cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Design, fabrication, and characterization of a MEMS thermal switch and integration with a dynamic micro heat engine
Creators: name: Cho, Jeong-Hyun
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Microelectromechanical systems -- Design and construction

description: In this work, a MEMS scale thermal switch was designed, fabricated, and tested. The switch was shown to contol heat transfer over millisecond time scales and micrometer length scales. The switch was then integrated into a micro power generation system to enable waste heat harvesting. Two test stands were used to determine two figures of merit characterizing a thermal switch: the ratio of thermal resistance of the switch in the off and on states, Roff /Ron, and the time required to switch from the off to the on state, T[switch]. For the thermal resistance ratio measurements, three switch conductor materials, polished silicon surfaces, arrays of Hg micro droplets, and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes were tested at steady state conditions. The liquid-metal switch has a thermal resistance off to on ratio of 168. A thin-film radial heat flux sensor was then used to characterize the transient thermal behavior of the liquid-metal microdroplet thermal switch at dynamic state conditions. The switching speed of the Hg micro-droplet switch was shown to be on the order of 0.01 seconds, realizing heating rates of 1800 C/sec. A cantilever piezoelectric actuator was selected for the active thermal switch. The relationship among deflection, driving frequency, input voltage, and input electric power was developed. This model gives an estimation of the required input voltage or electrical power for piezoelectric devices of any application. Power production by a dynamic micro heat engine with an integrated thermal switch was demonstrated. The thermal switch was used to control heat addition into the microengine from a constant heat source at 60-70 C. Net power output (mechanical power out over electrical power in) was demonstrated. The maximum power output from a passively cooled microengine was 364 W. Under this condition, the power required to run the thermal switch was 23 W. The feasability of using electrowetting to actuate a MEMS scale thermal switch was investigated. A switch based on this concept was designed and fabricated. These tests indicate that this approach is feasible.
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0450v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0450v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Improving Federal Cybersecurity Governance Through Data-Driven Decision Making and Execution
Creators: name: Gray, Douglas
name: Wisniewski, Brian D
name: Allen, Julia H
name: Cois, Constantine
name: Connell, Anne
name: Ebel, Erik
name: Gulley, William
name: Riley, Michael
name: Stoddard, Robert W.
name: Vaughn, Marie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although efforts are underway through Information Security Continuous Monitoring initiatives to improve situational awareness and risk mitigation at the operational level, the federal government must make better enterprise-level cybersecurity decisions in the shortest time possible. This report outlines an approach called Data Driven Cybersecurity Governance Decision Making. This approach leverages the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA) loop used by the U.S. Department of Defense to enable decision makers at the strategic levels of government to best set the conditions for success at the point of execution. To best target the unique considerations of enterprise decision makers, this report discusses the difference between cybersecurity governance and cybersecurity operations. Within this context, it describes best practices in collecting and analyzing authoritative data present in the federal space to develop a level of situational awareness tailored to decision makers’ needs in a cybersecurity governance scorecard. Cybersecurity governance decision makers can leverage this enhanced situational awareness to support a data-driven decision-making process that targets root causes of the problems facing the federal government enterprise. Finally, the report discusses key considerations to ensure success at the point of execution based on work performed in the Observe, Orient, and Decide phases of the OODA Loop.
Chaotic Dynamics of Trans-Neptunian Objects Perturbed by Planet Nine
Creators: name: Hadden, Sam
name: Li, Gongjie
name: Payne, Matthew J.
name: Holman, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of clustering among the orbits of the most distant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) has inspired interest in the possibility of an undiscovered ninth planet lurking in the outskirts of the solar system. Numerical simulations by a number of authors have demonstrated that, with appropriate choices of planet mass and orbit, such a planet can maintain clustering in the orbital elements of the population of distant TNOs, similar to the observed sample. However, many aspects of the rich underlying dynamical processes induced by such a distant eccentric perturber have not been fully explored. We report the results of our investigation of the dynamics of coplanar test-particles that interact with a massive body on an circular orbit (Neptune) and a massive body on a more distant, highly eccentric orbit (the putative Planet Nine). We find that a detailed examination of our idealized simulations affords tremendous insight into the rich test-particle dynamics that are possible. In particular, we find that chaos and resonance overlap plays an important role in particles' dynamical evolution. We develop a simple mapping model that allows us to understand, in detail, the web of overlapped mean-motion resonances explored by chaotically evolving particles. We also demonstrate that gravitational interactions with Neptune can have profound effects on the orbital evolution of particles. Our results serve as a starting point for a better understanding of the dynamical behavior observed in more complicated simulations that can be used to constrain the mass and orbit of Planet 9.
description: Revised to address referree comments; accepted to AJ
Additional file 14 of Perturbation of semaphorin and VEGF signaling in ACDMPV lungs due to FOXF1 deficiency
Creators: name: Karolak, Justyna A.
name: Gambin, Tomasz
name: Szafranski, Przemyslaw
name: Maywald, Rebecca L.
name: Popek, Edwina
name: Heaney, Jason D.
name: Stankiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14. Bio-GPS graphs demonstrating similar fetal lung- and lung-specific expression pattern of TMEM100 and FOXF1.
Vivir el San Juanito, aprender a sentir el propio San Juan. Una aproximación a las fiestas folclóricas infantiles del municipio de Natagaima, Tolima
Creators: name: Ortiz Ruiz, Maria Paula
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Actividades culturales
subject: Vacaciones - Vida social y costumbres
subject: Fiestas folclóricas
subject: Fiesta
subject: Memoria colectiva
subject: Natagaima
subject: San Juanito
subject: Sentido de pertenencia

