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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reproducibility Challenges of External Computational Experiments in Scientific Workflow Management Systems
Reproducibility is essential in scientific experiments to ensure that results can be consistently obtained using new data and methods across studies to answer the same scientific question. It evaluates the val...
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Anatomical study of the mastoid foramina and mastoid emissary veins: classification and application to localizing the sigmoid sinus
The mastoid foramen (MF) is located on the mastoid process of the temporal bone, adjacent to the occipitomastoid suture or the parietomastoid suture, and contains the mastoid emissary vein (MEV). In retrosigmo...
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Open AccessPesticide reduction amidst food and feed security concerns in Europe
Recent studies have estimated the potential yield impacts of pesticide reductions in the European Union. While these estimates guide policy design, they are often based on worst-case assumptions and rarely acc...
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Open AccessHypoxia-induced transcriptional differences in African and Asian versus European diabetic cybrids
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common diabetic microvascular complication and cause of blindness in adults under the age of 65. Our results suggest that, when comparing transcriptomes of cultures grown ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extensibility Challenges of Scientific Workflow Management Systems
Researchers compose scientific workflows for complex scientific experiments and simulations by connecting tools and data in a pipeline. The usability of a scientific workflow management system (SWfMS) largely ...
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Open AccessRapid Evaluation and Response to Impacts on Critical End-Use Loads Following Natural Hazard-Driven Power Outages: A Modular and Responsive Geospatial Technology
The disparate nature of data for electric power utilities complicates the emergency recovery and response process. The reduced efficiency of response to natural hazards and disasters can extend the time that e...
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The reproducibility of programming-related issues in Stack Overflow questions
Software developers often look for solutions to their code-level problems using the Stack Overflow Q&A website. To receive help, developers frequently submit questions that contain sample code segments along w...
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Occurrence of arsenic in ultramafic rocks’ alterites from nickel mines in New Caledonia: implications for the contamination of surface waters
Arsenate As(V) and arsenite As(III) are toxic forms of arsenic in waters. The risk of As toxicity is high in small tropical islands because tap water is often provided from surface water, and As contamination ...
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Open AccessParallel selection on ecologically relevant gene functions in the transcriptomes of highly diversifying salmonids
Salmonid fishes are characterised by a very high level of variation in trophic, ecological, physiological, and life history adaptations. Some salmonid taxa show exceptional potential for fast, within-lake dive...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integration of Empirical Study Participants into the Mobile Data Analysis Through Information Visualization
Visualizations are mainly used for providing an easy access to complex information and data. Collaborative visualization as the shared use of computer supported, visual representations of data by more than one...
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Open AccessDiagnostics for a troubled backbone: testing topological hypotheses of trapelioid lichenized fungi in a large-scale phylogeny of Ostropomycetidae (Lecanoromycetes)
Trapelioid fungi constitute a widespread group of mostly crust-forming lichen mycobionts that are key to understanding the early evolutionary splits in the Ostropomycetidae, the second-most species-rich subcla...
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XML-Based Tools for Creating, Map**, and Transforming Usability Engineering Requirements
This paper introduces a set of XML-based and XMI-based tools for creating usability engineering requirements and automatically transforming them into software engineering specifications. Each of these tools is...
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Comprehensive well-to-wheel analysis for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
The US electric power infrastructure is a strategic national asset that is underutilised most of the time. With changes in the operational paradigm, it could generate and deliver the energy to fuel the majorit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Future Challenges of Model-Based Design
When we consider models in model-based design (MBD) approaches in the HCI field, we can say that the first generation of tool for user interface construction was based on database models. The second generation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interaction Templates for Constructing User Interfaces from Task Models
Task modelling is well suited to identifying user goals and identifying the activities a user performs to achieve these goals. Some task model tools provide simulation capabilities and/or aid in the constructi...
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Transforming Usability Engineering Requirements into Software Engineering Specifications: From PUF to UML
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely used by Software Engineers as the basis of analysis and design in software development. While UML is very strong at specifying the structure and functionality of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting Group Awareness in Distributed Software Development
Collaborative software development presents a variety of coordination and communication problems, particularly when teams are geographically distributed. One reason for these problems is the difficulty of stay...
