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2. Models Versus Model Descriptions
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Fischer, Joachim, Møller-Pedersen, Birger, Prinz, Andreas, Thalheim, Bernhard, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Dahanayake, Ajantha, editor, Pastor, Oscar, editor, and Thalheim, Bernhard, editor
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- 2021
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3. Smart Contract Locator (SCL) and Smart Contract Description Language (SCDL)
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Lamparelli, Andrea, Falazi, Ghareeb, Breitenbücher, Uwe, Daniel, Florian, Leymann, Frank, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Yangui, Sami, editor, Bouguettaya, Athman, editor, Xue, Xiao, editor, Faci, Noura, editor, Gaaloul, Walid, editor, Yu, Qi, editor, Zhou, Zhangbing, editor, Hernandez, Nathalie, editor, and Nakagawa, Elisa Y., editor
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- 2020
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4. An Architecture Principle Measurement Instrument Tested in Real-Life
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Borgers, Michiel, Harmsen, Frank, van der Aalst, Wil, Series Editor, Mylopoulos, John, Series Editor, Rosemann, Michael, Series Editor, Shaw, Michael J., Series Editor, Szyperski, Clemens, Series Editor, Filipe, Joaquim, editor, Śmiałek, Michał, editor, Brodsky, Alexander, editor, and Hammoudi, Slimane, editor
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- 2020
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5. The Future Approach to Simplify the Cloud-Service Market Using a Standardized Description Language
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Dolle, Nicolas, Wilhelm, Christian, Rössle, Manfred, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Gomide, Fernando, Advisory Editor, Kaynak, Okyay, Advisory Editor, Liu, Derong, Advisory Editor, Pedrycz, Witold, Advisory Editor, Polycarpou, Marios M., Advisory Editor, Rudas, Imre J., Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Kabashkin, Igor, editor, Yatskiv, Irina, editor, and Prentkovskis, Olegas, editor
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- 2020
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6. Hacker’s Multiple-Precision Integer-Division Program in Close Scrutiny
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Katajainen, Jyrki, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Kotsireas, Ilias, editor, Pardalos, Panos, editor, Parsopoulos, Konstantinos E., editor, Souravlias, Dimitris, editor, and Tsokas, Arsenis, editor
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- 2019
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7. The Adjective 'dà (big)' and Grammatical Analysis of 'dà+N' Structure
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Li, Qiang, Hutchison, David, Series Editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series Editor, Kittler, Josef, Series Editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series Editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series Editor, Mitchell, John C., Series Editor, Naor, Moni, Series Editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series Editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series Editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series Editor, Tygar, Doug, Series Editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series Editor, Hong, Jia-Fei, editor, Su, Qi, editor, and Wu, Jiun-Shiung, editor
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- 2018
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8. Enhancing 3D Face Recognition by a Robust Version of ICP Based on the Three Polar Representation
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Rihani, Amal, Jribi, Majdi, Ghorbel, Faouzi, Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Simone, Series editor, Chen, Phoebe, Series editor, Du, Xiaoyong, Series editor, Filipe, Joaquim, Series editor, Kara, Orhun, Series editor, Kotenko, Igor, Series editor, Liu, Ting, Series editor, Sivalingam, Krishna M., Series editor, Washio, Takashi, Series editor, Ben Amor, Boulbaba, editor, Chaieb, Faten, editor, and Ghorbel, Faouzi, editor
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- 2017
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9. APP Vetting Based on the Consistency of Description and APK
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Han, Weili, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Xinyi, Peng, Weiwei, Fang, Zheran, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Yung, Moti, editor, Zhu, Liehuang, editor, and Yang, Yanjiang, editor
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- 2015
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10. Resources Description, Selection, Reservation and Verification on a Large-Scale Testbed
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Margery, David, Morel, Emile, Nussbaum, Lucas, Richard, Olivier, Rohr, Cyril, Akan, Ozgur, Series editor, Bellavista, Paolo, Series editor, Cao, Jiannong, Series editor, Coulson, Geoff, Series editor, Dressler, Falko, Series editor, Ferrari, Domenico, Series editor, Gerla, Mario, Series editor, Kobayashi, Hisashi, Series editor, Palazzo, Sergio, Series editor, Sahni, Sartaj, Series editor, Shen, Xuemin (Sherman), Series editor, Stan, Mircea, Series editor, Jia, Xiaohua, Series editor, Zomaya, Albert, Series editor, Leung, Victor C.M., editor, Chen, Min, editor, Wan, Jiafu, editor, and Zhang, Yin, editor
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- 2014
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11. Research on the Description of Tibetan Information Domain Frame Semantic Structure
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Ma, Rdo Rje Sgrol, Hutchison, David, editor, Kanade, Takeo, editor, Kittler, Josef, editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., editor, Mattern, Friedemann, editor, Mitchell, John C., editor, Naor, Moni, editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, editor, Pandu Rangan, C., editor, Steffen, Bernhard, editor, Sudan, Madhu, editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, editor, Tygar, Doug, editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., editor, Weikum, Gerhard, editor, Goebel, Randy, editor, Siekmann, Jörg, editor, Wahlster, Wolfgang, editor, Liu, Pengyuan, editor, and Su, Qi, editor
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- 2013
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12. Feature Selection: Near Set Approach
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Peters, James F., Ramanna, Sheela, Carbonell, Jaime G., editor, Siekmann, J\'org, editor, Raś, Zbigniew W., editor, Tsumoto, Shusaku, editor, and Zighed, Djamel, editor
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- 2008
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13. Written on the body: ekphrasis, perception and deception in Heliodorus' Aethiopica [Paper in: The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity. Elsner, Jas (ed.)]
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Whitmarsh, Tim
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- 2002
14. Dazzling likeness: seeing ekphrasis in Aeneid 10 [Paper in: The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity. Elsner, Jas (ed.)]
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Rogerson, Anne
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- 2002
15. 'Can you tell what it is yet?': descriptions of sex change in ancient literature [Paper in: The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity. Elsner, Jas (ed.)]
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Langlands, Rebecca
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- 2002
16. Introduction, The genres of ekphrasis [Paper in: The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity. Elsner, Jas (ed.)]
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Elsner, Jas
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- 2002
17. Statius' ekphrastic games: Thebaid 6.531-47 [Paper in: The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity. Elsner, Jas (ed.)]
