Schaltzeitprädiktion und Routenoptimierung für die Ampelassistenz in Smart Cities

Protschky, Valentin (2016): Schaltzeitprädiktion und Routenoptimierung für die Ampelassistenz in Smart Cities. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik

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A critical appraisal of coverage and resource allocation decisions through the use of health technology assessment: evidence on orphan drugs from four countries

Gallmann, Elena (2015) A critical appraisal of coverage and resource allocation decisions through the use of health technology assessment: evidence on orphan drugs from four countries. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Patterns of change in a plural society: a social geography of the city state of Singapore

Neville, Robert (1967) Patterns of change in a plural society: a social geography of the city state of Singapore. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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European foreign policy and the European Parliament in the 1990's

Viola, Donatella (1999) European foreign policy and the European Parliament in the 1990's. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Two rival programmes in 19th. century classical electrodynamics action-at-a-distance versus field theories

Fricke, Haworth (1982) Two rival programmes in 19th. century classical electrodynamics action-at-a-distance versus field theories. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Great power and corporate rivalry in Kuwait 1912-34: a study in international oil poitics

Bilovich, Yossef (1982) Great power and corporate rivalry in Kuwait 1912-34: a study in international oil poitics. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in international macroeconomics

de Ferra, Sergio (2016) Essays in international macroeconomics. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Contestation in marginalised spaces: dynamics of popular mobilisation and demobilisation in upper Egypt since 25 January 2011

Laveille, Yasmine (2016) Contestation in marginalised spaces: dynamics of popular mobilisation and demobilisation in upper Egypt since 25 January 2011. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The changing constellations of audit quality

Toh, Dorothy (2016) The changing constellations of audit quality. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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On variable selection in high dimensions, segmentation and multiscale time series

Baranowski, Rafal (2016) On variable selection in high dimensions, segmentation and multiscale time series. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Non-market valuation for environmental and health policy in Mexico

de Lima, Marcelo Rocha (2016) Non-market valuation for environmental and health policy in Mexico. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Understanding peripheral work connectivity – power and contested spaces in digital workplaces

Loeschner, Isabell (2016) Understanding peripheral work connectivity – power and contested spaces in digital workplaces. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Propositional and Activity Monitoring Using Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

Propositional and Activity Monitoring Using Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Lane, Spencer Dale Communication is the key to effective teamwork regardless of whether the team members are humans or machines. Much of the communication that makes human teams so effective is non-verbal; they are able to recognize the actions that the other team members are performing and take their own actions in order to assist. A robotic team member should be able to make the same inferences, observing the state of the environment and inferring what actions are being taken. In this thesis I introduce a novel approach to the combined problem of activity recognition and propositional monitoring. This approach breaks down the problem into smaller sub-tasks. First, the raw sensor input is parsed into simple, easy to understand primitive semantic relationships known as qualitative spatial relations (QSRs). These primitives are then combined to estimate the state of the world in the same language used by most planners, planning domain definition language (PDDL) propositions. Both the primitives and propositions are combined to infer the status of the actions that the human is taking. I describe an algorithm for solving each of these smaller problems and describe the modeling process for a variety of tasks from an abstracted electronic component assembly (ECA) scenario. I implemented this scenario on a robotic testbed and collected data of a human performing the example actions. SM thesis

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Sound and Complete Runtime Security Monitor for Application Software

Sound and Complete Runtime Security Monitor for Application Software Khan, M. Taimoor; Serpanos, Dimitrios; Shrobe, Howard We present a run-time security monitor that detects both known and unknown cyber attacks by checking that the run-time behavior of the application is consistent with the expected behavior modeled by an application specification. This is crucial because, even if the implementation is consistent with its specification, the application may still be vulnerable due to flaws in the supporting infrastructure. This run-time security monitor is sound and complete, eliminating false alarms, as well as efficient, so that it does not limit run-time application performance and so that it supports real-time systems. Importantly, this monitor is readily applicable to both legacy and new system platforms.The security monitor takes as input the application specification and the application implementation, which may be expressed in different languages. The security monitor detects attacks by systematically comparing the application execution and specification behaviors at run-time, even though they operate at two different levels of abstraction. We define the denotational semantics of the specification language and prove that the monitor is sound and complete, i.e. if the application is consistent with its specification, the security monitor will produce no false alarms (soundness) and that it will detect any deviation of the application from the behavior sanctioned by the specification language (completeness). Importantly, the application specification language enables the description of known or potential attack plans, enabling not only attack detection but attack characterization as well.

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Map Making in C. elegans: Charting the Nervous System

Map Making in C. elegans: Charting the Nervous System Hobert, Oliver The developmental history and anatomy of the nematode C.elegans has been exceptionally well mapped. The next frontier lies in taking maps to the next level, that of molecular maps which define the identity and function of unique cell types. Defining molecular maps is in particularly high demand in the context of the nervous system. For example, the C.elegans connectome, which still remains the only connectome of any nervous system, begs the question how neurons communicate with one another. I will describe our efforts to build a comprehensive neurotransmitter map of the C.elegans nervous system and I will then use this neurotransmitter map to describe our efforts to provide “regulatory maps” which explain how neurotransmitter identity is genetically programmed and how this critical identity feature of a neuron is linked to other identity features of a neuron. The underlying vision that guides our research is to understand on a true system-wide level how a nervous system is built. Presented on December 12, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), room 1005.; Oliver Hobert is a Professor in the Columbia University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and holds an Interdisciplinary Faculty position in the Department of Systems Biology. His laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms responsible for generating the remarkable diversity of cell types found in the nervous system. Using C. elegans as a model system, they have revealed the regulatory mechanisms that control terminal neuronal identity and demonstrated that these mechanisms are conserved in chordates. His lab has also developed a number of tools to analyze whole genome sequence data.; Runtime: 65:05 minutes

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Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe

Andersson, Ruben (2012) Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Methods for change-point detection with additional interpretability

Schroder, Anna Louise (2016) Methods for change-point detection with additional interpretability. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Blurred boundaries: how neoliberalisation has shaped policy development of post-9/11 counterterrorism policing in London and New York City

Quinlan, Tara Lai (2015) Blurred boundaries: how neoliberalisation has shaped policy development of post-9/11 counterterrorism policing in London and New York City. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Oort: User-Centric Cloud Storage with Global Queries

Oort: User-Centric Cloud Storage with Global Queries Chajed, Tej; Gjengset, Jon; Kaashoek, M. Frans; Mickens, James; Morris, Robert; Zeldovich, Nickolai In principle, the web should provide the perfect stage for user-generated content, allowing users to share their data seamlessly with other users across services and applications. In practice, the web fragments a user's data over many sites, each exposing only limited APIs for sharing. This paper describes Oort, a new cloud storage system that organizes data primarily by user rather than by application or web site. Oort allows users to choose which web software to use with their data and which other users to share it with, while giving applications powerful tools to query that data. Users rent space from providers that cooperate to provide a global, federated, general-purpose storage system. To support large-scale, multi-user applications such as Twitter and e-mail, Oort provides global queries that find and combine data from relevant users across all providers. Oort makes global query execution efficient by recognizing and merging similar queries issued by many users' application instances, largely eliminating the per-user factor in the global complexity of queries. Our evaluation predicts that an Oort implementation could handle traffic similar to that seen by Twitter using a hundred cooperating Oort servers, and that applications with other sharing patterns, like e-mail, can also be executed efficiently.

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Targeting the bacterial cell envelope by molecular coevolution and high throughput phenotyping

Kritikos, Georgios (2016): Targeting the bacterial cell envelope by molecular coevolution and high throughput phenotyping. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie

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Global Web Preservation

Global Web Preservation Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 327, broadcast December 2, 2016. Features interview with Abbie Grotke (Web Archiving Team Lead and Digital Library Project Manager at the Library of Congress), and Alex Thurman (Web Resources Collection Coordinator at Columbia University Libraries), who together co chair the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Content Development Working Group.

