Short-term verbal memory is improved when words can be chunked into larger units. Miller (1956) suggested that the capacity of short-term determined by number chunks stored in memory, rather than items or amount information. But how does improvement due to chunking come about, and really chunks? One possibility a form data compression. It allows more information available capacity. An alternati...

Estimating the financial viability of renewable energy investments requires availability long-term, finely-resolved electricity prices over investment lifespan. This entails, however, two major challenges: (i) combination extensive time horizons and fine resolutions, (ii) prediction out-of-sample in future market scenarios, or shifts pricing regime, that were not observed past. paper tackles su...

Open-access data associated with research efforts depend upon managing, packaging, and preserving for sharing collaborators the public. The U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, established in 1980, provides an early example of embedded management supporting long-term, place-based contributes to our understanding enactment open access within scientific arenas. Here, we examine coll...

Large amounts of digital data continuously move across the Internet, much of it traveling under a wide variety of encryption and security protections. Such schemes are intended to secure this data against information theft as it traverses the various nodes along the path to its intended destination. While such methods, when properly utilized, may be considered secure in the short-term, many wid...

The data modeling language STEP/EXPRESS enjoys a spreading popularity beyond engineering. Its structural object orientation, for instance, is appropriate for scientiic and statistical database (SSDB) mod-eling as well. As our database prototype illustrates, EXPRESS can also be used for data deenition. Following the STEP approach, data manipulation is done via SDAI (Standard Data Access Interfac...