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Lovatt, Helen
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- 2002
18. The Business of Time Travel: A Case Study Examining the Processing of the Connie Willis Papers at the University of Northern Colorado
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Trask, Emory J and Shull, Katherine
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Science fiction ,Archives--Processing ,Acquisition ,Description ,Arrangement ,Archival Science ,Archives--Acquisitions - Abstract
The work-in-progress article explores the donation, arrangement, and description of the papers of the internationally renowned science fiction novelist and short story writer, Connie Willis, to the University of Northern Colorado. The project is ongoing at UNC, but the article provides a case study exploring the both the value of science fiction collections and the challenges presented in processing them.
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- 2020
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19. Using Metadata Description for Agriculture and Aquaculture Papers
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Simek, Pavel, Vanek, Jiri, Ocenasek, Vladimir, Stoces, Michal, and Vogeltanzova, Tereza
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Metadata ,thesaurus ,VOA3R AP ,Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies ,Resource /Energy Economics and Policy ,paper ,element ,description ,Dublin Core ,AGROVOC ,Research Methods/ Statistical Methods - Abstract
The paper deals with the most used metadata formats and thesauri suitable for describing scientific and research papers in the domains agriculture, food industry, aquaculture, environment and rural areas. These include the Dublin Core (DC), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Virtual Open Access Agriculture and Aquaculture Repository Metadata Application Profile (VOA3R AP) and the AGROVOC thesaurus. Having analyzed the metadata formats and research paper lifecycle, the authors would recommend that each paper should entail metadata description as soon as it is published. The metadata are to describe the content and properties of the paper. One of the most suitable metadata formats is the VOA3R AP that is partially patterned on the DC and combined with the AGROVOC thesaurus. As a result, an effective description, availability and automatic data exchange between and among local and central repositories should be attained. The knowledge and data presented in the present paper were obtained as a result of the following research programs and grant schemes: the Grant No. 20121044 of the Internal Grant Agency titled „Using Automatic Metadata Generation for Research Papers“, the Grant agreement No. 250525 funded by the European Commission corresponding to the VOA3R Project (Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment), http://voa3r.eu and the Research Program titled „Economy of the Czech Agriculture Resources and their Efficient Use within the Framework of the Multifunctional Agrifood Systems“ of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport number VZ MSM 6046070906.
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- 2012
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20. The Papers of Independent Authors, ISSN 2225-6717, volume 43
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Khmelnik Solomon
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description - Abstract
"The Papers of Independent Authors" is a multidisciplinary scientific and technical printed journal in Russian and English. The journal accepts articles for publication from all countries. The following rules are observed: articles are not reviewed and the publisher is not responsible for the content and style of publications, the author pays for the publication, the journal is registered in the iInternational classifications of books (ISBN) and journals (ISSN), identified by the DOI code, transmitted and registered in the national libraries of Russia, Israel, the United States. This ensures the priority and copyrights of the author of the article. the commercial rights of the author of the article are reserved for the author, the journal is published in the USA, printed journal is sold, and in electronic form is distributed free of charge. This journal is for those authors who are self-confident and do not need approval of the reviewer. We are often reproached for not reviewing the articles. But the review institute is not an ideal filter - misses the failed articles and delays original works. Without analyzing the numerous reasons for this, we only note that if readers can filter out bad articles, then outstanding ideas may remain unknown. Therefore, we - for the fact that scientists and engineers had the right (like writers and artists) to publish without reviewing and not spend years on "punching" their ideas.
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- 2018
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21. Using Metadata Description for Agriculture and Aquaculture Papers.
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Šimek, P., Vanek, J., Ocenášek, V., Stoces, M., and Vogeltanzová, T.
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AGRICULTURAL research ,METADATA ,FOOD industry ,AQUACULTURE ,INSTITUTIONAL repositories - Abstract
Copyright of Agris On-Line Papers in Economics & Informatics is the property of Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Consulting Center of the Faculty of Economics and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2012
22. A Survey of Techniques for Discovering, Using, and Paying for Third-Party IoT Sensors.
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Dawod, Anas, Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios, Jayaraman, Prem Prakash, and Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai
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INTERNET of things ,CITATION networks ,EVIDENCE gaps ,THIRD-party software ,CITATION analysis - Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) includes billions of sensors and actuators (which we refer to as IoT devices) that harvest data from the physical world and send it via the Internet to IoT applications to provide smart IoT services and products. Deploying, managing, and maintaining IoT devices for the exclusive use of an individual IoT application is inefficient and involves significant costs and effort that often outweigh the benefits. On the other hand, enabling large numbers of IoT applications to share available third-party IoT devices, which are deployed and maintained independently by a variety of IoT device providers, reduces IoT application development costs, time, and effort. To achieve a positive cost/benefit ratio, there is a need to support the sharing of third-party IoT devices globally by providing effective IoT device discovery, use, and pay between IoT applications and third-party IoT devices. A solution for global IoT device sharing must be the following: (1) scalable to support a vast number of third-party IoT devices, (2) interoperable to deal with the heterogeneity of IoT devices and their data, and (3) IoT-owned, i.e., not owned by a specific individual or organization. This paper surveys existing techniques that support discovering, using, and paying for third-party IoT devices. To ensure that this survey is comprehensive, this paper presents our methodology, which is inspired by Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA), combining the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methodology with Citation Network Analysis (CNA). Finally, this paper outlines the research gaps and directions for novel research to realize global IoT device sharing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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23. The Papers of Independent Authors, ISSN 2225-6717, volume 7
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Khmelnik, Solomon
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Physics::General Physics ,description - Abstract
Volume 7 Series: Algorithms and Programming Computer Engineering Construction Physics and Astronomy Power Engineering Unaccounted
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- 2008
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24. Comunicare gli archivi. Riflessioni a margine di alcune scelte di rappresentazione.
