of COP in distributed cyber-physical systems using a radar surveillance application, and provide an overview of the entire process from assigning task criticality levels to evaluating its performance.
title: ADCO, Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00445
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00445, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00445, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
MOESM4 of Reduced H3K27me3 leads to abnormal Hox gene expression in neural tube defects
Creators: name: Yu, Juan
name: Wang, Lei
name: Pei, Pei
name: Li, Xue
name: Wu, Jianxin
name: Qiu, Zhiyong
name: Zhang, Juan
name: Ao, Ruifang
name: Wang, Shan
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Xie, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. H3K27me3/2/1 analysis in mouse NTD embryos of E10.5. A. Relative protein expression of H3K27me3, H3K27me2 and H3K27me1 in mouse NTDs embryo. Data are shown as the mean (SD; n= 3). *P < 0.05. B. Peak statistics of mouse embryos used for ChIP-seq. C. GO analysis of differential peak related gene.
Additional file 2 of Managerial attitude to the implementation of quality management systems in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals
Creators: name: Buciuniene, Ilona
name: Malciankina, Sonata
name: Lydeka, Zigmas
name: Kazlauskaite, Ruta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
Gene regulatory and signalling networks exhibit distinct topological distributions of motifs
Creators: name: Ferreira, Gustavo Rodrigues
name: Nakaya, Helder Imoto
name: Costa, Luciano da Fontoura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The biological processes of cellular decision making and differentiation involve a plethora of signalling pathways and gene regulatory circuits. These networks, in their turn, exhibit a multitude of motifs playing crucial parts in regulating network activity. Here, we compare the topological placement of motifs in gene regulatory and signalling networks and find that it suggests different evolutionary strategies in motif distribution for distinct cellular subnetworks.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to PRE