cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CERTAIN ISSUES RELATING TO THIRD PARTY FUNDING AND THIRD PARTY DISCLOSURE IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
Creators: name: Ergashev, Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article is devoted to highlighting the issues of third-party financing in international commercial and investment arbitrations. The article analyzes the main concepts of third-party financing and defines the main directions of problems in this field. At the same time, the article presents the latest changes and news related to this concept. The article focuses on the requirements of transparency and disclosure, and these aspects remain one of the urgent issues of third-party funding in modern arbitrations. Specific aspects of the further development of third-party financing and its use include the main directions in this article.
Kinematics and helicity evolution of a loop-like eruptive prominence
Creators: name: Koleva, K.
name: Madjarska, M. S.
name: Duchlev, P.
name: Schrijver, C. J.
name: Vial, J. -C.
name: Buchlin, E.
name: Dechev, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim at investigating the morphology, kinematic and helicity evolution of a loop-like prominence during its eruption. We use multi-instrument observations from AIA/SDO, EUVI/STEREO and LASCO/SoHO. The kinematic, morphological, geometrical, and helicity evolution of a loop-like eruptive prominence are studied in the context of the magnetic flux rope model of solar prominences. The prominence eruption evolved as a height expanding twisted loop with both legs anchored in the chromosphere of a plage area. The eruption process consists of a prominence activation, acceleration, and a phase of constant velocity. The prominence body was composed of left-hand (counter-clockwise) twisted threads around the main prominence axis. The twist during the eruption was estimated at 6pi (3 turns). The prominence reached a maximum height of 526 Mm before contracting to its primary location and partially reformed in the same place two days after the eruption. This ejection, however, triggered a CME seen in LASCO C2. The prominence was located in the northern periphery of the CME magnetic field configuration and, therefore, the background magnetic field was asymmetric with respect to the filament position. The physical conditions of the falling plasma blobs were analysed with respect to the prominence kinematics. The same sign of the prominence body twist and writhe, as well as the amount of twisting above the critical value of 2pi after the activation phase indicate that possibly conditions for kink instability were present. No signature of magnetic reconnection was observed anywhere in the prominence body and its surroundings. The filament/prominence descent following the eruption and its partial reformation at the same place two days later suggest a confined type of eruption. The asymmetric background magnetic field possibly played an important role in the failed eruption.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, in press in A&A
Power, Helplessness and Compromising: Influences of Resettlement on Incidence of Intimate Partner Violence
Creators: name: Kharat, Priyadarshini
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: Canadian Studies
subject: WomenÕs Studies
subject: INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
subject: SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANTS
subject: RESETTLEMENT
subject: power
subject: COMPROMISING
subject: HELPLESSNESS
subject: IMMIGRANT MEN
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: ABSTRACT Violence against women is a violation of human rights. Canada spends approximately $1 billion annually providing services to prevent violence against women. This study aimed to understand resettlement and its influences on incidents of intimate partner violence among the South Asian community. Due to the intimate nature of violence, the term “intimate partner violence” was adopted in this study. To gain a holistic perspective, this study included the voices of immigrant South Asian women and men experiencing intimate partner violence in Canada. Informed by Charmaz’ constructivist approach, the inquiry process consisted of interviews with 6 women and 5 men. A search of the literature indicates lack of studies to understand resettlement and its influences on incidents of intimate partner violence among the South Asian community. To address gaps in the literature, this study included the voices of both men and women immigrant South Asians. By including the voices of men in this study, the aim was to address gaps in the literature with regards to including the perspectives of immigrant men, on resettlement and intimate partner violence. The analysis unearthed complex interplay of interdependent pre- and post-migration factors and brought forth a grounded theory of power imbalances, and helplessness that forces immigrants to compromise to live with intimate violence. According to the proposed theory, many immigrant South Asians are confronted by societal norms that are often gender specific, and fear societal incrimination due to separation and divorce. In addition are the systemic, structural and institutional barriers and stereotypes that prevail in the dominant community. The theory illuminates that immigrating to a developed country does little to eradicate patriarchal attitudes, attitudes to societal norms such as arranged marriages and dowry and associating woman’s behaviour to family honour. Exacerbating these circumstances are the realities of lack of appropriate resources, fear of living in poverty and isolation, and fear of involving external service providers. The dissertation addresses implications of the study with respect to theoretical development and social work practice. By broadening current perspectives, this study makes valuable contribution to understanding intimate partner violence among immigrants from South Asia residing in Canada.
The Parametric Solution of Underdetermined linear ODEs
Creators: name: Wolf, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: I.1.2
subject: 33F10, 34H05

