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[Introduction] Publication delay, chronological distance between completion of a scientific work and distribution of its achievements as a peer reviewed paper, is a negative phenomenon in scientific information dissemination. It can be further subdivided in successive stages corresponding to the peer review process and the technical preparation of accepted manuscripts. Formal online posting in electronic versions of journals has been considered as a shortening of the process., [Objectives] To determine publication delay in a group of leading Food Research journals, as well as factors affecting this lag and also to compute the effect of formal online posting on the distribution of papers in electronic form. Secondary objective is also to study the possible effect of informal posting of papers through some repositories on the publication delay in the field., [Methods] 14 Food Research journals were selected and 4836 papers published in 2004 were examined. Dates of first submission, submission of revised manuscripts, acceptation, online posting and final publication were recorded for each paper., [Analysis] Data collected were analyzed using SPSS and SigmaPlot. Parametric correlation between some variables was determined and ANOVA was performed with BMDP package for significance analysis of differences among journals., [Results] Average publication delay of papers submitted to the set of selected journals is 348 ± 104 days, with European Food Research and Technology and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry showing the shortest delays. Total delay strongly depends on the peer review process. On average, 85.75 % of manuscripts are corrected prior to their acceptance by journals. Online posting of papers prior to their print publication reduces total delay in about 29 %. On average, a paper is posted online 260 days after its submission to the set of journals., [Conclusions] Publication delay of papers is strongly dependent on the peer review process, which affects most of the manuscripts in the Food Research field. Advanced online publication through formal posting at the editor’s sites only slightly reduces the time between reception and final publication of papers.

The paper analyzes the influence of the Si substrate on the AC characteristics of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs through 2D Atlas simulations and measurements. It is shown that the presence of the Si substrate underneath the buried oxide (BOX) results in two transitions in the frequency response of the output conductance, caused by the variation of the potential at substrate-BOX interface. A first-order small-signal model is proposed to support the obtained results. It is demonstrated that the appearance of “substrate-related” transitions, their position and amplitude depend strongly on the substrate doping, space-charge conditions at substrate-BOX interface, temperature and moreover become more pronounced with device downscaling.

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Because of its sound psychometric properties the SF-36 General Health Questionnaire is used throughout the world, yet it is difficult to analyse and score. Using a newly developed software package, onto which any questionnaire can be loaded, we developed

This paper investigates a problem that lies at the intersection of three research areas, namely automated negotiation, vehicle routing, and multi-objective optimization. Specifically, it investigates the scenario that multiple competing logistics companies aim to cooperate by delivering truck loads for one another, in order to improve efficiency and reduce the distance they drive. In order to do so, these companies need to find ways to exchange their truck loads such that each of them individually benefits. We present a new heuristic algorithm that, given one set of orders for each company, tries to find the set of all truck load exchanges that are Pareto-optimal and individually rational. Unlike existing approaches, it does this without relying on any kind of trusted central server, so the companies do not need to disclose their private cost models to anyone. The idea is that the companies can then use automated negotiation techniques to negotiate which of these truck load exchanges will truly be carried out. Furthermore, this paper presents a new, multi-objective, variant of And/Or search that forms part of our approach, and it presents experiments based on real-world data, as well as on the commonly used Li & Lim data set. These experiments show that our algorithm is able to find hundreds of solutions within a matter of minutes. Finally, this paper presents an experiment with several state-of-the-art negotiation algorithms to show that the combination of our search algorithm with automated negotiation is viable.

Containerization technology offers an appealing alternative for encapsulating and operating applications (and all their dependencies) without being constrained by the performance penalties of using Virtual Machines and, as a result, has got the interest of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) community to obtain fast, customized, portable, flexible, and reproducible deployments of their workloads. Previous work on this area has demonstrated that containerized HPC applications can exploit InfiniBand networks, but has ignored the potential of multi-container deployments which partition the processes that belong to each application into multiple containers in each host. Partitioning HPC applications has demonstrated to be useful when using virtual machines by constraining them to a single NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) domain. This paper conducts a systematical study on the performance of multi-container deployments with different network fabrics and protocols, focusing especially on Infiniband networks. We analyze the impact of container granularity and its potential to exploit processor and memory affinity to improve applications’ performance. Our results show that default Singularity can achieve near bare-metal performance but does not support fine-grain multi-container deployments. Docker and Singularity-instance have similar behavior in terms of the performance of deployment schemes with different container granularity and affinity. This behavior differs for the several network fabrics and protocols, and depends as well on the application communication patterns and the message size. Moreover, deployments on Infiniband are also more impacted by the computation and memory allocation, and because of that, they can exploit the affinity better., We thank Lenovo for providing the testbed to run the experiments in this paper. This work was partially supported by Lenovo as part of Lenovo-BSC collaboration agreement, by the Spanish Government under contract PID2019-107255GB-C22, and by the Generalitat de Catalunya under contract 2017-SGR-1414 and under Grant No. 2020 FI-B 00257., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