description: La fiesta del San Juan, Festival Folclórico Regional del San Juan Cantalicio Rojas González, en el municipio de Natagaima, del departamento del Tolima, es una tradición que se celebra durante el solsticio de verano del 21 de junio de cada año. Durante estos días se abre el espacio para festejar y conmemorar la cultura, la música, la gastronomía y la danza, haciendo honor a la historia local. La fiesta, suele ser escenificada y protagonizada en su mayoría por población adolescente y mayor de edad. Este conocimiento colectivo hace parte de un proceso de correspondencia entre el territorio, la gente, las formas de vida y de habitar que en gran medida se difunden de generación en generación, por medio de la práctica, el hacer y la tradición oral. Siendo así, se busca dar a conocer los esfuerzos que realizan los habitantes del municipio de Natagaima, para conservar, transmitir y potencializar los conocimientos y saberes tradicionales que se expresan dentro de la celebración de las fiestas de San Juan y que, en este caso, se podrían impulsar desde la infancia, partiendo por la celebración del San Juanito, como un preámbulo de acercamiento y aproximación a lo que implica vivir y ser natagaimuno.
description: The San Juan Festival, Regional Folkloric Festival of San Juan Cantalicio Rojas González, in the municipality of Natagaima, in the department of Tolima, is a tradition that is celebrated during the summer solstice on June 21 of each year. During these days the space is opened to celebrate and commemorate the culture, music, gastronomy and dance, honoring the local history. The party is usually staged and starred mostly by teenagers and adults. This collective knowledge is part of a process of correspondence between the territory, the people, the ways of life and the way of living, which to a great extent are spread from generation to generation, by means of the practice, the doing and the oral tradition. Thus, we seek to make known the efforts made by the inhabitants of the municipality of Natagaima, to preserve, transmit and potentiate the traditional knowledge and wisdom that are expressed in the celebration of the festivities of San Juan and that, in this case, could be prometed from childhood, starting with the celebration of San Juanito, as a preamble of approach and approximation to what it means to live and be Natagaimuno.
Parton distribution functions from reduced Ioffe-time distributions
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Hui
name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Monahan, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the correct way to extract parton distribution functions from the reduced Ioffe-time distribution (RITD), a ratio of the Ioffe-time distribution for a moving hadron and a hadron at rest, is through a factorization formula. This factorization exists because, at small distances, forming the ratio does not change the infrared behavior of the numerator, which is factorizable. We illustrate the effect of such a factorization by applying it to results in the literature.
Is It Only High School Grades That Matter? Understanding Retentions In A Social Science Undergraduate Program
Creators: name: Wang, Di
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: I study factors affecting student retention in the International Studies and Modern Languages (EIL) program at University of Ottawa. Students admitted to the program have excellent high school admission averages but low rate of retention. I use uOttawa administrative data to estimate a probit model of first-year and second-year retention rates and find that the key explanatory variables differ. An unusual finding is that the high school admission average has a negative effect on both first-year and second-year retention rates of EIL students. I find that in addition to the admission average and first-semester grades, the loss of scholarship matters for 1st year retention (particularly for students from outside the National Capital Region), but not for second-year retention. Program language matters for second-year retention, but does not affect retention after the first year of study.
title: Physiological analysis oflactobacillus rhamnosusVTT E‐97800
title: Adaptive response to osmotic stress induced by trehalose
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sunny‐Roberts, Elizabeth Oluwaseun
name: Knorr, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 640 Hauswirtschaft und Familie
subject: 660 Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
subject: food preservation
subject: metabolic diseases
subject: micro-organisms
subject: biotechnology