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New China and its Qiaowu: the political economy of overseas Chinese policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959

Lim, Jin Li (2016) New China and its Qiaowu: the political economy of overseas Chinese policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Networks, uncertainty reduction and strategic decision-making in social movement fields

Simpson, Cohen (2016) Networks, uncertainty reduction and strategic decision-making in social movement fields. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The limits of communitarisation and the legacy of intergovernmentalism: EU asylum governance and the evolution of the Dublin system

Armstrong, Carolyn (2016) The limits of communitarisation and the legacy of intergovernmentalism: EU asylum governance and the evolution of the Dublin system. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in financial economics

Seyedan, Seyed (2016) Essays in financial economics. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Economic analysis studies in a nine-county area

Economic analysis studies in a nine-county area Wyatt, James Robert Issued as final report

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Mineral resource survey of Crawford County, Georgia

Mineral resource survey of Crawford County, Georgia Navarre, Alfred T. Issued as final report

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Traditions and innovations: An exploration of the governance structure, business strategy and historical development of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao, 1820s to 1930s

Wu, Meng (2016) Traditions and innovations: An exploration of the governance structure, business strategy and historical development of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao, 1820s to 1930s. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The politics of religious experience in Fifteenth-Century Europe through an East-West encounter: a re-interpretation

Tortopidou-Derieux, Kyriaki (2016) The politics of religious experience in Fifteenth-Century Europe through an East-West encounter: a re-interpretation. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Seeing with feeling

Rosca, Madalina Maria (2016): Seeing with feeling: filmed revolutions of others, from an empathic towards an involved spectatorship of documentaries. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften

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Defining independence in Cold War Asia: Sino-Indian relations, 1949-1962

Harder, Anton (2015) Defining independence in Cold War Asia: Sino-Indian relations, 1949-1962. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in corporate finance

Zaccaria, Luana (2016) Essays in corporate finance. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Persons and value: a thesis in population axiology

Beard, Simon (2015) Persons and value: a thesis in population axiology. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in public finance

Jensen, Anders (2016) Essays in public finance. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in political economics of development

Lei, Yu-Hsiang (2016) Essays in political economics of development. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The Polish workers' party and the opposition to communist power in Poland, 1944-47

Reynolds, Jaime (1984) The Polish workers' party and the opposition to communist power in Poland, 1944-47. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Wages and capitalist production

Edelberg, Victor (1933) Wages and capitalist production. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Explaining sovereign wealth fund variation: the role of domestic politics in small open economies

Braunstein, Juergen (2015) Explaining sovereign wealth fund variation: the role of domestic politics in small open economies. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Pharmaceutical prices 1999-2008: an exploration into global variation, comparative measures, and potential determinants

Morel, Chantal (2015) Pharmaceutical prices 1999-2008: an exploration into global variation, comparative measures, and potential determinants. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Citizenship, 'xenophobia' and collective mobilization in a South African settlement: the politics of exclusion at the threshold of the state

Monson, Tamlyn (2015) Citizenship, 'xenophobia' and collective mobilization in a South African settlement: the politics of exclusion at the threshold of the state. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Data and Code for "Automatic Identification of Narrative Diegesis and Point of View"

Data and Code for "Automatic Identification of Narrative Diegesis and Point of View" Eisenberg, Joshua D.; Finlayson, Mark A. This archive contains the code and data for the workshop article "Automatic Identification of Narrative Diegesis and Point of View," published in 2016 in the 2nd Workshop for Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory 2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016 in Austin, TX. The root of the archive contains a README file which explains the archive contents. Furthermore, the archive can be imported directly into the Eclipse IDE as a project encapsulating the executable code required to reproduce the results of the paper; the code compiles with Java 1.8. The archive also contains a copy of the final version of the paper for reference.

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Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world

Fotou, Maria (2016) Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The causal effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami and armed conflict on Aceh’s economic development

Heger, Martin (2016) The causal effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami and armed conflict on Aceh’s economic development. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Economic evaluation of gender empowerment programmes with a violence prevention focus: objective empowerment and subjective wellbeing

Ferrari, Giulia (2016) Economic evaluation of gender empowerment programmes with a violence prevention focus: objective empowerment and subjective wellbeing. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The experience of foreign and commonwealth soldiers in the British Army: an exploration and methodological commentary

Greene, Balissa (2016) The experience of foreign and commonwealth soldiers in the British Army: an exploration and methodological commentary. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The integrated ideal in urban governance: compact city strategies and the case of integrating urban planning, city design and transport policy in London and Berlin

Rode, Philipp (2016) The integrated ideal in urban governance: compact city strategies and the case of integrating urban planning, city design and transport policy in London and Berlin. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world

Fotou, Maria (2016) Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Four essays in agricultural and development economics

Vollenweider, Xavier (2016) Four essays in agricultural and development economics. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on asset pricing

Choi, Hoyong (2016) Essays on asset pricing. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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European labour market flexibility reforms: a longitudinal study of change and continuity.

Flanding, Jens (2016) European labour market flexibility reforms: a longitudinal study of change and continuity. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The EU's potential for domestic change beyond its borders: examining effective cooperation between EU civilian missions and host countries in the Eastern neighbourhood

Dobrescu, Mădălina (2015) The EU's potential for domestic change beyond its borders: examining effective cooperation between EU civilian missions and host countries in the Eastern neighbourhood. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Cities on the path to 'smart': information technology provider interactions with urban governance through smart city projects in Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, Oregon

Cullen, Michelle (2016) Cities on the path to 'smart': information technology provider interactions with urban governance through smart city projects in Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, Oregon. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Relationship with Distance: Korea, East Asia and the Anglo-Japanese Relationship, 1876-1894

Suzuki, Yu (2015) Relationship with Distance: Korea, East Asia and the Anglo-Japanese Relationship, 1876-1894. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The life of norms: a critical assessment of the construction and diffusion of the race anti-discrimination norm

Ivanova, Katya (2016) The life of norms: a critical assessment of the construction and diffusion of the race anti-discrimination norm. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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How the beast became a beauty: the social construction of the economic meaning of foreign direct investment inflows in advanced economies, 1960-2007

Linsi, Lukas (2016) How the beast became a beauty: the social construction of the economic meaning of foreign direct investment inflows in advanced economies, 1960-2007. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Empirical essays in the economics of health, housing, and the environment

Pinchbeck, Edward (2016) Empirical essays in the economics of health, housing, and the environment. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The politics and institutions of informality and street vending in Mexico: the case of Mexico City

Gonzalez, Julio (2016) The politics and institutions of informality and street vending in Mexico: the case of Mexico City. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The living dead: revolutionary subjectivity and Syrian rebel-workers in Beirut

Proudfoot, Philip (2016) The living dead: revolutionary subjectivity and Syrian rebel-workers in Beirut. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case-study

Sharma-Khushal, Sindra (2014) Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case-study. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Report on the 2015 NSF Workshop on Unified Annotation Tooling

Report on the 2015 NSF Workshop on Unified Annotation Tooling Finlayson, Mark Alan On March 30 & 31, 2015, an international group of twenty-three researchers with expertise in linguistic annotation convened in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida to discuss problems with and potential solutions for the state of linguistic annotation tooling. The participants comprised 14 researchers from the U.S. and 9 from outside the U.S., with 7 countries and 4 continents represented, and hailed from fields and specialties including computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, speech processing, multi-modal data processing, clinical & medical natural language processing, linguistics, documentary linguistics, sign-language linguistics, corpus linguistics, and the digital humanities. The motivating problem of the workshop was the balkanization of annotation tooling, namely, that even though linguistic annotation requires sophisticated tool support to efficiently generate high-quality data, the landscape of tools for the field is fractured, incompatible, inconsistent, and lacks key capabilities. The overall goal of the workshop was to chart the way forward, centering on five key questions: (1) What are the problems with current tool landscape? (2) What are the possible benefits of solving some or all of these problems? (3) What capabilities are most needed? (4) How should we go about implementing these capabilities? And, (5) How should we ensure longevity and sustainability of the solution? I surveyed the participants before their arrival, which provided significant raw material for ideas, and the workshop discussion itself resulted in identification of ten specific classes of problems, five sets of most-needed capabilities. Importantly, we identified annotation project managers in computational linguistics as the key recipients and users of any solution, thereby succinctly addressing questions about the scope and audience of potential solutions. We discussed management and sustainability of potential solutions at length. The participants agreed on sixteen recommendations for future work. This technical report contains a detailed discussion of all these topics, a point-by-point review of the discussion in the workshop as it unfolded, detailed information on the participants and their expertise, and the summarized data from the surveys.

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Our Information Will Replace Us

Our Information Will Replace Us Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 324, broadcast November 4, 2016. Features interview with Robyn Hitchcock, musician and songwriter, on the topic of how our physical and digital information may or may not be preserved.

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Question My Authority II: Academic Peer Review

Question My Authority II: Academic Peer Review Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Live discussion portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 323, broadcast Oct 28, 2016. Features interview with Mike Filler, Associate Professor and the Gunn Faculty Fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, head of the Filler Laboratory, and host of the Nanovation Podcast. Discussion centered on the nature of peer review, its problems, and what scientists could do instead.

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Serendipity and the Digital

Serendipity and the Digital Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 322, broadcast October 21, 2016. Features interview with Kate Joranson, Head of the Frick Fine Arts Library at University of Pittsburgh, on the subject of serendipity in the digital library environment.

