nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Implementation of E government Strategies in Parepare City Using Cassidy Model and Dimensions of Indonesia E government Ranking Implementasi Strategi E government Kota Parepare Menggunakan Model Cassidy Dan Dimensi Pemeringkatan E government Indonesia (Pegi)

The development of e Government in Indonesia has started since 2003, but progress has not been able to answer the challenges and needs of the community as well as pressure from the pace of technological development. This study is an effort to strategize the implementation of e Government in Parepare to realize governance with the effective use of information technologyin accordance with the vision of Parepare to be a cyber city. The method used is the combination of Cassidy Model and Dimensionsof PeGI. The dimensions is used to limiting the scope and direct the process and results to produce a strategy implementation of comprehensive e Government. Bureaucratic Reform Program is also used as a reference, especially in managing the business processes of public services in the Parepare City.This study generates recommendations from the policy, institutional, applications, infrastructure, and planningdimensions.This strategy was later embodied in the policy of the Master Plan for Information and Communication Technology (RITIK) Parepare guiding along Bureaucracy Reform Team and Unit of Work in the Field of Communication and Information.e Government, Cassidy Model, PeGI, Bureaucracy ReformPengembangan e Government di Indonesia telah dimulai sejak tahun 2003, namun perkembangannya hingga saat ini belum mampu menjawab tantangan dan kebutuhan masyarakat serta tekanan akibat laju perkembangan teknologi yang sangat pesat. Penelitian ini merupakan upaya dalam menyusun strategi implementasi e Government di Kota Parepare untuk mewujudkan pemerintahan dengan pemanfaatan teknologi informasi yang efektif sesuai dengan visi Kota Parepare untuk menjadi kota cyber. Metode yang digunakan mengkombinasikan Model Cassidy dan Dimensi PeGI. Dimensi dimensi PeGI digunakan untuk membatasi rung lingkup serta mengarahkan proses dan hasil penelitian sehingga menghasilkan sebuah strategi implementasi e Government yang komprehensif. Program Reformasi Birokrasi juga dijadikan acuan implementasi khususnya dalam menata proses bisnis layanan publik yang ada di Kota Parepare. Penelitian ini menghasilkan rekomendasi dari dimensi kebijakan, kelembagaan, aplikasi, infrastruktur, dan perencanaan. Strategi ini kemudian diwujudkan dalam kebijakan Rencana Induk Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (RITIK) Kota Parepare yang dijadikan pedoman bersama Tim Reformasi Birokrasi dan Unit Kerja di Bidang Komunikasi dan Informatika.
Pengaruh Hasil Pemeringkatan E Government Indonesia (PeGI) terhadap Kinerja Penyelenggaraan Pemerintahan Daerah di Indonesia

PENGARUH HASIL PEMERINGKATAN E GOVERNMENT INDONESIA (PeGI) TERHADAP KINERJA PENYELENGGARAAN PEMERINTAHAN DAERAH DI INDONESIA DANY ADI SAPUTRA NIM.  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh hasil pemeringkatan e government Indonesia (PeGI) terhadap kinerja penyelenggaraan pemerintahan daerah. Terdapat lima dimensi yang digunakan dalam pemeringkatan e government yaitu kebijakan, kelembagaan, infrastruktrur, aplikasi, dan perencanaan. Sumber data kinerja ini adalah Kepmendagri Nomor 120 251 Tahun 2014 untuk data kinerja tahun 2012 dan Kepmendagri Nomor 120 4761 Tahun 2014 untuk data kinerja tahun 2013. Sumber data PeGI diperoleh dari hasil pemeringkatan yang dilakukan oleh dan diumumkan melalui website Direktorat e Government, Ditjen Aptika, Kemkominfo. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini meliputi 164 pemerintah daerah kabupaten/kota/provinsi tahun 2012 2013. Analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan analisis regresi linear untuk menguji hipotesis dan dengan melakukan uji asumsi klasik yang meliputi uji multikolonieritas, uji normalitas, dan uji heteroskedastisitas dengan menggunakan Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hasil pemeringkatan e government Indonesia (PeGI) berpengaruh positif terhadap kinerja penyelenggaraan pemerintahan daerah. Penelitian ini juga menemukan bahwa hanya dimensi infrastruktur yang berpengaruh positif terhadap kinerja.
Sequential convex relaxation for convex optimization with bilinear matrix equalities
Venue: 2016 European Control Conference (ECC)

We consider the use of the nuclear norm operator, and its tendency to produce low rank results, to provide a convex relaxation of Bilinear Matrix Inequalities (BMIs) The BMI is first written as a Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) subject to a bi affine equality constraint and subsequently rewritten into an LMI subject to a rank constraint on a matrix affine in the decision variables. The convex nuclear norm operator is used to relax this rank constraint. We provide an algorithm that iteratively improves on the sum of the objective function and the norm of the equality constraint violation. The algorithm is demonstrated on a controller synthesis example.
EPS Then and Now
Venue: Microorganisms

