43 research outputs found
The financial information's vulnerability
Mankind consume more and more information. These are different information for different decisions. There are different users, information consumers, but all of them have a common purpose, that of wellbeing and good. People want, wanted and shall want to live better, to do things better, to communicate better, even if they live in a network of information manipulation vectors. When the information manipulation is to the benefit of a minority, it harms the others.financial information, vulnerability, users
Financial information transparency and publicity
Mankind consume more and more information. These are different information for different decisions.There are different users, information consumers, but all of them have a common purpose, that of wellbeing and good. People want, wanted and shall want to live better, to do things better, to communicate better, even if they live in a network of information manipulation vectors. When the information manipulation is to the benefit of a minority, it harms the others. The 3R principle is no longer respected.financial information, transparency, publicity, confidentiality
The state and the tax evasion
State is one of human construction, in need of resources for services offered, to finance the costs of public services available. Increasing the cost of services provided has the effect of increased taxation. Tax evasion is a condemnable act. It is not possible a combination of legal proceedings to obtain maximum benefits, but is reprehensible act, aware of the harm of others. Tax evasion have 2 facets: a lawful and an unlawful, or tax fraud. In our opinion, law does not allow evasion but rather helps the subject to tax in not reaching the area of tax evasion.tax evasion, tax system, Community Aquis, tax audit
A Systemic Description of Sustainable Progress
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to shed light from a systemic perspective on the question: ‘How can the sustainable progress of the real systems SR(t,c,g) in any space-time-resources domain Dstr(t,c,g) of Universe/Multiverse be defined?’. In the first part of the paper, within a traditional, limited, non-integrative and non-systemic approach, the manner of the concept and determinants of sustainable progress is established. In the second part, a systemic approach is applied to the elaboration of new principled models for defining and achieving the integrative sustainable progress PsS(t,c,g), through c, c+1, ….. behavioural cycles and g, g+1, …. successive - parallel generations of entities SR(t,c,g). The principled model emphasizes the determinants categories of the progress PsS(t,c,g) in a domain Dstr(t,c,g): (1) Sustainable resources and environments RMs(t,c,g); (2) Sustainable competitive power CKs(t,c,g); (3) Sustainable/self-sustainable stability Sas(t,c,g); (4) Sustainable integrative innovation Iis(t,c,g); (5) Competitiveness and sustainable competitiveness program/culture Kcs(t,c,g); (6) Sustainable periodic welfare Bps(t,c,g); (7) Sustainable activation/entrepreneurship and mobility Ams(t,c,g) in the domain Dstr(t,c,g) or/and in other domains Dstr(t,c,g), more favourable for the future progress. The determinants categories of the progress PsS(t,c,g) are detailed in a model of the sustainable progress cycle with more space-time-resources domains {Dstr(t,c,g)}
Intelligent medical robot society
Any treatment on long or short term duration and/or complexity begin to involve more and more complex hardware and software pieces of equipment. Most of them begin to have various degree of mobility. Although the medical staff has enough trouble in handling them some times. In this paper we propose a complex robot society to deserve a medical center. The evolution of human computer interface and of the complex expert systems with medical application drive us to idea that a dedicated medical society of intelligent agents can be created
CoRoLa Starts Blooming – An update on the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Romanian Language
This article reports on the on-going CoRoLa project, aiming at creating a reference corpus of contemporary Romanian (from 1945 onwards), opened for online free exploitation by researchers in linguistics and language processing, teachers of Romanian, students. We invest serious efforts in persuading large publishing houses and other owners of IPR on relevant language data to join us and contribute the project with selections of their text and speech repositories. The CoRoLa project is coordinated by two Computer Science institutes of the Romanian Academy, but enjoys cooperation of and consulting from professional linguists from other institutes of the Romanian Academy. We foresee a written component of the corpus of more than 500 million word forms, and a speech component of about 300 hours of recordings. The entire collection of texts (covering all functional styles of the language) will be pre-processed and annotated at several levels, and also documented with standardized metadata. The pre-processing includes cleaning the data and harmonising the diacritics, sentence splitting and tokenization. Annotation will include morpho-lexical tagging and lemmatization in the first stage, followed by syntactic, semantic and discourse annotation in a later stage
High-resolution flow and phosphorus forecasting using ANN models, catering for extremes in the case of the River Swale (UK)
The forecasting of river flows and pollutant concentrations is essential in supporting mitigation measures for anthropogenic and climate change effects on rivers and their environment. This paper addresses two aspects receiving little attention in the literature: high-resolution (sub-daily) data-driven modeling and the prediction of phosphorus compounds. It presents a series of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to forecast flows and the concentrations of soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) and total phosphorus (TP) under a wide range of conditions, including low flows and storm events (0.74 to 484 m3/s). Results show correct forecast along a stretch of the River Swale (UK) with an anticipation of up to 15 h, at resolutions of up to 3 h. The concentration prediction is improved compared to a previous application of an advection–dispersion model