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An affective and embodied push to Bourdieu’s dispositional model: Funk’s cultural practices in Rio de Janeiro

Barboza Muniz, Bruno (2015) An affective and embodied push to Bourdieu’s dispositional model: Funk’s cultural practices in Rio de Janeiro. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on functions and organisations of political parties

Lee, Suhjin (2016) Essays on functions and organisations of political parties. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Sectoral policy-making in China’s strategic industries: government guidance and state firm influence in the electricity supply sector

Sampson, Christopher (2016) Sectoral policy-making in China’s strategic industries: government guidance and state firm influence in the electricity supply sector. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Berantas Korupsi: a political history of governance reform and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia 1945-2014

Juwono, Vishnu (2016) Berantas Korupsi: a political history of governance reform and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia 1945-2014. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Ambisinisterity, success traps and the base of the pyramid

Millington, Nadia (2015) Ambisinisterity, success traps and the base of the pyramid. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A constructivist analysis of religion’s role in foreign policy: the cases of Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia under the leaderships of Menachem Begin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Fahd bin Abdulaziz

Delgado, Magdalena (2015) A constructivist analysis of religion’s role in foreign policy: the cases of Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia under the leaderships of Menachem Begin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Fahd bin Abdulaziz. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance

Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance Miller, T. Reed; Gregory, Jeremy; Kirchain, Randolph Guides, standards, product category rules, and environmental product declarations have emerged to evaluate environmental impacts within the buildings sector. These efforts have certainly moved the field forward, but as of yet still do not ensure comparability among building products or whole buildings. In this paper, we aim to address critical issues and make recommendations to practitioners and those developing guidance to enable more robust comparisons of building products and whole buildings.

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Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis (Revised)

Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis (Revised) Ghattas, Randa; Gregory, Jeremy; Noori, Mehdi; Miller, T. Reed; Olivetti, Elsa; Greene, Suzanne What is the environmental impact of a house throughout its lifetime? This report summarizes recent research on life cycle assessment of residential buildings in order to identify gaps in understanding as well as best practices for LCA methodology.

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The patterns and dynamics of the civil service pay reform in Korea

Nam, Ju Hyun (2016) The patterns and dynamics of the civil service pay reform in Korea. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The attraction of unity: power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia

Buitrón Arias, Natalia (2016) The attraction of unity: power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Communicating effectively during an LMS migration: Hitting the sweet spot

Communicating effectively during an LMS migration: Hitting the sweet spot Givens, Marlee; Jeffcoat, Heather In the ever-changing library landscape effective communication is paramount, especially during a significant change like introducing a new library management system (LMS). During Georgia Tech’s rapid implementation of a NextGen library system, our communications team had to quickly develop a strategy for internal and external communications. Focusing on the essential messages for both staff and users enabled us to hit the sweet spot between too much communication and too little. We will discuss best practices, challenges, successes and lessons learned as we underwent our recent LMS migration. Presented at the 28th Georgia COMO Conference, October 5-7, 2016, Athens GA.

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Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare

Terry, Jillian (2015) Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Refugee repatriation and consent

Gerver, Mollie (2016) Refugee repatriation and consent. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Understanding flexible work and well-being: analysis of a critical case

Cañibano, Almudena (2016) Understanding flexible work and well-being: analysis of a critical case. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A supply-side story of oil and gas: how fear of the future dictates behaviour today

Bligaard Nielsen, Thomas (2016) A supply-side story of oil and gas: how fear of the future dictates behaviour today. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Estimation of covariance, correlation and precision matrices for high-dimensional data

Huang, Na (2016) Estimation of covariance, correlation and precision matrices for high-dimensional data. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Explaining enforcement patterns of anticorruption agencies: comparative analysis of five Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian anticorruption agencies

Tomic, Slobodan (2016) Explaining enforcement patterns of anticorruption agencies: comparative analysis of five Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian anticorruption agencies. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Digital-by-Design

Digital-by-Design Datta, Shoumen IoT as a digital-by-design metaphor. The principles and practice of connectivity (includes digital twins).

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Examining Key Mobility Resources through Denial of Service Attacks on proposed Global Name Resolution Services

Examining Key Mobility Resources through Denial of Service Attacks on proposed Global Name Resolution Services Rock, Colleen T. The problem we address in this thesis is to uncover the design elements in a network architecture design that may open it up to denial of service (DoS) attacks and to expose the tradeoffs in mitigating those DoS opportunities. We take as our candidate network architecture design the Future Internet Architecture project MobilityFirst. MobilityFirst's overarching goal, driven by increasingly available wireless communication, is the support of mobility in an Internet architecture. At its core, MobilityFirst separates identification from location, as distinct from the current Internet architecture, and postulates the existence of globally unique, flat identifiers. In order to support mobility in this context, it also postulates a global name resolution service (GNRS). In this thesis we examine three alternative designs for the GNRS and the opportunities they expose for DoS attacks. We consider each one in depth analytically. As an example, we then study one particular attack in depth and are forced to conclude that approaches to mitigating this attack would have significant negative impact on the support of mobility thus exposing the dilemma in such system design tradeoffs. MEng thesis

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The limits of economic convergence in the EU: the interplay between family values and economic incentives in shaping individual behaviour in social care

Borrell, Mireia (2015) The limits of economic convergence in the EU: the interplay between family values and economic incentives in shaping individual behaviour in social care. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A faith of merchants: Quakers and institutional change in the early modern Atlantic, c.1660-1800.

Sahle, Esther (2016) A faith of merchants: Quakers and institutional change in the early modern Atlantic, c.1660-1800. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays in legislative politics: legislative leaders and Parliamentary behaviour

Blumenau, Jack (2016) Essays in legislative politics: legislative leaders and Parliamentary behaviour. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Dienstleistungsmarketing von Kleintierpraxen an den Beispielen der kommunikationspolitischen Instrumente Werbung, Social Media-Kommunikation, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Sponsoring vor dem Hintergrund veränderter Rahmenbedingungen

Mengel, Ingo (2016): Dienstleistungsmarketing von Kleintierpraxen an den Beispielen der kommunikationspolitischen Instrumente Werbung, Social Media-Kommunikation, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Sponsoring vor dem Hintergrund veränderter Rahmenbedingungen. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät

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Deliberative democracy within parties

Wolkenstein, Fabio (2016) Deliberative democracy within parties. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Technocratic governments: power, expertise and crisis politics in European democracies

Pastorella, Giulia (2016) Technocratic governments: power, expertise and crisis politics in European democracies. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A home away from home: the drivers behind Croatian diaspora mobilisation

Brkanić, Anita E. (2016) A home away from home: the drivers behind Croatian diaspora mobilisation. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on development economics and Chinese economy

Bo, Shiyu (2016) Essays on development economics and Chinese economy. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Right to information arenas: exploring the right to information in Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay

Scrollini Mendez, Fabrizio (2015) Right to information arenas: exploring the right to information in Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Matchings and covers of multipartite hypergraphs

Abu-Khazneh, Ahmad (2016) Matchings and covers of multipartite hypergraphs. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The same, but different: the everyday lives of female and male domestic workers in Lagos, Nigeria

Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah Dominique (2016) The same, but different: the everyday lives of female and male domestic workers in Lagos, Nigeria. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Future aspirations and life choices: a comparison of young adults in urban China and Taiwan

Remmert, Désirée (2016) Future aspirations and life choices: a comparison of young adults in urban China and Taiwan. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Whose line is it anyway? Understanding the military role in delivering rights based policies in post-conflict territories

Marley, Jonathan M. (2016) Whose line is it anyway? Understanding the military role in delivering rights based policies in post-conflict territories. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Question My Authority

Question My Authority Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Live discussion portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 315, broadcast Aug 26, 2016. Features interview with Liz Holdsworth, STEM Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library about scholarly authority, peer review, and confidence in the published scholarly record.

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Radio-isotopes development program

Radio-isotopes development program Whitley, Wyatt C. Issued as final report; Issued as Special progress letter no. 1, Project no. A-446.

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Lymphomdiagnostik beim Hund mittels PARR mit nachfolgender Schmelzkurvenanalyse

Schöpper, Imke (2016): Lymphomdiagnostik beim Hund mittels PARR mit nachfolgender Schmelzkurvenanalyse. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät

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Chaotic Neutral

Chaotic Neutral Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Live discussion portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 314, broadcast Aug 12, 2016. The hosts of Lost in the Stacks discuss the ideas of library chaos, and library neutrality (or lack thereof).

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Analyse autoreaktiver T-Zellen zur Identifizierung arthritogener Peptide bei der HLA-B27-assoziierten reaktiven Arthritis

Schönwetter-Steer, Margarete (2014): Analyse autoreaktiver T-Zellen zur Identifizierung arthritogener Peptide bei der HLA-B27-assoziierten reaktiven Arthritis. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie

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Flowtune: Flowlet Control for Datacenter Networks

Flowtune: Flowlet Control for Datacenter Networks Perry, Jonathan; Balakrishnan, Hari; Shah, Devavrat Rapid convergence to a desired allocation of network resources to endpoint traffic has been a long-standing challenge for packet-switched networks. The reason for this is that congestion control decisions are distributed across the endpoints, which vary their offered load in response to changes in application demand and network feedback on a packet-by-packet basis. We propose a different approach for datacenter networks, flowlet control, in which congestion control decisions are made at the granularity of a flowlet, not a packet. With flowlet control, allocations have to change only when flowlets arrive or leave. We have implemented this idea in a system called Flowtune using a centralized allocator that receives flowlet start and end notifications from endpoints. The allocator computes optimal rates using a new, fast method for network utility maximization, and updates endpoint congestion-control parameters. Experiments show that Flowtune outperforms DCTCP, pFabric, sfqCoDel, and XCP on tail packet delays in various settings, converging to optimal rates within a few packets rather than over several RTTs. Our implementation of Flowtune handles 10.4x more throughput per core and scales to 8x more cores than Fastpass, for an 83-fold throughput gain.