© Kluwer Academic Publishers. The research work leading to this paper has been supported by the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, under Project PB97-0295, within the framework of EU-1269 Eureka Project., The evolution of the intensity profile of TEA CO_2 laser pulses along the pulse length is investigated both analytically and experimentally. A simple scalar model of the pulse amplitude is introduced, which gives the loaded-cavity modes as a linear combination of bidimensional Hermite-Gauss functions. According to this model a number of equations are derived which link the time-varying spatial structure of the pulse to its time-resolved second-order intensity moments, namely, the beam width and the M^2 parameter., Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, Depto. de Óptica, Fac. de Ciencias Físicas, TRUE, pub

© 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. The research work leading to this paper was supported by the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, Project PB97-295. The stay of J.M. Movilla at the Technische Universität in Berlin was supported by a grant of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. We would also like to thank Prof. H. Weber, Mr. A. Vázquez and Mr. G. Mann from the Optisches Institut at the Technische Universität in Berlin for helpful discussions as well as continuous interest and support all along the experimental work described in Section 4., On the basis of well-known methods to obtain the standard Stokes parameters, two simple experimental procedures are analysed to measure the so-called generalized degree of polarization, P, defined elsewhere [Opt. Commun., 149 (1998) 230]. After discussing the accuracy of the methods, the generalized degree of polarization of a non-uniformly polarized beam emerging from an optically pumped birefringent Nd:YAG rod optically pumped is experimentally investigated in terms of the pumped power., Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Depto. de Óptica, Fac. de Ciencias Físicas, TRUE, pub

In this paper we discuss the influence of the triaxiality of a celestial body on its free rotation, i.e. in absence of any external gravitational perturbation. We compare the results obtained through two different analytical formalisms, one established from Andoyer variables by using Hamiltonian theory, the other one from Euler's variables by using Lagrangian equations. We also give a very accurate formulation of the polar motion (polhody) in the case of a small amplitude of this motion. Then, we carry out a numerical integration of the problem, with a Runge-Kutta-Felberg algorithm, and for the two kinds of methods above, that we apply to three different celestial bodies considered as rigid : the Earth, Mars, and Eros. The reason of this choice is that each of this body corresponds to a more or less triaxial shape. In the case of the Earth and Mars we show the good agreement between analytical and numerical determinations of the polar motion, and the amplitude of the effect related to the triaxial shape of the body, which is far from being negligible, with some influence on the polhody of the order of 10 cm for the Earth, and 1 m for Mars. In the case of Eros, we use recent output data given by the NEAR probe, to determine in detail the nature of its free rotational motion, characterized by the presence of important oscillations for the Euler angles due to the particularly large triaxial shape of the asteroid., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Astronomical Observatory of Tokyo, Unidad Deptal. de Astronomía y Geodesia, Fac. de Ciencias Matemáticas, TRUE, pub

In this paper, we make a study about the influence of the coefficients of the geopotential C-4,C- m and S-4,S- m, (m = 1, 2, 3, 4) on the nutation, starting from the Hamiltonian theory as developed by Kinoshita (1977). We obtain ten coefficients larger than 0.05 mu as for the nutation in longitude and six for the nutation in obliquity. The present results are included in the reconstruction of the theory of nutation (REN-2000) at the level of truncation of 0.1 mu as (Souchay et al., 1997)., Unidad Deptal. de Astronomía y Geodesia, Fac. de Ciencias Matemáticas, TRUE, pub

In this paper, a model for the study of the interaction between cognition and affect in Mathematics is proposed. Using this model, the description of emotional reactions and their origin is made possible, as are the changes and evolution within the subjects of analysis. Certain important dimensions related to affect and cognition are developed in this article. The importance of taking into account such dimensions in this kind of research, referring to students who are failing academically, is explained through a case study., Depto. de Álgebra, Geometría y Topología, Fac. de Ciencias Matemáticas, TRUE, pub