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Purpose – This paper aims to describe the physiological analysis of L. rhamnosus VTT E‐97800 and its adaptive response to osmotic stress induced by trehalose. Design/methodology/approach – Cells of L. rhamnosus E800 in the stationary phase of growth were subjected to osmotic stress induced by trehalose treatments. The effects of osmotic stress on the viability of the study strain were determined by conducting flow cytometric analysis with carboxyfluorescein diacetate (cFDA) and propidium iodide (PI) and by observing the corresponding cells growth on MRS agar plates. Osmotic‐induced changes of esterase activity and membrane integrity were monitored. Ability to extrude intracellular accumulated cF (additional vitality marker) was taken into consideration. Findings – The fluorescence‐based approach gave additional insights on osmotic induced changes of cellular events, which could not be explicitly assessed by culture techniques. Trehalose treatments caused a transient membrane permeabilization as revealed by a gradual decrease in esterase activity (a measure of enzyme activity and thus of viability) with increase in trehalose molarity. However, culturability on MRS agar was not significantly affected. Membrane integrity was maintained and there was an improvement in the ability of cells to extrude intracellular accumulated cF. Originality/value – The paper provides a comparative study of the conventional culture techniques and the flow cytometric viability assessment which showed that esterase activity cannot be relied on to ascertain the culturability and viability status of an organism.
supplementary material for paper 'Small unsatisfiable k-CNFs with bounded literal occurrence'
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianwei
name: Peitl, Tomáš
name: Szeider, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the supplementary material for the paper 'Small unsatisfiable k-CNFs with bounded literal occurrence'. You will find

    - `qcir-gen.py`: a Python script for generating the various SAT encodings we used in the paper. For more information on the parameters, type `python qcir-gen.py --help`. To run it, it is required to have the PySAT package installed.

    - `parseQCIR.py`: a Python script from converting a QCIR formula into a format that SMS understands and pass it on to SMS.

    - `two_doms`, `two_doms_models`: additional file for cubing assuming there are at least two dominating clauses. Please keep under the same directory as `qcir-gen.py`.

    - `unique_models_10`, `unique_models_11`, `unique_models_12`: additional file for cubing assuming there is a unique dominating clause. Please keep under the same directory as 'qcir-gen.py'.

    - `saturation-algorithm-main.zip`: a C++ implementation of a saturation algorithm that gives the size of the smallest minimally unsatisfiable (k,p,q)-formula which has 1 less variable than the number of clauses.

Download SMS from `https://github.com/markirch/sat-modulo-symmetries`, and follow the installation instructions.

To run SMS on a QCIR formula generated by 'qcir-gen.py', do `python parseQCIR.py -f name_of_file --vertices 2n+m --args-SMS '--initial-partition 2n m`. The exact initial partition to start SMS with might differ depending on the parameters used when generating the QCIR formula. Please refer to the paper for the initial partition to use in each situation.
Consumers' preferences for dairy products in alternative food store formats in China
Creators: name: Bai, Junfei
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Consumers' preferences -- China -- Case studies