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Damiani, Concetta
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Copyright of Bibliothecae.it is the property of University of Bologna and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
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25. Bassanianabirudis sp. nov., a new crab spider (Araneae, Thomisidae) from South Korea
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Sue Yeon Lee, Seung Tae Kim, and Jae Seong Im
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Asia ,Arthropoda ,QH301-705.5 ,Zoology ,Distribution (economics) ,Bassaniana ,descri ,Type (biology) ,Genus ,South Korea ,Arachnida ,Animalia ,Thomisidae ,Biology (General) ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Taxonomy ,new species ,Spider ,Ecology ,biology ,business.industry ,biology.organism_classification ,Biota ,Geography ,Araneae ,description ,Taxonomic Paper ,business ,Far East - Abstract
The crab spider genus Bassaniana Strand, 1928 consists of six species mainly distributed in North America and Far East Asia. Two species of them, Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879) and Bassaniana ora Seo, 1992, are known in Korea so far. A new crab spider, Bassaniana birudis sp. nov. is described, based on a male collected from Gumi-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Distribution records are provided, as well as photos of habitus and illustrations of the male copulatory organ. The type specimens of this study are deposited in the collection of the Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources (NNIBR) and Konkuk University (KKU), South Korea.
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- 2021
26. Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling
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Johannes Findl and Javier Suárez
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History ,Philosophy of science ,Original Paper ,Modalities ,Modality (human–computer interaction) ,Models, Statistical ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Epidemiological modelling ,Description ,Spell ,COVID-19 ,Statistical model ,Scientific explanation ,Epistemology ,Comprehension ,Philosophy of biology ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Humans ,Statistical modelling ,Psychology - Abstract
COVID-19 has substantially affected our lives during 2020. Since its beginning, several epidemiological models have been developed to investigate the specific dynamics of the disease. Early COVID-19 epidemiological models were purely statistical, based on a curve-fitting approach, and did not include causal knowledge about the disease. Yet, these models had predictive capacity; thus they were used to ground important political decisions, in virtue of the understanding of the dynamics of the pandemic that they offered. This raises a philosophical question about how purely statistical models can yield understanding, and if so, what the relationship between prediction and understanding in these models is. Drawing on the model that was developed by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, we argue that early epidemiological models yielded a modality of understanding that we call descriptive understanding, which contrasts with the so-called explanatory understanding which is assumed to be the main form of scientific understanding. We spell out the exact details of how descriptive understanding works, and efficiently yields understanding of the phenomena. Finally, we vindicate the necessity of studying other modalities of understanding that go beyond the conventionally assumed explanatory understanding.
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- 2021
27. Contributed papers of the second symposium on resources of the Chihuahuan Desert region (United States and Mexico) : botanical biology
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Cornet, Antoine, Delhoume, Jean-Pierre, Montana, C., and Powell, A.M.
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CARACTERISTIQUE FLORALE ,COUVERT VEGETAL ,FORMATION VEGETALE ,SOL ,HYPOTHESE DE MISE EN PLACE ,GEOMORPHOLOGIE ,DESCRIPTION ,PAYSAGES VEGETAUX ,DESERT ,RESERVE ,BROUSSE TIGREE ,RESSOURCES NATURELLES ,ARIDITE ,REPARTITION DES ESPECES - Abstract
Des formations végétales connues sous le nom de "brousse tigrée", "vegetation arcs" ou "vegetation stripes" ont été décrites dans diverses régions arides du monde, principalement en Afrique et au Moyen Orient. Dans cette étude, ce type de végétation contractée est décrits pour la première fois dans le Bolson de Mapimi. Cette formation est constituée par une alternance de zones dénudées et de bandes de végétation dont l'axe longitudinal (qui peut varier entre 20 et 70 m) est toujours perpendiculaire à la pente. Sa localisation dans le paysage, l'étude morpho-analytique des sols, l'inventaire des espèces végétales et leur répartition sont donnés. Les diverses hypothèses sur l'origine et l'évolution de ces formations sont analysées. La dynamique actuelle est vraisemblablement due à l'action des eaux de ruissellement en nappe combinée à une microtopographie permettant l'accumulation préférentielle de ces eaux dans certaines zones, ce qui favorise le développement de la végétation. (Résumé d'auteur)
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- 1987
28. Contributed papers of the second symposium on resources of the Chihuahuan Desert region (United States and Mexico) : botanical biology
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Delhoume, Jean-Pierre, Montana, C., Cornet, Antoine, and Powell, A.M.
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GENESE ,CARACTERISTIQUE PHYSIQUE ,RESERVE ,FORMATION VEGETALE ,COUVERT VEGETAL ,SOL ,PLUIE ,ZONE POLYGONALE ,RESSOURCES NATURELLES ,DESSICCATION ,DESCRIPTION ,DESERT ,CARACTERISTIQUE CHIMIQUE - Published
- 1988
29. Defying description: searching for queer history in institutional archives.
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Freeman, Elliot
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HISTORY of archives ,LGBTQ+ history ,ARCHIVAL materials ,SOCIAL media ,METADATA ,RESEARCH methodology - Abstract
There are numerous obstacles to overcome when conducting queer historical research. While has been a steady increase in work to address the (in)visibility of queer histories and perspectives in institutional heritage collections, this work is often skewed towards outputs such as exhibitions or social media posts. As a result, very little work has been done to interrogate and transform the ways that these materials are managed and made accessible (or not). This paper considers how the lack of rich and explicit descriptive metadata shapes the (in)visibility and (in)accessibility of queer records within institutional archives. It reports the findings of a series of qualitative interviews I conducted with individuals who have searched for queer materials in archival collections in Australia. These interviews explored the practical process of searching for queer records in institutional archives; how researchers identify, locate, and access these records; and the challenges of this process—both in terms of a research methodology, and an experience for queer researchers within potentially hostile or unsafe spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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30. Care as a Thick Ethical Concept
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Chadha-Sridhar, Ira
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- 2023
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31. Deus sine nomine : Dialectic as a Tool for the Christian Interpretation of Boethius's Consolatio III, m. 9, by Adalbold of Utrecht.