This paper considers the allocation of time slots in a frame, as well as power and rate to multiple receivers on an energy harvesting downlink. Energy arrival times that will occur within the frame are known at the beginning of the frame. The goal is to solve an optimization problem designed to maximize a throughput-based utility function that provides proportional fairness among users. An optimal solution of the problem was obtained by using a Block Coordinate Descent based algorithm, (BCD), in earlier work. However, that solution has high complexity and is therefore not scalable to a large number of users or slots. This paper first establishes some structural characteristics of the optimal solution. Then, building on those, develops a simple and scalable, yet efficient heuristic, named ProNTO. Numerical and simulation results suggest that ProNTO can closely track the performance of BCD. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.

This paper considers the allocation of time slots in a frame, as well as power and rate to multiple receivers on an energy harvesting downlink. Energy arrival times that will occur within the frame are known at the beginning of the frame. The goal is to solve an optimization problem designed to maximize a throughput-based utility function that provides proportional fairness among users. An optimal solution of the problem was obtained by using a Block Coordinate Descent based algorithm, (BCD), in earlier work. However, that solution has high complexity and is therefore not scalable to a large number of users or slots. This paper first establishes some structural characteristics of the optimal solution. Then, building on those, develops a simple and scalable, yet efficient heuristic, named ProNTO. Numerical and simulation results suggest that ProNTO can closely track the performance of BCD. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.

When do parties introduce novel clauses to a system of contracts or treaties? While important research has investigated how clauses diffuse once introduced, few empirical studies address their initial introduction. Drawing on network theory, this paper argues that novel clauses are introduced when agreements are concluded in certain structures of earlier agreements and the clauses they include. This paper demonstrates this argument using the example of 282 different environmental clauses introduced into the trade regime complex through 630 trade agreements concluded between 1945 and 2016. We find that trade agreements are more likely to introduce novelties when they involve parties with a diversity of experience with prior environmental clauses, and introduce more novelties when more parties are less constrained by prior trade agreements between them. Contrary to prevailing wisdom, power asymmetry between the negotiating parties is not statistically significant.

When do parties introduce novel clauses to a system of contracts or treaties? While important research has investigated how clauses diffuse once introduced, few empirical studies address their initial introduction. Drawing on network theory, this paper argues that novel clauses are introduced when agreements are concluded in certain structures of earlier agreements and the clauses they include. This paper demonstrates this argument using the example of 282 different environmental clauses introduced into the trade regime complex through 630 trade agreements concluded between 1945 and 2016. We find that trade agreements are more likely to introduce novelties when they involve parties with a diversity of experience with prior environmental clauses and introduce more novelties when more parties are less constrained by prior trade agreements between them. Contrary to prevailing wisdom, power asymmetry between the negotiating parties is not statistically significant.

Computational models of novel concept understanding and creativity are addressed in this paper from the viewpoint of conceptual blending theory (CBT). In our approach, a novel, unknown concept is addressed in a communication setting, where this novel concept, cre- ated as a blend by an emitter agent, sends a communicative object (words, or in this paper, a visual representation of that concept) to another agent. When received by a computational agent, a novel concept for that communicative object can only be understood by blend- ing concepts already known by that agent. In this paper, we first posit that understanding new concepts via blending is also a creative process. Albeit different from generating con- ceptual blends, understanding a novel concept via blending involves the disintegration and decompression of that novel concept, in such a way that the receiver of that concept is able to re-create the conceptual network supposedly intended by the emitter of the novel con- cept. Secondly, we also propose image schemas as a tool that agents can use to interpret the spatial information obtained when disintegrating/unpacking novel concepts and then re- create the new blend. This process is studied in a communication setting where semiotics and meaning are conveyed by visual and spatial signs (instead of the usual setting of natural language or text). In this case study, qualitative spatial descriptors are applied for obtaining a formal description of an icon or pictogram, which is later assigned a meaning by a process of conceptual blending using image schemas.

The NetMan project aims at developing concepts and e-business software support systems for manufacturing networks. The e-business-oriented NetMan Operation System carries out collaboratively the distributed planning and scheduling processes, as well as the manufacturing and logistic operations monitoring in networks organizations. It is based on an extensive use of the new information technologies. This paper presents the agent-based software infrastructure developed in the NetMan project.

