Panel: Service-Learning in Information Systems Education

This panel discussion will explore service-learning in Information Systems (IS) education. Service-learning or community-based learning is a High Impact Practice promoted through the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative. Service-learning or community-based learning, as defined by LEAP, is a teaching approach that combines community service with formal classroom instruction, enabling students to apply course topics in a real-world environment and to reflect on their experiences within the classroom. Topics that will be addressed include reasons for introducing service learning experiences into the IS curriculum, challenges with implementing service-learning projects in IS courses, and critical success factors. Faculty belonging to institutions that have or are in the process of adopting the LEAP initiative as well as individuals that have an interest in incorporating real-world projects in the classroom are encouraged to attend

Commissioning of the CMS High Level Trigger

The CMS experiment will collect data from the proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a centre-of-mass energy up to 14 TeV. The CMS trigger system is designed to cope with unprecedented luminosities and LHC bunch-crossing rates up to 40 MHz. The unique CMS trigger architecture only employs two trigger levels. The Level-1 trigger is implemented using custom electronics, while the High Level Trigger (HLT) is based on software algorithms running on a large cluster of commercial processors, the Event Filter Farm. We present the major functionalities of the CMS High Level Trigger system as of the starting of LHC beams operations in September 2008. The validation of the HLT system in the online environment with Monte Carlo simulated data and its commissioning during cosmic rays data taking campaigns are discussed in detail. We conclude with the description of the HLT operations with the first circulating LHC beams before the incident occurred the 19th September 2008

Infrastructures and Installation of the Compact Muon Solenoid Data Acquisition at CERN

At the time of this paper, all hardware elements of the CMS Data Acquisition System have been installed and commissioned both in the underground and surface areas. This paper describes in detail the infrastructures and the different steps that were necessary from the very beginning when the underground control rooms and surface building were building sites to a working system collecting data fragment from ~650 sources and sending them to surface for assembly and analysis

The CMS High Level Trigger System

The CMS Data Acquisition (DAQ) System relies on a purely software driven High Level Trigger (HLT) to reduce the full Level-1 accept rate of 100 kHz to approximately 100 Hz for archiving and later offline analysis. The HLT operates on the full information of events assembled by an event builder collecting detector data from the CMS front-end systems. The HLT software consists of a sequence of reconstruction and filtering modules executed on a farm of O(1000) CPUs built from commodity hardware. This paper presents the architecture of the CMS HLT, which integrates the CMS reconstruction framework in the online environment. The mechanisms to configure, control, and monitor the Filter Farm and the procedures to validate the filtering code within the DAQ environment are described

Dynamic configuration of the CMS Data Acquisition cluster

The CMS Data Acquisition cluster, which runs around 10000 applications, is configured dynamically at run time. XML configuration documents determine what applications are executed on each node and over what networks these applications communicate. Through this mechanism the DAQ System may be adapted to the required performance, partitioned in order to perform (test-) runs in parallel, or re-structured in case of hardware faults. This paper presents the CMS DAQ Configurator tool, which is used to generate comprehensive configurations of the CMS DAQ system based on a high-level description given by the user. Using a database of configuration templates and a database containing a detailed model of hardware modules, data and control links, nodes and the network topology, the tool automatically determines which applications are needed, on which nodes they should run, and over which networks the event traffic will flow. The tool computes application parameters and generates the XML configuration documents as well as the configuration of the run-control system. The performance of the tool and operational experience during CMS commissioning and the first LHC runs are discussed

On the Role of Attention in Binocular Rivalry: Electrophysiological Evidence

During binocular rivalry visual consciousness fluctuates between two dissimilar monocular images. We investigated the role of attention in this phenomenon by comparing event-related potentials (ERPs) when binocular-rivalry stimuli were attended with when they were unattended. Stimuli were dichoptic, orthogonal gratings that yielded binocular rivalry and dioptic, identically oriented gratings that yielded binocular fusion. Events were all possible orthogonal changes in orientation of one or both gratings. We had two attention conditions: In the attend-to-grating condition, participants had to report changes in perceived orientation, focussing their attention on the gratings. In the attend-to-fixation condition participants had to report changes in a central fixation target, taking attention away from the gratings. We found, surprisingly, that attending to rival gratings yielded a smaller ERP component (the N1, from 160–210 ms) than attending to the fixation target. To explain this paradoxical effect of attention, we propose that rivalry occurs in the attend-to-fixation condition (we found an ERP signature of rivalry in the form of a sustained negativity from 210–300 ms) but that the mechanism processing the stimulus changes is more adapted in the attend-to-grating condition than in the attend-to-fixation condition. This is consistent with the theory that adaptation gives rise to changes of visual consciousness during binocular rivalry

CMS physics technical design report : Addendum on high density QCD with heavy ions

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Study on the Theory of Customary International Law

国际习惯法是国际法最重要的渊源之一，但在当代国际法理论体系中，国际习惯法一直处于比较尴尬的地位，理论争议也非常之多。为了能够把握国际习惯法的本质特征，本文从法哲学、国际社会和分析实证的角度对国际习惯法理论和实践进行了多维的考察，以期构筑一个比较全面、客观的国际习惯法理论体系。全文分为前言、正文和结语三部分。正文共有五章：第一章导论主要考察一些与国际习惯法相关的基本概念性问题，包括：第一，国际习惯法概念的形成问题。主要从国内习惯法理论的影响和国际法理论自我演变两个角度做了分析；第二，国际习惯法的定义问题。目的是给出关于国际习惯法的一般描述，并对国际习惯法与国际习惯两个概念进行必要的界分；第三，国...The customary international law is one of the most important sources of international law. But in contemporary theories of international law, the status of customary international law has been awkward with a lot of theoretical disputes. In order to grasp the essential characteristic of customary international law, the author makes a multidimensional study on its theory and judicial practice from a...学位：法学博士院系专业：法学院法律系_国际法学(含国际公法、国际私法、国际经济法)学号：B20030800

On the Coverage of All-Risk Cargo Insurance——Focus on Carrier`s Unauthorized Disposal of Cargo

海洋运输货物一切险（以下简称“海运货物一切险”）在分摊海上货物运输风险方面发挥着重大作用。然而，由于我国海上保险制度的不完善，使得海运货物一切险在应对海上风险，尤其是承运人私自处分货物等外来风险时存在较大不足。本文以承运人私自处分货物风险为中心，剖析我国海运货物一切险承保范围的不足，借鉴英国相关制度的最新发展，结合海运货物一切险承保范围识别标准的法理基础，论证我国海运货物一切险应加强对承运人私自处分货物风险的承保，并提出相应的保险条款完善建议。 本文除了引言和结语外，正文共分四章： 第一章评析我国海运货物一切险承保范围应对承运人私自处分货物风险的现状与不足。由于我国海运货物一切险条款中对“...All-risk cargo insurance plays an important role in sharing the risk of carriage of goods by sea. However, owing to the imperfection of Chinese marine insurance system, there exists great deficiency for all-risk cargo insurance in confronting with marine risks, especially external risks such as carrier's unauthorized disposal of cargos (hereinafter referred to as CUDC). Focusing on the risks of CU...学位：法学硕士院系专业：法学院法律系_民商法学(含劳动法学、社会保障法学)学号：1362008115068