description: China's emergence as the world's fastest growing economy during the last two decades has created incredible demand and a flourishing market for various agricultural products. China was once believed to be a serious threat to the world agricultural product markets; however, most researchers today believe that China does not threaten the world, but rather plays an important role in the world market. This situation creates unprecedented market and trade opportunities for potential agricultural product exporters outside of China, including the U.S. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts, focusing on two separate but related issues that affect China's agricultural product markets. The first study centers on the modern food retail formats, supermarkets and hypermarkets, which have entered China and are spreading there as fast as (or faster) than anywhere in the world. The explicit objective of this study is to understand how Chinese consumers are responding to the entry and extension of these modern food retail formats, and to identify the underlying factors affecting this response. Different from most previous studies, the effects of potential interrelationships among different food retail formats on consumer choice for shopping termination are taken into account. The results of this study provided empirical evidence that encouraged us to start a long-term research plan to help develop and build markets in China for U.S. agricultural product exports.; The second and third manuscripts focus on another topic--dairy--which has been one of the fastest growing demands for agricultural products in China in recent years. In the second paper, fluid milk is assumed to be a homogenous product. The objective of the study is to understand current fluid milk consumption in urban China, and to identify the underlying determinants. A Tobit model was applied to estimate and test a series of hypotheses since the dataset involves zero-consumption observations. The homogenous product assumption in this paper was relaxed in the third study by designing a choice-based conjoint (CBC) experiment, in which fluid milk is defined by a bundle of attributes and corresponding levels. This study jointly measures the effects of milk-specific attributes and individual-specific characteristics on consumers' preferences and purchasing behavior for fluid milk.
Guidance Mechanism for Flexible Wing Aircraft Using Measurement-Interfaced Machine Learning Platform
Creators: name: Abouheaf, Mohammed
name: Mailhot, Nathaniel
name: Gueaieb, Wail
name: Spinello, Davide
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: adaptive control
aerospace control
learning systems
machine learning
neural networks
optimal control

description: The autonomous operation of flexible-wing aircraft is technically challenging and has never been presented within literature. The lack of an exact modeling framework is due to the complex nonlinear aerodynamic relationships governed by the deformations in the flexible-wing shape, which in turn complicates the controls and instrumentation setup of the navigation system. This urged for innovative approaches to interface affordable instrumentation platforms to autonomously control this type of aircraft. This work leverages ideas from instrumentation and measurements, machine learning, and optimization fields in order to develop an autonomous navigation system for a flexible-wing aircraft. A novel machine learning process based on a guiding search mechanism is developed to interface real-time measurements of wing-orientation dynamics into control decisions. This process is realized using an online value iteration algorithm that decides on two improved and interacting model-free control strategies in real-time. The first strategy is concerned with achieving the tracking objectives while the second supports the stability of the system. A neural network platform that employs adaptive critics is utilized to approximate the control strategies while approximating the assessments of their values. An experimental actuation system is utilized to test the validity of the proposed platform. The experimental results are shown to be aligned with the stability features of the proposed model-free adaptive learning approach.
Additional file 1 of Perturbation of semaphorin and VEGF signaling in ACDMPV lungs due to FOXF1 deficiency
Creators: name: Karolak, Justyna A.
name: Gambin, Tomasz
name: Szafranski, Przemyslaw
name: Maywald, Rebecca L.
name: Popek, Edwina
name: Heaney, Jason D.
name: Stankiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. ACDMPV patients enrolled in transcriptomic studies.
Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering
Creators: name: Weiderman, Nelson
name: Northrop, Linda
name: Smith, Dennis B.
name: Tilley, Scott
name: Wallnau, Kurt C.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed object technology is profoundly changing the ways in which software systems evolve over time. To a large extent, the focus of reengineering has been to understand legacy systems and to extract their essential functionality so that they can be rewritten as more robust and more maintainable systems over the long term. However, object technology, wrapping strategies, and the Web may be changing the focus and economics of reengineering. The question posed by this paper is the extent to which reengineering strategies ought to continue to use program understanding technology. The cost/benefit ratio of certain forms of program understanding appears to be staying roughly the same over time, while the cost/benefit ratio of wrapping legacy systems or their subsystems is dropping rapidly. As a result, new reengineering strategies that place less emphasis on deep program understanding, and more emphasis on distributed object technologies, should now be considered.
Antecedents of knowledge sharing in communities of practice
Creators: name: Zboralski, Katja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: knowledge sharing
subject: leadership
subject: team management

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Purpose – Communities of practice (CoPs) have gained a great deal of attention from practitioners and scholars alike. However, critical antecedents of knowledge sharing in CoPs have not been fully researched yet. Particularly, empirical results are still scarce. The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of community members’ motivation to participate in CoPs, the importance of the community leader and the influence of management support. Design/methodology/approach – In order to test the proposed hypotheses data from 222 CoP members from different communities of a multinational company gathered in a large sample quantitative survey, using partial least square structural equations modelling. Findings – The research results show that a leading facilitator and an appropriate managerial support influence interaction processes in CoPs positively. Research limitations/implications – The impact of motivational and managerial factors on knowledge sharing processes in CoPs is conceptualized and tested. With regard to further CoP research, the developed scales may serve as a basis for future empirical studies. Furthermore, the type of knowledge handled in the CoP as well as assessments from community leaders could enhance the understanding of learning and knowledge generation in CoPs. Practical implications – New insights with respect to the management of CoPs in corporate practice, answering questions such as ‘‘What motivates people to participate in CoPs?’’ or ‘‘How to lead knowledge workers in CoPs?’’ are found. Originality/value – On the basis of a large sample empirical analysis these research results give evidence for the importance of different antecedents of interaction processes in CoPs.
Módulo: Las relaciones públicas - Diplomado Etiqueta, protocolo, relaciones públicas e imagen
Creators: name: Pardo, Paula
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019