This paper presents the latest developments of the Net Man generic framework for the design and operation of distributed manufacturing and supply networks. This framework enables the implementation of specific collaborative strategies, as well as the integration of distributed business processes into a seamless value creation process. This approach, described as a collaborative integration of the business-to-business (B-to-B) interactions, allows the distributed units of a network to exchange information in a coordinated manner and to collaboratively plan, control and manage day-to-day operations and contingencies in a dynamic environment., 0

This paper presents the latest developments of the Net Man generic framework for the design and operation of distributed manufacturing and supply networks. This framework enables the implementation of specific collaborative strategies, as well as the integration of distributed business processes into a seamless value creation process. This approach, described as a collaborative integration of the business-to-business (B-to-B) interactions, allows the distributed units of a network to exchange information in a coordinated manner and to collaboratively plan, control and manage day-to-day operations and contingencies in a dynamic environment., 0

The NetMan project aims at developing concepts and e-business software support systems for manufacturing networks. The e-business-oriented NetMan Operation System carries out collaboratively the distributed planning and scheduling processes, as well as the manufacturing and logistic operations monitoring in networks organizations. It is based on an extensive use of the new information technologies. This paper presents the agent-based software infrastructure developed in the NetMan project.

In this paper, we discuss the coherence and the stability of three rather plausible philosophical intuitions: the idea that all that exists is present (Presentism); the idea that there exists a true future, although it is just a contingent future (Thin Red Line); and the idea that a proposition depends on (or is grounded in) a truthmaker (Truthmaking). We will not show that assuming these three ideas together is logically incoherent; however, their combination seems to be very difficult to hold and, ultimately, it should be discarded. As a consequence, some of these assumptions must be rejected. We will analyze in detail one of the most promising strategies that can be pursed to reconcile Truthmaking and Presentism: adopting a liberalized version of Truthmaking, for which not only what exists but also what will exist and what existed can ground the truth of a proposition. However, as for the future, this strategy works only if the future is historically closed. If there are future contingents, this line of defense is flawed.

[EN]All-solid-state batteries are an attractive proposal to achieve the demands for safe, efficient and high energy storage. This paper briefly discusses the current challenges in the field of all-solid-state batteries and how sol-gel routes can addressed them. The application of the sol-gel process for the synthesis of solid electrolytes is described, with special emphasis on solid oxide-type electrolytes. In this context, the use of sol-gel derived sintering additives is discussed. The sol-gel process involved in the fabrication of oxide-type all-solid-state battery is also described. Chemical strategies based on sol-gel technology to prepare cathode|electrolyte and anode-lithium metal|electrolyte interfaces with low interfacial resistance are described and contrasted with state-of-art literature. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

The prevalence of lifestyle-related disease worldwide is high and increasing. The majority of approaches that aim to prevent and manage these conditions target adults’ health behaviors; however, it is important to note that the foundations for long-term health are laid down in early childhood. This paper examines evidence for relationships between children’s self-regulation and short-, medium-, and long-term health outcomes. It further considers the role of child self-regulation in the development of healthy habits and examines evidence for intervention approaches that seek to upregulate children’s self-regulatory capacities. Parents may play a crucial role in the development of both self-regulation and health-promoting behaviors in childhood, and therefore, present a logical target for interventions aiming to improve child health outcomes. However, to date, very little is known about the mechanisms that underpin the relationships between parenting, child self-regulation and health outcomes. This paper proposes future research directions and identifies the potential contribution that parenting interventions could make to the international effort to halt the increasing prevalence of lifestyle-related disease.

This paper presents the first comprehensive pan-Iberian overview of one of the major episodes of cultural change in later prehistoric Iberia, the Copper to Bronze Age transition (c. 2400–1900 BC), and assesses its relationship to the 4.2 ky BP climatic event. It synthesizes available cultural, demographic and palaeoenvironmental evidence by region between 3300 and 1500 BC. Important variation can be discerned through this comparison. The demographic signatures of some regions, such as the Meseta and the southwest, diminished in the Early Bronze Age, while other regions, such as the southeast, display clear growth in human activities; the Atlantic areas in northern Iberia barely experienced any changes. This paper opens the door to climatic fluctuations and inter-regional demic movements within the Peninsula as plausible contributing drivers of particular historical dynamics.

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01376-9.