description: The purpose of this paper is twofold. An immediate practical use of the presented algorithm is its applicability to the parametric solution of underdetermined linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with coefficients that are arbitrary analytic functions in the independent variable. A second conceptual aim is to present an algorithm that is in some sense dual to the fundamental Euclids algorithm, and thus an alternative to the special case of a Groebner basis algorithm as it is used for solving linear ODE-systems. In the paper Euclids algorithm and the new `dual version' are compared and their complementary strengths are analysed on the task of solving underdetermined ODEs. An implementation of the described algorithm is interactively accessible under http://lie.math.brocku.ca/crack/demo.
description: 14 pages
Resolution enhancement, noise suppression, and joint T2* decay estimation in dual-echo sodium-23 MR imaging using anatomically-guided reconstruction
Creators: name: Schramm, Georg
name: Filipovic, Marina
name: Qian, Yongxian
name: Alivar, Alaleh
name: Lui, Yvonne W.
name: Nuyts, Johan
name: Boada, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purpose: Sodium MRI is challenging because of the low tissue concentration of the 23 Na nucleus and its extremely fast biexponential transverse relaxation rate. In this article, we present an iterative reconstruction framework using dual-echo 23Na data and exploiting anatomical prior information (AGR) from high-resolution, low-noise, 1 H MR images. This framework enables the estimation and modeling of the spatially-varying signal decay due to transverse relaxation during readout (AGRdm), which leads to images of better resolution and reduced noise resulting in improved quantification of the reconstructed 23Na images. Methods: The proposed framework was evaluated using reconstructions of 30 noise realizations of realistic simulations of dual echo twisted projection imaging (TPI) 23 Na data. Moreover, three dual echo 23 Na TPI brain data sets of healthy controls acquired on a 3T Siemens Prisma system were reconstructed using conventional reconstruction, AGR and AGRdm. Results: Our simulations show that compared to conventional reconstructions, AGR and AGRdm show improved bias-noise characteristics in several regions of the brain. Moreover, AGR and AGRdm images show more anatomical detail and less noise in the reconstructions of the experimental data sets. Compared to AGR and the conventional reconstruction, AGRdm shows higher contrast in the sodium concentration ratio between gray and white matter and between gray matter and the brain stem. Conclusion: AGR and AGRdm generate 23 Na images with high resolution, high levels of anatomical detail, and low levels of noise, potentially enabling high-quality 23 Na MR imaging at 3T.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Synthesis of Conductive Nanofillers/Nanofibers and Electrical Properties of their Conductive Polymer Composites
Creators: name: Sarvi, Ali
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: Conductive Polymer Composites
subject: Electrical Conductivity
subject: Nanofiber
subject: Nanowire
subject: EMI Sheilding

description: Thanks to their corrosion resistance, light weight, low cost, and ease of processing, electrically conducting polymer composites (CPCs) have received signiﬁcant attention for the replacement of metals and inorganic materials for sensors, actuators, supercapacitors, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shields. In this PhD thesis, high aspect ratio conductive nanofillers namely copper nanowires (CuNWs) and multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were coated with polyaniline (PANi) using solution mixing and in-situ polymerization method, respectively. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed a smooth polyaniline nano-coating between 5-18 nm in thickness on the nanofillers’ surface. The coating thickness and; consequently, electrical conductivity was controlled and tuned by polyaniline/aniline concentration in solution. Composites with tunable conductivity may be used as chemisensors, electronic pressure sensors and switches. Coated nanofillers demonstrated better dispersion in polystyrene (PS) and provided lower electrical percolation threshold. Dispersion of nanofillers in PS was investigated using rheological measurements and confirmed with electron micrographs and nano-scale images of CPCs. Polyaniline (PANi), when used as a coating layer, was able to attenuate electromagnetic (EM) waves via absorption and store electrical charges though pseudocapacitance mechanism. The dielectric measurements of MWCNT-PANi/PS composites showed one order of magnitude increase in real electrical permittivity compared to that of MWCNT/PS composites making them suitable for charge storage purposes. Incorporation of PANi also brought a new insight into conductive network formation mechanism in electrospun mats where the orientation of conductive high aspect ratio nanofillers is a major problem. Conductive nanofibers of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) filled with coated multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were fabricated using electrospinning. These highly oriented PVDF nanofibers exhibited high beta (β) crystal content and enhanced piezoelectricity. Moreover, multilayer electrospun nanofibers, in which MWCNTs were located at the shell layer, were fabricated for further decrease in electrical percolation threshold. In addition to the PANi coated nanofillers, immiscible polymer blends (poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) blends) were employed to deliver lower percolation threshold via double percolation phenomenon. Conductivity measurements revealed a significant decrease in electrical percolation threshold (0.4 wt%) for PMMA70/SAN30 blends compared with MWCNT-filled SAN and PMMA (ca 0.8 wt%).
Psychopy_Ext: A Framework For Streamlining Research Workflow In Neuroscience And Psychology.
Creators: name: Kubilius, Jonas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Python
neuroscience
software
vision
psychophysics
fMRI
MVPA
reproducibility
collaboration