description: Objetivos generales: El objetivo de este módulo es aportar al estudiante los conocimientos de las relaciones públicas, tanto en su dimensión teórica como práctica, como instrumento orientado al desarrollo de acciones empresariales y personales. Objetivos específicos: • Precisar al estudiante la finalidad de las relaciones públicas y su aplicabilidad en los diferentes escenarios. • Facilitar las herramientas necesarias al estudiante para el desarrollo de un plan de relaciones públicas y familiarizaros con el proceso desde la cadena de valor. • Crear habilidades con base a las herramientas de las relaciones públicas como vehículo de generador de imagen.
description: Las relaciones públicas en las organizaciones son las responsables de las relaciones de una institución, empresa o colectivo determinada con sus diferentes públicos, debe ser parte de la dirección de la empresa, pues por medio de esta área se deben alinear estratégicamente las acciones que conlleva la misión y la visión para la consecución de los objetivos y dimensionar el valor público.
Infinite Lattices of Vortex Molecules in Rabi-Coupled Condensates
Creators: name: Uranga, B. Mencia
name: Lamacraft, Austen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortex molecules can form in a two component superfluid when a Rabi field drives transitions between the two components. We study the ground state of an infinite system of vortex molecules in 2D, using a numerical scheme which makes no use of the lowest Landau level approximation. We find the ground state lattice geometry for different values of inter-component interactions and strength of the Rabi field. In the limit of large field when molecules are tightly bound, we develop a complimentary analytical description. The energy governing the alignment of molecules on a triangular lattice is found to correspond to that of an infinite system of 2D quadrupoles, which may be written in terms of an elliptic function $\mathcal{Q}(z_{ij};ω_1 , ω_2 )$. This allows for a numerical evaluation of the energy which enables us to find the ground state configuration of the molecules.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Founder team interaction, customer and competitor orientation in software ventures
Creators: name: Mueller, Thilo A.
name: Georg Gemünden, Hans
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten
subject: teams
subject: social interaction
subject: computer software
subject: customer orientation
subject: competitors

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Purpose – Developments in the software industry have shown the need for sustainable and effective management strategies, especially for new ventures. Entrepreneurship literature suggests marketing to be one of the pivotal predictors of business performance. Previous empirical studies have shown the importance of social interaction and team work quality for new venture performance. The purpose of this paper is to apply founder team interaction quality (IQ), and the customer and competitor orientation concept of marketing research to new software venture performance. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical study using a fully standardized questionnaire was conducted in 101 young software ventures. Two founders in each company filled out the questionnaire separately allowing superior tests for reliability and validity of the research framework. Findings – The results show team IQ to be a powerful predictor of both customer orientation and competitor orientation. Furthermore, a positive, linear relationship between competitor orientation and technological performance has been found. There is a curvilinear U-shaped relationship between customer orientation and all examined success dimensions, i.e. economic, market and technological success. Originality/value – Based on a theoretical research framework and a comprehensive empirical study, the paper contributes to a limited body of research and provides insight for managers of young ventures in the nature of teamwork and IQ and its effects on market orientation and company performance.
Una aproximación general a la jurisdicción constitucional en Colombia
Creators: name: Julio Estrada, Alexei
name: Lozano Villegas, Germán
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia. Departamento de Derecho Constitucional
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poder judicial - Colombia
subject: Poder público - Colombia
subject: Control de constitucionalidad - Colombia

description: Dos problemas principales plantea la estructura de la jurisdicción constitucional en Colombia. El primero tiene que ver con su integración dentro de la rama judicial, y el segundo, con su composición. A la luz del ordenamiento constitucional colombiano, la Corte Constitucional hace parte de la rama judicial del poder público. Esto ha traído no pocos problemas sobre todo a la hora de afirmar la autoridad del supremo intérprete constitucional sobre las restantes corporaciones de la misma rama, principalmente el Consejo de Estado y la Corte Suprema de Justicia.
Rethinking Criminal Responsibility for Poor Offenders: Choice, Monstrosity, and the Logic of Practice
Creators: name: Sylvestre, Marie-Eve
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010