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Otisk, Marek
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MIDDLE Ages ,DIALECTIC ,CONSOLATION ,GOD - Abstract
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius was not only widely read during the Middle Ages, but it was also frequently glossed, commented on, and discussed. The ninth poem of the third book, which offers a Platonic image of the creation of the cosmos and the governance over it, had a specific place in the reception of this Boethius's work. Today we know of numerous debates about the possible interpretations of this poem and its Christian understanding, dating back at least to the 9th century. This paper deals with the commentary on this poem written by Adalbold of Utrecht († 1026). Attention is focused in particular on the role of dialectic in selected passages of this Adalbold's text and on the inspirational sources of his dialectical knowledge. Specifically, the paper deals with the possibility of definition or description of God (Deus sine nomine), and arguments explaining the appropriateness or inappropriateness of conceptualizing God as the form of the highest good (forma summi boni). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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32. Cryptaphelenchus varicaudatus n. sp. (Rhabditida: Ektaphelenchinae) from Tehran Province, Iran
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Majid Pedram
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0106 biological sciences ,LSU ,Bark beetle ,Phylogenetic tree ,Aphelenchoidinae ,010607 zoology ,Rostrum ,rDNA ,SSU ,Anatomy ,Biology ,phylogeny ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Contributed Paper ,Stylet ,Sponge spicule ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Spermatheca ,Phylogenetics ,description ,Taxonomy (biology) ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Cryptaphelenchus varicaudatus n. sp. is described and illustrated. It was isolated from bark samples of dead or dying pine (Pinus spp.) trees with bark beetle frass and galleries, in Tehran province. The new species has 275- to 367-mm-long females (a medium-sized species) with distinctly annulated cuticle having three bands in lateral fields, lip region continuous with body contour, delicate knobbed stylet, monodelphic–prodelphic reproductive system with distinct spermatheca, short postvulval uterine sac (PUS), transverse vulval slit with raised posterior lip and body narrowing behind it, sclerotized vagina, simple intestine ending in a blind sac, having no rectum but vestigial anus in some specimens, and distal body end tip (tail tip) with variation in morphology (shape), from sharply or slightly pointed to bluntly rounded. Males of the new species are common, but less frequent than females, characterized by shorter body (235–278 mm long) compared to females, their posterior body end more ventrally bent, arcuate separate spicules with well-developed wide condyles, distinct rostrum having sharp, attenuated tip. The precloacal single supplement (P1) and the distally located pair of caudal papillae close to tail tip were only observed. The new species is morphologically compared with the species of the genus having short PUS and similar body end morphology. In molecular phylogenetic analyses using 1520- and 698-nt-long sequences of small subunit (SSU) and large subunit (LSU) rDNA D2/D3 fragments, the new species formed a clade with two currently available GenBank-derived, unspecified isolates/sequences in SSU and three other isolates/sequences in LSU trees, respectively.
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- 2017
33. "A Cognitive Listening": attending to captioning via the critical "unvoiceover".
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Hayden, Sarah
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AESTHETICS , *DISABILITY studies , *LITERARY criticism , *ETHICS - Abstract
This paper proposes a theory of text on-screen as "unvoiceover." It addresses both the case for captioning as social good and the affordances (aesthetic, affective) of writing in or over the moving image. Advancing an argument informed by perspectives from d/Deaf Studies, Critical Disability Studies and Digital Interface Studies, and applying modes of analysis from literary criticism alongside those proper to the study of moving image and sound, it examines the idiosyncrasies of text-in-motion as non-sonorous, fugitive counterpart to the traditional, troublesome "voiceover." To develop a poetics of the unsounding voice on-screen, the paper focalizes its argument through multimedia artist Liza Sylvestre's Captioned series: a body of moving image work that is itself, paradoxically, uncaptioned. Framing Sylvestre's lyrical "unvoiceover" as a reimagining of the lost roles of film explainers and literary intertitles, I argue that the artist's takeover of the caption track intervenes critically in contemporary debates about the ethics of audio-visual translation, situated description and access as public ethos rather than private concern. Posing the artist's personal-and-political writing as suggestive of a lower-case analogue to Deaf Gain, I show how Sylvestre's "unvoiceover" educates its "receivers" in the purpose and functioning of captions. By reading Sylvestre's writing on-screen more closely than its fugitive form seems to invite, I show how the unvoiceover encultures its own demands on its readers and elicits its own habits of reading. By scrutinizing how Sylvestre's series makes the case for captioning, this paper makes the case for a new appraisal of the aesthetic, affective and political affordances of the unvoiceover as writing on the run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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34. Digital and analogue Phenomenology.
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Lanfredini, Roberta
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PHENOMENOLOGY - Abstract
Phenomenology presents itself not as an explanation or interpretation of phenomena but as a description of them. Describing experience means making its internal structure explicit, which, in phenomenology, is an eidetic structure. The method of phenomenological explication or clarification is, however, by no means univocal. This paper aims to isolate the two fundamental ways in which phenomenological description is achieved. The first refers to a phenomenology of manifestation, based on the concept of determination or datum, which is realized in the phenomenological-static approach and, in particular, on the concept of extensive quality. The second refers to a phenomenology of disposition, based on the concept of tension or force – which is realized in the genetic approach as well as in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception – and, in particular on the concept of intensive or forceful quality. The analysis of the difference between the two approaches allows us to introduce the crucial distinction between digital and analogue dimensions within phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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35. The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knapping, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre
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Kolhatkar, Manek
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- 2024
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36. From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission
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Holthoefer, Anne
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- 2024
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37. Touches across time: queer as provenance
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Freeman, Elliot
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- 2024
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38. Second-Stage Sampling for Conflict Areas : Methods and Implications
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Himelein, Kristen, Eckman, Stephanie, Murray, Siobhan, and Bauer, Johannes
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MEASURES ,INFORMATION ,IMAGE ,SAMPLES ,CASE ,SOFTWARE ,DESCRIPTION ,MEASUREMENT ,VERIFICATION ,MODELING ,TESTING ,SPACE ,BEST PRACTICE ,MONITORING ,IMPLEMENTATIONS ,SCENARIOS ,STATISTICS ,BUSINESS ,WEIGHTING ,NAVIGATION ,SIMULATION ,METHODS ,PILOT TESTING ,STANDARDS ,COMPUTER ,IMAGES ,CASES ,CONFIDENCE INTERVALS ,BACK-OFFICE ,CLASSIFICATION ,AGE ,CALCULATION ,SEARCH ,DOCUMENT ,METHODOLOGIES ,PROBABILITY SAMPLES ,SUPERVISION ,SAMPLING ,BACK OFFICE ,THEORY ,PERFORMANCE ,TECHNICAL TRAINING ,PRECISION ,PHONES ,METHODOLOGY ,SURVEYS ,PROBABILITIES ,PROTOCOL ,PREDICTION ,RESEARCH ,CLUSTERING ,HUMAN ERROR ,VARIABLES ,STANDARD ,COUNTING ,SURVEY DATA ,INTERVIEWS ,ENUMERATION ,NETWORK ,OPEN ACCESS ,SATELLITE ,RESULT ,SECURITY ,RISK ,ESTIMATES ,MISSING VALUES ,ALGORITHMS ,STANDARD DEVIATION ,SMART PHONES ,WEB ,PROBABILITY ,TARGET ,EQUIPMENT ,EFFECTS ,CELL PHONES ,RANDOM SAMPLING ,SAMPLE SIZE ,RESEARCHERS ,RANDOM WALK ,PROTOCOLS ,ROUTING ,ERRORS ,ESTIMATING ,SURVEY METHODOLOGY ,TECHNIQUES ,TECHNOLOGY ,SAMPLE DESIGN ,OBJECT ,RESULTS ,SAMPLING DESIGNS ,WWW ,SIMULATIONS ,IMPLEMENTATION PLANS ,SIZE ,RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS ,WEIGHT ,ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS ,DATA COLLECTION - Abstract
The collection of survey data from war zones or other unstable security situations is vulnerable to error because conflict often limits the implementation options. Although there are elevated risks throughout the process, this paper focuses specifically on challenges to frame construction and sample selection. The paper uses simulations based on data from the Mogadishu High Frequency Survey Pilot to examine the implications of the choice of second-stage selection methodology on bias and variance. Among the other findings, the simulations show the bias introduced by a random walk design leads to the underestimation of the poverty headcount by more than 10 percent. The paper also discusses the experience of the authors in the time required and technical complexity of the associated back-office preparation work and weight calculations for each method. Finally, as the simulations assume perfect implementation of the design, the paper also discusses practicality, including the ease of implementation and options for remote verification, and outlines areas for future research and pilot testing.