description: Successful accumulation of knowledge is critically dependent on the ability to verify and replicate every part of a scientific conduct. However, such principles are difficult to enact when researchers continue to resort on ad hoc workflows resulting in a poorly maintained code base. Based on a critical examination of the needs of neuroscience and psychology community, I introduce psychopy_ext, a unifying framework that seamlessly integrates experiment building, analysis and manuscript preparation by choosing reasonable defaults and implementing relatively rigid patterns of workflow. This structure allows automation of multiple tasks, such as automatic user interfaces, unit testing, stimulus control analyses, single-command access to descriptive statistics, and publication quality plotting. Taken together, psychopy_ext opens an exciting possibility for faster, more robust code development and collaboration for researchers.
Discordance Minimization-based Imputation Algorithms for Missing Values in Rating Data
Creators: name: Park, Young Woong
name: Kim, Jinhak
name: Zhu, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ratings are frequently used to evaluate and compare subjects in various applications, from education to healthcare, because ratings provide succinct yet credible measures for comparing subjects. However, when multiple rating lists are combined or considered together, subjects often have missing ratings, because most rating lists do not rate every subject in the combined list. In this study, we propose analyses on missing value patterns using six real-world data sets in various applications, as well as the conditions for applicability of imputation algorithms. Based on the special structures and properties derived from the analyses, we propose optimization models and algorithms that minimize the total rating discordance across rating providers to impute missing ratings in the combined rating lists, using only the known rating information. The total rating discordance is defined as the sum of the pairwise discordance metric, which can be written as a quadratic function. Computational experiments based on real-world and synthetic rating data sets show that the proposed methods outperform the state-of-the-art general imputation methods in the literature in terms of imputation accuracy.
Analytical time-like geodesics
Creators: name: Kostic, Uros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-like orbits in Schwarzschild space-time are presented and classified in a very transparent and straightforward way into four types. The analytical solutions to orbit, time, and proper time equations are given for all orbit types in the form r=r(λ), t=t(χ), and τ=τ(χ), where λ is the true anomaly and χ is a parameter along the orbit. A very simple relation between λ and χ is also shown. These solutions are very useful for modeling temporal evolution of transient phenomena near black holes since they are expressed with Jacobi elliptic functions and elliptic integrals, which can be calculated very efficiently and accurately.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted by General Relativity and Gravitation
Realising The Full Potential Of Research Data: Common Challenges In Data Management, Sharing And Integration Across Scientific Disciplines
Creators: name: Field, Laurence
name: Suhr, Stephanie
name: Ison, Jon
name: Los, Wouter
name: Wittenburg, Peter
name: Broeder, Daan
name: Hardisty, Alex
name: Repo, Susanna
name: Jenkinson, Andy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: This document identifies common challenges in data management, sharing and integration across scientific disciplines. The BioMedBridges, CRISP, DASISH and ENVRI projects - covering the biomedical sciences, physics, social science and humanities, and environmental sciences - have come together to identify cross-cutting topics, discuss current approaches and develop recommendations for future actions required to solve them.
Grass Roots Connections: The Northern Plains Borderlands during the Great Depression
Creators: name: Bye, Cristine Georgina
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Economics--History
subject: borderlands
subject: cross-border
subject: Canadian-American border
subject: northern Great Plains
subject: grass roots history
subject: Canadian-American West
subject: Great Depression