Effectiveness has been understood at three levels of analysis in the scholarly study of policy design. The first is at the systemic level indicating what entails effective formulation environments or spaces making them conducive to successful design. The second reflects more program level concerns, surrounding how policy tool portfolios or mixes can be effectively constructed to address complex policy objectives. The third is a more specific instrument level, focusing on what accounts for and constitutes the effectiveness of particular types of policy tools. Undergirding these three levels of analysis are comparative research concerns that concentrate on the capacities of government and political actors to devise and implement effective designs. This paper presents a systematic review of a largely scattered yet quickly burgeoning body of knowledge in the policy sciences, which broadly asks what capacities engender effectiveness at the multiple levels of policy design? The findings bring to light lessons about design effectiveness at the level of formulation spaces, policy mixes and policy programs. Further, this review points to a future research agenda for design studies that is sensitive to the relative orders of policy capacity, temporality and complementarities between the various dimensions of policy capacity.

In this paper, we consider the allocation of power level and time slots in a frame to multiple users, on an energy harvesting broadcast system. We focus on the offline problem where the transmitter is aware of the energy arrival statistics of a frame before the frame starts. The goal is to optimize throughput in a proportionally fair way, taking into account the inherent differences of channel quality among users. Analysis of structural characteristics of the problem reveals the biconvex nature of the problem. Due to biconvexity, a Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) based optimization algorithm that converges to one of the multiple optima is proposed. Simulation results show that the resulting allocation achieves a good balance between total throughput and fairness. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.

In this paper, we consider the allocation of power level and time slots in a frame to multiple users, on an energy harvesting broadcast system. We focus on the offline problem where the transmitter is aware of the energy arrival statistics of a frame before the frame starts. The goal is to optimize throughput in a proportionally fair way, taking into account the inherent differences of channel quality among users. Analysis of structural characteristics of the problem reveals the biconvex nature of the problem. Due to biconvexity, a Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) based optimization algorithm that converges to one of the multiple optima is proposed. Simulation results show that the resulting allocation achieves a good balance between total throughput and fairness. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.

Recently, it has been proposed that Game Description Language (GDL) could be used to define negotiation domains. This would open up an entirely new, declarative, approach to Automated Negotiations in which a single algorithm could negotiate over any domain, as long as that domain is expressible in GDL. However, until now, the feasibility of this approach has only been demonstrated on a few toy-world problems. Therefore, in this paper we show that GDL is a truly unifying language that can also be used to define more general and more complex negotiation domains. We demonstrate this by showing that some of the most commonly used test-beds in the Automated Negotiations literature, namely Genius and Colored Trails, can be described in GDL. More specifically, we formally prove that the set of possible agreements of any negotiation domain from Genius (either linear or non-linear) can be modeled as a set of strategies over a deterministic extensive-form game. Furthermore, we show that this game can be effectively described in GDL and we show experimentally that, given only this GDL description, we can explore the agreement space efficiently using entirely generic domain-independent algorithms. In addition, we show that the same holds for negotiation domains in the Colored Trails framework. This means that one could indeed implement a single negotiating agent that is capable of negotiating over a broad class of negotiation domains, including Genius and Colored Trails.

This paper illustrates the role of metalanguage in an explicit literacy instruction to talk about the forms and functions of scientific genres, particularly the genre of explanation. In the context of science, metalanguage refers to the technical terms for talking about scientific language using words like law, hypothesis, and evidence. Despite many efforts to use literacy strategies to address the challenges of learning scientific language, the conventional genres commonly found in science remain implicit in most science classroom teaching. In order to explicitly discuss the nature of scientific genres and how they are linked to scientific practices, scientific metalanguage provides a potential literacy tool. To illustrate this argument, we draw on a case study where four teachers and their grade 9 students learned how to use a specific type of metalanguage to describe scientific explanation. Analysis of their classroom discourse showed that the use of the metalanguage facilitated explicit communication about the logical sequence, epistemic structure, and validity of scientific explanation. Based on the findings, we discuss the usefulness of metalanguage for teachers and students to describe and analyze scientific genres as well as how these genres are used to construct and communicate scientific knowledge.