description: In theory and in discourse, Canadian criminal law insists on the importance of free will, choice, and difference in order to hold someone criminally responsible and to legitimize punishment. Yet legal doctrine is constructed and applied in a very technical and descriptive manner that usually casts aside practical considerations, proceeds on utilitarian grounds, and simplifies what it means to be free, rational, and different. Recent proposals to strengthen or to eliminate the retributive model (e.g., to include in the analysis considerations such as socio-economic disparities and power differential or to definitely shift the discourse toward utilitarian considerations) still rely on assumptions about agency, liberty, and equality that are grounded in contested sociological evidence. As a result, their capacity to promote concrete reform is limited. In this paper, the author draws from the works of Bourdieu and other praxis theorists and argues that their research could shed new light on our understanding of choice and difference—two essential components in the assessment of responsibility. The author concludes by showing what criminal law theory could look like, especially in the case of poor offenders, if reformers were to consider such sociological evidence Sur les plans théorique et discursif, les notions de libre arbitre, de choix et de différence constituent les fondements de la théorie de la responsabilité pénale et de la légitimité du pouvoir de punir en droit canadien. Or, dans les faits, la doctrine juridique est construite et appliquée de manière essentiellement technique et descriptive : elle fait abstraction des considérations pratiques, renvoie à des arguments utilitaires et s’appuie sur une vision réductrice de la liberté, de la rationalité et de la différence. Certaines propositions ont récemment été mises de l’avant afin de renforcer le modèle rétributiviste (par exemple en incluant dans l’analyse des considérations telles que les disparités sociales et économiques ainsi que les rapports de pouvoir), ou encore de le remplacer par un modèle utilitariste. Cependant, ces propositions reposent sur une conception de la rationalité, de la liberté et de l’égalité qui est largement contestée sur le plan sociologique. Leur potentiel de réforme est limité. Dans cet article, l’auteure se fonde sur l’œuvre de Bourdieu, ainsi que sur celle d’autres théoriciens de la pratique, afin de reconsidérer le sens des notions de choix et de différence, deux composantes essentielles de la responsabilité. Elle propose en conclusion certaines modifications à la théorie pénale afin de tenir compte de ces données sociologiques et démontre quel serait l’impact de celles-ci en ce qui concerne les contrevenants les plus pauvres
Additional file 2 of Perturbation of semaphorin and VEGF signaling in ACDMPV lungs due to FOXF1 deficiency
Creators: name: Karolak, Justyna A.
name: Gambin, Tomasz
name: Szafranski, Przemyslaw
name: Maywald, Rebecca L.
name: Popek, Edwina
name: Heaney, Jason D.
name: Stankiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Schematic representation of CNVs and point mutations detected within FOXF1 locus in ACDMPV patients enrolled in transcriptomic studies.
Control of a nonlinear continuous stirred tank reactor via event triggered sliding modes
Creators: name: Sinha, Abhinav
name: Mishra, Rajiv Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTR) are the most important and central equipment in many chemical and biochemical industry that exhibit second order complex nonlinear dynamics. The nonlinear dynamics of CSTR poses many design and control challenges. The proposed controller guarantees a stable closed loop behavior over multiple operating points even in presence of disturbances and parametric uncertainties. An event driven sliding mode control is presented in this work to regulate the temperature and concentration very close to the equilibrium points of CSTR. The control is executed only when a predefined condition gets violated and hence the controller is relaxed when the system is operating under tolerable limits in terms of closed loop performance. A novel dynamic event triggering rule is presented to maintain desired performance with minimum computational cost. The inter event execution time is shown to be lower bounded by a finite positive quantity to exclude Zeno behavior. Sliding mode control (SMC) combined with event triggering scheme retains the inherent robustness of traditional SMC and aids in reducing computational load on the controller involved. Simulation results validate the efficiency of the proposed controller.
description: Author (final) version of accepted manuscript accepted in Chemical Engineering Science. Current status: in press
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Homo- and Hetero-geneous Cobalt (II) Catalysts
Creators: name: Sharif, Ayni
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: hydrogen
carbon dioxide
nanoparticle
catalyst