description: Writers and scholars who have studied the northern Great Plains borderlands argue that the region possessed a unique, cross-border community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This dissertation argues that this community persisted beyond the settlement era, well into the 1930s. This is significant because powerful forces threatened to divide Canadian and American borderlanders during this period. National authorities effectively closed the border in late 1929 in response to the economic disaster that afflicted both countries. Steep tariffs limited cross-border trade, and strict immigration rules restricted migration from one country to the other. Border crossers were under increased scrutiny from border officials and lawmakers. But none of this stopped Americans and Canadians who lived near the forty-ninth parallel from intermingling on the northern Plains. Indeed, the sense that they belonged to a special community only intensified. This dissertation is a grass roots social history of the northern Great Plains borderlands. It makes a contribution by exploring the significance of the border in ordinary borderlanders’ lives. It shows that borderlanders’ relationship with the border came to shape their identity. People who lived near the forty-ninth parallel had more in common with each other than with their fellow countrymen and women. They asserted their borderlands identity alongside or over and above their respective national identities. Newspapers, memoirs, letters, government records, local histories, and interviews with people who lived in the Plains borderlands in the 1930s show that borderlanders’ many transborder interactions helped them juggle multiple identities and transcend national, ethnic, and cultural differences. Canadian and American borderlanders of different backgrounds regularly crossed the border and participated with each other in national, social, business, and other events. They took a keen interest in each other’s lives. They saw each other as people experiencing similar hardships and they looked to each other for ideas, resources, companionship, and inspiration. Borderlanders felt their cross-border ties set them apart from non-borderlanders. Maintaining their community was very important to them. Long after the border was established and settlers filled the borderlands, grass roots connections continued to unite people on both sides of the line.
The Sami Galaxy Survey: 1 Year, 0.5M Spectra.
Creators: name: Konstantopoulos, Iraklis
name: Collaboration, The SAMI Survey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: astronomy
AAS223
IFU
integral field spectroscopy
SAMI
Australian Astronomical Observatory
University of Sydney

description: Presentation given at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. Provides an update on the status and future of the SAMI Galaxy Survey, underway  on the AAT. With 600/3400 galaxies observed, I present a few first science results from the Survey and discuss future prospects.
The Interconnectedness of Language and Song
Creators: name: Jessica Charest
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: linguistics
language documentation
language
song

description: The Interconnectedness of Language and Song

Jessica Charest

Presented 6 October 2022 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Conference Where Do We Need to Go From Here? - Language Documentation and Archiving,  in the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages
Communicating Sustainable Food: Connecting scientific information to consumer action
Creators: name: Godfrey, David Matthew
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Sustainability
subject: Environmental Communication
subject: Communication
subject: Food
subject: Marketing
subject: Water

description: This thesis investigates the consumer behaviour impact of communicating environmental impact data. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour and communication techniques from the behaviour change literature, I developed a campaign to communicate the water footprint of entrées at a university dining hall. I collected sales and production data and administered attitude surveys before and after the campaign’s implementation. In addition, I conducted qualitative interviews to explore how individuals interpreted, understood, and used the science-based information communicated. Based on available data, the campaign failed to change food purchase decisions and, over the course of the experiment, students’ attitude scores actually grew less positive toward choosing foods with low water footprints. Interview results suggest that the campaign’s effectiveness was hindered by the overpowering nature of convenience and important food attributes such as flavour, as well as a disconnection between abstract water footprint data and students’ own definitions of environmental sustainability.
A novel method of restoration path optimization for the AC-DC bulk power grid after a major blackout
Creators: name: Yang, Chao
name: Liang, Gaoshen
name: Cheng, Tianle
name: Li, Yang
name: Li, Shaoyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The restoration control of the modern alternating current-direct current (AC-DC) hybrid power grid after a major blackout is difficult and complex. Taking into account the interaction between the line-commutated converter high-voltage direct current (LCC-HVDC) and the AC power grid, this paper proposes a novel optimization method of restoration path to reconfigure the skeleton network for the blackout power grid. Based on the system strength, the supporting capability of the AC power grid for the LCC-HVDC is first analysed from the aspects of start-up and operation of LCC-HVDCs. Subsequently, the quantitative relationship between the restoration path and the restoration characteristic of LCC-HVDC is derived in detail based on the system strength indices of the short-circuit capacity and the frequency regulation capability. Then, an optimization model of restoration path considering non-tree paths is formulated and a feasible optimization algorithm is proposed to achieve the optimal path restoration scheme. A modified IEEE 39-bus system and a partial power grid of Southwest China are simulated to show that the proposed method is suitable for the restoration of AC-DC power grids and can improve restoration efficiency. This research can be an important guidance for operators to rapidly restore the AC-DC power grid.
description: Accepted by IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Passive tracer in a flow corresponding to a two dimensional stochastic Navier Stokes equations
Creators: name: Komorowski, Tomasz
name: Peszat, Szymon
name: Szarek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove the law of large numbers and central limit theorem for trajectories of a particle carried by a two dimensional Eulerian velocity field. The field is given by a solution of a stochastic Navier--Stokes system with a non-degenerate noise. The spectral gap property, with respect to Wasserstein metric, for such a system has been shown in [9]. In the present paper we show that a similar property holds for the environment process corresponding to the Lagrangian observations of the velocity. In consequence we conclude the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem for the tracer. The proof of the central limit theorem relies on the martingale approximation of the trajectory process.
Measuring a Design Process
Creators: name: Arsenault, Jennifer Lee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Design and Decorative Arts
subject: Theater
subject: Measure for Measure
subject: Set
subject: Costume