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Sociodramatic Play and Child Development

Balancing rights? Dangerous offenders with severe personality disorders, the public, and the promise of rehabilitation

O’Loughlin, Ailbhe (2016) Balancing rights? Dangerous offenders with severe personality disorders, the public, and the promise of rehabilitation. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Cold War anticommunism and the defence of white supremacy in the southern United States.

Seymour, Richard (2015) Cold War anticommunism and the defence of white supremacy in the southern United States. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Equity and power in a cooperative trial-and-error game

Issleib, Steffen (2015) Equity and power in a cooperative trial-and-error game. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The politics of state effectiveness in Burundi and Rwanda: ruling elite legitimacy and the imperative of state performance

Chemouni, Benjamin (2016) The politics of state effectiveness in Burundi and Rwanda: ruling elite legitimacy and the imperative of state performance. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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"Data as Packet-switching Glitch Art"

"Data as Packet-switching Glitch Art" Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 313, broadcast Aug 5, 2016. Guest Joelle Dietrick, data artist and faculty at Davidson College discusses using data to create art and embracing serendipitous accidents. Part 5 of the Lost in the Stacks series, DATA RULES.

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Wind tunnel investigation of effect of various fuselage ramp modifications on aerodynamic characteristics of the Lockheed C-130, 1/15 scale model

Wind tunnel investigation of effect of various fuselage ramp modifications on aerodynamic characteristics of the Lockheed C-130, 1/15 scale model Harper, John Joseph Issued as Project no. A-347

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Do it yourself development: ambiguity and relational work in a Bangladesh social enterprise

Huang, Julia (2016) Do it yourself development: ambiguity and relational work in a Bangladesh social enterprise. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Experimental investigation of materials for parachutes for illuminating shells

Experimental investigation of materials for parachutes for illuminating shells McCarty, James Weldon Issued as final report

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In suspension: the denial of the rights of the city for Palestinians in Israel and its effects on their socio-economic, cultural and political formation: the case of Umm Al-Fahem

Massalha, Manal (2014) In suspension: the denial of the rights of the city for Palestinians in Israel and its effects on their socio-economic, cultural and political formation: the case of Umm Al-Fahem. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement: activism across borders for Palestinian justice

Morrison, Suzanne (2015) The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement: activism across borders for Palestinian justice. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Putting the work-life interface into a temporal context: an empirical study of work-life balance by life stage and the consequences of homeworking

Canonico, Esther (2016) Putting the work-life interface into a temporal context: an empirical study of work-life balance by life stage and the consequences of homeworking. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Contesting identity and preventing belonging? An analysis of British counter terrorism policy since the Terrorism Act 2000 and the selective use of the terrorism label by the British Government.

Norris, Maria (2015) Contesting identity and preventing belonging? An analysis of British counter terrorism policy since the Terrorism Act 2000 and the selective use of the terrorism label by the British Government. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Three aspects of mathematical models for asymmetric information in financial market

Li, Cheng (2016) Three aspects of mathematical models for asymmetric information in financial market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A life course perspective to abortion in Finland

Väisänen, Heini (2016) A life course perspective to abortion in Finland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Field-intensity survey on 49.5 and 99 megacycles

Field-intensity survey on 49.5 and 99 megacycles Honnell, Martial Alfred Issued as final report

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Data as Wood

Data as Wood Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 311, broadcast July 22, 2016. Features interview with Nicholas Felton, designer of the Facebook timeline and creator of the Feltron Report. Felton discusses data visualization, information privacy, and the concept of "Data as Wood".

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The impact of international norms on Islamist politics: the case of Hezbollah

Dionigi, Filippo (2011) The impact of international norms on Islamist politics: the case of Hezbollah. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Leadership Emergence in Teams

Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Leadership Emergence in Teams Nandagopal, Bharathwaj This paper explores the relationship between motivation (intrinsic & extrinsic) and leadership emergence in order to mitigate extreme (too much or too little) leadership claiming and granting. The study examines DeRue and Ashford’s (2010) research, in addition to a host of other research articles, to hypothesize that intrinsic motivation is positively correlated to leadership claiming, while extrinsic motivation is positively correlated to leadership granting. The participants of this study are college students who have registered for course based credit at a midsize southeastern university. Each participant will join a team (three individuals per team), four teams per session. The four aforementioned teams will work as part of a larger problem-solving group to plan a civil infrastructure project in a fictitious developing nation. Before and throughout the study (at various time points), surveys will be administered that will collect information on motivation and leadership measures. After conducting analysis on the data, if the results support the aforementioned hypotheses, then extreme leadership claiming and granting can be mitigated by optimizing the amount of intrinsically and extrinsically motivated individuals on the team.

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The Effect of Sweep and Taper on Static Performance for Small Propellers

The Effect of Sweep and Taper on Static Performance for Small Propellers Kadri, Tobi These past few years have been the years of the UAV. UAVs, also called drones, now have the friendly tasks of filming sports or movie scenes, civilian surveillance, and simple general aviation. Some companies see a future where UAVs are delivering pizza or packages. All of this shows a demand for civilian UAVs, typically in the form of quadcopters, but can also be small R/C planes. These aircraft are usually powered by small propellers and the design for propellers has not changed much despite the recent wave of UAV popularity. Two universities have made serious progress in the tabulation of small and micro propeller performance, but the realm of small and micro propeller geometry has not been pursued. Most propellers today are only classified by diameter and pitch, a measure of how far a propeller would “screw” into a solid object but other geometries of the propeller may lead to enhanced performance as well. In this study, seventeen 9 in. propellers were fabricated and tested. Thrust and torque coefficients were plotted against RPM since the tests were conducted statically. Forward sweep has adverse effects on both thrust and torque with only a hint that a higher sweep magnitude might yield significant performance improvements. Aft sweep yields substantial increases in thrust and torque, at the expense of higher power, and should qualify as a viable parameter for propeller manufactures to include in designs. A taper ratio greater than 1 has negligible increases in both thrust and torque while a taper ratio less than 1 has adverse effects on both. Varying taper ratio, at least solely from root to tip, is therefore not an effective strategy for thrust or torque augmentation, however small taper does reduce the induced power for a given thrust.

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Integrating Chinese Data from Sina Weibo to the LITMUS Landslide Detection System

Integrating Chinese Data from Sina Weibo to the LITMUS Landslide Detection System Xie, Jiateng The detection of landslides has been a challenging problem for researchers since there are no dedicated physical sensors to detect landslides. LITMUS is a landslide detection system based on information from both social media platforms and physical sensors. It does have its own limitations, however, because it only supports English data. We propose to integrate the Chinese data from Sina Weibo to the LITMUS landslide detection system to extend its service. The Chinese LITMUS system pipeline starts off by collecting data from Sina Weibo using a web crawler. Then, it applies a few filtering techniques to tackle part of the noise that comes with the dataset. Subsequently, the system uses a combination of Named Entity Recognition (NER)-based and gazetteer-based approach to geo-tag the data items. The data-items that contain the same location entity are grouped to one cluster, which represents a candidate event. The system then classifies each data item to identify the remaining noise by using Word2Vec and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Lastly, the system makes a decision based on the majority label assigned to each cluster by the classifier as to whether or not a candidate event is an actual landslide event. Through our experiments, we show that the classification component of the system achieves about 0.96 in precision, recall and F-measure using the evaluation dataset, and that the system is able to detect a large number of landslides in China.

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The Closed Loop Optimization of Deep Brain Stimulation Programming

The Closed Loop Optimization of Deep Brain Stimulation Programming Singh, Ravinderjit Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a procedure used to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. The current procedure for programming the parameters for DBS is time consuming and prone to error. The DBS programming procedure can be significantly improved using a closed-loop optimization approach. Due to recent advances in quantitative assessment metrics, the capability to translate a closed-loop optimization procedure for DBS programming from simulation to clinic has become more possible. Previous literature has presented closed-loop approaches that utilize evolutionary algorithms. It is very difficult to implement an evolutionary algorithm in the clinic because they typically require a large number of parameter evaluations. A parameter evaluation is testing how well a certain set of DBS parameters work. It is difficult to do a large number of parameter evaluations due to time constraints and patient fatigue. A response surface based closed-loop optimization approach for DBS programming is presented that has higher potential to be translated to the clinic because it requires much less parameter evaluations.