description: Various energy sources on which society depends are rapidly depleting in recent years. Alternate fuel sources that are cost efficient, earth abundant, and easily accessible has been urgently sought out by numerous researchers worldwide. Hydrogen represents an excellent target that could meet these pressing needs. This project has identified efficient photocatalytic production of hydrogen from the reduction of water using both homo- and hetero-geneous cobalt (II) complexes. A pincer selenium-nitrogen ligand scaffold, 2,6-bis[(pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]pyridine, was used to support a potential homogeneous catalyst. However, the formation of precipitates during catalytic process raised concerns over certainty of the activity of the homogeneous catalyst. These concerns prompted the investigation of cobalt oxide nanoparticles as potential heterogeneous catalysts. These explorations revealed this system to be a much more efficient catalyst through visible-light photochemistry of reducing water for hydrogen production in the presence of a Ru(bpy)3[2+] photosensitizer and a reductant.
Ring deconvolution microscopy: exploiting symmetry for efficient spatially varying aberration correction
Creators: name: Kohli, Amit
name: Angelopoulos, Anastasios N.
name: McAllister, David
name: Whang, Esther
name: You, Sixian
name: Yanny, Kyrollos
name: Gasparoli, Federico M.
name: Chang, Bo-Jui
name: Fiolka, Reto
name: Waller, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The most ubiquitous form of computational aberration correction for microscopy is deconvolution. However, deconvolution relies on the assumption that the point spread function is the same across the entire field-of-view. This assumption is often inadequate, but space-variant deblurring techniques generally require impractical amounts of calibration and computation. We present a new imaging pipeline that leverages symmetry to provide simple and fast spatially-varying aberration correction. Our ring deconvolution microscopy (RDM) method leverages the rotational symmetry of most microscopes and cameras, and naturally extends to sheet deconvolution in the case of lateral symmetry. We formally derive theory and algorithms for image recovery and additionally propose a neural network based on Seidel coefficients as a fast alternative, as well as extension of RDM to blind deconvolution. We demonstrate significant improvements in speed and image quality as compared to standard deconvolution and existing spatially-varying deconvolution across a diverse range of microscope modalities, including miniature microscopy, multicolor fluorescence microscopy, point-scanning multimode fiber micro-endoscopy, and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy. Our approach enables near-isotropic, subcellular resolution in each of these applications.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures. The Version of Record of this article is published in Nature Methods, and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02684-5
The “Negative” Assimilation of Immigrants: A Counter-example from the Canadian Labour Market
Creators: name: Grenier, Gilles
name: Zhang, Yi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Immigrants
Negative Assimilation
Canada
Skill Trabsferability
immigrants
assimilation négative
transférabilité des connaissances