description: This work examines the research, conception and realization of the set and costume designs for the production of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, directed by Dawn McCaugherty and presented in the University Theatre at the University of Calgary from February 18 – March 1, 2014.
User guide: Building footprint extraction and definition of homogeneous zone extraction from imagery
Creators: name: Vicini, Alessandro
name: Bevington, John
name: Esquivias, Georgiana
name: Iannelli, Gianni Cristian
name: Wieland, Marc
Publisher: name: GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Year: 2014
Subjects: Remote sensing
Image processing
Building footprint extraction
Homogeneous urban area extraction
GIS
Inventory development
Damage assessment
Risk assessment
GEM

description: GEM Technical Report 2014-01
description: Data capture tools
description: The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to provide a set of tools and models for hazard and risk analysis. The fundamental aim of the GEM Inventory Data Capture Tools (IDCT) risk global component is to provide a set of software and accompanying user protocols to enable users to collect and modify building exposure information, which can be input into the Global Exposure Database and the Global Earthquake Consequences Database. This report describes the tools required to extract building information from remotely-sensed satellite and aerial imagery. It provides a step-by-step user guide for a set of open-source software tools for generating data for the Global Exposure Database. IDCT has proposed an expansive suite of tools for inventory and damage data collection. The opens source image processing and GIS software, Quantum GIS (QGIS) and GRASS provide the core functionality for pre-processing imagery. Algorithms for automatically extracting building footprints are provided as a plug-in toolbar to QGIS. These have evolved from the Building RECognition tool (BREC), developed by the University of Pavia, and have been customised for use in the IDCT suite. Protocols for modifying GIS information are also provided. For regional exposure development, and generating information for use in mapping schemes, areas of homogenous land use can be manually extracted. This can also be achieved in QGIS, however the use of Google Earth for generating these data are also described. A set of sample data are provided to allow users to test the protocols and develop their skills in generating exposure data. More details on this data can be found in Appendix C. Remote sensing provides one of several components for developing exposure information. Additional reports and protocols are available on the GEM website (www.globalquakemodel.org) and NEXUS (www.nexus.globalquakemodel.org) to partner this document, and describe the collection of building inventory and damage information from 1) in-situ field surveys, and 2) mapping schemes.
The role of trust and risk preferences in the investment decision of farmers : evidence from surveys and field experiments in rural China
Creators: name: Gong, Yazhen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In rural China, forest and agricultural lands are undergoing major reforms, leading to many new challenges. I chose to understand the factors affecting a farmer’s investment decision on their lands. The first manuscript focuses on the role of property rights, social capital and contractual rules in the design and implementation of the world’s first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) afforestation project in China. Using village-level surveys, I found: [1] although the project facilitates participation through carbon pooling and a share-holding system, much of the project land remained unforested; [2] the primary reasons for the unforested lands included constrained contractual rules, property rights allocation disputes, and low levels of social capital in some villages. The second manuscript identifies determining factors of villagers’ trust in their peer members. I used a unique data set collected by household surveys and trust games con-ducted in 30 administrative villages in Yunnan Province of southwestern China. I found: [1] the survey measure and experimental measure of trust were strongly correlated; [2] evidence that the positive individual social interactions and positive past experiences had a significant and positive effect on the villagers’ mutual trust; [3] that while formal village institutions might have gradually substituted for the traditional informal institutions, the formal institutions has not effectively replaces the roles of informal village institutions in maintaining villagers’ mutual trust; [4] openness to the outside world and the market could have eroded mutual trust among rural villagers in Yunnan Province. In the third manuscript, I used a data set collected through artefactual field experiments and household surveys from 30 villages in Yunnan Province. I linked the experimental measure of risk preference to household investment decisions on input use on farmlands. Major findings in this chapter include: [1] farmland size was negatively and significantly correlated with the intensity of both chemical fertilizer and pesticide use; [2] a family head’s risk aversion level was significantly and positively correlated with intensity of both chemical fertilizer use and pesticide use; [3] a family’s connection to social networks negatively and significantly predicts its decision regarding the intensity of pesticide use.
Investigation of durability and design of direct methanol fuel cells
Creators: name: Kianimanesh, Amir
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: DMFC
subject: Degradation
subject: Durability
subject: Design

