Board diversity and firm performance: an empirical investigation in the Brazilian market by João Batista Fraga, Vinícius Augusto Brunassi Silva

“…The study covers all companies without majority control, a type of corporate structure that first appeared in Brazil in 2005. The results indicate that greater diversity in the educational disciplines and the presence or absence of independent board members negatively affect performance, while diversity in years of schooling has a positive effect. …”
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Dynamics of competitive systems with a single common limiting factor by Ryusuke Kon

“…The concept of limiting factors (or regulating factors) succeeded in formulating the well-known principle of competitive exclusion.This paper shows that the concept of limiting factors is helpful not only to formulate the competitive exclusion principle, but also to obtain other ecological insights.To this end, by focusing on a specific community structure, we study the dynamics of Kolmogorov equations and show that it is possible to derive an ecologically insightful result only from the information about interactions between species and limiting factors.Furthermore, we find that the derived result is a generalization of the preceding work by Shigesada, Kawasaki, and Teramoto (1984), who examined a certain Lotka-Volterra equation in a different context.…”
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Astrocytes and Developmental Plasticity in Fragile X by Connie Cheng, Mary Sourial, Laurie C. Doering

“…In particular, astrocytes are dynamically involved in governing synapse structure, function, and plasticity. In the postnatal brain, their appearance at synapses coincides with periods of developmental plasticity when neural circuits are refined and established. …”
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Did GRW Investment Grants Contribute to the Catching-up of East Germany? by Eva Dettmann, Matthias Brachert, Lutz Schneider, Mirko Titze

“…Abstract The joint task force ‘Improving Regional Economic Structures’ (GRW) is the most important regional policy scheme in Germany and was extensively used to support the economic transformation process in the new states after reunification. …”
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Neuroimaging: biochemical principles and its application in the cerebrovascular ischemic disease. by Zenaida Milagros Hernández Díaz, Adnolys Reyes-Berazaín, Miguel Ángel Buergo –Zuaznabar, Marianela Arteche-Prior

“…The need for early diagnosis of acute events to reestablish the cerebral blood flow to reduce neurological sequels, has led to the development of advanced imaging techniques, which allows following the histochemical and morphological changes that take place within the brain in vivo, in a non-invasive way, as well as its development, extent of the cerebral damage and damaged cerebral structures. The present bibliographic review has the objective of supporting the importance of neuroimaging studies in the diagnosis of acute cerebral ischemia.…”
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Construction of Private Cloud Computing Platform Based on Open Source Software by Yi Jiang, Weijun Wang, Li Cao, Kai Liu, Guiqiang Chen

“…This paper introduced the application range of the private cloud, discussed the characteristics of the self-developed and business and open source solutions, and analyzed the main advantage of the open source solution, then compared the mainstream projects of the open source cloud computing, such as Eucalyptus, OpenStack, OpenNebula and Nimbus, studied the structure of OpenStack mainly. Based on this, this paper presented the construction example of private cloud computing platform based on OpenStack, which major processes included configuration of base environment, components installation of Nova, Glance, Swift, Keystone and Horizon, deployment of virtual machines, and finally discussed the platform application examples in the cloud computing software testing.…”
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Research of the Workspace of Bionic Auxiliary Device for Ankle Rehabilitation based on Rigid-Flexible Combination Drive by Wang Liangwen, Li Hongpeng, Wang Xinjie, Du Weliao, Wang Caidong, Son Kangkang

“…The analysis results can be used to optimize the device structure and determine its characteristic parameter. …”
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Un réseau de fossés antique original au nord-ouest du plateau briard : nouvelles observations réalisées à Bussy-Saint-Georges (Marne-la-Vallée, Seine-et-Marne) by Johann Blanchard

“…Dated to the early Roman Empire, these excavations structure a dense occupation and are probably the means of a rational and optimal exploitation of the countryside.…”
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Synthesis and QSAR Study of Some HDL Cholesterol Increasing Quinazolinone Derivatives by M. B. Deshmukh, Savita Dhongade (Desai)