Prejudice towards Muslim people in Western countries is common and increasing. This paper describes an educational intervention aimed at increasing positive attitudes and actions to support Muslim Australians. University students participated in a 12-week educational programme that drew on prejudice reduction principles and a pedagogical approach that emphasised active discussion. Results (N = 94) showed an increase in positivity towards Muslim people, increased intention to take bystander action to confront prejudice, and social identification (as a supporter of positive relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians). Boosts in positivity towards Muslim people and intention to confront prejudice were mediated by increases in social identity, although changes in social identification only explained increased commitment to confront prejudice in a low risk scenario. Results suggest that educational interventions such as these can foster new, inclusive identities that provide a basis for action to support Muslim people.

This paper reports on the implementation of a humanoid robot in five school settings and evaluates the success of the implementation based on the leadership of the school principal. As part of a wider three-year multiple case study research study that investigated the use of humanoid robots in different school settings, a robot was placed in the five selected schools for a fixed period of time to see how the technology was used and how the principal’s leadership impacted on the implementation in the classroom. Multiple case study design approach allowed for exploration of the use of humanoid robots in each setting as well as a comparison between the settings. Teachers planned lessons incorporating the unfamiliar technology and used the humanoid robot as a tool to make their classes more engaging, relevant, and authentic for their students. The findings of this study highlight that principals who were invested in the implementation of the humanoid robot in the classroom, fostered a positive learning community, and were directly supporting and encouraging of their teachers; led their team to a successful implementation of the new technology in their school.

This paper illustrates the role of metalanguage in an explicit literacy instruction to talk about the forms and functions of scientific genres, particularly the genre of explanation. In the context of science, metalanguage refers to the technical terms for talking about scientific language using words like law, hypothesis, and evidence. Despite many efforts to use literacy strategies to address the challenges of learning scientific language, the conventional genres commonly found in science remain implicit in most science classroom teaching. In order to explicitly discuss the nature of scientific genres and how they are linked to scientific practices, scientific metalanguage provides a potential literacy tool. To illustrate this argument, we draw on a case study where four teachers and their grade 9 students learned how to use a specific type of metalanguage to describe scientific explanation. Analysis of their classroom discourse showed that the use of the metalanguage facilitated explicit communication about the logical sequence, epistemic structure, and validity of scientific explanation. Based on the findings, we discuss the usefulness of metalanguage for teachers and students to describe and analyze scientific genres as well as how these genres are used to construct and communicate scientific knowledge.

Prejudice towards Muslim people in Western countries is common and increasing. This paper describes an educational intervention aimed at increasing positive attitudes and actions to support Muslim Australians. University students participated in a 12-week educational programme that drew on prejudice reduction principles and a pedagogical approach that emphasised active discussion. Results (N = 94) showed an increase in positivity towards Muslim people, increased intention to take bystander action to confront prejudice, and social identification (as a supporter of positive relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians). Boosts in positivity towards Muslim people and intention to confront prejudice were mediated by increases in social identity, although changes in social identification only explained increased commitment to confront prejudice in a low risk scenario. Results suggest that educational interventions such as these can foster new, inclusive identities that provide a basis for action to support Muslim people.

In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental physics. Given the very broad range of topics that might be relevant to LISA,we present here a sample of what we view as particularly promising fundamental physics directions. We organize these directions through a “science-first” approach that allows us to classify how LISA data can inform theoretical physics in a variety of areas. For each of these theoretical physics classes, we identify the sources that are currently expected to provide the principal contribution to our knowledge, and the areas that need further development. The classification presented here should not be thought of as cast in stone, but rather as a fluid framework that is amenable to change with the flow of new insights in theoretical physics.

References to objects in our physical environment are common especially in language about wayfinding. Advanced wayfinding systems that interact with the pedestrian bymeans of (spoken) natural language therefore need to be able to resolve references given by pedestrians (i.e. understand what entity the pedestrian is referring to). The contribution of this paper is a probabilistic approach to reference resolution in a large-scale, real city environment, where the context changes constantly as the pedestrians are moving. The geographic situation, including information about objects’ location and type, is represented using OpenStreetMap data., QC 20170523

This paper has two aims. One is to defend an incrementalist view of the evolution of language, not from those who think that syntax could not evolve incrementally, but from those who defend a fundamental distinction between Gricean communication or ostensive inferential communication (Scott-Phillips, Sperber, Tomasello, originally based on Grice) and code-based communication. The paper argues against this dichotomy, and sketches ways in which a code-based system could evolve into Gricean communication. The second is to assess the merits of the Sender–Receiver Framework, originally formulated by David Lewis, and much elaborated and set into an evolutionary context by Brian Skyrms and colleagues, as a framework for thinking about the evolution of language. Despite the great strengths of that framework, and despite the great value of a framework that is both general and formally tractable, I argue that there are critical features of language that it fails to capture