description: Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) have become a potential alternative for rechargeable batteries in portable electronic devices since they can operate at the higher power density (generated power over the volume of the system) of conventional rechargeable batteries; and have advantages such as a simpler system design (with the potential for low-volume lightweight stacking), eliminating the requirement for fuel reforming, and classification as a zero-emission power system. There are several challenges in DMFCs which need to be overcome before they can become commercially viable energy sources. These challenges are system durability and the design optimization of system components. The durability of the DMFCs has been investigated by considering the effects of operating factors on the degradation of a single-cell DMFC with serpentine flow channels. Degradation in the performance of the DMFC system was observed and modeled over time by a linear regression model considering the cumulative exposure of the operating factors to the fuel cell and the moving average concept in the degradation analysis. In addition, the influence of the flow fields design in the DMFC system with a focus on performance was investigated. Three bipolar/end plates with a single-channel serpentine configuration were fabricated with three different channel widths and experimentally tested the performance. To understand the details of the phenomenon and the fluidic behaviours, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed, which showed that the diffusion of fuel to the diffusion layer was higher and the fuel distribution more uniform in the narrower channel. Their performance showed that the cell equipped with the narrowest channel width had an overall higher performance compared to the widest channel width. The results of this study could enhance the performance of DMFC by modeling the polarization and degradation behaviour of the tested DMFC and provide a better understanding of the degradation phenomenon. Furthermore, the design of the DMFCs can be improved and optimized by studying the geometry of bipolar/end plates and their effect on the performance of cells. This can result in DMFCs with higher overall efficiency that approaches the targets for commercial viability.
Connaissez-vous les cathédrales de Proust? L'architecture dans À la recherche du temps perdu
Creators: name: Premat, Christophe
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470516
subject: Literature in French
classificationCode: 470308
subject: French language

description: This is a presentation given on 28 November 2023 at the Alliance française in Stockholm. The aim is to revisit a reading of Proust's work based on the presence of cathedrals. The hypothesis is that Proust's entire oeuvre functions like a Gothic cathedral, with a correspondence between painting and photography. The narrator takes a tour of the cathedrals of France.
Chirality- and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene: a molecular dynamics study
Creators: name: Zhong, Wei-Rong
name: Zhang, Mao-Ping
name: Ai, Bao-Quan
name: Zheng, Dong-Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (layer from 1 to 8 atomic planes) is investigated by using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. We present that the room-temperature thermal conductivity decays monotonically with the number of the layers in few-layer graphene. The superiority of zigzag graphene in thermal conductivity is only available in high temperature region and disappears in multi-layer case. It is explained that the phonon spectral shrink in high frequency induces the change of thermal conductivity. It is also reported that single-layer graphene has better ballistic transport property than the multi-layer graphene.
description: 3 figures
User guide: Android mobile tool for field data collection
Creators: name: Rosser, Julian
name: Morley, Jeremy G.
name: Vicini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Year: 2014
Subjects: User guide
Documentation
Mobile app
Field data capture
Android
Earthquake
GEM

description: GEM Technical Report 2014-03
description: Data capture tools
description: The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to provide a set of tools and models for hazard and risk analysis. The fundamental aim of the GEM Inventory Data Capture Tools (IDCT) risk global component is to provide a set of software and accompanying user protocols to enable users to collect and modify building exposure information, which can be input into the Global Exposure Database and the Global Earthquake Consequences Database. This report forms the user guide for the IDCT Mobile Tool for Android. It details the usage of the mobile tool for setting up data capture, utilising the map interface, marking survey points, capture of building attributes, export of survey data and import of offline map data.
Pondering periods: Young women talk about menstruation in the age of menstrual suppression
Creators: name: Berenson, Carol
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Menstruation
subject: Menstrual suppression
subject: Medicalization
subject: Women's health
subject: Focus groups
subject: The Pill