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Accès au financement par les micros, petites et moyennes entreprises à goma, de 2014 à 2016

par Wassy TSHIKAMA MUSORONGI Univesité de Goma 2014

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Le juge fiscal camerounais

par Janvier FERMOSE Université de Ngaoundéré 2012

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Mascots in Japan

par Flora Mitsushima ISCOM Paris 2015

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Three essays in financial economics

Glebkin, Sergey (2016) Three essays in financial economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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To fulfil the law: evangelism, legal activism, and public Christianity in contemporary England

McIvor, Méadhbh (2016) To fulfil the law: evangelism, legal activism, and public Christianity in contemporary England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The reel city: London, symbolic power and cinema

Masrani, Rahoul (2016) The reel city: London, symbolic power and cinema. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Exploring the out-of-school writing practices of three children aged 9 - 10 years old and how these practices travel across and within the domains of home and school

[hal-01343348] D.1.3 – Protocols for emergent localities

This report presents two contributions that illustrate the potential of emerging-locality protocols in large-scale decentralized systems, in two areas of decentralized social computing: recommendation, and eventual consistency of mutable data structures. The first contribution consists of a framework supporting the development of dynamically adaptive decen-tralised recommendation systems. Decentralised recommenders have been proposed to deliver privacy-preserving, personalised and highly scalable on-line recommendations. Current implementations tend, however, to rely on a hard-wired similarity metric that cannot adapt. This constitutes a strong limitation in the face of evolving needs. Our framework address this through a decentralised form of adaptation, in which individual nodes can independently select, and update their own recommendation algorithm, while still collectively contributing to the overall system's mission. Our second contribution addresses the growing demand for differentiated consistency requirements in large-scale applications. A large number of today's applications rely on Eventual Consistency, a consistency model that emphasizes liveness over safety. Designers generally adopt this consistency model uniformly throughout a distributed system due to its ability to scale as the number of users or devices grows larger. But this clashes with the need for differentiated consistency requirements. In this contribution, we address this need by introducing UPS, a novel consistency mechanism that offers differentiated eventual consistency and delivery speed by working in pair with a two-phase epidemic broadcast protocol. We propose a closed-form analysis of our approach's delivery speed, and we evaluate our complete protocol experimentally on a simulated network of one million nodes. To measure the consistency trade-off, we formally define a novel and scalable consistency metric operating at runtime.

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[hal-01316014] A Methodology for Quality Assessment in Collaborative Score Libraries

We examine quality issues raised by the development of XML-based Digital Score Libraries. Based on the authors' practical experience, the paper exposes the quality shortcomings inherent to the complexity of music encoding, and the lack of support from state-of-the-art formats. We also identify the various facets of the ``quality'' concept with respect to usages and motivations. We finally propose a general methodology to introduce quality management as a first-level concern in the management of score collections, and an initial taxonomy of quality problems based on real use cases.

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[hal-01343121] Impact de la recherche d'amorces mutées sur les résultats d'analyses métagénomiques

En métagénomique ciblée, une problématique récurrente concerne la quantité de lectures réellement exploitables en sortie d'un séquenceur à haut débit. L'une des étapes influençant cette quantité est la détection dans chaque séquence des amorces utilisées pour amplifier le gène ciblé. Usuellement les séquences n’ayant pas les amorces parfaites sont rejetées. Notre étude interroge l’impact d’accepter également les séquences avec amorces mutées. Il s’agit de répondre aux questions suivantes : Accepter les séquences avec amorces mutées permet-il d'augmenter le nombre de séquences exploitables par échantillon ? Cette augmentation impacte-t-elle les résultats obtenus au terme de l'analyse métagénomique , c’est-à-dire permet-elle d’augmenter le nombre d’OTU (Operationnal taxonomic unit), et donc potentiellement d’espèces, détectés ? L’étude a été menée sur 9 échantillons, dans le cadre d’une étude de la biodiversité des sols tropicaux chez les eucaryotes unicellulaires. Les échantillons ont été séquencés à la fois en Roche/454 et en Illumina MiSeq, afin de pouvoir constater l'impact de la technologie sur les résultats. Le séquençage a ciblé la région V4 de la sous-unité 18S de l'ARN ribosomique. En résultat, on observe que la recherche des amorces V4F et V4R mutées permet d'améliorer de façon non-négligeable la sensibilité de l’analyse métagénomique. Cela augmente le rappel parmi les séquences d'un échantillon et cela permet également la détection de nouveaux OTU (+7 à +10 %, dans notre étude, en fonction de la technologie de séquençage), que ce soit en augmentant l'abondance de séquences détectées en nombre insuffisant pour être validées ou que ce soit en détectant des séquences totalement nouvelles qui n'étaient pas visibles auparavant. Une étude supplémentaire a par ailleurs montré que ces nouveaux OTU, et notamment les totalement nouveaux, étaient aussi crédibles que les OTU avec amorces exactes.

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[hal-01313749] Temperature dependence of the particle/gas partition coefficient: An application to predict indoor gas-phase concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds

The indoor gas-phase concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) can be predicted from their respective concentrations in airborne particles by applying the particle/gas partitioning equilibrium. The temperature used for partitioning is often set to 25 °C. However, indoor temperatures frequently differ from this reference value. This assumption may result in errors in the predicted equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentrations. To improve the prediction model, the temperature dependence of the particle/gas partition coefficient must be addressed. In this paper, a theoretical relationship between the particle/gas partition coefficient and temperature was developed based on the SVOC absorptive mechanism. The SVOC particle/gas partition coefficients predicted by employing the derived theoretical relationship agree well with the experimental data retrieved from the literature (R > 0.93). The influence of temperature on the equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentration was quantified by a dimensionless analysis of the derived relationship between the SVOC particle/gas partition coefficient and temperature. The predicted equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentration decreased by between 31% and 53% when the temperature was lowered by 6 °C, while it increased by up to 750% when the indoor temperature increased from 15 °C to 30 °C

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[hal-01308004] Impact of the French 3rd and 4th generation pill scare in women seeking termination of pregnancy

Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in the contraceptive profile of women seeking termination of pregnancy following the debate on 3rd and 4th generation pills in France in 2012. Materials and methods Single-center case-control study comparing the attitude to contraception before (between 02/15/2012 and 07/16/2012) and after the debate (between 02/25/2013 and 06/24/2013). Results A total of 291 patients consulted before and 601 after the debate. We showed that there were more students (+9.5%), more single women (+8.3%) and fewer working women (–7.7%) in the cohort after the debate. After the termination procedure, prescriptions for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods increased (+7.8%, P = 0.03), in particular in patients aged 25 or younger, including nulliparous (+12.6%, P = 0.02). Conclusion The media alert about the pill led to a change in the contraceptive standard in the post-abortion period and altered patient profiles. An increase was notably observed in certain vulnerable populations (high school students, unemployed and single women). It remains to be seen whether these changes are transient or permanent

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[hal-01290932] An Extension of SPARQL with Fuzzy Navigational Capabilities for Querying Fuzzy RDF Data

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the graph-based standard data model for representing semantic web information, and SPARQL is the standard query language for querying RDF data. Because of the huge volume of linked open data published on the web, these standards have aroused a large interest in the last years. This paper proposes a fuzzy extension of the SPARQL language that improves its expressiveness and usability. This extension allows (1) to query a fuzzy RDF data model, and (2) to express fuzzy preferences on data and on the structure of the data graph, which has not been proposed in any previous fuzzy extensions of SPARQL.

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[hal-01343753] Frederic Lee and post-Keynesian pricing theory

Frederic Lee has been a major contributor to post-Keynesian economics, mainly to its theory of pricing. This article summarizes his objections to the neoclassical view of the firm and pricing, as well as his view that changes in quantities, rather than in prices, provide the important information to firms. It also outlines Lee's views on competition, and examines the three pricing doctrines Lee carefully analyzed—markup pricing (associated with Kalecki), normal-cost pricing or full-cost pricing (associated with Andrews), and target-return or administered pricing (associated with Means). The article then discusses the relationship between Lee and three strands of post-Keynesianism: Kaleckian, Sraffian and Eichnerian pricing theories. It explains why Lee objected to some features of each of these. The article concludes by discussing why, towards the end of his life, Lee felt (mistakenly) that his ideas had been dismissed by heterodox economists.

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[hal-01343731] Ecological monetary economics: a post-Keynesian critique

The monetary analysis of some ecological economists currently appears to be mostly articulated around the following core: a stationary economy (and a fortiori a degrowth economy) is incompatible with a system in which money is created as interest-bearing debt. To question the relevance of the debt-money/positive interest rate/output growth nexus, this paper adopts a critical stance towards the currently emerging ecological monetary economics from the standpoint of another strand of heterodox economics – the post-Keynesian approach. In its current state, ecological monetary economics is at odds with post-Keynesian economics in its analysis of the money–growth relationship. This will be shown using the theory of endogenous money and a simple Cambridgian–Kaleckian model where debt-money and a positive interest rate are compatible with a full stationary economy.