description: With Canadian data ranging from 1991 to 2011, this paper investigates the effects of the number of years since migration on the earnings of immigrants from the United States and the United Kingdom in Canada. The aim is to test whether the “negative assimilation” hypothesis proposed by Chiswick and Miller (2011) for immigrants to the United States is a universal finding for immigrants from countries with similar economic standing and skill transferability to those of the destination country. We also expand on Chiswick and Miller’s work by doing regressions for both males and females and by comparing to Chinese immigrants, a representative group from a less developed country. We find that the negative assimilation hypothesis does not hold for the Canadian labour market. Specifically, the assimilation rate is close to zero for U.K. immigrants and strictly positive for U.S. immigrants (although lower than that of a comparison group of Chinese immigrants). The assimilation rates are also higher for females than for males. / Assimilation « négative » des immigrants : un contre-exemple provenant du marché du travail canadien. Avec des données canadiennes allant de 1991 à 2011, ce document étudie les effets du nombre d’années depuis la migration sur les gains des immigrants des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni au Canada. L’objectif est de tester si l’hypothèse d’ « assimilation négative » proposée par Chiswick et Miller (2011) pour les immigrants aux États-Unis est un résultat universel qui s’applique aux immigrants venant de pays qui ont des situations économiques semblables et où les connaissances peuvent se transférer facilement au pays de destination. Nous poussons plus loin l’analyse de Chiswick et Miller en analysant les hommes et les femmes séparément et en comparant avec les immigrants de Chine, un groupe représentatif venant d’un pays en développement. Nous obtenons comme résultat que l’hypothèse d’assimilation négative ne s’applique pas au marché du travail canadien. Plus précisément, le taux d’assimilation est près de zéro pour les immigrants du R.U. et est strictement positif pour les immigrants des É.U. (quoique plus petit que celui des immigrants de Chine). Les taux d’assimilations sont aussi plus élevés pour les femmes que pour les hommes.
Iterative map-making with two-level preconditioning for polarized Cosmic Microwave Background data sets
Creators: name: Puglisi, Giuseppe
name: Poletti, Davide
name: Fabbian, Giulio
name: Baccigalupi, Carlo
name: Heltai, Luca
name: Stompor, Radek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An estimation of the sky signal from streams of Time Ordered Data (TOD) acquired by Cosmic Microwave Background (\cmb) experiments is one of the most important steps in the context of \cmb data analysis referred to as the map-making problem. The continuously growing \cmb data sets render the \cmb map-making problem more challenging in terms of computational cost and memory in particular in the context of ground based experiments. In this context, we study a novel class of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) solvers which invoke two-level preconditioners. We compare them against PCG solvers commonly used in the map-making context considering their precision and time-to-solution. We compare these new methods on realistic, simulated data sets reflecting the characteristics of current and forthcoming \cmb ground-based experiment. We develop an embarrassingly parallel implementation of the approach where each processor performs a sequential map-making for a subset of the TOD. We find that considering the map level residuals the new class of solvers permits achieving tolerance of up to 3 orders of magnitude better than the standard approach, where the residual level often saturates before convergence is reached. This corresponds to an important improvement in the precision of recovered power spectra in particular on the largest angular scales. The new method also typically requires fewer iterations to reach a required precision and thus shorter runtimes for a single map-making solution. However, the construction of an appropriate two-level preconditioner can be as costly as a single standard map-making run. Nevertheless, if the same problem needs to be solved multiple times, e.g., as in Monte Carlo simulations, this cost has to be incurred only once, and the method should be competitive not only as far as its precision but also its performance is concerned.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 3 of Perturbation of semaphorin and VEGF signaling in ACDMPV lungs due to FOXF1 deficiency
Creators: name: Karolak, Justyna A.
name: Gambin, Tomasz
name: Szafranski, Przemyslaw
name: Maywald, Rebecca L.
name: Popek, Edwina
name: Heaney, Jason D.
name: Stankiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of FENDRR in IMR-90 cell line in IMR-90 cell line. A Schematic representation of the FENDRR locus and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated FENDRR knockout strategy. Red box represents FENDRR exon 1; white box represents maximal 5’ extension of the exon 1, caused by alternative splicing, that is present in GENCODE transcript FENDRR-206 (ENST00000599749.5). F and R indicate primers (F: 5’-GAAAATGAAGGCGTCCGAGC, R: 5’-GCACATGCAAACCCGGTAAA) used in PCR amplification from normal (WT) and edited (KO) lung fibroblasts IMR-90. B Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR products that verified promoter-exon 1 deletion (pe1∆). There was a minor heterogeneity with respect to the exact position of each of the deletion breakpoints. Sequence through the deletion junction and deletion coordinates refer to the predominant deletion (a small fraction of the deletions was 2 to 4 nt shorter). cCRE abbreviates FENDRR putative promoter (ENCODE).
Level-dynamic approach to the excited spectra of the Jahn-Teller model - kink-train lattice and 'glassy' quantum phase
Creators: name: Majernikova, E.
name: Shpyrko, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of excited phonon spectra of the Exe Jahn-Teller (hereafter, JT) model mapped onto the generalized Calogero-Moser (gCM) gas of pseudoparticles implies a complex interplay between nonlinearity and fluctuations of quasiparticle trajectories. A broad crossover appears in a pseudotime (interaction strength) between the initial oscillator region and the nonlinear region of the kink-train lattice as a superlattice of the kink-antikink gCM trajectories. The local nonlinear fluctuations, nuclei (droplets) of the growing kink phase arise at the crossover, forming a new intermediate droplet "glassy" phase as a precursor of the kink phase. The "glassy" phase is related to a broad maximum in the entropy of the probability distributions of pseudoparticle accelerations, or level curvatures. The kink-train lattice phase with multiple kink-antikink collisions is stabilised by long-range correlations when approaching a semiclassical limit. A series of bifurcations of nearest-level spacings were recognised as signatures of pre-chaotic behaviour at the quantum level in the kink phase. Statistical characteristics can be seen to confirm the coexistence within all of the spectra of both regularity and chaoticity to a varying extent (nonuniversality). Regions are observed within which one of the phases is dominant.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures; published in European Physical Journal B; see also: cond-mat/0509687