Spatio-temporal insights into microbiology of the freshwater-to-hypersaline, oxic-hypoxic-euxinic waters of Ursu Lake
Ursu Lake is located in the Middle Miocene salt deposit of Central Romania. It is stratified, and the water column has three distinct water masses: an upper freshwater-to-moderately saline stratum (0–3 m), an intermediate stratum exhibiting a steep halocline (3–3.5 m), and a lower hypersaline stratum (4 m and below) that is euxinic (i.e. anoxic and sulphidic). Recent studies have characterized the lake's microbial taxonomy and given rise to intriguing ecological questions. Here, we explore whether the communities are dynamic or stable in relation to taxonomic composition, geochemistry, biophysics, and ecophysiological functions during the annual cycle. We found: (i) seasonally fluctuating, light-dependent communities in the upper layer (≥0.987–0.990 water-activity), a stable but phylogenetically diverse population of heterotrophs in the hypersaline stratum (water activities down to 0.762) and a persistent plate of green sulphur bacteria that connects these two (0.958–0.956 water activity) at 3–3.5 to 4 m; (ii) communities that might be involved in carbon- and sulphur-cycling between and within the lake's three main water masses; (iii) uncultured lineages including Acetothermia (OP1), Cloacimonetes (WWE1), Marinimicrobia (SAR406), Omnitrophicaeota (OP3), Parcubacteria (OD1) and other Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria, and SR1 in the hypersaline stratum (likely involved in the anaerobic steps of carbon- and sulphur-cycling); and (iv) that species richness and habitat stability are associated with high redox-potentials. Ursu Lake has a unique and complex ecology, at the same time exhibiting dynamic fluctuations and stability, and can be used as a modern analogue for ancient euxinic water bodies and comparator system for other stratified hypersaline systems
Description of two cultivated and two uncultivated new Salinibacter species, one named following the rules of the bacteriological code: Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov.; and three named following the rules of the SeqCode: Salinibacter pepae sp. nov., Salinibacter abyssi sp. nov., and Salinibacter pampae sp. nov.
Current -omics methods allow the collection of a large amount of information that helps in describing the microbial diversity in nature. Here, and as a result of a culturomic approach that rendered the collection of thousands of isolates from 5 different hypersaline sites (in Spain, USA and New Zealand), we obtained 21 strains that represent two new Salinibacter species. For these species we propose the names Salinibacter pepae sp. nov. and Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov. (showing average nucleotide identity (ANI) values < 95.09% and 87.08% with Sal. ruber M31T, respectively). Metabolomics revealed species-specific discriminative profiles. Sal. ruber strains were distinguished by a higher percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids and specific N-functionalized fatty acids; and Sal. altiplanensis was distinguished by an increased number of glycosylated molecules. Based on sequence characteristics and inferred phenotype of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), we describe two new members of the genus Salinibacter. These species dominated in different sites and always coexisted with Sal. ruber and Sal. pepae. Based on the MAGs from three Argentinian lakes in the Pampa region of Argentina and the MAG of the Romanian lake Fără Fund, we describe the species Salinibacter pampae sp. nov. and Salinibacter abyssi sp. nov. respectively (showing ANI values 90.94% and 91.48% with Sal. ruber M31T, respectively). Sal. grassmerensis sp. nov. name was formed according to the rules of the International Code for Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), and Sal. pepae, Sal. pampae sp. nov. and Sal. abyssi sp. nov. are proposed following the rules of the newly published Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode). This work constitutes an example on how classification under ICNP and SeqCode can coexist, and how the official naming a cultivated organism for which the deposit in public repositories is difficult finds an intermediate solution.This study was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities projects PGC2018-096956-B-C41, RTC-2017-6405-1 and PID2021-126114NB-C42, which were also supported by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). RRM acknowledges the financial support of the sabbatical stay at Georgia Tech and HelmholzZentrum München by the grants PRX18/00048 and PRX21/00043 respectively also from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. This research was carried out within the framework of the activities of the Spanish Government through the “Maria de Maeztu Centre of Excellence” accreditation to IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) (CEX2021-001198). KTK’s research was supported, in part, by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award No. 1831582 and No. 2129823). IMG. AC and HLB were financially supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1559, within PNCDI III. HLB acknowledges Ocna Sibiului City Hall (Sibiu County, Romania) for granting the access to Fără Fund Lake and A. Baricz and D.F. Bogdan for technical support during sampling and sample preparation. MBS thanks Dominion Salt for their assistance in sample Lake Grassmere. MELL acknowledges the financial support of the Argentinian National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Grant CONICET-NSFC 2017 N° IF-2018-10102222-APN-GDCT-CONICET) and the National Geographic Society (Grant # NGS 357R-18). BPH was supported by NASA (award 80NSSC18M0027). TV acknowledges the “Margarita Salas” postdoctoral grant, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities, within the framework of Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, and funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU), with the participation of the University of Balearic Islands (UIB)