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[hal-01343736] Teaching monetary theory and monetary policy implementation after the crisis

The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and contributors, the latter still have a hard time finding positions in the academic world, as journal and departmental ranking exercises have restricted so-called standards of excellence to the neoclassical approach. The crisis has not yet induced mainstream economists to open up to different approaches that put more emphasis on realistic features than on imaginary ones based on neoclassical micro-foundations. As an exemplar, the chapters on money and banking in two first-year textbooks are being examined, an orthodox one by Greg Mankiw and a heterodox one by Neva Goodwin et al. Unsurprisingly there is little to be learned about the crisis from Mankiw's book, while the book by Goodwin et al. devotes a large amount of space to the causes and consequences of the crisis. Still, Goodwin and her co-authors are not heterodox enough: they are less heterodox than a number of central bankers when it comes to a number of key features of monetary theory.

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[hal-01343732] Convergence towards the normal rate of capacity utilization in neo-Kaleckian models: the role of non-capacity creating autonomous expenditures

Neo-Kaleckian models of growth and distribution have been highly popular among heterodox economists. Two drawbacks of these models have, however, been underlined in the literature: first, the models do not usually converge to their normal rate of capacity utilization; second, the models do not include the Harrodian principle of dynamic instability. Some Sraffian economists have long been arguing that the presence of non-capacity creating autonomous expenditures provides a mechanism that brings back the model to normal rates of capacity utilization, while safeguarding the main Keynesian message and without going back to classical conclusions. The present article provides a very simple proof of this, showing within a neo-Kaleckian model that the Harrodian principle of dynamic instability gets tamed by the presence of autonomous consumer expenditures.

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[hal-01343730] Peut-on expliquer le faible taux d'emploi des seniors en France ?

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[hal-01343728] Faut-il reculer l'âge légal du départ à la retraite ?

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[hal-01343744] The monetary and fiscal nexus of neo-chartalism: A friendly critique

A number of post-Keynesian authors, called the neo-chartalists, have argued that the government does not face a budget constraint similar to that of households and that government with sovereign currencies run no risk of default, even with high debt-to-GDP ratio. This stands in contrast to countries in the eurozone, where the central bank does not normally purchase sovereign debt. While these claims now seem to be accepted by some economists, neo-chartalists have also made a number of controversial claims, including that the government spends simply by crediting a private-sector-bank account at the central bank; that the government does need to borrow to deficit-spend; and that taxes do not finance government expenditures. This paper shows that these surprising statements do have some logic, once one assumes the consolidation of the government sector and the central bank into a unique entity, the state. The paper further argues, however, that these paradoxical claims end up being counter-productive since consolidation is counter-factual.

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[hal-01343745] Crise financière, répartition des revenus et relance par les salaires

Tandis que la plupart des économistes attribuent la crise financière de 2007-2008 aux incohérences des marchés financiers, un certain nombre d’économistes, surtout hétérodoxes, associent cette crise à des éléments structurels, notamment la croissance des inégalités, mesurée par la progression de la part des profits dans le revenu national et par la dispersion des salaires. L’auteur présente les résultats d’un projet de recherche dont les différents modules ont analysé les causes de ces évolutions ainsi que les conséquences négatives de la baisse de la part des salaires pour la croissance de la demande et la croissance de la productivité. Les politiques néolibérales ont donc eu des effets néfastes pour l’économie, effets qui n’ont pu être compensés que temporairement par des artifices comme l’endettement accru des ménages et les politiques de croissance par les exportations. Il importe donc de faire marche arrière, et de revenir à des politiques favorisant le plein emploi et la relance par les salaires.

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[hal-01343735] Understanding of the Global Financial Crisis: Contributions of post-Keynesian economics

Post-Keynesian economics has greatly improved our understanding of the causes as well as some of the consequences of the Global Financial Crisis. This paper deals with some examples related to monetary issues—namely, the financial instability hypothesis of Minsky and its extension to the household sector, as well as the post-Keynesian theory of endogenous money, with its extension to quantitative easing policies set within a framework where the central bank’s target rate of interest is set equal to the rate of interest paid on reserves.

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[hal-01343734] Linear and nonlinear Granger causality between short-term and long-term interest rates during business cycles

This paper is about the causal relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates in the U.S. and Canada. To that end, we apply a linear Granger causality test introduced by Toda-Yamamoto (1995) and the nonlinear Granger causality test of Diks and Panchenko (2006). By combining linear causality effects with the nonlinear ones, it is seen that the most common Granger causality direction between short-term and long-term interest rates is a bidirectional one. We also find that nonlinear Granger causality can be found where no linear causality had been uncovered. Moreover, our findings show that during recent business cycles, the federal funds rate (in the U.S.) and the overnight rate (in Canada) still Granger-cause long-term interest rates significantly.

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[hal-01343733] A two-sector model with target-return pricing in a stock-flow consistent framework

In this paper, we build a generalized Kaleckian two-sector model in a closed economy and explore the dynamics towards long-run positions. The model incorporates conflicting claims of labour and firms over income distribution and endogenous labour-saving technical progress. Adopting a stock-flow consistent framework, our simulation experiments yield the following results. First, the ‘paradox of thrift’ and the ‘paradox of costs’ hold, but the magnitude of the impact depends on the initial status of income distribution and monetary policy. Second, changes in autonomous labour-saving innovation might explain the phenomenon of the “new economy” of the second half of the 1990s within an alternative framework. Our model reinforces a post-Keynesian growth theory where aggregate demand is the crucial determinant of long-run positions as well as short-run positions, and shows that economic growth is demand-led and characterized by ‘path-dependency’.

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[hal-01343742] The Eurozone crisis: a balance-of-payment problem or a crisis due to a flawed monetary design?

Both Sergio Cesaratto and I see several flaws in the setup of the common currency Eurozone, and we both understand, in a similar way, the functioning of a monetary economy. The only point of disagreement it seems to me is that Cesaratto insists that the Eurozone crisis is a balance-of-payments problem, tied to current account deficits and capital outflows. But whereas the continuous loss of foreign reserves must eventually lead to some painful adjustment, Eurozone countries can never run out of TARGET2 balances, which can take unlimited negative values, so that the evolution of the balance of payments cannot be the source of the crisis. My view, and Roberto Frenkel’s, is that investors perceived, in contrast to other central banks, that the European Central Bank by convention and by design would decline to act as the purchaser of last resort until it became too late, which explains the speculative attacks against the securities issued by the governments of the Eurozone periphery.

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[hal-01343743] A comment on Endogenous money and effective demand: a revolution or a step backward?

Steve Keen argues that post-Keynesians have not sufficiently emphasized the revolutionary character of endogenous money for macroeconomic theory, and that this should be done by recognizing that aggregate demand is equal to current or past income plus the change in debt. This equation, attributed in particular to Hyman Minsky, is discussed and questioned, and it is recalled that a similar equation had been proposed by Alfred Eichner. The consequences of bank credit for firms or households are further analysed within the context of the national accounts, and it is shown that one does not need a redefinition of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, in contrast to what is proposed by Keen.

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[hal-01305478] Prenatal stress and early-life exposure to fluoxetine have enduring effects on anxiety and hippocampal BDNF gene expression in adult male offspring

With the growing use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications (SSRIs) for the treatment of depression during the perinatal period, questions have been raised about the longterm impact of these medications on development. We aimed to investigate how developmental SSRI exposure may alter affect-related behaviors and associated molecular processes in offspring using a rodent model of maternal stress and depression. For this purpose, prenatally stressed or non-stressed male offspring were exposed to fluoxetine (5 mg/kg/day) or vehicle, via lactation, until weaning. Primary results show that postnatal fluoxetine exposure differentially altered anxiety-like behavior by increasing anxiety in non-stressed offspring and decreasing anxiety in prenatally stressed offspring. In the hippocampus, developmental fluoxetine exposure decreased BDNF IV and TrkB mRNA expression. Prenatal stress alone also decreased escape behaviors and decreased hippocampal BDNF IV mRNA expression. These data provide important evidence for the long-term programming effects of early-life exposure to SSRIs on brain and behavior.

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[hal-01341197] Hole propagation in the Kitaev-Heisenberg model: From quasiparticles in quantum Néel states to non-Fermi liquid in the Kitaev phase

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[hal-01319873] Zwitterionic [4]helicene: a water-soluble and reversible pH-triggered ECD/CPL chiroptical switch in the UV and red spectral regions

The chiroptical switching properties of a readily accessible and water-soluble diaza [4]helicene are disclosed. This zwitterionic dye displays pH-dependent absorption and emission properties and this enables a reversible turn on/off of electronic circular dichroism at 300 nm and of circularly polarized luminescence in the red region upon protonation/deprotonation

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[hal-01343314] Bounded combinatorics and uniform models for hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Bounded-type 3-manifolds arise as combinatorially bounded gluings of irreducible 3-manifolds chosen from a finite list. We prove effective hyperbolization and effective rigidity for a broad class of 3-manifolds of bounded type and large gluing heights. Specifically, we show the existence and uniqueness of hyperbolic metrics on 3-manifolds of bounded type and large heights, and prove existence of a bilipschitz diffeomorphism to a combinatorial model described explicitly in terms of the list of irreducible manifolds, the topology of the identification, and the combinatorics of the gluing maps.