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- 2016
39. Sectonema caobangense sp. n. from Vietnam (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Aporcelaimidae)
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Thi Anh Duong Nguyen, Joaquín Abolafia, Sergio Álvarez-Ortega, Reyes Peña-Santiago, and Michael Bonkowski
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0106 biological sciences ,Morphometrics ,morphometrics ,biology ,Aporcelaimidae ,Bayesian inference ,010607 zoology ,Dorylaimida ,Anatomy ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Contributed Paper ,LSU ribosomal DNA ,Sponge spicule ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,morphology ,description ,Taxonomy (biology) ,maximum likelihood ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Sectonema caobangense ,Ribosomal DNA ,Phylogenetic relationship - Abstract
Sectonema caobangense sp. n. from evergreen forest soil in Vietnam is described, including scanning electron micrograph (SEM) observations and D2-D3 LSU rDNA analysis. The new species is characterized by its 3.12 to 5.80 mm long body, lip region offset by deep constriction and 21 to 23 μm broad, mural tooth 13 to 14 μm long at its ventral side, 940 to 1,112 μm long neck, pharyngeal expansion occupying 61% to 69% of total neck length, uterus a long simple tube-like structure 292 to 363 μm long or 2.7 to 2.9 times the corresponding body diameter, pars refringens vaginae well developed, V = 48 to 56, short (36-51 μm, c = 77-132, c’ = 0.5-0.8) and rounded tail, 87 to 99 μm long spicules, and four or five irregularly spaced ventromedian supplements bearing hiatus. Sectonema caobangense sp. n. differs from the typical pattern of Sectonema in the nature of the stomatal protrusible structure, bearing a mural tooth attached to the ventral side of the stoma. Molecular data obtained and the derived evolutionary trees support a close phylogenetic relationship with other Sectonema species.
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- 2016
40. Communicating archives. Reflections on the margins of some representation choices
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Concetta Damiani
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archive ,description ,digital ,narrative ,storytelling ,Bibliography. Library science. Information resources - Abstract
Promoting and presenting archives in a way that makes them a reassuring and easily accessible context is a primary concern for archivists, who are used to working in a field driven by communication. This paper offers a reflection on models and methods of transmitting and promoting documentary collections, while drawing inspiration from recent works that propose new perspectives on the question and its forms of presentation. Does a clear distinction between the established descriptive tradition and the so-called alternative approaches still make sense? Perhaps the two approaches are much more interconnected and stable than previously thought. Are research tools “healthy carriers” of narrative? It seems so. Alongside descriptive practices, the paper will compare some effective museum practices aimed at presenting archives and highlighting the specific cultural value that archives actively preserve. From a broader perspective, after a period of great success, narratives are now in crisis. To quote Byung-Chul Han, «At the core of this noisy storytelling lies a narrative void, manifesting itself as a lack of meaning and a loss of direction». Maybe archives can offer a different interpretative and descriptive key.
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- 2024
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41. Doing things with description: practices, politics, and the art of attentiveness.