description: Seasonale, a birth control pill designed and marketed expressly to suppress menstruation, has been on the Canadian market since 2007 yet ‘menstruation by choice’ remains a controversial issue. This dissertation investigates menstrual suppression from the perspectives of experts in the field of women’s health and those of young women as a target group for this practice. It also explores the broader question of what everyday menstrual life looks like for young women in this time when menstruating seems to be on the wane. Utilizing a history of medicalization to contextualize the current state of affairs, this thesis draws upon insights from practice theory to map the nuances and complexities of menstruation and menstrual suppression using data from policy documents and focus group interviews. The parameters of the menstrual suppression debate are laid out as presented by the Society for Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and their counterparts, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. In framing what they see as the key issues of concern, these experts reveal disparate underlying assumptions about the menstrual cycle itself, the technology of the birth control pill, women’s decision making, and what constitutes risk. The women’s views about menstrual suppression are far from straight forward, with risks associated with pregnancy detection, future fertility, and the pill’s interference with ‘nature’ on their list of concerns. They speak back to the experts, reconfiguring the parameters of the issue and revealing considerable skill in maneuvering the complexities of the choice-making terrain. In the everyday of young women’s lives, menstruation involves considerable work, not only during one’s period but also in terms of getting ready for it. In their talk about selecting a menstrual management product, participants draw upon interpretive frameworks to do with economics, the environment, health, hygiene, and growing up. In terms of managing menstrual bleeding they describe engaging in numerous routine practices in order to hide the evidence of their periods from both males and sometimes females in their lives. This work is compulsory, complicated and context-dependent, with some spheres of activity particularly revealing of high stakes consequences of failure. More broadly, they both reinforce and challenge notions of menstruating bodies as abject in male normative space, and balance attending to menstruation against erasing the fact of its existence as they describe their embodied menstrual routines.
User guide: Windows tool for field data collection and management
Creators: name: Jordan, Colm J.
name: Adlam, Keith
name: Laurie, Ken
name: Shelley, Wayne
name: Bevington, John
Publisher: name: GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Year: 2014
Subjects: User guide
Documentation
Mobile app
Field data capture
Windows
Earthquake
GEM

description: GEM Technical Report 2014-04
description: Data capture tools
description: The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to provide a set of tools and models for hazard and risk analysis. The fundamental aim of the GEM Inventory Data Capture Tools (IDCT) risk global component is to provide a set of software and accompanying user protocols to enable users to collect and modify building exposure information, which can be input into the Global Exposure Database and the Global Earthquake Consequences Database. The aim of this report is to provide guidelines for the use of the digital Windows Mobile Tools that have been designed and built to collect building inventory pre- and post-earthquake events. The guide instructs users how to install the software on a Windows device and provides step-by-step instructions for collecting and managing the data that has been collected. It is expected that the field staff are already experts in collecting building inventory, therefore this guide does not provides instructions how to recognise or understand building structural components. Appendices to this guide also include the following: - A copy of the paper Forms that are used to collect data in the field if the digital Mobile Tools are unavailable - The Photos-4-GEM Protocol that provides guidance for photography of structures in the context of the Inventory Data Capture Tools and the GEM Building Taxonomy.
Prostaglandin E2 signaling pathways in human myometrial cells
Creators: name: Levinson, Hayley S.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: myometrium
subject: myometrial cells
subject: parturition
subject: Labour
subject: Inflammation
subject: prostaglandin E2
subject: prostaglandin E2 receptors
subject: EP2
subject: EP4
subject: RGS2
subject: cAMP
subject: protein kinase A
subject: Epacs