"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was considered to be polysaccharides. Later, it turned out that proteins, nucleic acids and lipids were major other constituents of the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) an acronym which was highly discussed. The role of the EPS matrix turns out to be fundamental for biofilms, in terms of keeping cells in proximity and allowing for extended interaction, resource capture, mechanical strength and other properties, which emerge from the life of biofilm organisms, including enhanced tolerance to antimicrobials and other stress. The EPS components are extremely complex and dynamic and fulfil many functional roles, turning biofilms into the most ubiquitous and successful form of life on Earth.
Calcium and pH co restrict abundance of Drosera rotundifolia (Droseraceae) in a Sphagnum bog in central British Columbia

The genus Drosera (sundews) is represented in British Columbia (BC) Canada, by Drosera rotundifolia (L. Drosera anglica (Huds. and their hybrid Drosera x obovata (Mert. W.D.J. Koch) All three can be found in Sphagnum bogs of central BC, including those within the Aleza Lake Research Forest (ALRF) located 60 km east of Prince George. Vegetation patterns in bogs are known to be correlated with light, water, and nutrient gradients, and despite information being available on the influence of light and water on Drosera occurrence, little information is known about the role of nutrients. Here, we focused on a bog containing all three Drosera species, to determine whether nutrient levels are related to the abundance of the widespread species, D. rotundifolia. Univariate regression tree analysis between soil water chemistry and D. rotundifolia numbers indicates that D. rotundifolia is a calcifuge, preferring moderately acidic soil pH >5.5) and relatively low calcium levels <2.88 ppm) This study provide.
Design of a secure smart card based multi server authentication scheme
Venue: J. Inf. Secur. Appl.

Traditional two party client server authentication protocol may not provide a scalable solution for present network environments where personal and ubiquitous computing technologies are involved as it is now becoming multi server based. To achieve efficient authorized communication, multi server based authentication protocols have been designed. The key feature of multi server based protocols is one time registration. We study the existing multi server based authentication protocols, and identify that many of the multi server based authentication protocols involve control server in mutual authentication or trusted server environment is required. The involvement of central authority in mutual authentication may be a bottleneck for large network, and the servers may be semi trusted. To erase these drawbacks, Wei etzal. recently proposed a multi server based authentication protocol. Their protocol does not require all servers to be trusted and involvement of control server in mutual authentication. Unfortunately, we identify the security vulnerability of Wei etzal.'s scheme to insider attack and password guessing attack. Additionally, lack of pre smart card authentication leads to denial of service attack. To enhance the security of Wei etzal.'s protocol, we propose a secure biometric based authentication scheme for multi server environment using smart card. We simulate the proposed protocol for the formal security verification using the widely accepted AVISPA (Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications) tool to show that our scheme is secure against active and passive attacks. In addition, we prove that our proposed scheme provides mutual authentication using the widely accepted Burrows Abadi Needham (BAN) logic and is also secured against various well known attacks. In addition, our scheme is efficient in terms of computational and communication overheads as compared to Wei etzal.'s scheme and other existing related schemes.
KALAKA 3: a database for the assessment of spoken language recognition technology on YouTube audios
Venue: Lang. Resour. Evaluation

KALAKA 3 is a speech database specifically designed for the development and evaluation of Spoken Language Recognition (SLR) systems. The database provides TV broadcast speech for training, and audio data extracted from YouTube videos for tuning and testing. The database was created to support the Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) which featured two language recognition tasks, both dealing with European languages. The first one involved six target languages (Basque, Catalan, English, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish) for which there was plenty of training data, whereas the second one involved four target languages (French, German, Greek and Italian) for which no training data was provided. This second task tried to simulate the use case of low resource languages. Two separate sets of YouTube audio files were provided to test the performance of language recognition systems on both tasks. To allow open set tests, these datasets included speech in 11 additional (Out Of Set) European languages. In this paper, we first discuss the design issues considered when creating the database and describe the data collection procedure. Then, we present the results attained in the Albayzin 2012 LRE, along with the performance of state of the art systems on the four evaluation tracks defined on the database. Both series of results demonstrate the usefulness of KALAKA 3 as a challenging benchmark for the advancement of SLR technology. As far as we know, this is the first database specifically designed to benchmark SLR technology on YouTube audios.
Phosphoinositide signaling in plant development
Venue: Development

The membranes of eukaryotic cells create hydrophobic barriers that control substance and information exchange between the inside and outside of cells and between cellular compartments. Besides their roles as membrane building blocks, some membrane lipids, such as phosphoinositides (PIs) also exert regulatory effects. Indeed, emerging evidence indicates that PIs play crucial roles in controlling polarity and growth in plants. Here, I highlight the key roles of PIs as important regulatory membrane lipids in plant development and function.  This Primer article provides an overview of phosphoinositide biogenesis, signaling and function during plant development and growth.
Skin self examination behaviors among individuals diagnosed with melanoma
Venue: Melanoma research