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Vitellone, Nicole, Mair, Michael, and Kierans, Ciara
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SOCIOLOGY ,RESEARCH methodology ,PRACTICAL politics ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,HUMANITIES ,TECHNOLOGY ,SCIENCE - Abstract
In a number of linked articles and monographs over the last decade (e.g. Love, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), literary scholar and critic Heather Love has called for a descriptive (re)turn in the humanities, repeatedly taking up examples of descriptive methods in the social sciences as exemplifying what that (re)turn might look like and achieve. Those of us working as sociologists, anthropologists, science and technology studies scholars and researchers in allied social science fields thus find ourselves reflected back in Love's work, encountering our own research practices in an unfamiliar light through it. In a period where our established methods and analytical priorities are subject to challenges on many fronts from within our own disciplines, it is hard not be struck by Love's provocative invocation of the social sciences as interlocutors and see in it an invitation to contribute to the debate she has sought to initiate by revisiting our own approaches to the problem of description. Inspired by Love's intervention, the eight papers that form this Special Issue demonstrate that by re-engaging with description we stand to learn a great deal. While the articles themselves are topically distinct and geographically varied, they are all based on empirical research and written to facilitate a reorientation to the role of description in our research practices. What exactly is going on when we describe an ancient papyrus as present or missing, a machine as intelligent, noise as music, a disease as undiagnosable, a death as good or bad, deserved or undeserved, care as appropriate or inappropriate, policies as failing or effective? As the papers show, these are important questions to ask. By asking them, we find ourselves in positions to better understand what goes into 'indexing and making visible forms of material and social reality' (Love, 2013: 412) as well as what is involved, more troublingly, in erasing, making invisible and dematerialising those realities or even, indeed, in uncovering those erasures and the means by which they were effected. As this special issue underlines, thinking with Love by thinking with descriptions is a rewarding exercise precisely because it opens these matters up to view. We hope others take up Love's invitation to re-engage with description for that very reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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42. Doing the Survey Two-Step : The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions
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Karalashvili, Nona, Kraay, Aart, and Murrell, Peter
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RESEARCHER ,MEASURES ,INDICATORS ,INFORMATION ,SAMPLES ,CASE ,DESCRIPTION ,MODELING ,COMPUTERS ,BRIBE ,RULE OF LAW ,SCIENCE ,GOVERNMENTS ,CRIME ,ACT OF CORRUPTION ,ORDERING ,BANK ,CRIME VICTIMIZATION ,TESTS ,RELIABILITY ,SIMULATION ,LIBRARY ,DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ,METHODS ,SMOKING ,BRIBES ,CORRUPT ACT ,TRANSPARENCY ,ORGANIZATIONS ,STRATEGIES ,COMPUTER ,CASES ,CORRUPT ,CLASSIFICATION ,CONCEPT ,SMOKING PREVALENCE ,EVALUATION ,VALIDITY ,ANTICORRUPTION MEASURES ,CHEATING ,BRIBERY ,SAMPLING ,FICTIONS ,SERVICES ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,PROSECUTION ,CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS ,PERCEPTION OF CORRUPTION ,MALFEASANCE ,METHODOLOGY ,SURVEYS ,PROBABILITIES ,INVESTIGATION ,DATA ,ENTRIES ,RESEARCH ,SERVICE ,CORRUPTION SURVEYS ,STANDARD ,CRIMINALS ,SURVEY DATA ,INTERVIEWS ,GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ,ACCOUNTING ,ESTIMATES ,ARRANGEMENT ,ORDERINGS ,GOVERNANCE ,POLICY ,TIME ,WEB ,PROBABILITY ,TRIALS ,JUSTICE ,EFFECTS ,RESEARCHERS ,CRIMINAL ,GOVERNMENT ,CONFIDENCE ,CONCEPTS ,ADMINISTRATION ,ORGANIZATION ,ESTIMATING ,AGREEMENTS ,TECHNIQUES ,KNOWLEDGE ,ANTI-CORRUPTION ,NOTATION ,ANTICORRUPTION ,POLITICIANS ,CORRUPTION ,PUBLISHING ,OFFENSE ,SIMULATIONS ,FINANCIAL SUPPORT ,SIZE ,MARIJUANA ,OBSERVATION ,RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS ,GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ,DATA COLLECTION ,LAW ,ETHICS - Abstract
This paper develops a structural approach for modeling how respondents answer survey questions and uses it to estimate the proportion of respondents who are reticent in answering corruption questions, as well as the extent to which reticent behavior biases down conventional estimates of corruption. The context is a common two-step survey question, first inquiring whether a government official visited a business, and then asking about bribery if a visit was acknowledged. Reticence is a concern for both steps, since denying a visit sidesteps the bribe question. This paper considers two alternative models of how reticence affects responses to two-step questions, with differing assumptions on how reticence affects the first question about visits. Maximum-likelihood estimates are obtained for seven countries using data on interactions with tax officials. Different models work best in different countries, but cross-country comparisons are still valid because both models use the same structural parameters. On average, 40 percent of corruption questions are answered reticently, with much variation across countries. A statistic reflecting how much standard measures underestimate the proportion of all respondents who had a bribe interaction is developed. The downward bias in standard measures is highly statistically significant in all countries, varying from 12 percent in Nigeria to 90 percent in Turkey. The source of bias varies widely across countries, between denying a visit and denying a bribe after admitting a visit.
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- 2015
43. Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions : Evidence from Timor-Leste
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Himelein, Kristen
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family ,interviews ,corruption ,design ,head of the family ,regression analysis ,survey data ,information ,project ,sanction ,gender ,quantitative data ,participation ,survey methodology ,samples ,service ,law ,districts ,science ,time ,youth ,evaluation ,training ,estimates ,measures ,households ,health ,projects ,methodology ,living standards ,communities ,income ,female ,pornography ,woman ,court ,standards ,tests ,community ,feminist ,women ,weighting ,politics ,gender characteristics ,services ,sampling ,data collection ,incentives ,size ,methods ,residence ,research working papers ,surveys ,statistical analysis ,social science ,sex ,data quality ,effects ,muslim women ,theory ,improvement ,marriage ,organizations ,research ,access to justice ,genders ,market ,modeling ,economics ,women’s rights ,justice ,indicators ,household ,market research ,age ,rights ,description ,techniques ,development economics - Abstract
There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the developing world. Unexpected interactions between the interviewer and respondent can lead to interviewer effects in the data, particularly in the case of subjective or sensitive questions. This paper makes use of a unique data set available from Timor-Leste containing subjective and objective questions to study these effects. In addition to their age and gender, data were collected from the interviewers regarding their opinions on the subjective questions prior to fieldwork. Fixed effects and mixed effects logit models are used to examine the main effects and interactions between interviewer and respondent characteristics. More objective measures serve as a pseudo control group. The paper finds interviewer effects in the both subjective and objective data, but the magnitude is considerably stronger for subjective questions. The paper also finds that female respondents are more susceptible to influence based on the interviewer's beliefs. Despite methodological shortcomings, the study highlights the need to consider more fully the impact of traditional cultural norms when conducting quantitative surveys in the developing world on topics that are outside the standard objective questions.
