2. Data Comparability Problems in the Study of the Soviet Population

2017 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Keyword(s):  
Data Comparability ◽  
Soviet Population

scholarly journals A data model for enhanced data comparability across multiple organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Obilikwu ◽  
Emeka Ogbuju
Keyword(s):  
Data Model ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Data Comparability ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Geographical Locations ◽  
Meaningful Data

Abstract Organizations may be related in terms of similar operational procedures, management, and supervisory agencies coordinating their operations. Supervisory agencies may be governmental or non-governmental but, in all cases, they perform oversight functions over the activities of the organizations under their control. Multiple organizations that are related in terms of oversight functions by their supervisory agencies, may differ significantly in terms of their geographical locations, aims, and objectives. To harmonize these differences such that comparative analysis will be meaningful, data about the operations of multiple organizations under one control or management can be cultivated, using a uniform format. In this format, data is easily harvested and the ease with which it is used for cross-population analysis, referred to as data comparability is enhanced. The current practice, whereby organizations under one control maintain their data in independent databases, specific to an enterprise application, greatly reduces data comparability and makes cross-population analysis a herculean task. In this paper, the collocation data model is formulated as consisting of big data technologies beyond data mining techniques and used to reduce the heterogeneity inherent in databases maintained independently across multiple organizations. The collocation data model is thus presented as capable of enhancing data comparability across multiple organizations. The model was used to cultivate the assessment scores of students in some schools for some period and used to rank the schools. The model permits data comparability across several geographical scales among which are: national, regional and global scales, where harvested data form the basis for generating analytics for insights, hindsight, and foresight about organizational problems and strategies.

Soviet Belorussian Publications in the 1970s

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
John Sadouski
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Parallel Increase ◽  
Soviet Population

A statistical analysis of publications in the Belorussian language during the last decade reveals an ominous decline in the number of titles and imprints. This has been accompanied, however, by a parallel increase in Russian-language publications in the BSSR. These factors seem to indicate an attempt by policy-makers to homogenize the Soviet population at the expense of Belorussians, and perhaps other nationalities as well.

Manipulating Soviet Population Resources.

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Chinn
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Population

Nationality and age in Soviet population change

1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomyr Hajda
Keyword(s):  
Population Change ◽  
Soviet Population

scholarly journals An empirical method for absolute calibration of coccolith thickness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saúl González-Lemos ◽  
José Guitián ◽  
Miguel-Ángel Fuertes ◽  
José-Abel Flores ◽  
Heather M. Stoll
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Absolute Calibration ◽  
Light Spectra ◽  
Independent Determination ◽  
Data Comparability ◽  
Calibration Materials ◽  
Constant Slope

Abstract. As major calcifiers in the open ocean, coccolithophores play a key role in the marine carbon cycle. Because they may be sensitive to changing CO2 and ocean acidification, there is significant interest in quantifying past and present variations in their cellular calcification by quantifying the thickness of the coccoliths or calcite plates that cover their cells. Polarized light microscopy has emerged as a key tool for quantifying the thickness of these calcite plates, but the reproducibility and accuracy of such determinations has been limited by the absence of suitable calibration materials in the thickness range of coccoliths (0–4 microns). Here, we describe the fabrication of a calcite wedge with a constant slope over 15 this thickness range, and the independent determination of calcite thickness along the wedge profile. We show how the calcite wedge provides more robust calibrations in the 0 to 1.55 μm range than previous approaches using rhabdoliths. We show the particular advantages of the calcite wedge approach for developing equations to relate thickness to the interference colors that arise in calcite in the thickness range between 1.55 and 4 μm. The calcite wedge approach can be applied to develop equations relevant to the particular light spectra and intensity of any polarized light microscope system and could significantly improve within and inter-laboratory data comparability.

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