description: Prostaglandins are implicated in the process of human labour, but their exact roles and regulation are unknown. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) represses interleukin-1β (IL-1β) induced inflammatory mediator output in human lower segment myometrial cells via activation of EP2 and EP4 receptors. Stimulation of EP2 and EP4 increases intracellular cAMP, therefore experiments within this thesis aimed to determine which downstream cAMP mediator is responsible for this effect. The data suggest that exchange proteins directly activated by cAMP (Epacs) are not involved, but the role of protein kinase A (PKA) remains equivocal. PGE2 also upregulates expression of regulator of G protein signaling 2 (RGS2) in human lower segment myometrial cells. Results discussed in this thesis suggest that EP2 and EP4 are responsible for this effect. Further work to explore the role and regulation of the prostaglandin pathway in parturition will help identify better targets for treatment of preterm labour and labour induction.
On the orbital decay of the gas giant Kepler-1658b
Creators: name: Barker, Adrian J.
name: Efroimsky, Michael
name: Makarov, Valeri V.
name: Veras, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gas giant Kepler-1658b has been inferred to be spiralling into its sub-giant F-type host star Kepler-1658a (KOI-4). The measured rate of change of its orbital period is $\dot{P}_{\rm orb}=-131^{+20}_{-22}\mathrm{ms/yr}$, which can be explained by tidal dissipation in the star if its modified tidal quality factor is as low as $Q^{\,\prime}\approx 2.50\times {10}^{4}$. We explore whether this could plausibly be consistent with theoretical predictions based on applying up-to-date tidal theory in stellar models (varying stellar mass, age, and metallicity) consistent with our newly-derived observational constraints. In most of our models matching the combined constraints on the stellar effective temperature and radius, the dissipation in the star is far too weak, capable of providing $Q^{\,\prime}\gtrsim 10^9$, hence contributing negligibly to orbital evolution. Using only constraints on the stellar radius, efficient tidal dissipation sufficient to explain observations is possible due to inertial waves in the convective envelope during the sub-giant phase, providing $Q^{\,\prime}\sim 10^4$, but this period in the evolution is very short-lived (shorter than $10^2$ yrs in our models). We show that dissipation in the planet is capable of explaining the observed $\dot{P}_\mathrm{orb}$ only if the planet rotates non-synchronously. Tidally-induced pericentre precession is a viable explanation if the periastron argument is near $3π/2$ and the quadrupolar Love number is above 0.26. Further observations constraining the stellar and planetary properties in this system have the exciting potential to test tidal theories in stars and planets.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS (14th Nov 2023)
User guide: Tool for spatial inventory data development
Creators: name: Hu, ZhengHui
name: Huyck, Charlie
name: Eguchi, Michael T.
name: Bevington, John
Publisher: name: GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Year: 2014
Subjects: Inventory
Exposure
Spatial inventory data development
Capture tool
GEM

description: GEM Technical Report 2014-05
description: Data capture tools
description: The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to provide a set of tools and models for hazard and risk analysis. The fundamental aim of the GEM Inventory Data Capture Tools (IDCT) risk global component is to provide a set of software and accompanying user protocols to enable users to collect and modify building exposure information, which can be input into the Global Exposure Database and the Global Earthquake Consequences Database. This report provides a background and user manual for the Spatial Inventory Data Developer (SIDD). SIDD serves as a conduit between base data sets derived from both ground observations and remotely sensed sources processed in large part by the Inventory Data Collection Tools (IDCT), and a GEM Exposure File (GEF). SIDD allows users to process exposure data largely through a process of assigning "mapping schemes", or statistical summaries of construction type, occupancy, era, and story height to "homogenous zones", or areas with sufficiently similar structure type distribution. SIDD is designed as a tool to simplify complex processes that structural engineers and GIS analysts must undertake to develop building exposures, but does not simplify the decision-making process itself. Therefore, it is recommended for advanced users with a background in developing building exposure databases for catastrophe (CAT) modelling and loss estimation.
BioSimplify: an open source sentence simplification engine to improve recall in automatic biomedical information extraction
Creators: name: Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha
name: Gonzalez, Graciela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: BioSimplify is an open source tool written in Java that introduces and facilitates the use of a novel model for sentence simplification tuned for automatic discourse analysis and information extraction (as opposed to sentence simplification for improving human readability). The model is based on a "shot-gun" approach that produces many different (simpler) versions of the original sentence by combining variants of its constituent elements. This tool is optimized for processing biomedical scientific literature such as the abstracts indexed in PubMed. We tested our tool on its impact to the task of PPI extraction and it improved the f-score of the PPI tool by around 7%, with an improvement in recall of around 20%. The BioSimplify tool and test corpus can be downloaded from https://biosimplify.sourceforge.net.
End-to-end demonstration of the Inventory Data Capture Tools
Creators: name: Foulser-Piggott, Roxanne
name: Bevington, John
name: Vicini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Year: 2014
Subjects: Inventory data capture tools
Remote sensing
Mobile tools
Spatial inventory data development
Field survey
Sampling strategy
Mapping schemes
Land-use maps
Homogeneous zones
GEM

description: GEM Technical Report 2014-06
description: Data capture tools
description: The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) aims to provide a set of tools and models for hazard and risk analysis. The fundamental aim of the GEM Inventory Data Capture Tools (IDCT) risk global component is to provide a set of software and accompanying user protocols to enable users to collect and modify building exposure information, which can be input into the Global Exposure Database (GED) and the Global Earthquake Consequences Database. IDCT uses two primary data collection tools to generate these pre-event inventory and post-event damage data: 1) satellite and aerial remote sensing image analysis, and 2) direct observations by individuals on the ground using a set of mobile data collection tools. This report describes the end-to-end testing of the suite of IDCT tools for 2 specific workflows: 1) Generation of GED Level 3 data: per-building inventory data 2) Generation of GED Level 2 data: statistically-aggregated inventory data