Many melanoma patients do not regularly perform thorough skin self examinations. We examined the extent to which melanoma patients conduct thorough skin self examination, how they perform skin self examination, and their related knowledge and self efficacy. A sample of 176 individuals (61.5% response rate) diagnosed with primary pathologic stage 0 III cutaneous malignant melanoma at a single cancer center completed a written or telephone survey regarding their skin self examination behaviors and associated factors. Almost all participants (98.9% reported their race as white. Almost three quarters (71.6% of participants reported doing an examination in the past 2 months. However, only 14.2% had examined all areas of the body in the past 2 months. Few participants reported always using a full length mirror (13.4% hand held mirror (11.3% or having someone help (9.2% when doing an examination. Having a higher level of education, greater knowledge of the ABCDE rule for detecting potential melanoma, higher skin self examination self efficacy, being shown how to do skin self examination, and being shown what a suspicious mole would look like were all significantly associated with conducting more thorough skin self examination. Most melanoma patients do not engage in regular, thorough skin self examination, and when they do examine their skin they typically do not sufficiently utilize tools and techniques to facilitate a thorough examination and tracking of potentially suspicious moles. Efforts to promote skin self examination among melanoma patients should focus on increasing knowledge and self efficacy and providing education about the why, when, and how of conducting self examination and mole tracking.
Variable throughput LDPC decoders using SIMD based adaptive quantization
Venue: 2016 39th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)

In this paper, we present an LDPC decoder design equipped with an adaptive throughput mechanism achievable using a multiple quantization scheme. Three representations are supported by the proposed architecture: 1 bit (hard decision) 2 bit, and 4 bit messages. A throughput increase by of factor of 4, 2 and 1 can be achieved with respect to the 4 bit message representation version, by simultaneously decoding 4, 2, or 1 codewords. This is done by employing a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) approach at processing unit level which is able to process 4, 2 and 1 operands corresponding to the distinct codewords. We provide implementation results for a partial parallel flooding architecture, with serial processing at processing node level. FPGA implementation results indicate that the proposed SIMD approach has an overhead of about 60% in logic with respect to the fixed 4 bit LDPC decoder, with no memory increase, while having a throughput increase of 4x when the hard decision decoding is used.
Performance bounds for quantized LDPC decoders based on absorbing sets
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

A code independent performance bound for a given absorbing set is derived for quantized low density parity check (LDPC) decoders. The analysis demonstrates that each absorbing set in the Tanner graph imposes a specific lower bound on the frame error rate (FER) of any code containing that absorbing set under a given quantization scheme. This approach is applicable to any message passing (MP) decoding algorithm and any uniform or non uniform quantization scheme for LDPC codes. Simulation results using the sum product algorithm (SPA) provide FERs that are consistent with the obtained bounds. In addition, the bounds demonstrate that the conventional quantized SPA is not capable of achieving very low FERs if the LDPC codes contain certain absorbing sets.
Switch Off fluorescence of 5 amino 2 mercapto benzimidazole with Ag3O4 nanoparticles: Experimental and theoretical investigations

The binding interaction of 5 amino 2 mercaptobenzimidazole (AMB) with Ag 3 O 4 nanoparticles was studied. AMB adsorbs strongly on the surfaces of nano semiconductor. The interaction of AMB with Ag 3 O 4 was studied by absorption, fluorescence, FT IR, SEM and EDX spectral studies. The Ag 3 O 4 nanoparticles were synthesized by chemical route and was characterized by XRD study. Excellent results observed were due to electron transfer between AMB and Ag 3 O 4 nanoparticles. To confirm the binding site of Ag 3 O 4 with AMB, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) study was carried out theoretically. It confirmed the higher electron density at azomethine nitrogen atom. Photo induced electron transfer is responsible for fluorescence quenching of AMB. The interaction between AMB and Ag 3 O 4 occurs through static quenching mechanism. The apparent association constant K app 2.0 x 10 5 M 1 was obtained from the fluorescence quenching data.
Android app behaviour classification using topic modeling techniques and outlier detection using app permissions
Venue: 2016 Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC)