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[hal-01059991] On a Fuzzy Algebra for Querying Graph Databases

This paper proposes a notion of fuzzy graph database and describes a fuzzy query algebra that makes it possible to handle such database, which may be fuzzy or not, in a flexible way. The algebra, based on fuzzy set theory and the concept of a fuzzy graph, is composed of a set of operators that can be used to express preference queries on fuzzy graph databases. The preferences concern i) the content of the vertices of the graph and ii) the structure of the graph. In a similar way as relational algebra constitutes the basis of SQL, the fuzzy algebra proposed here underlies a user-oriented query language and an associated tool implementing this language that are also presented in the paper.

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[hal-01093013] Evaluation and Improvement of a Transition Business Process: A Case Study guided by a Semantic Quality-based Approach

A transition in an outsourced IT project is devoted to the transfer of the project from an outgoing project team to an incoming one. It is a complex, risky and challenging building block of importance, identified as being a critical factor in the success of an outsourced project. Ensuring the good quality of a transition is then fundamental. We present here our experience on quality evaluation and improvement of a real transition in a public institution.

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[hal-01140195] Expression and Efficient Processing of Fuzzy Queries in a Graph Database Context

Graph databases have aroused a large interest in the last years thanks to their large scope of potential applications (e.g. social networks, biomedical networks, data stemming from the web). In a similar way as what has already been proposed in relational databases, defining a language allowing a flexible querying of graph databases may greatly improve usability of data. This paper focuses on the notion of fuzzy graph database and describes a fuzzy query language that makes it possible to handle such database, which may be fuzzy or not, in a flexible way. This language, called FUDGE, can be used to express preference queries on fuzzy graph databases. The preferences concern i) the content of the vertices of the graph and ii) the structure of the graph. The FUDGE language is implemented in a system, called SUGAR, that we present in this article. We also discuss implementation issues of the FUDGE language in SUGAR.

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[hal-01341574] Optical properties of Ag- and AgI-doped Ge-Ga-Te far-infrared chalcogenide glasses

Te-based glasses are ideal material for life detection and infrared-sensing applications because of their excellent far-infrared properties. In this study, the influence of Ag- and AgI- doped Te-based glasses were discussed. Thermal and optical properties of the prepared glasses were evaluated using X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Results show that these glass samples have good amorphous state and thermal stability. However, Ge-Ga-Te-Ag and Ge-Ga-Te-AgI glass systems exhibit completely different in optical properties. With an increase of Ag content, the absorption cut-off edge of Ge-Ga-Te-Ag glass system has a red shift. On the contrary, a blue shift appears in Ge-Ga-Te-AgI glass system with an increase of AgI content. Moreover, the transmittance of Ge-Ga-Te-Ag glass system deteriorates while that of Ge-Ga-Te-AgI glass system ameliorates. All glass samples have wide infrared transmission windows and the far-infrared cut-off wavelengths of these glasses are beyond 25 μm. The main absorption peaks of these glasses are eliminated through a purifying method. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.

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[hal-01313738] Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function

Soils provide many ecosystem services that are ultimately dependent on the local diversity and belowground abundance of organisms. Soil biodiversity is affected negatively by many threats and there is a perceived policy requirement for the effective biological monitoring of soils at the European level. The aim of this study was to evaluate and recommend policy relevant, cost-effective soil biological indicators for biodiversity and ecosystem function across Europe. A total of 18 potential indicators were selected using a logical-sieve based approach. This paper considers the use of indicators from the ‘top down’ (i.e. concerned with the process of indicator selection), rather than from the ‘bottom up’ detail of how individual indicators perform at specific sites and with specific treatments. The indicators assessed a range of microbial, faunal and functional attributes, newer nucleic acids based techniques, morphological approaches and process based measurements. They were tested at 6 European experimental sites already in operation and chosen according to land-use, climatic zone and differences in land management intensity. These were 4 arable sites, one each in Atlantic, Continental, Mediterranean and Pannonian climate zones, and 2 grassland sites, one each in Atlantic and Continental zones. At each site we sampled three replicated plots of contrasting management intensity and, while the treatments varied from site to site, their disturbance effects were quantified in terms of land use intensity. The field sampling and laboratory analysis were standardised through a combination of ISO protocols, or standard operating procedures if the former were not available. Sites were sampled twice, in autumn 2012 and spring or autumn 2013, with relative costs of the different indicators being determined each time. A breakdown of the cost effectiveness of the indicators showed the expected trade-off between effort required in the field and effort required in the laboratory. All the indicators were able to differentiate between the sites but, as no single indicator was sensitive to all the differences in land use intensity, we suggest that an indicator programme should be based upon a suite of different indicators. For monitoring under the European climatic zones and land uses of this study, indicators for ecosystem functions related to the services of water regulation, C-sequestration and nutrient provision would include a minimum suite of: earthworms; functional genes; and bait lamina. For effective monitoring of biodiversity all taxonomic groups would need to be addressed

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[hal-01342351] Traceability analyses between features and assets in software product lines

In a Software Product Line (SPL), the central notion of implementability provides the requisite connection between specifications and their implementations, leading to the definition of products. While it appears to be a simple extension of the traceability relation between components and features, it involves several subtle issues that were overlooked in the existing literature. In this paper, we have introduced a precise and formal definition of implementability over a fairly expressive traceability relation. The consequent definition of products in the given SPL naturally entails a set of useful analysis problems that are either refinements of known problems or are completely novel. We also propose a new approach to solve these analysis problems by encoding them as Quantified Boolean Formulae (QBF) and solving them through Quantified Satisfiability (QSAT) solvers. QBF can represent more complex analysis operations, which cannot be represented by using propositional formulae. The methodology scales much better than the SAT-based solutions hinted in the literature and were demonstrated through a tool called SPLAnE (SPL Analysis Engine) on a large set of SPL models.

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[hal-01342826] Survey of radio resource management issues and proposals for energy-efficient cellular networks that will cover billions of machines

A huge increase of machines attached to wireless networks is expected in the next few years. A large part of these machines will be covered by some wireless wide area networks. The arrival of cellular M2M (machine-to-machine) communication poses new requirements due to its specific characteristics. For most of the cellular M2M applications, the essential requirement is low energy consumption level or high energy efficiency. This survey provides a global view of the network technologies previewed for cellular M2M. In this survey, we study the existing classifications of M2M applications according to different criteria in the literature. The comparison of traffic characteristics between M2M and human-to-human is also proposed. Quality of service (QoS) requirements for typical M2M applications are resumed. The advance of reference M2M network architectures proposed by the Standard Development Organization (SDO) is investigated. We identify two possible effort directions to improve the energy efficiency for cellular M2M. The first one is to evolve the current existing 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Consortium cellular networks to effectively support MTC (Machine Type Communication). The other direction is to design M2M-dedicated networks from scratch, which are often called low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks. We review, compare and categorize the proposals related to energy issues of cellular M2M mainly over the period 2011-2015 for the first direction. We introduce the development of LPWA networks for the other research directions. We highlight that the cooperative relaying, the design of energy-efficient signaling and operation, the new radio resource allocation schemes, and the energy-efficient random access procedure are the main points of improvement. It is important to jointly use the aforementioned approaches, for example, joint design of random access control and radio resource allocation, to seek for a trade-off between energy efficiency and other system performances.

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[hal-01343348] D.1.3 – Protocols for emergent localities

This report presents two contributions that illustrate the potential of emerging-locality protocols in large-scale decentralized systems, in two areas of decentralized social computing: recommendation, and eventual consistency of mutable data structures. The first contribution consists of a framework supporting the development of dynamically adaptive decen-tralised recommendation systems. Decentralised recommenders have been proposed to deliver privacy-preserving, personalised and highly scalable on-line recommendations. Current implementations tend, however, to rely on a hard-wired similarity metric that cannot adapt. This constitutes a strong limitation in the face of evolving needs. Our framework address this through a decentralised form of adaptation, in which individual nodes can independently select, and update their own recommendation algorithm, while still collectively contributing to the overall system's mission. Our second contribution addresses the growing demand for differentiated consistency requirements in large-scale applications. A large number of today's applications rely on Eventual Consistency, a consistency model that emphasizes liveness over safety. Designers generally adopt this consistency model uniformly throughout a distributed system due to its ability to scale as the number of users or devices grows larger. But this clashes with the need for differentiated consistency requirements. In this contribution, we address this need by introducing UPS, a novel consistency mechanism that offers differentiated eventual consistency and delivery speed by working in pair with a two-phase epidemic broadcast protocol. We propose a closed-form analysis of our approach's delivery speed, and we evaluate our complete protocol experimentally on a simulated network of one million nodes. To measure the consistency trade-off, we formally define a novel and scalable consistency metric operating at runtime.

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[hal-01316014] A Methodology for Quality Assessment in Collaborative Score Libraries

We examine quality issues raised by the development of XML-based Digital Score Libraries. Based on the authors' practical experience, the paper exposes the quality shortcomings inherent to the complexity of music encoding, and the lack of support from state-of-the-art formats. We also identify the various facets of the ``quality'' concept with respect to usages and motivations. We finally propose a general methodology to introduce quality management as a first-level concern in the management of score collections, and an initial taxonomy of quality problems based on real use cases.