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- 2015
44. Plant biometrics of malay, rose and water apple
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Renata Aparecida de Andrade, Guilherme Nacata, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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food.ingredient ,Syzygium ,Plant Science ,Syzygium jambos ,lcsh:Plant culture ,Biology ,engineering.material ,Petiole (botany) ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,food ,morphological characterization ,lcsh:SB1-1110 ,Rose-apple ,Malay-apple ,Malay ,variability ,Pulp (paper) ,Description ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,biology.organism_classification ,040401 food science ,language.human_language ,Horticulture ,language ,Tukey's range test ,engineering ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Food Science - Abstract
Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-04T12:32:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-01. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2021-07-15T14:34:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 S0100-29452018000600601.pdf: 320657 bytes, checksum: 08a7f23d49cb6f9beaf65455086eb55a (MD5) Due to the lack of studies comparing Syzygium malaccensis(L) Meer & Perry, Syzygium aqueum Burm.f. and Syzygium jambos (L) Alston Syzygium in relation to the botanical genus Sygygium regarding the physical characteristics, the present research was conducted, aiming at biometrically characterizing each of the three species, as well as comparing them. The fruits were collected from the Sao Paulo State University (Unesp), School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, Jaboticabal. Syzygium plants were used for the evaluation of: fruit and seed masses (g); width and length of leaves (cm) and of seeds (cm); percentage of fruit pulp; length of leaf petiole (cm); and leaf area (cm(2)). Fifty fruits, leaves and seeds of each species were used, with 5 replicates of 10 samples each and the data were submitted to descriptive statistical analysis and organized into frequency tables. For comparative purposes among the species, a blocks randomized design was adopted, being analyzed by the Tukcy Test at 5% of probability. The malay and water apple present fruits with high yield of pulp. The fruit of the malay apple arc light, with narrow diameter, medium length, broad seeds, narrow and small leaves, with small leaf area. The rose apple fruit present medium mass, width and length, with broad seeds, narrow leaves, medium length and small leaf area. The water apple fruit are light, broad, long, without seeds, with broad leaves, long and having medium leaf area. Comparing the three species of Syzygium studied, it can be concluded that the fruit of malay apple are the largest, but the highest percentage of pulp is found in the fruit of the water apple, due to the absence of seeds. Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Super Agr Luis de Queiroz, Agron Fitotecnia, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Fac Ciencias Agr & Vet, Dept Prod Vegetal, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Fac Ciencias Agr & Vet, Dept Prod Vegetal, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil
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- 2018
45. Sustained circulation: A descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese community currencies.
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September, Jeremy and Kobayashi, Shigeto
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COMMUNITY currency ,JAPANESE yen ,REGIONAL development ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,SOCIAL innovation - Abstract
In spite of varied and sometimes underwhelming results, community currencies (CCs) continue to demonstrate potential for inducing beneficial regional development by means of technological innovation and creditable social outcomes. However, outside of the Western context, much still needs to be understood regarding their operation and management. Long-term durability in particular has been an issue that has been observed with CCs around the world. This paper aims to shed more light on this aspect of CC research from the Japanese perspective by formulating a descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese CCs. In order to accomplish this, 12 Japanese CC organizations that have each operated for at least a decade are investigated using a Grounded Theory approach (GT). The GT methodology was applied to a primary data set of transcribed interviews with CC leaders and organizers. This was supplemented by currency circulation reports, surveys among CC users, and observation of CC activities for the purposes of data triangulation. Leadership Continuity emerged as the core theme uniting these diverse organizations. An exploration of this theme reveals 3 broad operating forms of long-lived Japanese CCs, namely, LETS Passbook Communities, Subsidized Coupon Type CCs, and Non-Subsidized Coupon Type CCs. Additionally, 3 reliable funding strategies and 2 reinforcement factors were observed among the more robust organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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46. A new species of the genus Nipponobuprestis Tôyama, 1986 from Jiangsu, China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae).
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Zhongliang Peng and Haitian Song
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This paper deals with the genus Nipponobuprestis Tôyama, 1986, and one new species from Jiangsu, China is described and illustrated: Nipponobuprestis (Nipponobuprestisia) jurongensis sp. nov. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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47. Evaluation of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's Wi-Fi Kiosk Program
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Gelvanovska, Natalija, Viatchaninova, Ievgeniia, and Saliu, Artan
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RESEARCHER ,RURAL CONNECTIVITY ,INFORMATION REQUESTS ,END USERS ,BANDWIDTH ,GENERAL PUBLIC ,DESCRIPTION ,INTERNET TRAFFIC ,TECHNICAL ISSUES ,TELECOMMUNICATION ,OPINION SURVEY ,ROUTER ,TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ,WEBSITES ,ANTENNA ,INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ,PENETRATION RATE ,NEXT GENERATION ,GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ,SITE ,COMPETITIVENESS ,END-USERS ,LICENSES ,PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ,PROJECT MANAGEMENT ,BROADBAND ACCESS ,ENABLING ENVIRONMENT ,ADMINISTRATIONS ,TELEPHONES ,PROCUREMENT ,PC ,BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ,IMPACT ASSESSMENT ,E-MAIL ,USER GROUP ,HARDWARE ,WAN ,PERSONAL COMPUTERS ,DOMAINS ,SERVICE DELIVERY ,BASIC ,PDF ,CLASSIFICATION ,DIGITAL DIVIDE ,MOBILE SERVICE ,NUMBER OF USERS ,MANAGEMENT INFORMATION ,MOBILE PHONES ,TECHNOLOGY ACCESS ,ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS ,INTERNET ACCESS ,DIGITAL ,INSTITUTION ,IMPACT ASSESSMENTS ,INFORMATION SYSTEM ,LITERACY ,SUPERVISION ,ACCESS POINTS ,ONLINE AUCTION ,COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ,ENCRYPTION ,E-GOVERNMENT ,PHONE NUMBER ,INTERNET CONNECTIVITY ,BUSINESS CLIMATE ,ACCESS POINT ,BACKBONE ,MARKETING ,WEB SERVICES ,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ,TIME FRAME ,TELEPHONE ,ISPS ,BROADBAND NETWORKS ,INNOVATION ,DEVELOPMENT OF BROADBAND ,ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ,UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION ,ACCESSIBILITY ,DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT ,ELECTRICITY ,INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION ,NATIONAL STRATEGY ,ACTION PLAN ,HARMONIZATION ,CONNECTIVITY ,FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS ,INFORMATICS ,LINUX ,TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS ,BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY ,ACCESS TO INTERNET ,DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES ,NETWORKING ,BUSINESS ACTIVITIES ,RESULT ,SATELLITE ,PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ,BROADBAND ,CONNECTION SPEED ,BENCHMARK ,SMART PHONES ,ATLAS ,BROADBAND PENETRATION ,USES ,USER ,IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS ,NETWORKS ,WEB ,DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ,INTERFACE ,GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS ,ADSL ,TELEPHONY ,ENTRY ,EQUIPMENT ,INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS ,LICENSE ,TELECOMMUNICATIONS ,WIRELESS SERVICE ,3G ,SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ,GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ,PRIVATE SECTOR ,RESEARCHERS ,VIDEO ,AUTHENTICATION ,MAINTENANCE COSTS ,WHITE PAPER ,WIRELESS ACCESS ,PORNOGRAPHY ,MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ,TRANSMISSION ,MOBILE PHONE ,KIOSKS ,ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ,ANTENNAS ,POLICY FRAMEWORK ,FINANCIAL RESOURCES ,MARKET SHARE ,TARGETS ,UNIVERSAL SERVICE ,EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS ,TELEGEOGRAPHY ,GOVERNMENT SERVICES ,INFORMATION SOCIETY ,ISP ,ARTICLE ,WIRELESS ,INSTALLATION ,TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES ,ACCESSION ,INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ,COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS ,INTERNET SERVICES ,RESULTS ,TELECOM ,E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES ,INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ,INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE ,CAPACITY BUILDING ,ENTERTAINMENT ,ICT ,USER EXPECTATIONS ,COMMUNITIES ,FUNCTIONALITY - Abstract
This white paper has been prepared by World Bank s Transport and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Global Practice at the request of the MIOA . Delivery of the White Paper is part of a wider package of technical assistance by the World Bank to the Government of FYR Macedonia. The paper starts off by giving an overview of the state of telecom development in rural FYR Macedonia from the standpoint of affordability and availability of the commercial broadband Internet access services for the less advantaged groups of the population. The next section describes the Wi-Fi Kiosk Project outlining its scope, aim, and implementation process while bringing forward publics experiences with respect to the Wi-Fi kiosk use. This section also examines technical parameters related to the Internet usage and demonstrates the problematic of the kiosk maintenance in the remote and rural areas. Section five references specific policy and regulatory measures designed by different government stakeholders with a goal to analyse the approach which has been chosen to ensure availability of the fixed and (or) mobile broadband Internet in the rural areas of the country. The white paper concludes with a set of observations and recommendations aiming to address the sustainability of the results achieved by the Wi-Fi Kiosk Project and to offer next steps to increase rural connectivity in FYR Macedonia.