“…The relationship between structure and different biological activities was studied and the different derivatives were recommended for the screening of some specific activities like anti-tuberculosic, anti-mycobacterial and HDL cholesterol increasing activities.…”
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Memória política e constituição da cultura política brasileira by Marcello Baquero

“…The main objective of this paper is to examine the present stage of Brazilian democracy from a theoretical-historical perspective, in which the influence of historical-structural factors in the country¿s political culture is highlighted. …”
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USE OF THE MICROWAVE ENERGY FOR ALUMINUM WASTE FOAMING by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, MARIUS FLORIN DRAGOESCU, SORIN MIRCEA AXINTE, ANA CASANDRA SEBE

“…The products had a fine and homogeneous porous structure (pore size between 0.4-0.9 mm). The density (1.17-1.19 g/cm3), the compressive strength (6.83-7.01 MPa) and the thermal conductivity (5.71-5.84 W/m·K) had values almost similar to the foams made by conventional methods. …”
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Dark Southern Drywood Termite (suggested common name) Kalotermes approximatus Snyder (Insecta: Blattodea: Kalotermitidae) by Joseph F. Velenovsky, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“… Dark southern drywood termites are classified as “an uncommon structural pest,” though some infestations have been recorded. …”
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A invenção do patrimônio: memória e identidade no tombamento de São Luiz do Paraitinga como patrimônio nacional by Daniel Messias dos Santos, André Luiz da Silva

“…Methodologically the authors used semi-structured interviews, the ethnographic account and for analyzing the method of data triangulation.…”
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Geometries and Electronic States of Divacancy Defect in Finite-Size Hexagonal Graphene Flakes by Lili Liu, Shimou Chen

“…The geometries and electronic properties of divacancies with two kinds of structures were investigated by the first-principles (U) B3LYP/STO-3G and self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) method. …”
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Free Vibration of a Fluid-Filled Circular Cylindrical Shell with Lumped Masses Attached, Using the Receptance Method by Marco Amabili

“…The receptance of the fluid-filled shell is obtained using the added virtual mass approach to model the fluid–structure interaction. The starting data for the computations is the modal properties of the cylinder that can be obtained using any theory of shells. …”
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Cyclodextrins’ Internal Cavity Hydration: Insights from Theory and Experiment by Silvia Angelova, Stiliyana Pereva, Todor Dudev, Tony Spassov

“…To what extent does water hydration affect the crystalline structure of the cavitand?…”
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L’interdisciplinarité en pratique dans les sciences de l’environnement : des enjeux épistémologiques aux défis de la publication scientifique by Gabrielle Bouleau, Rémy Petitimbert, Thibault Boughedada

“…This interview with Gabrielle Bouleau is part of a series of exchanges conducted as part of the anniversary issue of the journal Développement durable & territoires. by drawing up her scientific trajectory and the epistemological challenges of her major contributions to DD&T, Gabrielle Bouleau underlines the pivotal role that the journal has played in structuring a research path which is anchored in interdisciplinarity and in constant iteration with the territories. …”
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Hardware Trojans detection based on projection pursuit by Peng ZHANG, Xin-cheng WANG, Qing ZHOU

“…A novel hardware Trojans detection technique using the side channel signals of chips was proposed.Based on the projection pursuit with absolute information divergence index,this technique could find out the data structure enables reflect high dimension special rules without obvious i tion loss,so as to attain the goal of feature abstraction and identification on side channel signals of IC chips.The detection experiment against an exemplary AES-128 hardware Trojan circuit showed that the technique could distinguish the difference of side channel signal's feature between the genuine chip and tested chip,and consequently could detect the existence of the hardware Trojan.…”
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Nest Relocation and Colony Founding in the Australian Desert Ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Patrick Schultheiss, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach

“…Excavation of these founding colonies reveals first insights into their structure.…”
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Evaluation of Subsurface Damage in Concrete Deck Joints Using Impact Echo Method by Larry Rickard, Wonchang Choi

“…Impact echo and surface wave technology, mainly a portable seismic property analyzer (PSPA), were employed to evaluate the structural deficiency of concrete joints. Laboratory tests of core samples were conducted to verify the nondestructive test results. …”
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