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[hal-01343121] Impact de la recherche d'amorces mutées sur les résultats d'analyses métagénomiques

En métagénomique ciblée, une problématique récurrente concerne la quantité de lectures réellement exploitables en sortie d'un séquenceur à haut débit. L'une des étapes influençant cette quantité est la détection dans chaque séquence des amorces utilisées pour amplifier le gène ciblé. Usuellement les séquences n’ayant pas les amorces parfaites sont rejetées. Notre étude interroge l’impact d’accepter également les séquences avec amorces mutées. Il s’agit de répondre aux questions suivantes : Accepter les séquences avec amorces mutées permet-il d'augmenter le nombre de séquences exploitables par échantillon ? Cette augmentation impacte-t-elle les résultats obtenus au terme de l'analyse métagénomique , c’est-à-dire permet-elle d’augmenter le nombre d’OTU (Operationnal taxonomic unit), et donc potentiellement d’espèces, détectés ? L’étude a été menée sur 9 échantillons, dans le cadre d’une étude de la biodiversité des sols tropicaux chez les eucaryotes unicellulaires. Les échantillons ont été séquencés à la fois en Roche/454 et en Illumina MiSeq, afin de pouvoir constater l'impact de la technologie sur les résultats. Le séquençage a ciblé la région V4 de la sous-unité 18S de l'ARN ribosomique. En résultat, on observe que la recherche des amorces V4F et V4R mutées permet d'améliorer de façon non-négligeable la sensibilité de l’analyse métagénomique. Cela augmente le rappel parmi les séquences d'un échantillon et cela permet également la détection de nouveaux OTU (+7 à +10 %, dans notre étude, en fonction de la technologie de séquençage), que ce soit en augmentant l'abondance de séquences détectées en nombre insuffisant pour être validées ou que ce soit en détectant des séquences totalement nouvelles qui n'étaient pas visibles auparavant. Une étude supplémentaire a par ailleurs montré que ces nouveaux OTU, et notamment les totalement nouveaux, étaient aussi crédibles que les OTU avec amorces exactes.

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[hal-01313749] Temperature dependence of the particle/gas partition coefficient: An application to predict indoor gas-phase concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds

The indoor gas-phase concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) can be predicted from their respective concentrations in airborne particles by applying the particle/gas partitioning equilibrium. The temperature used for partitioning is often set to 25 °C. However, indoor temperatures frequently differ from this reference value. This assumption may result in errors in the predicted equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentrations. To improve the prediction model, the temperature dependence of the particle/gas partition coefficient must be addressed. In this paper, a theoretical relationship between the particle/gas partition coefficient and temperature was developed based on the SVOC absorptive mechanism. The SVOC particle/gas partition coefficients predicted by employing the derived theoretical relationship agree well with the experimental data retrieved from the literature (R > 0.93). The influence of temperature on the equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentration was quantified by a dimensionless analysis of the derived relationship between the SVOC particle/gas partition coefficient and temperature. The predicted equilibrium gas-phase SVOC concentration decreased by between 31% and 53% when the temperature was lowered by 6 °C, while it increased by up to 750% when the indoor temperature increased from 15 °C to 30 °C

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[hal-01308004] Impact of the French 3rd and 4th generation pill scare in women seeking termination of pregnancy

Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in the contraceptive profile of women seeking termination of pregnancy following the debate on 3rd and 4th generation pills in France in 2012. Materials and methods Single-center case-control study comparing the attitude to contraception before (between 02/15/2012 and 07/16/2012) and after the debate (between 02/25/2013 and 06/24/2013). Results A total of 291 patients consulted before and 601 after the debate. We showed that there were more students (+9.5%), more single women (+8.3%) and fewer working women (–7.7%) in the cohort after the debate. After the termination procedure, prescriptions for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods increased (+7.8%, P = 0.03), in particular in patients aged 25 or younger, including nulliparous (+12.6%, P = 0.02). Conclusion The media alert about the pill led to a change in the contraceptive standard in the post-abortion period and altered patient profiles. An increase was notably observed in certain vulnerable populations (high school students, unemployed and single women). It remains to be seen whether these changes are transient or permanent

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[hal-01290932] An Extension of SPARQL with Fuzzy Navigational Capabilities for Querying Fuzzy RDF Data

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the graph-based standard data model for representing semantic web information, and SPARQL is the standard query language for querying RDF data. Because of the huge volume of linked open data published on the web, these standards have aroused a large interest in the last years. This paper proposes a fuzzy extension of the SPARQL language that improves its expressiveness and usability. This extension allows (1) to query a fuzzy RDF data model, and (2) to express fuzzy preferences on data and on the structure of the data graph, which has not been proposed in any previous fuzzy extensions of SPARQL.

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[hal-01343753] Frederic Lee and post-Keynesian pricing theory

Frederic Lee has been a major contributor to post-Keynesian economics, mainly to its theory of pricing. This article summarizes his objections to the neoclassical view of the firm and pricing, as well as his view that changes in quantities, rather than in prices, provide the important information to firms. It also outlines Lee's views on competition, and examines the three pricing doctrines Lee carefully analyzed—markup pricing (associated with Kalecki), normal-cost pricing or full-cost pricing (associated with Andrews), and target-return or administered pricing (associated with Means). The article then discusses the relationship between Lee and three strands of post-Keynesianism: Kaleckian, Sraffian and Eichnerian pricing theories. It explains why Lee objected to some features of each of these. The article concludes by discussing why, towards the end of his life, Lee felt (mistakenly) that his ideas had been dismissed by heterodox economists.

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[hal-01343731] Ecological monetary economics: a post-Keynesian critique

The monetary analysis of some ecological economists currently appears to be mostly articulated around the following core: a stationary economy (and a fortiori a degrowth economy) is incompatible with a system in which money is created as interest-bearing debt. To question the relevance of the debt-money/positive interest rate/output growth nexus, this paper adopts a critical stance towards the currently emerging ecological monetary economics from the standpoint of another strand of heterodox economics – the post-Keynesian approach. In its current state, ecological monetary economics is at odds with post-Keynesian economics in its analysis of the money–growth relationship. This will be shown using the theory of endogenous money and a simple Cambridgian–Kaleckian model where debt-money and a positive interest rate are compatible with a full stationary economy.

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[hal-01343736] Teaching monetary theory and monetary policy implementation after the crisis

The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and contributors, the latter still have a hard time finding positions in the academic world, as journal and departmental ranking exercises have restricted so-called standards of excellence to the neoclassical approach. The crisis has not yet induced mainstream economists to open up to different approaches that put more emphasis on realistic features than on imaginary ones based on neoclassical micro-foundations. As an exemplar, the chapters on money and banking in two first-year textbooks are being examined, an orthodox one by Greg Mankiw and a heterodox one by Neva Goodwin et al. Unsurprisingly there is little to be learned about the crisis from Mankiw's book, while the book by Goodwin et al. devotes a large amount of space to the causes and consequences of the crisis. Still, Goodwin and her co-authors are not heterodox enough: they are less heterodox than a number of central bankers when it comes to a number of key features of monetary theory.

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[hal-01343732] Convergence towards the normal rate of capacity utilization in neo-Kaleckian models: the role of non-capacity creating autonomous expenditures

Neo-Kaleckian models of growth and distribution have been highly popular among heterodox economists. Two drawbacks of these models have, however, been underlined in the literature: first, the models do not usually converge to their normal rate of capacity utilization; second, the models do not include the Harrodian principle of dynamic instability. Some Sraffian economists have long been arguing that the presence of non-capacity creating autonomous expenditures provides a mechanism that brings back the model to normal rates of capacity utilization, while safeguarding the main Keynesian message and without going back to classical conclusions. The present article provides a very simple proof of this, showing within a neo-Kaleckian model that the Harrodian principle of dynamic instability gets tamed by the presence of autonomous consumer expenditures.

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[hal-01343730] Peut-on expliquer le faible taux d'emploi des seniors en France ?

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[hal-01343728] Faut-il reculer l'âge légal du départ à la retraite ?

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[hal-01343744] The monetary and fiscal nexus of neo-chartalism: A friendly critique

A number of post-Keynesian authors, called the neo-chartalists, have argued that the government does not face a budget constraint similar to that of households and that government with sovereign currencies run no risk of default, even with high debt-to-GDP ratio. This stands in contrast to countries in the eurozone, where the central bank does not normally purchase sovereign debt. While these claims now seem to be accepted by some economists, neo-chartalists have also made a number of controversial claims, including that the government spends simply by crediting a private-sector-bank account at the central bank; that the government does need to borrow to deficit-spend; and that taxes do not finance government expenditures. This paper shows that these surprising statements do have some logic, once one assumes the consolidation of the government sector and the central bank into a unique entity, the state. The paper further argues, however, that these paradoxical claims end up being counter-productive since consolidation is counter-factual.

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