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- 2014
48. Paradoxical Aspects of the Russellian Conception of Existence.
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Usó-Doménech, J. L., Nescolarde-Selva, J. A., and Gash, H.
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HYPOTHESIS ,AUTHORS - Abstract
In this paper, the authors try to clarify the relations between Meinong's and Russell's thoughts on the ontological ideas of existence. The Meinongian theory on non-existent objects does not in itself violate the principle of non-contradiction, since the problem that this hypothesis offers to the theory of definite descriptions is not so much a logical problem as an ontological problem. To demonstrate this we will establish what we believe are the two main theses basic to the theory of descriptions: the epistemological thesis and logical thesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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49. Scan to BIM Mapping Process Description for Building Representation in 3D GIS.
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Kang, Taewook
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GEOGRAPHIC information systems ,BUILDING information modeling ,AIRBORNE lasers ,ARCHITECTURAL design ,URBAN planning ,INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems ,FACADES ,BUILDING-integrated photovoltaic systems - Abstract
This paper introduces a novel approach for mapping process description with Scan data to Building Information Modeling (BIM) in a 3D Geographic Information System (GIS). The methodology focuses on automatically generating building mass and facade information on the GIS platform using Point Cloud Data (PCD) of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). Advanced scanning techniques capture detailed geometry from the physical site and generate high-resolution point clouds, which are processed to create 3D models for GIS integration. The critical contribution of this research lies in a scalable Scan to BIM mapping process, which can be used for generating building footprints and masses, including attributes, on 3D GIS. The resulting integrated BIM–GIS dataset provides an accurate building mass, facade information, facility asset management, and architectural design and facilitates improved decision-making in urban planning based on enhanced visualization, analysis, and simulation. This study suggests a flexible Scan to BIM mapping process description based on use cases, including algorisms. Through prototype development, a case study demonstrates the effectiveness of the process approach, the automatic generation of BIM on a 3D GIS platform, and reducing the manual efforts. The proposed method automatically creates DEM, SHP, GeoJSON, IFC, and coordinate system information from scan data and can effectively map building objects in 3D GIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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50. A plea for descriptive social ontology.
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Koslicki, Kathrin and Massin, Olivier
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ONTOLOGY ,PHILOSOPHY of mind ,SOCIAL facts ,ANALYTIC philosophy ,NATURALISM - Abstract
Social phenomena—quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind—are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if they are approached with certain explanatory commitments, such as naturalism or social individualism, already in place. In this paper, we argue that such explanatory constraints should be at least initially bracketed if we are to arrive at an adequate non-biased description of social phenomena. Legitimate explanatory projects, or so we maintain, such as those of making the social world fit within the natural world with the help of, e.g., collective intentionality, social individualism, and the like, should neither exclude nor influence the prior description of social phenomena. Just as we need a description of the mental that is not biased, for example, by (anti)physicalist constraints, we need a description of the social that is not biased, for example, by (anti)individualist or (anti)naturalist commitments. Descriptive social ontology, as we shall conceive of it, is not incompatible with the adoption of explanatory frameworks in social ontology; rather, the descriptive task, according to our conception, ought to be recognized as prior to the explanatory project in the order of inquiry. If social phenomena are, for example, to be reduced to nonsocial (e.g., psychological or physical) phenomena, we need first to understand clearly what the social candidates for the reduction in question are. While such descriptive or naïve approaches have been influential in general metaphysics (see Fine 2017), they have so far not been prominent in analytic social ontology (though things are different outside of analytic philosophy, see esp. Reinach (1913). In what follows, we shall outline the contours of a descriptive approach by arguing, first, that description and explanation need to be distinguished as two distinct ways of engaging with social phenomena. Secondly, we defend the claim that the descriptive project ought to be regarded as prior to the explanatory project in the order of inquiry. We begin, in Section 2, by considering two different ways of engaging with mental phenomena: a descriptive approach taken by descriptive psychology and an explanatory approach utilized in analytic philosophy of mind. We take these two ways of approaching the study of the mind to be analogous to the distinction we want to draw in social ontology between a descriptive and an explanatory approach to the study of social phenomena. We consider next, in Section 3, how our approach compares to neighboring perspectives that are familiar to us from general metaphysics and philosophy more broadly, such as Aristotle's emphasis on "saving the appearances", Strawson's distinction between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, as well as Fine's contrast between naïve and foundational metaphysics. In Section 4, we apply the proposed descriptive/explanatory distinction to the domain of social ontology and argue that descriptive social ontology ought to take precedence in the order of inquiry over explanatory social ontology. Finally, in Section 5, we consider and respond to several objections to which our account might seem to be susceptible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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