The objective of this paper is to explore how the various stages of consciousness development of top managers can influence, in practical terms, their abilities in and commitment to environmental leadership in different types of SMEs. A case study based on 63 interviews carried out in 15 industrial SMEs showed that the organizations that displayed the most environmental management practices were mostly run by managers at a post-conventional stage of consciousness development. Conversely, the SMEs that displayed less sustainable environmental management practices were all run by managers at conventional stages of development. Drawing upon diverse examples of environmental leadership, this paper analyzes the reasons why the stages of post-conventional consciousness development of top managers seem to foster corporate greening in SMEs. The study also sheds light on the key values and abilities associated with both environmental leadership and the upper-stages of consciousness development, which include a broader and systemic perspective, long-range focus, integration of conflicting goals, collaboration with stakeholders, complexity management, collaborative learning, among others.

This paper examines the association between corporate philanthropy and tunneling by controlling shareholders. Using a unique dataset from China, the paper finds evidence that firms donating more are less likely to tunnel. The negative association between philanthropy and tunneling is stronger when firms are faced with more severe agency conflicts, as indicated by lower largest shareholding, fewer growth opportunities, lower state ownership, and weaker product market competition. The results suggest that companies engaging in philanthropy have incentives to enhance their reputations and improve their relationships with stakeholders.

Despite an increased risk of mental health problems in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there is limited research on effective prevention approaches for this population. Funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism, a theoretically and empirically supported school-based preventative model has been developed to alter the negative trajectory and promote wellbeing and positive mental health in adolescents with ASD. This conceptual paper provides the rationale, theoretical, empirical and methodological framework of a multilayered intervention targeting the school, parents, and adolescents on the spectrum. Two important interrelated protective factors have been identified in community adolescent samples, namely the sense of belonging (connectedness) to school, and the capacity for self and affect regulation in the face of stress (i.e., resilience). We describe how a confluence of theories from social psychology, developmental psychology and family systems theory, along with empirical evidence (including emerging neurobiological evidence) supports the interrelationships between these protective factors and many indices of wellbeing. However, the characteristics of ASD (including social and communication difficulties, and frequently difficulties with changes and transitions, and diminished optimism and self-esteem) impair access to these vital protective factors. The paper describes how evidenced-based interventions at the school level for promoting inclusive schools (using the Index for Inclusion), and interventions for adolescents and parents to promote resilience and belonging (using the Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP)), are adapted and integrated for adolescents with ASD. This multisite proof of concept study will confirm whether this multilevel school-based intervention is promising, feasible and sustainable.

This paper introduces system dynamics modeling to understand, visualize and explore technology integration in schools, through the development of a theoretical model of technology-related change in teachers’ practice. Technology integration is a dynamic social practice, within the social system of education. It is difficult, if not nearly impossible, for the human mind to fully conceptualize complex social systems. Therefore, it is necessary to use conceptual frameworks designed to examine these phenomena. The model presented in this paper draws together known factors of integration and findings from a large-scale technology initiative in Australia to create a preliminary casual-loop model of technology integration in secondary school teaching. The preliminary model illustrates feedback and multiple effects in the system of education. The use of system models can potentially support a shift from focusing on teachers’ technology use to student outcomes, and the feedback loop of students’ technology use on teachers’ practice. Implications for technology integration, teacher change and learning are discussed.

Bibliographic analysis considers the author’s research areas, the citation network and the paper content among other things. In this paper, we combine these three in a topic model that produces a bibliographic model of authors, topics and documents, using a non-parametric extension of a combination of the Poisson mixed-topic link model and the author-topic model. This gives rise to the Citation Network Topic Model (CNTM). We propose a novel and efficient inference algorithm for the CNTM to explore subsets of research publications from CiteSeerXX. The publication datasets are organised into three corpora, totalling to about 168k publications with about 62k authors. The queried datasets are made available online. In three publicly available corpora in addition to the queried datasets, our proposed model demonstrates an improved performance in both model fitting and document clustering, compared to several baselines. Moreover, our model allows extraction of additional useful knowledge from the corpora, such as the visualisation of the author-topics network. Additionally, we propose a simple method to incorporate supervision into topic modelling to achieve further improvement on the clustering task.