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Introduction In recent years, there has been a growth in the number of papers that synthesize empirical research studies on gender and sex inequalities in academic statements. Furthermore, these studies can comply with European requirements of equalities since the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1999 enacted that equality between men and women should be included in all policies (Fernández Álvarez, 2014)...

This paper presents a complex system (hardware and software) that is used to monitor and control some ambient parameters (temperature, humidity, light intensity, etc.). Monitoring parameters are temperature, humidity and light intensity. The system provides remote and automated control of local devices that can be used to assure the security or to increase the comfort indicator of the air. Author

Scientific collaborations involving multiple institutions are increasingly commonplace. It is not unusual for publications to have dozens or hundreds of authors, in some cases even a few thousands. Gathering the information for such papers may be very time consuming, since the author list must include authors who made different kinds of contributions and whose affiliations are hard to track. Si...

The majority of speakers raise their fundamental frequency when speaking while intoxicated. In this study we describe three perception experiments based on manipulated sober and intoxicated speech from the German Alcohol Language Corpus to answer the question whether human listeners use fundamental frequency as a cue to recognize an intoxicated person. Our results show that although fundamental...

It is important to be able to count exactly the number of elements in any finite set. We will see many applications of counting as we proceed (number of Enigma plugboard arrangements, computer passwords of a certain form, telephone area codes, automobile license plates, binary strings of a certain length needed to encode uniquely each possible English message of a certain length, etc.). In this...

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of a number of bibliometric indicators of journal performance. We focus on three indicators in particular, namely the Eigenfactor indicator, the audience factor, and the influence weight indicator. Our main finding is that the last two indicators can be regarded as a kind of special cases of the first indicator. We also find that the three indicat...

We study the problem of decoding secret messages encrypted by the German Army with the M3 Enigma machine after September 15, 1938. We focused our attention on the algorithmization and programming of this problem. A completion and optimization of Zygalski’s sheets method were presented previously. We describe below the missing algorithm solving the problem of the plugboard settings with an algeb...