Now a Days consumption of android apps has become a common phenomenon but user switch from one app to other app is also having high expectancy. There are various causes of Apps' swapping by users. As per research study, one prime reason behind this is that android apps are not providing same functionalities as mentioned in their description on Google Play Store and second crucial reason is that Apps accessing users phone content without taking their permission. The objective of this research work is to classify the apps effectively and identify/detect outlier apps with the help of app behavior analysis. Outlier apps have been detected to validate whether an android app performs as it claims in its description on Google Play Store as well as other criteria is App accessing user's personal content without user's agreement. This work has been done in four phases which are as follows Data extraction phase apps content such as App Title and Description has been crawled and extracted from Google Play Store; Data Pre processing this preprocessing phase is required to reduce missing data and high dimension data using filtering and stemming techniques; App classification: formed clusters on the basis of generated feature vector list of various category apps with the help of Topic modeling approaches probabilistic approach LDA and deterministic approach Non negative matrix factorization approach NMF; Outlier Detection: finally for outlier detection used manifest file/ user permission file off apps and mapped its content with App specific features list content to find out outlier Apps.
Environment modulates population social structure: experimental evidence from replicated social networks of wild lizards
Venue: Animal Behaviour

Social structure is a fundamental component of a population that drives ecological and evolutionary processes ranging from parasite transmission to sexual selection. Nevertheless, we have much to learn about factors that explain variation in social structure. We used advances in biologging and social network analysis to experimentally test how the local habitat, and specifically habitat complexity, modulates social structure at different levels in wild populations. Sleepy lizards, Tiliqua rugosa, establish nonrandom social networks that are characterized by avoidance of some neighbours and frequent interactions with one opposite sex individual. Using synchronous GPS locations of all adult lizards, we constructed social networks based on spatial proximity of individuals. We increased habitat structural complexity in two study populations by adding 100 short fences across the landscape. We then compared the resulting movement behaviour and social structure between these populations and two unmanipulated populations. Social connectivity (network density) and social stability, measured at weekly intervals, were greater in populations with increased habitat structural complexity. The level of agonistic interaction (quantified as scale damage) was also higher, indicating a fitness cost of greater social connectivity. However, some network parameters were unaffected by increased complexity, including disassortative mixing by sex, and at the individual level, social differentiation among associates (coefficient of variation of edge weights) and maximal interaction frequencies (maximal edge weight) This suggests divergent effects of changed ecological conditions on individual association behaviour compared to the resulting social structure of the population. Our results contrast with those from studies of more gregarious species, in which higher structural complexity in the environment relaxed the social connectivity. This shows that the response to altered ecological conditions can differ fundamentally between species or between populations, and we suggest that it depends on their tendency for gregarious behaviour.
Tant qu'il y aura des profanes dans la gestion des risques littoraux. Le cas de l'erosion marine a Lacanau

Cet article part du constat selon lequel les pratiques et les discours actuels en matiere de gestion des risques littoraux relevent encore prioritairement de modes de gestion fondes sur les savoirs experts Il interroge alors la validite du modele du deficit qui sous tend cette approche et qui presuppose, en l'absence d'une information et d'une communication officielles idoines, un public peu averti et peu rationnel face aux risques. Issu d'une enquete par questionnaire realisee durant l'ete 2013 sur les representations sociales liees a l'erosion marine a Lacanau en Aquitaine, il demontre d'une part que ce deficit suppose en connaissances scientifiques n'est pas verifie a l'echelle locale et d'autre part qu'une sensibilite et une reflexivite au sujet de l'erosion et des enjeux afferents existent au dela des seules actions institutionnelles d'information et de sensibilisation. La conclusion revient sur quelques implications pratiques et politiques de ces resultats pour la gestion des risques littoraux.
Remarkable efficiency of phosphate removal: Ferrate(VI) induced in situ sorption on core shell nanoparticles.
Venue: Water research

Despite the importance of phosphorus as a nutrient for humans and its role in ecological sustainability, its high abundance, resulting in large part from human activities, causes eutrophication that negatively affects the environment and public health. Here, we present the use of ferrate(VI) as an alternative agent for removing phosphorus from aqueous media. We address the mechanism of phosphate removal as a function of the Fe/P mass ratio and the pH value of the solution. The isoelectric point of g Fe2O3 nanoparticles, formed as dominant Fe(VI) decomposition products, was identified to play a crucial role in predicting their efficiency in removing of phosphates. Importantly, it was found that the removal efficiency dramatically changes if Fe(VI) is added before (ex situ conditions) or after (in situ conditions) the introduction of phosphates into water. Removal under in situ conditions showed remarkable sorption capacity of 143.4 mg P per gram of ferric precipitates due to better accessibility of active surface sites on in situ formed ferric oxides/oxyhydroxides. At pH 6.0 7.0, complete removal of phosphates was observed at a relatively low Fe/P mass ratio (5:1) The results show that phosphates are removed from water solely by sorption on the surface of g Fe2O3/g FeOOH core/shell nanoparticles. The advantages of Fe(VI) utilization include its environmentally friendly nature, the possibility of easy separation of the final product from water by a magnetic field or by natural settling, and the capacity for successful phosphate elimination at pH values near the neutral range and at low Fe/P mass ratios.